Category: 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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ways My Blogging/Review Style Has Changed Over Time. This topic needed a lot more thought than I had time for so I’ve come up with one of my own. I’ve seen a few mentions of May being International/National Short Story Month, although I haven’t been able to find a reliable source to substantiate this. Regardless of whether it’s ‘official’ or not, here are ten short story collections I’ve read and enjoyed. Links from the title will take you to my review.

1. normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
2. In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
3. Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle
4. Music of the Night edited by Martin Edwards
5. Liberty Terrace by Madeleine D’Arcy
6. Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
7. The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited Margaret Jull Costa
8. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
9. Runaway by Alice Munro
10. In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Authors (or books by authors) Who Live In My State/Country. As a way to whittle down the thousands and thousands of authors who live in the UK to just ten, I’ve selected British authors who’ve appeared over the years at my local literary festival, Henley Literary Festival. (This year’s festival takes place between 4th and 12th October.) In most cases I’ve read more than one book by the author but I’ve selected a single title for each of them. Links from the title will take you to my review.

1. Robert Harris, author of Precipice (lives in Berkshire)
2. Carol Klein, author of Hortobiography (lives in Devon)
3. Sebastian Faulks, author of The Seventh Son (lives in London)
4. James Naughtie, author of The Spy Across the Water (lives in Edinburgh & London)
5. Olivia Ford, author of Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame (lives in London)
6. Alan Johnson, author of Death on the Thames (lives in Yorkshire)
7. Paterson Joseph, author of The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (lives in London)
8. Kate Mosse, author of The Map of Bones (lives in Sussex)
9. Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path (lives in Cornwall)
10. Rory Clements, author of Munich Wolf (lives in Norfolk)