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Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favourites

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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 topic is Childhood Favourites. My list includes authors whose books I remember enjoying as a child and authors whose books I read during my teenage years that shaped my interest in the genres I love today, notably historical fiction. I’m conscious I’m showing my age with pretty much all of these!

  1. Dr. Seuss – Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat
  2. Beatrix Potter – The Tales of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher and Jemima Puddle-Duck amongst other wonderful characters
  3. Roger Hargreaves – The Mister Men series, including personal favourites Mr. Messy and Mr. Tickle
  4. Michael Bond – The Paddington series, starting with A Bear Called Paddington
  5. Enid Blyton – The Famous Five series, such as Five Go To Treasure Island, and the Mallory Towers series
  6. Arthur Ransome – Titles such as Swallows & Amazons, Pigeon Post and We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea (complete with the distinctly non-PC advice: ‘Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won’t drown’)
  7. Willard Price – The ‘Hal and Roger Hunt Adventures’ series such as South Sea Adventure, Amazon Adventure
  8. Barbara Willard – ‘The Mantlemass Chronicles’ series including The Iron Lily and Harrow and Harvest
  9. Geoffrey Trease – Bows Against the Barons, a retelling of the legend of Robin Hood
  10. Rosemary Sutcliff – Her Roman Britain trilogy starting with The Eagle of the Ninth

Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Summer 2019 TBR

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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.

20 Books of Summer 2019This week’s topic is Books On My Summer 2019 TBR. This is an easy one for me because I’m taking part in the 20 Books of Summer Reading Challenge hosted by Cathy at 746 Books so it was just a case of picking ten books from my list that I haven’t yet read.

Click on the book title to view the full description on Goodreads.

  1. A Modern Family by Helga Flatland – ‘a beautiful, bittersweet novel of rich insights and extraordinary perception as a family drama creates a quiet earthquake’
  2. The Mathematical Bridge by Jim Kelly – historical crime mystery set in 1940s Cambridge, the follow-up to The Great Darkness
  3. Improvement by Joan Silber – ‘a bold and piercing novel about a young single mother living in Harlem, her eccentric aunt, and the decisions they make that have unexpected implications for the world around them’
  4. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle – ‘Delicious but never indulgent, sweet with just the right amount of bitter’
  5. The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey – ‘A novel of loneliness and regret, the legacy of World War II and the ever-changing concept of the American Dream’
  6. Transcription by Kate Atkinson – ‘a bravura novel of extraordinary power and substance’
  7. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce – ‘A disturbing, toxic and compelling novel that explores the power of fear and desire, jealousy and betrayal, love and hate’
  8. In My Life by Alan Johnson – ‘this isn’t just a book about music. In My Life adds a fourth dimension to the story of Alan Johnson the man’
  9. Munich by Robert Harris – September 1938. When the stakes are this high, who are you willing to betray? Your friends, your family, your country or your conscience?
  10. Ponti by Sharlene Teo – ‘A radiant, achingly beautiful novel about relationships between women’ (Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From)