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 :

Bookish Items I’d Like to Own

1. A lot more bookshelves – perhaps even magic ones that automatically organise my books.  I really don’t know why this can’t be a thing.  There are some great minds out there – they need to address this issue.  Really, is it asking too much?
2. Not bookish because it can be used for other things – but a time machine or time turner – because, more time people.  More time.  Or cloning – cloning could work in the same way.  If I had ten of ‘me’ reading my current TBR who knows I could finish all my books in about 12 months/24 months – which means I could buy more bright and shiny new books without an ounce of guilt. Not that the guilt ever stopped me but….. stop looking at me like that.
3. My own private reading room with THE most comfortable chair EVER.  Some sort of automatic drinks and snack machine and a wine cellar combined – omg, that is such a good idea.
4. An amazing reading lamp – I know, I should have one of these but I don’t.  I just tend to make do – money is for spending on books after all.
5. A t-shirt where I can be totally rude but people think I’m just being funny – like ‘yes, I’m reading a book, it’s really good and therefore I don’t want to stop to speak to you, goodbye’ – was that too rude???  I just hate the fact that people think because you’re reading you’re not engaged!
6. A magic book voucher that never runs out of credit – that does sound quite a bit awesome after all.
7. A huge amount of money – ‘why is this book related you’re thinking?’ because then I could just chill, read, blog and buy books until my little heart’s content.
8. A magical kindle that never runs out of charge, knows automatically which parts of a book I want to note or highlight and why and basically writes the basic outline of my reviews.  What?  You know you want this too.  Joking – I love writing reviews (obviously) – I just sometimes wish that when I have a real ‘lightbulb’ moment about a book it was saved somewhere automatically because otherwise I sometimes forget.  *hangs head in shame*
9. Automatic approval by all the publishers for all the books – plus fame and world renown for my brilliant reviews.  LOLOLOL
10. Cheese and wine – whoops, wrong list.
11. My own library – that automatically restocks with the books I have on my mind.  None of the books I want to take out of the library are ever on loan and the loan period just happens to coincide with when I finish the book.

I had one too many – this is what happens when you ask about bookish things!

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:

Bookstores/Libraries I’ve Always Wanted to Visit

For a slightly different spin I’ve listed either bookshops or libraries from the fictional world:

1.The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman.  This is a library with portals to an infinite number of worlds at different periods – either past, present or future.

2. The Library or the bookshop in Beauty and the Beast – both look brilliant.

3. The University Archives in Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

4. Toby Daye – the Library of Stars – to be honest, I can’t remember which book this first appeared in – maybe One Salt Sea – I would love to go visit.

5. Hurtfew Abbey, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark – magic!

6. Young Frankenstein – I love this film, it makes me laugh, this is a scene not so much with a library but with bookcases and secret passages – that lead to nothing less than a medical library.  I want to visit this place.

8. Hogwarts.  I mean, you must want to visit Hogwarts and whilst there, well, there is all this…

9. The Citadel in A Song of Ice and Fire.  A place of learning where Samwell Tarly is sent to become a Maester.

The healers of the Citadel are the best in the Seven Kingdoms.^[7]

– Samwell Tarly

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:

Longest Books I’ve Ever Read

The page counts are approximate so don’t hold me to them!  And, I think these are possibly the longest books I’ve read although It’s equally possible that I’ve forgotten one or two here and there.  I suspect that we may all share a few books this week:

1. JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings 1200 pages (Not sure if this one really counts because technically speaking this is three books.  But, I read it as a whole so I’m going for it.
2. Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson just over 1000 pages
3. A Song of Ice and Fire by GRR Martin just over 800 pages
4. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell over 1000 pages
5. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Duman1276 pages
6. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 1006
7. The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding over 900 pages
8. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey over 1000 pages
9. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova 700 pages
10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman over 600 pages