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1. A Practical Wedding Planner by Meg Keene I read this first in 2016, but it was incredibly helpful planning my wedding, especially in the last couple days! 2. The Magician King by Lev Grossman I appreciate so much more the riffing on and respect for some of my favorite children's fantasy novels, and the Magicians series are fantasy novels in their own right too. Currently finishing up the trilogy with The Magician's Land . 3. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer Insightful about who your audience really is, when it really is okay to ask (something I've struggled with most of my life), and plenty of wild, heartwarming stories from Amanda's life. 4. Wedding Stories, Ed. Diana Secker Tesdell Thematic and timely for me, and also a thorough range of classic and contemporary American authors, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Edwidge Danticat. Also starts off with an entertaining story from English author A. A. Milne. 5. The Winner's

Top Ten Tuesdays are over at the Broke and the Bookish . I feel like I used to have a lot of these, but I'll give it a go... Top Ten Series I've Been Meaning to Start But Haven't 1. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor 2. Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling 3. Thursday Next by Jasper Fforde 4. The Broken Earth by N.K. Jemisin 5. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 6. The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin 7. Defy by Sara B. Larson 8. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan 9. 10. I'll see if I can remember more later!

Meme over at Bookishly Boisterous ! 1. Especially towards the end of wedding planning, looking at wedding magazines made me sick and wedding advice columns made me sick with dread. It didn't stop me from reading, but what's surprising is that I've continued reading after the wedding--and I'm enjoying it! Ideas for weddings make me smile, conundrums inspire sympathy. The Practical Wedding column where the sister wears the white dress still leaves me flabbergasted--my sister/MOH wore an awesome gold jacket. 2. I have much more interest in wedding planning than I did before. Prior to mine, it was something I'd never thought about. Though it was stressful, afterward, it was kind of cool.  I'm not interested in planning a wedding or large party again, but I appreciate the experience because I have sympathy for my friends and relatives who are about to or may at some point go through it, and I like feeling like I could be of help to them 3. We got incredibly l

Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at the Broke and the Bookish! Top Ten Fantasy Books I Recently Added to My TBR I haven't read any of these yet, but they're all books I've added to my TBR in the past six months or so. Most are recommendations from other bloggers. 1. Mangoverse series by Shira Glassman 2. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton 3. Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton 4. All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders 5. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 6. Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel 7. The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi 8. Everfair by Nisi Shawl 9. The Crystal Ribbon by Celeste Lim 10. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julia C. Dao