-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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 (gvinesc@gmail.com)
-
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! :)
-
Empire Falls -- by Russo
I just finished The Audacity of Hope -- well written.
-
O, pioneers!
-
This looks like fun!
"Sylvia and Bruno" by Lewis Carroll
-
Odyssey --- by Homer
-
I was responding to "Empire Falls" Russo is the author! We needed an "s". At least I think so.
-
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!
-
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
-
How about the Yearling for "y" or does the "The" which I left off mess us up?
-
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!
-
Gone With the Wind
Currently airing right now on the TCM channel. :)
-
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.
-
Daniel Deronda
(by George Eliot)
-
All the Kings Men
by: Robert Penn Warren
-
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
-
Eight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott, on RosE
-
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.
-
Sense & Sensibility
On Eight Cousins
This looks like a fun game -
-
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.
-
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.
-
Roderick Random
by Tobias Smollet, on WallpapeR
-
Thank you Pat, we may have to make them optional here too!
Roderick RandoM...
m......
Magic Mountain
-
H'mmm
Northanger Abbey
on Magic MountaiN
there's the dratted 'Y' again... :D
-
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.
-
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
-
Persuasion
On The Yellow Lighted BookshoP
A book about a 'Bookshop' - sounds interesting - who wrote it JoanR?
-
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!
-
The author is Lewis Buzbee! I better go have more coffee or something!
-
(The) Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian, on PersuasioN
-
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
-
"Empire Falls" by Russo
on "E" off "N for Noose"
-
Shroud for the Archbishop
Peter Tremayne
s of Empire Falls
-
Peregrine Pickle
Tobias Smollett, on ArchbishoP
-
Power of a Woman
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
-
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
Power of a WomaN
-
I'll take the E from post 169
Earth
by Emile Zola
-
You Only LIve Twice
by Ian Fleming
y from Nicholas Nickleby
-
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Fairy tales, don't remember the author, on TwicE
-
Nana by Emile Zola
on the "n" in East of the Sun and West of the Moon
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Africa
by Silley
A from Nana
-
Act of Mercy
Peter Tremayne
A from AfricA
-
(The) Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, on mercY
-
Gulliver's travels
by Jonathan Swift, G fom Yearling
-
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Hoeg, on TravelS
-
Warlock
by Wilbur Smith, w from Snow
-
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami - on the "k" from Warlock
-
kafka on the Shore
Everyman (c 1485)
-
Evil under the Sun
Agatha Christie, on ShorE
-
Natchez Trail
by Nevada Barr
N is a hard letter to link to a title, it is so common in our language, but not in many first letters of title words..............i keep thinking of things like High Noon.......etc. .....arggghhh................jean
-
The Leper of Saint Giles
Eilis Peters
L from Natchez TraiL
-
Specimen Days
by Michael Cunningham on the "s" in leper of St. Giles
-
Soldier of the Mist
Gene Wolfe, on DayS
-
A - Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
From T of Soldiers of the MisT
-
Sahara
by Clive Cussler
s, from cities
-
are we doing fiction and non-fiction?
The - Art of Gold
by HW Brand
from Sahara
this would be fun w/ song titles also.....................
jean
-
HA! Two at once!
Yes Fiction or Non Fiction, and song titles would be cute, also.
Art of GolD... (took me forever to come up with an A one~! hahahaa)
Ok D....
uh.....thinking.....
-
GolD....
D.....
Daemon
Brand new book about computer viruses.
-
The Negotiator
by Frederick Forsyth
n, from Daemon
-
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe, on NegotiatoR
-
Robinson Crusoe
The Everlasting Man
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Next: N
-
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
next: Y
-
Yeow! hahahaa have been sitting here and NOTHING comes to mind. I guess it's time to invoke our first rule: (we'll call it the Pat rule after Pat H) Y's are OPTIONAL, so here you can take Nicholas Nickelby and do the Y or the B
-
Beowulf
on NickelBy
-
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Now what - is the next a book starting with the number 1 or T?
-
Haven't you had a great time playing here - while I've been asleep.... :(
Fahrenheit 451 ??? -
We'll need Ginny to make a ruling on numbers so I'll just take the T
Tourmaline (author Randolph Stow - Aussie of course)
-
Emma
Jane Austen
Next: A
-
Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood
on Emma
-
Echo Park
Michael Connelly
E from Alias GracE
-
Kings in Grass Castles
Mary Durack - another Aussie - this is really a biography of an Irish immigrant family who came to Aust during the 19th century and founded something of a small dynasty in cattle country.
If biography is not allowed we could have:
King Solomon's Mines
H Rider-Haggard
On Echo ParK
-
The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy
s, from castles or mines
-
The Leopard
Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
on Scarlet PimperneL
-
N from the East of the sun,etc.
Narcissus in Chains by Laurell Hamilton..
A pretty wild book.
-
The Sanctuary Sparrow
by Ellis Peters
s, fromchains
-
Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
W from the Santuary SparroW
-
Shikasta
doris Lessing, on WillowS
-
Acts of Faith
by Eric Segal
a, from Shikasta
-
Howards End
E. M. Forster, on FaitH
-
Daddy long-legs
On Howards EnD
Author: Jean Webster.
-
Biography is definitely allowed: ANY book! If it's a book it's in.
Gum this sounds interesting! Mary Durack - another Aussie - this is really a biography of an Irish immigrant family who came to Aust during the 19th century and founded something of a small dynasty in cattle country.
Gosh what interesting titles.
What SHALL we do with numbers? Some books start with numbers, too. Let's make them optional as you did here.
ok an S working off Daddy Long LegS.....S's may be the next to be optional....The Sound and the Fury and there's a Y. Y may also be going soon...anybody think of another Y?..........
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Youngblood Hawke
on Sound and Fury\
- i don't remember the author, my fibro fog is heavy this morning, someone else will remember, i'm sure.
.......oh yes Herman Wouk.........................Also a good movie..................jean
-
Youngblood Hawke
Eve
-
Egypt After the Pharaohs
by Alan K Bowman
e, after eve
-
Sylvester
Georgette Heyer
S Egypt after the PharaohS
-
Rasputin
by R F Miller
r, after sylvester
-
National Velvet
Enid Bagnold
N from RasputiN
-
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne, on VelveT
-
Alice In Wonderland
by Lewis Carrol
a, from sea
-
Down to the Sea in Ships
(from Alice in Wonderland)
by Philemon Sturges
What fun this is. Brings back memories as we used to play it with geographical place names when on car trips
-
Songs of Distant Earth
Arthur C. Clarke, on ShipS
-
Harm Done
Author: Ruth Rendell from Sons of the Distant EartH
-
Easy to Kill
Agatha Christie, on DonE
-
Easy to Kill
Loving Frank
-
The Kelly Gang
Next: G
-
Gilead
-
The Ghost Road
Pat Barker - first book of the Regeneration Trilogy -
on The Kelly Gang
Barbara: Who's the author of Kelly Gang? - I'm thinking of Peter Carey's 'True History of the Kelly Gang' - is that the one?
-
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee - Booker prize winner
on GileaD
Jane: You popped in while I answered the phone
-
(an) Excellent Mystery
Ellis Peters
E from DisgracE
-
Yerma
Federico Garcia Lorca, on MysterY
It's a play, but available as a small book.
-
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks - Another Aussie born writer. Book is about the village of Eym in England which closed itself to the world during the plague to prevent villagers spreading the disease.
on Excellent MysterY
Ginny - what's your problem with Y? ;D
-
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
on YermA
-
Gumtree I thought I successfully removed the post but evidently not so - it was after I posted I realized I did not have the complete title and the title would not fit - I hit what I thought were the buttons to remove the post
-
Barbara: Not to worry - there are dozens of books about the Kelly Gang and one is sure to be entitled 'The Kelly Gang'. I was just hoping for something new to add to my Kelly collection. 8)
-
(The) Moonstone
Wilkie Collins, on AmsterdaM
-
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Author: Lynne Truss from MoonstonE
-
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem, on LeaveS
-
(The)Schoolmaster
Author: W.J. Burley from SolariS
-
Red and the Black
Stendhal, on SchoolmasteR
-
Kingdom Come
by J.G. Ballard
Wow seconds away - now it is an S
Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
-
Endymion
Benjamin Disraeli
on Sophie's ChoicE
-
I can't think of ONE book that starts with N, all I can think of is Neverland, and I'm not sure that even IS a book!
Gum, I thought Y was too hard! hahhahaa
N......hmmmmmm I do enjoy hearing the old brain cells creak, unfortunately that's all they are doing.. hmmmmmm
-
Nor the Moon by Night
Ngaio Marsh
on EndymioN
Ginny I can't believe how the titles come to mind - books I've not thought of for years are suddenly thrusting up from the depths....
so now you've got a 't'
-
Typee
Herman Melville, on NighT
-
Gumtree, you mean there's a Ngaio Marsh I haven't read? I thought I'd read them all. Maybe it came out under a different name here. Do you happen to remember what it's about?
-
PatH Sorry - wrong author....Nor the Moon by Night was by Joy Packer.
-
The Emperors' Club
Ethan Canin
on Typee
-
The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
b, from club
-
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
on Bookseller of Kabul
-
Addendum: I just finished reading this(Bookseller of Kabul) a couple of months ago, it is very interesting and makes you appreciate our country even more: "An unusually intimate glimpse of a traditional Afghan family."
-
Neuromancer
Williaw Gibson, on LeviathaN
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Return
by Evelyn Anthony from NeuromanceR
-
YAY I've got an N again, and I'll say Nothing Like It in the World, we read it here!
Off ReturN
-
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
On Nothing like it in the WorlD
-
Net Force
by Tom Clancy
n, from Decameron
-
Enders Game
Orson Scott Card, on ForcE
-
Emperor of the Moon
Aphra Behn - a play..farce really
on Enders Game
-
Not in the Flesh
Horton Hears a Who!
-
Omnibus
by Robert Ludlum
o, from who
-
Southern Fried
by Cathy Pickens
from omnibus
-
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
d, from fried
-
Eleanor and the Four KIngs
another book about my favorite Eleanor of Acquitaine, also a great book.
on Code
jean
-
Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, on KingS
-
Jean, I loved that book. By Amy Kelly? Maybe I'll dig it out and reread it, it's been a long time.
-
yes, Pat - Amy Kelly and i posted in "fiction" that i'm re-reading Beloved Enemy by Ellen Jones - also about Eleanor......loving it..........again...........
Duponts of Deleware
by Wm Carr
on Wind
If you don't know anyting about the Dupont family and you like family bios, read about them, they are fascinating....................jean
-
Elements of Style
Strunk and White, on DelawarE
I think my non-fiction appetite will be taken up with "Team if Rivals" for a while--it starts Sunday
-
I still have mine (Elements of Style).
Eragon
by Stefen Fangmeier
-
Norstrilia
Cordwainer Smith, on EragoN
So do I, Frybabe, I've even used it in the past few months.
-
ABC Murders
by Agatha Christie
a, from Nostrilia
-
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
I never read this but it came to mind for S for ABC MurderS
-
Sailing the Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
by Thomas Cahill
-
{The} Return of the Native
from
Sailing the Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
-
E.T. , the Extra-Terrestial by Stephen Spielburg
-
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
On The Return of the NativE
We get lots of 'E'
I too have a copy of Strunk and White somewhere around the place.
-
Leaving Mother Lake
by Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
L, from terrestial
-
Leaving Mother Lake
Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi
-
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
from Mississippi
Long time since I read that one!
-
Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
from state
-
Giant
Edna Ferber
on hedgehog
-
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Pedln: I've been waiting for someone to put up The Elegance of the Hedgehog - it's on everyone's lips. I picked up my copy yesterday...looking forward to the discussion in April.
-
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
On Treasure Island - there's nothing like the classics ;D
-
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope, on copperfielD
-
Shame
Salman Rushdie
on Domestic Manners of the Americans (Haven't read that one PatH - actually, I can't think of one by Frances that I have read...h.mmm)
-
I hadn't thought of that book for decades, but it was mentioned in "Team of Rivals", which we're going to start discussing March 1. Written in 1832, it's the reaction of an upper-class Englishwoman to the crude American society. She didn't much care for the rough frontier manners, and she hated the egalitarian opportunities. Why, "anyone's son could become the equal of anyone else's son". Horrors!
-
Frances Trollope was the mother of novelist Anthony Trollope. I don't think she wrote anything else. Her book was in our house when I was growing up (along with about 2000 others) but I only read bits of it.
-
Enders Shadow
Orson Scott Card, on ShamE
-
Well, look what ginny has conjured up for us here!
I love it!
(W) from Enders ShadoW
WINDS OF WAR
-by Herman Wouk
-
Rabbit is Rich
John Updike, on WaR
-
How to stop worrying and start living
by Dale Carnegie
h, from rich
-
Hotel du Lac
Anita Brookner
on Rabbir is RicH
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
THE GARGOYLE
-by Andrew Davidson
Has anyone read this book yet? I think I chose it from the Bookmarks Magazine. It was weird. It was a story about a severely burned accident victim's recovery. A woman (she is a sculptress) comes to him while he is in the hospital claiming that they were lovers in medieval Germany.
I would be interested in someone else's take on this novel. Actually as weird as it was, I liked it.
-
Contact
Carl Sagan, on LaC
-
PatH: About Frances Trollope - I knew she was Anthony's mum but feel I should have read something by her - not so...I imagine all I really know about her was gleaned from a biography of Anthony. I think he took his work ethic from her by rising very early and writing certain amount before breakfast...
Apart from Domestic Manners of the Americans - Wikipedia says she wrote:
...strong novels of social protest, Michael Armstrong:Factory Boybegan publication in 1840 and was the first industrial novel to be published in Britain. Other socially conscious novels included Jonathan Jefferson Whitelaw, 1836, the first anti slavery novel, influencing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin) about the evils of slavery and The Vicar of Wrexhill, which took on church corruption. Possibly her greatest work is the Widow Barnaby Trilogy which set a pattern followed by anthony in the frequent use of sequels in his oeuvre.
In later years she continued to write novels and books on miscellaneous subjects, writing in all over 100 volumes. Though possessed of considerable powers of observation and a sharp and caustic wit, such an output was fatal to permanent literary success and few of her books are now read.
Maybe I should try the library for the Widow Barnaby...
Hope this post doesn't intrude into the game too much.
-
Oops, I missed the new page. In Rubbish, that could cost me points.
I never heard of Gargoyle, but it sounds like my kind of thing.
-
Gumtree, half the point of the game is those little side bits. Glad to be enlightened about Mrs. Trollope.
-
It is very explicit Pat and extremely bizarre. It has a supernatural, grotesque and mysterious weight to it.
-
To the Island (on ContacT)
Randolph Stow (Aussie) This one deals with the confrontation between the black and white cultures and questions the value of European culture as it is imposed upon the Aborigines. It was written around 1960? and is particularly meaningful here today.
-
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens
D from To the IslanD
-
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
on Dombey & Son
It's a long time since I looked at either of those...
-
Ordinary People
-by Judith Guest
-
Elephants can Remember
Agatha Christie, not one of her best, on peoplE
-
Rome's Greatest Defeat
by Adrian Murdoch
r, from remember
-
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume, on DefeaT
-
The Golden Cup
by Belva Plain
g, from nothing
-
ParadiseLost
Milton, on CuP
-
Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
T, from Lost
-
Absolution by Murder
Peter Tremayne
A from Three cups of Tea
-
A Raison In The Sun
-
Njal's Saga
Author unknown, on SuN
-
ABC Murders
by Agatha Christie.
This looks like fun. Are we not allowed to repeat?
-
Absolom, Absolom by Wm Faulkner
-
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson, on AbsaloM
-
JoanK, I'm assuming it's like Rubbish, where you can't repeat your own or someone else's title.
-
Everyone Worth Knowing, from Mona Lisa OverdrivE
Joan, I think it's more fun if we try not to repeat, I guess after several hundred posts it may be inevitable, as most people will not read back that far. I'd say no repeats in 40 posts (that's a page here).
-
Gilgamesh
on KnowinG
-
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
on GilgamesH
PatH : you quite took me by surprise with Burnt Njal's Saga...what next will you come up with.
-
PatH : you quite took me by surprise with Burnt Njal's Saga...what next will you come up with.
That depends on how desperate I get. How about:
Egil's Saga
probably written by Snorri Sturluson, on TalE
-
Egil was a real piece of work; he committed his first murder when he was six, and his last when he was blind and dying, with lots in between, but he was also highly regarded as a poet. His best one is a lament for the death of his two sons, in which he complains that Odin has given him the gift of poetry, but taken away his sons, yet it is the gift of writing poetry that helps him cope with his loss. Most of them don't do much for me.
Gumtree, have you read "The Handmaid's Tale"?
-
PatH: The Icelandic sagas are pretty bloodthirsty - to say the least - so full of conflict and angst. The heroes besetting sin seems to be their pride coupled with a touchy fuse and Egil Skallagrimsson is no exception - doesn't he try to make out he is a poor misunderstood fellow who loves his country and his fellowmen.
Interestingly, Icelanders all love their genealogy and can tell who's related to whom right back to settlement - thanks to Ari the Learned who was the first to write it all down.
And yes, I have read The Handmaid's Tale - three or four times. Twice for myself and then I did it with a couple of F2F groups. This was several years ago around the time it first came out. Atwood's science fictioney style is not my favourite but the story is absolutely compelling and so pertinent today. The scenario she sets up to subjugate women could so easily be achieved overnight - all with the help of our trusty computers....
-
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
on Egil's SagA
-
Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett, on InnocencE
-
Gumtree, everything you say about the sagas is true. I have no idea why I like them, given that almost everything about them is totally different from my own personality. But for some reason I do, and am even willing to skim through three chapters of genealogy to get to the point. Egil seems to be outside the norm, though--pretty pathological.
Since I'm a Sci-Fi fan, that aspect of "The Handmaid's Tale" was congenial to me.
-
Sense and SensibilitY
by Jane Austin
from Equal Rites
-
The Years
Virginia Woolf - During her lifetime this book was her most popular work - an indictment on Victorianism...powerful writing but nowadays it is overlooked in favour of a couple of her others...
on Sense and SensibilitY
-
Gumtree,
Since I'm a Sci-Fi fan, that aspect of "The Handmaid's Tale" was congenial to me.
PatH -In that case you'd probably just love Oryx and Crake - I've tried it two or three times and just can't get into it. Whether I take to a Sci-Fi or not depends a lot on how I feel at the time.
What I like about the old sagas is simply that they were written so long ago and speak so clearly to us today - the same with all medieval and ancient lit. Oddly enough I enjoy the genealogy bits...takes all sorts I guess.
-
This is hard but fun. I have to really, really think. :-\
(The) Secret Life of Bees
I did see an s I think.
-
Yep, I posted on The Years.
-
Sea of Thunder
by Evan Thomas
based on Secret Life of Bees
-
Run
By Ann Patchett
Posting on R
-
Nights of Rodante
by Nocholas Sparks
n, from Run
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
.East of Eden
By Steinbeck
Posted on rodanthE
Is there a limit per person for answering?
-
I don't want to come too often. Well, I don't know enough books to come to often. I guess that's not a problem for me.
-
Naked and the Dead, The by Norman Mailer
From N at end of East of Eden
-
Daughter of York
by Anne Easter Smith
d, from dead
-
Hi Adoannie &Hats - good to see you.
This surely is a bit of fun to play -I don't think it matters how often you come in so long as someone has responded to your last post -
Dusklands
ON The Naked and the DeaD
Another one by J.M. Coetzee - one of his early pieces, it is really 2 novellas. One is set in the Vietnam War - the other during Boers exploration of South Africa. Both deal with imperialism and the protagonists in each have power over people they considered inferior. I think Dusklands foreshadows a lot of his later work.
-
(The) Sula
by Toni Morrison
Posting on Dusklands=====usingS
-
Hi Gumtree and Everybody
-
I see, we can use either the first or last letter of the "title?"
-
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
k, from york
I couldn't pass up the one book I have that starts with"K"
-
Getting back to "A" from sula
Act of Will
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
-
Letters from my Mill
Alphonse Daudet, on WilL
-
To answer some questions on rules: this is how I understand it. There's no limit on number of times you can post, but you can't post on your own entry. Your title begins with the last letter of the latest title you see. Sometimes someone else will post while you are writing, so it makes things less confusing if you say what you are posting on, but it should be the most recent one as of the time you started writing.
-
Legacy of Silence
by Belva Plain
L, from Mill
Rules explanation much appreciated, Fran
-
Exodus
-by Uris
That was an easy one that came to me right away. Usually I sit here and recite the alphabet for a long while until something comes to mind.
-
Seven Pillars of WisdoM
by T.E. Lawrence
from Exudus
-
The Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis
s, fron exodus
-
(The) Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut, on PigS
-
Hi, hats, good to see you here.
Gumtree, I didn't even attempt to read Oryx and Crake, because the reviews convinced me I wouldn't like it.
-
Hi PatH, I'm glad to see you.
It's funny. Sometimes I can remember a title and not the author. Other times I can remember an author but not a title. Then, at other times both come to me smoothly.
I didn't read that Atwood book, "Oryx and Crake" because the two words intimidated me. :-\
-
Nancy Drew (series)
by Carolyn Keene
Posted on N
-
C from Hotel DuLac
Circus of the Damned by Laurell Hamilton..
-
Devil in The Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley
Post on damnedD
-
Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, on DresS
-
The Rainmaker
by John Grisham
Post on "R"
-
Royal Murder
an Elliot Roosevelt mystery
on rainmaker
I love them, but i've read almost all of them and he died a few yrs ago....boohoo.............
Hi Hats - jean
-
The Road From Chapel Hill
by Joanna Catherine Scott
r, from murder
-
LONDON!
by Rutherford
we had a good discussion here on it a few yrs ago.
l on Hill
jean
-
Not As A Stranger
by Morton Thompson
n, from London
-
Ohhh yeah Fran, I had forgotten that that good movie was first a book. I don't remember if i saw the movie first and then read the book - but i think that's the way it was. Was it in the 60's? .................
just looked it up - the novel was 1954, one of the top seeling ones of the year......the movie was 1955. It was Stanley Kramer's debut as a director, Olivia DeHaviland, Robt Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Broderick Crawford and Charles Bickford, it was nominated for an Oscar............I saw Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity the other night and i never realized how small a man he was. His body was smaller in stature than Montgomery Cliff and i always tho't of Monty as being a small man...............maybe since Frank became such a "big" personality, i tho't he was bigger. .......interesting how as you look back on things, the perspective is often different than you remembered. ...........................jean
-
Good afternoon Title Maniacs!
Rites of Passage
William Golding - first of a trilogy- filmed as 'To the Ends of the Earth'
on Not as a StrangeR
-
The Elephant Man
by Bernard Pomerance
on
Rites of Passage
-
Nibelungenlied
By an unknown poet...
on Elephant MaN
-
Dracula
Bram Stoker, onNiebelungenlieD
-
Andre
Georges Sand -
she wrote this one towards the end of her affaire with Alfred de Musset
on DraculA
-
Edge of Reason
Helen fielding, on AndrE
It's the sequel to Bridget Jones' Diary.
-
The Next Big Thing
Anita Brookner - a book about what it really means to be old - what to do with the time left...
on Edge of ReasoN
-
GumTree,
How do you like books written by Anita Brookner? I've never tried one. She seems like an author who would provoke me to think and rethink what I thought I knew already.
-
Gone with The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
Post on G
-
The Dubliners
James Joyce - a collection of short stories - some of the characters turn up again in Ulysses...
On Gone with the WinD
-
Hats You asked about Anita Brookner...she's not everyone's cup of tea. Some friends of mine find her either boring or depressing. A lot of her work deals with lonliness - of people living mundane but usually dignified lives alone. Her characters are often searching for something - they're often boringly married, separated or divorced and are hoping to find a new life, maybe a new lover or a new spouse. She has a great insight but she is pretty serious though sometimes quite funny. Her writing is very precise and sometimes she reminds me of Virginia Woolf. I find her rewarding - worth the time and effort she takes but you certainly can't pick her up for a quick read.
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
.East of Eden
By Steinbeck
Posted on rodanthE
Is there a limit per person for answering?
GumTree, thanks for such a thorough answer.
Summer of Roses
by Luanne Rice
Post on S
-
You're welcome HATS
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
by Ray Lawler (Play by Australian playwright)
on Summer of RoseS
-
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
LITTLE WOMEN
-
The Night Villa
by Carole Goodman
n, from Women
-
Atlas Shrugged
did we do that before? If so, Ayn Rand also wrote Anthem
take your pick...............is that allowed?
Jean
-
I believe that there is a non-fiction book of Tolstoy called "Youth"
-
Diana, Her True Story
by, Andreew Morton
d,frm Shrugged
-
(The) Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
Post on Y
-
on S
SaharA
by Clive Cussler
-
I believe that there is a non-fiction book of Tolstoy called "Youth"
There sure is lucky - Youth is the third in a trilogy - First one is Childhood then comes Boyhood. They're often shown as novels but they have a strong auto-biog element.
-
The Aunt's Story
Patrick White -A writer you either love or love to hate but his superb prose always draws you in. He's the only Australian Nobel Laureate for Literature...plenty of others in other fields - time we had another in lit.
On SaharA
-
Yearling,The by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlands
The Y from "The Aunts' Story"
-
from G
Genesee FeverR
by Carl Carmer.
Mr. Carmer was a folklorist who who wrote a number of books about the Genesse Valley and Hudson areas among others. His most famous book, however, is called Stars Fell on Alabama. I have been looking for his contributions to "The River Series", The Susquehanna and The Hudson. While I can order these from Columbia Press, I am still holding out for locating old editions in the used book stores. Genesee Fever is based on old history and folklore of the Genesee Valley when it was still considered frontier.
