Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic :

Books I Hope Santa Brings

Strictly speaking I’m cheating here because I think most of these books are not yet released.  But, these are book that are very much on my wishlist so if Santa is listening and wants to perform a little bit of magic… then who am I to stand in the way.

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – because I love this author’s books so this one has been on my wishlist since I found out about it.

Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone – A thrilling work of psychological suspense

The Chalet by Catherine Cooper – French Alps, 1998.Two young men ski into a blizzard… but only one returns.  20 years later…

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Cooper – this one sounds absolutely awesome and I loved the author’s last book.  I can’t wait.

Harrow Lake by Cat Ellis – A can’t-put-down, creepy thriller about the daughter of a horror film director who’s not afraid of anything–until she gets to Harrow Lake.

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman – Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos -OMG – just take my money already, you had me at ‘goblin wars’.

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec – When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods.

Dowry of Blood by ST Gibson – Dracula’s wives? Sign me up. Now.

The Return of the Sorceress by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – I literally have no idea what this is about but I don’t care.  I want it.  I love this author.

The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins – I can’t.  A Jane Eyre retelling – I have palpitations.  A delicious twist on a Gothic classic

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by  The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here.  This week’s topic :

I’m Thankful for…

This week I’m going for books that helped me to escape a little during a time of Covid.  My concentration has definitely been affected during 2020 and this is reflected in the number of books that I’ve read so far this year.  I’ve found that I’ve veered towards a different style of book on occasion and that the books I would normally love, or books that were highly anticipated, have been put to one side.  So, the list below includes some of the books that I breezed through and helped very much with my mini ‘slump’:

1. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
2. The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd
3. You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
4. A Time of Courage by John Gwynne
5. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
6. The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandell
7. The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
8. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab
9. The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier
10. Call of the Bones Ships by RJ Barker