"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, our topic is Books
With a Unit of Time In the Title (seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months, years, eternity, etc.)
What a lovely idea. And what an easy way to find the books, I just had to go through my reading list and search for the appropriate units, starting with seconds. So, here we go:
Murphy, Jill "Five Minutes Peace" - 1986
Lamb, Wally "The Hour I First Believed" - 2008
Ishiguro, Kazuo "The Remains of the Day" - 1989
Levithan, David "Every Day" - 2012
Scarry, Richard "What Do People Do All Day" - 1968 et al.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander "His Great Stories"
(One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich et al.)
(RUS: Оди́н день Ива́на Дени́совича/Odin den' Ivana
Denisovicha) - 1962/63
Drinkwater, Carol "The Olive Farm" and further Olive Farm Books (i.a. The Olive Season) - 2001-2010
Clarke, Stephen "A Year in the Merde" - 2004
Irving, John "A Widow for One Year" - 1998
Follett, Ken "Edge of Eternity" - 2014
Did anyone notice that I cheated? Top Eleven. Of course, I could have left out "eternity" or any of the others but after I found them, I thought they all deserve a place in the list.
I hope, everyone else had it as easy as I did this time. I always enjoy seeing other lists and discover new books. Not that any of us needs any.
📚 Happy Reading! 📚
I love the Olive Farms books! Great job!
ReplyDeleteThanks, NN. They are really lovely books indeed.
DeleteYou found lots of good units of time in the titles of books you have read. I think everyone fondly remembers the Richard Scarry title.
ReplyDeleteI hope so, Deb. They remind me of many lovely hours with my sons going through the pages and discovering something new every time.
DeleteWhat Do People Do All Day looks like such a good read.
ReplyDeleteIt is a beautiful read for little children and their parents, Lydia, though I still love looking at them today. This was one of the children's books we couldn't give away.
DeleteGreat list, Marianne! I love Five Minutes' Peace, isn't that something we all crave?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cindy. Like "What do people do all day" ^^, this one belongs to the children's books I couldn't give away. And yes, especially parents whose children are still at home would love that. Mine have left a long time ago and I remember those times with fondness. We forget how busy - and tired - we were.
DeleteGreat list. I haven't read any of these, but a couple of them are on my TBR.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen a TTT where I have read all the books on the list. I hope you will enjoy those that are on your TBR pile.
DeleteI love how your titles graduate from seconds to minutes to days to seasons and finally to eternity. Well done! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lark. Usually, I list my books in alphabetical order but I just had to do it like this. And I did enjoy doing it that way.
DeleteI struggled with this topic until I realized I could just search my TBR lists on Goodreads for units of time. It went much better after that. Ha ha.
ReplyDeleteThe cover of FIVE MINUTES' PEACE makes me laugh. I remember those days!
Happy TTT!
Don't we all, Susan? The times get better the longer ago they were, right?
DeleteAnd that's exactly what I did, I didn't go through my Goodreads list but through my list here on my blog. If we have a topic where we have to look for certain words, this is the easiest way for me.
Five Minutes of Peace! Love that cover! My son loves What Do People do All day.
ReplyDeleteHere is my TTT: https://moretoodiscover.blogspot.com/2022/06/tope-ten-tuesday-books-with-unit-of.html
Of course, Sarita, my sons also loved it a lot. And Richard Scary is such a great author and a stickler for details. Just brilliant. Thanks for your link.
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