Category: Top Ten Tuesday

#TopTenTuesday Books That Take You In All Directions #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.

weathercock with four winds in countrysideThis week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Ten Characters Authors Surprisingly Redeemed. Apologies to Deanna at A Novel Glimpse who suggested it but I could not for the life of me come up with any ideas for this one. Instead I’ve taken a different direction, you might say. Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. North Woods by Daniel Mason
  2. The Northern Reach by W. S. Winslow
  3. The Cold North Sea by Jeff Dawson
  4. Secrets of Southern Girls by Haley Harrigan
  5. South Riding by Winifred Holtby
  6. West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
  7. Run to the Western Shore by Tim Pears
  8. Ghosts of the West by Alec Marsh
  9. The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
  10. The Moral Compass by K. A. Servian

#TopTenTuesday Books That Provide A Much-Needed Escape #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books That Provide a Much-Needed Escape. All books are an escape for me – a glimpse of other lives, other experiences, other places – but it’s reading about other times that really captures my imagination. Links from each title will take you to my review.

Escape with me to…

  1. A Roman Empire in decline in 5th century Europe in Sword of the War God by Tom Hodkinson 
  2. 15th century England during the Wars of the Roses in The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite
  3. London, three years after the Gunpowder Plot in A Plague of Serpents by K. J. Maitland 
  4. Early 18th century Venice in The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable 
  5. A house for ‘fallen’ women in 19th century London in The Household by Stacey Halls 
  6. The Mississippi River in 1861 in James by Percival Everett 
  7. A mining town in late nineteenth century Montana in The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 
  8. The negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 in The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston 
  9. A grisly murder in a Hampshire country house in 1938 in Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead 
  10. A war weary London in 1945 in The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear