Top Five Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by GingerReadsLainey and Sam from Thoughts On Tomes over on Goodreads. This week’s topic is top 5 books I’m intimidated by. I have quite a lot of these, all of which I own and are currently staring me down from my bookshelves… Haha. Ha.
You can find these and all the other books I have yet to read on my TBR Shelf. Be warned, I am a sinner and I’m only somewhat sorry. (I’m slowly chipping away at it, though!)
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The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I’m intimidated by this one mostly because I’m afraid if I done go into it with my full attention, I won’t be able to appreciate the story to the degree it needs to be appreciated at. That’s the case for a lot of these books, as you’ll see!
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Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore is another one. I love the world Bitterblue is set in, and I’m definitely beyond curious to know what’s happening, but it’s such a large book and the world is so fantastic, that I’m afraid I won’t do it justice until I’m ready to dive into it. Hopefully that’s sooner, rather than later.
3
The rest of the Sookie Stackhouse books. I’m on book 4 right now, but I’ve been hesitant to continue after realizing how many books are in the series. I’ll finish it eventually, but yikes. So many books.
2
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Intimidating because large bind-up, I want to dedicate a good chunk of time to this one and am saving it for when my currently-reading list on Goodreads is clear. That … will take a while.
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Classics, period. I’m just not a big fan of them, and each time I have to read one, I feel intimidated.
And that’s my top 5 Wednesday for the week. Thanks for reading!
Confessions of a Literary Addict 
I have The Time Traveler’s Wife on my TBR and have received a number of recommendations about it but I am yet to get around to reading it. Its an intimidating book for me too.
Here is my T5W for today: https://dwgitau.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/t5w-intimidating-books/
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Thank you for the link!
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I feel ya on the classics! Lord, do I feel ya!
I don’t have the attention span to focus on long series, with two exceptions (one being the In Death series.)
My Most Intimidating Books.
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They just can’t hold my attention, even though I really wish they did…
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I was going to make myself read at least one classic per month but.. I completely failed.
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I would, too. It’s so hard :’D
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I love the Sookie Stackhouse series, well for the most part anyways. There are definitely a lot of books but they are pretty fast reads so that makes it a little easier.
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I need to just sit myself down and go through them, honestly. I will at some point! (Probably.)
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I do understand the “classics” 😛
But Soskie Stochouse novels aren’t a problem, simply go one book at a time, after all you might get bored at one point 😛
There are much bigger series out there 😀 for example the whole Discworld
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I read a bigger series last year, the Pretty Little Liars, and it went super fast. I just … have to DO it. At some point. :’D
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I definitely feel the last three there. Especially the Sookie Stackhouse series, I own a few of the books (though not all of them, and definitely not in order) and my sister has told me nothing but amazing things about the series. But it’s such a large series, and that’s a lot of time to dedicate to one series. I’m a wimp, what can I say?
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It really is!
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I’ve read The Time Traveller’s Wife. It was poignant.👍
Here’s mine:
T5W | Intimidating Books – http://wp.me/p7ksIu-41
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I really need to give it a go. Thanks for the link!
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Bitterblue. I bought all 3 Graceling Realm books with the intention of marathoning them. Many told me that Fire is the worst of the three but I enjoyed that a lot. I started Bitterblue and I just couldn’t get into it. At least, at the moment.
I quit the Sookie books at book 5. Such crappy writing.
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Marathoning them! That’s brave, they’re so big. I don’t think I’d be able to even attempt that, too intimidated!
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