Monday, March 6, 2023

*Top Ten Tuesday* Bookish People I'd Like to Meet? No Thanks.



Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Joood - Hooligan of Platypire reviews bossed me into doing this, so I guess this is a thing I do now. 

This week’s theme is bookish people I'd like to meet. This can be authors, book characters, book bloggers, whatever as long as they have a bookish connection. But meeting new people makes me nervous and uncomfortable and I have to hype myself up a TON beforehand to do it, so I'm not even pretending to do that. Instead, we are going to discuss the next ten main characters I should be meeting to stay on top of my Netgalley requests. (To be clear, these are all going to be books I have not yet started, so they won't be the next ten books I review necessarily.) Here we go. 


Sasha Severn in The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton


Merlin in The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix


Juliet Arroway in The Syndicate Spy by Brittany Butler


Ryne Burdette in The Broken Places by Blaine Daigle


Maria Wallner in Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller


Heike in Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia


Ren Monroe in A Door in the Dark by Scott Reintgen


Winifred in Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline


Freddy Peach in Frozen Peaches by Erin Soderberg Downing


Peeraphan Rahttana in Wings Once Cursed and Bound by Piper J. Drake

There we go, ten main characters that I should be meeting before the middle of April (YIKES) to stay caught up with my Netgalley books. This doesn't include Clytemnestra (which I'm almost finished with now) Dissonance by Barbara Burt (which I'm about 10% into) and Hitler's Aristocrats (which I'm also about 10% into) because I've already started them. Dissonance is already overdue but I grabbed it as a read now anyway, so I feel much less guilty about that at this point. 

So who are some bookish people you want to meet? If you're stopping by from the linkup, please leave a link to your post. I typically can't return visits until the weekend, so those links really help me make sure I get to your blog to check out your lists too. - Katie 

13 comments:

  1. Nice spin on the topic - and an interesting mix of genres; looks like you're going to be a busy reader for a while! :)
    Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys

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    1. I read in all genres, although I usually go through phases with what's interesting to me...but I've been playing a lot of Netgalley Request Roulette for Top Ten Tuesday so that brings me more varied genres in a short span of time. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  2. It looks like you have some interesting characters to look forward to meeting!

    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/bookish-tea-party-guest-list/

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    1. I've actually managed to finish with Sasha and moved onto Merlin (although I haven't actually met him yet as I just started that book earlier in the car with my husband). Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  3. I just read a great review for The Last Beekeeper. I would be intimidated by that one, but it sounds like a great read. Hope you get to meet the characters soon.

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    1. I was peer pressured into requesting it by my Facebook wife even though she KNOWS my Netgalley backlog is enormous. I actually just finished reading it this morning. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  4. I also want to read The Sinisters Booksellers of Bath. Honestly seeing this list reminds me of why I stopped doing Netgalley, much as I enjoyed getting to read books early, it was a little stressful having to read books to a deadline and I almost always posted my reviews well after the book's publication date!
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/top-ten-tuesday-410/

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    1. I've been doing pretty well with keeping up on my Netgalley books so far this year (I've got 6 books that reviews are past due right now, but two of them I just need to write the reviews and they only released on Tuesday, so I'm not super behind, and two others I got as read-nows after their release date to begin with so...) Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  5. Great take on the topic. Here is my post-https://paigesofnovels.com/2023/03/07/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-people-i-want-to-meet/.

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    1. Thank you. It felt like a bit of a scramble but I just can't be requesting more books on Netgalley right now as I'm already behind at this point. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  6. I think Beekeeper looks fun, and I just saw one on another blog too!

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    1. I just finished it this morning. It's dystopian that doesn't feel too far in the future. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  7. So much social anxiety. I have to hype myself up if I know I'm going to be meeting new people for the first time and impromptu plans with people I'm not already comfortable around are not things I agree to. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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