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 Provide a Much-Needed Escape. All books are an escape for me – a glimpse of other lives, other experiences, other places – but it’s reading about other times that really captures my imagination. Links from each title will take you to my review.

Escape with me to…

1. A Roman Empire in decline in 5th century Europe in Sword of the War God by Tom Hodkinson 
2. 15th century England during the Wars of the Roses in The King’s Mother by Annie Garthwaite
3. London, three years after the Gunpowder Plot in A Plague of Serpents by K. J. Maitland 
4. Early 18th century Venice in The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable 
5. A house for ‘fallen’ women in 19th century London in The Household by Stacey Halls 
6. The Mississippi River in 1861 in James by Percival Everett 
7. A mining town in late nineteenth century Montana in The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry 
8. The negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 in The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston 
9. A grisly murder in a Hampshire country house in 1938 in Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead 
10. A war weary London in 1945 in The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear 

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 Involving Food (That Are Not Cookbooks), a suggestion of myself and blogger Hopewell’s Library of Life. Links from each title will take you to my review.

1. Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson – young Pumkin Patterson finds comfort in creating Jamaican bread puddings and coconut drops
2. Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford – Jennifer Quinn wins a spot as a contestant on a primetime TV baking show
3. The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey – carpenter Geppetto (of Pinocchio fame) finds himself in the belly of a huge whale
4. The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – the fictionalised story of Eliza Acton, the woman who broke the mould of traditional cookbooks 
5. A Ration Book Daughter by Jean Fullerton – featuring wartime food under rationing and traditional East End fare such as pie and mash, and jellied eels 
6. Green Hands by Barbara Whitton – a insight into life as a member of the Women’s Land Army producing food vital to the war effort
7. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees – recruited to root out Nazis trying to escape prosecution, Edith sends coded messages back to the UK hidden inside innocuous recipes
8. The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle – Sabrina arrives at her 30th birthday dinner to find at the table her best friend, three significant people from her past . . .  and Audrey Hepburn 
9. The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood – Marian’s dilemma about her future prompts some very rebellious behaviour by her stomach
10. Feast of Sorrow by Crystal King – Roman gourmet Marcus Gavius Apicius sets about achieving his ambition to serve as culinary advisor to the Emperor Tiberius