Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week a theme is given that you compose , you guessed it, a top ten list for.

I am going off script this week completely. You see, my grandpa died early Sunday morning. That is what is on my mind, and so I thought I would do a list of books to what is on my mind.

My Grandpa wasn't an easy man. He could be the biggest jacka**, but he also was the kindest and most giving man I have ever met. I know that doesn't make sense, but that is how he was. My grandma, his wife,
passed away four years ago. She was my best friend, and I had a very hard time excepting her being gone. So with Grandpa's passing, it has kind of opened a wound for her as well as a new one for him.

I got to share my babes with him, something I never got to do with my grandma. You have never seen love until you saw how he looked at my girls.

Sorry for this depressing post and the little bit of soul baring. I can't say my list of books is going to be any lighter of a mood either, but some of these meant a lot when my grandma passed, and revisiting them now seems like a good idea.
(Please excuse the format this week. I'm on my phone finishing this, so it is as good as it is going to get.)

 Little Women is one that makes my heart feel a bit lighter in sad times. It is always a reminder to keep going no matter what.

This is one of the few times you will hear me say I preferred the movie version to the book. (It was probably Gerald Butler)
Ps I Love You is one that touches my heart about continuing to live and moving on.

I chose this for the main reason the whole story revolves around "Death." This is one of those I will never forget. It is one that makes you think about our society and what the kind of values we place on life itself.

This is one I read shortly after my grandma passed. It is the only book to ever make me sob, but it is so good.

The acceptance of death and living for every moment until it is here is what this book gave to me.

This was my first Colleen Hoover Novel and I read this during a night I was sitting with my grandma, and again while sitting with my grandpa this past weekend. It is so powerful in ways I can not explain, and it brings such comfort to me.


I didn't love this series, but The Air He Breathes blew my socks off. It has such a powerful storyline that gives you all kinds of feels. It just moved me.