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#TopTenTuesday Book Titles That Are Quotations

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Top Ten Tuesday

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 we’re invited to come up with our own take on the topic of Book Quotes.

Top Ten Tuesday Book QuotesMy list is all about book titles that are quotations from other works of literature.

  1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ by W. B. Yeats) 
  2. This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (from the poem ‘Jerusalem’ by William Blake)
  3. Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam (from the hymn ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ by Cecil Frances Alexander)
  4. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
  5. By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (from Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
  6. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (from Macbeth)
  7. A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie (from the nursey rhyme, ‘Sing A Song of Sixpence’)
  8. The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side by Agatha Christie (from the poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred Tennyson)
  9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (from Paradise Lost by John Milton)
  10. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (from the poem ‘The Wasteland’ by T. S. Eliot)

 

 

 

#SixonSaturday My Gardening Week – 21st May @cavershamjj

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Garden AllotmentSix on Saturday is a weekly meme hosted by The Propagator. If you’d like to join in you can find more details here.

Thanks goodness the April showers turned up even if we had to wait until May for them.

  1. The Rocket potatoes in their Marshalls Gro-Sacks are loving the recent rain. The first two of the six containers were planted at the beginning of April.
  2. They may still be small and only recently planted out in raised beds but the courgettes already have flowers.
  3. The bees are loving the flowers on the thyme.

4. An unknown variety of rose (our neighbour refers to it as ‘Sheila’s rose’ after the wife of the previous owner of our house) covered in flowers and with the most delightful scent.
5. A delicately coloured rhododendron. Unfortunately I missed taking a photo of a deep crimson one further down the garden that has now finished flowering.
6. An acquilegia which has made itself at home in a crack in the concrete next to one of our compost bins.

Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.