#TopTenTuesday Animal Life #TuesdayBookBlog

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Animal Companions. I’ve picked ten books I’ve read that involve relationships between animals and humans in some shape or other. Links from the title will take you to my review.

  1. My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende – on the battlefields of the Chilean Civil War, Emilia is “adopted” by a dog named Covadonga who becomes her loyal companion
  2. Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov – Viktor, an aspiring Ukranian writer, adopts a pet penguin whom he names Misha
  3. Tiny Pieces of Enid by Tim Ewins – Enid is encouraged in her efforts by an imaginary macaw
  4. The Birdcage by Eve Chase – Bertha the parrot’s often ill-timed mimicry of snippets of overheard conversations reveal secrets
  5. Lean on Me by Serge Joncour – a flock of crows that have invaded their shared apartment block bring farmer-turned-debt collector Ludovic and fashion designer Aurore together
  6. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey – Geppetto endures enforced companionship given he’s trapped inside the stomach of a giant sea beast
  7. The Writer’s Cats by Muriel Barbery, illustrated by by Maria Guitart – the writer’s four cats pass judgment on her latest output, including farting noisily at offending lines
  8. A Three Dog Problem by S. J. Bennett – the late Queen Elizabeth investigates a mystery accompanied as ever by her corgis
  9. Saving Missy by Beth Morrey – a chance encounter in the local park sees Bob the dog come into Missy’s previously lonely life
  10. The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson – in Tudor England, Joan Vaux feels an affinity with the ravens that inhabit the Tower of London and, as the legend goes, protect the kingdom
Saving Missy

17 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Animal Life #TuesdayBookBlog”

  1. My heart sinks when a dog appears in a novel. So often they come to a sad end. Your mention of a parrot reminded me of a very endearing one in Sigrid Nunez’s The Vulnerables.

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  7. I would never think to adopt a penguin, but they are adorable birds! I wonder what they’d think of going into a house and, say, sitting on someone’s couch.

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  8. Good list! I read the first of Bennet’s QEII books–it was fun. I should read the others. A writer with a pet penguin named Misha? I’m in! The Writer’s Cats has been on my TBR a while–I should buy it.

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