Category: Top 5

  • I went on a bit of a Turner Classic Movie (TCM) book binge last year. Movies are my second favorite thing to reading and I loved reading their collection to find out behind the scenes facts and movie analyses. So here are my top 5 favorites. The Making of Gone with the Wind by Steve…

  • Not only can she sing and dance but she can write too. This British star has it all and here are my top 3 favorite books of hers. It would have been 5 but the other two I read are memoirs and did not not fit the criteria of my post here which was to…

  • Main Street I literally read this series 10 years in a row, every summer. It’s just so comforting and wholesome. It starts with the orphaned Northrop sisters, Flora and Ruby who are taken to live with their grandmother, Min (short for in a minute) in Camden Falls, MA. It’s not so tragic as they’ve been…

  • Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. No, not the collection of Archie spy stories from the 60s, but it was certainly inspired by it. Updated for the present in a mishmash of James Bond homage, R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. roots and Archie hijinks by Fernando Ruiz and Tom DeFalco. I enjoyed the throwbacks to Little Archie by having the villainous Mad…

  • Girl meet Boy series This fun, frothy romcom series is written entirely in epistolotory form. meaning that it’s written in emails, texts, and such. No prose, which makes it a very fast read as the characters swap gossip, get into miscommunications and get sexy. The romances all share small-town girls falling for outsider city boys,…

  • Aka the only five I’ve read, but I still highly enjoyed them. Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi The first first anime I watched and this year, I finally got to devour the original manga and it is just as good. Seriously Inuyasha has it all, action, romance, lore, and great character dynamics and relationships. They’re all…