This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl is about picking your own topic relating to book covers. I thought I’d go back in history and look up the book covers from before the 20th century. I’d especially love to get my hands on those magnificent jewel-encrusted medieval creations!
Category: Books
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham – Book Review

I enjoyed this very English take on post-apocalyptic survival, even though the story turned out to be quite different to what I expected.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke – Book Review

I had fun with this buzzy tradwife thriller, but it’s fair to say that it entertained and frustrated me in equal measure.
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles That Include the Sun
This week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is to pick a word and list book titles with it. My choice is the flaming ball of hydrogen and helium at the centre of our solar system, keeping us all warm and at times uncomfortably hot.
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo – Book Review

Another gritty, twisty and nasty entry in the Harry Hole series. It could be pure recency bias, but I thought it was one of Nesbo’s best.
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck – Book Review

This flimsy but intriguing novella mixes horror and philosophy for a mind-bending take on the afterlife. I enjoyed its ideas if maybe not the execution.
Top Ten Tuesday – My Favorite Books by My Favorite Authors

This week’s topic from That Artsy Reader Girl was a fun challenge. Not only do you have to pick your favourite books by your favourite authors, you also have to decide who your favourite authors actually are.
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles with Flower Names
May Flowers is this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl, so here are some books that have a flower name in the title.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Book Review

A sci-fi novel of staggering ambition and scope, Children of Time captivates with its incredible world-building and epic grandeur, if not with prose and characters.
Top Ten Tuesday – Green Book Covers
In honour of St Patrick’s Day, this week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is all about green book covers. I don’t usually limit myself to the books in my home collection, but this time I thought I’d try and find ten green books from my shelves.

