Top Ten Tuesday: Love

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is a Love Freebie (in honor of Valentine’s Day tomorrow). I have kept it simple and I am sharing the last ten books I have read with some variation of the word love in the title.

The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke - Still love this book so much! (my review)

Those Who Are Loved by Victoria Hislop - I do enjoy Victoria Hislop's books although it has been a while since I read one.

The Railway Girls in Love by Maisie Thomas - I am a bit behind on this series. (my review)

Love Stories by Trent Dalton - This was such a fun book. Short vignettes on love. It could be a person or a thing.

With Love from Wish & Co by Minnie Darke - Another good book from this author

Book Lovers by Emily Henry - Because we all love books right?

Finding Love at the Christmas Market by Jo Thomas - I really need to read more Jo Thomas books.

Love and Saffron by Kim Fay - I am wondering how many more times I can sneak this book onto a TTT list. (my review)

The Christmas Love Letters by Sue Moorcroft - This was a lovely Christmas story (my review)

Love in the Time of War by Adrienne Chinn - This is the most recent book I bought with the word love in the title. I haven't actually read it yet.

Have you read and loved any of these books?

Sunday Salon: Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - February Stats

 

Last year I started sharing statistics each month for the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge, and my plan is to continue to do this again this year. I find it interesting to see what are the books that people are reading and reviewing! I haven't had a chance to visit everyone's reviews this month but I will do better during March. What I did notice is that we had a wide array of entries including a Newbery Prize winning author, a Nobel Prize Winner, as well as various genres from mystery, straight historical fiction and even one horror novel!

In terms of the books, there were a massive 91 reviews linked up for the challenge, shared by 29 participants. This is 13 more than for the same month last year. There were 89 individual titles reviewed, written by 84 different authors. There were 6 reviewers who reviewed 5 or more books each. Thank you to everyone who shared their links whether it be 10 or just 1.

Let's move onto the books. There were two books that were reviewed twice during February.

Laura at Laura's Reviews and Shellie from Shellie Loves Books both read Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie. Whilst Agatha Christie regularly pops up as being read multiple times during a month, I think this is the first time that the same book has been read more than once!

The other book to be reviewed twice this month is The Paris Sister by Adrienne Chinn, second book in The Three Fry Sisters series, which was reviewed by Cathy at What Cathy Read Next and Stephanie at My World Reads

There were two other authors who were reviewed more than once this month. The first was an author called Avi. Becky from Becky's Reads review three of his books and Georgette Heyer was the other author who was reviewed twice.

It's not too late to join the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge. The sign up post is here, and you can find the March linky to add your reviews here.

I am also sharing this post with Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz.