Top Ten Tuesday: A Bouquet of Books

Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is Book Covers with Fall Colors/Vibes (or spring if you live in the southern hemisphere).
When I think of spring, I think of flowers. My Top Ten Tuesday is therefore all about flowers.

The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani - I read this book many years ago and loved it! It has an unusual setting in 17th century Persia (review here)

Wildflower Hill by Kimberly Freeman - It's wildflower season here so I couldn't go past this title!

Peony in Love by Lisa See - I wanted to have a couple of different flower types in this post,  and I enjoy all of Lisa See's books!

Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss - I love the cover of this book with the cherry blossoms. It is the story of a Japanese prisoner of war escaping from an internment camp to the local Aboriginal mission. (Review here)

The Lady's Slipper by Deborah Swift - You may think that I have lost track of my theme but not really. A lady slipper is a rare orchid (Review here)

Roses by Leila Meacham - To be fair, I could have had any number of books with the word roses in the title.  I do love the cover of this one. (Review here)

Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts - The Bon Jovi song of the same name contains one of my favourite songlines ever, and this book is the second in one of my favourite Nora Roberts quartets.

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley - Never miss an opportunity to post about a SK book on a TTT post! (Review here)

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach - This book tells the story of when the tulip bulb was the most prized asset that you could own during the period of tulip mania in 17th century Netherlands.

The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig - I'm moving away from roses to my favourite flower which is tulips! There's actually twelve books in this series that all have the name of flowers! (Review here)

And just because I have some.....

Are you sitting down?

  

I would hate for anyone to fall over and hurt themself, because I tell you this is a shock to me, let alone to any one else! This week I managed to write not one, but two reviews! The first was for Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland, and the second is a guest post that I wrote for Royal Reviews reviewing Roses by Leila Meacham.

Head on over to see what I had to say!

Teaser Tuesday - Two Teaser from chunksters

It's been a while since I read a true chunkster, but suddenly I am not reading one only, but two at the same time.

The first teaser comes from page 21 of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Ness Rothfuss.

As he shouldered his travelsack and satchel, Chronicler found himself feeling remarkably lighthearted. The worst had happened, and it hadn't been that bad.

The other chunkster that I am reading is a saga spanning generations of three families - one of my favourite types of read. The teaser comes from page 1 of Roses by Leila Meacham, and certainly caught my attention straight away!

He searched her expression for indications that age had finally affected her faculties, but she stared back with all the clear eyed acuity for which she was renowned. Working saliva into his mouth, he asked,"Is this codicil for real, Mary? You've sold the farms and changed your will?"

Teaser Tuesday is host by Miz B at Should Be Reading. Head on over to find out all about it, and how to join in!