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[lillyli-74]

All monsters must die except the beautiful ones.

✍️Cameron Jace

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[siriuslygrimm]

Absurdities of Alice

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Sanity is very relative and in Cameron Jace’s Insanity, the madness and nonsense of Wonderland has spread throughout the sane world.

Alice Wonder is a patient of the Radcliffe Asylum, kept isolated in a cell under ground as she undergoes her treatment after being committed as a result of believed insanity after she was involved in the killing of her classmates. Another patient of the asylum, a…

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Splintered Strain

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In a world where the Devil and fairy tales intertwine, Mary Mary Quite Contrary (A Grimm Diaries Prequel) by Cameron Jace shows the darkness lurking behind some beloved characters and tales.

With the splintering of a looking glass wreaking havoc in the world, the Devil narrates the developing situation with admiration as he sees the chaos and despair that particular people are unleashing with…

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

I must admit that this week’s topic will be hard for me – I already have an idea for ONE book, but what will the other hidden gem reads be? I guess we shall see!

The List

Insanity by Cameron Jace is – thus far – an eight book series that I just adore! The books – I’ve read books one and two, Figment, are oddly ingenious. Although I didn’t enjoy Figment nearly as much as Insanity, this is a series I’ve seen little about, but will most definitely finish!

In sophomore English, as part of a freebie reading assignment, I chose to read Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. For some reason, I was drawn to Clarke’s work really early on.

While choosing the book I’d read for class, 2001 seemed to scream at me. So, being the procrastinator I am, read the book in a single afternoon, the day prior to the due date – it was that good – I never got bored with the story and it’s full of page turners!

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a book I read as either a sophomore or junior in high school, for class, naturally.

I remember our teacher giving us a content warning prior to our commencing reading – the book does discuss [gasp!] masturbation! I got so tickled at the teacher actually uttering the word!

Although it was first published WAY back in 1998, Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much is True was instantly a favorite read for me – I just finished it a few weeks ago. I remember it having a lot of buzz following it’s debut, but this book touched me so much – it deserves praise for decades to come.

Tamora Pierce is an author I discovered via my Twitter feed last year. As of now, I’ve only read the first book in Pierce’s series, Song of the Lioness, Alanna: The First Adventure, but I quickly fell in love with both Alanna and her creator’s writing and imagination.

I primarily chose this series because I never would have known of Pierce’s amazing works had I not just happened to be on Twitter at the perfect time! Talk about GIRL POWER!

Pearl S. Buck’s masterpiece – in my eyes – is The Good Earth, about the life of a Chinese farmer, is quite possibly my favorite of all my required reading. I NEVER expected to fall in love with this tale – I really think I was the sole person in my class who enjoyed it!

Unsurprisingly – for me – I’m totally plugging Leo Tolstoy’s classic, Anna Karenina! While I know this big book is not everyone’s cup of tea – not only because of its size and the time period in which it was written, but because of some of its content, if you catch my drift.

Tolstoy’s masterpiece – err, one of them – brought me out of a years-long reading slump – that’s probably one reason I’m so in love with it!

I think I keep picking books I was forced to read in school because the vast majority of them were stories I never would have dreamed of reading had I not been required to do so. With that being said, I adored Silas Marner by George Eliot.

Read in probably sixth or seventh grade, I read the short book and, shockingly enough, LOVED it. To this day, I don’t remember what sucked me so hard into Silas’ saga, which means a reread is in order!

During my post-graduate social work program, my class regarding group therapy read Irvin D. Yalom’s The Schopenhauer Cure, which follows the evolution of a therapeutic group.

This book is exceptional, especially if you’re a social worker or lover of psychology, etc.! Yalom is one of the foremost therapist-authors ever and I look up to him a great deal.

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is a beautiful, fairly short, book. This is another book that I was intensely drawn to for a long while prior to finally picking it up. Talk about ALL THE FEELS.

What are your picks for the week? Link up in the comments so I can pop in!

Love, Maggie

Diamonds in the Rough Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to…

[wandering-around-the-world8]

There are always answers hidden between words, so I love to listen”

Mushrooms by Cameron Jace

[blogthebooklover]

A mirror that witnessed death was as dear to me as a poisoned apple that steals breath.

Cameron Jace, The Grimm Diaries Prequels

[blogthebooklover]

A wise man once said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was someone else.

Cameron Jace, The Grimm Diaries Prequels