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 Honorifics in the Title, a topic suggested by the lovely Joanne at Portobello Book Blog. Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.
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 I’d Like to Re-Read. Re-reading books is something I almost never do so I’ve come up with my own topic – Books Set in Theatres. Links from the title will take you to my review or the book description on Goodreads.
Traitor’s Legacy by S. J. Parris – the body of a young heiress is found on the site of a theatre in Elizabethan London but what was the motive for her murder?
Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor – the Lyceum theatre in 1878 is the setting for a love triangle involving theatre manager Bram Stoker, actor and impresario Sir Henry Irving, and actress Ellen Terry
The Wardrobe Mistress by Patrick McGrath – Charlie Grice, one of the great stage actors of the day, dies suddenly. His widow Joan, the wardrobe mistress, is grief-stricken but begins to realise Charlie was a man of many secrets
Miss Treadway and the Field of Stars by Miranda Emmerson – Anna Treadway, a young dresser at the Galaxy Theatre, sets out to investigate the disappearance of actress Iolanthe Green after a performance one evening
Murder at the Theatre by Greg Mosse – as opening night of a new play approaches, a body is found concealed behind the scenes in the theatre
Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon – in 5th century BC Syracuse, two unemployed potters come up with the crazy notion of staging Euripides’ play Medea in a quarry using Athenian prisoners as cast
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters – the fortunes of Whitstable oyster girl Nan King are changed forever when she falls in love with cross-dressing music-hall singer Kitty Butler
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham – Julia Lambert is the greatest actress in England but off stage she’s bored with her handsome husband and is flattered by the attentions of a shy and eager young fan
Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn – on a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936, a West End actress accidentally interrupts an attempted murder in a London hotel room
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