#TopTenTuesday Books With Animals In Their Titles

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.

This week’s topic is Titles with Animals In Them, a topic suggested by Rachel at Sunny Side. At first I couldn’t think of any that fitted the bill but a browse through my Read shelf on Goodreads made me realise otherwise. So welcome to my menagerie of books. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor
Court of Lions by Jane Johnson
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
The White Hare by Jane Johnson
Seek the Singing Fish by Roma Wells
Essex Dogs by Dan Snow
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
The Silver Wolf by J. C. Harvey
The Island of Sheep by John Buchan

 


My Week in Books – 9th April 2023

MyWeekinBooksOn What Cathy Read Next last week

Monday – I shared My Five Favourite March 2023 Reads.

Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic put a spotlight on self-published/indie press books and I selected Ten Books From Independent Publishers

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 short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, one of the books shortlisted for the Swansea University Dyland Thomas Prize 2023.

Friday – I shared my review of historical mystery, The Drums of War (Thomas Tallant #3) by Michael Ward


New arrivals

Family LoreFamily Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (eARC, Canongate via NetGalley)

The Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives forever

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake – bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life – her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen?

But Flor isn’t the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband’s infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora – always on a mission to solve her sisters’ problems – needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.

Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of these sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question: what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?


On What Cathy Read Next this week

Currently reading

Planned posts

  • Book Review: Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
  • Book Review: The Sinner’s Mark by S. W. Perry
  • Book Review: The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry