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#TopTenTuesday Beyond Atmospheric Books #TuesdayBookBlog

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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.

Outer SpaceThis week’s topic is Atmospheric Books.

Houston, we have a problem . . .

My list is books that have literally no atmosphere – because they’re set in outer space or on other planets! 

  1. Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar
  2. The Things We Learn When We’re Dead by Charlie Laidlaw
  3. The Martian by Andy Weir
  4. The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  5. The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells 
  6. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
  7. Dune by Frank Herbert
  8. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  9. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  10. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

My Week in Books – 22nd October 2023

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MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I published an extract from Until September by Harker Jones.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was Books with Weather Events in the Title.

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. 

Saturday – As part of the #1962Club, I published my review of science fiction classic, The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick. 

New arrivals

Back TroubleBack Trouble by Clare Chambers (Arrow)

On the brink of forty, newly single with a failed business, Philip thought he’d reached an all-time low.

It only needed a discarded chip on a South London street to lay him literally flat. So, bedbound and bored, Philip naturally starts to write the story of his life.

But between the mundane catalogue of seaside holidays and bodged DIY, broken relationships and unspoken truths, more surprises are revealed, both comic and touching, than Philip or his family ever bargained for.

Perhaps there will even be a happy ending . . .

The Slowworm's SongThe Slowworm’s Song by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)

An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a fragile bond with Maggie, the daughter he barely knows, when he receives a summons – to an inquiry in Belfast about an incident during the Troubles, which he hoped he had long outdistanced. Now to testify about it could wreck his fragile relationship with Maggie. And if he loses her, he loses everything.

He decides instead to write her an account of his life – a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of buying time. But as time runs out, the day comes when he must face again what happened in that distant summer of 1982.

On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: The Socialite Spy by Sarah Sigal
  • Book Review: In Two Minds by Alis Hawkins