Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with Nature on the Cover.
I thought I’d focus on flowers and plants, but a few landscapes and animals snuck into the mix as well!
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
Orfeia by Joanne M. Harris
The Familiars by Stacey Halls
America Pacifica by Anna North
Bleaker House by Nell Stevens
The Thorn and the Blossom by Theodora Goss
The Fall of Koli by M. R. Carey
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
If you did a TTT post this week, please share your link!
Welcome to Shelf Control — an original feature created and hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.
Shelf Control is a weekly celebration of the unread books on our shelves. Pick a book you own but haven’t read, write a post about it (suggestions: include what it’s about, why you want to read it, and when you got it), and link up! For more info on what Shelf Control is all about, check out my introductory post, here.
Want to join in? Shelf Control posts go up every Wednesday. See the guidelines at the bottom of the post, and jump on board!
Title: Outside the Dog Museum Author: Jonathan Carroll Published: 1991 Length: 267 pages
What it’s about (synopsis via Goodreads):
Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect—witty and remarkable. He’s also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable nervous breakdown, Harry is being wooed by the extremely wealthy Sultan of Saru to design a billion-dollar dog museum. In Saru, he finds himself in a world even madder and more unreal than the one he left behind, and as his obsession grows, the powers of magic weave around him, and the implications of his strange undertaking grow more ominous and astounding….
How and when I got it:
I found this at a library sale several years ago, and it’s been sitting in an unshelved stack of books ever since.
Why I want to read it:
Well, I’m not exactly sure that I want to read it, which is probably why it’s still sitting in its lonely stack waiting for some attention. I’ve read one book by this author, Bones of the Moon, which was incredibly weird (and also has one of my favorite covers of all time).
Once again, I was drawn to a Jonathan Carroll book because of the cover. (You have to look closely — but look! Doggos!)
I really can’t tell from the synopsis what this book will be like, how weird it’ll be (likely, very), or whether it will end up holding my attention. But, I do love the title and cover!
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