Category: Top Ten Tuesday

#TopTenTuesday Books Set in Venice #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time but, not for the first time, I’m going off-piste with Books Set in Venice, although it’s a place I wish I could visit again.

Links will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

  1. Venetian Vespers by John Banville – a mysterious disappearance during an ill-fated honeymoon
  2. The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith – a romance in WW2 Venice
  3. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier – on the island of Murano, home of Venice’s skilled glassmakers, time flows differently
  4. The Garden of Angels by David Hewson – secrets are uncovered in Nazi occupied Venice
  5. The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato – a ship steals unnoticed into 16th century Venice bearing a deadly cargo
  6. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann – an author visiting Venice becomes obsessed with a stunningly beautiful youth
  7. Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier – the ill-fated holiday in Venice of a couple mourning the death of their young daughter
  8. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – in 18th century Venice, eight-year-old orphan Anna Maria is determined to become a great violinist
  9. Venetian Blood by Christine Evelyn Volker – a woman travels to Venice to visit an old friend but finds herself accused of murder
  10. City of Masks by S. D. Sykes – in 14th century Venice, Oswald de Lacy is dragged into a murder investigation when he discovers the body of a man
The Garden of Angels

#TopTenTuesday Books Featuring Storms #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.
Photo by Dziana Hasanbekava on Pexels.com

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Satisfying Book Series. I’m terrible at completing book series or reading all the books in a series, and in the right order, so I’ve come up with my own topic.

With autumn well and truly making its presence felt here in the UK, I’ve chosen Books Featuring Storms, actual or metaphorical. Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

  1. The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse – a race to prevent a man-made natural disaster in a world ravaged by climate change
  2. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan – a woman realises she has helped to set in motion a train of events that will wreak havoc on her family
  3. Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray – ‘War poisons everything that it does not destroy’
  4. A Stranger from the Storm by William Burton McCormick – a scarred, shambling man arrives at an Odessa boarding house during a thunderstorm 
  5. The Wrecking Storm by Michael Ward – two Jesuit priests are brutally murdered as the threat of civil war looms
  6. After the Storm by Isabella Muir – when a violent storm blasts England’s south coast, retired Italian detective Giuseppe Bianchi must sift through the devastation left in its wake
  7. The Storm by Amanda Jennings – an Atlantic storm changes lives forever in a Cornish fishing village
  8. Storm of Steel by Matthew Harffy – Northumbrian thegn Beobrand and his war band are ambushed by pirates during a raging storm
  9. The Wager by David Grann – the true story of a British vessel wrecked in stormy weather off the coast of Patagonia in 1742
  10. The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves – ‘Fierce winds, dark secrets, deadly intentions’
Book cover of The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse