Hello! Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Sorry I haven’t been around for a couple weeks. Two major things have been draining my time: QuizUp is discontinuing, and it’s been my goal for years to become the best in the world in the Divergent Trilogy category there. Only problem is, there was one lady that was way ahead of me. So I had less than 2 months to make up that difference (and I did, so now I’m the best in the world, but I have to retain my lead for another month). Second, I sold a bunch of DOGE (a cryptocurrency) that I mined several years ago for about $4000. So I bought a new laptop and had some money to trade.
Anyway, today we’re talking about books with yellow, purple, and green colors. It’s Mardi Gras, I guess. When I worked at Walmart I’d kinda know because they’d sell stuff in those colors right around this time. Are people doing anything for Mardi Gras this year? Covid is kinda taking everybody’s parties away. I’m listing my most recently read books using “My Books” on Goodreads. Which color did I read the most covers of in the last nine months? Let’s find out:
Oooh, a purple cover in one of my most recent reads! Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman is a great book. I wrote a story over the weekend, “My Embarrassing Secret,” about Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown creator of Bitcoin; I created a wife for him and named her Akemi.
Are all my covers going to be purple this week? We’ll see. A Sky Beyond the Storm is the final book in Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes tetralogy. It is such a wonderful end to the series, if you haven’t had the chance to read it yet.
I read Keeper by Kim Chance last November, and it has a green cover (so I guess I’m not going with just purple). This book is a lovely blend of contemporary reality with some magic thrown in.
I thought about not using two Sabaa Tahir books for this list, but I’m going in order of when I read them. Too bad An Ember in the Ashes series doesn’t have a yellow cover too, or they’d have the whole Mardi Gras thing going on! A Reaper at the Gates has a green cover. I read the first three books last year in preparation for the release of A Sky Beyond the Storm, so that’s why there are two here among my most recent reads.
Our first yellow cover! Opposite of Always is a story about a boy who meets the love of his life, but she’s sick and dies. Only–then he goes back in time and meets her again and she dies again. The love interest, Kate, has sickle cell anemia, which is something my husband has.
I’m not intentionally grouping these colors by cover, but it seems like they’re grouping themselves. Last summer I reread Summer Days and Summer Nights on audiobook. Considering it was -15º last night, I’m kinda looking forward to the return of those summer days and summer nights.
The Bride Test is yet another yellow cover. I wonder which color will have the most covers? I’m pretty sure I’m going to borrow the third book in this series, The Heart Principle, from the library. The hardcover is still selling for $26! That’s way more than I can spend on most books. The Kindle book is a more reasonable $9.99, but I can wait and save myself the money.
Our fourth yellow cover in a row means that in the recent past, I have read more yellow covers than any other. Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour is a story about two late-teens driving across the country and getting to experience life. It’s a trip I’d like to take. Actually, I have kind of taken trips like this, although not so spontaneous (I knew I wanted to stop at Yellowstone and The Great Salt Lake, etc.). I wish everyone the opportunity to drive across the country, stopping at places that interest them. Not now though, because covid. But soon. According to Worldometers, the Daily New Cases and Daily Deaths have started to decrease! Yes! But we have a long way to go.
Last year, I read the Divergent trilogy again, including Insurgent, the second book. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read these books. I’ve forced myself to only read these every other year so I don’t burn out. I absolutely adore these books.
When I started looking through these covers, I wouldn’t have guessed that the color with the most covers read since last June (out of the colors yellow, purple, and green) would be yellow. But out of these colors, half of them were yellow! I wonder if I’d get different results next year, or if I just read more covers with yellow covers. King of Scars makes the fifth yellow book I’ve read since last June.
That’s it! I hope you’re all staying warm. And that you have power! I’m sure our Australian friends are very happy they’re not in the US right about now. Next week we’re going to talk about “Books that Made Me Laugh Out Loud.” Wow, that’s going to be a toughie. But I did miss two weeks so maybe I’ll do one of those if I can’t think of enough books. Assuming I’m not in a battle to the death over Divergent trilogy on QuizUp.