-
Roughing It
Mark Twain, on FeveR
-
Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Post on ------ It
-
Swann's Way
by Proust
on citieS
-
Andromeda Strain
on wAy
-
Nights of Rain and Stars
by Maeve Binchy
n, from strain
-
The Stand
Stephen King
on S from Stars
-
Diary of Anne Frank
post on Stand
-
King Solomon's Mines
by Rider Haggard
K, from Frank
-
Soldier of Arete
Gene Wolfe, on mineS
-
tom sawyer
-
tom sawyer
mark twain
-
(The) Rainbow
by DH Lawrence
Posted on R of Sawyer
-
Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett
From Rainbow
-
Hi,
I'd like to join in the game. Would have joined sooner if I knew you existed. Now that we have been introduced , I have two questions :
Do I have to go over all seven pages to write down which titles have been used? Is there a list somewhere?
I see names of books that were on page one -now on page seven.(The Yearling).I only read those two pages.
What are the rules about repeat?
I have never heard of "Rubbish". I played a game called "Geography" with the same idea.
Are non-fiction and biography allowed or just novels?
Jude
-
For the T in Waiting for Godot
Tristram Shandy
-
The Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Post on Godot===== T
-
Welcome, Jude! We are very glad to see you here!
Do I have to go over all seven pages to write down which titles have been used? Is there a list somewhere?
No to both, we're saying let's try not to repeat titles, but there are 40 posts on one page here, so let's at least keep to the last page and not repeat. If we can.
I see names of books that were on page one -now on page seven.(The Yearling).I only read those two pages.
What are the rules about repeat?
We're trying not to. :) There's no point in repeating names. The idea is to strain the brain, am loving the discussion here of the different books today.
I have never heard of "Rubbish". I played a game called "Geography" with the same idea.
Are non-fiction and biography allowed or just novels?
Rubbish was a game we played on SeniorNet. ANY kind of book. Fiction non fiction biography, plays, poetry, anything between covers. :)
Welcome!
-
King Edward VIII: from The Doomsday Book
Here you would ignore VIII. See heading for what we ignore.
-
Devil's Advocate
by Morris West
Posting on Edward------D
Hi Jude! Welcome to the game. It's so much fun. I hope I did the last post correctly. I chose the letter instead of the number. I read it in the header. Hope I didn't mix up the rule.
-
To Kill a Mockingbird
post on AdvocaTe
-
I hope this isn't a repeat.
Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Post on Mockingbird----D
-
Kite Runner
post on FranK.
In Rubbish, we ignored SEXY. The S and E because we weren't allowed to repeat, and we ran out in every game. So this is not needed here. But X? We'll see if it comes up (HA, I have one).
-
Run with the Horsemen
by Ferrol Sams
from runner
-
The Notebook
post on Horsemen
by Nicholas Sparks.
-
The Kraken Wakes
You can have the science fiction novel by John Wyndham
or
the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
on NotebooK
-
I think I understand the game. The last book was Kraken Wakes which leaves me with an S
Second Glance
by Jodi Picoult
Which means the next person needs to find an E title.
Jude
-
Spot on Jude !
Exodus
Leon Uris -
on Second GlancE
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Post on S[/b]The Serpent on the Crown by Elizabeth Peters
on Exodus....
-
Neropolis: A Novel of Life In Nero's Rome
by Hubert Monteilist
n, from crown
-
The Elected Member
Bernice Reubens
on ...Nero's RomE
-
Random Winds
by Belva Plain
R, from Remember
-
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian - Chinese Nobel Laureate...that book sure took some reading...
on Random WindS
-
Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel
by Pascal Mercier
Has anyone read this? I have been debating with myself.
-
Night
\
by Elie Wiesel
Post on N in Lisbon[/color]
-
The Tsarina's Daughter
by Carolly Erickson
T, from Night
-
Raintree County
post on DaughteR
-
Last book ended with a Y
Yesterday's Children
by
Sonia Levitin
Jude
-
N Is for Noose
by Sue Grafton
Post on N
-
Eden Burning
by Belva Plain
e,from Noose
I believe that is the correct title, I've read most of her books and this rang a bell.
-
Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
Post on G
-
Nicolas Nickalby
by Charles Dickens
on meN
-
Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
by Dr. Seuss
on Y from Nickolas Nickleby
-
(The) Second Sex
I vote that we be allowed to skip the X
-
I forgot to say it's by Simone de Beauvoir. Posting on storieS
-
For the S in Exodus
Striver's Row
The Silent Angel
Snow
I thought of two more titles with Y
Year of Magical Thinking
The Yellow Wallpaper
-
Xeriscape Handbook: A How-to Guide to Natural Resource-Wise Gardening
by Gayle Weinstein
from X in Sex
(for all you dry area gardeners out there)
-
Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
Posting on roW
Hi, Lucky. Good choices. Better save them for later in the game. You may need them. Meanwhile, we post on the LAST title posted.
-
(The) Good Earth
by Pearl Buck
on gardeninG
Hi, Frybabe. You met my X challange nobly!
-
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
on The Good EartH
-
(The) Secret Sharer
by Joseph Conrad, on Darknes
-
I vote that we be allowed to ignore E, S, X, Y, and Z if we choose. I know we don't absolutely need it, but it would make for extra variety.
-
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
I never read the book, but saw the movie starring Anthony Hopkins and, I believe, Emma Thomson.
on R from Sharer
-
You Only Live Twice
by Ian Fleming
y, from day
-
Enchanted April ;)
Elizabeth von Arnim
on You Only Live TwicE
I'll vote for ignoring E, S, X, Y and Z if we so choose. I'm running out of Y's - can't think of an X but I do still have a few of the others...
-
The Lace Reader: A Novel
by Brunonia Barry
on L from April
-
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy - remember Frederick March in the film ? Long ago...
on The Lace ReadeR - never heard of this one - should I read it?
-
Nineteen Minutes
post on ResurrectioN
author - Judy Picoult
-
Superluminal
Vonda McIntyre, on minuteS
-
Don't forget, Gumtree, that you still CAN use the optional last letters if you choose.
-
I just noticed that Ginny has already made Y optional. You're saved, Gumtree.
-
Lost Horizon
on SuperluminaL
-
L from Superluminal
Lady's Chatterly's Lover
-
Gum, I haven't decided yet. Here is the link to Amazon. I have it on my to order list, but keep bumping it back. Almost picked it up at Borders last time I was there. I am not big on psychic/fortune telling type stories, but it looks interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Lace-Reader-Novel-Brunonia-Barry/dp/0061624764/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236102151&sr=1-1
-
on R from Lover
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
-
All Quiet on the Western Front
post on RebeccA
-
(A) Toast to Tomorrow
Manning Coles, on FronT
-
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
w, from tomorrow
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Snow
by
Orham Pamuk
(Nobel Prize winner. Fantastic Turkish Writer!)
Jude
-
W from Snow
Winnie the Pooh
by A.A. Milne
-
How Green was My Valley
Richard Llewelyn - Now just where did that pop up from?
On Winnie the PooH
Frybabe Thanks for the review on theLace Reader Novel...doesn't sound like my usual reading I but I need a change so might look for it at the library.
-
The Yellow Room Conspiracy
by Peter Dickenson
From Y in How green was my ValleY
Sorry to give another Y
-
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Koch - was made into a film with Mel Gibson & Sigourney Weaver
on The Yellow Room ConspiracY
and another Y to work from...
-
Salem Falls by
Jodi Picoult
Posted on S
-
Silas Marner
George Eliot
On Salem FallS
Hi Hats -you're keeping me on my toes... ;)
-
Hi Gumtree,
You keep me on my toes! It's like I've never read a book. All the titles have flown away whether titles I've read or just seen in book reviews.
-
[colorblack]Russian saga / Brothers Karamazov
by Dostoevsky [/color]
Post on R in Marner
-
I took a few liberties with this answer. :P
-
Victory Conditions
by Elizabeth Moon
on V
Just out in paperback, it is on my short list to buy. Last of a five book scifi/military saga.
-
Shoot the Moon
by Billie Letts
Post on S
-
Looks valid to me, hats.
Valley of Fear
A. Conan Doyle, on Karamazov
-
Good. PatH, I'm stuck on that r. :-[
-
(The)Ring
by Danielle Steele
Post on R
-
The Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton
r. from fear
-
Nethergate
by Norah Lofts
Post on N
-
The Pull of the Moon
on NethergaTe
author - Elizabeth Berg - a favorite of mine
-
(The)Naming of the Dead
by I Rankin; on mooN
-
on D from Dead
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
-
Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell, on PoinT
-
Double Shot
by Diane Mott Davidson
Post on D
-
T from Double Shot
Tortilla Curtain
by
T. Boyle
jude
-
Naked Came the Stranger
various authors, on CurtaiN
-
This was a book written by committee. Someone had the idea of getting a number of well-known authors of the time to write one chapter each of an erotic novel. I didn't read it, not my sort of thing, but I gather it wasn't any better than you would think.
-
Razor's Edge
by Somerset Maugham
Post on the R of stranger
I loved Razor's Edge. I didn't read it with the Senior group. I read it later on. I really enjoyed it.
-
For E from The Razor's Edge
The Egg and I
Emma
Exodus
-
East of Eden
on EdgE
author - Steinbeck
-
Night Before Christmas
on Eden
Someone said we could use poems.
-
The above is by Clement Moore
-
An S from Night before Xmas
Sand Pebbles
by Richard McKenna
There's that pesky S again
Jude
-
S from Pebbles
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
I remember watching the movie Sand Pebbles. It was disturbing. A great movie but I can't bring myself to watch it a second time, even after all these years.
-
Devil's Valley
Andre Brink - He was one of the first to write in Africaans and to speak out against apartheid in his writing. Devil's Valley isn't his best but it starts with a D.
On Stranger in a Strange LanD
-
How come you're posting in the middle of my afternoon - can't you sleep?
-
for Y in Devil's Valley
Yentl ( Isaac Bashevis Singer)
-
Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
on YentL
-
From Gumtree:
How come you're posting in the middle of my afternoon - can't you sleep?
Talking to me Gumtree?
I work second shift so I am often up playing with the computer after work.
-
K from Michael K
The Kremlin Conspiracy
by sean flannery
-
Charms for the Easy Life
on ConspiraCy
author - Kaye Gibbons
-
The Edwardians
Vita Sackville West
on Charms for the Easy LifE
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in Y and take the next letter to the Y instead (Pat rule!)
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Frybabe Sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude. You and a couple of others were posting more or less together at a time when there's usually no one around for me to play with. No wonder I was taken by surprise.
-
The Search for Ancient Egypt
by Jean Vercoutter
s, from Edwardians
-
(A) Thousand Acres
on EgypT
author - Jane Smilley
-
Gum, you weren't rude. You did sound surprised. I do notice a major drop off of participants after 11pm EST. Considering it is daylight somewhere at any one time (or people like me who are up late), it is a bit surprising that there aren't more on.
S from Acres
Saturnalia
by Lindsey Davis
-
As You Like It (A from Saturnalia)
by
Shakespeare
Jude
-
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
T, from it
-
Saint Maybe
post on SunS
author - Anne Tyler
-
Egg and I
on maybE.
Couldn't find the author on Google.
-
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
on The Egg & I
-
Ugly American
BY Eugene Burdick and William Lederer
on claudiUs.
Assuming we can skip S E X Y Z. (SEXY z?)
-
No Signposts in the Sea
Vita Sackville West - this was her last novel
on Ugly AmericaN
-
For A on Sign Posts In The Sea
Age of Innocence
All Quiet On The Western Front
Anna Karenina
-
on N from Front
Tamerlane
by Edgar Allan Poe
This is apparently a poem. I don't remember ever running across it. There is a Kindle edition at Amazon.
-
The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie
on Anna KareninA
Lucky: Thanks for giving me a choice of three titles - made it easy - but I think we're meant to name just one title at a time. We can save the others for another time. BTW I'm just coming to the end of a re-read of Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence and am planning to browse through some of her letters next...it's fun to go back sometimes.
-
Stolen Lives (Twenty Years In A Desert Jail)
by Malika Oufkir
S, from Murders
This incredible story is true. I read it some time ago and found it to be a remarkable candid chronicle of courage!
-
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
on Stolen Lives (Twenty Years in a Desert JaiL)
-
A from Lolita
August 1914 ( Solzhenitsyn
-
(The) Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Bronte
On AugusT 1914
The 1914 was just too hard
-
Little Men
post on HalL
author - Alcott
-
Nemesis
Agatha Christie - one of the Miss Marple mysteries
on Little MeN
-
(The) Stone Diaries
post on Nemesis
author - Shields
-
S in Stone Diaries
Song Of The Lark ( Willa Cather)
-
K from Lark
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley
Jude
-
Evil Under the Sun
by Agatha Christie
on foylE
-
The Naked Country
Michael East (pseudonym of Morris West)
on Evil Under the SuN
-
(The) Rabbit (books)
by John Updike
-
The Talisman
Sir Walter Scott, on RabbiT
-
(The) The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
Post on N
-
on K from the Notebook
The Kremlin letter
by Noel Behn
-
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
on NotebooK
-
Oops - missed that one... :P
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
on The Kremlin LetteR
-
(The) The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Posted on O in boy
-
After the Storm (A from Sea)
by
John Rousmaniere
Jude
-
Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk, on StorM
-
(The)Map of Love by
Ahdaf Soueif
Post on M
-
PatH,
Same time, same place. What do we do now?
-
Same thing we did in Rubbish. You work with whatever you see as the last post.
-
Encyclopedia Brittanica
You pick which volume, on LovE
-
Ok. Good.
-
Amber Room by
Steve Berry
Post on A
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
***You may ignore any title ending in the letters S E X Y Z and take the next letter back.
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
.Man in the Iron Mask
Alexander Dumas, on RooM
-
On K from The Man In The Iron Mask
Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
-
Anabasis
Xenophon, on SonatA
-
on S from Anabasis
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
-
Elegance of the Hedgehog
on fivE
We'll be reading it in a few months. Join us.
-
Green Eggs and HaM
by Dr Seuss
on Hedgehog
-
Mysterios affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
on haM
-
Starship and Haiku
S. P. Somtow, on StyleS
-
STARSHIP AND HAIKU
U from HAIKU
Ulysses ( James Joyce)
-
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. Lawrence
from the S in Ulysses
-
Man of Property
John Galsworthy, part of the Forsyte Saga, on WisdoM
-
Timaeus
Plato
on Man of ProperTy
-
Y in Man of Property
Yentl ( Isaac Bashevis Singer)
-
Lord of the Rings
J R R Tolkien
on YentL
Good Morning, Lucky, how are you today ? I see we posted almost together.
-
(The) Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea
Yukio Mishima, on RingS
-
An Angel in Australia
Thomas Keneally
on Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the SeA
And Hi to you too PatH
-
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, on AustraliA
Hi, Gumtree, hi, Lucky.
-
T is the letter
Ten Days That Shook the World
by
John Reed
-
(The) Devil in Velvet
John Dickson Carr, on worlD
-
from the T in Truth
Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
-
Gormanghast
Mervyn Peake - this is a trilogy
on Tuck EverlastinG
I see you've all been playing while I had to go out...
-
The Wedding by
Dorothy West
Post on T
-
OK are there any other words or letters you'd like to make optional so we can put them in the heading?
Remember the articles THE AN and A are not counted as beginning a title, so just ignore the word THE as in (The) Sun Also Rises and use the S of Sun.
Dorothy West
Post on T
Timeline by Michael Crichton
-
Eucalyptus
Murray Bail - this book won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award - both prestigious awards in Australia. Eucalyptus is another word for Gumtree :D
on TimelinE
-
Skipping Christmas
by John Grisham
Post on S
-
I would like to make the same letters optional that were optional in Rubbish. I just can't remember the letters. Then, we could use more titles. I am really just going by memory.
-
I vote for the time-tested group from Rubbish. S, E, X, Y, Z.
It's not a Pat rule, though. It was already in place when I started playing Rubbish.
-
Hats, we were posting at the same time. Great minds think alike.
-
Sappho
Alphonse Daudet
on Skipping ChristmaS
SEXY Z will do me too!
-
Silmarillion
J. R. R. Tolkien, on ChristmaS
Gumtree, have you read Ghormenghast? It's rather weird.
-
(The)Source
by James Michener
Post on S in Christmas
-
PatH,
I hoped you would come by to list those letters. Great.
-
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
on SourcE
-
PatH : Gormanghast is a bit too weird for me too - my son liked it though....takes all sorts.
And I must say you just stole my thunder - Silmarillion was to be my next S. :(
Hi Hats - SEXY Z seems to be the popular choice. ;D
-
Marley and Me
on FroMe
John Grogan
-
Hi GumTree,
I loved Marley and Me. I can't wait to see the movie.
-
IThe) Monkeys
by Susan Minot
Post on M
I like the SEXYZ too. ;D
-
Ginny, thank you. I'm glad we can use more letters.
-
Such is Life
Joseph Furphy - pseudonym of Tom Collins - Such is Life is an aussie classic.
on MonkeyS
-
(The) Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima, on MonkeyS
Now that we can leave off the S, I thought of an S before an M.
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
***You may ignore any title ending in the letters S E X Y Z and take the next letter back.
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
[/b]on V from Waves
Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
I opted not to use the optionals this time.
-
Love Medicine
by Louise Erdrich
Post on L
-
Sally Hemmings: a novel
by Chase-Ribaud - she started writing about the Hemmings in a novel and now has a couple of non-fiction books about the Hemmings/Jefferson relationship..........
S on waves...................jean
-
oops, we were posting at the same time Hats.............hi.........jean
-
(The) Giver
by Lois Lowry
Post on G
-
Hi Jean, you think of good titles.
-
Rocannon's World
Ursula K. LeGuin, on GiveR
-
Hi Gumtree, Hi Pat
The S in Sound of Waves
The Silent Angel ( Heinrich Boll)
-
Little House on the Praire
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
post from, e
-
(The) Road
by Cormac McCarthy
Post on R
-
From RoaD
Death on the Orient Express
by
Agatha Christie
-
Dragon Lady
by Sterling Seagrave
D, from road
-
Daniel Deronda
by Eliot
Post on D
-
Danile Deronda
Post on A
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
-
Ok the ignore rule for S E X Y Z is now in the heading as requested, remember A An and The do not count, that is they are not optional in giving a title.
We're working on N.....
-
Nightfall and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov, on BrooklyN
-
Ivanhoe
post on StorIes
-
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, on IvanhOe
-
On T in Twist
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
-
(A) Time To Kill
post on AunT
John Grisham
-
(The) Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin, on KilL
-
Post on N from Lathe of Heaven
New York Stories ( Edith Wharton)
-
From I in Stories
Interview with the Vampire
by Anne Rice
-
Roots
on vampiRe
-
from the R in Interview
With A Vampire
The River ( Rumer Godden)
-
Zipporah, wife of Moses
by Marek Halter
posting on ,s
-
Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome, on MoseS
This is the first of a series of children's stories mostly dealing with sailing in the Lake District of England. When I read them as a child, they made me want to learn to sail. I never got a chance until a few years ago, when I finally took some sailing lessons. Now my metal hip and stiff knees are a bit clunky for it, but at least I got a taste. I reread some of the books a few years ago. They are a bit childish, but read well, and the sailing is still good.
-
Sounder
Wm. Armstrong -- on Swallows and Amazons
-
Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett, on SoundeR
-
Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
on N from Man
-
(The) Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
A. S. Byatt, on UndergrounD
-
The Egg And I
by Macdonald
Post on E
Can't remember her first name.
-
Ice Station Zebra
by A Maclean; post on I
-
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Post on A
-
Mystic River
post on FarM
author -Dennis Lahane
-
(The) Rievers
by William Faulkner
-
Snow Falling On Cedars
on RieverS
David Guterson
-
Sarah Canary
Karen Joy Fowler, on CedarS
-
Posting on S from Snow Falling On Cedars
Sister Carrie ( Theodore Drieser)
-
Iceworld
Hal Clement, on CarrIe
-
Death Be Not Proud
on IceworlD
John Gunther
-
The Duchess
by Amanda Foreman
d, from Proud
-
(S from Duchess)
Shoulder the Sky
by
Anne Perry
-
Kindred
Octavia Butler, on sKy
an excellent, but harrowing book
-
Devil Wears Prada
on D
-
Archy and Mehitabel
Don Marquis, on PradA
-
Love in The Time of Cholera
on L
Hi, Pat!
-
(The) Associate
on CholerA
Grisham
-
(The)Yearling
by M. Rawlings
Post on Y
-
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Thomas Grey
ob associatE
-
I should have posted on T. I could have used my The.
-
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
Post on D
-
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
on R from Miller
-
(The) The Grass Is Singing
by Doris Lessing
Post on G
-
Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, on SaGe, Hi, Joan
-
Dolled for Murder
by Deb Baker
Post on D
-
Posting on R from Dolled From Murder
Red Badge of Courage
-
(The) Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian, on MurdeR
-
(The)Lady and the Unicorn
by Tracy Chevalier
Post on L in medal
-
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman, on UnicorN
-
E from Neverwhere
Eyeless in Gaza ( Huxley)
-
(The) Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman, on GazA
-
American Tragedy
on SpyglAss
T. Dreiser
-
Yesterday's Children
by Jenny Cockell
on Y from Tragedy
-
No Graves As Yet
by
Anne Perry
NNo Graves
-
Tuesdays With Morrie
post o YeT
Mitch (can't think of his last name)
-
(The) Iron Dragon's Daughter
Michael Swanwick, on MorrIe
-
(The) Rug Merchant
by Meg Mullins
Post on R
-
Three Weeks in Paris
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
t. from Merchant
-
Safety Match by Chekov
S from Paris
-
Valley of the Kings
by John Roma
v, from Chekov
-
Giants in the Earth
Ole Rolvaag, on KinGs
-
Hannibal
by Thomas Harris
on H from Earth
-
Love
by Toni Morrison
Post on L
-
The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth 1
by Christopher Hibbert
v, from loVe
-
H. M. S. Surprise
Patrcik O'Brian, on ElizabetH
-
H.M.S. Surprise
Posting on E
Eugene Onegin ( Pushkin)
-
(The) Evening Class
by Maeve Binchy
Post on E
-
The Evening Class
Posting on S
Seventeen ( Booth Tarkington)
-
A Different Kind of Christmas
by Alex Haley
Post on A
Lucky, have you noticed? There are a lot of books with the same titles. That always surprises me.
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Bruce Alexander, on ChristmaS
-
Napoleon
by Proctor Patterson Johnson
n, from moon
-
Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
on mooN
-
(from FooL)
Love and other Impossible Pursuits
by
Ayelet Waldman
-
The Robe
by Lloyd C. Douglas
Post on T
-
Breathing Lessons
on RoBe
Anne Tyler
-
The Shining
by Stephen King
from S in Lessons
-
(The) Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi, on ShininG
-
The Ghost Brigades
Posting on S
Subways Are For Sleeping
-
Gift of the Magii and other stories
O'Henry
on inG
-
(The) Investigation
Stanislaw Lem, on storIes
It's an odd thing, a cross between Kafka and Inspector Maigret.
-
Netherworld: Discovering The Oracle of the Dead
by Robert Temple
on the N from Investigation
-
(The) Dispossessed
Ursula K. LeGuin, on DeaD
-
D from Disposessed
Dead Souls
by
Gogol
-
Dead Souls
Posting on S
Snows of Kilimanjaro ( Hemingway)
-
(The) Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens
Post on O
-
The Olde Curiosity Shop
Posting on P
Peony ( Pearl Buck)
-
Nitrogen Fix
Hal Clement, on PeoNy
-
Imperium
by Robert Harris
I, from fIx
-
(A) Marriage Made in Heaven
on ImperiuM
Erma Bombeck
-
A Marriage Made In Heaven
Posting on N
Not Wanted On The Voyage
-
Great Expectations
by Dickens
on voyaGe
-
Silver on the Tree
Susan cooper, on ExpectationS
-
"Silver on the Tree" is the last of a 5 book series of children's stories dealing with the fight of good vs evil, heavily influenced by Welsh mythology, British history, standard magic, etc. They're quite good; I read them with pleasure as an adult when my children read them.
-
Raja Quartet
on tRee.
-
Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut, on quarteT
-
The Kitchen God's Wife
on TimequaKe
Amy Tan
-
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, on WiFe
-
Far From The Madding Crowd
Posting on D
Dr. Zhivago ( Pasternak)
-
Over sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper, on ZhivagO
The first of her five book series.
-
N from StoNe
The Notebooks of Malte Laurid Briggs
by
Rainer Marie Rilke
-
Greenwitch
Susan Cooper, on BrigGs
Gee, are people going to let me post the whole series?
-
Good evening everyone...been absent a couple of days - lots and lots of great books mentioned...
House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
on GreenwitcH
-
House of Mirth
Posting on H
How Much Land Does A Man Need ( wonderful short story by Leo Tolstoy)
-
Dreams From My Father
on NeeD
Barack Obama
-
Roanoke
by Margaret Lawrence
r, from father
-
Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett, on RoanokE
-
(The) Tin Can Tree
on RiTes
Anne Tyler
-
(The) Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde, on TreE
-
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
by Lauren St John
from R in Affair
-
Martian Time-Slip
Philip K. Dick, on FarM
-
Marjorie Morningstar
post on FarM
-
Since this is women's history month, i'm going to try to use only books about/by women..........................
R on Monringstar
all of the stories/books about a Rebecca
jean
-
Anna and the King of Siam
by Margaret Landon
a, from Rebecca
-
M from SiaM
Mother
by
Maxim Gorki
-
Revenge of the Middle-age Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
R on Mother
-
Revenge Of The Middle Aged Woman
Posting on N
The Name Of The Rose
-
Nefertiti
by Michele Moran
n, from woman
-
Illywacker
Peter Carey
on NefertitI
-
Illywacker
Posting on R
Ramona ( Helen Hunt Jackson)
-
About Tilly Beamis
Sumner Locke Elliott
on RamonA
-
Imperium
by Robert Harris
i, from Beamis
-
Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
on the M from Imperium
(sorry, I hesitated to use this but I couldn't resist a book with an F ending.)
