Top Ten Tuesday 13/08

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme (and one that I really like) hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week bloggers have to make a top ten concerning the topic of that week. This week the topic iiiiissss:

Top ten books with X setting. My X is: Great Britain!

I don't know why, but I have this thing for Britain. It's not like I go there every year, but it's just such a beautiful country with cool cities as well as a wonderful countryside... That's why I picked this theme for my top ten this week! 

... 30 minutes later... I just can't find a number 10! This topic was really difficult! I can only give you 9 titles, but I still have to read some books set in Great Britain, so when there's a very good one between them, I will add that one too ;)

Waiting on Wednesday 24/07

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Bloggers have to put an upcoming book they'd like to read in the spotlights.

This week I chose:  A Bride for Keeps

by Melissa Jagears

Title: A Bride For Keeps
Author: Melissa Jagears
Genre: Romance, Country
Pages: 336
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Release Date: October 1st, 2013
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What's it about?

A Tender Tale of Love on the Prairie Perfect for CBA Readers 

Although Everett Cline can hardly keep up with the demands of his homestead, he won't humiliate himself by looking for a helpmate ever again--not after being jilted by three mail-order brides. When a well-meaning neighbor goes behind his back to bring yet another mail-order bride to town, he has good reason to doubt it will work, especially after getting a glimpse at the woman in question. She's the prettiest woman he's ever seen, and it's just not possible she's there to marry a simple homesteader like him. 
Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. Having finally worked up the courage to leave her life in Massachusetts, she's determined to find a place where people will value her for more than her looks. Having run out of all other options, Julia resorts to a mail-order marriage in far-away Kansas. 

Everett is skeptical a cultured woman like Julia could be happy in a life on the plains, while Julia, deeply wounded by a past relationship, is skittish at the idea of marriage at all. When, despite their hesitations, they agree to a marriage in name only, neither one is prepared for the feelings that soon arise to complicate their arrangement. Can two people accustomed to keeping their distance let the barricades around their hearts down long enough to fall in love?

Although I normally don't read books like this, I have to say this one has caught my attention. I love the story and it looks to me as if you'll have to cry a little when you read this book. I don't know the author, so I have no idea if her writing is something I might like, but I think I just need to try this book when it's released!
Have to say I don't like the cover at all. It's just so... I don't know... typical for this genre? A man looking back (past troubles him), a woman who's trying to look at the future and will be the rescue of this man... Or something like that? 

Top Ten Tuesday 23/07

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme (and one that I really like) hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every week bloggers have to make a top ten concerning the topic of that week. This week the topic iiiiissss:

Top ten words/topics that make you NOT pick up a book

Wow, this is really difficult for me. It's easy to come up with five words/topics, but the other five seem to be a huge stumbling block. There are a few things I don't like in books, but when I have to sum them up, it just seems like I love aaaaall kinds of books and there aren't so many topics that stop me from picking one up. Yet I have to choose ten things and here they are (not in order of "importance"):

I really don't know why I don't like to read stories with Zombies in them because I like movies and TV series about them. I'm a huuuge Jane Austen fan and when I leave a book based on Austen behind because there are Zombies in it, that says enough...

What can I say? I'm just not interested in them. A lot of people believe that everybody needs to be involved with politics, but I say "Hey it's ok if you don't and especially if you don't want to read books about it" ;)

I just can't connect with characters who travel in time. Maybe I will when it becomes possible to actually travel in time. I need books I can believe (that's not always true, but you know what I mean)...

I saw this topic in the list of our host and I have to say the same thing. I'm not at a point in my life where I'm thinking of becoming a mother. In the future this will change for sure, but for now: naaah, not my thing ;)

I don't like this genre for the same reason as time travel. Most of the time I can't connect with Sci-Fi stories because they are/seem so unreal. Also in movies I don't like the Sci-Fi aspect most of the time.

I hate books where people die. Life is already difficult and hard enough, so when I read a book I want to escape that life. Escapism is really one of the reasons why I read books. The world in which I flee has to be a happy one or at least with a happy ending.

Nah, not my thing. Like I said: I need a happy ending. I believe there are horror stories with happy endings, but I don't want horrible things happening, waiting for that ending. 

I'm just so cheesy! I need love in a book. I don't care if it's love in a family or between two other people. We all need some love in our lives, so for me every book has to provide a little in that... 

It's not that I don't like to think when I'm reading a book, but I just don't like the typical detective story where you have to pay attention to every little detail and where you have to be on your guard every single page. Also I have the feeling most of the detective stories are kind of the same thing...

Too much problems, too much pain,... I don't like war... Not in real life, not in books. That's all.







Voila, these are a few of my least favorite things. I'm sure there are more things I don't like but I just can't come up with them right now. 
If you think I should try some books to get over this "hate", you can leave a comment below ;)