Hello and welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Every week, we talk about books! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! Today we’re supposed to talk about books we’d give other titles to. I have a hard enough time coming up with titles to my own books, so I’ll just come up with lists of books whose titles don’t entice me. That doesn’t mean they’re not good books! Authors don’t always get to pick the titles to their own books. Anyway, here’s my list.
I don’t really care for the title Pumpkinheads. Nevertheless, I loved the book. I’m glad I read the synopsis to this book, because otherwise I might not have picked it up. I guess you can’t always judge a book by its title!
Last week, several people mentioned that they thought The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was an extraordinary book title. It just shows you how people’s tastes are different. Don’t throw tomatoes at me, but the title seems like a snore to me. I’m sure it’s a delightful book, and I might read it someday. The title doesn’t grab me though.
Salt to the Sea is another one of those titles that makes me say… “I don’t know.” The description sounds really interesting though, and I liked Ruta Sepetys’s Fountains of Silence. At least when a book has a title I’m not so crazy about, other bloggers can tell whether a book is worth checking out.
The Divergent titles in German are pretty darn boring. It means something like “The Determination.” Yawn. On the other hand, Veronica Roth’s book Carve the Mark has a really awesome title in Spanish–Las Marcas de la Muerte— The Marks of Death. I like that one.
You can’t judge a book by its title. I wasn’t a really big fan of the title Strange the Dreamer when I first heard of it. That being said, I loved the book. In fact, all the books I was ‘meh’ on the title on this week’s list ended up being great books. That being said, this title has grown on me since it makes sense.
Echo North is another one of those books whose title sounds “meh.” The book sounds really interesting though.
An Affair of Poisons seems like it might be an old-fashioned kind of book. Again, the plot sounds interesting, but just going by the superficial aspects of this book, I might skip over it.
The title Blood Water Paint doesn’t sound that interesting either. I’ve seen the book before, but the uninteresting title has made my mind skip over it. Nevertheless, now that I’m looking at the synopsis, it looks interesting.
I’ve heard a lot of good things about A List of Cages. It sounds really good too. The title doesn’t really grab me though.
The tile Stain makes me not want to read it? This is another book that sounds interesting though.
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. You can’t judge a book by its title either. Or its movie. I haven’t read all of these, but the ones I have read were good.
What books would you give different titles to? Are there some books that you adore but don’t care for the title? Next week is a Halloween freebie. I don’t really celebrate Halloween, but I have read a few paranormal, fall, or scary-ish stories lately, so I’ll probably do something along those lines.
