"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish".
It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.
Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to
share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of
other bloggers who share their lists here.
This week's topic is: Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences
I found so many of them, I just had to alter the title TTT a little, going from Top Ten to Top Twelve. I copied that from another blogger, so kudos go to Lindsey @ Lindsey Reads.
Christie, Agatha "And then there were none" - 1939
de Beauvoir, Simone "She came to stay" (French: L'invitée) - 1943
Dick, Philip K. "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" - 1968
Gavalda, Anna "I wish someone were waiting for me somewhere" (French: Je voudrais quelqu’un m’attende quelque part) - 1999
Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians love birch trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt) - 2012
Hansen, Dörte "This house is mine" (German: Altes Land) - 2015
Kemal, Yaşar "The birds have also gone" (Turkish: Kuşlar da Gitti) - 1978
Lamb, Wally "I know this much is true" - 1998
Malouf, David "Fly away Peter" - 1979
Mantel, Hilary "Bring up the bodies" - 2012
Shriver, Lionel "We need to talk about Kevin" - 2003
Stanišić, Saša "How the soldier repairs the gramophone" (German: Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert) - 2006
After I put together that list, I thought, maybe one could write a story with all those sentences. Would certainly be a funny read.
I Know This Much Is True was such a good read.
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed, Lydia. As were all his other novels, I think I read most of them. He is a fantastic author.
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I just finished reading And Then There Were None. It was such an amazing mystery; I can't wait to explore more of Christie's work! Great list!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jeanna, it is indeed a great story. I'm not normally much into crime stories but this one was really good.
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Nice! I've only read AND THEN THERE WERE NONE from this list. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN is on my TBR list. I'll get to it one of these days.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
Looks like Agatha Christie is well read. The Kevin book is quite heavy, it won't leave you but it's such a gret read. I'm looking forward to your review.
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Bring Up The Bodies is such a great title!
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed, Stacy. Let's see what you came up with.
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I couldn't come up with many for this week's topic, so I changed it. You chose some great ones though.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/top-ten-tuesday-316/
Not a problem, Jo, we all have those weeks that don't seem to "fit" with us. Looking forward to seeing your post.
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I love the Agatha Christie one!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Greg, it describes the story wonderfully.
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I also have the Wally Lamb novel on my list this week! Great minds think alike. ;)
ReplyDeleteHere is my Top Ten Tuesday list for this week.
Wally Lamb is such a great author for full sentences, Lectrice. I could have also had: "We are water", "I'll take you there", "She's come undone", even: "The hour I first believed" fit the topic.
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And then there were none and Bring Up the bodies! I can't believe these book titles never struck me. I began this TTT thinking there were hardly any sentence-titles, and ended up finding so many. Now I'm curious how the authors cook up these titles. Genius! :-)
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I know, I thought the same and then I had to really sort them out, so many books with a whole sentence.
DeleteI'm always curious how a book gets a certain title. I used to be in an international book club. Not only did we have completely different covers (even for the same language) but the translations of th titles were often so different. "She's come undone", for example, another Wally Lamb book, is called "The music of the whales" in its German translation.
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These are all great examples for this post.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Deanna, I really had fun with them, as you must have had with yours.
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