Hi all! I hope you’ve all had a good week, after my very busy last week, I’ve had a fairly quiet Bank Holiday weekend, which was much appreciated.
Anyway, it’s Tuesday, and so that means time for another Top Ten Tuesday, courtesy of Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week is One Word Reviews For The Last Ten Books I Read, which was an idea submitted by Susan @ Bloggin’ Bout Books. Tough one, Susan! I always have a tendency to be very wordy in my reviews, and I’m not so good at summing up my thoughts into just a couple of words (or in this case, a single word), so this is going to be a challenge for me, but I’ll give it a go (I will also link to my full reviews for the ones I’ve done them for if you’d like to see my more detailed thoughts):
- The Diamond Eye-Kate Quinn
Engaging.
2. The River of Silver: Tales From The Daevabad Trilogy-S.A. Chakraborty
Uneven.
3. A Marvellous Light-Freya Marske
Meandering.
4. Know My Name-Chanel Miller
Powerful.
5. Her Hidden Genius-Marie Benedict
Disappointing.
6. Resistance Women-Jennifer Chiaverini
Long.
7. Dog Days: A Year In The Life of Olive and Mabel-Andrew Cotter
Funny.
8. This Poison Heart-Kalynn Bayron
Slow.
9. Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood-Trevor Noah
Hilarious.
10. The Nobleman’s Guide To Scandal and Shipwrecks-Mackenzi Lee
Heavy.
So there we go, it’s a fairly short one from me today, but that’s what the topic called for! Have you read any of these books? Did you enjoy them? What would your one word review for any of them be? Let me know in the comments!
I’ll be back next week with another Top Ten Tuesday, this time we’re talking about Bookish Characters, which is always a fun one to do, and hopefully one I’ve not done before? At least not recently anyway!
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You made it!!! This was such a hard challenge.
Born A Crime: Stories From A South African Childhood sounds interesting.
My TTT this week.
It was! Oh I definitely recommend it, it was really good. Super funny but also covering a lot of serious issues in South Africa.
Thanks for the recommendation. I would not have thought a book with that title would be hilarious. I would have liked to read it anyway.
I hope you enjoy it if you do read it.
Thanks, I will try.
🙂
love hilarious books!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-one-word-reviews-for-the-last-ten-books-i-read/
Me too!
Ooh, meandering is definitely a great one word review! I haven’t read This Marvellous Light yet but it’s on my TBR, so I’m intrigued.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it more than I did.
I love, loved, loved Born a Crime. Trevor Noah is hilarious and I learned so much from his memoir. I love your other word choices too. 🙂
I totally agree! Thank you 🙂
Great list. Born a Crime was a great book, funny but with so many serious issues. I agree, Resistance Girls was long.
Thank you! Yes, it was hard to convey both things in one word, but I did go more into that in my review of it. Definitely, far too long.
Ooo… Heavy for The Nobleman’s Guide To Scandal and Shipwrecks is interesting! I’ve not read it, but I wouldn’t have expected that.
It goes quite a lot into Adrian’s mental health issues, so whilst there is also a lot of levity as with the other two books, I would definitely say it’s the heaviest of the three in terms of subject matter.
Uneven. Huh. That could be both good and bad. I’m even more curious now!
I mean honestly that’s kind of what it was! There were some really great stories but also some kind of meh stories, so I thought uneven was a pretty good way to describe how I felt about it.
I love your reviews. I think Meandering is such a great descriptive word! I have Diamond Eye on my TBR.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
“Meandering.” That’s a good one!
Thank you!
I love your word choices. I had one today that meandering would have been great for, wish I had thought of it!
Thank you!
I’ve been meaning to pick up Noah’s book. I have an arc of River of Silver.. kinda worried now!
I really want to read Diamond Eye!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
this was such a hard challenge to do but I loved reading all of your one word reviews!!
Thank you!
Know My Name is VERY powerful. Great description for that one. Also really want to read the Kate Quinn one
Yeah definitely one of the best memoirs I’ve ever read. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
I agree with Know My Name being powerful, that’s a great word for it!
Thank you!
I think this week’s topic was such a challenge for so many of us, but you did a good job!
Thank you! It was definitely a tricky one 🙂
I completely agree about Know My Name! I read it when it first came out and I previously never read nonfiction much let alone a memoir. I couldn’t get her words out of my head. Her story, and taking back pieces of what was taken from her, is truly powerful.
Yes, it’s such an amazing book, made me wish I hadn’t wait so long to read it!
These are great! I can tell already that a book described as “meandering” probably isn’t for me. 🙂
Yes it wasn’t really for me either! Which is a shame because from the blurb it so sounded like it would be.
I’ve read Born a Crime & loved it – one word would be ’emotional’ and I have Diamond Eye on my TBR so “engaging” makes it promising! My list: https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/ttt-one-word-reviews
Ooh yes that’s also a good one. Again this is why one word isn’t enough, because it’s impossible to capture all aspects of a book in a single word. Ooh I hope you enjoy it 🙂
I’m surprised to see how many of these books were disappointing for you. I never get that far…I give up on books that aren’t working for me.
This is why one word really isn’t enough, because despite the words I’ve chosen potentially being negative ones, I did find something to like in all these books, they were all 3 stars or above, so not bad reads, but it’s hard to convey that in just one word!
What a fun topic! I know the Quinn book gets lots of buzz.
It was really good! I only found her work last year, but I already really love her stuff. Can’t wait for the next one now!
Ooh, good word choice for the Nobleman’s Guide. I love how creative everybody was with choosing one word! 🙂
Thank you! Yes it was fun to see how many different words people came up with when we shared books in common, almost no one had the same one!
It is so fun! I like how creative everybody is
Me too!
I’m sad to hear that This Poison Heart is slow. I’m so excited to read it.
Ash @ Essentially Ash
Hopefully you will enjoy it more than I did! I just have very little patience for slow books.
“Uneven” is a good one. It’s a great way to describe a book that’s just…not smooth. Sometimes one word is all you need!
Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Yes, not smooth is definitely how I’d described The River of Silver, and most short story collections to be honest, there are always some that standout more than others. Sometimes it is!
Great job on this challenge. I think you chose a lot of very effective words. 🙂
Thank you!
This one was difficult for me–I don’t know why; It’s only one word! 😂 Great job on your words!
Thank you! It’s almost harder to sum up in just one word that it is to do lots though, so I totally understand.
You did so much better than I did! LOL I couldn’t manage one word for any but one. 🙂 I haven’t read any of these, although The Diamond Eye is on my TBR shelf. I am looking forward it–and am glad you found it engaging.
Thank you, it was a struggle! I hope you also enjoy The Diamond Eye 🙂