#TopTenTuesday Most Recent Additions To My Book Collection

Top Ten Tuesday new

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection. This is a constantly changing list but here are the ten latest arrivals at the time of writing. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

The Mirror Game by Guy Gardner – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a mystery set in 1920s London 
Yinka, where is your huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn – a proof copy of a book due to be published at the end of March and described as ‘a beautiful, big hearted story about friendship, family, and love’. 
Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – a digital review copy for a blog tour, a historical novel set in 1907 described as a ‘brilliant tale of revolutionary shenanigans in London’ 
The Streets by Anthony Quinn – a book I purchased after reading Eureka, this one is set in Victorian London and was nominated for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2013*
Rose Nicolson by Andrew Greig – a historical novel set in 16th century Scotland that is getting rave reviews*
The Magician by Colm Toibin – a fictionalised account of the life of writer Thomas Mann*
The Silver Wolf by J. C. Harvey – courtesy of a Readers First giveaway, the first book in a series set in the Thirty Years War
April in Spain by John Banville – a charity shop find, the follow-up to historical crime novel, Snow (which I still have to read)
The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – a digital copy via NetGalley, a historical novel set just after the end of the American Civil War
The Dust Bowl Orphans by Suzette D. Harrison – a digital copy via NetGalley for a blog tour, a dual time novel set in Oklahoma in 1935 and California in the present day

*purchased thanks to the lovely people who gave me Waterstones gift cards for Christmas

 


What’s In A Name Challenge 2022 – Sign Up

What's In A Name 2022The What’s In A Name Challenge is being hosted again for 2022 by Andrea at Carolina Book Nook.   You can find out how I got on with the challenge in 2021 here.

The challenge runs from 1st January to 31st December 2022. You can sign up at any time but can only count books you read between those dates. Read a book in any format (hard copy, ebook, audio) with a title that fits into each category. Don’t use the same book for more than one category. Creativity for matching the categories is not only allowed, it’s encouraged! You can choose your books as you go or make a list ahead of time.

I’ve made some provisional selections below, deliberately picking books that have been languishing in my TBR pile for way too long. Links from the title will take you to the book’s entry on Goodreads.  Once I’ve read them, I’ll replace this with a link to my review.

It’s a really fun challenge, so why not sign up to take part yourself?


Compound word                               Silverview by John le Carré

Speed                                                 The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually by Helen Cullen

Person and their description            Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession

Mythical being                                  The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry

Season                                               The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd

Colour                                               Tangerine by Christine Mangan