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ginny

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Title Mania!
« on: February 21, 2009, 05:15:49 PM »

 Welcome to:

Title Mania!

Title Mania is a simple game which should be a lot of fun! NO peeking at titles and authors, this brain teaser is intended to rack the old grey cells: entirely from  your own memory!

Simply give the title of a book which begins with the last letter of the title before it: *

Ex:  The Good Earth:  
Answer:How Green  Was My Valley.
Next: A book title which starts with Y


* We'll ignore A, An, and The in titles for this game.



How far can we go?

Let's find out.

Enjoy!

Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny

ginny

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2009, 05:20:42 PM »
Welcome, welcome, Everyone! And as  the librarian sings to my little grandson's reading group:  "now you're here we'll have some fun!"

It's amazing what sticks in one's head. Let's find out what's sticking in yours!

Herewith the first of what we hope will be a lot of fun games connected with books, literature, authors: anything to do with reading.  If you have an idea for a new game, please let us know.

This is surprisingly fun and can be quite the challenge, actually, to be so simple,   let's see if we can do it! In testing it out it seemed almost to be a Rorschach test, the titles that came to mind. :)

I'll go first: the challenge is: The Audacity of Hope.


Rules above! Enjoy! :)

Pat

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2009, 05:25:58 PM »
Empire Falls -- by Russo


I just finished The Audacity of Hope --  well written.

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2009, 05:37:08 PM »
O, pioneers!
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.


André Maurois

JoanR

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« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2009, 05:37:15 PM »
This looks like fun!

"Sylvia and Bruno"  by Lewis Carroll

Pat

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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2009, 05:41:15 PM »
Odyssey --- by Homer

JoanR

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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2009, 05:42:40 PM »
I was responding to  "Empire Falls"  Russo is the author!  We needed an "s".  At least I think so.

ginny

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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2009, 05:47:59 PM »
Wow we're off in a flash!

Yes let's leave off the authors unless you can remember them, let's put them in a sentence under the title.  I loved Pat's talking about the book.

Now we've got Sylvia and Bruno and

The Odyssey....so we need another Y......

What shall we do about A, An, and The?

What is Sylvia and Bruno about? I have not heard of it!

JoanR

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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2009, 06:08:01 PM »
Sylvia and Bruno is Lewis Carroll's last book - he wrote it 20 years after "Alice in Wonderland'.

From the cover blurb "......is the fulfillment of Carroll's desire to create a more nobly intended work than the Alice books...one in which he could combine his celebrated wit and humor with his deepest beliefs."   "the bizarre adventures of a young sister and brother.. in three settings: England, Fairyland and Outland" , a parody of Oxford.

I have an Oxford paperback with nifty illustrations

JoanR

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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2009, 06:09:53 PM »
How about the Yearling for "y" or does the "The" which I left off mess us up?

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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2009, 06:15:24 PM »
Thank you for that about Sylvia and Bruno, I'd like to read it!

I think we'll need to ignore A, An, and The or we'd have no end of A, An and The's. I'll put that in the heading!

ginny

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2009, 06:17:25 PM »
 Gone With the Wind

Currently airing right now on the TCM channel. :)

Marjorie

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Re: Title Mania!
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2009, 06:29:25 PM »
FWIW:

One of the things that was decided in Rubbish! a long time ago was that each person plays on what they see.  It helps if the person playing writes at the bottom of the post what they are playing on.  If you notice "Empire Falls by Russo" was posted at 2:25:58; "O'Pioneers" was posted at 2:37:08; "Sylvia and Bruno" was posted at 2:17:15; and "Odyssey" was posted at 2:41:15.

It is best to keep the title on a line by itself.  I like the idea of putting the author below.

These are just suggestions.

I haven't been able to think of a title starting with a D.  I always blank out at these things.

catbrown

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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2009, 06:31:43 PM »
Daniel Deronda

(by George Eliot)

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« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2009, 06:58:23 PM »
All the Kings Men

by: Robert Penn Warren
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” ~ Goethe

JoanR

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« Reply #15 on: February 21, 2009, 07:07:17 PM »
The Name of the Rose

 by Umberto Eco

PatH

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« Reply #16 on: February 21, 2009, 09:33:49 PM »
Eight Cousins

Louisa May Alcott, on RosE

PatH

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« Reply #17 on: February 21, 2009, 09:40:11 PM »
Another rule from Rubbish that you might consider is that if the last word ends in E, S, X, Y, or Z, you can ignore it if you want, but you don't have to.  For example, if I posted on "Name of the Rose" I could post on rosE, as I did, or on roSe, or on rOse, lopping off as many of the allowed letters as I wanted.  You tend to get stalled if you don't have a rule like this.

Gumtree

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« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2009, 12:42:55 AM »
Sense & Sensibility

On Eight Cousins

This looks like a fun game -

Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

ginny

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« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2009, 07:16:29 AM »
Thank you Pat and Marjorie,  I've actually copied those down, I like the idea Marjorie of bouncing off the last post, too, especially if a lot of people post at once.

