top ten tuesday: nameworthy characters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish! This week's theme is "October 18: Ten Characters I'd Name A Child/Dog/Cat/Car/Etc. After -- we did this topic back in 2011 and thought it might be fun to revisit it...feel free to spin it how you need!" I love this topic! I already have a dog named after Hazel Grace Lancaster from TFIOS, so that is first on the list, but I do have a ton of other ones that I love!

1. Hazel from The Fault in Our Stars
2. Jo from Little Women
3. Percy from Percy Jackson and the Olympians
4. Arin from The Winner's Curse
5. Celaena from Throne of Glass
6. Alina from The Grisha trilogy
7. Laurent from Captive Prince
8. St. Clair from Anna and the French Kiss
9. Inej from Six of Crows
10. Ani from The Goose Girl

what's on your list this week?

xx
Caroline

spotlight on: if... then

Hello and welcome to another Spotlight On post here at Stardust and Words! You can find the rest of the Spotlight Posts here :) This is a monthly feature hosted here, where each month I choose an aspect of the bookish existence and write a post about it! This month, I wanted to do something that I've seen on twitter a bunch of times. I chose a few books that are considered "super popular" around the blogging community, and chose some books that you might like, if you liked the popular choice. Which also works if you've read the suggested book but not the original :)  I hope that this gives y'all some suggestions for what to read next!

i hope you guys found this helpful!

xx
Caroline

top ten tuesday: the last 3 years

Happy Tuesday everyone! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted over at The Broke and The Bookish, and this week's theme is "March 3: Top Ten Books You Would Classify As ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOKS from the past 3 years (you can extend it to 5 if you need to)." Needless to say, I love this theme, as talking about my favorite books is a favorite pastime. So, I went through my goodreads "favorites" shelf and tried to narrow it down to ten. Because the last three years were the first years I really joined into the online reading community, I've read so many amazing stories, but here are the top eleven (sorry) that have impacted me the most over the last three years.

Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt

Hello and welcome back to These Stardust Words! Today, we're going to be attempting a booktube challenge, which I first saw on Christine and Katy's channels! The challenge was originally created by Sarah, and now its to be attempted by yours truly! The rules are simple- there is a clue given, and you must scour your bookshelf to find a book that fits the description. In the interest of being honest, I'm going to use all my own photos... crappy ones taken off my phone, but mine all the same.

First, here are my shelves.