Top Ten Tuesday: Books with my favorite color on the cover

Hosted by: The Broke and the Bookish

I have a fondness for book covers that use a lot of turquoise to dulled-turquoise. My living room carpet leans toward the dulled turquoise. I have some Fiesta china that tends toward the brighter end, however of my eight Fiesta colors, it's the one I don't like eating on. Oddly, I just don't think food looks good on a turquoise plate. But I love it on book covers!  

Top Ten Tuesday: Books that have been on my TBR pile the longest and I still haven't read!

Hosted by: That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week, bloggers are asked a bookish question, the answer of which revolves around our top ten of whatever the question asks. Do you have top ten book lists? Then join in the fun. This week's question focuses on the books that have been in our TBR pile the longest and still haven't been read.

Well, I have 800 books in my e-book TBR and I haven't counted the paperback books that line the shelves of several very large bookshelves in my house. But the physical books are older and have been around for decades. Most were bought at used bookstores, which was one of my favorite haunts until electronic books came along.

So the following are my top ten e-books that I am determined to read this year, as they are NetGalley books, and I really want to get my review rate to the recommended 80% or higher.

These are 10 of the books I plan to read in 2018, that've been at the top of my TBR for quite a while. 

Are any of these books in your list? 

Have you read any of them? Which ones? Did you like them?

Top Ten Tuesday: Resolutions for my Bookish Life this year

Hosted by: The Artsy Reader Girl

Top Ten Tuesday is a long-running weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish which, just this week, has been taken over by Jana at Artsy Reader Girl.

Participants are numerous and I am excited to get to know some fellow book bloggers.

The question for today is: What are you hoping to accomplish in your bookish life this year?

1. I hope to get back into blogging on a regular schedule. Some tragic family circumstances, one of which is over and the other of which will be with me forever, have resulted in a general lack of direction in my personal life over the past nearly three years. This is the year to get back on track with my reading and writing goals.

2. I hope to get my NetGalley reading stats to near 100%. There's 15-20 books to read and review before that's a reality. But if I want more books from NetGalley, and I do, I need to read those books. Thankfully, nearly all still sound exciting.

3. I hope to read and review one Christian nonfiction book each week. This should be an easy goal, except in that I love reading Christian nonfiction so much, it's often difficult to turn my attention to fiction.

4. I hope to read and review one or two other books each week. Reading one young adult romance and one book of adult inspirational romance/fiction is my plan.

5. So that's about 150 books, which is a lot of reading for me. I've set the bar high, but it's always better to challenge yourself, I believe.

6. Of all of those wonderful, 100+ fiction reads, most have been on my TBR pile for up to five years. I still long to read them. So this year, that's exactly what I hope to do.

7. I also hope to contribute to, and comment on, plenty of book discussion posts, for the sake of hope #8, below:

8. I hope to get to know many other book bloggers, making new friends in the book blogosphere.

9. On Sundays, I hope to post a quote with an inspirational image. The image will also be posted on my Instagram account.

10. I hope to work some on my writing. I'm revising a YA romance that's been sitting in a bottom drawer (so to speak) for the past five years.

Those are my bookish goals for the year. What are yours?