Top Ten Tuesday : Feast Your Eyes
1 September 2020
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Tags: Covers with Food, That Artsy Reader Girl, 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 :
Books that Make Me Hungry
I’ve actually gone for books with food and drink on the cover. Feast your eyes on these:
Top Ten Tuesday : From book to film/tv
18 August 2020
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Tags: Books I would like to see adapted, That Artsy Reader Girl, 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 :
Books that Should be Adapted into Netflix Shows/Movies
This is a thing I hesitate over, wishing for my favourite books to be adapted – on the one hand I absolutely want all of these to be adapted in some way either for the big screen or tv but on the other hand, what if it isn’t produced well, cast wrong, or gross liberties are taken with the storyline. It’s a mixed bag but given the choice I would see plenty of the books I love adapted – here’s a very small snippet of such books. Apologies that these are not linked this week. Also, living under a rock, as I do, some of these may already be optioned or in the process of adaptation – if you’re aware then please let me know in the comments. Finally, I’ve cheated a little, I’ve gone for 10 categories (although, ahem, thee are rather loose) and three books in each – it allows me a lot more choice as it was very difficult to whittle down my list this week as I had so many possibilities.
Unusual and compelling
Fun/exciting fantasy that would be great as a series
Epic Fantasy that would be great as films – all with three films apiece (LotR’s style)
Murder mystery
Twisted Thriller
Fantasy Action/Adventure
Historical with a hint of magical realism
Fairytale retellings
Horror
Gothic
Top Ten Tuesday : Books I Loved but Never Reviewed
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 Loved but Never Reviewed
I really like this topic because it gives me the opportunity to shout out about some excellent books that I unfortunately, probably due to timescales for review books, didn’t get to review at the time I read them. All of these book are ones that I bought and although I read and loved them the reviews got put off and then I sort of lost momentum. I confess I feel quite guilty! Anyway, here are some lovelies for you:
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- King of the Road by RS Belcher
- Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
- The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- Phantom Pains by Mishell Baker
- The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Top Ten Tuesday: Ruby Tuesday
4 August 2020
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Tags: Books with Colours in the Title, That Artsy Reader Girl, 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 :
Books with Colors In the Titles
Many of these books are pre-blogging so I haven’t linked to any reviews for this week’s themes.
Top Ten Tuesday : Freebie : 2020 Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag/Mid-Year Roundup
28 July 2020
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Tags: 2020 Mid Year Book Freak out Tag/Mid-Year Roundup, That Artsy Reader Girl, 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 :
Freebie
This week’s topic is a freebie so I’m taking the opportunity to post a tag I’ve been promising myself I’d take part in (even though it is a little late):
2020 Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag/Mid-Year Roundup
So, basically, I’ve tried to highlight as many books that I’ve read and enjoyed so far this year and by using three books per category I’ve almost made it. All the books on here I recommend:
Best Books I’ve Read So Far
- The God Game by Danny Tobey
- The Obsidian Tower by Melissa Caruso
- A Time of Courage by John Gwynne
Best Sequels I’ve Read So Far
- Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
- The Shadow Saint by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan
- Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
New Release I Haven’t Read (But Want To)
- The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Final Cut by SJ Watson
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel
Most Anticipated Release for the Second Half of the Year
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
- The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
- The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow
Biggest Surprise (in a good way)
- The Graves of Whitechapel by Claire Evans
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampiresby Grady Hendrix
- The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant
Favourite New Author
- Deeplight by Francis Hardinge
- The Wolf of Oren Yaroby KS Villoso
- The Bard’s Blade by Brian D Anderson
Favourite Characters
- The Wolf’s Call by Anthony Ryan
- Moontangled by Stephanie Burgis
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison
Least Favourite Characters
- The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- Goldilocks by Laura Lam
Most Emotionally Heavy Book
- You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- The Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang
Author With a Good Sense of Humor
- Where Gods Fear to Go by Angus Watson
- Crownbreaker by Sebastien DeCastell
- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Book I’d Love To See Made Into Movies
- Night of the Dragon by Julie Kagawa
- The Other People by CJ Tudor
- Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough
Eye Catching Books I Received This Year
- The Girl and the Stars by Mark Lawrence
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
Book I Need to Read By the End of the Year (many, many good books to look forward to)
- Infernal by Mark de Jager
- The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk
- Witch by Finbar Hawkins
Books and travelling with Lynn 