-
First Mothersby Bonnie Angelo
F on Kampf
This is a great book about presidential mothers.........one of the most interesting themes in the book is that many of these Mothers were especially close to their sons and had great influence on them, AND many of those Mothers had great relaionships w/ their fathers. They had fathers who tho't they were special and added to their dgts self-esteem and education. Interesting........................jean
-
S from MotherS
Sons and Lovers
by
D.H.Lawrence
-
Snow Falling on Cedars
on loverS.
Lucky: I thgought I knew Tolstoy's writings, but I don't know "How Much Land Does a Man Need". I'll have to look it up.
-
Shroud for a Nightingale
P. D. James, on LoverS
-
Jean, what does Angelo say about FDR's mother?
-
(the) Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
on nightengaLe.
-
(The) Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper, #2 in the series. Only #4 to go.
On LeoparD
-
The Dark Is Rising
Posting on G
Grand Hotel ( Vicki Baum)
-
Pat - FDR's mother, as i'm sure you've heard, adored her son and told him he was the most wonderful person on earth and kept him at home w/ tutors until i believe, he was in his teens. Being an only child, he spent almost all of his time w/ her. His father was in his 50's when F was born and paid little attention to him. Many of the mothers spent a lot of time w/ their sons and gave them great self-esteem, but not as strongly as Mama Roosevelt. She, of course, controlled much of his life even into his presidency. She controlled his finances until she died. One rebellion he had was getting married and especially getting married to Eleanor. He didn't tell his Mother for quite a long time that they were dating or when they got engaged. When they returned from their months long honeymoon in Europe, Mama's wedding present was a brownstone in NYC - she had also bought the brownstone next to theirs and had doors cut thru on every floor, so she was essentially living w/ them from the start and popped in whenever and wherever she pleased. Have you heard the story that the day she died a huge - seemingly healthy - oak tree fell down on the front lawn of the R estate in Hyde Park!?!................that was a powerful woman!..................jean
-
Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde, on HoteL
-
aaahhhh K
Knitting, of course, by Anne Bartlette
jean
-
Thanks, Jean, you gave me the 5th book (#4 in the series).
(The) Grey King
Susan Cooper, on KnittinG
-
(The) Garin Death Ray
on kinG
by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy / 1926-27
-
The Garin Death Ray
Posting on A
A Farwell To Arms ( Hemingway)
-
Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett, on ArMs.
This is particularly appropriate to Jean's theme in ways that only come out as you read it.
-
Marj, thanks for calling the Tolstoy (the Garin Death Ray) to my attention. As a Sci-Fi fan, I'm interested in early examples. Have you read it? Is it even readable now?
-
Thinking Out Loud
on RegimenT
Anna Quindlen
-
Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood by West
D on Loud
-
D from Sisterhood
Death of a Salesman
by
Arthur Miller
-
North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
on Death of a SalesmaN
-
Her Father's House
by Belva Plain
H, from South
-
Her Father's House
Posting on E
Erewhon Samuel Butler
-
(The) Night Country
Loren Eiseley, on ErewhoN
Eiseley's essays are oddly compelling, composed of roughly equal parts of poetry, science, and madness, all of which he understood quite well.
-
For all of us knitters, from the Y in Country
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
-
Remembrance Rock
by Carl Sandburg
posting on knitter
-
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson, on RocK
-
Pedlin, did you notice the author of the first knitting book (post 199)?
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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 (gvinesc@gmail.com)
-
Kidnapped
Posting on D
Dracula ( Bram Stoker)
-
(The) Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
Michael Scott, on DraculA
-
Life with Mother
by Clarence Day
An oldie, but goodie.
On Roosevelt's mother: a friend of mine visited Hyde Park, and saw the bedroom arrangement after Roosevelt married. He had a big, ornate bedroom. But Elinor's bedroom was a converted closet, with no windows and barely enough room for her bed, leading off of his mothers room. Roosevelt would have had to go through his mothers room to get to Elinor's bedroom!!!!?!
How did they manage to have all those children????!?
-
R.U.R.
Carel Capek, on MotheR
-
R.U.R.
Posting on R
Red Cavalry Stories ( Isaac Babel)
-
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson, on storieS
-
Snow Crash
Posting on H
Hedda Gabbler ( Ibsen)
-
(The) Reverse of the Medal
Patrick O'Brian, on GabbleR
-
The Reverse Of The Medal
Posting on L
Lorna Doone
-
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk. Jr.
posted on E from Doone
-
Listening Woman
Tony Hillerman, on StyLe
Frybabe, I still have "The Elements of Style", and still occasionally consult it.
-
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Chaucer
on Listening WomaN
Lucky - you took me right back with Lorna Doone
PatH Strunk's Elements of Style is still on my shelves too...
-
Leaves of Grass
by Walter Whitman
Post on L
I can't remember too many titles and authors without help. So, I'm mainly reading the posts.
Hi Gumtree
-
Leaves of Grass
Posting on S
She Stoops To Conquer
-
Secret Lives of the U.S.Presidents
by Cormac O'Brien
s, from grass
-
Typee
Herman Melville, on PresidenTs
-
Peony
by Lisa See
Post on P
-
Esther Waters
George Moore
On TypeE
-
Hats - you got in there while I was thinking - ... Good to see you but can't stay and play as I'm off to bed - it's 11.46pm here and I've an early start in the morning. Goodnight...
-
Goodnight, Gumtree. I've got to go out anyway.
-
Stepping
on WaterS
Nancy Thayer
-
The greatest Story Ever Told
by Douglas K Mikkelson
g, from stepping
-
D from TolD
Dr. Faustus
by
Christopher Marlowe
-
The Devil's Novice
By Ellis Peters
From D of The Greatest Story Ever TolD
-
Caravans
by James Michener
Post on C
-
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad, on CaravaNs
-
Ode to a Nightingale
on nostromO
-
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee, on NightingaLe
-
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda
by Sean Naylor
from N in Men
-
Not A Good Day To Die: The Untold Story Of Operation Anaconda
Posting on A
Alice Adams ( Booth Tarkington)
-
[bAdam Bede
by Eliot
Post on anacondAb]
-
Pedlin, did you notice the author of the first knitting book (post 199)?
I didn't notice, but went back to post 199 and didn't think it was about knitting. Am I confused?
-
Every Which Way but Dead
by Kim Harrison
posting on Adam Bede
-
Maybe I got the number wrong. It was Anne Bartlette. (Guess she can't spell.)
-
Every Which Way Byt Dead
Posting on D
Dragonseed ( Pearl Buck)
-
Delta Blues
by Ted Gioia
on D from Dragonseed
-
Salome
Oscar Wilde
on Delta BlueS
-
Every Man Has Two Birthdays
by Charles Lamb
posting on Salome
PatH -- she can't spell ::)
-
Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis
from the S in Birthdays
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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 (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Ismael Kadare -
on Silver PigS
-
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett, on SieGe
-
Going Postal
Posting on L
Lost Horizons
-
Seige of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
On Lost HorizonS
-
Shatterd Love
by Richard Chamberlain
s, from Horizons
Sorry misread last post! Fran
-
The Road From Chapel Hill
by Joanna Catherine Scott
R, From Krishnapur
-
(The) Letter of Marque
Patrick O'Brian, on HilL
-
The Letter Of Marque
Posting on
E
Ecco Homo (Neitzsche)
-
Out of the Silent Planet
C. S. Lewis, on HomO
-
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
by J. K. Rowling
From T in Planet
-
d on bard
The Duponts of Deleware
this is a fascinating family dynasty, any of you who like history or family bios will love it IMO..............jean
-
The Duponts of Delaware
Posting on E
The Egyptian ( Mika Waltari)
-
The Egyptian
Posting on N
The Nazarene ( Sholem Asch)
-
Enemy Mine
by Barry Longyear
from the E in Nazarene
-
Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Erenreich
on miNe
-
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
on the D in Dimed
-
Athaliah
Play by Racine
on Democracy in AmericA
-
I Heard That Song Before
by Mary Higgins Clark
H, from Athaliah
-
The Rainbow Trail
by Zane Grey
from the R in Before
-
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
on BeforE
-
Well, that was close...
Last Orders
Graham Swift
on Rainbow traiL
-
The Six Wives of Henry V111
by Alison Weir
s, from Orders
-
Taking liberties with VIII, from Henry the Eighth
The Eighth Day of Creation: An Anthology of Christian Scripture
by C. Clifton Black
-
(The) Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkein, on ScriptuRe
-
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
on kinG
Good one Frybabe.
-
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Post on T
-
T from SocieTy
Tom Jones
by
Fielding
Someone posted before me but by chance their post also ends in 'T'. So my title is good either way i.e. whoevers post appears first the 'T' is King waiting for his next subject.
-
Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams
Post on S in Jones
-
The Elephant Man
by Bernard Pomerance
posting on E in desire
-
The Night Villa
by Carol Goodman
N, from Man
-
The Night Villa
Posting on A
Absolom, Absolom, (Faulkner)
-
Manhunt
by James Swanson
on absoloM
-
Manhunt
Posting on T
Tender Is The Night ( Fitzgerald)
-
Ten Little Indians
by Agatha Christie
on nighT
-
A Secret Country
John Pilger
post on Ten Little IndianS
-
Youngblood Hawk
by Herman Wouk
Working on A Secret Country
-
Kyrie: Poems
by Ellen Bryant Voigt
on K from Hawk
The book of Poems is inspired by and giving voice to those who suffered through the influenza epidemic of 1918
-
I hope my library owns that book of poems.
Maytrees
Annie Dillard
Post on M in poems
-
Summer of Roses
by Luanne Rice
s, from Maytrees
-
Searching for Caleb
post on RoseS
Anne Tyler
-
(The) Book Thief
by Zusak
Post on B
-
Finn and Hengest
by J R R Tolkien ed Alan Bliss
This is Tolkien's interpretation of the Anglo Saxon poems - not for light reading before bedtime ;)
on Book ThieF
-
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
on T from Hengest
-
Even The Stars Get Lonesome
by Maya Angelou
Post on E
-
Marjorie Morningstar
by Herman Wouk
from the M in Lonesome
-
On MorningstaR
Romeo and Juliet
by
Shakespeare
-
The Tale of Genji
Lady Murasaki, on JulieT
-
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
Sharyn McCrumb
Working on The Tale of Ginji
-
Moon And Sixpence
by Somerset Maugham
Post on M
-
Close to Critical
Hal Clement, on SixpenCe
-
Ladies of Liberty
post on CriticaL
Cokie Roberts
-
(The) Yellow Wallpaper
-
The Rosewood Casket
by Sharyn McCrumb
R of Wallpaper
-
a;e we allowed to comment?
I love that title "If I'd Killed Him When i Met Him!" ........can soooo identify.
Ladies of Liberty was a great book, love Cokie Roberts.............
Oh! Youngblood Hawke and Marjorie Morningstar........loved them the first time i read them, but read them a few years ago, and...............not so much!........jean
-
The Rosewood Casket
Posting on T
Ten Little Indians ( Agatha Cristie)
-
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
on The Rosewood CaskeT
Such a lot of really good titles coming up all the time - obviously we all like good books. :D
-
Loving Frank
-
Kane and Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
posting on Frank
-
The Lucky One
by Nicholas Sparks
L. from Abel
-
Needle in a Timestack
Robert Silverberg, on ONe
-
The Lucky Ones
Posting on S
Saphira And The Slave Girl ( Willa Cather)
-
Stones for Ibarra
on OneS
Harriet Doerr
-
Ake: the Years of Childhood
Wole Soyinka, on IbarrA
-
A from Ibarra
At Some Disputed Barricade
by Anne Perry
This is the forth of the five part series on WW 1.It's the best of the five. Each one is great though. Impossible to put down
Thetitles in order are:
No Graves as Yet
Angels in the Gloom
Shoulder the Sky
At some Disputed Barricade
We Should Not Sleep
-
At Some Disputed Barricade
Posting on E
Ellery Queen mysteries
-
(The) Devil in Velvet
John Dickson Carr, onBarricaDe
-
"The Devil in Velvet" is a better book than it sounds. It's a time-travel detective story in which the protagonist goes back to the time of Charles II to solve a mystery, and since Carr loved that period, it's full of details.
-
Gumtree, is Finn and Hengist good non-light reading for someone who reads sagas for pleasure?
-
Three Cups of Tea
by Mortensen
We're proposing a discussion for May of "Three Cups of Tea". I've started the book, and had a hard time putting it down. It's the story of a "climbing bum", who got lost coming down from a failed attempt to climb K2, and wound up in a Pakistani village so small, it wasn't on the map. When he left, he promised he would come back and build a school. He wound up building over 100 schools for girls, in the area controlled by the Taliban.
If you're interested, come let us know in "Proposed discussions" or here:
http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?board=57.0 (http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?board=57.0)
-
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne, on TeA
-
After Verne wrote his book, which hinges on a bet as to whether this was possible, Nellie Bly, an investigative journalist, went around the world in 72 days. She was quite an interesting character--among other things she exposed conditions in an insane asylum by feigning madness to be shut up there.
-
(The) Stranger
by Simmel
"I talk not of the stranger who is here today and gone tomorrow, but of the one who is here today and still here tomorrow".
Now in the days when we all deal with immegrants, and people from other countries and cultures, it's a shame more people don't read this old essay.
-
The Strasnger
Posting on R
The Red And The Black ( Stendahl)
-
The Red And The Black
Posting on K
Kristenlavrensdater ( Sigrid Unset)
This a wonderful saga pf medieval Norway. I believe that Sigrid Unset won a Nobel prize in literature for this work.
-
Rivers End
by Nora Roberts
from R in Kristenlavrensdater
-
D on EnD
Darkness at Noon
by
Koestler
-
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
on N from Noon
-
Gumtree, is Finn and Hengist good non-light reading for someone who reads sagas for pleasure?
Not really. It's an rather erudite scholarly study -Here's a little from the cover Blurb -
Tolkien's most significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies is to be found in his lectures on the story of Finn and Hengest, two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe: the story is told in two Old English poems, Beowulf and The Fight at Finnesburg, but told so obscurely and allusively that its interpretation has been a matter of controversy for more than a hundred years. As elucidated by Tolkien the story is a classic tragedy of divided loyalties, of vengeance, blood and death...
The story of Finn and Hengest is covered by what Tolkien refers to as 'The Fragment' and 'The Episode' from the poems . They are very short extracts -the Fragment lines 1-48 from the Fight at Finnesberg and Episode Beowulf lines 1063-1159 . Both are enigmatic to say the least ...
Naturally, Tolkien references lots of other texts - poems like Widsith and historians eg Bede et al. Some I know but many I don't.
I bought the book by chance years ago when I saw it on a remainder stack and though it is rather too scholarly for me I go back to it from time to time and perhaps glean a little more from it. Now I've taken it down from the shelf I'll probably browse it tonight and then put it away again - til next time.
-
PatH I meant to add that if you have a strong background in Anglo-Saxon language and literature Finn & Hengest could be just what you'd like. I find the digressions into the possibilities of meaning within specific Anglo-Saxon words rather trying but there are lots of cross references to other works and a good glossary of characters and their possible connections - as well as Tolkien's erudite interpretation of the particular lines of the Fragment and Episode.
-
Angela's Ashes
on AmericA
Frank McCourt
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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 (gvinesc@gmail.com)
The Human Story
by James C. Davis
H, from AsHes
( Our History From The Stone Age To Today)
-
The YoungEinstein - the Advent of Relativity
Lewis Pyenson
on The Human StorY
-
Tales from the White Hart
Arthur C. Clarke, on RelativiTy
-
No, Gumtree, I don't have any background in Anglo Saxon language and literature, so I would definitely find Finn and Hengist too strong also, though possibly having some interesting bits. I have read Tolkien's translations of "Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Pearl", though.
-
The White Hart
Posting on T
Tender Is The Night ( Fitzgerald)
-
The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
T --Tender is the Night
-
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez, on PolkA
-
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
by I don’t remember the Danish(?) author
posting on Dreams
Harriet Doerr – an author mentioned earlier. That name is so familiar, but I can’t think of thing she wrote.
-
Wrath of the Lion by Jack Higgins
from --Smilla’s Sense of Snow
-
Pedlin, it's Peter Hoeg. (My memory isn't better than yours, my bookshelf is serendipitously arranged.)
-
Nightwatch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on LioN
This is the first of a conflict-between-good-and-evil triology. Only a Russian could reduce this classic conflict to a bureaucrocy.
-
The Hand that Signed the Paper
Helen Demidenko
on NightwatcH
Demidenko's book caused something of a furore here. It won the prestigious Miles Franklin award but the author spoiled it all by lying about her background claiming the book was the true story of her family in Ukraine prior to their migration to Aust. It gained her notoriety and she now has a reputation of not being trustworthy. The whole case has become a classic Aussie hoax. Rather a good read though.
-
Revolt in the Desert
by T. E. Lawrence
on the R in Paper
This was, if I remember correctly, an abridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I read Seven Pillars when I was in high school. Dad thought I wouldn't get through the tome saying that it would be too dry. I was fascinated and hated to take the book back to the library. It had an oversized mousy brown cover with a pub date of 1926. That would have made it one of only a small number printed early on.
-
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, on DeserT
-
Treasure Island
Posting on D
Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Hyde ( Robert Louis Stevenson)
-
Daughter of The Queen of Sheba
by Jackie Lyden
Post on D
-
Audition
on ShebA
Barbara Walters
-
Audition
Posting on N
Netherland ( Joseph O'Neil)
-
Netherland
Posting on D
The Devil And Daniel Webster ( Stephen Benet?)
-
(The) Raphael Affair
Iain Pears, on WebsteR
-
Riding the Rap by Elmore Leonard
from the r in Affair
-
Revolt in the Desert
by T. E. Lawrence
on the R in Paper
This was, if I remember correctly, an abridged version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I read Seven Pillars when I was in high school. Dad thought I wouldn't get through the tome saying that it would be too dry. I was fascinated and hated to take the book back to the library. It had an oversized mousy brown cover with a pub date of 1926. That would have made it one of only a small number printed early on.
Frybabe: Yes, that would have been a fairly rare copy you had in your hands.
I have a copy of Lawrence and the Arabs written by Robert Graves which is from the same period. If has a faded (and grubby) mid brown cover, a first edition by Jonathon Cape pub 1927 -it has a number of illustrations - maps etc and photos on glossy paper with titles like Feisal's Army entering Wejh and Mule Transport near Aba El Lissan and Lawrence at Versailleswhere he is dressed in his full Arab clothing. The frontispiece is a photo of Lawrence of a bust of him by Eric Kennington which is rather impressive. I found the book about 30 years ago in a secondhand booksellers and bought it for next to nothing - there are a couple of newspaper cuttings stuck onto the inside of the front cover and the flyleaf - one detailing the Defeat of the Wahabi and dated 31/1/1928 and the other showing Lawrence on his motorbike (motor-cycle to be exact), which is from the Daily Mirror and dated 10.9.1930. Wouldn't part with it even though it could bring in considerably more than I paid for it.
Also have a copy of Seven Pillars and Revolt in the Desert but they are later editions and not so interesting as editions.
-
ThePickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
on riding the RaP
-
Salem Falls
by Jodi Picoult
Post in paperS
-
(The) Late George Apley
George P. Marquand, on FalLs
-
EvenTide
by Kent Haruf
Post on E
-
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
on EventidE
-
Hats I've been meaning to ask whether you had read The Book Thief and what you thought of it. It was very popular here about a year or so ago but now seems to have fallen off the radar.
-
No, I haven't read "The Book Thief." I remember when it was so popular. I think it's still popular. I just couldn't get in to that book. I don't know why.
-
Norman Rockwell biography
can't remember author
I read Norman Rockwell's biography years ago. I think he had already died. I've always loved his paintings.
-
GumTree,
Have you read "The Book Thief?" Do you recommend it? I often think of giving it another try.
-
Norman Rockwell biography
Posting on L
Look Homeward Angel ( Thomas Wolfe)
-
Lassie Come Home
by can't remember author
Post on L
-
Magnificent Obsession
on HoMe
Lloyd Douglas
-
North Frederick Street
by John O'Hara
Post on N
-
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne
on the T from Street
-
All This and Heaven Too
by......Fields
Post on A
Not sure of author
-
All This And Heaven Too
Posting on O
Of Lena Geyer ( Marcia Davenport)
This a great book for opera buffs as it is the biography of a fictional opera singer. Marcia Davenport, better known as the author of "The Valley of Decision", which as you may recall was made into a motion picture starring I believe, Greer Garson, was the daughter of Alma Gluck, a well known concert singer of the early 20th century. It is believed that she drew on her mother's life for this book.
-
Odd Thomas
by Dean Koontz
Post on O
-
(The) Star Thrower
Loren Eiseley, on ThomaS
-
Runaway Jury
by John Grisham
Post on R
-
the star thrower
Posting on R
Rich Man, Poor Man, ( Howard Fast)
-
No Time For Sargents by Hyman
from N in Man
-
September
by Rosamunde Pilcher
Post on S
-
Roll Over and Play Dead by Joan Hess
Playing on September
-
(The) Hours
on asHes
-
Sweet Grass
by Mary Alice Monroe
posting on Hour s
-
Aucassin and Nicolette
Author unknown, 13th cent., on GrAss
-
Shirley
Charlotte Bronte
ON GrasS
-
PatH You sneaked in there while I was thinking - isn't there an opera Aucassin & Nicolette as well - probably based on the story.
-
Goodness, Gumtree, you're so right. It's by Gretry, first performed in 1779.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucassin_et_Nicolette_(opera) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aucassin_et_Nicolette_(opera))
The description is pretty sketchy and lists an actual author, but from the list of characters it must be the same story. Here I've loved the story all these years and never knew that.
-
Enemy Mine
Barry Longyear, on shirlEy
Shirley is new to me.
-
Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac
on Enemy MinE
-
PatH Thanks for the link to the Gretry opera - I must have seen a reference to it sometime - it just jumped into my mind but I don't know anything about it - maybe we should tell Don - he might unearth a performance and play it for you...
Shirley is quite a novel. Those who know say that the character Shirley was modelled on Emily Bronte or rather as she may have been had she had a different upbringing and its resulting advantages- I think Charlotte says as much or maybe Mrs Gaskell reported Charlotte as saying that in a conversation - either way it is easy to see Emily in Shirley . I think some Emily biographers have leant heavily on the characterisation of Shirley in drawing their pictures of Emily.
-
The Power And The Glory
by Graham Greene
Post on T
-
The Rising Sun
by Michael Ctichton
R, from GloRy
-
The Rising Sun
Posting on N
Nun's Story
-
You're Only Old Once
on StorY
Dr Seuss
-
(The) Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem, on onCe
-
Doctor Doolittle
-
Lost in a Good Book
by Jasper Fforde
on L from Dolittle
This is part of the Thursday Next series. Has anyone Read The Eyre Affair? or this one for that matter? The whole premise sounds intriguing, the idea of "jumping" into and out of books to solve a mystery or crime. I've added them to my buy list.
-
That sounds fascinating. I'm going to ask about it in Mystery Corner.
-
Lost In A Good Book
Posting on K
King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table
-
Life is a Dream
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, on TabLe
-
I've read "The Eyre Affair", which is the first in the series. Someone is stealing the characters from books. First, a minor character disappears from Martin Chuzzlewit, but then Jane Eyre herself disappears from all copies of the book, and is being held for ransom. It's lighthearted and full of literary jokes and a bit fantastical. There are, for instance, the bookworms, who are fed on the unnecessary words in advertisements and excrete punctuation marks, so that whe'n yo:u are; aro"und the-m for, a whi;le you! start to talk funny. I enjoyed it a lot.
-
My Life in France
on DreaM
Julia Child
-
My Life In France
Posting on E
The End Of The Affair ( Graham Greene)
-
The End Of The Affair
Posting on R
Rain ( Somerset Maughn)
-
Rain
Posting on N
Nancy Drew mysteries
-
In The Walled Gardens
by Anahita Firouz
I, from mysterIes
-
No Name
Wilkie Collins, on GardeNs
I had never heard of this book, but was just reading about it in a newspaper book review of something else. Very timely, since I'm running out of "n"s
-
Memoirs of a Geisha
post on NaMe
can't remember author's name
-
A.D. 62: Pompeii
by Rebecca East
A, from Geisha
-
(The) Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells, on PompeiI
-
Ulysses S. Grant
by Josiah Bunting and Arthur M. Schlesinger
U, from MoreaU
-
Ulysses S Grant
Posting on T
Taming Of The Shrew ( Shakespeare)
-
Wonderful Life
Stephen Jay Gould, on ShreW
-
Wonderful Life
Posting on E
Evangeline ( Wadsworth)
-
Fallen Skies
by Phillipa Gregory
F, from LiFe
-
Fallen Skies
Posting on S
Sacred Hunger ( Barry Unsworth)
A truly great book on England the slave trade
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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 (gvinesc@gmail.com)
(The) Red Tent
on HungeR
oh, I hope I'm not repeating myself.
