#TopTenTuesday My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List – An Update #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Petty Reasons You’ve DNF’d a Book. I rarely DNF books and, if I do, I hope it’s never for petty reasons, so this week’s topic wasn’t for me. Instead I’ve revisited a previous post – Books on My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List – to see whether plan turned into reality. Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads if they’re still unread.

  1. The Slowworm’s Song by Andrew MillerRead and reviewed
  2. Pure by Andrew MillerStill unread
  3. Back Trouble by Clare Chambers – Read and reviewed
  4. A Dry Spell by Clare Chambers Still unread
  5. All Day at the Movies by Fiona Kidman – Read but not yet reviewed
  6. The Infinite Air by Fiona Kidman Still unread
  7. Himself by Jess Kidd Still unread
  8. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler Still unread
  9. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan – Read and reviewed
  10. Munich Wolf by Rory Clements – Read and reviewed

Actually, I’m quite pleased with this result: 5 read (of which 4 have been reviewed), 5 still unread. Do you ever look back at your To-Read lists?

 

#TopTenTuesday Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon #TuesdayBookBlog

Top Ten TuesdayTop 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 Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read Soon. Oh my goodness, how do I narrow it down to just ten? Rather than pick out some of my oldest unread books (that would be way too embarrassing), I’m focusing on books I need to – as well as want to – read soon. So my ten comprise the seven books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction that I haven’t yet read, two books that publish next month and my book club’s pick for May. I can get through those, can’t I? Hollow laughs all round…

  1. For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy on my Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie
  2. Music in the Dark by Sally Magnusson
  3. Cuddy by Benjamin Myers
  4. The Fraud by Zadie Smith
  5. Mister Timeless Blyth by Alan Spence
  6. In the Upper Country by Kai Thomas
  7. Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain
  8. Estella’s Revenge by Barbara Havelocke
  9. The Small Museum by Jody Cooksley 
  10. The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Which books from your TBR pile do you hope to read soon?