“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”
24 October 2017
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Tags: Ten Unique Book Titles, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Unique Book Titles
To be honest, having looked through a few of my recent reads there are quite a lot of unusual and unique titles floating around. Here are a few that I came up with on a first check.
- The Girl with Ghost Eyes
- Monstrous Little Voices
- The Importance of Being Ernest
- It Happened one Doomsday
- The Bear and the Nightingale
- The Fifth House of the Heart
- The Wheel of Osheim
- The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief
- Flowers for Algernon
- The Punch Escrow
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
17 October 2017
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Tags: The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Yummy Foods Mentioned In Books
It’s odd because food and drink plays a much bigger part in books than you think – especially once you start to really consider it:
- Joanne Harris – Chocolat? Need I say more really, but also Blackberry Wine and Five Quarters of the Orange. Delicious books.
- Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series – oh my lord, he conjures up some treats, A Ginger Scald particularly stands out – this is a drink that might give you a serious hangover though.
- Jacqueline Carey – never fails to come up with all sorts of delicious foods depending on which series you’re reading and what travels are being experienced.
- Sunshine by Robin McKinley- lots of mentions of Cinnamon Swirl buns – oh yes, give them to me now.
- Seanan McGuire’s Toby Daye – coffee, Toby loves coffee, and so do I in the morning – not after lunch though. Tea is for the afternoon.
- Speaking of tea, The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger – lots of cups of tea, because everything is obviously improved by a good cup of rosie – isn’t it?
- Harry Potter – you have to give it to JKRowling – those banquets, not to mention the breakfasts – just wow!
- Cookies – everyone has to love cookies and Mercy Thompson (Patricia Briggs) loves to bake cookies when she’s stressing out about something – so basically every book she makes tray loads of them!
- Lambas bread – Lord of the Rings. Bread that fills you up after a bite – bring it to me now.
- ??? this one is for you… suggestions???
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
10 October 2017
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Tags: Autumn covers, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Ten Books With Fall/Autumn Covers
I’ve actually picked a whole bunch (more than 10) covers for books that I’ve either read or I have a copy of – but, these are not so much autumn covers as that the colour’s just make me think of autumn.
‘Yes, yes, say it! He was my boyfriend’
3 October 2017
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Tags: Book Boyfriends, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Top Ten Book Boyfriends/Girlfriends
I didn’t think I’d have any book boyfriends but when I started to consider this list I realised that perhaps I did! Here they are:
- Jean Tannen – Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series – Jean actually is MY book boyfriend. Nobody else’s. Just mine.
- Tybalt – okay – I defo have book boyfriends now I’ve started to think on it because Tybalt from Seanan McGuire’s Toby Daye series is very easy on the brain – definite mind candy.
- Joscelin Verreuil of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Legacy series. Okay, so far I’ve got more book boyfriends than I originally thought. Joscelin is very easy to like. Very easy indeed. Not to mention pretty handy when it comes to getting out of bother. Plus, this guy is super chilled!
- Aragorn – did I nearly forget Aragorn? This list wouldn’t be complete without Aragorn. Did I have a massive crush on Aragorn when I originally read LotR?? Why yes, yes I did. Doesn’t everyone really have a crush on Aragorn. Thank you Mr Tolkien.
- Rhett Butler. Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Again, a book I read as a teenager and had a mad desperate crush on Rhett Butler. Who could ever want Ashley when Rhett was around!
- Maxim De Winter. I love Max. Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. He’s got this wonderfully superior aloofness that just makes you want to grab his attention. Not to mention a little bit of a temper.
- Seth McGregor. Gillian Philip’s Rebel Angel series. Seth definitely has sex appeal. I can’t deny it. I will just say though that this is not a romantic series at all – just Seth has this whole ‘thing’ going on.
- Alexander from Paullina Simon’s Bronze Horseman. I loved this book so much. Yes, it’s a romance novel. I can’t deny it, but it was so, so, good.
- Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. This is such a good series – and a pretty good adaptation for tv as well.
- I’ve left this one free so you can make some suggestions????
Plus – can I just….
Top Ten Tuesday – Characters
26 September 2017
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Tags: The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Every Tuesday over at The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic. This week’s topic is:
Characters that …??
…can change or shift into something else:
- Coyote: Mercy Thompson from Patricia Briggs series – I love this series, do yourself a favour and give it a shot if you haven’t already done so.
- Kitsune/fox – Suzume from Generation V by MLBrennan. An excellent vampire series!
- Dragon – Kai from Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series – a series that has infinite possibilities using an ancient and magical library to portal to alternate universes.
- Owl – Atticus from Kevin Hearne’s Druid Chronicles. This series has a little bit of everything in terms of fantasy creatures, Gods, myths and legends and also has a lot of humour.
- Shadows – Mia Corvere from Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight/Godsgrave books – possibly a bit of a cheat this one as she doesn’t really turn into shadows but is able to use them to hide.
- Dog – Sirius Black turns into a giant black dog in JKRowling’s Harry Potter series.
- Wolf – Professor Remus from JKRowling’s Harry Potter series.
- Bats/Mist – a bit of a cheat – Dracula/vampires can often transform into bats/rats and mist.
- Snake/Naga – one of the characters from an excellent series by Kristi Charish that brings us a female Indiana Jones type character who gets into all sorts of trouble when looking (to steal) artefacts – Owl and the Japanese Circus.
- ?? – who did I miss?
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