-
The Three Musketeers
by Alexander Dumas
on the T in Tent
-
The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
by Amanda Elyot
T, from Musketeers
-
The Memoirs Of Helen Of Troy
Posting on Y
Youngblood Hawk ( Herman Wouk)
-
A Kindness Cup
Thea Astley - She won the prestigious Miles Franklin Award several times - stories are often set in and around Brisbane, Queensland.
on Youngbook HawK
-
(The) Prophet
on CuP
Kahlil Gibran
-
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austin
P, from Cup
-
Pride And Prejudice
Posting on E
The End Of The Game ( Peter Beard)
-
Metaphase
Vonda McIntyre, on GaMe
-
Amerigo
by Felipe Fernbndez-Armesto
A, MetaphAse
-
Othello
by William Shakespeare
on the O from Amerigo
-
October Horse
by Colleen McCullough
Post on othellO
-
Run, Mary, Run
by Lisa Scotoline
-
Run Mary Run
Posting on N
The Night Of The Hunter ( Davis Grubb)
-
The Night Of The Hunger
Posting on R
Remembrance Of Things Past ( Proust)
-
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
r, from Hunger
-
Two Little Girls in Blue
by Mary Higgins Clark
posting from PasT
-
(An) Urchin in the Storm
Stephen Jay Gould, on BlUe
-
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
on the M from Storm
-
Animals without Backbones
by Ralph Buchsbaum et. al.
on AntoniA. A biology book that influenced PatH and me when we were children
-
Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini, on BackboneS
-
The Human Story
Our History From The Stone Age To Today
by James C. Davis
H, from ScaramoucHe
-
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
An interesting fantasy novel set in Aix en Provence. Two young people, Ned and Kate, inadvertently become involved in a ritual where the past and present, the living and long dead intermingle. Think pagan, think Celt, think curse, think long past battles and murder, think ghosts, think lovers trying to reunite and finally find peace.
From the Y in Story
-
The Lace Reader
by Brunonia Barry
L, from Ysabel
-
Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov, on ReadeR
-
Night Letters
Robert Dessaix
on Robots of DawN
-
Roosevelt: The Lion and The Fox
By James Macgregor Burns
r, from letteRs
-
Roosevelt: The Lion And The Fox
Posting on O
Oomo Melville
-
One Two Three Infinity
by Albert Einstein
Einstein's version of relativity theory for dummies.
on oomO (Has anyone actually READ Oomo, or is it just a crossword puzzle oddity?)
-
There and Back Again
Pat Murphy, on InfiniTy
This is the story of "The Hobbit" re-told as science fiction. It reads well, and it's a lot of fun seeing what she comes up with as parallels for the original.
-
The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Elizabeth Jolley
on There and Back AgaiN
Elizabeth Jolley lived in the same district as I do - she wrote quirky and very telling novels about ordinary people. I got to know her a little when both her husband and my mother were in the same nursing home - we would sometimes take them out for a 'walk' in their wheelchairs - she was a trifle odd but interesting just the same. Now I think that what I saw as her 'oddness' was really the start of the Alzheimer's disease which she suffered from at the end. Sadly, she herself died in that same nursing home.
-
Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith, on StreeT
-
A Friend Like Henry
by Nuala Gardner
F, from GirafFe
-
You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
on the Y from Henry
-
Natural Enemy
Jane Langton, on AgaiN
-
man of la macha
-
Anastasia
by Colin Falconer
A, from macha
-
America: The Last Best Hope
by William J. Bennett
Bennett wrote this in two volumes which cover 1492 to 1989
on the a from Anastasia
-
Perelandra
C. S. Lewis, on HoPe
-
Amelia Aerhart-The Mystery Solved
by Ellen M Long & Ellen K Long
A, from Perelandra
-
D from Solved
Dreams
by
C.G.Jung
-
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens, on SolveD
-
None to Accompany Me
Nadine Gordimer
on dombey and SoN
-
None To Accompany Me
Posting on E
Embers ( Sandor Marai)
A beautiful, poetic story of lost love, old age and regrets by one of Hungary's great writers.
-
(The) Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis, on EmberS
-
(The) Stand
post on EmberS
Stephen King
-
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
on the d from Stand
-
Obsessive Genius
The Inner World of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
O, from ZhivagO
" Great lives in science are all about passion and curiosity. Barbara Goldsmith has written a superb study of Marie Curie, the Polish born discoverer of radium."
-
(The) Ionian Mission
Patrick O'Brian, on CurIe
-
Nixon and Kissinger
by Robert Dallek
N, from MissioN
-
River Runs through It
by Kinsella
A book about fishing that the movie was made from.
-
(The) Thirteen Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian, on iT
-
Every Last Cuckoo
by Kate Maloy
on the E in Salute
-
O from CuckoO
Of Mice and Men
by
Steinbeck
-
Nicholas Nickelby
Charles Dickens----I very nearly typed in Charles Darwin there :o
on Mice and MeN
Haven't been able to come in much lately - DH is getting tests and biopsies done and I'm hanging about the specialist rooms and hospital...it's good when the results come back all OK - but we both want our lives back.
-
Bodies From The Ash
LIFE AND DEATH IN ANCIENT POMPEII
by James M. Deem
B, from NickelBy
-
The Hummingbird's Daughter
by Luis Alberto Urrea
on the H from Ash
This American Award winning novel is based on the author's real life great-grandmother, Teresita. Called the "St. of Cabora", she was compared with Joan of Arc. It is a story of faith (including healing powers), bravery, revolution.
-
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams
from Hummingbird's daughteR
Second one in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
-
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Douglas Adams, on UniverSe
The fifth volume in the supposedly four volume series.
-
The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
on .... FisH
-
Killashandra
Anne McCaffrey, on SnarK
I was wrong about Adams. That was the fourth book of a trilogy.
-
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hossein
A, from Killashandra
-
Night Mail
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, on SuNs
-
L from MaiL
Lost Horizon
by
James Hilton
-
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
on HorizoN
-
Tehanu
Ursula K. LeGuin, on MinuTes
-
Utopia
by Thomas More
on the U from Tehanu
PatH, I am not familiar with that one from leGuin. Will have to look it up. I have her "Left Hand of Darkness" to read.
-
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell
Pat Murphy, on UtopiA
Frybabe, "Tehanu" is a sequel to Leguin's Earthsea Trilogy written for young adults ("A Wizard of Earthsea", "The Tombs of Atuan", and "The Farthest Shore") and would be more intelligible after reading the other 3.
I like "Left Hand of Darkness" a lot, but it's slow-starting.
-
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
C S Lewis
on...MerriwelL
PatH - you're forgiven the slip with Douglas Adams - I noticed but wasn't counting... ;)
-
Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould, on WardroBe
-
Strangers & Brothers
C P Snow
on ... BrontosauruS
This is a series of I don't know how many novels - a dozen or thereabouts - in which different aspects and periods of a man's life are examined - the central character in the series is not necessarily the central character in the individual novels -
-
(The) Sleep of Reason
C. P. Snow, the last in the series on BrotherS
I read all of them avidly at one time--wonder how I'd like them now.
-
Summer's Child
by Luanne Rice
S, from BrotherS
-
Death Comes to the Archbishop
Willa Cather, on ChilD
-
Death Comes To The Archbishop
Posting on P
Paradise Lost ( Milton)
-
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
by Paul Cartledge
on the T from Lost
-
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon, on worlD
-
E from EmpirE
Escape from Freedom
by Eric Fromm
-
(The) Masters
C. P. Snow, on FreedoM
-
The Masters
Posting on S
Scaramouche (Sabatini)
-
(The) Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell, on ScaramoucHe
I used to love sabatini many years ago, wonder how I'd like him now.
-
The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a rather interesting book. It examines the common elements of hero myths, with copious examples.
-
Secret River
Kate Grenville
on ...Thousand FaceS
Story of early settlement around Sydney partly based on Grenville's forebears . It won several awards.
-
Rat Race
Dick Francis, on RiveR
-
From RaCe
Cocktail Party
by T.S.Eliot
-
Time of Hope
C., P. Snow, on ParTy
-
Time Of Hope
Posting on E
Everything Is Illuminated ( Jonathan Safran Foer)
-
Diana, Her True Story
by Andrew Morton
D, From IlluminateD
-
The Devil's Advocate
Morris West
on IlluminateD
-
T from AdvocaTe
Thieves in the Night
by
Arthur Koestler
-
Temptation Ridge
by Robin Carr
T, from nighT
-
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, on RidGe
-
Little Men
by Louisa May Alcott
-
(The) New Men
C. P. Snow, on MeN
-
Now we are six
by A A Milne
-
I am Jonathan Scrivener
Claude Houghton, on SIx
A very strange book.
-
I Am Jonathan Scrivener
Posting on R
Rabbit Run ( Updike)
-
The NextBig Thing
Anita Brookner
on Rabbit RuN
-
Gilgamesh
author unknown, on ThinG
-
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
on GilgamesH
PatH : I see you're having fun mining C P Snow's output ;)
-
The Reivers
by William Faulkner
on the R in Hours
Saw the movie but never read the book. The movie was funny.
-
The Rivers
Posting on S
Song Of Solomon ( Toni Morrison)
-
Song Of Solomon
Posting on N
N***** Of The Narcissus ( Joseph Conrad)
-
Utopia
by Thomas More
U, from Narcissus
-
A from UtopiA
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
-
Eugenie Grandet
Balzac, on NonE
-
Therese Raquin
Emile Zola
on Eugenie GrandeT
-
Nana
Emile Zola, on RaquiN
-
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac Mccarthy
on the A from Nana
-
(The) Search
C. P. Snow, on HorseS
This one isn't in the Strangers and Brothers series; it's about scientific fraud.
-
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
on Searc H
-
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
on the M from Dame
-
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, on GeishA
I haven't read this, am sure I wouldn't care for it, but it does begin with A
-
D from ShruggeD
Death in the Cathedral (Screen Play)
by
T.S.Eliot
-
Loving Frank
-
Loving Frank
Posting on K
Kim ( Ruyard Kipling)
-
King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard, on FranK
-
Sheherazade
-
Death of a Salesman
on SceherazaDe
Arthur Miller
-
Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat
on the N from Salesman
-
Never Cry Wolf
Posting on F
Father And Sons ( Turgenev)
-
Star Songs of an Old Primate
James Tiptree, Jr., on SonS
-
The Evening of the Holiday
Shirley Hazzard
on ...an Old Primat E
-
Years of Upheaval
by Henry Kissinger
on the Y in Holiday
-
Life and Times of Michael K
J.M. Coetzee
on Years of Upheava L
-
On K
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley
-
The Last Wife of Henry the VIII
by Carolly Erickson
L, from Foyle
-
Not sure what I'm supposed to post on. I'm going to assume I from VIII.
Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair McLean
-
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
on ZebrA
-
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
on the I from Cellini
Oh, Ice Station Zebra - one of my favorite movies. Never read the book.
-
Died in the Wool
by Ngaio Marsh
-
Light Thickens
Ngaio Marsh, on WooL
-
Light Thickens
Posting on S
The Scarlet Letter ( Hawthorn)
-
(The) Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies, on LetteR
-
Spymaster
Oleg Kalugin
on Rebel AngelS
This is biog of ex General Kalugin who spent 32 years in intelligence and espionage against the West - the KGB/CIA battles during Cold War - and his disillusion with system. Nowadays we sometimes spot him being interviewed on TV over one or other current debacle.
-
(The) Revenge of the Lawn
Richard Brautigan, on SpymasteR
-
No Country For Old Men
post on LawN
Cormac McCarthy
-
Nights of Rain and Stars
by Maeve Binchy
post on Men
-
Reflex
Dick Francis, on StaRs
-
Xavier Marmier: His Life and Travels
Xavier Marmier
on RefleX
That was a hard one !
-
Sanditon
Jane Austen, on TravelS
Gumtree, remember you can ignore E, S, X, Y, and Z if you choose.
-
on N
N***** of the Narcissus
by
joseph Conrad
-
Uncommon Law
A. P. Herbert, on NarcissUs
-
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
on the W from Law
I always loved the illustrations. This children's book must be over 30yrs old now.
-
Random Winds
by Belva Plain
R, from ARe
-
(A) Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell, on WinDs
This is actually twelve books, covering the upper class British social scene from WWII to about 1970. They are ironic and subtly humorous, with a cast of thousands and many intricately woven plot lines.
-
Where the Wild Things Are
This children's book must be over 30yrs old now.
Seeing that I read it to a daughter who is now 38, and it wasn't new then, you've got to be right. I loved the illustrations too.
-
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
R, from aRe
-
Alaska
post on RebeccA
James Michener
-
Alaska
Posting on A
All Quiet On The Western Front ( Eric Maria Remarque)
-
Torquemada at the Stake
Benito Perez Galdos
on ...Western FronT
-
(The) Kindly Ones
Anthony Powell, on StaKe
-
On S (OneS)
So Well Remembered
by
James Hilton
I too am a great fan of Maurice Sendak and Where the Wild Things Are
-
Death at the Bar
Ngaio Marsh, on RemembereD
-
Rubicon
by Tom Holland
(nonfiction)
on the r from Bar
-
Rubicon
Posting on N
Nostromo ( Joseph Conrad)
-
Othello
-
October the First is Too Late
Fred Hoyle, on OthellO
A nifty Sci-Fi story written by an astronomer, involving the possibility of multiple fractured universes, with different times and possibilities coexisting.
-
Titus Andronicus
-
(A) Sea of Words
Dean King, on AndronicuS
This is a useful reference work for Patrick O'Brian fans. It contains huge numbers of medical, scientific, geographical, culinary, nautical, etc terms from the books, with some useful articles about history, organization of the navy, sailing, medicine, etc.
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
I didn't know that Fred Hoyle wrote any SciFi. I have one of his books on astronomy.
I'm going to look up Titus Andronicus. I like Roman history.
-
Hoyle's best book, IMO, is "The Black Cloud". It's more astronomical.
-
Simple Genius
by David Baldacci
on the S from Words
Good heavens! Titus Andronicus is Shakespeare and I have it. :P Duhhh!
-
Seven Little Australians
Ethel Turner
on Simple GeniuS
this is a classic Aussie children's novel about a family living in Sydney around 1880. It was published in 1894 and has been in print continuosly ever since. Old, rare and good editions of Ethel Turner's novels are highly prized and bring very high prices at auctions all around the country. Wish I had a few.
-
(A) Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle, on AustralianS
-
Tales of the South Pacific
post on PlaneT
James Michener
-
Swiftly Tilting Planet
Posting on T
Trees ( Joyce Kilmer)
-
Salem's Lot
on TreeS
Stephen King
-
The Gilded Chamber
A novel of Queen Esther
by Rebecca Kohn
T, from LoT
-
The Gilded Chamber
Posting on R
Ragtime ( Doctorow)
-
(The) Manticore
Robertson Davies, on RagtiMe
-
R from ManticoRe
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyan
(Written by a Persian Poet 1048-1123. This book was all the rage with N.Y. adolescents of my generation. We all owned copies and walked around with them to show how "hip" we were. Oh, those were the days. Or were they?)
-
The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam
Post in M
Marjorie Morningstar ( Herman Wouk)
-
Robots and Empire
Isaac Asimov, on MorningstaR
-
Erewhon
Samuel Butler
on Robots and EmpirE
-
Neuromancer
William Gibson, on ErewhoN
-
The Revolutionary War
by Anne Todd
R, from Neuromancer
-
The Revolutionary War
Posting on R
Ragpicker's Son ( biography of Kurt Douglas)
-
Nero: Destroyer of Rome
By Julian Morgan
N, from SoN
-
The Eureka Stockade
Rafaello Carboni
on RomE
An eyewitness account of the 1854 Eureka Stockade when gold miners on the Ballarat goldfields rebelled against harsh government laws. Miners, police and military were killed. Rafaello Carboni was an Italian revolutionary who wanted the real story told. Thomas Keneally did some editorial work and wrote the introduction to an edition published in the 1990s
-
Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian, on StockaDe
-
On D from IslanD
Diary of a Young Girl
by
Anne Frank
-
Diary Of A Young girl
Posting on L
Lad, A Dog ( Albert Payson Terhune)
-
Going Postal
Terry Pratchett, on DoG
-
Lorna Doone
by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
on the L from Postal
one I would like to reread.
-
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
on Lorna DoonE
Lorna Doone brought back memories - long ago I just loved that book.
-
Night of Rain and Stars
by Binchy
on Eden
-
The Scapegoat
post on StarS
Daphne DuMaurier
-
The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough
on ScapegoaT
-
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler, on BirDs
-
The Notebook
Nicholas Sparks
on Darkness at NooN
-
kim
rudyard kipling
-
Mistress Masham's Repose
T. H. White, on KiM
Hi, bluebird!
-
Spellbound
by Nora Roberts
on the S from RepoSe
-
Death in Holy Orders
P. D. James, on SpellbounD
-
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
on ...Holy OrderS
-
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
on the Y in Boy
-
Reunion
by Therese Fowler
R, from wondeRs
-
Nightfall
Isaac Asimov, on ReunioN
Boy, I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel for Ns.
-
The Line of Beauty
Allan Hollinghurst
on NightfalL
Such a change to get L to work on -
I've been getting lots of S and Y - and I do try to use them and not invoke the SEXY rule ;) Hard sometimes!
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Tara Road
post on BeauTy
Maeve Binchy
-
Dune
Frank Herbert
on Tara RoaD
-
On E -DunE
(The) Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barberry
-
(The) Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill, on HedgehoG
-
Murder on the Links
by Agatha Christie
on Storm
-
H'mm... yet another S - on linkS
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Where is everybody? - maybe there's been a surfeit of easter eggs
-
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt, on ShantaraM
Gumtree, Wednesday is the deadline for filing Income Taxes here. All the discussions are quiet; I suspect everyone is calculating.
-
The Lost Quilter
by Jennifer Chiaverini
L, from EviL
-
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
on QuilteR
PatH : Our Income Tax day is 31st August but somehow our accountant does ours the following March and sometimes even later. ??? I guess it helps them to stagger the work over the year.
-
Don't Go Near the Water
William Brinkley, on RoaD
-
The Rose Grower
Michelle de Kretser
on...the WateR
As the cover blurb says - a tale of love, roses and the French Revolution.
-
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, on GroweR
-
Vincent and Theodore Van Gogh: a Dual Biography
by Husker
on natiVe
I'd love to read that. Poor Theodore has always interested me. What would YOU do, if you had Vincvent as a brother?
-
How green was my valley
by Richard Llewellyn.
on Gogh -- skipping the sub-title
-
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Koch
on ...ValleY
Koch has written some good stuff - this one was made into a film with Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver
-
Young at Heart: Aging Gracefully With Attitude
by Anne Snowden Crosman
on the Y from Dangerously
-
D from AttituDe
(The) Devil Wears Prada
by
Lauren Weisberger
(The movie , based on this book, was fabulous. See it and laugh or weep. Your choice. I laughed. )
-
And a Puzzle to die on
by Pernell Hall
-
Needle in a Timestack
Robert Silverberg, on oN
Boy, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel on "N"s.
-
Klondike
Pierre Berton
Story of the gold rush...
-
King Solomon's Mines
by Rider Haggard
K, from klondiKe
-
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
on ....MineS
-
Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
on the S from Letters
-
The Road From Chapel Hill
by, Joanna Catherine Scott
R, from wondeR
-
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Post on HilL
By: C.S. Lewis
-
B on WardroBe
Bedford Square
by
Anne Perry
-
Rokannon's World
Ursula K. LeGuin, on SquaRe
-
Doing Things with Texts
M. H. Abrams
on ...WorlD
Sub-title is 'Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory' grrr....
-
Temporary Kings
Anthony Powell, on TexTs
-
Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel
on Temporary KinGs
-
The Robber Barons
Matthew Josephson
on the R from Daughter
-
Napoleon Bonaparte
by Alan Schom
N, from baroNs
-
Studies in Words
C.S. Lewis
on BaronS
More erudite essays....
-
I see Fran sneaked in while I was thinking...
-
D from WorDs
Death Be Not Proud
by
John Gunther
-
Devil's Valley
Andre Brink
on ....Not ProuD
-
(The) Listener
by Taylor Caldwell
Post on L in Valley
-
(the) Reader
on ListeneR
Bernhard Schlink
-
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer, on ReadeR
-
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
on ...ReicH
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Hats Great to see you again ! ;D
-
Tis
By Frank McCourt
Saw him (via TV) at a baseball game the other day. He's gaining weight.
-
Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
on tIs
-
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
-
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis
on SocieTy
-
(The) Secret Lives of Elves and Faeres
by Rev. Robert Kirk
A document written in the 1600s on which much of modern fairy lore is based (thanks to my friend Leslie)
-
(The) Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, on DusT
-
Oops! I didn't notice the new page. That would have cost me in Rubbish!
-
(The) Rescue
post on MusketeeRs
Nicholas Sparks
-
Ulysses
by James Joyce
on the U from Rescue
-
Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
on UlyssEs
-
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
on the N from VictoriaNs
This is a novel about the evacuation of Jews from Denmark during the German occupation. In defiance of German orders (leaked to the Danish resistance ahead of time) to round up the Jews for deportation to death camps, the Danes rounded them up and evacuated as many as possible instead. They were able to do this because the Jewish community was relatively small and it was easy to get to the evacuation point quickly.
-
The Satyricon
Petronius
on Number the StarS
I didn't know that so many book titles ended with S E X or Y :o
-
Never Say Die
by Tess Garritson
I have to admit I found that on google. I knew someone had to have written a mystery with that name. Those N's!!
-
I Sailed With Chinese Pirates
Aleko Lilius, on DIe
Adventurous journa;ism in the 1920s
-
on PiraTes
Tom Swift and the Motor Cycle
by
Victor Appleton
-
(The) Lost World
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on CycLe
-
Dreaming Down Under
ed. Jack Dann & Janeen Webb
on ...WorlD
Something for the sci-fi fans - 31 stories - the dust jacket says:
This provocative anthology has it all. The editors have collected the very best of new Australian contemporary 'wild-side fiction' - fantasy, horror, magic realism, cyberpunk and science fiction
Haven't read it so can't recommend - I don't know many of the contributing authors' names let alone their work - but I don't read much of these genres.
-
Rebecca's Reward
by Lauraine Snelling
R, from UndeR
-
Dream When You're Feeling Blue
post on Reward
Elizabeth Berg - I enjoy all of her books
-
Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad
on ...BlUe
-
S from EyeS
The Stranger
by
Albert Camus
-
Room with a View
by Fitzgerald
What is "cyberpunk"?
-
(The) Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston, on VieW
-
Cyberpunk is a sub-branch of science fiction. It characteristically involves a highly computerized society, sometimes actually taking place in cyberspace, hackers, characters enhanced by computer chips, usually with a crummy, dysfunctional society (the punk) often controlled by megacorporations. The style rocketed to prominence with William Gibson's "Neuromancer" (1984) followed by "Count Zero". After a while all the books seem somewhat similar. Definitely not your cup of tea, Joan.
And for those desperate for "N"s, sorry, I already used "Neuromancer".
-
Rest in Pieces
by Rita Mae Brown
One of her Mrs. Murphy series.
on the R from WarrioR
I read part of Woman Warrior, but never finished it. Didn't appeal to me at all.
-
(The) Castle of Crossed Destinies
Italo Calvino, on PieCes
-
Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
by Katherine Frank
I, from DestinIes
-
The Idea of Perfection
Kate Grenville
on ....Nehru GandhI
More Aussie stuff- this one won the Orange Prize 1999
-
New Grub Street
George Gissing, onPerfectioN
-
T from StreeT
troubles of parents and children
by
Susan Isaacs
-
The North Shore Literary Trail: From Bradstreet's Andover to Hawthorne's Salem
by Kristin Bierfelt
This is just out and I am considering it for my to buy list. I have two other such books on my shelf and, of course, they welcome more company.
on the N in ChildreN
-
The North Shore Literary Trail
Posting on L
Lord Jim ( Joseph Conrad)
-
(The) Monkey's Wrench
Primo Levi, on JiM
-
(The) Help
by Kathryn Stockett
H, from WrencH
-
(The) Periodic Table
Primo Levi, on HelP
-
The Egoist
George Meredith
on Periodic TablE
-
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
on the T from Egoist
-
A from SeA
An Ordinary Man
by
Karel Capek
-
(The) Nazi Seizure of Power
William S. Allen, on MaN
Jude, I don't know that Capek. Have you read it?
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
A N Wilson
on Nazi Seizure of PoweR
H'mm... interesting juxtaposition of titles ???
-
Robin Hood
by Jeffrey L. Singman
R, from WindsoR
-
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
from the D in Hood
-
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
on ...AmericA
A retelling of Mallory's Morte D'Arthur - Steinbeck wrote that he wanted to bring present-day usage to the stories of King Arthur and his Knights - to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing and adding nothing.... He succeeded pretty well but I still prefer the original.
-
T from KnighTs
Tom Sawyer
by
Mark Twain
-
(The) Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers, on SawyeR
-
And now, from my philosophy collection,
Socratic Citizenship
by Dana Villa
on the S from Sands
-
"The Riddle of the Sands" , 1903, is a rather interesting book. It's a combination sailing story and spy thriller, involving young Englishmen sailing along the German coast and accidentally finding evidence of German preparations for WWI. The sailing is good and the spying is OK, and it's still a good read.
Childers is an interesting figure, starting out as a British Establishment type and ending up as an Irish nationalist who was shot in 1922 on some rather flimsy charges.
-
Pyramids
Terry Pratchett, on CitizenshiP
-
Frybabe, I think we are now scouring our libraries for titles, and it makes things even more interesting. What is "Socratic Citizenship" like?
-
PatH, never having read Riddle of the Sands, I thought from the title that it was about some mystery set in the Middle East or North Africa.
Socrates was an individualist - something of a no-no in the direct democracy of Greece at the time. He spent very little time being involved in the deliberations of the Athenian Assembly and knew little of the procedures of conducting the democracy's business. He believed that good citizenship started with the "individual moral conscience and intellectual integrity" with "civic virtues" being secondary. Civic virtues being things like community involvement, and self-sacrifice for the common good, or communalism (community centered). Socratic Citizenship has five chapters. The first is an almost 60 page attempt to describe Socratic citizenship. The last four chapters discuss the works of John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, and Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss and their struggles with "the question of philosophical citizenship in an age of democratization and "mass" politics." The author also states that "they all took strong stands on the relevance of Socratic moral individualism to modern politics. Not real lite reading.
