Top Ten Tuesday: 10 favorites written in the last decade

Finding one favorite book from each of the last 10 years was harder than it sounds. Some publishing years are feasts and some famine, which made this week's TTT a fun challenge: Top Ten favorite reads from the last decade (one for each year). 2010 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption...

Top Ten Tuesday: Page to Screen (The good, the better and the frightening)

Movies so good, they made me want to read the book: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. A sweet and relatable coming-of-age tale capturing the heart and resilience of immigrant life in the 1950s.Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I must admit I've yet to read Crichton, but I recently re-watched the original film and have two take-aways:...