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#TopTenTuesday Books on My Autumn 2021 To-Read List

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Top Ten Tuesday new

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 Books on My Autumn 2021 To-Read List. 

The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings by Dan Jones – A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones
To All the Living by Monica Felton – First published in 1945, To All the Living provides a fascinating insight into a vital aspect of Britain’s home front
A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford – A gorgeous, haunting and captivating novel of a century-long family mystery in the wilds of Scotland, and one woman’s hunt for the truth
Cold As Hell by Lilja Sigurðardóttir, translated by Quentin Bates – Áróra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister, Ísafold, but soon realizes that her sister isn’t avoiding her… she has disappeared, without trace.
In Every Mirror She’s Black by Lola Akinmade Åkerström – A timely and arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a black woman in the world.

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout – The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life
A Stranger from the Storm by William Burton McCormick – A Victorian-style murder mystery with elements of horror, adventure, and Hitchcockian black humor
Down A Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) by Karen Odden – Inspector Michael Corravan investigates a string of vicious murders that has rocked Victorian London’s upper crust
The Girl from Bletchley Park by Kathleen McGurl – An incredible tale of betrayal and bravery
My Secret Sister by Lauren Westwood – A tense and emotional family drama with a moral dilemma at its heart… How far would you go to save your child?

What books do you have on your Autumn/Fall reading list?




 

 

 

 

 

#WWWWednesday – 15th September 2021

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WWWWednesdays

Hosted by Taking on a World of Words, this meme is all about the three Ws:

  • What are you currently reading?
  • What did you recently finish reading?
  • What do you think you’ll read next?

Why not join in too?  Leave a comment with your link at Taking on a World of Words and then go blog hopping!

Currently reading

A Single Rose Blog Tour CoverA Single Rose by Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson

Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father’s will. And so for the first time in her life she finds herself in Japan, where Paul, her father’s assistant, is waiting to greet her.

As Paul guides Rose along a mysterious itinerary designed by her deceased father, her bitterness and anger are soothed by the stones and the trees in the Zen gardens they move through. During their walks, Rose encounters acquaintances of her father – including a potter and poet, an old lady friend, his housekeeper and chauffeur – whose interactions help her to slowly begin to accept a part of herself that she has never before acknowledged.

As the reading of the will gets closer, Rose’s father finally, posthumously, opens his heart to his daughter, offering her a poignant understanding of his love and a way to accept all she has lost.

Daughters of War CoverDaughters of War by Dinah Jefferies

France, 1944. Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village, three sisters long for the end of the war.

Hélène, the eldest, is trying her hardest to steer her family to safety, even as the Nazi occupation becomes more threatening. Élise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost. And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for a world where France is free.

Then, one dark night, the Allies come knocking for help. And Helene knows that she cannot sit on the sidelines any longer. But bravery comes at a cost, and soon the sisters’ lives become even more perilous as they fight for what is right. And secrets from their own mysterious past threaten to unravel everything they hold most dear…

Recently finished

A Better Part of Valor (Valorie Dawes #3) by Gary Corbin

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed

Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister

What Cathy (will) Read Next

The Improbable Adventures of Emily SoldeneThe Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene by Helen Batten 

‘I rode on the stage in such style, that the men in front forgot I was a girl, and also forgot to laugh.’

From humble beginnings as the daughter of a Clerkenwell milliner, Emily Soldene rose to become a leading lady of the London stage and a formidable impresario with her own opera company. The darling of London’s theatreland, she later reinvented herself as a journalist and writer who scandalised the capital with her backstage revelations.

Weaving through the spurious glamour of Victorian music halls and theatres, taking encounters with the Pre-Raphaelites and legal disputes involving Charles Dickens in her stride, Emily became the toast of New York and ventured far off the beaten track to tour in Australia and New Zealand. In The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene, a life filled with performance, travel and incident returns to centre stage.