Books in The Ocean

Hello! It’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today’s topic is supposed to be “Books I’d Gladly Throw into the Ocean.” This is a tough topic for me because there’s only a part of a book I’d consider throwing into the ocean. Plus, I just hate being so negative about books. So I’m going to talk about the seven chapters of a book I’d throw into the ocean and then other books that have the ocean in them.

Seven Chapters I’d Throw Into the Ocean: Allegiant Chapters 50-56. I’d gladly throw Allegiant chapters 50-56 into the ocean. Sorry, I love you, Veronica Roth, but I do not love the end to this book. And “We Can Be Mended” didn’t mend me. But fanfiction did. The canonical end to this story is not my truth. I guess this is the one good thing that came out of this story’s end. I realized in fiction, you can change the ending in your head if you want to. And I can also say that Allegiant also got me into writing again.

Books With the Ocean in Them

So now that we’re done with all that negativity, let’s talk about books with the ocean in them. To be clear, I like these books and don’t want to throw them in the ocean. Although I’d like to sit by the ocean and read them.

Alex, Approximately – Jenn Bennett. As the weather begins to warm up around here, I begin to feel the urge to read this book again more and more. This book takes place along the ocean, and the male MC is a surfer. I get so many beach vibes reading this lovely book.

Start Here – Trish Doller. I know I featured the last two books two weeks in a row; I guess I’m in the mood for beaches and sun at the moment. And there’s only 7 1/2 weeks of school left, so I’m looking forward to a lightening of my workload for 104 days (yes, since I homeschool, I give my boy exactly 104 days of summer vacation). In this book, they go sailing. I need to add her latest book, Float Plan, to the TBR lottery. Ms. Doller said that her new book covers some of the same themes, so I’m on it.

Twilight – Stephanie Meyer. When I was a kid, my parents used to take us almost every year to a beach near where the ocean scenes in Twilight took place. I took my kids camping there when my youngest was 1 1/2 and my oldest was 5 (yep, just me and the kids), and I hope to go again next year. So I’m very familiar with this beach, and it’s nothing like the beaches of California or the Caribbean. But it is a very nice beach to visit on one of the relatively rare sunny summer days they get in the area.

The Vanishing Deep – Astrid Scholte. This book is all about the ocean. While it never says specifically, The Vanishing Deep seems to be set far into the future where the world is covered with water. Not exactly the inviting beaches of the previous three books, but an ocean nonetheless.

10 Things I Hate About Pinky – Sandhya Menon. This book takes place on Cape Cod, which I think qualifies as the ocean. If not, I haven’t had the chance to feature this book much, so I’ll include it here.

The Scorpio Races – Maggie Stiefvater. This books take place on an island, so they’re surrounded by ocean. I’m not sure this is the type of ocean I’d like to visit, however. There are murderous horses in the water! If you haven’t read this book yet and are inclined to read it, I recommend you start reading this book on November 1st some year.

Call of the Raven – Wilbur Smith. Every villain is the hero of their own story. While I haven’t read any of the other books in this series, evidently the main character of this story becomes a villain. Even though there’s a picture of a burning building on the cover of this book, a lot of this story takes place at sea.

Crown of Coral and Pearl – Mara Rutherford. It’s been a while since I’ve read this book, but most of the people in this world live at sea. Even though I love the ocean, this isn’t the kind of sea world I’d enjoy. I most definitely wouldn’t want to live here.

Across a Broken Shore – Amy Trueblood. I saw on Facebook yesterday that they put a net under the Golden Gate Bridge when they were building it in order to save lives. Did I know that? Why yes, yes I did, because I read Across a Broken Shore. It takes place in San Francisco while they’re building the Golden Gate Bridge. Which makes this the 9th book today to take place near the ocean.

So how about you? What’s your favorite book to take place near the ocean? Are there any books you’d like to throw in the ocean?

Next week we’re going to talk about books that could be Crayola crayon colors. I think I can come up with some ideas for this.