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Top Ten Tuesday
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 is :
Books With My Favourite Colour On the Cover (or In the Title)
Feast your eyes on these lovelies.
We wants the preciousss
Top Ten Tuesday
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 is :
Books I’d Slay a Lion to Get Early
So many great books to look forward to for the rest of 2018, I hardly know where to begin but below are a few of my highly anticipated forthcoming releases. For the avoidance of doubt – no lions were slayed in the making of this list:
- The Tower of Living and Dying (Empires of Dust #2) by Anna Smith Spark
- Starless by Jacqueline Carey
- Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
- Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers
- The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy #3) by Katherine Arden
- The Monster Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #2) by Seth Dickinson
- The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2) by S.A. Chakraborty
- Kill The Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell #1) by Kevin Hearne and Delilah S. Dawson
- Redemption’s Blade: After The War by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- ??? which book are you waiting for
What’s in a name..
Top Ten Tuesday
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 is :
Frequently Used Words In X genre book Titles
Reading plenty of fantasy books you do occasionally come across the same words for titles – I’ve noticed particular, Blood, Death, Dark, Poison, etc – I’m noticing a theme right there. Anyhow, I’ve chosen words that I think crop up every now and again (sometimes I’ve used the plural – like wolf/wolves – and these are books that I’ve either read, owned or have on my shelf. And, for the sake of avoidance – none of these ‘word’ choices in titles are intended as a criticism. This is simply for fun value and for books I’ve either loved or would love to read. I did check out some of these words by typing into Goodreads and quite a few (aka a lot) came up with over 100 pages worth of books with the word in the title! Here goes:
- Grave – Grave Peril, Grave Sight, Graveyard Shift, The Graveyard book, Three Graves Full
- Prince – Prince of Thorns, Prince of Fools, HP and the Half-blood Prince, The Prince and the Pauper, The Cruel Prince, Prince Caspian
- Blood – Blue Bloods, Blood Promise, Anna Dressed in Blood, Days of Blood and Starlight, Blood Bound, Blood Rites, Blood Song, The Queen of Blood, With Blood Upon the Sand, Bloodshot, Of Blood and Honey, Saints Blood, Iron and Blood, Tainted Blood
- Dragon – Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Dance with Dragons, Red Dragon, A Natural History of Dragons, The Dragon Engine, Twilight of the Dragons, The Dragon Round, The Dragon’s Path, How to Train Your Dragon, Nice Dragon’s Finish Last
- Witch – The Witches, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, A Discovery of Witches, Witch Child, The Witches of Eastwick, The Witches of New York, Warrior Witch, The Witch at Wayside Cross, Truthwitch, Witches of Lychford, The Sisters of Witchdown,
- Tower – Tower of Thorns, the Girl in the Tower, The Tower Lord, Two Towers, Dark Tower,
- Ghost – The Ghosts of Sleath, Range of Ghosts, The Girl with Ghost Eyes, Ghostwalkers, The Ghost Bride, The Canterville Ghost
- Legend – Legend of Ellie Quinn, I am Legend, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Legend of Eli Monpress,
- Wolf – Wolf Road, Wolf’s Empire, City of Wolves, The Tiger and the Wolf, Black Wolves, Wolf by Wolf, Den of Wolves, Wolf Hall
- Your suggestion??
That’s it for me this week 😀
Books I read pre-blogging
17 April 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Favourite Authors pre-blog, That Artsy Reader Girl, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday
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 is a freebie and so I’ve chosen:
Top 10 favourite authors I read before I was a blogger:
I read a lot of books before I started blogging, in fact it makes me dizzy thinking of the number of books I must have read but the ten authors below were, and still are, firm favourites. I couldn’t fit everyone on the list but here are the first 10:
Donna Tartt – The Secret History
Daphne DuMaurier – Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, Jamaica Inn Frenchman’s Creek, The Birds
JRRTolkien – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion
Arthur Conan Doyle – the Sherlock Holmes stories
Scott Lynch – The Lies of Locke Lamora
Patrick Rothfuss – Name of the Wind
Diana Gabaldon – The Outlander series
Philip Pullman – His Dark Materials series
Joanne Harris – Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Holy Fools, Sleep Pale Sister, Coastliners, The Evil Seed
Holly Black – Tithe, Valiant, Ironside
Never say Never
Top Ten Tuesday
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 is :
Books I Loved but Will Never Re-Read
I thoroughly enjoyed all of the books below which makes it a surprise that I’m saying I wouldn’t reread them at some point – although In fairness I never really say never (see what I did there). But, the books below all have something in common, either a twisted ending or a reveal of some kind – now that I know about the ending the tension would be less during the read. I still might enjoy these, especially if I give myself enough time to forget the conclusion. As it is though, these are all still fairly fresh. That being said, I highly recommend these books:
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
- 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough
- The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne
- The Hike by Drew Magary
- The Family Plot by Cherie Priest
- The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue
- The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
- The Sleep Walker by Chris Bohjalian
Books and travelling with Lynn 