It just occurred to me that we don't have a philosophy discussion group, do we? The closest we have is Robby's discussion group of The Story of Civilization which includes just about everything under the sink and above including philosophy.
-
I still have a copy of Riddle of the Sands though I didn't buy it in 1903... ;D It was made into a film - I can still see Michael York in the lead role - whatever his name was. Maybe I should get the DVD out of the library and watch is again.
I got all excited thinking I had a P to work on - then I saw it had gone....and I'm left with an S...
on PyramidS
The Sea The Sea
Iris Murdoch - This was her Booker Winner
-
The Andromedia Strain
by Michael Crichton
A, from SeA
-
N from StraiN
Native son
by
Richard Wright
-
No Good Deeds
by Laura Lippman
on the N from Son
Has anyone read Laura Lippmans books? I hear she is very underrated.
-
Dog Years
Gunter Grass, on DeeDs
-
Yikes ! another S ...on Dog YearS
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler
Classic Aussie play about ageing Queensland canecutters and their annual layoff. Ernest Borgnine and Anne Baxter starred in the Hollywood take...but it's far better on the stage.
-
Lobscouse and Spotted Dog
Anne Grossman and Lisa Thomas. on DolL
-
The authors of this amusing cookbook have researched just about every food mentioned in Patrick O'Brian's books (for non-fans, they're Napoleonic era sea stories) and found or concocted recipes for them. They kitchen-tested all of them, and have comments on how they taste, most being quite good, along with quotes from the book about them. The horribly fatty dessert puddings turn out to be especially tasty as leftovers, sliced and fried in butter.
-
The Great Game: Struggle for Central Asia
by Peter Hopkirk
on the G from Dog
Yikes, that's the name of a cookbook? On the same lines, I have a cookbook of recipes based on foods mentioned in Sherlock Holmes and one based on The Cat Who... series. I wonder how many cookbooks out there are inspired by works of fiction. What an interesting collection that would make.
-
The Miracle
by Danielle Steel
M, from GaMe
-
Longitude
by Dava Sobel
An interesting little book about how the problem of calculating longitude was solved. In the early days of exploration, sailors could calculate latitude, but not longitude!! Can you imagine, exploring the open ocean with little idea of where you were?
-
Eve's Ransom
George Gissing
on LongitudE
-
M from RansoM
Markings
by
Dag Hammarskjold
Two of my favorite sayings from this first president of the United Nations are found in this book
1) The Longest Journey is the Journey Inwards.
2) Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
-
Giants in the Earth
Ole Rolvaag, on MarkinGs
-
I had to read "Giants in the Earth" in high school, but I reread it as an adult, and found that it has a real power to it. It's about Norwegian immigrants settling in (I think) the Dakotas, and their hopes, problems and difficulties.
-
Honor Thy Father
by Gay Talese
on the H from Earth
-
I had a friend who was the first reporter to reach and report the plane crash which killed Hammarskjold. Years later she came to live in Aust and right up until her death a couple of years ago at 90+ she was being interviewed regularly to give her impressions and was frequently asked to write pieces about that event. She was quite a lady and highly regarded in newspaper circles - decorated by the Queen for services to journalism, honoured in South Africa - she was the full Monty.
-
Rhoda Fleming
George Meredith
on Honor thy FatheR
-
Grave Mistake
Ngaio Marsh, on FleminG
-
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
on Grave MistaKe
this is an autobiography - sub title is 'Growing out of Apartheid'.
Mathabane left the black ghetto of Johannesburg and went to the US under the auspices of tennis player Stan Smith and his wife who believed in me and gave me a new lease on life by providing me with the opportunity to realise my dream
-
You Only Live Twice
by Ian Fleming
on the Y from Boy
-
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling, on TwiCe
-
Under the Tuscan Sun
on CourageoUs
Author - Francea Mayes
-
Night of the Generals
Hans Helmut Kirst, on SuN
-
The Letters
by Luanne Rice and Joseph Monninger
L. from GeneraLs
-
Space
post on LetterS
James Michener
-
The Eye in the Door
Pat Barker
on SpacE
Second novel in the Regeneration trilogy
-
The Carousel
by Belva Plain
C, from SpaCe
-
Lewis Percy
Anita Brookner
on CarouseL
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Come Pour The Wine
by Cynthia Freeman
C, from PerCy
-
The Next Big Thing
Anita Brookner (again)
on Come Pour the WiNe
G'night...
-
Granny Dan
by Danielle Steel
G, From ThinG
-
Needful Things
by Stephen King
from the N in Dan
-
Growing Up Absurd
by Paul Goodman
on thinGs
-
D from Absurd
Days and Nights
by
Simonov
-
Street Lawyer
post on NightS
John Grisham
-
The Rules of Engagement
Anita Brookner (I'm on a roll with Anita)
on Street LawyeR
-
The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement & Misrule
by Eberstadt Nicholas
from the T in Engagement
-
L from MisruLe
Lion in the Streets
By
Judith Thompson
(A Play)
-
Three Cups of Tea
by Mortensen
on streeTs
I'm really excited about the discussion of "Three Cups of Tea" that will be starting May 1: The book is non-fiction, but is so interesting, I couldn't put it down. It's an American climber who gets lost in a small Pakistan village. When he leaves, he promises to build them a school. Although he is almost penniless, he manages in the end to build over 200 schools for girls in Pakistan and Afganistan. How he does it is an inspiration to all of us.
Join the end of the prediscussion here:
http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?topic=369.msg20784;topicseen#new (http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?topic=369.msg20784;topicseen#new)
or wait for the discussion, May 1.
-
(The) Acceptance World
Anthony Powell, on TeA
-
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
on the D from World
Have the book (along with Frankenstein) but haven't read it. My favorite dracula is Bela Legosi. And then there was the Leslie Nielson version that just cracked me up - can't remember the name of the movie.
-
Anna of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett
One of the Clayhanger series
on DraculA
Mention of Bela Legosi brought back memories - what an actor!!!
-
I re-read my post this morning and realized (oh horror) I spelled Lugosi wrong. I thought it looked a little off last night.
-
Frybabe I thought it looked odd too - but then I thought that you knew best and copied your spelling ;D
-
(The) Space Merchants
Frederick Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, on TownS
-
Santa Evita
Tomas Eloy Martinez
on Space MerchantS
-
The ABC Murders
by Agatha Christie
A, from EvitA
-
Richard III
Shakespeare, on MurdeRs
My suggestion is: either take the III as letter i, or ignore it as a number and use d.
-
Taking the D
The Diplomat
by
James Aldridge
-
Traitor To His Class
by H.W. Brands
T, from DiplomaT
-
Strong Women Stay Young
Miriam Nelson, on ClasS
-
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
on the G from Young
-
Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway
on Great ExpectationS
-
Old Wives Tale
Arnold Bennett, on KilimanjarO
-
The Lost Gospel
by Herbert Krosney
L, from TaLe
-
Listen for a Lonesome Drum
by Carl Carmer
on the L from Gospel
Carl Carmer was a folklorist. Many of his works centered in the Genesee Valley/Hudson Valley area of New York when it was just beginning to be populated with colonists. "Lonesome" is one of his books of tall tales, folk tales and "stories of religious fervor and scandal" (from the back cover). Stories include Indian as well as colonial tales.
His novel, Genesee Fever was based on a number of tales and real inhabitants of the area in those days. I don't know if it is in print at the moment, but it is a good read.
-
The Making Of a Confederate
by William L. Barney
M, from DruM
-
Esther Costello
J M Coetzee
on ...ConfederatE
-
O from Costello
Origins of the Family
by
Engels
-
(The) Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. LeGuin, on FamilY
-
The Nutmeg of Consolation
Patrick O'Brian
on ... HeaveN
-
Nightwatch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on ConsolatioN
-
HMS SURPRISE
Patrick O'Brian
on NightwatcH
-
The Irregulars
by Jennet Conant
I, from SurprIse
-
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Hoeg, on IrregularS
-
Watership Down
Richard Adams
on Smilla's Sense of SnoW - now that really is working on the S
-
The Necklace
by Cheryl Jarvis
N, from DowN
-
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
from the C in NecklaCe
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
(The) Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco, on MandoliN
-
S from RoSe
Sex in History
by
Reay Tannahill
-
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike
Not a book I like, but any R in the storm.
I see you're into Patrick O'brien today, Gumtree.
-
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Stuart Gilbert
on the N from Run
This is about the night mail plane flights to Patagonia, Chili, Paraguay, and Argentina in the early days of commercial flight.
PatH, I really enjoyed The Name of the Rose, but I just couldn't get through Eco's Foucault's Pendulum
-
The Two Towers
J. R. R. Tolkien, on FlighT
Frybabe, same here.
-
The Surgeon's Mate
Patrick O'Brian
ON Two TowerS
JoanK: Another O'Brian -His books came to mind when I noticed my Beloved One reading one of them over the weekend.
Frybabe and PatH I had the same experience with Eco...great minds as they say.
I haven't read Saint-Exupery - will look around for something by him.
-
Twilight Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on MaTe
This is the third in a trilogy by a Russian Science Fiction writer (I used Night Watch yesterday). He manages to turn the age-old conflict between good and evil into a matter of rule-ridden bureaucracy.
-
I read Saint-Exupery's "Night Flight" as a teenager. If I remember correctly, he turns flying the mail into an almost mystic crusade. Of course, given the kind of planes he was flying, it was every bit as dangerous as he said. And I read "The Little Prince" when my children read it.
I've read all the O'Brian books except the unfinished fragment. Ther'e very good.
-
PatH, My sister gave me two detective mysteries by Russian writer Boris Akunin and translated by Andrew Bromfield, The Winter Queen and The Death of Achilles. The stories are set in the late 1880s and include all the prerevolution political intrigue, and paranoia. These are part of Akunin's Fandorin mystery series. International bestsellers. Worth reading.
Off to look up Sergei Lukyanenko.
-
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
on the H from Watch
-
Hunting Eichmann
by Neal Bascomb
H, from WatcH
-
PahH, FYI when I looked up Sergei Lukyanenko on Amazon, I noticed that he now has a fourth book in the series called The Final Watch.
-
No Immunity
Susan Dunlap, on EichmanN
-
Frybabe, I have "The Death of Achilles" but haven't yet read it.
Lukyanenko is more fantasy than sci-fi--full of magic and witches and vampires and spells, with a huge cast, and a very Russian way of thinking. I gobbled up "Nightwatch" and "Daywatch", but bogged down in "Twilight Watch". They're being made into movies. I've seen "Nightwatch". It doesn't make much sense unless you've already read the book.
-
Thousand Splended Suns
probably already been done, but I can't remember it.
-
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust, on SunS. That's probably been done too, but I can't remember it.
-
The Yosemite Murders
by Dennis McDougal
on the Y from Way
-
Ride of Your Life
Lyn St James, on MurdeRs
Reminiscences of a woman Indy 500 racer.
-
The Founders On The Founders
by John P. Kaminski
F, from LiFe
-
R from FoundeR
Red Chameleon
by
Stuart Kaminsky
This is the first of a fantastic series about a Russian police Inspector in Moscow . There are 15 Inspector Rostikov novels that combine mystery, politics and personal foibles.
Kaminsky has won every national and international prize for his 50 mystery novels but I got attached to the Russian series since it went so much in depth about the day to day life of the Russian citizen and their problems. Besides they are such page turners that I usually finish them in a day or two.
-
Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories
Vladimir Nabokov
on ... ChameleoN
Lots of interesting titles mentioned above - will have to look in to these current Russians though I'll give the Lukyanenko fantasy a miss. Right now I'm deep into The Historian by Kostova and beginning to wonder whether I'll finish it. I can't take much vampire lore.
-
Imperium
by Robert Harris
I, from Stories
-
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
from the M in Imperium
-
The Nonesuch
Georgette Heyer
on ...AvaloN
Takes me back to my girlhood... :D
-
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Stephen Budiansky, on NonesucH
The subtitle tells it: "Elizabeth I, sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage". It's quite interesting.
-
Ramses11
by T. G. H. James
R, from SpymasteR
-
12 Edmonstone Street
David Malouf
on Rameses II
Autobiographical piece by Aussie - Malouf has amassed a creditable array of work and has just released a new novel which revisits the Iliad - it's been well received and my brand-new copy is right on top of my TBR stack. Malouf's writing can be very poetic.
-
There are Doors
Gene Wolfe, on StreeT
Fantasy--the doors are between parallel realities.
-
Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy
on there Are DooRs
-
Northwest Smith
C. L. Moore, on ResurrectioN
It's 1930s sci-fi
-
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
on....Smith
-
PatH Did you know that a new J R R Tolkien has been released this week? Title is The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - it seems to be Tolkien's reworking of the the Lay of the Volsungs and the Lay of Gudrun and derived from his study of the old Norse legends ...employing a verse-form of short stanzas whose lines embody in English the exacting alliterative rhythms and the concentrated energy of the poems of the Edda
I bought a copy today - it looks interesting - there are 800 stanzas and supporting notes and commentary...375 pages in all...now all I need do is find the time to read it...not really a quick read but for one who likes to read the old sagas for fun (as do you) it should be a doddle ;D
-
T from LaTe
Tarnished Icons
by
Stuart Kaminsky
-
(A) Shropshire Lad
A. E. Houseman, on IconS
-
Gumtree, thanks for alerting me. I had seen the review in Tuesday's Washington Post; they quoted a bit which seems very good indeed. I'm a little suspicious of "reworkings", but I think I'll make an exception here.
-
The Devine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
on the D from Lad
-
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot, on ComeDy
-
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
on Daniel DerondA
-
Agent Zigzag
by Ben Macintyre
A, from DerondA
-
Ghosts of Gettysburg: Walking on Hallowed Ground
by Dave Oester and Sharon Oester
on the G from Zigzag
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
D from GrounD
Defend and Betray
by
Anne Perry
-
Aeneid
Vergil, on BetraY
-
Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian
on AeneiD
-
Desert Flower
by Waris Dirie
The is her story. She is a model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa and a native of Somalia.
on the D from Island
-
Rich Man Poor Man
Irwin Shaw
on Desert FloweR
-
No But I Saw the Movie
Peter deVries, on MaN
I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel for "n"s. I've taken to browsing my shelves.
-
Evan's Gate
by Rhys Bowen
on the E from Movie
This is one of the Constable Evans Mystery series. Set in Wales.
I bought this for my Mom who is Welsh, but she didn't finish it. Apparently she didn't like so many twists and turns (or more than one subplot going on at once). One of these days I am going to borrow it back from her to read.
-
Tittivulus
(or, the Verbiage Collector), Michael Ayrton, on GaTe
Tittivulus is a minor demon who has been assigned the task of collecting the excess foolish words of mankind. Eventually the task gets too big for him and something has to be done. It's been almost 50 years since I read it, so I don't remember it well, but it was pretty funny.
-
PatH - I think you should win first prize for that one!
-
I wanted to look up Tittivulus last night, but my computer was acting up, go real, reeeeeeaaaaalllll slow on me. It was the same way this morning, so I shut down everything, including the modem (my suspect). That seems to have worked. It is fine now. I believe I will have to go modem shopping in the near future, but am putting it off as long as I can.
The Spook's Apprentice: No.1
by Joe Delaney
on the S from Tittivulus
-
Children of the Sun
Morris West
on ..Spooks ApprentiCe
- had a big day and am weary so took the easy option tonight
-
Now The Drum Of War
by Robert Roper
N, from SuN
-
Rosemarie
Erich Kuby, on WaR
-
I from RosemarIe
I, Claudius
by
Robert Graves
-
Sahara
by Clive Cussler
on the S from Claudius
-
Andivius Hedulio
Edward Lucas White, on saharA
-
I'm sure Andivius Hedulio isn't really a very good book, but it made quite an impression on me when I read it as a child. Andivius Hedulio is a roman nobleman in the time of Commodus who, falsely accused of a crime, has to flee, and has many adventures before eventually clearing himself. The book is packed with details of life and politics of the time.
-
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
on Andivius HeduliO - haven't even heard of that one...
-
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy, on LucindA
-
mark
-
South of My Days
Judith Wright
on All thePretty HorseS
This poem just popped into my head the moment I saw the S. Judith Wright was a foremost Aussie poet, interested in environment issues and preservation of wildlife - she also knew what made her country and its people.
-
Science Fiction: the Illustrated Encyclopedia
John Clute, on DayS
This is a very useful book, but has one of the most inadequate indexes I've ever seen.
-
All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
on the A from encyclopedia
-
(The) Nine Mile Walk
Harry Kemelman, on MeN
This is a book of short detective stories by the author of a series involving a Rabbi as detective (Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, etc). The short stories don't feature the Rabbi, but the title story is a little masterpiece, in which we start with a sentence (Nine miles is a long way to walk, especially in the rain.) and deduce that a murder is about to occur.
-
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
by Robert Collins
K, from WalK
-
Nine Tomorrows
Isaac Asimov, on HeaveN
-
The Small Woman
Alan Burgess
Biography of Gladys Aylward - missionary in China...
on Nine TomorrowS
-
(The) Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers, on WomaN
I'm getting desperate for Ns here.
-
R from TailoRs
Roget's Thesaurus
by
Roget
-
Good one, Jude.
Secret and Urgent
Fletcher Pratt, on ThesauruS
This is a historical story of codes and ciphers, what was invented when, how they work, how to decipher them, etc. It's way out of date for modern stuff (I read it when I was growing up, and snagged my parents' copy from the estate) but if you want to know something like how Napoleon's spies enciphered their messages and who figured out how to read them, it's pretty entertaining.
-
Travelling Sketches
Anthony Trollope
on Secret and UrgenT
-
Swan Song
John Galsworthy, on SketcheS
-
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
on the G from Song
-
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann, on GatsBy
-
The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family
by Laurence Leamer
K, from BuddenbrooKs
-
Y from FamilY
Getting Desperate-going to my professional books.
Youth and Exploitation
by
McEvoy and Erickson
-
None But The Lonely Heart
Richard LLewellyn
on ...ExploitatioN
Made into a film with Ethel Barrymore and Cary Grant...long ago
-
Three Hands in the Fountain
by Lindsey Davis
One of the Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries, this one is centered on the public water works and aquaduct systems providing water to Rome.
-
Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo
on ...FountaiN
of course, in English this one is published as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame but I'm runing out of N's
-
In Chancery
John Galsworthy, on ParIs
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Other languages are fair. I've got a German title or two waiting their chance.
-
On the R in ChanceRy
Rent Two Films and Let's talk in the Morning
by
John & Jan G. Hesley
(Bet no one ever heard of that one)
-
(The) Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi, on MorninG
You're right, Jude, I never heard of it
-
Me, either Jude -...
The Silver Castle
Clive James
on Ghost BrigadeS
-
(The) Long Divorce
Edmund Crispin, on CastLe
-
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
on DivorcE
-
Mistress to an Age: a Life of Madame de Stael
J. Christopher Herold, on EndgaMe
She was a pretty interesting person.
-
Latecomers
Anita Brookner
on...Madame de StaeL
PatH, I haven't read that biog of Madame de Stael but she was interesting - influential in her own era.
-
R from LatecomeRs
(The) Red and the Black
by
Stendhal
-
Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
on the K from Black
-
(The)39 Steps
John Buchan, on 1883
-
Playing For Pizza
by John Grisham
P, StePs
-
On Playing for PizzA
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel
MacMillan & Co., Limited
St. Martin's Street, London
1908
This copy is now 101 years old - in good condition though the pages are a trifle foxed. :)
-
DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME
by JAMES GURNEY
There is a whole series of these. I just love the name.
from the D in Wonderland.
-
Mystery Mile
Margery Allingham, on TiMe
-
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
on the E from Mile
-
(The) Nursing Mother's Companion
Kathleen Huggins, on SuN
I bet no one else had that on their list. I'm visiting my new grandson.
-
Frybabe, have you read Empire of the Sun? No wonder Ballard's Sci-Fi is so morose.
-
Never Cry Wolf
Farley Mowat
on ...CompanioN
-
No I haven't read it Empire of the Sun, Pat. I haven't seen the movie either. The movie came up in a discussion (forget which) some time ago, regarding the Japanese invasion of the China, Burma, etc. Ballard's novel is based on his experience. He and his family were interred in a Japanese prison camp, I think near Shanghai, during the war. Mr. Ballard just passed away this April at age 78.
-
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, on WolF
-
Frybabe, I haven't seen the movie, but in the book, Ballard was interned separately from his parents, and they weren't reunited until after the war. I think it happened that way, although the book seems to be only partly realistic.
-
Somehow my message disappeared.
I wanted to mention that "Empire of the Sun" is one of my favorite movies. Stephen Spielberg who produced it also said it was one of the movies he was most proud of. It is one of the few movies that gives an in-depth view of the effects of war on a young boy in a Japanese prison camp and how he copes.
Before seeing it I never understood the Kamikaze Japanese Pilots, who were no more than 17 themselves.
A fascinating movie.
On D from Crowd
(The) Don Flows Down to the Sea
by
Shalikov
-
An Accidental Man
Iris Murdoch
on ....to the SEA
-
(The) Naked Ape
Desmond Morris, on MaN
Frybabe, several people have recommended the movie to me. Guess I'd better actually watch it.
-
Pilgrimage
a Memoir of Poland & Rome
by James A. Michener
-
Good-Bye to All That
by Robert Graves
from the G in Pilgrimage
PatH, I read The Naked Ape years ago when it first came out. I remember finding it interesting at the time.
-
Grapes of Wrath
from the W in Dust Bowl
-
Hamlet
Shakespeare
on WratH
-
Tents of Wickedness
Peter deVries, on HamleT
-
The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
on WickednesS
-
On T from AgenT
(The) Time Machine
by
H.G.Wells
-
Evil Under the Sun
Agatha Christie, on MachinE
-
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook
Andrew Kippis
on Evil Under the SuN
And I just bet that no-one here has read that one ! :D
-
Knights Templar: The Essential History
by Stephen Howarth
on the K from Cook
-
Youth and Age
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
on ....HistorY
-
(The) Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Soltzhenitsyn, on AGe
-
On the O
O, Wilderness
by
Willa Cather
-
(The) Stars
H. A. Rey, on WildernesS
This is a reworking of the traditional way of viewing constellations by the author of "Curious George". I don't find it very useful, but I had already been looking at the constellations for decades by the time I saw it.
-
The Sea Gull
Anton Chekhov
on STARS
-
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin
-
(The) Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens, on ManifestO
-
The Philosopher's Pupil
Iris Murdoch
On ...SHOP
-
(The) Last of the Mohicans
James Fennimore Cooper, on PupiL
-
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
on the S from Mohicans
-
(The) Thirteen Clocks
James Thurber, on SensibiliTy
The villain in this fairy tale says: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked."
-
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
on ...ClocKs
PatH - I enjoyed Thurber very much - will never forget 'The Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma' - lots of others too. When my son was stage-struck during his university days he played in one of Thurber's sketches - of course I thought he was the next Olivier :D
-
(The) Deep Range
Arthur C. Clarke, on KidnappeD
-
Barbara StAubrey was talking of doing Thurber's "The Night the Bed Fell" in her humor series.
-
On G from RanGe
Go tell It on the Mountain
by
James Baldwin
-
No Night Without Stars
Andre Norton, on MountaiN
Boy, the Ns are getting harder and harder.
-
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
on...StarS
-
Evans Above
by Rhys Bowen
on the E from Carrie
-
Posting on E from Evans Above
Erewhom ( Samuel Butler)
-
Mr.Jefferson's Women
by Jon Kukla
M, from ErewhoM
-
Notes From Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
on the N from Women
-
A Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes
on... UndergrounD
-
On D from MethoD
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
My ComCast connection is on and off for the past three days. Hope this gets through.
-
The Admirable Crichton
James Matthew Barrie
on DraculA
-
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
on the N from Crichton
-
Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
on "y' in Abbey
-
The Rape of Lucrece
William Shakespeare
on Yellow WallpapeR
Hi Bellemere good to see you here.
-
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
on the C from LucreCe
-
Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde
on Charlotte's WeB
-
(The) Last Man
Mary Shelley, on GaoL
-
Did you know that Mary Shelley wrote an apocalyptic novel about the end of humanity? I didn't until recently. I've got it now, but haven't read it yet.
-
On N in MaN
Native Son
by
Richard Wright
Cable Guy came and fixed all the problems. no more lost messages.
-
The Night Villa
Carol Goodman
-
Just a digression: Who said "Reader, I married him"?
-
Aaak! I know I know that, but can't come up with it.
-
Animals Without Backbones
Buchsbaum, on VillA
This picture-filled book was kicking around my house when I was growing up. I still have it. The taxonomy is out of date now, but the protographs are still good.
-
C'mon PatH, dig a little. Not that many characters adressed "reader"
-
Reader, I married him.
Jane Eyre said it - she was referring to Mr. Rochester at the end of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
I love it - it goes on - Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk were alone present.
-
She
H Rider-Haggard
on ...BackboneS
-
Hogfather
Terry Pratchett, on SHe
-
I recently watched the 1935 movie of "She". It's pretty corny, but has some merit too. The beautiful eternal temptress She is played by Helen Gahagan Douglas, who later turned to politics and served two terms in Congress as Representative for the State of California before being defeated by Richard Nixon in a bid for the Senate.
-
I read the book, She, when I was a teenager. Unfortunately, it is not one of Dad's books that I still have. Don't know what ever happened happened to it. It is one worth reading again along with his King Solomon's Mines.
-
I read them as a teenager too, and mean to reread them some day.
-
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin
on the A from Nana
-
Green Mansions
by W.H. Hudson
on the G from Dying
Here is another of Dad's books I read as a teenager. It deserves another read, too. I still have the book.
