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Top Ten Tuesday: Escapist Books

Bonjour tout la Monde, today’s Top Ten Tuesday, brought to you by The Artsy Reader Girl, is Books That Provide a Much Needed Escape. Which, when you think about it, really, is just about every book we read (except maybe, crime, no one escapes into a crime book … eh, that I know of!) So escapist books? For me that includes some of my childhood favourites: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Time Machine by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum As for more adultSo there you have it, two lists for the price of one escapist books? The Harry Potter series (yes, I know, it’s considered...

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Involve Food

by Alexandra

Bonjour tout la Monde, today’s Top Ten Tuesday, brought to you by The Artsy Reader Girl, is Books That Involve Food (that are not cookbooks.) And … right, I know I’ve read a ton of books that mention food, especially just about every Louise Penny book ever written, but about food, or is it, involve food? Hmm … I need to think about this one. Okay, here we go, some of these I’ve read, some are on my I Want List of buys. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrows Still Life by Louise Penny Heartburn by Nora Ephron The Little French Bistro by Nina George Love & Saffron by Kim Fay The Vintage Caper by Pete Myles Butter Safe Than Sorry by Tamar Myers Charlie & The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl And yes, I had to sneak in Willy Wonker somewhere, that was a given, like adding...

Friday Focus: A World of Curiosities

by Alexandra

To start the weekend and, a long bank holiday weekend at that, I thought to steal the idea of doing a Friday Focus. My focus today is on the book I picked up last night and started reading, A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny, the 18th in the Three Pines series. A book that’s been gathering dust on my coffee table since last year waiting to be read and, well, now it is. Being read, I mean. Back cover blurb: It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir’s...