Dreaming Books

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday, a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is Top Ten ALL TIME Favorite Books Of X Genre (I know, I know. Picking all time faves. I'm MEAN. But I like knowing people's definitive faves). Can also break it down into sub-genre if that helps?

My favorite genre is Science Fiction, but one could hardly ask me to pick favorites there. I decided instead to do my favorite of the memoirs that I've read. My full list of memoirs are here, with some biography and anthologies of women sprinkled in.

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(audiobook, reread) So, if you have a chance, definitely listen to this audiobook. Woodson’s narration made her words and story come alive. I liked Brown Girl Dreaming a lot when I read it the first time–I flat out loved it this time. Laughed, cried, smiled.

Man, this book is bananas: a noir set in a fascist England in 1939, with an unexpected historical figure as the gumshoe. It's bizarre to have something so high concept be so pulpy and brutal. Certainly fucks up one's notions of the role of alternate history, boy howdy. 

Full review at B&N Sci-Fi. 

If sometime in the future I get the chance to have my very own place, the most love will go designing the bookcases. This post has the most awesome ideas I have seen for bookshelves. I chose this one:

as I think this is actually one I could do myself. Well, with my dad's help. And IKEA's.

There were other amazing ones like this:

but how on earth can you make this? Sure, you could buy it (I guess) but the whole article was about book owners that made their bookcases.

Oh and if I have a whole wall available, I would do this:

and make my guests constantly tilting their heads.

We have a whole room as our library at my parent's house, apart from the books on mine and my sister's rooms, so it's my dream to have someday my very own nook too!

Cheers,

-M