I need to get out of the blogless funk I’ve been in ever since school started. Like…I really need to get out of it, so here I am again. Out of the woodwork and into book meme-land!
I’m a bit sorry that I missed last week’s Top Ten Tuesday, so in place of this week’s (which I wasn’t so keen on doing anyway), I’ll do the Ten Books With Numbers In Their Titles this week! Mostly because I wanted to count it down, even though some of these books I’ve never read (most of them I have at least!).
Ten Books with Numbers in Their Titles (A Countdown)
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware – Some mystery about a woman who doesn’t exactly exist but does exist and her disappearance aboard a vessel. I feel like this is the sort of thing I’d watch, but not so much read, actually.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty – This is the kind of book I tend to avoid in bookstores, though I have seen Liane Moriarty’s name pop up many times in the contemporary fiction section. I wouldn’t rule this book or any of her stuff out entirely, but this one would be low on my priority list, probably in an audiobook when I really have nothing to listen to.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie – My friend and I tried to buddy-read this book once upon a time, but we both kind of lost interest in it after all the crazy weird things started happening. It was also probably at this point where I decided magical realism isn’t really for me.
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – This book was so. good. Up until the end, that is. Then it was so bad. SO BAD. Ugh, I’m still inner ranting about it, to be honest.
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente – I know, I know. As a Leigh Bardugo fan, I’m mostly surprised I haven’t read or put up Six of Crows on this countdown, but I wanted to highlight a little known book by Valente. Because novella it might be, I loved this version of Snow White, and it was absolutely fabulous.
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin – Now this is something up my alley. I’ve been meaning to read an N.K. Jemisin book, and while I haven’t, The Fifth Season is one of those books I would definitely be interested in reading. If only I can read more often, lol. (But mostly these days I play Fire Emblem: Three Houses…oops.)
Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth – I’d put I Am Number Four on here, but I absolutely hated that book, so we won’t go there. I haven’t read Four yet, but I did finish the Divergent trilogy, and I actually liked the main love interest, and his perspective in the third book absolutely gutted me. I still haven’t gotten over it.
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich – Back when I was looking for pulp novels to get through, I encountered the Stephanie Plum series, which was so Jersey I could just not. That said, I haven’t read the rest of the series because my interest isn’t exactly there anymore, but the first three were a hoot and a half.
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus – I just finished reading this! It wasn’t as fun as One of Us is Lying but it picks up at the end, and the final line was a bunch of OMGAH.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – Absolutely adored this book! One of my favorite scifis in a while, to be honest. The movie itself didn’t do it too much justice (not surprising), but it was fun to listen to when narrated by Whil Wheaton, haha.
….And Then There Were None.
Story and Somnomancy 