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 Books that Feature Travel. Because I like to make things hard for myself, the books on my list all feature different modes of travel, including a few outlandish ones. Links from the title will take you to my review.

1. The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (on foot)
2. The Golden Girls’ Getaway by Judy Leigh (motor home)
3. Three Women and a Boat by Anne Youngson (canal boat)
4. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (ship)
5. How To Be Brave by Louise Beech (lifeboat)
6. James by Percival Everett (raft)
7. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey (inside a whale)
8. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (time machine)
9. Mailed Fist by John Foley (tank)
10. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (spacecraft)

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 Ways My Blogging/Review Style Has Changed Over Time. This topic needed a lot more thought than I had time for so I’ve come up with one of my own. I’ve seen a few mentions of May being International/National Short Story Month, although I haven’t been able to find a reliable source to substantiate this. Regardless of whether it’s ‘official’ or not, here are ten short story collections I’ve read and enjoyed. Links from the title will take you to my review.

1. normal rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
2. In This Ravishing World by Nina Schuyler
3. Byron and Shelley by Glenn Haybittle
4. Music of the Night edited by Martin Edwards
5. Liberty Terrace by Madeleine D’Arcy
6. Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
7. The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories edited Margaret Jull Costa
8. A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
9. Runaway by Alice Munro
10. In A German Pension by Katherine Mansfield