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 Books Involving Food (That Are Not Cookbooks), a suggestion of myself and blogger Hopewell’s Library of Life. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1. Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson – young Pumkin Patterson finds comfort in creating Jamaican bread puddings and coconut drops
2. Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford – Jennifer Quinn wins a spot as a contestant on a primetime TV baking show
3. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey – carpenter Geppetto (of Pinocchio fame) finds himself in the belly of a huge whale
4. The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – the fictionalised story of Eliza Acton, the woman who broke the mould of traditional cookbooks 
5. A Ration Book Daughter by Jean Fullerton – featuring wartime food under rationing and traditional East End fare such as pie and mash, and jellied eels 
6. Green Hands by Barbara Whitton – a insight into life as a member of the Women’s Land Army producing food vital to the war effort
7. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees – recruited to root out Nazis trying to escape prosecution, Edith sends coded messages back to the UK hidden inside innocuous recipes
8. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle – Sabrina arrives at her 30th birthday dinner to find at the table her best friend, three significant people from her past . . .  and Audrey Hepburn 
9. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood – Marian’s dilemma about her future prompts some very rebellious behaviour by her stomach
10. Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King – Roman gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius sets about achieving his ambition to serve as culinary advisor to the Emperor Tiberius

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 Posts I’ve Written That Give You the Best Glimpse of Me. We’re invited to share blog, Instagram, X posts or YouTube/TikTok videos that showcase our personality. I was completely stumped by this one. I don’t have a presence on YouTube or TikTok and my blog posts are about showcasing books rather than me.  So I’ve gone down a different route with a list of books whose titles give a glimpse of its main character’s personality.  Links from each title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. A Dangerous Woman From Nowhere by Kris Radish
2. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
3. Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
4. The Voluble Topsy by A. P. Herbert
5. The Romantic by William Boyd
6. Lucky Jack by S. Bavey
7. The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
8. The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford
9. Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
10. The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway by Thomas Rhys