Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is:

Standalone Books That Need a Sequel??

Maybe.  I don’t know. I quite like standalone books tbh.  In a world of trilogies the odd standalone is quite a refreshing break, but, here are nine books that I could definitely stand to read more from – the tenth is for your suggestions please?

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – I’m sure that somewhere in the universe somebody will have written a second book in series – but, I mean I want to read what happened next in the wonderful words of Austen .  Not gonna happen but it’s a nice dream.

The Martian by Andy Weir.  This was so good – I’m not sure a follow up would work although I would definitely give it a try, the main protagonist is a smart and amusing guy.

The Princess Bride by Williams Goldman.  Could a sequel work.  I’m not sure, I love this story and it’s right up there on the pedestal.  But, I would read more.  I would.

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield – I love this author and would probably read her shopping list – or some kind of follow up to the Thirteenth Tale.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.  Please, yes, I would read another book from Neverwhere and this is definitely a sequel that could work.  Seriously.  It would be great.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte – yeah, it’s not going to happen but I would have loved more.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley – this is a book that I want more from – I think in a way it felt incomplete – well, okay, it wasn’t incomplete but I just want to know what happens next.

The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson.  I loved this book.  I loved this world.  I just want more.  Is it too much to ask?

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – I’m sure there are books out there, written by others, that imagine possible futures.  But, I so wish that MM had written a follow up.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic is:

Characters I’d Like To Switch Places With

Bilbo – because I’m nosey and want to explore his hobbit hole and if I was Bilbo for the day I could go exploring.  Not quite the adventure that Bilbo eventually ends up on – something nice and safe with lots of hunting through pantries and of course not forgetting second breakfast and elevenses and lunch and afternoon tea and dinner and supper! Ooh, I feel bloated just thinking about it.

Hermione – let me count the ways.  She’s a witch, a remarkably talented witch at that, very well read – I mean, come on! She has some cracking good friends and to top it all off she goes to Hogwarts.  Boom.

Eliza Bennett – she has a pretty easy life really.  Waltzing about the countryside, without a care in the world, figuring out which frock goes with which bonnet, reading, chatting, dancing, flirting.  And let’s not forget Darcy – who, owns Pemberley  and Eliza will become the mistress of the place once they marry.  Fine living and dining.com.

Lady Trent from A Natural History of Dragons.  Because she’s a rebel in a conventional world, she stirs things up, refuses to fit into conventions that she has no say in the drawing up of and let’s not forget – DRAGONS!

Alix from Owl and the Japanese Circus (Adventures of Owl, #1) by Kristi Charish – she’s an ex archaeology student who was used as a scapegoat and turned instead to stealing artefacts – okay, that’s a bit naughty BUT – she travels all over the world to the most exotic and fascinating destinations looking for artefacts – a female Indiana Jones.  Why not says I.

Toby Daye from Seanan Mcguire’s Toby Daye series.  Okay, I’m not too enamoured by the whole thing of tasting blood – but – TYBALT.  I will not elaborate further.  That is all

I’m absolutely loving the Spellslinger series by Sebastien de Castell and part of that is because of one of the characters called Ferius Parfax.  She’s such a cool character – I love her and I’m going to totally fangirl and say I’d swap places to be her in a New York minute – plus, I love this Argosi – walking the path way of life – it just sounds very chilled and kind of reminds me of Caine from the old Kung Fu series where he walks around from place to place generally helping people out.  I can do that, I can walk on rice paper and be a grasshopper, not a problem.

Buffy – because Spike – I’m sensing a theme?

Fern – the young girl from Charlotte’s Web.  She lives on a lovely farm that looks positively charming and she gets to keep a baby pig – what is not to love about that.

So, who would you change places with ??