-
The Source
James A Michener
On MansionS
-
On C from SourCe
The Call of the Wild
by
Jack London
I too loved "Green Mansions" as a teenager.
Don't want to reread it. Like to keep the memory as it is.
-
JudeS, I remember not understanding all of what was going on in the book. It seems to me there was an old movie made of Green Mansions. All I remember of that was when they burned the tree down that the main character (and his girl?).
-
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick, on WilD
This book was the basis for the movie "Blade Runner".
-
All I remember of that was when they burned the tree down that the main character (and his girl?).
I see I never completed that thought! ...had climbed to avoid capture.
-
The Possessed
Fyodor Dostoevski
...Electric SheeP
-
The Diary
by Eileen Goudge
D, from posseD
-
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
J. D. Salinger, on DiaRy
-
Sons and Lovers
D H Lawrence
on ...CarpenterS
-
Ramuntcho
Pierre Loti, on LoveRs
JoanK and I had to read this in French class, and the vocabulary was so much beyond what everyone knew that it took forever to slog through a page. Joan found this challenging and I found it discouraging.
-
On O
The Origin of the Species
by
Charles Darwin
-
(The) Sot Weed Factor
John Barth, on SpecieS
-
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
R, from FactoR
-
(The) Tin Drum
Gunter Grass, on TenT
-
The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty
by William Bligh
on the M from Drum
-
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Stephen Jay Gould, on BounTy
Frybabe, were you part of the old SeniorNet discussion of Bligh's book? It was pretty interesting.
-
No, Pat, I missed that. The closest I got was Treasure Island ;D, the first book discussion in which I participated. I think Bligh was before I joined.
-
Yes, the Bligh discussion was really good. Bligh's history has plenty of resonances for Aust. - he was one of the early Colonial Governors here.
Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
on ...CyclE
-
The Letters
by Luaane Rice and Joseph Monninger
L, from PeopLe
-
(The) Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell, on LetteRs
-
Relic
by Preston and Childes
on the R from Pier
-
Coming Up for Air
George Orwell, on ReliC
-
Rebecca's Reward
by Lauraine Snelling
R, from AiR
-
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
on the D from Reward
-
On D from RewarD
Daisy Miller
by
Henry James
-
OOps-the phone rang when I was in the middle of writing my reply so I entered the same reply as Frybabe.
I'll let the next person choose which answer they wish to choose for their book.
-
Romola
George Eliot, on MilleR
-
The old Rubbish rules were: you post on the last thing you see. If the phone rings, and you don't see a later post, that's OK. If you go to post and see a mess, you don't have to sort out whether the last post is valid, you just post on the last one anyway. Anything else is too confusing.
-
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
On RomolA
-
A Year in Provence
by Peter Mayle
on the Y in Grey
-
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card, on ProvencE
-
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"
_Marx
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
on W
Barbara Tuchman! What a masterful historian. My favorite was Guns of August, but I loved all her books.
-
Brllemere-
Which Marx was that?
I can't believe it was Karl Marx so was it Groucho Marx?
G from meaninG
Grimm's Fairy Tales
by
J & W Grimm
-
Yes, it was Groucho, wisest of all the Marxes.
-
Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Gaskell
on...Fairy TaleS
-
Symposium
Plato
on :S from Lovers
-
Madame Bovary
Gustav Flaubert
on SymposiuM
-
Rats, Lice, and History
Hans Zinsser, on BovaRy
It's pretty old-fashioned now, but this humorous, rambling discussion of the effects of infectious disease read very well in its time.
-
Yiddish Policeman's Union
by Michael Chabon
on the Y from History
-
On N in UnioN
Naked
by
David Sedaris
-
Dance With Me
by Luanne Rice
D, from nakeD
-
Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
Judith Martin, on Me
-
Wonderful titles cropping up...
The Reader
by either Robert Louis Stevenson
or more recently Bernhardt Schlink
-
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer
-
Who said "That day, we read no further."?
-
Hornblower and the Atropos
C. S. Forester, on ReicH
-
That day we read no farther
I think it's Dante (Inferno probably), but I know (or think) it also appears in Boccacio's Decameron
-
The Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - based on a true account
or under the same name a parable in the Eygptian Book of the Dead
on AtropoS
-
Rest in Pieces
by Rita Mae Brown
on the R from Sailor
-
(The) Essential Haiku
(Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited by Robert Hass, on PiecEs
-
on U from HaikU
Under the Tuscan Sun
by
Frances Mayes
-
"That Day we read no further'
Yes, the lovers Paolo and Francesca in Dante's Inferno.
Very good. ]
Who said: A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
-
A Nervoud Splendor
Frederic Morton
on the N in Sun
-
(A) Rare Benedictine
Ellis Peters, on SplendoR
Great quote, bellemere, too bad I don't know who said it.
-
It's Kafka
-
The Erl King
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
on Rare BenedictinE
-
Yes, the frozen sea qoute is Franz Kafka, in a personal letter to a friend. I think you are on to me, Gumtree!
-
Great Expectations, hope it's not been used already.Charles Dickens
on G in
Erl King.
Who said "I'll drown my book" ?
-
Nights In Rodante
by Nicholas Sparks
N, from ExpectatioNs
-
Essay on Man
Alexander Pope
On ...RodantE
-
Bellemere: Now you've got me trying to remember my schoolgirl Shakespeare...
But this rough magic
I here adjure; and when I have requir'd
Some heav'nly music which even now I do,
(To work mine end upon their senses that
this airy charm is for) I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book
Prospero in The Tempest.
-
Night of the Living Dead
John Russo, on MaN
You can see how desperate for Ns I am.
Bellemere, I like your quote quizzes, even though I haven't gotten any yet. I sort of recognized drowning my book, though.
-
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
on the D from Dead
-
(The) Talisman Italian Cookbook
Ada Boni, on PoinT
Kind of the Italian equivalent of Fanny Farmer
-
King's Row
"Where's the rest of me?"
on the K from cookbook
Had to look up the author, is that cheating" \
Henry Bellaman
Who said "Walden" is the only book I own."?
-
Bellemere : You've got me on this one...for a while there I thought you had the inside track to my mind. ;)
-
The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
on King's Row
maybe I should have put up Walden
-
E. B. White said Walden was the only book he owned "although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves."
in a New yorker article
Does he mean that he borrowed a lot of books" And didn't return them?
I love Walden, both the book and the lake. I swam there as a kid, and saw the little pile of stones marking the site of Henry David's house. It is still a beautiful spot, even though it is now a state park. Not many people know he walked into Concord evry week with his laundry for the family to do. That he sometimes stopped the freight train that ran along the far side of the lake, just to talk to the engineer. That my son's freshman dorm building at Harvard was also Henry's: that the old pump outside was where he shaved. ( Not my kid, just Henry. )
-
Doctor Zhivago, on the D in worlds.
Boris Pasternak.
Who is lucky to get the O?
-
Old Goriot
Honore de Balzac
on ZhivagO
I prefer the French title - Le Pere Goriot - but am happy to have the O
Bellemere -enjoyed your Walden/Thoreau story -
-
(The) Tritonian Ring
L. Sprague de Kamp, on GorioT
-
I'll bet E. B. White meant that he "owned" Walden in a mental or emotional sense--that he had made it "his" by absorbing it completely or believing it totally or trying to follow its message.
When my sister JoanK lived in Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan, she always had a copy of "Walden" in her purse to read on the subway as an antidote.
I've seen the pond, in the fall when the leaves were turning, and the little house (or maybe it's a replica) he lived in. You're right, bellemere, it's beautiful.
-
The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
part of that monumental series. Today not much read.
except by maybe doctoral candidates.
-
Who said, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised."
-
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar, on StorM, sorry about the N
-
My favorite book of recent years. Subject of a Great Books Institute in Connecticut two years ago.
-
Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
on Memoirs of HadriaN - another O
As for the quotation...I know who said it...I think -it's on the tips of my fingers...I guess it'll come to me later - probably when I'm in the shower ;D
-
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson, on NostromO
I had to look up the author of that one, too.
-
Rumpole of the BAiley
John Mortimer
-
(The) Embarassment of Riches
Simon Schama, on BailEy
-
Sergeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden
on...of RicheS
This play about military occupation and murder of civilians has resonances in real life today.
-
Herod the Great
by Richard Greene
H, from ricHes
-
Three to Get Deadly
by Janet Evanovich
on the T from Great
-
The Yearling
by
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
On the Y from Deadly
-
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, on YearlinG
-
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
on the L from Steel
-
Aeneid
Virgil
on ...CholerA
-
Death of a Peer
Ngaio Marsh, on AeneiD
-
On R from PeeR
The Red and the Black
by
Stendhal
-
Katz und Maus
Gunter Grass, on BlacK
The German is relativly easy reading, but I have to admit I read most of it in English.
-
Ultima Thule
Henry Handel Richardson
on ... MAUS
One from the trilogy - The Fortunes of Richard Mahony - brilliant depiction of early Australia.
-
Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens, on ThulE
We're soon to discuss this on SL.
-
The Diary
by Eileen Goudge
D, from DrooD
-
checking back in after a few days away. Helen Keller said "Literature is my utopia" from "The Story of My Life" . Wonderful thought.
-
The Yankee Years
Joe Torre
on Y in diary
-
On R from YeaRs
The Republic
by
Plato
-
Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, on RepubliC
-
The Red Prince
by Timothy Snyder
R, from RYE
-
Cinderella
Charles Perrault
on The Red PrinCe
-
Agincourt
by Bernard Cornwell
A, from cinderellA
-
Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly
by Richard B. Spence
on the T from Agincourt
Reilly, sometimes called the Ace of Spies or a real life James Bond (PBS did a series on him), was more likely to be a Russian double agent.
-
Longitude
Dava Sobel
on ...ReilLy
-
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis, on LongituDe
-
King Solomons Mines
by
Haggard
On K from BooK
-
No, but I Saw the Movie
Peter deVries, on MiNes
-
Now the Drum of War
by Robert Roper
N, from miNes
-
The Road from Courain
by Jill Kerr Conway
from r in war.
-
New Menus from Simca's Cuisine
Simone Beck, on CouraiN
You can see how desperate I'm getting for Ns; I'm scanning my bookshelves.
-
The Night of the Generals
by Hans Hellmut Kirst
on the N from CuisiNe
-
Shame
Salman Rushdie
on Night of the GeneralS
-
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen, on ShaMe
-
King Lear
Shakespeare
on Mansfield ParK
-
Rome's Greatest Defeat
by Adrian Murdoch
R, from LeaR
-
The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo
on the T from DefeaT
-
PatH
Just started to scan your bookshelves now? I've been scanning for a while now as I'm sure are others.Here's an example:
On O from Polo
The Oppositional Child
by
Randall Braman
-
Death at Sandringham House
C. C. Benison, on ChilD
Jude, I've been scanning my bookshelves for some time too, I'm just getting more desperate.
-
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
E from House
-
Road Rage
Ruth Rendell, on AffaiR
-
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
on Road RagE
I look around the shelves sometimes too but what amazes me is how often an appropriate title comes immediately to mind - one I haven't thought of or read in years - and seems to be triggered by the preceding title. Like just now - Road Rage triggered Gray's Elegy. Weird!!
-
Descartes on Polyhedra
A Study of the De Solidorum Elementis
P. J. Federico, on ChurchyarD
That one's definitely off my shelves. (P. J. Federico was my father). Your choice to use the A or the IS.
I'm surprised how often I walk over to a shelf and somehow that makes an unrelated book pop into my mind.
-
Alice, Let's Eat
by Calvin Trillin
on A in polyhedra
-
Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener, on EaT
-
The Class
bt Eric Segal
C, from PacifiC
-
(A) Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton, on ClasS
X is optional, but here's your big chance if you've got one.
-
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
by Robin Waterfield
on the X from AppomattiX
-
Gulliver's Travels
Johnathan Swift, on AGe
I really set that up for you, didn't I, Frybabe, but it wasn't deliberate.
-
PatH So you and Joan come from a famous stable - I googled your Dad - very impressive. Which came first with him - the patents or the math?
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
Gulliver's TravelS
-
(The) Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. LeGuin, on SnoW
-
Gumtree, his career was in Patent Law, which he entered by the then common route of getting a B.S. in Physics, going to work at the Patent Office, and getting a law degree at night. He got a Master's degree in Math at night too, but the math was mostly a hobby, and many of the math papers were written after he retired.
It was a good family for bookworms, as he loved to share his wide-ranging interests with us, and our mother, who had been a librarian, filled in the rest.
-
Thanks for that Pat - amazing what one can achieve with some hard work and dedication. You must be very proud of him.
-
Taras Bulba
Nikolai Gogol
on ...ForesT
-
Asterix le Gaulois
or, if you prefer, Asterix the Gaul
Goscinny and Uderzo
On BulbA
-
This is the first of a series of French hardback comic books about a small outpost in Gaul, unconquered by Julius Caesar, who sometimes appears, and the hero Asterix who lives there. They are full of social satire, political satire (most of which I don't get), jokes, puns in French and occasionally in Latin (I don't get these either). They are available in English, but seem funnier in French, maybe because you have to work so hard to read them.
-
Obviously I prefer the L from Gaul .I can think of a whole slew of LLLLLLLLLs
Little Men
by
Louisa May Alcott
-
Curses, another N.
New Maps of Hell
Kingsley Amis, on MeN
It's an analysis of Science Fiction writing up to 1960.
-
Now, Discover Your Strengths
by, Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
N, from meN
-
Horrors! One of us wasted an N! Anyway, this gives a choice of O, E, or S.
Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes
Stephen Jay Gould, on StrengtHs
-
Scaramouche
Rafael Sabatini
on Horse's ToeS
I must re-read Scaramouche someday...
-
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum
by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
from the H in ScaramoucHe
in keeping with our discussion group, The Night Villa.
-
(A) Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie, on HerculaneuM
-
Daisy Miller
Henry James
on announceD
-
Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust
on the R from MilleR
-
The Betrayal
by Beverly Lewis
T, from PasT
-
Life With Father
Clarence Day, on BetrayaL
-
Romeo and Juliet
(Forgotten Books)
by William Shakespeare
R, from FatheR
-
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, on JulieT
-
On E from TalEs
Ethan Frome
by
Edith Wharton
-
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson, on FroMe
-
Vesuvius, A.D. 79: The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum
by Ernesto De Carolis and Giovanni Patricelli
from the V in OverDriVe
-
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
on ...HerculaneuM
-
(A) Severed Head
Iris Murdoch, on FlosS
-
Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
on the D from HeaD
-
American Wife
by, Curtis Sittenfeld
A, from DerondA
-
Yea an F -from WiFe
Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
-
Yes, but that sticks me with an N.
(The) New York Times Cookbook
Craig Claiborne, ed, on FrankensteiN
-
Krazy Kat
by George Herriman
on the K from CookbooK
Remembering the old cartoons.
-
Good one, Frybabe!
Topaze
Marcel Pagnol, on KaT
This was a book before it was a movie. We had to read it in French class. Now you've got a choice of 3 letters.
-
I'll take that lovely Z
Zapata
John Steinbeck
-
On A
The Art of War
by
Sun Tzu
-
The Romanovs
by Lindsey Hughes
R, from waR
-
(The) Valley of Fear
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on RomanoVs
-
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood
Valley of FeaR
-
Dame Aux Camilias
on briDe
-
(The) Age of Reform
(England 1815-1870) Llewellyn Woodward, on CamelliAs
-
Murder At The Mikvah
by Sarah Segal
on the M from ReforM
-
(The) Hero With a Thousand Faces
John Campbell, on MikvaH
This is a fascinating description of the common elements of the hero in legend myth, folklore, religion, etc.
-
On S from FaceS
Snow
by
Orham Pamuk
-
Working
Studs Terkel, on SnoW
-
Gerontion
T S Eliot
ON..WorkinG
-
Nazi Games
by David Clay
N, from GerontioN
-
Mrs McGinty's Dead
by Agatha Christie. on gaMes.
Do join our PBS Christie discussion.
-
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
on the D from DeaD
I liked this one as much as The Da Vinci Code. Angels and Demons was good, but a little over the top in spots. I have not yet read Digital Fortress. Brown was supposed to have another book coming out, but I haven't check lately (forgot due date).
-
Thirty Days to magnificent Spanish
on poinT
-
His Last Bow
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on SpanisH
-
Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
on the W from BoW
-
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain, on NoveL
-
"I Am A Man"
by Joe Starita
I, from MississippI
-
New Complete French Grammar
Fraser, Squair, and Coleman, on MaN
How desperate can you get?
-
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
on the R from Grammar
-
They Do it with Mirrors
by Agatha Christie
on tenT
-
Rembrandt's Eyes
Simon Schama, on MirroRs
-
Yellow Wallpaper (The)
by Gelman
on eYes
-
Romola
George Eliot, on WallpapeR
-
All the kings men
on romulA
-
Curses, another N!
No Night Without Stars
Andre Norton, on MeN
Andre Norton writes Sci-Fi that tends to be about people talking to cats.
-
R from StaRs
Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
-
(The) Once and Future King
T. H. White, on CrusOe
-
Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling
on ... Future KinG
-
Gumtree, you just used that one because it ends in N.
Night of Masks
Andre Norton, on DiN
-
We've got to keep you on your toes Pat - S is just as bad.
The Stranger
Albert Camus
on Night of MaskS
-
Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey, on StrangeR
-
The Geometry of Sisters
by Luanne Rice
G, from SaGe[/i]
-
Rubinstein: A Life in Music
by Harvey Sachs
on the R in Sisters
-
Capitalism and the Material Life 1400-1800
Fernand Braudel, on MusiC
This book wins my prize for the most unreadable book I've ever attempted to read. It's so densely written that even one sentence makes you dizzy, and you can hardly get through a whole paragraph.
-
Oh great, PatH, I have his "Civilization and Capitalization: 15th to 18th Century", three volumes which have been sitting on my general world history bookshelf for years, UNREAD. Maybe they will stay that way.
-
His book on the Mediterranean is actually quite readable.
-
The Egoist
George Meredith
on Material LifE
-
(The) Trial
Franz Kafka, on EgoisT
-
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
on the L from Trial
-
Idylls of the King
on pI
-
(The) Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi, on KinG
-
The Snow Goose
Paul Gallico
on Ghost BrigadeS
PatH :How you love to give me S
Haven't thought of the Snow Goose for years and there it was right in the front of my mind... weird.
-
I've had that happen a lot in this game--the subconscious at work.. You could always play by the rules the rest of us are using and make S optional.
-
Eleven on Top
Janet Evanovich, on GoosE
-
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
on the P from ToP
Don't forget to join the discussion which starts, I think, July 15.
-
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah, on BooK
-
Six Degrees of Separation
by Sue Henry
on hourS
-
(The) New York Times Complete Manual of Home Repair
Bernard Gladstone, on SeparatioN
How's that for desperate?
-
Sorry, Pat-- didn't notice I was giving you an "N".
Rabbit, Redux
by John Updike
on repaiR
-
Think you've got me stumped for an X?
Xenocide
Orson Scott Card, on ReduX
-
Remember SEXY, you could have skipped it. But not for you the cowards way!
Death of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
on ciDe
-
Rifleman Dodd
C. S. Forester, on StrangeR
-
Dead Until Dark
by Charlaine Harris
on the D from DodD
-
Kalendargeschichten
(Calendar Tales) Bertoldt Brecht, on DarK
Sorry for the N
-
Nefertiti
by Michelle Moran
N, from KalendargeschichteN
-
(The) Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells, on NefertitI
-
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
on the U from Moreau
-
Nicholas Nickelby
Charles Dickens
on Uncle Tom's CabiN
-
Bartleby the Scrivener
Herman Melville, on NickelBy
-
R. U. R.
by Karel Capek (actually, a play. Is that within the rules?)
on scriveneR
-
That's not the first play to be used, Joan. And since I own a copy of R.U.R. as a solo paperback, that definitely makes it a book. You ought to read it--you'd like the sociology.
-
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
on R.U.R.
-
Group Portrait with Lady
or
Gruppenbild mit Dame
Heinrich Boll, on CouraGe
That gives you a choice of 4 letters.
-
Daughter of York
by Anne Easter Smith
D, from Lady
-
King Solomon's Mines
on yorK
-
Spook Country
William Gibson, on MineS
-
You Only Live Twice
Ian Fleming
Y, from CountrY
-
Corelli's Mandolin:
by Louis de Bernières
on the C from TwiCe
-
Night and Day
Virginia Woolf
on ...MandoliN
-
America 1908
by Jim Rasenberger
on dAy
-
84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
on the 8 from 1908
I never did get to see the whole movie, just bits. Has anyone read the book?
-
Good one, Frybabe, I was debating what to do about the numbers.
Drink to Yesterday
Manning Coles, on RoaD
-
Manning Coles was actually two people, Cyril Henry Coles and Adelaide Oke Manning. "Drink to Yesterday" was the first in a series of spy stories, and is based in part on Coles' experiences in WWI. It and the sequel, "A Toast to Tomorrow", are fairly realistic; from then on the stories get fluffier, but I still found them amusing when I read them a lifetime ago. "A Toast to Tomorrow" presented a good picture of Germany between the wars, useful to me as background.
-
A Thread of Truth
by Marie Bostwick
A, from YesterdAy
-
Hard Times
Charles Dickens
on ... TrutH
-
Murder is Easy
by Agatha Christie
on tiMes
Clever with the 8. I just assumed you would ignore the 1908 and go for the title.
-
Yes I Can
Sammy Davis Jr.
on the Y from EasY
-
Not Negotiable
Manning Coles, on CaN
-
The Lost History of Christianity
by Philip Jenkins
L, from NegotiabLe
-
Yiddish Policeman's Union
by Michael Chabon
on the Y from ChristianitY
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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.
** You may choose to IGNORE any title ending in S E X Y and Z
*** You may ignore numbers and take the next letter back..
How far can we go?
Let's find out.
Enjoy!
Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact Ginny (gvinesc@gmail.com)
Night train to Paris
Manning Coles, on UnioN
Whew! I had another N.
-
and another S for me - ???
Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
Nobel Prize winning author...difficult novel
-
And another N for me.
Not for Export
Manning Coles, on MountaiN
-
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
on the T from ExporT
-
Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, on WiFe
-
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
on...MaddingCrowd
-
Show No Hurt
by Peri Shaunessy
on profundiS
-
The Red Tent
by Anita Diamany
R, from HuRt
-
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
on the T from TenT
-
Where is everybody? So, another N for me...Pat will remember this one-
Night's Black Agents
Fritz Leiber
from ....in BrooklyN
Leiber's title was taken from Macbeth -
Good things of day begin to droop and drowse
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse
-
The Thirteen Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian, on AgenTs
-
Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen
on ...Gun SalutE
Hi PatH - I thought you had packed and gone somewhere ?
-
Enemy Mine
Barry B. Longyear
on the E from PeoplE
-
Never Tell a Lie
by Hallie Ephron
N, from MiNe
-
Ice Station Zebra
by Alistair MacLean on lIe
-
YES! one of my favorite movies - Ice Station Zebra.
Artemis Fowl: The Seventh Dwarf
by Eoin Colfer
Has anyone read any of the Artemis Fowl series? Any good? Just love that name
-
Forever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor
on dwarF Since we're on books made into blockbuster movies.
-
The Romanovs
by Lindsey Hughes
R, from AmbeR
-
Valley of the Dolls
by Jacqueline Susann
on the V from RomanoVs
This was THE hot book to read when I was in high school. Naturally, I didn't read it.
-
No, Frybabe nor did I ;)
So I get another S
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence.
on ...DollS
-
Scarpetta
by Patricia Cornwell
S, from loverS
-
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
on the A from ScarpettA
This is in my TBR pile. It looks daunting. Not a book I can put in my purse to carry with. (I go nowhere without a book - just in case).
-
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
-
Life is a Dream
(La Vida Es Sueno) Pedro Calderon de la Barca, on NiLe
-
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
by Patrick K. Ford
on the M from DreaM
-
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
L, from TaLes
-
on I from Mississippi
I Try to take One Day at a Time
(But Sometimes Several Days Attack Me At Once.)
by
Ashleigh Brilliant
One of those books that can make you smile even on the worst days. Worth while having on your shelf.
-
My Antonia
Willa Cather, on TiMe
Jude, if that book is as good as the title, it must be pretty amusing.
-
American Heroes
by Edmund S. Morgan
A, from AntoniA
-
Another S for me - H'mmm
Sweeney Todd
Christopher Bond - play
On American HeroeS
-
On D from Todd
Diary of the Sinai Campaign 1956
by
General Moshe Dayan
(You can choose to use the 6 or the N from Campaign)
-
6 Rainier Drive
by Debbie Macomber
part of the Cedar Cove series
on the 6 from 1956
-
On E from DrivE
End of Days
by
Zecharia Sitchin
-
Alone
Richard E. Byrd, on DAys
Boy, I hadn't thought about that one in decades, read it when I was growing up, and all of a sudden it popped int my head.
-
Egypt After The Pharaohs
by Alan K Bowman
E, after AlonE
-
Hill Country: A Novel
by Janice Woods Windle
on the H from PharaoHs
-
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
on noveL
-
Envy
by Sandra Brown
on the E from DovE
-
Voss
Patrick White, on EnVy
-
Songs of Innocence
by William Blake
on vosS
-
on C from InnocenCe
Cry the Beloved Country
by
Alan Paton
Does that ring a bell for any of you? Adolescent influences for me.
-
Relentless
by Dean Koontz
R, from CountRy
-
Life Sentences
by Laura Lippman
on relentLess
Jude: I read "Cry the Beloved Country" a few years ago. I thought it was a really excellant book, and added a lot to my understanding of South Africa.
