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 Books With a Unit of Time in the Title. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

Vanish in an Instant by Margaret Millar
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
Eight Hours from England by Anthony Quayle
Devorgilla Days by Kathleen Hart
These Days by Lucy Caldwell
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
One Day in Summer by Shari Low
Jane’s Country Year by Malcolm Saville
A Hundred Million Years and a Day by Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

 

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 we’re invited to come up with our own take on the topic of Book Quotes.

My list is all about book titles that are quotations from other works of literature.

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ by W. B. Yeats) 
2. This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (from the poem ‘Jerusalem’ by William Blake)
3. Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam (from the hymn ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ by Cecil Frances Alexander)
4. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
5. By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (from Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
6. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (from Macbeth)
7. A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie (from the nursey rhyme, ‘Sing A Song of Sixpence’)
8. The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side by Agatha Christie (from the poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred Tennyson)
9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (from Paradise Lost by John Milton)
10. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (from the poem ‘The Wasteland’ by T. S. Eliot)