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.
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- Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Planes, Trains & Automobiles/Books Featuring Travel, a topic suggested by… me! To give as wide a scope as possible, it includes books whose plots involve travel or books that feature modes of transportation on their cover/in their title. Or any other take on the topic your imagination can come up with! Links from each title will take you to my review.
- Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell – the story of the two stars of a daredevil aerial stunt team in Depression-era California
- The Prince of the Skies by Antonio Iturbe – the story of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of The Little Prince, who as an airline pilot pioneered new mail routes across the world
- The Girl at the Back of the Bus by Suzette D. Harrison – a pregnant young woman running away from home witnesses an act of bravery by a woman named Rosa Parks
- The Late Train to Gipsy Hill by Alan Johnson – Gary’s routine commute on the Tube is disrupted when a young woman invites him to take the empty seat beside her and holds up a mirror with the words ‘HELP ME’ scrawled on the glass
- Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfur – a Czech astronaut is launched into space to investigate a mysterious dust cloud covering Venus
- The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor – when a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic
- Thea and Denise by Caroline Bond – two women in need of change in their lives embark on a road trip
- Three Women and a Boat (The Narrowboat Summer) by Anne Youngson – gliding gently through the countryside, the eccentricities and challenges of canal boat life draw three women together
- Night Train to Marrakech by Jane Johnson – A young woman steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met
- The Ghost Ship by Kate Mosse – a mysterious vessel, known only as the Ghost Ship, hunts pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids
Have you read any of my choices? Did you come up with any other forms of transport?
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