Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
This week’s topic is Most Recent Additions to my Book Collection. But…I actually haven’t purchased any books lately so I don’t have anything to post about that.
So, I’m going rogue with a different top ten Tuesday topic – Books I Really Liked But Can’t Remember Much/Anything About. This was a topic a few years ago but I thought it sounded interesting and would let me look back and reminisce on some of my reading. I’ve been tracking my reading on Goodreads since about 2010 so I went on the site and looked at all the books I rated either 5 or 4 stars and looked for any that I couldn’t remember what the book was about. Spoiler alert – there were a lot! I narrowed my list down to 10 forgotten books for you.
Here are 10 Books I Really Liked But Can’t Remember Much/Anything About:
1. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thomson Walker. I read this book in 2015 and liked it enough to give it 5 stars. Unfortunately, I just read the synopsis and this book doesn’t even sound familiar to me. Am I sure I read it?
2. The Lake House by Kate Morton. I read this book in 2017. I can’t even remember what this book was about but I think that’s more because I get it confused with the Sandra Bullock/Keanu Reeves movie “The Lake House“.
3. Almost Home by Pam Jenoff. I read this book in 2010. I…do not remember this book.
4. Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols. I read this book in 2012. I went through a phase where, even though I was not a young adult, I read all the young adult books I could get my hands on. This one got lumped in there and is now lost amongst all the YA books that blur together.
5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell. I read this book in 2015. I vaguely remember this book about an IT guy who reads the emails of employees who work at his company and falls in love with one of those employees but that’s it.
6. The Heartbreaker Bay series by Jill Shalvis. I started this series in 2017 and I read about 5 or 6 books in this series. I recall that it took place in a town near San Francisco but there were so many characters and so many books that I could not keep up with everyone and now I couldn’t tell you who any of the characters are.
7. The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff. Another book by Pam Jenoff that I don’t remember reading! Apparently, I read this book in 2014 and that’s about all I can tell you.
8. The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw. I know I read this book because the synopsis sounds very familiar. According to Goodreads I read it in 2018 but that’s all I know.
9. The Accident by Chris Pavone. I read this book in 2015 for my book club and I just read the summary for this book again and I can’t believe I don’t remember anything about it. It sounds like a book that I would totally love and apparently I did but I can’t remember why.
10. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This book sounds so familiar! I know I read it in 2015 but I don’t remember anything about it. I couldn’t even tell you how it ends.
What books have you loved but can’t recall what they’re about?
Do you think you’ll ever reread them?
I have the same problem with certain books. Some of them I can remember a lot about, but others slip out of my mind after a while.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-most-recent-additions-to-my-book-collection/
I might reread a couple. I guess the good thing about not remembering a book is that if I do reread it, it is like reading an entire new book!
You’ve read so many books! Once I picked up a Nora Roberts book and realized 1/4 of the way through it that I had already read it… They changed/modernized the cover!! Not the same thing but I wonder if you’d pick one up again, it would be like meeting an old friend. 🤔 Do you want to re-read any of them?
– Alli | http://www.onthetripside.com
Oh I’ve definitely started reading more than one book only to realize it’s a book I already read! There are a couple books on this list that I would enjoy rereading.
LOL. I could make a Top 100 list on this topic! My memory is terrible.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Me too! I knew my memory was terrible but I didn’t realize it was this bad.
Interesting spin on the topic. I do recall the main plot points of books I’ve really liked for a long time. The ones I didn’t like as much…well…you can guess. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/most-recent-additions-to-my-book-collection-winter-book-haul/
I have a horrible memory so I was not surprised at all the books I could not remember!
Aw, you’ve got two of my 5-star faves on your list (Lake House & Attachments). The latter, which I also read in 2015, was so simultaneously funny and endearing that it’s remained my favorite Rowell book; in fact, I liked the ending so much that despite not writing it down anywhere, I still remember the last line. Although part of why I loved it is that Lincoln reminded me so much of my now-husband, so I am sure that accounts for it.
The former…still amazing, but such heartbreak along the way. I do wish it had a different title though — even I mentally default to the movie when I hear it, and besides, “lake house” is frankly too basic a term for the beauty and magnitude of an estate + manor house that size.
No judgment though, because in 2019 I started an annual blog post where I go down my reading log from a decade earlier and give a brief “what are my thoughts now?” response to each. I can’t tell you how many I had the “I…do not remember this book” response to! Mostly 3-star books, but 4 and yes, even 5 stars are not immune.
–RS @ The Idealistic Daydream (3rd tiem trying to post this comment, keep getting a bizarre “sorry, this comment could not be posted” message w/ no response, whether I tried leaving a URL, logging in to WordPress, or lgoging in to Twitter.
of course it went through as long as I rambled and threw in some typos. *facepalm*
Haha! Sorry, I couldn’t remember some of your favorite books! I have a horrible memory though. I did realize that most of these books that I can’t remember, I read more than 5 years ago. Maybe I just don’t have room in my brain for all the great books I read!