Top Ten Books I Want to Reread

I love to participate in The Broke and the Bookish's Top Ten Tuesday. It's a blog round up with a new subject every week.

This week's list is the Top Ten Books I Want To Reread (or if you don't reread, would in an ideal world).  I don't have a lot of time to reread books, when there are so many new books to read!  But these are the ones I would take to a desert island.......

1.  Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell.  This is one that I do reread every few years.  It's just one of the best books ever, ever, ever.

2.  Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane.  Gripping, moving. It will make you consider morality

and when can doing something wrong end up actually mean you are doing something right?  No happy endings here.


3.  The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher.  My favorite WWII book.  I have gotten lost in this over and over.

4.  No Flying in the House by Betty Brock.  Haha!  This is the first book I remember reading over

and over, I think I was about 8 years old.  I still want to be a fairy with a magic, talking dog.


5.  Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.  A winter classic for me.  One of the few times that they movie was as good as the book.

6.  To Have and To Hold by Jane Green.  I love her books and would reread all of them given unlimited time.  Thankfully, she's got a new one coming out soon.

7.  Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster.  This was one of the first funny non-fiction books I ever

read.  It cracked me up.  I bought it off a table at Borders.  Does Borders still exist?

8 & 9.   Something Borrowed and Something Blue by Emily Giffin.  I would happily reread, but I don't think you can read Something Borrowed without immediately starting Something Blue.  I think I ended up liking Something Blue better.

10.  Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.  Always a classic, always a book to lose yourself in.  I want to be a Beth, but I'm afraid I'm a Jo.

Top Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want to Visit

I love to participate in The Broke and the Bookish Top Ten Tuesday. It's a blog round up with a new subject every week.

This week's post is Top Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit (whether fictional or real).  Here we go, this makes me want to travel.

1.  Cornwall, England.  All of  Rosamund Pilcher's books make me want to go live in cozy Cornwall.  I want to live in a cottage, surrounded by primroses and eccentric neighbors.
Here's my new home.

2.  Maine.  I want to live in Stephen King's Maine.  Taciturn neighbors, people interested in privacy, and a strong dislike for nosy people.

3.  English countryside. I love Kate Morton's England.  Old, previously majestic English houses, now falling apart, but still made for cozy reading.  The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The House at Riverton.  I'll happily visit any of them.

4. Australian outback.  Hello From the Gillespies by Monica McInerney is making me want to visit the Australian outback.  But it's not making me want to write a Christmas newsletter. Yikes!

5.  New England.  Alice Hoffman's Probable Future made living through a New England winter seem mysterious and romantic, instead of cold and painful.

6.  London.  Jane Green's books always make London seem exciting and relaxing at the same time.  I can't even pick one book, I love them all. 

7.  Greece.  The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series always made me want to go to Greece, find a perfect man, and swim in the bluest waters.

8.  Ireland.  Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie made me want to pack up for Ireland and live in the neighborhood that rallied together to raise one little girl.

9.  South Carolina.  I loved Mary Alice Monroe's Swimming Lessons and The Beach House.  I HATE humidity, but these books made me feel like I could totally tolerate sweatiness, frizzy hair and the bad mood that humidity inspires in me.

10.  Scotland.  Susanna Kearsley's The Winter Sea made me want to see Scotland, walk the sea walls that tower over their rough sea and snuggle in a castle in front of a fire.

When I look over this list, I can see that I should probably make an effort to visit England, but I just know that it wouldn't be the same as I see it in my mind.  But I'm pretty happy right here.