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.
Tag: books
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.
Top Ten Tuesday – Book Titles Featuring Ordinal Numbers
This week’s theme from That Artsy Reader Girl is dedicated to the numbers that define an item’s place in the series. I thought I’d also do a neat and orderly list from first to tenth.
Quote of the Day – Getting Old
“As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.“
— Doris Lessing
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham – Book Review
This 1957 sci-fi novel about a very different kind of alien invasion raises questions about morality and survival, and has some of my favourite genre tropes: small English villages and weird creepy children.
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons – Book Review
A send-up of the early 20th century rural novel, this sharp and funny parody clearly outlived its subject of mockery and stands on its own as a highly amusing read.
The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov – Book Review
This is a rare book that I loved mainly because it made my brain tingle with its brilliant, beautiful prose, even if I found it emotionally chilly and distant.
Rivals by Jilly Cooper – Book Review
