Welcome to another TTT! Dedra @ A Book Wanderer suggested this week’s topic through my form, and it’s about books I read while I was on vacation! I haven’t been on vacation since I was in California around the time COVID started making an.appearance in the USA. I remember sitting in the breakfast room of my hotel watching the news, completely unaware of how much life was about to change. The CDC had just confirmed the 15th case of COVID in the USA, and very soon after that they confirmed possibly the first person-to-person transmission of COVID in California, not far from where my family and I had been staying. I ended up coming home with a case of it myself. My family and I haven’t traveled since, and hopefully that changes someday!
Anyway! Today I’m going to share 10 books I read while I was on vacation, and I’m going to tell you where I was, too! I love reading travel-themed books, low-angst romances, and books that take place in tropical locations while I’m on vacation. I also love reading mysteries and thrillers because I’m sharing a room with people and don’t have to feel scared sleeping in a room alone. lol. My favorite method of travel is cruises, so the bulk of these books were read while I was either traveling to/from or on a cruise ship.
1. The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler
I was in Seaside, California. My mom, sister, and I traveled to Monterey to go whale watching, hang out at Fisherman’s Wharf, visit the aquarium, and eat lots of yummy food.
2. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
I read this while on the plane home from a family wedding in North Carolina. There had been some mix-ups with the airline and my mom and I were upgraded to first class!
3. Delirium by Lauren Oliver
I read the bulk of this poolside while on a cruise! The very bottom of each page is slightly rippled from getting wet when I rested it on my stomach, and there’s some saltiness to the pages. It’s so much fun to open it up and remember where I was!
4. Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson
I read this while on a transatlantic cruise from Florida to Italy, which was so perfect because this book takes place on a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea. I remember sitting on my balcony reading about the Mediterranean while I was sailing on it. I couldn’t have planned it better!
5. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
Also on a cruise with this one. Since I never get internet packages while on cruises, I had made a list a few days before we left of books on my Kindle that I thought would be fun to read while on board. I had my sister select from the list because I was having trouble making decisions. This was a creepy thriller, and I was so glad I had her in my cabin with me because I wouldn’t have been able to sleep otherwise!
6. Moonlight Sins by Jennifer Armentrout
Another cruise read, and I ended up binging this series back to back to back!
7. Roman Crazy by Alice Clayton and Nina Bocci
I said this list was mostly books I read while on a cruise. lol. I love reading books about people on vacation while I’m on vacation, so this one was really fun!
8. I Temporarily Do by Ellie Cahill
Cruise. I LOVED this book so much that I read the second one right away.
9. Till Death by Jennifer Armentrout
This is another good thriller (well, romantic suspense in this case) to read when you’re not sleeping in a room alone! I read this on a… you guessed it: cruise.
10. All By Myself, Alone by Mary Higgins-Clark
My mom and I always made a point of reading an MHC book on a trip together. I might have read this one on a plane to a cruise? LOL.
What do you look for in a good vacation read?
I still absolutely want to read The Tourist Attraction and yet still haven’t. I will say though that seems like an ideal kind of read to enjoy while on a trip. :)
OOh nice! Usually when I go on vacation I’m going somewhere to do things, so reading doesn’t get done much at all. So basically I chose 10 books I’d like to read on a staycation! Though I forgot to use the term “staycation!”
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Was this all the same cruise, or is cruising sort of your thing? Please share something about that, out here going on cruises is only for old people, while I would actually like to go on one once. :-p
I’ve actually been on more than 20 cruises! It’s my favorite way to travel. I went on my first one when I was 2, but then my family and I started going on at least one a year from when I was about 17 until the pandemic! I LOVE them. The food is great, I get to share a room with my sister so we have girls nights every night, and we get a balcony so I can sit out there and read all day. There’s fun group events, live music and shows, games by the pool during the day and movies on the big screen (with popcorn) at the pool every night. I love getting off in port to explore or go shopping. I can’t wait to go again when things get safer!
Interesting tradition of reading MHC with your mom on trips! How did that start?
I actually have no idea! MHC was one of the first authors my mom introduced me to when I was a teen, and we both bonded over her stories. She released a new book almost every spring/summer, so we started saving them to read on trips! It gave us something extra to look forward to. :)
Love this, it has been a long time since I have been on a “real” vacation with reading time that I didn’t know what to say, so I went a different direction.
Ha ha. I love that you read creepy mysteries and thrillers while traveling because you’re not rooming alone. Smart!
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Susan
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I can never remember where I read a book, so I tweaked it a bit. I have read a few of these and can imagine reading them on vacation.
I don’t really travel enough to make a list of books I’ve read on vacation! Your list sounds like a lot of fun, though.