#TopTenTuesday My Winter TBR – Bookish Delights Awaiting In 2020

Top Ten Tuesday newTop 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 Winter TBR so it’s time to look ahead to the bookish treats in store over the next few months. Links from the book titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads.


Payback (DI Charley Mann #1) by R.C. Bridgestock – the first in a new crime series from the husband and wife team behind the novels featuring DI Jack Dylan

Mrs. P’s Book of Secrets by Lorna Gray – ‘There are no white shrouded spectres here, no wailing ghouls. Just the echoes of those who have passed, whispering that history is set to repeat itself.’

A Messy Affair (Lena Szarka Mystery #3) by Elizabeth Mundy – Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner working in London, is forced to brush up on her detective skills for a third time when her cousin Sarika is plunged into danger

The Other You by J.S. Monroe – a ‘gripping and addictive’ new thriller for 2020

The Lady of the Ravens by Joanna Hickson – Two women – servant, Joan Vaux and Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII – with two very different destinies are drawn together in the shadow of the Tower of London

Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde #4)by Rory Clements – set in 1941, Cambridge history professor, Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany

The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson – set in 1920s London, an inspiring story of struggle against poverty, hunger and cruel family secrets

Requiem for a Knave by Laura Carlin – from the author of The Wicked Cometh, what’s described as ‘a dark, page-turning tale of passion and romance in the darkest of places’

The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel – described as ‘a chilling exploration into obsession, reconciliation and revenge’

Real Life by Adeline Dieudonne – described as ‘a fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life’

 

Are any of these in your TBR pile too?

#TopTenTuesday Tips For Success With Reading Challenges

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 it’s a freebie with participants free to come up with their own topic. A few weeks ago I dedicated a Top Ten Tuesday post to Reasons I Fail At Reading Challenges. As well as a lot of other bloggers identifying with many of my reasons, there were also some great tips suggested. So today’s post is a way of sharing those tips and recognising the supportive nature of the book blogging community.


Tip 1 – Set targets lower to allow for other releases and random finds (The Scented Library)

Tip 2 – Take full advantage of the facility to swap books where a challenge allows it (The Secret Library)

Tip 3 – Join challenges for which you don’t need to read specific books (The Secret Library)

Tip 4 – Stick to reading challenges you know you can achieve, e.g. Goodreads (The Night Is Dark And Full Of Books

Tip 5 – Make challenges perpetual so you can read on indefinitely (Readerbuzz)

Tip 6 – Only join challenges that fit your reading pattern (Blue Mood Cafe)

Tip 7 – Stick to small monthly challenges that fit with books you’d read anyway (A Novel Glimpse)

Tip 8 – Pick what’s right for you to strike the right balance between the camaraderie that comes with taking part in a challenge and it not feeling like work  (Jen Ryland)

And a final two from me (although whether I take my own advice is doubtful based on past experience)…

Tip 9 – Remember you don’t have to join every challenge going. There’s always next year!

Tip 10 – Remind yourself of these tips before you start signing up for 2020 reading challenges