10 Books You Probably Read & Forgot
A few years back there was a research study that mentioned how American adults average about five books read a year...
On a wild guess, I'm going to say most of you looking at this read more than that... maybe even five books in a month...
Some of us are logging in around 100 or more books a year...
And in all that we are bound to read books and then forget about them... right?
I somehow have managed to remember many of the plots of the books I've read. In fact, I often get a new story and mention how it is exactly like another plot I've read maybe ten years previously. But, I usually forget titles, authors, or names of characters... and of then there are piles of titles I read while in college for my lit classes that I have blocked away.
But luckily we have Goodreads! And it will at least help us to track all the books we've read, and when. So when I saw the ideas from Top Ten Tuesday on That Artsy Reader Girl about books we can't remember, and books I can't believe I read, I figured I'd search out my Goodreads list and see what I' read and do not remember...
And to be honest, finding 10 was harder than it should have been... I guess that's a good thing... maybe my memory isn't completely shot!
10 Random Books That Often Slip My Memory
- Madame Bovery by Gustave Flaubert - This is one of those classics that everyone seems to have heard about, but how many of us have read it? Well, I did! I even have notes from my class... but I only vaguely remember the basics...
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - Moment of truth... I took an entire class on Chaucer... while we read this unfinished "masterpiece" a few times, we spent most of the class focusing on the history of the time period... so somehow I have forgotten the vast majority of these tales.
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - Okay, in all fairness, I remember a ton of this story, but I am fuzzy on the names and the details... the setting I remember... and with the movie coming up I feel like I should remember it!
- Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth - Yep, even a new book is on my list... and I know I read it, recently... but I don't remember any of the characters names, and I only vaguely remember the plot... I mean I even reviewed it on here! How embarrassing.
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - Another book I know I read for school, because I remember writing the author's name on a test paper... and that is where my memory ends... and thanks to all the movies that have taken this story as the basis, I don't know what memories are from the book or the movies...
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray - When I try to remember this story I only remember flipping through the pages thinking it's so long, and what high school teacher expects us to read that much???? hahaha, not the point, but I have a feeling we all have a few of these.
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Alright, I do remember this one quite a bit actually. But the very beginning, that part slipped away from recently.
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding - I know I read this... but... yep it's gone...
- Beloved by Toni Morrison - So I read this in high school and college, yep twice, both time for diversity authors... which is great. And I even remember liking it even though it has some very heavy topics.. what topics you ask? Don't mind me while I check Goodreads... yep it's all out of my memory.
- The Giver by Lois Lowry - Another one I know I read while in school...I was talking to someone about it just a few weeks back and she mentioned a subplot and I stared at her like she grew a second head. Yep, I forgot it!
There are probably a ton more, especially from school, but oh well. Then again, the last 10 years are full of books I do remember, so that's alright.
Now, please, tell me there are some books you know you read but you can't remember!
What books did you read, maybe even loved, and now forget?
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Ugh you are really not missing much by not remembering Lord of The Flies, it's awful!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/top-ten-tuesday-144/
Oh this made me laugh out loud... I know read it... I remember it being in a test... but I have blocked it from memory, good to know it was a smart move ;)
DeleteHi! Madame Bovary and Lord of the Flies are ones I've forgotten about :)
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Leslie
classics have a way of being forgotten... who knows why ;)
DeleteThe Giver is the only one of these I've read, and I don't remember a lot of it either. Oops.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting Shell's Stories!
I guess we should be happy we at least read it at some point... ;)
DeleteI really love A Wrinkle in Time, but I don't know whether I should put it out from my favorite-shelf now since I also forgot about the whole story (it was a great book, although the story and all the things there kinda complicated, that's why I forgot).. >.<
ReplyDeleteyes it was a bit complicated for a MG read... but so fun and unique... it's a quick read, reread it ;)
DeleteHaha! I love this post! I find it particularly annoying when I am supposed to pick up the sequel and completely forgotten what's the first book was about. On the contrary, I am good with author names but not very much so for book titles & character names :p
ReplyDeletethat is the worst... forgetting a book in a series... but hmmm between our two brains we would be a great memory keeper with all things books hahaha
DeleteI love comments!!
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