Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday – 10 New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2021

January 25, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 3 Comments

Today’s topic is Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I read in 2021. I’m going to stick with true new-to-me authors and not include debuts in my list. See what others are sharing by visiting our host at That Artsy Reader Girl.

PS I’m still trying to figure out how I best like these TTT posts formatted, so bear with me as I try something new this week.

High-Wire Heartbreak by Anna Schmidt

Saving Mrs. Roosevelt by Candice Sue Patterson

In a Grove of Maples by Jennifer Knipfer

The Barrister and the Letter of Marque by Todd M. Johnson

Rising Danger by Jerusha Agen

Danger on the Loch by Paige Edwards

The Secret Place by Camille Eide

The Hotel by Pamela Kelley

Sweet Summer by Christina Sinsi

A Change in Tune by Ashley Rescot

Top Ten Tuesday: 2021 Releases I Was Excited About But Didn’t Get To Read

January 18, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 5 Comments

Today’s TTT topic is one that I can quadruple, but for your sake (and mine sanity), I’ve narrowed the top ten 2021 releases I was excited to read but didn’t get to. Because let’s face it, y’all, there just aren’t enough hours in the year. You can find out what books others missed out on by visiting our host at That Artsy Reader Girl.

Let me know in the comments if you’ve read any of these and if so, which one I should put at the top of my tbr for 2022.

Pudge and Prejudice is an homage to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, transported to the fictitious Northfield Texas High School in the year 1984. After moving to Northfield with her family, Elyse Nebbit faces the challenge of finding her place in a new school, one dominated by social status and Friday night football. When Elyse’s effortlessly beautiful older sister Jayne starts dating Charlie Bingley, the captain of the school football team, Elyse finds herself curious about Charlie’s popular and brooding best friend, Billy Fitz. Elyse’s body insecurities eventually complicate her relationship with Billy, leaving Jayne and Elyse’s exceedingly blunt friend, Lottie, to step in and help Elyse accept herself for who she is, pant size and all.

In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When Mindy, one of those children, announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adoptive family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival into their lives.

Though her father supports Mindy’s desire to meet her family of origin, he struggles privately with an unsettling fear that he’ll lose the daughter he’s poured his heart into. Mindy’s mother undergoes the emotional roller coaster inherent in the adoption of a child from a war-torn country, discovering the joy hidden amid the difficulties. And Mindy’s sister helps her sort through relics that whisper of the effect the trauma of war has had on their family–but also speak of the beauty of overcoming.

Told through three strong voices in three compelling timelines, The Nature of Small Birds is a hopeful story that explores the meaning of family far beyond genetic code.

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection

January 11, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 6 Comments

This week’s TTT topic is “most recent additions to my book collection,” and admittedly, this list will most likely change before the end of this week as I’m waiting for a few January releases to show up. You can find out what books others have acquired by visiting our host at That Artsy Reader Girl.

Contemporary

Time Travel

Historical and Dual Time

Writing Resources

Did you add any of these books to your bookshelf recently? Any here you’d like to add? Let me know in the comments or tell me your most recent addition.