Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. I found this on Davida's Page @ The Chocolate Lady.
And here is a list of all the topics for the rest of the year.
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This week’s topic is Characters to Invite to a Dinner Party.
Tough question. I would love to invite all my favourite authors to a dinner party and ask them about their books. But I can only have five. Our dinner parties are usually a lot larger, so it is not a good decision for me to be made. We always invite everyone we can think of and often end up with 20+. Well, this is not a normal dinner party, so I understand.
So, I thought I'll invite those authors that have a special birthday, either themselves or their book. And I have tried to find a dinner-related clue.
Thomas Mann was born 6 June 1875, so he would have been 150 years in 2025. There are a lot of dinners in his book.
Pool, Daniel "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew" - 1993
Well, I don't know Daniel Pool and this is the only book I read by him. But I guess you all know why this book is on this list. Exactly:
It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday on 16 December (see #Reading Austen project) and just would have loved to meet her. Of course, many many dinners in her books ("at least three courses" LOL).
Well, I don't know Daniel Pool and this is the only book I read by him. But I guess you all know why this book is on this list. Exactly:
It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday on 16 December (see #Reading Austen project) and just would have loved to meet her. Of course, many many dinners in her books ("at least three courses" LOL).
Scott, Mary "Dinner Doesn’t Matter" - 1957
The dinners in Mary Scott's are not great dinner parties but all of the books in her Susan & Larry series have meal in their title and since I always loved Mary, I would be delighted to have her at my dinner party.
Trollope, Anthony "The Way We Live Now" - 1875
Another birthday, this time that of the book, 150 years since it was published. And, of course, no book by Anthony Trollope without a formal dinner, either.
Woolf, Virginia "Mrs. Dalloway" - 1925
And now we come to a 100th birthday, Mrs. Dalloway. I believe she would have thrown a huge party for that.
Unfortunately, all my authors have passed away. I mean, no wonder, with those birthdays. Maybe I should get someone to stand in for them, like Miss Sophie in "Dinner for One". I hope I found the correct link but if not, google it on YouTube, this one might be blocked in your country.
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Happy Reading! ๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ๐จ
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