-
(A) Swiftly Tilting Planet
Madeleine L'Engle, on SentenceS
-
Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
on planeT
-
S from JoneS
Sleeping Murder
by
Agatha Christie
-
The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood ;D
on Sleeping MurdeR
-
Dead in the Water
by Julie Smith
on briDe
I think I posted Dead in the Water by Stabenow, but this is a different book, by Julie Smith. According to Fantastic Fiction, there are 13 books by that title. I won't post the othr 11.
-
(The) Raphael Affair
Iain Pears, on WateR
Ok, Joan, but if I ever come across 13 books with the same title beginning with N, I'm going to ue every last one of them.
-
Relentless
by Dean Koontz
on the R from AffaiR
-
Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers
by Bryan Mark Rigg
L, from RelentLess
-
Summer
Edith Wharton
on ...SoldierS
I love doing battle with the demon S
-
Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
Don't forget you can skip the S if you want.
PatH: do you still have the t-shirt that reads "I run with scissors"?
-
I have a tee shirt that says "Runs with Scissors". It comes with a history.
Roman Britain: A New History
by Guy de la Bedoyere
on the R in ScissoRs.
Interesting book.
-
R from HistoRy
(The) Rights of Man
by
Thomas Paine
Wasn't sure if we are allowed to overlook the word THE. I hope so.
-
No Entry
Manning Coles, on MaN
Yes, Jude, the, a, and an can be ignored. As can "S" if you're not being such a purist, Gumtree.
Frybabe, I also have a T-shirt "Runs With Scissors", which comes with a happy history. When I wear it in public, I am sometimes stopped by teachers with appreciative comments.
-
;D Tee Hee, Pat
-
I'm far from being a 'purist' but it's something of a challenge to find the titles for SEXY - sometimes I have to look around the shelves...
The Young Tsar
Leo Tolstoy
on No EntrY
Please share the story of the 'Run with Scissors' - I'm completely in the dark on that.
-
Roadside Crosses
by Jeffery Deaver
R, from TsaR
-
I'm not sure you really want to know, Gum. Ok, first off, all my cats were/are "fixed". Then there was my ex who decided to become a woman. After the divorce, my new boyfriend remarked about all the males in my life (cats and ex) seem to get neutered. The first night I moved to Allentown, I managed to slice my finger on a sharp knife. The finger required four stitches. After that, my boyfriend decided I should not be allowed any sharp instruments and kept a "sharp" eye on me any time I grabbed one of the kitchen knives. And lastly, one of my fellow co-workers passed behind me while I was holding a scissors, just as I turned around. The scissors almost clipped him in his private parts. So you see, the tee shirt comes with a history. Everybody at work who was around long enough knows the history and think it's riot.
-
Orsinian Tales
Ursula K. LeGuin, on CrOsses
-
Frybabe, your story way tops mine--a whole different league. Thanks for sharing.
When my youngest daughter got married 13 years ago, one of the mementos she had for the bridal party was t-shirts with various comments that might have been written in a kindergarten evaluation. The only other one I remember is "does not play well with others". Anyway, I got a leftover "runs with scissors", and it reminds me of that happy wedding, leading to the current happy marriage. It's a good quality shirt, too, still looks OK.
-
The Lost History Of Christianity
by Philip Jenkins
L, from TaLes
-
You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
by Christopher Potter
on the Y from ChristianitY
It may be necessary to add this to the science section of my library. ;D
-
(The) Egg and I
by betty Macdonald
on universE. If you've been hoping for an I, here it is.
-
I'll take the I and be glad of it - makes a nice change from S
The Iliad
Mr. Homer
on Egg and I
-
Dyed in the Wool
by Ngaio Marsh
Mr. Homer, indeed!
-
Luck of Roaring Camp
Bret Harte, on WooL
Short stories about the Gold Rush
-
Wow a P !!From CamP
Pippi Longstockings
by
Astrid Lingren
Such a great book.
-
(The) Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi, on LongstockinG
Second in a trilogy of 4 (sometimes you get carried away) excellent Space Operas.
-
Frybabe & PatH Thanks for the 'scissors' stories. They were both great, each in their own way.
Another S for me -
Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Gaskell
on Ghost BrigadeS
-
(A) River Runs Through It
by Norman McLean
on loverS
A book on trout fishing that was made into a wonderful movie. This inspired me to order the book from Amazon.
-
Temporary Kings
Anthony Powell, on IT
-
The Great Decision
by Cliff Sloan and David Mckean
G, from KinGs
-
On N from DecisioN
Notes from the underground
by
Dostoevsky
-
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
on the D from UndergrounD
-
The Taming of the Shrew
Wm. Shakespeare
on Deception PoinT
-
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Arthur Ransome, on ShreW
Another in a series of children's sailing stories
-
Asbury Park (NJ) : A Brief History
by Joseph Bilby and Harry Ziegler
on the A from SeA
This seems to be the latest book on Asbury Park. The number of books written about Asbury Park indicates how much loved it was/is. Didn't Anthony Bourdain visit in his show on New Jersey?
-
(The) Red and the Black
by Stendahl
on histoRy -- I seem to get nothing but Rs
-
Kingmakers
by Karl E. Meyer & Shareen Blair
K, from BlacK
-
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
on the S from KingmakerS
This is what you might call a prequel to Lord of the Rings since it is set in a time before the Ring in what the people of Middle Earth call Elder Days. If I remember correctly it was unfinished when Tolkien died. It is on my shelf, somewhere, to read.
The Kingmakers is also waiting to be read.
-
On N
No Country for Old Men
by
Cormac McCarthy
-
Night Watch
on MeN
I know I've already posted that, but I own 2 books called "Night Watch", one by Terry Pratchett and one by Sergei Lukyanenko. This is whichever one I didn't post before.
-
Hansel and Gretel
on Night WatcH
by the Brothers Grimm
-
The Last Indian War
by Elliot West
L. from GreteL
-
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel DeFoe
on ...Indian WaR
-
Out Of Captivity
by Marc Gonsales,Keith Stansell and Tom Howes with Gary Brozek
O, from Crusoe
-
On T in CaptiviTy
Trapped in the Mirror
by
Elan Golomb Ph.D
(Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self)
-
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott
on Trapped in the MirroR
-
Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle, on ROy
-
Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
on hanD
-
On N from LondoN
Nobody lives Forever
by
John Gardiner
-
Why do I always get R's?
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Gray
-
Green Eggs and Ham
by Theodor Seuss Geisel
on the G from SaGe
(sorry, couldn't resist)
-
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
(couldn't resist the book, or the green eggs?) ;)
-
Especially since it is in Latin, JoanK ;D
-
;D
-
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
on My AntoniA
-
Anthony and Cleopatra
by Shakespeare
on KarininA
-
Against Infinity
Gregory Benford, on CleopatrA
-
Time Travelers Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
on infiniTy
-
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
on the F from WiFe
-
Tom Sawyer
by Mark twain
-
Red Orchestra
by Anne Nelson
R, from SawyeR
-
(An) American Tragedy
by Theodore Dreiser
on orchestrA
-
Doomsday Book
Connie Willis, on TrageDy
-
(The) Kite Runner
on booK
Hi, elephant girl.
-
(The) Risen Empire
Scott Westerfield, on RunneR
Hi. Yes, I do let them out to run occasionally.
-
Rommel
by Charles Messenger
R, from EmpiRe
-
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin
on the L from RommeL
-
Othello
by Sakespeare
-
Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper, on OthellO
-
Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
on ...StoNe
-
Doctor Doolittle
on undergrounD
-
The Lady of the Lake
Sir Walter Scott
on DoolittLe
there's a nice looking letter 'K' for someone :D
-
Einstein
by Walter Isaacson
E, from LakE
-
King Tutankhamun
by Zahi Hawass
K, fromLaKe
-
Nobel House
by James Clavell
N, from TutankhamuN
-
Elephants Do Remewmber
by Agatha Christie
on housE
-
Goodness ! Where is everybody ?
The Rules of Engagement
Anita Brookner
on RemembeR
-
Time's Arrow--Time's Cycle
Stephen Jay Gould, on EngagemenT
A rather opaque book, at least to me.
I was off visiting JoanK, which put 2 of us out of the action.
-
Lincoln and the Decision for War
by Russell McClintock
L, from CycLe
-
The Road to Woodstock
by Michael Lang
from the R in WaR
-
Kite Runner
on woodstocK
-
R. U. R.
Carel Capek. on RunneR
-
Roman Britain: A New History
by Guy de la Bedoyere
on the R in R.U.R.
from my Roman history shelf
-
Nathanael Greene--A Biography of the American Revolution
by Gerald m. Carbone
N, from BritaiN
-
Northinger Abbey
by Jane Austin
on revolutioN
-
The BonFire
The siege and burning of Atlanta
by Marc Wortman
B, from AbBey
-
On E from FirE
Erewhon
by
Samuel Butler
-
(The) Necromancer
(Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel)
Michael Scott, on ErewhoN
It's still in press, due out very shortly, but hey, this is an N I'm dealing with. I'd say either R or L is fair for the next one.
-
Rebirth of a Nation
by Jackson Lears
R, from NecRomancer
-
Curses, another N!
(La) Nouvelle Heloise
Jean Jacques Rousseau, on NatioN
-
Savages and Scoundrels
by Paul VanDevelder
S, from HeloiSe
-
Last of the Mohicans
on scoundreLs
-
Scales of Justice
Ngaio Marsh, on MohicanS
-
Catherine The Great
by Simon Dixon
C, from JustiCe
-
On T in GreaT
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Despite its name its in English-translated from the German
-
Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington, on Logico-PhilosophicuS
-
Goodness, Jude, have you actually read any Wittgenstein? If I ever try him, I should do it in German, because then I could pretend that it was the language barrier that kept me from understanding him (my German is many levels below that) but I doubt that I'm up to him in any language.
-
PAt-
Yes, I actually read the whole book. A lot of it was difficult to understand but the parts that made sense made great sense.
Of course the reason behind the reading of this book was that I once had a supervisor who deeply influenced my work. He was constantly quoting from this book. I bought the book at the time but never read it. While trying to write about that period I thought it might be a good idea to finally read the book in order to understand some of the ideas I had used in working with children.
So I slogged through it and found it was worth it. I would not suggest you read it unless you really have a good reason or were very curious or liked philosophy.
-
Rommel
by Charles Messenger
R, from SlaveRy
-
Little Men
By Louisa May Alcott
-
Curses! Another N!. I'll foil you yet!
No, But I Saw the Movie
Peter de Vries, on MeN
-
Eucalyptus
Murray Bail
on ...the MoviE
Aussie writer - a lot about gumtrees aka eucalypts in this one - it won a heap of prizes here.
-
On S from EucalyptuS
Snow Falling on Cedars
by
David Guterson
-
(The) Roosevelt I Knew
Frances Perkins, on CedaRs
-
West With the Night
by Beryl Markam
on the W from KneW
Memoir of Beryl Markam who was born and raised on a farm in British East Africa. She became a racehorse trainer and aviator.
-
Typee
Herman Melville, on NighT
-
I'm going to give both of the
Es a miss and go for the P in TyPee
The Philosopher's Pupil
Iris Murdoch
-
Love in the Time of Cholera
on pupiL
-
Australia Felix
Henry Handel Richardson
one of the trilogy Fortunes of Richard Mahony
on CholerA
-
Xerxes
by Ren A. Hakim
on the X from FeliX
-
Elephants Do Remember
by Agatha Christie
on xerxEs
-
Reach for Tomorrow
Arthur C. Clarke, on RemembeR
-
Good Heavens! a W
Westward Ho
Charles Kingsley
from TomorroW
-
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
on the O from Ho
-
Down and out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
on solituDe
Sorry -- an N.
-
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
on the N from LondoN
-
Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
on AbBey
It's late so I'm skipping the Y and E :) G'nite
-
(The) Beekeepers Daughter
by Sylvia Plath
-
Ooops: Gum posted while I was thinking.
-
Red Orchestra
by Anne Nelson
R, from DaughteR
-
Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America
by Martin Fletcher
on the A from OrchestrA
-
Artists in Crime
Ngaio Marsh, on AmericA
-
March
by Geraldine Brooks
on criMe
-
Holes
by Louis Sachar
on the H from MarcH
This was made into a movie by the same name.
-
(The) Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
on hoLes
-
(The) Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni, on WardroBe
This is supposed to be the first modern Italian novel, and th Italian equivalent of "War and Peace". It's still worth reading.
-
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
on betrotheD
-
(The) Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers, on EmpiRe
I hadn't gotten around to thinking of an R yet when I looked at my email; Abebooks sent me some suggestions for can't-put-down thrillers as an alternative to Dan Brown's latest, and this was one. It's fair to use--I own it and have read it. It's about two young Englishmen on a sailing holiday on the continent who discover evidence of German preparations for WWI. It still reads well, and the sailing is good.
-
Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
on the D from SanDs
-
Young Man of Talent
George Turner
on IndemnitY
I believe this one was published in USA as 'Scobie'
How is everyone?
-
Typee
by Herman Melville
on talenT
-
Eventide
by Kent Haruf
on the E from Typee
-
Dickens, Dali and Others
George Orwell, on EventiDe
-
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
on Dickens, Dali and others - that title sounds interesting Pat.
-
Solar Lottery
Philip K. Dick, on LoveRs
The Orwell is a book of essays, and among others there's one about Charles Dickens (very good) and one about Dali, so it's not quite as odd as it sounds.
-
Rag and Bone
by Peter Manseau
R, fromLotteRy
-
(The) End of the European Era--1890 to the Present
Feliz Gilbert and David Clay Large, on BonE
You could say I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. This was my husband's book. I've no idea if it's any good.
-
Tyrannosaur Canyon
by Douglas Preston
A book by half the Preston and Child team.
on the T from PresenT
-
(A) New System of Chemical Philosophy
John Dalton, on CanyoN
(1808) Dalton's work developing atomic theory was a basis of modern chemistry.
-
Hatchepsut
The Female Pharaoh
by Joyce Tyldesley
H, from PhilosoPhy
-
Treasure Island
by Stevenson
-
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler
on the D from IslanD
-
American Lion
by Jon Meacham
A, from AmericA
-
Curses, another N!
(A) Novena for Murder
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie
on LioN
-
Rats, Lice, and History
-
Yellow Jack
A History
Sidney Howard and Paul De Kruif, on HistorY. It's about yellow fever. I hadn't thought about that book for decades, but your post reminded me of it, Joan. I admit I had to check the authors. I was fairly sure of De Kruif, but didn't remember Howard.
-
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
on Yellow JacK
-
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
by Anthony Bourdain
on the N from Khan
-
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, on StomacH
-
The Lost Symbol
by Dan Brown
L, from PeopLe
-
(The) Little Minister
James Barrie, on SymboL
-
(The) Road to Mandelay
-
Achilles in Vietnam
Jonathan Shay, on MandelAy
-
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
on he M from VietnaM
-
Rumors of Spring
Richard Grant, on RiveR
-
George Washington: a Biography
by Washington Irving
-
Hans Sachs' Poetical Mission
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
on George Washington A biograpHy
-
Curses! Another N. But I'm ready for you; I saw one on my shelves today.
Novelty
John Crowley, on MissioN
-
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
on the Y from Novelty
-
Finally thought of an N
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Barbara Ehrenreich, on UnioN
I would say either D or A is fair.
-
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
on the A from America
-
Elephants Can remember
by Agatha Christie
-
Ralph Roister Doister
Nicholas Udall, on RemembeR
-
Rebirth of a Nation
by Jackson Lears
R, from DoisteR
-
National Geographic Guide to America's Outdoors: New England
Gary Ferguson, on NatioN
Does this look desperate or what? I'm at my daughter's and have found several Ns on her shelves.
-
Dying for Chocolate
by Diana Mott Davison
-
Haven't played for a while...
That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo
on ...ChocolaTe
Just started to read Cape Magic today
-
Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Lillian Jackson braun
-
Dancing to the Precipice
by Caroline Moorehead
D, from BackwarDs
-
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
on the C from PrecipiCe
62 days until Christmas. Have you started your shopping yet? I haven't.
-
Last Promise
by Richard Paul Evans
on CaroL
-
Expedition to Earth
Arthur C. Clarke, on PromisE
-
A Hall of Mirrors
by Robert Stone
on the H from EartH
-
Shopaholic and Sister
by Sophie Kinsella
on mirrorS
-
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke, on SisteR
-
Adventures in Mathematics
by Moskowitz
on ramA
-
Count Zero
William Gibson, on MathematiCs
-
OThello
by Shakespeare
-
Old Curiosity Shop
Charles Dickens, on OthellO
-
Pride and Predjudice
by Janr Austen
on shoP
-
Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons, on PrejudiCe
It's a comic parody of some earlier English land-based books.
-
Maurice Guest
Henry Handel Richardson
early 20 C Aussie writer - and a woman despite the male pseudonym
on Farm
-
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
by R.B. Bernstein
T, from GuesT
-
Deliverance
by James Dickey
on the D from ReconsidereD
-
The Classical Compendum
by Philip Matyszak
C, from DeliveranCe
-
The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
on CompenduM
-
Open Season
by C.J. Box
on flOss
-
Curses! Another N! but I'm ready for you, thanks to my daughter's bookshelves.
Necessary Illusions
Noam Chomsky, on SeasoN
-
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
on the N from IllusioNs
This book is won the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award and the Philip K. Dick Award - the first to win all three.
-
Return of the Native
on necromanceR
-
e nesbit
on native
-
Time Travelers Wife
-
edgar allen poe
on wifE
-
Obsessive Genius
The Inner World of Marie Curie
by Barbara Goldsmith
O, from pOe
-
Ice Station Zebra
on curIe
-
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
on ...ZebrA
Haven't read Huxley in what seems like 100 years.
Ice Station Zebra - what a good yarn that was.
-
Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park
by Janet Chapple
on the Y from HaY
I keep a bunch of guide books that were given to me for the maps and intersting info about places I run across in books I read.
Ice Station Zebra is one of my very favorite movies, but I never read the book. In fact, I haven't read any of Alistair McLean's books.
-
Southern Lights
by Danielle Steel
S, from TreaSures
-
Tsunami!
by Kimiko Kajikawa and Ed Young
on the TS from NighTS
-
I, Robot
on Tsunami
-
I just received this notice from The History Book Club that is NEW!
Marcus Aurelius: A LIFE
by Frank McLynn
The MEDITATIONS, Marcus Aureliu' famous guide to life, remains one of the most widely read
works from the classical world. Historian Frank McLynn has written the definitive biography
of this stoic philosopher who ruled the Roman Empire from AD 161 to 180.
Marcus considered by many to have been Rome's greatest emperor found true
immortality as author of the "MEDITATIONS,"whose pithy and striking maxims--"Nothing
happens to anyone that he is not fitted by Nature to bear."--Have remained perennially
popular. MARCUS AURELIUS is a fascinating portrait of an ancient thinker with
contemporary relevance. I am looking forward to receiving this book. Fran
The Other Boleyn Girl
by Philippa Gregoru
O, from RobOt
-
Very quiet here.
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
on ... girL
-
Another N!
Nixon and Kissinger
Robert Dallek, on SusaN
-
Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton
R, from Kissinger
-
Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill
on the N from Sun
-
Dauntless
by Jack Campbell
on NetherlanD
This is the first of a 5 book Space Opera series. It's kind of clunky in a lot of ways, but the author REALLY knows how to write a good sea battle (though fought in space) and I fought my way across the galaxy with him through the 5 books, and if there are sequels, I'll fight my way back.
-
On S from Dauntless
Slaves of Obsession
by Anne Perry
-
Curses, another N! Fortunately, I still have titles left culled from my daughter's shelves.
Neveryona
by Samuel Delaney
on ObsessioN
-
Alls Well that Ends Well
by Shakespeare
-
On WelL
(The) Little Prince
by A. St Exupery
-
Canterbury Tales
by Chaucer
on prinCe
-
If I remember the rules we can skip the S and use the letter before it. I have been gone from this game a long time.
On the E from TalEs
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
-
Elephant Run
Roland Smith
on the E from Game
-
JUDE: YES, WE CAN SKIP S,E,X,OR Y (SEXY)
i LEAVE THE N'S TO SOMEONE ELSE.
-
Fortunately, I still have a few N's left from the list of my daughter's shelves.
New Legends
Greg Bear, Ed., on ruN
If we keep on with this game, we may have to add N to SEXY
-
Decked
by arol Higgens Clark
-
On D from DeckeD
Driven to Distraction
by
Edward Hallowell
-
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
on the N from DistractioN
-
Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks, on AbbeY
Jude, did you read Ender's Game"? What did you think of it?
-
Pat,
Enders Game was given me as a present by someone who loves Sci-Fi. I didn't read it in the end. Do you think it is worth the effort?
I liked all Asimov's Sci Fi but don't seem to be able to make my way any further than that. I like some fantasy (Actually Harry Potter) but that has an element of reality that I can attach to. What do you like about Sci Fi?
On S from WonderS
Shakespeare
by
Harold Bloom
-
Egg and I
on shakespearE
-
Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemmingway
on the I
The Egg and I - a very funny book.
-
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
on streaM
We do cover the gamut of books, don't we.
-
Kyrie: Poems
by Ellen Bryant Voigt
on the K from ParK
-
We sure do!
My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin
on PoeMs
Aussie writer -The Miles Franklin awards are very prestigious here.
-
(The) Reader
-
Roses
by Leila Meacham
on the R from ReadeR
-
Orlando
Virginia Woolfe, on Roses
A book with some unforgettable scenes, though more enjoyable if you know some background about Victoria Sackville-West.
-
One for the money
by Janet Evanovitch
on orlandO
-
Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card, sequel to Enders Game, on MonEy.
-
About Enders Game, Jude, I would say, try reading a chapter or two and see how it strikes you. If you like it, keep going. I have a lot of quibbles with Card, and tend to keep saying "yes, but" while reading, but I still read nonstop.
I'll answer your broader question "what do you like about Sci-Fi?", but not while I keep losing posts when the internet cuts out. Nag me unmercifully if I don't.
-
Winters Tale
Shakespeare
-
On L
Long Spoon Lane
by Anne Perry
( I call her my "escape" lady. When life gets too hard I escape into an Anne Perry book and when I emerge the world has usually changed. Since she has about Seventy books, and I haven't read them all the, percentages are on my side.)
-
Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb, on LaNe
Jude, I sincerely hope your life isn't so hard that you work through all 70. ;)
-
Another Place at the Table
by Kathy Harrison
on the A from EliA
-
Love's Labors Lost
Shakespeare, on TabLe
-
Tea and Sympathy
do plays count?
-
Since we don't do "Ys" I'll take the H and write:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by
J.K.Rowling
-
Elephants Do Remember
Jude: we can do the Y if we want -- it's a choice.
-
On R
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Don't remember the author but the title should bring back childhood memories to those of a certain age.
-
My Antonia
by Willa Cather
on farM
-
Animal Farm
George Orwell
on My AntoniA
-
Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
on farM
-
The Last of his Tribe
A poem by Henry Kendall - 19th Century Aussie poet.
On StyLes
-
Born Free
by Joy Adamson
on the B from TriBe
-
On R from FRee
Roget's Thesaurus
by
Roget(I'm guessing)
-
G'rrr That gives me an 'S" - I'll take the 'U' in Thesaurus
Under Capricorn
Helen Simpson
This was made into a film by Hitchcock - starred Michael Wilding, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph cotten et al - and was a box office failure.
And could someone please tell me how THAT one popped into my head ???
-
On N from C-N
Notes from the Underground
by
Dostoevsky
Gumtree
Where in your head should I search for the answer to that question? Please provide a ticket to Australia as well so I can really search.
-
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
on the D from UndergrounD
-
Ransom
David Malouf
on Daisy MilleR
Another Aussie who is beginning to amass a creditable body of work. I'm reading this one right now. It plot deals with the Wrath of Achilles and Priam' s plan to recover his son, Hector's body from the Greeks but it's really about the bonds that exist between men - between fathers and sons, dear friends and bitter enemies
The blurb goes on: Malouf is one of our finest writers, a poet with an ear for language that transforms an interesting concept into a classic meditation on the roleof chance in each of our lives
Hey JudS: Watch out for the ticket to Oz coming your way through cyber space. :D
-
On M
My Name is Red
by
Orham Pamuk
The author won the Nobel Prize for that and some other great works. Only Turkish writer to ever win.
-
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
on ... ReD
We've probably had that one before but all classics are worth a re-run :D
-
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, on CopperfielD
When I married, Bob told me he figured that a man would spend a lot of time waiting for his woman, so he should have something to read, like Gibbon, while he waited. I promptly gave him a copy, but I didn't keep him waiting that much, and he never got very far in it. I still have it though, maybe sometime I'll get to it.
-
Endgame
Samuel Beckett
on ...EmpirE
PatH that's a great story. Maybe we should read it here someday - perhaps after Robby finishes his Durant series :D
-
On M from Endgame
Man and His Symbols
by
Carl Jung
-
Life is a Dream
or
La Vida es Sueno
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
on SymboLs
Take your pick, M or O
-
Old Curiosity Shop
by Dickens
on suenO
You mean "N or O"? No one would pick N
-
No, I meant M from DreaM or O from SuenO; choice of language.
(The) Pilgrim of Hate
Ellis Peters, on ShoP
-
Elegence of the Hedgehog
on hatE
I didn't see the English name.
-
Gerontion
T.S. Eliot
on HedgehoG
-
Night in the Garden of Good and Evil
on gerontioN
-
Lilian's Story
Kate Grenville
on ...EviL
Another one from OZ. The story of Lilian Singer - a 'splendidly eccentric woman and the life she made.' The film was good too!
-
Yellow Wallpaper
-
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
on the R from WallpapeR
-
Titus Andromicus
by Shakespeare
on iT
-
On U
Ulysses
by
James Joyce
-
(That has more skippable letters than most. I have my choice of threes's, an e, a y, or an l. hmm.
Shopoholic and Baby
by Kinsella (on ulySses-- I skipped the first two).
-
Beowulf
on BaBy
I reread it recently. Darn good yarn.
