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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We’d love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
If you can’t come up with ten, don’t worry about it—post as many as you can!
This week’s topic:Top Ten Books I Just HAD To Buy…But Are Still Sitting On My BookshelfWe all have them. That book that you needed to buy so badly and had every intention of reading it as soon as possible…but they’re still on your bookshelf collecting dust or sitting in a pile on the floor.
All of books were bought from some library’s Friends’ group. All collect dust on my shelf because I’m busy reading the books I check out said libraries before they’re due.
- Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- Several of Shakespeare’s plays
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- This is Just Exactly Like You by Drew Perry
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2010 in review
- The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 56 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 110 posts. There were 106 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 9mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 26th with 48 views. The most popular post that day was Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe Series .
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were ifreestores.com, facebook.com, en.search.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and lisawallerrogers.wordpress.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for kay hooper bishop series, anna godbersen, genghis khan, envy by anna godbersen, and arukiyomi.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
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Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe Series December 2009
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Kay Hooper’s Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novels April 2010
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Sean Stewart Price’s Cixi: Evil Empress of China? (A Wicked History) July 2010
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Sean Stewart Price’s Attila the Hun: Leader of the barbarian hordes (A Wicked History) August 2010
Word of the Day
theanthropic
adjective embodying deity in a human form; both divine and human.
origin mid 17th cent.: from ecclesiastical Greek theanthropos god-man (from theos god + anthropos human being) + -ic.
Pronunciation available online: www.askoxford.com
Source: Oxford Dictionary of English
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Word of the Day 4/24
Statue of cat settled upon a book - an English dictionary, perhaps?
misfeasance
noun Law a transgression, especially the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.
origin early 17th cent.: from Old French mesfaisance, from mesfaire, from mes- wrongly + faire do (from Latin facere). Compare with malfeasance.
Pronunciation available online: www.askoxford.com
Source: Oxford Dictionary of English
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