Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! I didn’t participate last week because we were on vacation, and I’m not nearly on top of things enough to have planned posts in advance. Nor did I have enough energy to write posts while on vacation, because the theme parks killed me dead. Yup.

I hope you all (or at least those of you in the U.S.) had a fabulous Thanksgiving and stuffed yourselves full of turkey or whatever food you decided to eat in lieu of that glorious tryptophan-filled bird. And for those of you outside the U.S., I hope you had a good week too.

Here’s the topic for this week:

Top Ten Most Anticipated Books For 2013

This post is going to be visually dull, as most of my anticipated books don’t even have cover art yet. Sorry.

Also, these are all sequels, just FYI. So if you haven’t read the first book(s) in some of these series…get on that.

1. Infinityglass (Hourglass #3) by Myra McEntire

2. Defiance #2 by C.J. Redwine (I…think…this is a 2013 release, but I’m not 100% sure, as it has no Amazon or Goodreads page yet).

3. The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy #2) by Jennifer Nielsen.

4. Throne of Glass #2 by Sarah Maas

5. The Bitter Kingdom (Girl of Fire and Thorns #3) by Rae Carson

6. The Elite (The Selection #2) by Kiera Cass

7. Requiem (Delirium #2) by Lauren Oliver

8. Divergent #3 (working title: Detergent) by Veronica Roth

9. The Eternity Cure  (Blood of Eden #2) by Julie Kagawa (and I’m pretty sure the Amazon description is wrong, and the Goodreads description is correct)

10. Dare to You (Pushing the Limits #2) by Katie McGarry

Honorable mentions go to The Archived by Victoria Schwab and Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys, but they didn’t make the list because I have ARCs of them (and yes, I did do a happy dance at my mailbox when they arrived) and I plan to read them in 2012. Which means that by the time 2013 hits, I won’t be anticipating their releases quite as eagerly as the books I haven’t read yet.

Consider this post my very first New Year’s Resolution. Hopefully I won’t have any trouble fulfilling it.

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!

Today’s topic is haaaaaard. I’m just going to get that out there.

Top Ten Books  I’d Want On A Deserted Island

Okay, first let’s talk about this Deserted Island. Is it a tropical island? Do I want to be there? Am I there all by myself, and am I there temporarily or forever? These are important qualifiers.

For the purposes of this post, I’m going to assume I am by myself, on a tropical yet deserted island (with trees so I can make fires and don’t have to choose the biggest books just so they will burn longer), involuntarily, forever. Yes, all of this matters. (Also, it’s possible I over-think things.)

Here we go.

1. The Bible. Because I’d need it.

2. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (let’s just assume they’ll release a single-volume version someday so they can all count as one book). They’re the most enjoyable books I’ve ever read, and I don’t ever get tired of re-reading them. Which is an important consideration on a deserted island forever.

3-5. The Farseer, Liveship, and Tawny Man trilogies by Robin Hobb. I know I’m cheating by counting each trilogy as one, but at least I didn’t count the entire trilogy of trilogies as one. Cut me some slack here. If I had to count them individually, my Top 10 list would already be full. And boring, because there’d only be three things on it.

6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman. So I could still laugh.

7. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. So I could always keep my situation in perspective. There are worse places to be than a deserted island. Siberia, for instance.

8. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. For kind of the same reason, but also because that book is incredibly uplifting in spite of the atrocities that go on in its pages. And I could probably use something uplifting on a deserted island.

9. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. For the warm fuzzies.

10. Whatever book I happen to be in the middle of whenever I get stranded on this island. Because whatever it is, it will drive me crazy to know I will never know how it ends.

Now, if we’re talking short-term beach vacation…my selections may be different.

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!

It’s another freebie week, which are my favorite things ever, but the problem this week is that I’m super-sick with The Crud That Would Not Die, and therefore my creative juices are dried up and caked with grossness around the edges (sorry, was that too much)? Seriously, I’ve coughed so much today that my teeth hurt. I didn’t even know that was a thing.

SO. I’m not so motivated to spend a long time seeking out an awesomely creative topic like last time. Instead, you get a top ten topic that doesn’t require much thought on my part, because that’s all I’m capable of. So without further ado, I give you:

The Top Ten Book Characters I’d Want on My Team in the Zombie Apocalypse

1. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter) – Sorry Harry, but I think that when fighting zombies, Hermione would be infinitely more useful than you. We could all camp out in her giant tent while she saves the world by inventing a zombie decapitation spell, and then she’d probably transfigure their headless corpses into a delightful feast. Mmmm, zombieflesh.

2. Molly Weasley (Harry Potter) – On this team full of people who can defend me from zombies, I need at least one person who can keep me alive by feeding me, and Molly is that person. But, if it comes down to it and she finds herself face to face with the undead, I think we all know Molly’s no slouch.

3. Cato (The Hunger Games) – Yes, I know he’s kind of a sociopath, but remember that the stipulation here is that he’d be on my side. And while Katniss is pretty handy with a bow and arrow, I’m thinking Cato’s sword would be a bit more zombie-appropriate. Plus, he’d probably think zombie-hunting was fun.

4. Logan McEntire (Defiance) – He’s an inventor, but also good in a fight. I’m thinking it would be a good idea to have someone around who could MacGyver his way out of a tight spot.

5. Hector (Crown of Embers) – Both good with a sword and well versed at military tactics and commanding troops. He’d probably be in charge of our little ragtag group.

6. Pia (Origin) – I haven’t finished reading this book yet, but I’m thinking a girl who can’t die and can run really fast would be a good teammate, yes?

7. Zeke (The Immortal Rules) – He’s basically already lived through a vampire apocalypse, so a zombie apocalypse shouldn’t be that big of a deal, right?

8. Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings) – Again with the sword and battle knowledge, but also dude’s got mad survival skills. If he could keep four hobbits alive, surely he could keep me alive.

9. Aslan (The Chronicles of Narnia) – LION VS. ZOMBIE. Also, he’s an all-powerful magical lion, so he probably wouldn’t even break a lionsweat.

10. Robert Muldoon (Jurassic Park) – He’s awesome enough to survive rampaging dinosaurs, so I’d trust him to survive zombies as well.

THERE YOU GO. Admit it, my team rocks. Although there’s still a lot of good picks out there in book world, so many of you could pick them and probably also survive. Good luck.

Now, if you need me, I’ll be on the floor over here, trying to locate my lung.