This week's theme is a freebie! So I decided to give some review posts from 2013, my first year of blogging, a little extra love. Because not many people knew of or visited my blog back then. But I read a lot of really good books that year! Here are ten of my favorite books from 2013, with links to my original posts...check them out:
(Magic and mystery on Roanoke Island.)
(After ten years living in the woods with their drug-addicted mother, Carey and her little sister have just been brought back home. But can Carey adjust to normal life? This one's so good it made me cry.)
(An entertaining travel memoir to some of the most polluted places on earth.)
(Fun steampunk mystery with Mina Holmes and Evangeline Stoker.)
(Witty life lessons learned from reading Jane Austen's books.
I include my own 5 Jane Austen lessons in this post.)
(This is the book that made me a fan of Peter Hoeg for life.)
(Seven high school students trapped by a blizzard struggle to survive.)
(Four characters from Morocco trying to find a new life in Spain.)
(Fun mystery set in the 1920s involving a Vaudeville performer and a missing heiress.)
(Awesome ghost story and still my favorite St. James novel.)
Happy Reading!
I haven't read any of these and several look so interesting. We have way too many choices these days LOL
ReplyDeleteThat is so true! I'd need at least two lifetimes to read them all, and having to choose between them can be really hard sometimes.
DeleteI loved that book by Simone St. James, too! The other books look interesting too so have to check them out as well.
ReplyDeleteThat's my favorite St. James book! :D
DeleteI've read a couple of Gleason's Holmes & Stoker books and enjoyed them, including this one. :) My favorite Simone St. James is The Broken Girls! Several others look promising. Thanks, Lark.
ReplyDeleteThe Broken Girls was a good one! I liked that one, too. :)
DeleteThese all sound good but then again, you always make every book sound good. #4 looks interesting, I'm always trying to find that one steampunk book to enjoy - I actually read a few but they aren't good. The clockwork scarab sounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteI like your list of Jane Austen life lessons - they are all good.
Have a lovely day.
If you like fun mysteries then I think you'd really like The Clockwork Scarab. Thanks for stopping by and commenting! :)
DeleteIt’s always fun to look back at old posts!
ReplyDeleteAnd to remember the books I was reading back then! :)
DeleteSeveral of these appeal. The Jane Austen Life Lessons, the Chernobyl book and The Clockwork Scarab. You're so bad for my tbr pile, Lark! LOL
ReplyDeleteWell, you're always adding new books to my TBR pile, so I guess that makes us even. :D
DeleteIt's so fun revisiting old reviews! I loved The Clockwork Scarab. :)
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun book, wasn't it? I should read the sequel sometime.
DeleteWhat a great idea to revisit old posts. I might copy that one day. ;)
ReplyDeleteMy TTT is about Nobel Prize winners.
Copy away! :D
DeleteThaaaaaanks!😘
DeleteIt's always fun to look back at old posts and see how they have changed over the years.
ReplyDeleteIt really is! And it was interesting to see how my writing of reviews has changed over the years, too.
DeleteCongrats on having had your blog for this long, that's awesome.
ReplyDeleteHere is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
Thanks! And thanks for commenting. :)
DeleteGreat idea for a blog post. My posts did not get a lot of love back then either, and I've often thought about deleting those first few years, but I think it's a better idea to promote them a bit.
ReplyDeleteAfter all, you went to all the work of writing them. They deserve a little extra love.
DeleteIt's interesting to look back at what we wrote years ago, isn't it? I must confess that I haven't read any of those books that you reviewed back in 2013, but I'm going to take a look at them.
ReplyDeleteThere's quite a mix, so at least one of them might be something you'd really like. :)
DeleteI have not heard of any of these, how fun! Thanks for sharing! Here is my link if you'd like to stop by: https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2021/09/top-ten-tuesday-20-books-for-christmas.html
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to check out your TTT post. :)
DeleteVisit Sunny Chernobyl sounds interesting.
ReplyDeleteIt was an unexpectedly fun book, especially if you like travel memoirs, which I do. :D
DeleteGreat topic! I know my older blog posts need some tlc too!
ReplyDeleteRight? :D
DeleteOh this is cool. I started around the same time and feel the same way! I reviewed some books but no one has read those posts lol. Not to mention I don't get to share those books I read then! Great idea. I really liked The Clockwork scarab and often think about going back and finishing those. There ended up being five I think??
ReplyDeleteThe Clockwork Scarab was a fun read...but if there are now five books in that series I am seriously behind! ;D And you should give some of your first blogging posts some more love. Plus, it's fun to look back at what we reviewed and posted back then.
DeleteI have thought about re- posting some older stuff. In fact I have a few times :)
DeleteI think some of us bloggers who've been around a while should all post some older entries sometime :):)
If my memory serves me, I think TRAPPED was pretty popular in my library back in the early part of the decade. Thanks for the reminder. I went and looked at your Austen book review. Fun! I will look for it.
ReplyDeleteTrapped was a fun read. And I think you'll like A Jane Austen education. :)
DeleteI remember reading Trapped yeeears ago. I liked it!
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There's something about blizzards and getting snowed in that make for some great stories. :)
DeleteI agree!
DeleteWhat a great topic for TTT today! I have not read any of these but have read the most recent book by Gwenda Bond, Not Your Average Hot Guy.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way Gwenda Bond writes. I'll have to check out her latest. :)
DeleteA great topic!
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/10-indigenous-authors-to-read/
Thanks! :)
DeleteYou read some interesting books in 2013, especially (to me) that travel book to nasty places. What a vacation! LOL Do you think your reading taste has changed much in the years since you starting blogging?
ReplyDeleteVisit Sunny Chernobyl was great. It even made me think about going there someday. ;D And I think my reading tastes have changed a little over the years, but not too drastically. Because I still love mysteries, and books with a supernatural vibe. And I still love disaster/survival books, and good nonfiction. But I don't read as much YA as I once did. And I probably choose the books I review a little differently than I once did. It's fun to look back though and see what I was reading all those years ago.
DeleteI read If You Find Me and remember being outraged for those little girls! Trapped sounds good. And I didn't know St.James had been writing so long, but I like the sound of An Inquiry into Love and Death.
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably like St. James's first book, The Haunting of Maddy Clare, too. They're both ghost/suspense/romance stories.
DeleteGreat article. I followed your blog now. Thx
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting! :)
DeleteIt's fun to look back at our early blogging days. I've actually not read any of these books either so thanks for putting them on my radar. :)
ReplyDeleteAny time I can add to someone's TBR list I feel I've done my job. ;D
DeleteI missed this week's TTT post, but glad I came by your post. It's fun to go back to the past and see ourselves in the first year of blogging. :) For myself, Book #5 is just something I *need* to read right now. And I too adore Simone St. James's work.
ReplyDeleteA Jane Austen Education is very fun and will make you smile. At least it did me. :)
DeleteI am so glad you took this week's post in this direction. I haven't heard of many of these books and now have a chance to check them out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and for visiting my blog on Tuesday.
I felt like no one saw these posts the first time around, so I thought I'd give them a second chance. Thanks for commenting! :)
DeleteAh so fun to read this post! And, having just finished reading Simone St. James, I definitely want to add this one to my reading list.
ReplyDeleteIt's my favorite. :)
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