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#TopTenTuesday Book Titles That Could Be Cocktails #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.
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  • 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.
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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Bookish Wishes but as is often the case I’m going off-topic.

As it’s summer here in the Northern Hemisphere (although it hasn’t felt like it recently), my thoughts are turning to long evenings sitting in the garden sipping a glass of wine or something stronger. So here are ten books whose titles I think would make good names for cocktails, along with some tasting notes.

Links from each title will take you to my book review. Cheers!

  1. Thunderball (by Ian Fleming) – A vodka martini with extra kick
  2. Wild Dark Shore (by Charlotte McConaghy) – The Antarctic cousin of a Dark and Stormy
  3. Peach Blossom Spring (by Melissa Fu) – The Chinese cousin of a Bellini
  4. Cairo Gambit (by S. W. Perry) – Your mummy chooses the ingredients
  5. Green Ink (by Stephen May) – Heavy on the creme de menthe
  6. Gabriel’s Moon (by William Boyd) – Or perhaps you’ll be seeing stars
  7. Estella’s Revenge (by Barbara Havelocke) – Watch out for the pips
  8. Bitter Orange (by Claire Fuller) – Like an Aperol Spritz but…well, fuller flavoured
  9. Love and Fury (by Samantha Silva) – Starts off sweet, ends up sour
  10. Wrecker (by Noel O’Reilly) – Make it the last one of the evening

I had to exclude White Dog by Rupert Whewell, Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass and Hokey Pokey by Kate Mascarenhas because they are actual cocktails!

Can you think of other book titles that would make great names for cocktails?

Book cover of Estella's Revenge by Barbara Havelocke

#TopTenTuesday Books Featuring Handwritten Documents #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.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books with Handwriting on the Cover. I’m pretty bad at topics featuring covers because I can never remember what’s on them without picking what seems like a hundred books off the shelf one by one. So I’ve taken a slight detour with a list of books that feature handwritten documents. Links from each title will take you to the book description on Goodreads.

  1. ‘The Red-Headed League’ in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Jabez Wilson is hired to copy out the Encyclopaedia Britannica by the mysterious Red-Headed League
  2. The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen – Set in the Dead Letters Depot where ‘letter detectives’ work to reunite letters with their intended recipients
  3. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova – A young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters in her father’s library recording a quest
  4. The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie – A series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the calm of the village of Lymstock
  5. The Correspondent by Virginia Evans – Most mornings Sybil Van Antwerp takes up her pen to write letters to a variety of recipients
  6. Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce – Emmy Lake takes it upon herself to respond to letters sent to advice columnist Mrs Henrietta Bird
  7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows – A young writer begins a correspondence with a man on the island of Guernsey
  8. The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain – A man finds an abandoned woman’s handbag on a Parisian street containing a red notebook with haphazard jottings
  9. The Letter Reader by Jan Casey – Connie Allinson joins the WRNS and is assigned the task of reading and altering correspondence to ensure no sensitive information crosses enemy lines.
  10. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan – Richard Hannay comes into possession of a coded notebook containing clues to a conspiracy