Tuesday 15 March 2016

Top Ten Tuesday | My Spring TBR


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week's theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!

Today I'm going to talk about the books on my Spring TBR! As always, I don't tend to like TBRs much, but I do like creating seasonal TBRs.




The Rose by Jennifer Potter: This non-fiction book is all about what roses mean throughout history and around the world. It's a really heavy book, published on very thick paper for all the pictures, but it looks fascinating and I'm looking forward to reading it. Spring seems like the best time to read a book about flowers!


Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen: Even more gardens! I love witches, so the more the merrier for me!

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett: Speaking of gardens, I'd quite like to read The Secret Garden this Spring - it's one of my favourite classics, and it's such a heart-warming tale.

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh: I picked up a second hand copy of The Language of Flowers in one of my local charity shops years ago, and still haven't read it despite it having brilliant ratings on Goodreads. Continuing with the flowery theme, I think this will make a great spring read.

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert: And to complete this gardening theme I've got going on, the heroine of The Signature of All Things is a botanist in the 19th century. I love reading historical fiction novels about women in science, particularly when they're set during the 18th and 19th centuries, and I've yet to read any of Gilbert's fiction.





The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim: April's in the title, so what better time to read this modern classic? This book is about four ladies who decide to spend April in Italy and have some time to themselves for a change. I started reading it last April but, for whatever reason, I put it down and didn't pick it back up so I'd like to give it another shot. I'm actually going to Florence in two days, so I might take it on holiday with me!


The Sparrow Sisters by Ellen Herrick: This is one of the novels the lovely Mikayla @ Mikayla's Bookshelf got me for Christmas! It's another book that seems to heavily feature flowers, herbs and plants, so it should be another great read for Spring.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton: Yup, even more gardens. Are you sensing a theme? Apparently this book features an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family and a mystery. Sounds like everything I like to read, then!

Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World by Signe Pike: This is another piece of non-fiction, and one that sounds lovely. Signe Pike decided to leave her job and go in search for people who still believe in faeries. I really want to read it.

Among Others by Jo Walton: Speaking of faeries, I believe they feature in Jo Walton's most famous novel. I'm pretty sure Among Others was on my spring TBR last year too but I still haven't gotten to it, I really need to though because I think I'm going to love it.

Which books made your list this week?

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    1. I enjoyed The Language of Flowers. Somehow Diffenbaugh can make me care about really difficult characters!

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      1. I've heard great things about it, so I'm hoping I like it when I get to it!

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    2. Great list! One of these days I will get around to reading the secret garden myself! :)

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      1. Thanks Erin! I love The Secret Garden - I hope you enjoy it when you get to it!

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    3. Sarah Addison Allen is one of my automatic-read, sort of fluff authors. I almost always really enjoy her books. If you like Garden Spells, try Lost Lake next. That one's my favorite. The Language of Flowers is completely different in tone—like Lindsey said above, difficult—but I also loved it. This is a good list!

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    4. Other than The Secret Garden, I'm not really familiar with the books that you mentioned. But I hope you enjoy them all!

      TTT
      Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know

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    5. Great selection^^ I adore The Secret Garden and always end up going back to it after a few years of being away. Something about that story is so inherently magical it makes me happy just thinking about it ♥

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      1. Thanks Micheline! It's such a lovely story, isn't it? I love the 1993 film, too - I watched it quite a lot during my childhood. :)

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    6. Among Others looks really good!

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      1. I've heard lots of great things about it, I need to get to it soon!

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    7. i love love love Sarah Addison Allen! My TTT

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      1. I'm glad to hear it! She seems to be quite a popular author so I'm hoping I'll really enjoy her work. :)

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    8. I love your flowery theme! Perfect choices for spring. :)

      Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

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    9. Omg, the Secret Garden! I'm still not sure if I actually read that or just watched the movie when I was a kid. I just know I loved it.

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      1. I love the 1993 movie. :D The book's lovely too, though, so I recommend reading it if you haven't already.

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    10. You've got some great books on this list! The Forgotten Garden is wonderful, and I quite enjoyed Garden Spells as well (you've got a nice spring theme going on here, lol :D). I found The Language of Flowers to be well-written, heartfelt & thought-provoking, but it's probably best to know going into it that it is a serious, and at times sad/depressing, read. (Just as a head's-up!)

      My Top Ten Tuesday

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      1. Thank you! Yeah I've heard The Language of Flowers can be a little depressing, but I'm looking forward to checking it out, and I'm glad to hear The Forgotten Garden and Garden Spells are both good reads. :)

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    11. Love your spring themed TBR! The floral covers are so cute. I have wanted to get to The Enchanted April for a long time now, I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it.
      Thanks for stopping by The Local Muse

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      1. Thanks Mallory! I love a good floral cover. ;) I'm determined to get to The Enchanted April this April, so hopefully I'll have it read and reviewed soon!

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