Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week a new theme is suggested for bloggers to participate in. This week’s prompt is Books With a Unit of Time In the Title (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, eternity, etc.) (Submitted by RS @ The Idealistic Daydream)
Hello Readers! I hope this week’s Top Ten Tuesday finds you well! We’re settling into summer here in Texas. The temperature is rising, the sun is shining, and vacation fever seems to have hit everyone. Stay safe out there!
Today we’re looking at books with a unit of time in the title. I decided to pick five I’ve read and enjoyed and five from my TBR (To-Be-Read). Curiously, the ones I’ve read all include seconds, hours, and years, while the ones on my TBR are all days. 🤷♀️😃
Let’s see what I chose!
(Link to Goodreads synopsis through book title.)
Read and Enjoyed
- 180 Seconds by Jessica Park – From my Goodreads review: “I didn’t want to put it down once I arrived at the turning point. Just a word of advice, though, don’t read the last third of this one somewhere you don’t want to be seen crying!”
- Summer Hours by Amy Mason Doan – From My Review: “Summer Hours is nostalgic, atmospheric, and consuming. I would have preferred to read it all in one sitting, but life is always getting in the way.”
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle – From My Review: “I kept turning pages hesitantly, never knowing when the thing that was bound to happen would happen, whatever it was that was going to change Dannie’s life. And when it finally did happen, it was not what I expected at all.”
- This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens – From my Goodreads review: “Perfectly wonderful.”
- Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis – From My Review: “Eight Perfect Hours gave me all the feelings, and I relished every minute.”
From my TBR
- 99 Days by Katie Cotugno – I’ve owned this YA Romance for years and it keeps surviving my un-hauls because the reviews are good!
- Days Without End by Sebastian Barry – I received a copy of this book in a subscription box. I’d never heard of it, and it has mixed reviews, but I’m still very curious about this LGBT historical fiction book about immigrants fighting in the Civil War.
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams – This seemed to be the book of the summer last year. It has great reviews and someday I will read it!
- Maybe One Day by Debbie Johnson – I have to admit what interests me most about this book is that it’s a road trip book. I’m a sucker for those!
- Two More Days (an anthology) by Colleen Hoover and more – This anthology benefits a charity and each author was given the same first sentence to start their short story. I’m intrigued!
Have you read any of these? Do we share any picks? Let me know in the comments!
Happy Wandering!
I’ve not read any of these, to be honest, but love the idea of Days Without End.
This is my list of books containing a unit of time in the title.
I’m very intrigued by that one, as well!
99 Days made my list, too. I really enjoyed that one!
Hopefully it’s one I can pick up sooner rather than later. 😉
They look like interesting books. I struggled with this week and had to stretch the theme a little bit!
The weather here in the UK is warm but grey with showers – so unpredictable!
Hope you have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/07/top-ten-tuesday-books-with-a-unit-of-time-in-the-title/
Including books from my tbr definitely made this prompt a easier for me. It’s actually warm and grey here today, too, but no showers. Very humid. 😅 Happy reading this week!
Yeah. I never thought about doing that 😂 mix of sunshine and showers. Warmish 🤣 crazy English weather. You too ☺️
Fun list! I haven’t read many road trip novels, but the thought is really interesting. I might have to check out Maybe One Day.
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2022/06/07/top-ten-tuesday-timely-books/
I’m a sucker for road trips AND road trip books. Especially reading a road trip book on a road trip. 😂
I used to like road trips, but now—because I am more likely to get motion sick when I’m a passenger—I do the bulk of the driving and it’s not NEARLY as fun as when the driving is split evenly. We fly most places now as a result.
Nice list! I still have In Five Years on my TBR.
I really enjoyed In Five Years! Serle always manages to surprise me.
I have to check out The Summer Hours. I really enjoyed all the others from your read section. You saw good reviews for 99 Days? Don’t get me wrong, I am in the minority because I liked it, but the average rating is under 3.5 (my cutoff). I have enjoyed books by Johnson and need to read more of them.
I adored The Summer Hours!! I hope you pick it up. Let me clarify, all my ‘friends’ but one on Goodreads rated 99 Days 4 stars and I’ve seen a few fellow bloggers say they enjoyed it. But, yes, it’s overall rating is less than 3.5 on Goodreads. I’m trying hard not to let Goodreads ratings sway me from a book too much because I do tend to like the lower rated books. In fact many of my five-star reads have ratings less than 3.5. I guess the opposite is true for me, as well. I’m not always a fan of the most popular books. 😃
I split mine up too!! I really want to read Seven Days in June but totally forgot to add it to the list. haha. Great job!!
Glad I’m not the only one! I could have done all ten books I’ve read, but it would have included books I felt like I’d already been talking about so much lately. 😃
Haha! I was struggling with them but I know. I sometimes think I talk about the same books too much and try to mix it up.
Great list Dedra, I like the split between read and TBR. Two More Days intrigues me as well, so thanks for the heads up on that one.
Thanks Carla! Hopefully we can both pick up Two More Days sometime soon.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Seven Days in June. I need to get to it as well. Great list!
Hopefully we can both pick it up soon!