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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.

BookPileThis week’s topic is Things That Make Me Instantly Want To Read A Book. I’m more of a planner than a mood reader so I’ll rarely just pick up a particular book on a whim. But there are some things that will make me instantly add a book to my wishlist:

  1. The next book in a series I’ve enjoyed
  2. A new book by a favourite author
  3. The first book in a new series by a favourite author
  4. An original sounding book in my favourite genre – historical fiction
  5. A book on a literary prize longlist/shortlist such as the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
  6. A book from a publisher (especially indy) whose previous books I’ve enjoyed
  7. An enthusiastic review by a blogger who shares my reading tastes
  8. A great blurb – concise, intriguing and doesn’t give away too much away
  9. A book I’ve heard an author talk about at a literary festival
  10. A book recommended by an author whose books I enjoy

What makes you instantly want to read a book – or add it to your wishlist? 

My Week in Books – 21st May 2023

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MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Tuesday – I shared my review of Tiny Pieces of Enid by Tim Ewins. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Things that get in the way of reading.

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. 

Friday – I published my review of historical novel, The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry.

New arrivals

TS_EP21 In Defence of the Act Proof CoverIn Defence of the Act by Effie Black (eARC, 

Are we more like a coffee bean, a carrot or an egg? What happens to us when we are boiled in the trials and tribulations of life?

Jessica Miller is fascinated by the somewhat perplexing tendency of humans to end their own lives, but she secretly believes such acts may not be that bad after all. Or at least, she did.

Jessica is coming to terms with her own relationships, and reflecting on what it means to be queer, when a single event throws everything she once believed into doubt. Can she still defend the act?

The Geometer LobachevskyThe Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan (Tuskar Rock)

‘When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become a great mathematician, I strayed instead into the foothills of anthropology …’

It is 1950 and Nikolai Lobachevsky, great-grandson of his illustrious namesake, is surveying a bog in the Irish Midlands, where he studies the locals, the land and their ways. One afternoon, soon after he arrives, he receives a telegram calling him back to Leningrad for a ‘special appointment’.

Lobachevsky may not be a great genius but he is not he recognises a death sentence when he sees one and leaves to go into hiding on a small island in the Shannon estuary, where the island families harvest seaweed and struggle to split rocks. Here Lobachevsky must think about death, how to avoid it and whether he will ever see his home again

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
  • Book Review: Ancestry by Simon Mawer
  • Book Review: The Scarlet Papers by Matthew Richardson