#TopTenTuesday Book Titles That Say ‘This Is Me’ #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 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
Book cover of Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent
The Good Doctor of Warsaw

My Week in Books – 25th August 2024

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My Week in Books

On What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Bookish Relationships.

Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.

Thursday – I published my review of Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts, one of the books on my list for the 20 Books of Summer reading challenge.

Friday – I shared my review of The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable.

Saturday – I published my review of Heart, Be at Peace by Donal Ryan.

New arrivals

Meadowlands DawnMeadowlands Dawn by Jo Beall (eARC, epoque press)

Imprisoned by the apartheid regime in South Africa, Verity Saunders endures the daily degradation of her incarceration whilst coming to terms with the disappearance of her activist lover, Tariq Randeree.

Thirty years later, Verity sets out to uncover the truth about her past and to confront those who brutalised and betrayed her. As secrets are exposed she learns that in order to truly heal she must embrace the path of forgiveness.

Meadowlands Dawn is inspired by the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in apartheid South Africa during the 1980s. It explores the desires and indignities of the human heart and deals with the impact of radicalisation and its aftermath.

Eye of the RavenEye of the Raven (The Whale Road Chronicles #7) by Tim Hodkinson (eARC, Head of Zeus via NetGalley)

For the first time, Einar and the Wolf Coats find themselves divided, on opposing sides in a time of warfare: the Wolf Coats in Ireland, and Einar in the Saxon domains of England.

Einar leads a warband for King Aethelstan, but struggles to find acceptance as a Norseman in Saxon lands. Can he truly make common cause with the wily king of the English, if that means Vikings like himself are now his enemies? The rewards of alliance with Aethelstan could be all he desires… or a brutal death.

But other threats loom from the north and west. With war brewing and a great battle on the horizon, can Einar and his comrades reunite in time – or will a clash for the ages make their split a permanent one?

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Six Lives by Lavie Tidhar