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#TopTenTuesday Ten Books I’ve Read Set in Snowy Places #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books Set in Snowy Places. Here are ten books I’ve read that fit the bill but will probably make you want to wrap up and keep warm. Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. A Woman Made of Snow by Elisabeth Gifford – sections of the book are set in the Arctic aboard a whaling ship
  2. The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller – set in the West Country in December 1962 during the harshest winter in living memory
  3. The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason – Lucius, a twenty-two-year-old medical student, is assigned to a freezing outpost in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains during WW1
  4. Cold, Cold Heart by Christine Poulson – murder mystery set in an Antarctic reasearch station just as six months of darkness begins
  5. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey – a magical story set in the harsh but beautiful Alaskan landscape
  6. The Body in the Ice by A. J. Mackenzie – a body is discovered frozen into the ice of a horse pond on Romney Marsh during the winter of 1796
  7. Winterkill (Dark Iceland #6) by Ragnar Jónasson – set in the northernmost town in Iceland, extreme weather threatens to hamper the investigation of a young woman’s death
  8. The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea – a young woman is sent to join her new husband in a windswept, isolated village in Iceland in 1686
  9. A Winter Grave by Peter May – it’s 2051 and the melting of the Greenland ice sheets means Scotland now has the climate of northern Norway including ferocious snow storms
  10. Ghosts of Spring by Luis Carrasco – a young girl, anonymous and ignored, sits through a cold, hard west-country winter, begging for change and searching for a warm place to sleep

What books have you read set in snowy places?

#TopTenTuesday Books Featuring Characters in Holy Orders #TuesdayBookBlog

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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 Top Ten Tuesday topic is a freebie meaning we have to come up with our own topic. My list contains books I’ve read that feature characters in holy orders, e.g. priests, monks, nuns, etc. Links from each title will take you to my review.

  1. The Sea Road West by Sally Rena – Trouble begins when a new young priest, Father James, arrives in a remote Scottish village
  2. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie – The story of two 15th century female mystics – Margery Kempe and anchoress, Julian of Norwich
  3. Sister Rosa’s Rebellion by Carolyn Hughes – 1363. When Mother Angelica, prioress of Northwick Priory, dies, many nuns presume Sister Rosa will take her place. But Sister Evangelina, Angelica’s niece, believes the position is hers by right and sets out to ensure it is
  4. My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor – Based on the true story of Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty who, along with others, risked his life to smuggle thousands of Jews and escaped Allied prisoners out of Italy during WW2. 
  5. The Second Sleep by Robert Harris – In 1468, dedicated young priest, Christopher Fairfax finds everything he’s been taught to believe – and has preached to others – is turned upside down by the discovery of a book containing an earth-shattering revelation
  6. The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting – In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard arrives in an isolated village in Norway determined to replace its 700-year-old stave church and its two bells, believed to have supernatural powers, with a more modern, larger church
  7. Clear by Carys Davies – In 1843, John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister, is sent to evict the sole occupant of a remote Scottish island so it can be turned over to the grazing of sheep
  8. The Monk by Tim Sullivan – The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol
  9. The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie – A prequel to the series featuring Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral
  10. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather – The story of two priests – Bishop Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant – who are sent to establish the Catholic Church in the newly acquired territory of New Mexico