Tag: toptentuesday

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Cozy/Atmospheric Reads. My list contains ten books I’d categorise as ‘light reads’. In other words, books to make you smile.

Links will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. Mrs. Finnegan’s Guide to Love, Life and Laxatives by Bridget Whelan – Mrs. Finnegan, the doyenne of Regency housekeepers, is a reservoir of timeless advice
2. No Life for a Lady by Hannah Dolby – It’s 1896 and Violet Hamilton turns ‘lady detective’ to investigate a family mystery
3. The Golden Girls’ Getaway by Judy Leigh – Vivienne, Mary and Gwen, all ladies of a ‘certain age’, set out on a road trip
4. A Three Dog Problem by S. J. Bennett – The late Queen Elizabeth II turns detective
5. The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett – Queen Elizabeth II again, this time discovering the delights of a mobile library
6. Love and Miss Harris by Peter Maughan – Their theatre having been bombed during the Blitz, The Red Lion Touring Company embark on a tour of Britain
7. Madam Tulip by David Ahern – An out-of-work American actress, embarks on a part-time career as a fortune-teller to the rich and famous 
8. Brewing Up Murder by Neila Young – When her barista is found strangled in a mound of coffee beans, café owner Blake Harper vows to find the killer
9. Suitors and Sabotage by Cindy Anstey – In which a young lady finds her attention is drawn to her charming but rather serious suitor’s hotter younger brother
10. The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker by Jenni Keer – Meet Lucy, aged 25, and Brenda, aged 79. Neighbours, and unlikely friends

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.

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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books I Wish I Could Read Again for the First Time but, not for the first time, I’m going off-piste with Books Set in Venice, although it’s a place I wish I could visit again.

Links will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.

1. Venetian Vespers by John Banville – a mysterious disappearance during an ill-fated honeymoon
2. The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith – a romance in WW2 Venice
3. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier – on the island of Murano, home of Venice’s skilled glassmakers, time flows differently
4. The Garden of Angels by David Hewson – secrets are uncovered in Nazi occupied Venice
5. The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato – a ship steals unnoticed into 16th century Venice bearing a deadly cargo
6. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann – an author visiting Venice becomes obsessed with a stunningly beautiful youth
7. Don’t Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier – the ill-fated holiday in Venice of a couple mourning the death of their young daughter
8. The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable – in 18th century Venice, eight-year-old orphan Anna Maria is determined to become a great violinist
9. Venetian Blood by Christine Evelyn Volker – a woman travels to Venice to visit an old friend but finds herself accused of murder
10. City of Masks by S. D. Sykes – in 14th century Venice, Oswald de Lacy is dragged into a murder investigation when he discovers the body of a man