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 Things Characters Have Said. Being a contrary sort of person, my take on the topic is book titles about not communicating things. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1. A Conspiracy of Silence by Anna Legat
2. The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola
3. The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
4. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou
5. The Unheard by Anne Worthington
6. The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
7. There’s No Story There by Inez Holden
8. Liar by Aylet Gundar-Goshen
9. Tell Me Where You Are by Moira Forsyth
10. The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer

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 Books Set in Another Time. As someone whose favourite genre is historical fiction, my struggle this week wasn’t so much thinking of books as trying to restrict it to only ten! My solution was to draw on the annual When Are You Reading Challenge hosted by Sam at Taking On a World of Words and list the ten books, each set in a different historical period, I read for the challenge last year. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1500-1699:        The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola – Rome in 1659

1700-1799:        The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – Venice in 1704

1800-1899:        The Household by Stacey Halls – London in 1847

1900-1919:         The Paris Peacemakers  by Flora Johnston – Paris in 1919

1920-1939:        A Madras Miasma by Brian Stoddart – Madras in the 1920s

1940-1959:        The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear – London in 1945

1960-1979:        Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers – Croydon, near London in 1964

1980-1999:       Possible Happiness by David Ebenbach – USA in the late 1980s

2000-Present:  A Place Without Pain by Simon Bourke – Dublin, Ireland from the 2000’s onwards

The Future:       The Coming Storm by Greg Mosse – a chaotic world in 2037