Top Ten Tuesday: Unlikable Characters I Love

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Unlikable Characters You Can’t Help but Love. I love villain characters or the characters you aren't supposed to love. If an author can get me on the fangirl train for an unlikable character then I think they did their job well. For some of these, I'm not sure …

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Top Ten Tuesday: Longest Book Titles

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Super Long Book Titles. Long book titles fascinate me. As someone who works in a library, I prefer long book titles to short ones since they're more exact. After looking through books I enjoyed, here are top ten longest titles I've read by number of characters/spaces. The Lady's …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with People on the Cover

This week's Top Ten Tuesaday prompt is Book Cover Freebie (choose what kind(s) of covers you want to talk about: prettiest, most unique, most misleading, weirdest, most memorable, creepiest, ugliest, etc.). I usually hate when books have faces/people on the cover. I want to imagine the characters based on the descriptions in the book, not what …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books With Extraordinary Titles

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Extraordinary Book Titles. Let's all be honest for a moment. Sometimes before we read a synopsis or even look at a book's cover, we will judge a book by it's title. Especially these days where titles are announced before cover reveals. Here are titles that drew me in …

Books and Waffles Alphabeticals: G

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Books That I Refuse to Let Anyone Touch. But I couldn't think of any books for this list. So instead, here is another Alphabetical post! Rules: Credit Alex for the idea, and link back Post at your own pace, do as many or as few letters as you want …

Top Ten Tuesday: First Books I Reviewed

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is (First Ten) Books I Reviewed. I started reviewing books in like 2011 on a different blog that no longer exists. In 2017, I decided to separate my blog into two (personal/writing and book reviews/bookish posts) and move both to WordPress. Thus, Books and Waffles was born. Since I …

Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Fuel My Wanderlust

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Books That Awaken the Travel Bug In Me. I think one of the reasons I read a lot of books is because they take me to so many different places: other countries, other worlds, even into outer space. There are so many possibilities within books and most books …

Top Ten Tuesday: Unique Book Titles

One of my bookish pet peeves is when a book title is a single world. Do you know how hard it is to find that book in a library catalog or at the bookstore? Yes, I would like to read a book called... Heartless. Heartless what? Who is the author? What color is the cover? …

Book Review: ‘The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue’ by Mackenzi Lee

I love history. I like learning about different periods of history, about heroic stories of survival, feats of human capabilities. Which is one of the reasons I was hesitant to read The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. I was afraid, as I've experienced with other so-called historical books, that this book would half-bake …