We’re back with another Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s topic is Thankful/ Thanksgiving Freebie!
Ngl, with where my mental state is right now, I was sorely tempted to skip this topic… I changed my mind because I wanted to highlight some books that I’m thankful to have read this year. These made me thankful I’m a reader, thankful that I read them, thankful that the author wrote them, and thankful because they helped me get through A Time™️ mentally, and I want to share all of that with you. So here are tentwelve picks from my reads this year that I’m thankful to have read and perhaps these titles will be interesting for you too (from most recently read)!
Bright Young Women – my review
Mirrored Heavens
Blood Price – my review
Immortal Dark – my review
Burn for Me – my review
The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue – my review
Kindling – my review
Indigo – my review
Open Water – my review
More Happy Than Not – my review
Night Hawk – my review
Sea of Tranquility – my review
Have you read any of these books? What books are you thankful for this year? I’d love to know some of your greats in 2024!
dinipandareads 
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue will stay living in my mind rent free for the rest of my life.
My TTT: https://romantasylife.com/books-bookish-things-i-am-thankful-for/
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Forever and always 🙏🏽
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This was a really nice way to tackle this weeks topic. And they look like great books too!
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They’re some of my new faves 😍
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I’ve read More Happy Than not and Addie Larue, but they were not quite for me.
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2024/11/26/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-cant-believe-i-havent-read/
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This was a great spin on the topic. Hard one, but a good one. Sadly, I read none of these, but I am glad they made an impression on you.
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Definitely a tough one but a fun one! I enjoyed looking back on all these great reads and I’m glad I finally got to experience reading them 😍
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It’s nice to see you around this week! I hope 2025 is better for you.
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Thanks, Lydia! 💜
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I love this idea!
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Thanks! It was fun looking back on some of my faves 🙂
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I haven’t read any of these, but I’m so glad they were there for you this year 🙂
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Thank you! 💜
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While I haven’t read any of these, I love how books can comfort us or challenge us.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/bookish-gift-ideas-from-etsy-sellers/
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Same here! Makes me glad to be a reader and that authors put such work into creating incredible stories for us to devour 🥹
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Open Water is so good. And I have Bright Young Women checked out from my library right now! Looking forward to that one.
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I need Open Water to get more love! It was incredible. I hope you enjoy Bright Young Women—I was surprised by how much I loved that book!
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Addie LaRue was really good. And I love Beverly Jenkin’s historical romances! I haven’t read either Indigo or Night Hawk yet, but I loved Forbidden, Breathless, Restless, and Rebel.
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I haven’t read any of those ones yet but I do have Forbidden and Rebel on my TBR. I actually went and added three more to my TBR last week: Midnight, Before the Dawn and Night Song. I’m keen to pick them up soon! 😍 Bev Jenkins’ histroms give me life!
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This is a perfect way to twist this week’s topic! I have only read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue from your list, but I’m glad all the books here were helpful to you.
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Thanks, Nicole! I love finding books that make me glad to be a reader 😍 Just hits so good!
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Wonderful books, seems like you had a good year 🙂
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Miles and away better than my reading year in 2023! 😂
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Great idea for the thankful post, Dini. I remember reading your review for Indigo and added it to my TBR, but need to refresh that list. I will have to see if my library has it. I will have to refer back to list at another time to see if there are others I want to read.
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Ooh, I do hope you enjoy it, Carla. Bev Jenkins is such an incredible histrom writer—not just for her deeply romantic and sensual stories but I learn so much history from her stories! Super refreshing 🙂 If you ever do pick it up, I hope you enjoy it!
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I really need to read Immortal Dark and Mirrored Heavens! Great list!
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I hope you love them, Yolanda! 😍
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Thanks!
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Addie LaRue was one of my 2024 faves. Such a powerful story. Great list, Dini!
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Ugh, it’s SO GOOD, Julie! I still carry these two in my heart 💜 Amazing characters, amazing story… Just amazing! Lol
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Addie LaRue is one of my favorites too!
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It’s so good! I still get emotional thinking about those two, lol
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I am very, very grateful for books!
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Always so very grateful! 💜
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I like how you’ve twisted this prompt. I would 100% say I’m glad to have read Bright Young Women, no matter how angry it made me.
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Same! And I’m so glad we read it together 😍
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I always find the thankful prompt a hard one haha and since it tends to fall in SFF month I always skip it haha. But I think you filled it in really well. I’ve only read Addie
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Ahhhh Dini, I’m beyond honored that Blood Price is on this list!!! 😭😭😭😭
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