Good evening all and welcome to another Tuesday.. This week's topic to which I must turn my thoughts is authors who I'd like more from.... the easy route here, as a reader who loves the classics, would be to go down that route! Who wouldn't want to see Jane Austen's take on social media? Or Mary Shelley's imagination spliced with our AI technologies! Dickens' response to the cost-of-living crises... It is quite scary to imagine how similar some of our concerns are to theirs, how little the world has progressed in some ways. But let us turn our thoughts to contemporary writers instead, those whose books I love but from whom I have heard very little recently. Of course, the fact that I have not been aware of them may not mean that they have stopped writing; it may reflect more on my not being up to date!
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Top Ten Tuesday: Things That Make Me Instantly Want to Read a Book
This is an interesting topic: I read so widely and eclectically (I think) that sometimes its hard to discern a pattern in my reading habits. And sometimes when I feel that there is a pattern, I consciously choose to read outside the pattern... But there are certainly some authors who draw me. So lets start there.
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish People Iโd Like To Meet
This is a nice whimsical topic: the bookish people I'd love to meet... but there are so many of them! Authors we could have to a dinner party, or meet at a book festival; characters who might be able to step from the page like Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, bloggers and reviewers... Let's think...
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Top Ten Tuesday:ย Completed Series I Wish Had More Books
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favourite Bookish Quotations
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Top Five Saturday: Award Winners
The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books in which the bookish community discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously, the meme has focused on a range of different characters (witches and werewolves), genres (thrillers, detectives and re-tellings) and thoughts about the industry and life… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Award Winners
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Top Five Saturday: Detective Fiction
The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books in which the bookish community discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously, the meme has focused on a range of different characters (witches and werewolves), genres (thrillers, detectives and re-tellings) and thoughts about the industry and life… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Detective Fiction
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I Have Read Most Books By
This is an interesting and lovely idea for a list: the old favourites, the familiar friends, the comfort of a warm hug.
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Top Five Saturday: Murder Mystery
The Top 5 series is back! Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously on the blog I have focused on witches, werewolves, thrillers, faeries, fairy tale re-tellings, high fantasy and many more. I am going to try and bring this series back for… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Murder Mystery
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Top Ten Tuesday: Five Star Predictions
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Previous Top Ten Tuesday Topics: January 7: Most Anticipated Book Releases for the First… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Five Star Predictions
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Top Five Saturday: Books by Favourite Authors
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Top Five Saturday: Books over Five Years Old
Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. The list of themes currently runs at 1/4/20 โ Funny Books1/11/20 โ Books Over 5 years old1/18/20 โ Unreliable Narrators1/25/10 โ Books by Favorite Authors My top five books that have celebrated their fifth birthday... goodness,… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: Books over Five Years Old
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Top Five Saturdays: Funny Books
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Top Five Saturday: books with a survival theme
Top Five Saturday is a meme hosted by Devouring Books to discover and share books that all have a common theme. Previously, the focus has included witches, werewolves, thrillers, faeries, fairy tale re-tellings, high fantasy and many more. This week's topic from Devouring Books is books with a survival theme - books where the primary goal of… Continue reading Top Five Saturday: books with a survival theme
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Top Ten Tuesday, Hallowe’en Freebie
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. A freebie, as I understand it, is any list that broadly fits… Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday, Hallowe’en Freebie
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The Trespasser, Tana French
I'd been saving this one up for the summer holidays when I have time to indulge it, not sneaking a half-hour read in late at night when I should be sleeping. I also wanted to head back to the beginning of the series, having started with The Secret Place, and catch up chronologically. And I… Continue reading The Trespasser, Tana French
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30 Day Book Challenge: Day Two!
Today's task: Favourite book by favourite author. Wait! What?! I have to pick one?! One?! Was this challenge not supposed to be fun? Okay. Let's narrow down the favourite authors part. As with the previous day, let's look at them by genre, too. I'm going to kick off with the obvious: Shakespeare. Not trying to… Continue reading 30 Day Book Challenge: Day Two!
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North
"Complexity should be your excuse for inaction." I was born in 1973 in a village in Kent. So far as I know, only once. I have to say, when I die, if I were to be reborn as myself in the same village in 1973 again, I'd be a tad surprised! I mean 1973.… Continue reading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Claire North
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