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 topic is a Hallowe’en freebie and my list is all about books that feature witches or witch hunting.

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

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Witch Wood by John Buchan
Sunwise by Helen Steadman
Widdershins by Helen Steadman
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
The Manningtree Witches by A. K. Blakemore
The Witch’s Tree by Elena Collins
‘The Ash Tree’ in Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James
The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman
The Vanishing Witch by Karen Maitland
The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown 

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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.

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This week’s topic is Favourite Words. I decided to stick to a bookish theme and take a humorous look at phrases often used (possibly overused?) in relation to books.

Remember that word – humorous.

• Unputdownable (what, you literally never put it down – not even to visit the bathroom or make a cup of tea?)
• A twist you won’t see coming (but probably will now)
• The book everyone’s talking about (my old mum isn’t)
• Epic (you might finish it by Christmas… next year)
• The number 1 bestseller (for about ten minutes on Amazon in a very niche category)
• The best book I’ve ever read (I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate)
• The long-awaited (Publisher: I wish this author would write more quickly)
• As seen on TikTok (by people too young to go out on their own)
• As seen on Instagram (I remember the cute cat/scented candle/artfully arranged flowers, don’t recall what the book was about)
• Longlisted for the [insert name of] Prize (‘Close, but no cigar’)

Please note: No publishers or reviewers were knowingly ridiculed in the creation of this post. 

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