"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish".
It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to
share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of
other bloggers who share their lists here.
This week's topic is Memorable Things Characters Have Said (quotes from book characters that have stuck with you)
How do we get to know what characters have said? Right, by reading. So, I have chosen twelve books (still TTT) with covers of readers.
Cabré, Jaume "Confessions" (Cat: Jo Confesso) - 2011
Calvino, Italo "Why Read the Classics?" (IT: Perché leggere i classici?) - 1991
Filipović, Zlata "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo" (BOS: Zlatin dnevnik: otroštvo v obleganem Sarajevu) - 1993
Heidenreich, Elke "Words from 30 Years" (GE: Wörter aus 30 Jahren) - 2003
Kaminer, Wladimir "The Lost Summer. Germany Smokes on the Balcony" (GE: Der verlorene Sommer. Deutschland raucht auf dem Balkon) - 2021
Mortenson, Greg (with David Oliver Relin) "Three Cups of Tea" - 2006
Pamuk, Orhan "The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist" (TR: Saf ve Düşünceli Romancı) - 2011
- "The New Life" (TR: Yeni Hyat) - 1994
Rowlatt, Bee & Witwit, May "Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad. The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship" - 2010
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Labyrinth of the Spirits" (E: El laberinto de los espíritus - El cementerio de los libros olvidados #4) - 2016
Seierstad, Åsne "The Bookseller of Kabul" (NO:. Bokhandleren i Kabul) - 2003
Taylor, Helen "Why Women Read Fiction. The Stories of Our Lives" - 2019
As you can see, they are either not written in English or written about non-English people. That wasn't my intention and I wonder whether it means something.
I hope to have inspired one or the other of you to read one of these books. Orhan Pamuk and Carlos Ruiz Zafón are some of my favourite authors.
You've got me interested in Calvino's Why Read the Classics? As an admirer of the classics myself, think I should read up all the reasons (and additional recs) that Calvino has to offer.
ReplyDelete~Lex (lexlingua.co)
I love his "When on a Winter's Night a Traveller", Lex, and this is a great book about classics. I have many of his quotes from there on my Weekly Quotes and love going back to this work again and again.
DeleteI love Carlos Ruiz Zafón and I do have an Orhan Pamuk book on my bookshelf waiting to be read, so I'm looking forward to that! I love that cover for Labyrinth of Spirits 😍
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dini. So do I. Might I ask which Orhan Pamuk book is on your TBR list?
DeleteBooks with readers on the covers definitely always speak to me :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lindsey, yes, they make us feel like part of a big family.
Deletethis is a neat TTT! Even though I paint and am very visual, I'm bad with covers when it comes to finding some features like this. Well done! I need to work more on my Italian for Calvino's book, that I want to read in the original text
ReplyDeleteI envy you for that, Emma. I doubt my Italian will ever get that good but I don't mind so much with non-fiction books if they are translated. Still, it is a great book, no matter how you read it.
DeleteConfessions is a brilliant book, I haven't seen it talked about much in the blogosphere so this makes me so happy. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/top-ten-audiobook-recommendations/
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stefani. Same here, I don't think I have seen Jaume Cabré's name much anywhere. I read two of his books and liked them both.
DeleteWhat a cool pivot!
ReplyDeleteI went off-topic this week: https://fiftytwo.blog/2021/11/09/ttt-books-you-recommend-the-most/
Happy TTT!
Lori
Haha, Lori, pivot is a good word for what we do to the topic given each week. I often try to stick to it but sometimes, it just doesn't work. I'm looking forward to seeing your twist.
DeleteAn imaginative twist to the topic!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jen, if the original topic doesn't work for me, I always try to find something that goes with the meaning of it.
DeleteAwesome twist! I'm always drawn to book covers that depict reading in some way—book stacks, library shelves, a bookstore, etc. I think all readers probably feel that way.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
Same here, Suan. And yes, I think we all do like seeing people like ourselves on a cover, people who can't put their books away.
DeleteNice take on this week's topic! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday Thank You!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Poinsettia. Sometimes pictures are more memorable than words.
DeleteA great list.
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/bookish-gift-guide-budget-edition/
Thanks, Pam, I'm glad you like it.
DeleteTotally understand a topic not working sometimes. :) Glad you found a way to make it work and still join regardless. Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland! I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Rissi. I love conversations with other readers, so I always re-visit. Or, if I see an interesting post somewhere, I go by myself. Happy to have met you.
DeleteClever spin! I love readers on book covers!
ReplyDeleteYou and I are not the only ones, Carol, as you can see for other comments. Thanks.
DeleteHaha, books with books on the cover! (Do any of the books on the covers have books on the covers?) Fun idea.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great question, AJ. We can only see the covers on two covers and I tried enlarging them so I could see the covers but, as far as I can tell, there aren't any. That would be another good topic. LOL
DeleteWhat a fun topic!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deanna. I really enjoyed looking for those covers.
DeleteI love your twist on this week's topic :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cindy. It was really fun.
DeleteHow nice to see so many readers. I don't know all of them, but wanted to read a book by Calvino and this sounds about right. I have read Three Cups of Tea, a wonderful story from real life. Zafron is of course unbeatable when it comes to story telling. I also liked the Bookseller in Kabul.
ReplyDeleteThese sounds interesting as well:
"Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad.
"Why Women Read Fiction."
They are all great books, Lisbeth. I see you have read some of the important ones and I am sure you will like the ones you mentioned.
DeleteCalvino has written another book I really liked, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, one of the weirdest or strangest books I have ever read but also one of the best.
In any case, enjoy.