Top 5 Wednesday - April 2016

April 6th - Rainy Day Reads

Not only do these novels have the right quiet, mellow, low key kind of feelings, they are also short reads so you could finish them in a day if you really weren't doing much else. 

1. Misery, Stephen King
2. Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz
3. A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
4. Broken Monsters, Lauren Beukes
5. Wintergirls, Laurie Anderson Halse

April 13th - Books with "Hard" Topics (ie mental health, sexual assault, illness, etc)I have read lots of "hard topic" non fiction novels, which would fit this question really well. I am going to try and name at least one fiction novel and have my non fiction novels cover a different main topic for each. 

1. The Fireman, Joe Hill *cult behaviour, mental illness
2. My Sisters Keeper, Jodi Picoult *I will mention the Fault in our Stars here because it is the YA version of this novel.

1. The Saddest Girl in the World, Cathy Glass *mental abuse,
2.  Not Without My Sister, Kristina Jones *A Children Of God Cult survivor 
3. Sickened : The memoir of a munchausen by proxy childhood, Julie Gregory

April 20th - Book You're Intimidated ByMost classics for me are a challenge, and there are always a number of them on my TBR, I find them such slow reads that I often leave them until something really pushes me into reading one. The other reasons why I leave these books are page count or reputation

1. A Song of Fire and Ice, George RR Martin * The series is over 7000 pages long through the 7 novels
2. The Dark Tower 7, Stephen King *1000 Pages
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child * I really don't want to ruin my opinion of Harry Potter and JK Rowling, its a script not a novel. I might see if I can watch the play first. Really unsure about this.
4. The Sword of Truth, Terry Goodkind *I read one of these novels and enjoyed it again just the size 15 books with a prequel in the making I think about 400-500 pages a book.
5. Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead *how many people love this series, I am worried that I will not love it as much and that the over hype will make it a disappointment

April 27th - Favorite Mothers/Maternal Figures 

1. Mrs. Copper, Georges Mother, Tortal Series,Tamora Pierce
2. Natalie Prior, Tris's mother, Divergent, Veronica Roth
3. Molly Weasly, Harry Potter, JK Rowling
4. Harper Greyson, The Fireman, Joe Hill
5. Apolymi, Dark Hunters, Sherrilyn Kenyon