We've had several calls for Rubbish which we don't have anyone at present to oversee, but it's on the drawing board waiting for somebody to help.

Pat, I am not sure, refresh my memory (Rubbish changed several times from the original version) why would you need not to have a E, S, X, Y, or Z?

I can think of  several titles with most  of those letters, but not X, we may need to consider an "Exclusion rule." I am wondering if....actually I am wondering what title ends with X? Asterix?  I know: A Stillness at Appomattox. But I can think of a title which starts with X too.

I wonder if book titles also apply to the Rubbish idea, we don't want stalling, hmm.   I'm not seeing any problem with E or S, now the last three may be an issue, let's play on and find out, we can tweak as we go.

One issue may be repetitions, since we can look back by scrolling down  (as we post a message here) 40 posts, we may want to say let's not repeat if we can help it.

Thank you Gum,  I'm finding it fun!

I'm actually finding it tough, am stuck, now that we mention it,  on S. So Dear to My Heart? Not sure that is a book.

There's a.....Summer and Smoke? hmmm

no..... wow, this IS a brain buster!

YEOW! I better tend to the game here, working off Sense and SensibilitY.

Y....The Yellow Wallpaper.






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« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2009, 08:12:54 AM »
The rule was that E, S, X, Y, and Z were optional.  The reason becomes more obvious as the game progresses and you use up the easy words.  E and S occur so often at the end of posts that the possible responses get used up, and there are so few X, Y, and Z words that they get used up.  Then the game doesn't go very fast.

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« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2009, 08:14:48 AM »
Roderick Random

by Tobias Smollet, on WallpapeR

ginny

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« Reply #22 on: February 22, 2009, 08:16:53 AM »
Thank you Pat, we may have to make them optional here too!

Roderick RandoM...


m......

Magic Mountain

Gumtree

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« Reply #23 on: February 22, 2009, 09:12:10 AM »
H'mmm

Northanger Abbey

on Magic MountaiN

there's the dratted 'Y' again... :D
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

Steph

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« Reply #24 on: February 22, 2009, 09:33:19 AM »
Argh.. Was going to play, but Y... where is Sue Grafton when you need her and why doesnt she write faster.. Will opt out for now.
Stephanie and assorted corgi

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« Reply #25 on: February 22, 2009, 09:33:42 AM »
That was a hard one, Guntree!!!  But there is a book that I've heard about and want to read called:

"the Yellow-lighted Bookshop "   

on Northanger Abbey

Gumtree

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« Reply #26 on: February 22, 2009, 09:52:17 AM »
Persuasion

On The Yellow Lighted BookshoP

A book about a 'Bookshop' - sounds interesting - who wrote it JoanR?
Reading is an art and the reader an artist. Holbrook Jackson

JoanR

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« Reply #27 on: February 22, 2009, 10:10:57 AM »
It's by a former book-seller.  I read a review which said "reading this gentle memoir/history is itself like browsing in a friendly bookshop".  That was enough to turn me on since the little bookshops around here have disappeared.

By the way, Gumtree, I apologize for the typo in your name.  I just try to type faster than my ability!

JoanR

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« Reply #28 on: February 22, 2009, 10:12:15 AM »
The author is Lewis Buzbee!  I better go have more coffee or something!

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« Reply #29 on: February 22, 2009, 10:21:43 AM »
(The) Nutmeg of Consolation

Patrick O'Brian, on PersuasioN

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« Reply #30 on: February 22, 2009, 10:28:28 AM »
Persuasion

Jane Austen

from the Yellow lighted BookshoP

Sorry I see Persuasion had already been used

What about  'N for Noose'

Sue Grafton
from The Nutmeg of ConsolatioN

JoanR

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« Reply #31 on: February 22, 2009, 10:37:03 AM »
"Empire Falls"  by Russo

on  "E" off "N for Noose"

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« Reply #32 on: February 22, 2009, 10:42:50 AM »
Shroud for the Archbishop

Peter Tremayne

s of Empire Falls

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« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2009, 11:10:00 AM »
Peregrine Pickle

Tobias Smollett, on ArchbishoP

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« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2009, 11:13:34 AM »
Power of a Woman

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

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« Reply #35 on: February 22, 2009, 11:17:39 AM »
Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

Power of a WomaN

Fran

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« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2009, 11:19:25 AM »
I'll take the E from post 169

Earth

by Emile Zola

Fran

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« Reply #37 on: February 22, 2009, 11:21:23 AM »
You Only LIve Twice

by Ian Fleming

y from Nicholas Nickleby

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« Reply #38 on: February 22, 2009, 11:26:12 AM »
East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Fairy tales, don't remember the author, on TwicE

JoanR

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« Reply #39 on: February 22, 2009, 11:30:14 AM »
Nana  by Emile Zola

on the "n" in East of the Sun and West of the Moon