I'm really not a big resolution-setter, but I have had success with the New Year's resolutions I have set on my blog in the past. I even posted about a couple of these successes last week. As mentioned in that post, I'm going to try to continue with those two resolutions (so most of this list might sound familiar if you are a regular visitor to my blog). But I am adding one new bookish resolution this year.

- Comment on at least 5 blogs a week.
- Limit myself to buying an average of 5 books a month (yearly total is not to exceed 60 books).
- Start recording quotes I like from books I read. I've never really done this, but I would love to have this record of my reading. Now I just need to figure out how to make this feasible for me. Any tips from any of you quote-writers?

2015 was a great year of reading! I read so many books I loved that it's going to be hard to narrow it down to just ten. Here goes!

Walk the Lines: The London Underground, Overground by Mark Mason (I read this book in May and have been raving about it ever since. Random trivia about London automatically makes this one of my favorite books of all time.)
Cinder & Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (I finally started reading this series after hearing how amazing it was. And now I can echo all of those reviews. It is amazing!)
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma (A memoir that is just as delightful as the title sounds.)
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo (Such a satisfying ending to this series.)
Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia Wrede & Caroline Stevermer (If only Victorian England had magic. . .​)

The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan (Because it showed a real relationship, not just a fairy tale. And because those characters are still living in my head.)
Because I Said So! by Ken Jennings (I learned so many random things from this book. It was great fun.)
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (I read several reviews that said this second book in the series stretched on way too long. I disagree - I could have lived in that world for several hundred more pages!)
My Salinger Year by Joanne Rakoff (This was such an enjoyable memoir of life in a literary agency in the 1990s.)
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown (You don't even have to be science geeky like me to enjoy this book. And as an added bonus, I finally understand why Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore!)

I read quite a lot of books in 2015 by authors I had never read before. It made this list of some of my favorites rather hard to narrow down!

As I reflect on things I am thankful for this year, books are definitely on the list. For this week's Top Ten Tuesday topic, I thought I would share ten books that I am thankful I read this year.

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot By the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma
America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great by Ben Carson
How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids by Ken Jennings

House of Living Stones by Katie Schuermann
​Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

I really don't keep track of quotes from books I'm reading. I often wish I did, because I'd love to look back someday at all of the quotes I've loved (hmm, I'm sensing a New Year's resolution in the making. . .) So this post is going to be more like Top Two Tuesday. I read I Am Malala over the weekend, and I wrote down a couple of quotes that jumped out at me.

I find that second quote especially inspiring in view of the events in Paris and around the world over the weekend. In the morning, we find our light (God's Light) again.

If you haven't read I Am Malala​ yet, I highly recommend it. Her story is incredibly inspirational.

I honestly don't watch a lot of movies. So this list could probably be really long. I'm going to limit it to movies that I'd actually like to see someday and/or books I've read (because that is required before seeing the movie).

I don't purposely search out debut authors, but I have run across a few in my reading that haven't published a second book yet. Some of them won't take long to do so, I'm sure. Others have had me waiting impatiently for years! Here are the authors whose next books I am ready and waiting to read.

I tweaked this week's topic a bit. I'm Lutheran, which doesn't mean that I don't celebrate Halloween. It just means that October 31 is also Reformation Day, complete with a rousing rendition of "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God." Since I've never been one for scary reads, I decided instead to compile a list of Reformation reads for this week's Top Ten Tuesday!

Kitty, My Rib by E. Jane Mall (This is the story of Martin Luther's wife. When I discovered this book in middle school, I literally read it five times in a row. I'm not exaggerating.)
Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World by Paul L. Maier (A picture book about Luther.)
​Luther & Katharina by Jody Hedlund (Historical fiction about the Luthers. This book was just released earlier this month. I can't wait to read it!)
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton (The classic Luther biography)

The Reformation:​ A History by Diarmand MacCulloch (A great general overview of the Protestant Reformation)
Reformers in the Wings by David C. Steinmetz (Let's not forget about all those lesser known reformers!)
The Betrayal: A Novel on John Calvin by Douglas Bond (It's always fun to learn about an important historical figure's life through fiction.)
Getting the Reformation Wrong: Correcting Some Misunderstandings by James R. Payton (This sounds like a fun way to learn more about the Reformation.)

Oh, my goodness, if only there were really such a thing as the book genie! Wouldn't it be amazing if we could just rub a lamp and get every bookish wish our heart desires? Ah, well. Here's what I would wish for if a book genie popped into my life today:​

What a fun topic! This week we had to pick authors that should pair up and write a book together. This was a fun one to scour my shelves for. The only problem is that now I really, really want these books to exist. Which is kind of difficult, since half of the authors I picked are dead. . .​

Sarah Addison Allen & Georgette Heyer
Heyer's Regency England setting would be a very interesting combination with Allen's magical realism.