Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly get-together of bloggers posting book lists on a theme. You can join fun each week at the Broke and The Bookish blog.
This week it’s 10 things that make me instantly want to read (or listen to) a new book.
Number One and Number Two (random order)
Photo Credit Jeremy Irons Photo Credit Sean Connery
Having either of these two read an audio book means I not only will listen I might even BUY the audio book!
Three
The word “Edwardian” is used in the description of the story.
Four
The terms “between the wars,” “country house,” or “aristocracy” are used in the description of the story.
Five
The book was written by any of a dozen or more favorite authors.
Six
The cover features a man looking like Jeremy Irons or Sean Connery.
Seven
The book has something to do with a royal, a Roosevelt or a Churchill.
Eight
One of my like-minded reader friends says I must read it and they are the friends who know what I really will like.
Nine
The book has amazing food in it.
Ten
The book just somehow attracts my notice for another reason.
What instantly makes me DROP a book and forgot it:
- Graphic sex
- Graphic violence
- Overuse of profanity
- Animal cruelty
- Historical inaccuracies
- Diversity rammed in just to have diversity
- Modern views in historical characters
- Sleazy covers
- The word “dystopian” used anywhere.
- The words “zombie” or “vampire” used anywhere.
Why not go to the Broke and the Bookish and enjoy other great Top Ten Tuesday lists from this week? Or, read the rules and post your own!
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You left off the obvious: It’s a book!
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Well, that’s true! lol
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I had NO clue Sean Connery read audio books! That makes me want to look for one of his to listen to. Nice list!
My TTT.
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LOL..I don’t know that he has! More of a joke on my love of both men and their voices! Jeremy Irons read Lolita but even that hasn’t gotten me to listen to that book.
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A good audio book read by someone I like does sway my decision to read/listen to a book (Richard Armitage reading David Copperfield, Tom Hiddleston reading High Rise, Tim Currie reading A Series of Unfortunate Events)! Such a good list!
Check out my TTT: https://travelinretrospect.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/top-ten-tuesday-the-things-that-make-me-read/
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I have a few readers I especially like, too–betond lively Jeremy & Sean
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I like your list. I feel it is more honest that the other lists I have seen today. I agree about going weak on the knees for books about food. Have you read The Improbability of Love? That was a recent one that I loved.
Yes, I do not like graphic sex and violence and also diversity included just for the sake of it
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If you ever decide to venture into contemporary novels, I highly recommend the works of Barbara O’Neal. So much fantastic food, and she includes recipes!
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Thanks! I read all kinds of stuff, just not sci fi or dystopian.
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Great list and I would totally listen to an audiobook if it was narrated by Sean Connery!
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