Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We’d love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!
Top Ten Books Dealing with Tough Issues…
Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown deals with issues surrounding SEXTING.
Things I Can’t Forget by Miranda Kenneally deals with ABORTION and reconciling FAITH.
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell deals with POVERTY, ABUSE and Self-Image.
Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick deals with MENTAL HEALTH.
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover deals with RAPE, Missing People, Kidnapping, and Suicide.
Every Day by David Levithan deals with LOVE and the packages it comes in.
Crank by Ellen Hopkins deals with DRUG addiction.
Burned by Ellen Hopkins deals with PATRIARCHAL ideals within LDS, lOVE, and ABUSE.
Easy by Tammara Webber deals with RAPE, the effects, healing and speaking up.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman deals with views towards CHILDREN…unwanted and troubled.
“Oh, sweetie, I’m sorry, you can’t have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that’s never going to happen again.”
“A hundred brilliant witticisms died suffocating on the captain’s heavy glove. Thus muted, I pumped my codpiece at the duke and tried to force a fart, but my bum tumpet could find no note.”
“I have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and I delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn’t seem natural. ‘Cause friendship should not be as easy as that. It’s like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. or books. omg… U like the outsiders 2… it’s like we’re the same person! no we’re not. It’s like we have the same English teacher. There’s a difference.”
“We fatties have a bond, dude. It’s like a secret society. We got all kinds of shit you don’t know about. Handshakes, special fat people dances-we got these secret fugging lairs in the center of the earth and we go down there in the middle of the night when all the skinny kids are sleeping and eat cake and friend chicken and shit. Why d’you think Hollis is still sleeping, kafir? Because we were up all night in the secret lair injecting butter frosting into our veins. …A fatty trusts another fatty.”
“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”
“In my opinion, the only good spider is a dead spider, and women’s rights aren’t worth dick if they mean I can’t ask a man to do my bug squashing.”
“Hamlet promised himself he’d throw down afterward, but I think perhaps when he said, “From this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” the limits of blank verse weakened his resolve somehow. If he’d been free to follow the dictates of his conscience rather than the pen of Shakespeare, perhaps he would have abandoned verse altogether, like me, and contented himself with this instead: “Bring it, muthafuckas. Bring it.”
“That took balls.”
“I walked to the door where Clovis waited. When I looked up, he was staring at Adam. A quick glance backward confirmed Adam was returning his stare. Freaking males, I thought, they couldn’t be more obvious about their territorial dispute if they’d both peed on me.”
“I tried that Dr. Phil book at first”…”And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just so you know, you left it up again. That drives me crazy.”