-
First Family
by David Baldacci
on the F from Beowulf
-
Lysistrata
Aristophanes, on FamiLy
I seem to be on a classical kick.
-
Aeneid
Virgil
on LysistratA
I can play at that game too PatH ;D
-
Dialogues
Plato, on AeneiD
-
U is for Undertow
by Sue Grafton
on the U from DialogUes
-
War of the Worlds
H.G Wells
on ...UndertoW
Another kind of classic. :D
-
Dubliners
by James Joyce
on worlDs
-
We are in a famous names mode. Sooo.....
ON R from DublineRs
Romeo and Juliet
by
Shakespeare
-
The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
on the T from JulieT
-
Three Musketeers
by Dumas
on julieT
-
Richard III
Willie S
on .. MusketeeRs
-
It's hard to know what to post on here: D for ThirD, I for III, or 3. I'll go for I
I Promessi Sposi
(The Betrothed) Alessandro Manzoni
It's a classic in it's way, thought of as the greatest Italian novel, and groundbreaking in being written in ordinary Italian. I dunno about greatest, but it still reads very well (in English, I don't know Italian).
-
Idylls of the King
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
on ...SposI
Manzoni - haven't read that in ages but I saw it on my shelves only a day or so ago and thought about it. Are you inside my head again PatH?
-
Gallipoli
by Alan Moorehead
on the G from KinG
-
Il Penseroso
John Milton
on GallipolI
-
Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto, on PensorosO
-
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
on Orlando FuriosO
-
On R from Rex
Richard 11 (Perhaps Richard the Second would be better. But then both Richard and Second end in D so D it is.)
by
Shakespeare
-
a 'D' huh!
Daphnis et Alcimadure
Jean de la Fontaine
On Richard II - (seconD)
-
On U
Up the Down Staircase
by
Bel Kaufman
-
OOPS I was supposed to use the R and not the U
The Rose Tattoo
by
Tennessee Williams
-
Oresteia
Aeschylus, on TattoO
50 years ago, when I didn't know much about literature, I saw this, staged by a very good local University troupe. I was surprised at how powerful it still seems.
-
Jude, did you read Up the Down Staircase? I thought it was a real hoot.
-
Antigone
Sophocles
on OrestiA
Yes PatH the Greeks are like that. I wept when I first read Antigone. Some lines are running though my head right now. Powerful stuff.
-
Elements of Geometry
Euclid, on AntigonE
-
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
-
Mahabharata
on FarM
This incredibly long Indian epic from about 200 BC is impossible to summarize. I've seen a 1989 3 hour movie, a boiling down from a 9 hour play, and a 1929 silent movie, "A Throw of Dice" about a small but crucial episode. Checking the dates on Netflix, I see they now have a 5 DVD cartoon version for children. Hmmm.
-
Animal Farm
by Orwell
Hmmmm indeed!
-
Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson, on FarM
-
Arrowsmith
PatHHave you finished altering your outfit?
-
Did you know that the first American publisher that Orwell submitted "Animal Farm" to rejected it on the grounds that "we don't do animal stories"? Oops.
-
Oops.
-
No. Why do you think I'm being so witty?
-
I knew you were stalling!!!
-
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
on ArrowsmitH
-
Pat H
Yes , I read and laughed at "Up the Down Staircase". What fun.
On R from GableR
Regeneration
by
Pat Barker
Part of a fantastic series on WW!
-
(The) New Yorker book of Lawyer cartoons
on RegeneratioN
That's just about my last N
-
Suggestion for rules change:
We are increasingly getting hung up on Ns. Everytime there is one, no one can answer, and I, at least, won't normally post something ending with N.
I propose that we add N to the letters that can be ignored. Seconds? Votes?
-
I guess we can make whatever rules we choose. I don't really have such a problem with 'N' - maybe I haven't had to work with so many ...
so will be happy either way because I presume we can still use it if we so choose.
The Nabob
Alphonse Daudet
on ...Lawyer CartooNs
-
(The) Boggart
Susan Cooper, on NaboB
A lighthearted children's story in which a mischievous Scottish spirit, accidentally transported to Canada, causes so much trouble that the children figure out how to lure him into a computer disc and mail him home.
-
TheTale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
on BoggarT
-
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
on the S from CitieS
-
(The) Kite Runner
on Key
-
(The) Rose Rent
Ellis Peters, on RunneR
-
Tilting at Windmills
by Brian Hibb
on the T from RenT
-
(The) Salerymans Wife
by Sujita Massey
on windmillS
-
Excalibur - A Novel of Arthur
Bernard Cornwell
on ...WifE
-
(The) Return of the King
J. R. R. Tolkien, on ArthuR
-
(The) Great Train Robbery
by Michael Crichton
on the G from KinG
-
Yvain - Knight of the Lion
Chretien dr Troyes
on ...RobberY
-
Norma
Alexandre Soumet, on LioN
The play on which the opera was based. I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
-
Agnes Grey
Anne Bronte
on NormA
PatH - You must have something of a block on N - there's a nice Y there for the next one ;D
-
You've Been Warned
by James Patterson and Howard Roughan
on the Y from GreY
-
Deadfall
by Sue Henry
on warneD
-
Laxdala Saga
author unknown, my spelling suspect, but first and last letters are correct, on DeadfalL
-
Apple Turnover Murder
by Joanna Fluke
supposedly out in February. Havent seen it yet, though.
-
Roughing It
Mark Twain, on MurdeR
-
This Side of Paradise
by F Scott Fitzgerald
on the T from It
-
I, robot
-
Tonio Kroger
by
Thomas Mann
On T from RoboT
-
Roses are Red
by James Patterson
Usually, I only post books I've read, but my son reads Patterson, so it's only semi-cheating.
-
Don't Go Near the Water
William Brinkley, on ReD
This is a light-hearted, humorous novel about the navy in the South Pacific during WWII. Underneath its comedy, though, it actually has a lot of realistic cracks about what it was really like.
-
Red October
on wateR
-
Rembrandt's Eyes
by Simon Schama
on the R from OctobeR
-
Frybabe, you just gave me the opportunity to ignore five optional letters.
(The) Truth
By Terry Pratchett, on RembrandT's Eyes
Pratchett uses his considerable comic gifts to skewer many human foibles and institutions. In this case it's journalism.
-
That must be a record, Pat.
Her Royal Spyness
by Rhys Bowen
on the H from TrutH
-
(A) Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick, on SpynesS
-
On L
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
-
Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
-
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
by James DeFronzo
on the R from AdversaRy
-
On T
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ha, finally got some use out of that one. Been waiting a long time on my shelf.
-
Utopia
Sir Thomas More, on PhilosophicuS
I haven't read it, but just for the record, I think a Utopia is an impossibility. Jude, if you have read, or ever read, the Wittgenstein, I take my hat off to you. That's a real sacrifice, since first I'll have to find a hat to put on.
-
On UtopiA
As a Driven Leaf
by
Steinberg
Hi Pat-
Yes I really read this Wittgenstein book. But not recently. I remeber it being very hard at the start but getting easier and easier as you went along.
Here is an interesting quote from the book:
"The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man."
-
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy, on LeaF
Jude, I have fished out the LLBean sunshade hat I bought for Hawaii 5 years ago, placed it on my head, doffed it, and replaced it. I won't send a photo--hats look stupid on me.
I like your quote. It's profoundly true.
-
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
by Ethan Rarick
on the D from CrowD
-
From E in PassagE
The English Patient
by
Michael Ondaatje
-
Titus Andronicus from the T in PatienT, by William Shakespeare. This was just mentioned on NPR as one of the best movies to watch (Anthony Hopkins supposedly is spectacular). I have never heard of that production, have any of you seen it? I am trying to remember the last time I read it, actually.
I heard this discussion was a little moribund but have just spent quite a while reading the fascinating and valuable comments you've all made, should we tweak this a little or leave it alone? Titles and Authors only beginning with R for a change? Or?
-
Starlight
Hal Clement, on AndronicuS
-
"Time and Again"
by Jack Finney
on starlighT
-
Oh my - surely we're not moribund - I was just snoozing....
Never the Time and the Place
Robert Browning
on Time and AgaiN
-
On C in PlaCe
Catcher in the Rye
by JD Salinger
-
Electra
Sophocles (or the one by Euripides if you prefer)
on ...RyE
-
Yahooie, there you all are!
Well speaking of Sophocles, how about Antigone on the A of ElectrA.
Jude! Are you back? Would you like to give the clues for Author Author?? How ARE you doing ?
-
Eat the Rich
by P. J. O'Rourke
on the E from AntigonE
-
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie, on RicH
-
Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac
On ... PeoplE
-
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, on GrandeT
-
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
on the S from LighthouSe
-
Hi ,
I'm back. I'll take a look at Author ,Author and let you know. Had forgotten about that game.
On the A in that long title by Hesse
A Child's Garden of Verses
by
Robert Louis Stevenson
-
(The) Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow
Allen French, on VerseS
This book made a big impression on me when I read it as a child. I recently got my hands on it again, and it's as good as I remembered, though definitely a children's book. It's a story of feuding and injustice made right in Iceland about 1010. The main character is fictitious, but it's in an accurately described historical setting, with many real persons as minor characters. French does a good job of catching the spirit, conventions, and style of the old tales.
-
Jude, did you like the Stevenson when you were a child? I loved it.
-
Wisdom's Daughter
W- from "Bow"
by India Edghill
-
Remarkable Trees of the World
Thomas Pakenham, on DaughteR
Pakenham (a.k.a. the 8th Earl of Longford) has indeed met some remarkable trees, including a descendant of the tree under which Buddha received enlightenment, and has strung together his beautiful photographs with a charming anecdotal text.
-
Gumtree, I was looking at Pakenham's book, and I wonder what you would think of his choice of Australian trees. (He tends to go for huge, ancient gnarled trunks).
The "prison boab" at Derby, which he says might or might not have been used as a prison (it has a huge hollow trunk) and the dinner tree, also near Derby (he did eat dinner under it).
The Karri, gum tree, Eucalyptus diversicolor, which he thinks is the noblest of the species: a magnificent picture of the Four Aces, their leaves turned golden by the setting sun, and their white trunks glowing. Also the 207 foot Gloucester Tree, fitted with spikes so even little old ladies like me can climb it.
A Giant Red Tingle near Walpole. "Old tingles are like trolls: brutal, ugly, magnificent creatures". This one looks to be 20 feet wide at the base, but hugely split and hollowed out by fire. It's definitely magnificent.
-
Pat hi,
Not only did I love "A Child's Garden of Verses" but I learned all my favorites by heart. I still remember some of them.
Like Stevenson, I was a sickly child and had a lot of time on my hands. However, unlike Stevenson I outgrew the sickliness.
I loved the illustrations as well. Oh I could go on and on but won't bore you.
On D in WorlD
Daddy Long Legs
by
Jean Webster
(I guess we opened up the door to the world of books from childhood).
-
PatH Pakenham must be a man of discernment to choose those trees. He has chosen well - and what is very surprising they are all right here in my home state -Western Australia.
The Prison Boab was actually used as a prison or more correctly an overnight staging post as the prisoners were walked to Derby - It also has significant cultural meaning for the aboriginals of the area.
The Karri is my absolute favourite of all the gumtrees - it is a superb tree - tall and elegant, simply beautiful. There is something magnificent and profound about a forest of Karri - The trunks can appear whitish but they really show a lot of colour through a wide range - pinks salmons reds beige browns greys blues and sometimes all that sinultaneously - well diversicolour says it all - I know the Four Aces well and have visited them many times usually during autumn or spring when they are at their best - I've also taken dozens of photos of them in the hope of producing some art work from them back in the studio. One day perhaps.
And I know the tingle tree he would have used. Tingle has a wonderful aroma. There is a tree top walk through the Tingle which is a heady experience at any time. Coincidentally, when the tree top walk and boardwalks through the tingle forest were established my neice wrote the interpretive text for the booklets and the information boards located along the walks. The tingle grows to 75 metres and can have a girth of about 25 metres. They are often ravaged by fire and or fungal diseases resulting in the hollowed base but they keep on growing sending out roots that form a kind of buttress to support them. Some are very very old.
As for the Gloucester - I wouldn't recommend that any little old lady should attempt that climb - my father in law climbed it once - DH and I would never attempt it. Lots of people try the climb of course but most don't complete it. It's certainly not for the faint hearted.
I must see if my library has Pakenham's book.
-
Glory Road
by Robert A. Heinlein
on the G from LeGs
-
Diana of the Crossways
George Meredith
on Glory RoaD
-
Animals Without Backbones
Ralph Buchsbaum, on CrosswAys
It's probably outdated now, but this was an excellent book to grow up with--a nifty explanation of invertebrate taxonomy, with many pictures and a very intelligible text.
-
Judy, this really is childhood nostalgia time. I liked "Daddy Long Legs" too. Did you see the 1955 movie with Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire?
-
Stay a Little Longer
by Dorothy Garlock
S, from BackboneS
-
Hi Pat,
Never saw the movie of Daddy Long Legs. Will put it on my Netflix list.
Continuing the theme of childrens books
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by
Kate Douglas
-
Gumtree: "The Karri is my absolute favourite of all the gumtrees - it is a superb tree - tall and elegant, simply beautiful". Then your name fits you.
on "M"
Medea
-
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
on the A from MedeA
-
The Never Never Country
Henry Lawson
Not the most cheerful poem about Aust - but true nonetheless.
on Huck FinN
Joan K - you really are too kind - I'm tallish but the other epithets don't really fit -any pretence of elegance goes out the window when I'm covered in paint or the good earth... but I truly love gumtrees - all gumtrees.
-
Rumpelstilskin
by Brothers Grimm
R-from CountRy
-
On N
Now We Are Six
by
A.A.Milne
-
"Island in the Center of the World"
-
On D
Double Indemnity
Screenplay by
Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder
-
(The) Trial
Franz Kafka, on IndemniTy
Guess I ran out of children's books.
-
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
on the L from TriaL
-
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Laura Ingalls Wilder, on WardroBe
-
The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy
on ...Silver LaKe
-
We are now into the Russians-so
On A
Anna Karenina
by
Leo Tolstoy
-
Angels and Demons
(note -- there's an "s", you don't have to use "n". I think we should ban "n"s.
-
(The) Silver Chair
C. S. Lewis, on DemonS
another of the Narnia series
-
Rats, Lice and History
-
The Year of Living Dangerously
Christopher Koch
on ... and HistorY
-
On L
Lysistrata
by
Aristophanes
-
Agamemnon
Aeschylus
on LysistratA
-
The NoteBook
by Nicholas Sparks
N, from Agamemnon
-
Kleiner Man Was Nun?
(Little Man, What Now?) Hans Fallada, on NotebooK
This is fair, since I own it in German. I haven't read it, but Bob did. It's about an ordinary man trying to live his life between the two world wars. It's evidently having a renaissance, since I recently got an ad from Amazon for the English version.
Sorry about the N. If anyone wants to use the W from the English title instead, I think that's fair.
-
War and peace
Tolstoy
-
On C from PeaCe
Crime and Punishment
by
Dostoievsky
-
(The) Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan, on PunishmenT
-
This is volume 3 in a rip-roaring adventure series involving Percy Jackson, a New York boy who happens to be the son of Poseidon. I was introduced to them by my great-nephew, JoanK's grandson. They're meant for middle-schoolers, but they read pretty well for grown-ups too.
-
Eye of the Storm
Patrick White
on ... CursE
-
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
on the M from StorM
-
(The) Years
Virginia Woolf
on Mrs. DallowaY
-
All Quiet on the Western Front
on dallowAy
-
Tyrannosaur Canyon
by Douglas Preston
on the T from FronT
-
On N
Never on Sunday
by
Jules Dassin
-
(The) Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Terry Pratchett, on SundAy
A Discworld childrens book.
-
On T from RodenTs
The Old Curiosity Shop
by
Dickens
Saw it last night on PBS. They did a good job.
-
Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson
On ...shoP
-
Dune
-
Earthfall
Orson Scott Card, on DunE
-
Lorna Doone: A romance of Exmoor
by R. D Blackmore
on the L
-
When I was young I just loved Lorna Doone - knew whole passages by heart...
Regeneration
Pat Barker
on ... ExmooR
-
I'm going to break the roadblock of an N by cheating:
Nightwatch
either by Terry Pratchett or Sergei Lukyanenko, on RegeneratioN.
I know I've used one of them, and suspect I've used the other, but I'm not sure, so I'll pretend I didn't.
The Pratchett is perhaps my favorite of this funny, slapstick, ironic, satirical writer of fantasy. The Lukyanenko is the first of a fantastical Russian trilogy involving the usual conflict of good and evil, which has somehow been reduced to a bureaucracy. The first two have been made into movies--I saw Nightwatch, which was pretty good in its bleak way.
-
How to win friends and influence people.
(remember that one?)
on Nightwatch
-
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
H, from NightWatch
-
Pollyanna
Eleanor Porter
on ...HelP
Hi Fran - It's been very quiet in here lately -I daresay everyone's focussed on the other games
-
Hi Gumtree, I'm in a summer Latin class and just finally got back to "Title Mania"
Nice hearing from you this a.m. in the states. How is the weather in Australia today?
It's been very hot here in Connecticut! Finally getting some relief today --Temperature
is 74 degrees right now. Fran
-
A Thread so Thin
Marie Bostwick
A, from Pollyanna
-
Aha! the dreaded N
Nana
Emile Zola
on ...ThiN
-
Fran Hope you enjoyed the summer Latin. I bombed out - had a health issue and am not yet back to strength and finding it hard to think.
You shouldn't have asked about our weather - it's freezing - literally. Around 0deg C minimum every day lately. Unusual for us in Perth on the west coast. My son who lives in Sydney is getting it worse - minus 4.3C this morning. The cold air drifted up from Antarctica and has settled over the continent so temps are down all over Australia at the moment- Cold is one thing - what we need is rain.
It's 11.40pm here and Wimbledon telecast is about to begin. I'll watch for an hour or so - unless it gets exciting and then who knows what time I'll get to bed. :o
-
Again the dreaded N
The NoteBook
Nicholas Sparks
N, from NaNa--that's really a hard one --giving you either "A" or "N"
Gumtree, check your special message box when you get a chance--you can reply
using my listed e-mail. Fran
-
Kama Sutra
on the K
-
Anabasis
Xenophon, on SutrA
-
The Secret
by Beverly Lewis
S, from Anabasis
-
Gumtree, I thought I had sent you a message but discovered today it was done incorrectly
and wound up sending to myself. Will try again another time. Fran
-
Oh dear, talking to yourself!
(The)Trial
Franz Kafka, on SecreT
-
Fran I got your messages - check out your Personal Messages and your email. Thanks.
-
Little Women
Louisa May Allcott
on TriaL
-
Gumtree, I sent you an e-mail a couple of hours ago but it was returned to me ???so I put it in your personal messages. Fran
-
Not My Daughter
by Barbara Delinsky
N, from WomeN
-
(The) Rise of the Dutch Republic
John Lothrop Motley, on DaughteR
Thanks for breaking the N blockage, Fran.
-
Cross Country
by James Patterson
on the C
-
Racundra's First Cruise
Arthur Ransome, on CountRy
Arthur Ransome wrote a number of children's stories dealing with sailing, mostly in the Lake District, but elsewhere too. I adored them as a child, and they got me hooked on sailing stories for life. I didn't know about this book until recently. It's a factual account of his sailing in the Baltic after WWI. I just got it from Amazon (yes, through Seniorlearn) and am looking forward to reading it. I have to admit I still like the children's books. They're written for 10 year olds, but the sailing is very good.
-
The Shadow of Your Smile
by Mary Higgins Clark
S, from CruiSe
-
Lamb to the slaughter
by Elizabeth Quinn
on smiLe
-
The Razor's Edge
W Somerset Maugham
on ... SlaughteR
-
Girl IN Translation
by Jean Kwok
G, from edGe
-
I see we have PatH's dreaded N again ... :D
The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams
on...in TranslatioN
-
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
on iguanA
-
Must You Go?
by Antonia Fraser
on the M from FarM
-
Old Curiosity Shop
by Dickens
on gO
-
Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan, on ShoP
-
The Shadow od Your Smile
by Mary Higgins Clark
S, from ProgresS
-
LA's Orchestra Saves the World
by Alexandeer McCall Smith
on smiLe
-
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara Tuchman
on the D from World
-
I liked that book.
Running with Scissors
by Boroughs
on centuRy
-
Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan, on ScissorS
This is book two in the 5 book series enjoyed by JoanK's 11 year old grandson (see post 1997 if you care). I've read the first 4, and they're pretty good.
-
Return to Sender
by Fern Michaels
R, from monsteRs
-
Rites of Passage
William Golding
On ...SendeR
-
Girl in Hyacinth Blue
by Susan Vreeland
on the G in PassaGe
-
El Cid
Anonymous
on ... BluE
-
The Deep Blue Sea For Beginners
by Luanne Rice
D, from ciD
-
Sense and Sensability
by Jane Austen
on beginnerS
-
Tales of the Alhambra
Washington Irving, on SensibiliTy
-
(The)Amazing Mrs. Pollifax"
by Dorothy Gilman
on alhambrA. Don't forget, you can skip the X or use it.
-
Great titles... JoanK's X is something of a challenge - best I can do with that today is ...
Xerxes Invades Greece
(Book 7 of The Histories)
Herodotus
on ... Mrs PollifaX
-
"Cold Case"
by Linda Barnes
on greeCe
-
On S in CaSe
Snow
by
Orham Pamuk
Pamuk is the fabulous Turkish Author who won the Nobel Prize for his writing and particularly for his book "My Name is Red".
(But perhaps I am preaching to the choir?)
-
Yes Jude -definitely to the choir. We discussed Snow some time back. There was a mixed reaction to that book as some couldn't quite get to grips with it. But that's often the way when it comes to work by Nobel Prize winners. Their writing has so many levels that it's sometimes hard to fathom the depths.
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
on SnoW
Ian McKellen's production of Godot was playing here a couple of months ago. I didn't go as prices were huge but my son and his crowd went and gave it rave reviews making me wish I'd emptied my wallet to buy a couple of tickets. :D
-
Traitor's Gate
by Anne Perry
on GodoT
My computer is next to a bookcase full of mystery stories, so that's what you get.
-
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John Le Carre
An oldie but a goodie.
on the T from GaTe
-
(The) Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux, on SpY
One of the first (1907) locked room mysteries.
-
Murder with Peacocks
by Donna Andrews
on rooM
a K for a change.
-
King Lear
Shakespeare, on PeacocKs
-
On LeaR
(The) Red and the Black
by
Stendhal
Hope we are allowed to discount the THE in the title. The rules are a bit fuzzy in my head since I have't played for a few months.
-
Kidnapped
by R L Stevenson
K, from blacK
-
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
on KidnappeD
-
On FortunE
Ethan Frome
by
Edith Wharton
-
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
on ... FromE
-
(The) Nine Taylors
by Dorothy Sayers
on edeN
-
Salome
Oscar Wilde
on ..TaylorS
-
Must You Go?
by Antonia Fraser
on the M from SaloMe
-
Old Curiosity Shop
Dickens
on gO
-
Penguin Island
Anatole France, on ShoP
-
Deadfall
by Sue Henry
-
The Left Hand of God
by Paul Hoffman
on the L
A new book that looked interesting, but reader reviews are mostly down. First part is reported very good but it gets into trouble later on. Most reviewers agreed that the book didn't need to be so long. Anyone here read it? I'd put in the fantasy catagory.
-
Darwin's Century
by Loren Eisley
on D
-
On A in NanA
All Quiet on the Western Front
by
Remarque
-
(The) Thirteen Gun Salute
Patrick O'Brian, on FronT
-
Tis
by Frank McCourt
on saluTe
-
On S in TiS
South of Broad
by
Pat Conroy
-
Daywatch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on BroaD
This is the second in Lukyanenko's Soviet-style "the fight between good vs evil reduced to a bureaucracy" trilogy. I know I've used Nightwatch, but the very unreliable search function doesn't come up with this one.
-
House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
on watcH
-
On H in MirtH
Huckelberry Finn
by
Mark Twain
-
Not the dreaded "N"
Nostradamus 2003-2025 : A History of the Future
Hah!
-
On R from FutuRe
Republic
by
Plato
-
Captain's Courageous
Rudyard Kipling, on RepubliC
-
The Silmarillion
by J. R. R. Tolkien
on the S from CourageouS
-
Curses! Another N! Fortunately, I found one:
No Room in the Ark
Alan Moorhead, on SilmarillioN
-
Kapital
by Karl Marx
-
Last Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on KapitaL
The 4th book in Lukyanenko's trilogy (yes, I know) of the conflict between good and evil.
By the way, JoanK is probably the only person I know who has actually read Das Kapital.
-
And survived it!
How to Fix Almost Everything
on watcH
-
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon, on EverythinG
-
What is the What
by Dave Eggers
on rainboW
-
Take a Girl Like You
Kingsley Amis, on WhaT
-
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
on Take a Girl Like yoU
-
Girl, 20
Kingsley Amis, on BeinG
I would say you could either use the number or spell it out--twenty.
-
Okay, you asked for it!
0 to 60
by Susan Slater
This on is on my wishlist TB at Amazon. I think her Ben Pecos series also looks interesting. Anyone read it?
-
mmm. is that an o, a 0 or a sixTy?
-
OK, I'll assume I can use an oh.
Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck
Sorry for the "n"
-
On N in MeN
Notes from the Underground and other Stories
by
Dostoevski
(Are we "sorrying" now for our ubiquitous ending letters? If so, sorry for S and E.)
-
(The) Songs of Distant Earth
Arthur C. Clarke, on StorieS
S and E are optional. The only one anyone apologizes for is N, which isn't optional, but a lot of us are running out of Ns. Thanks for getting us off the hook.
-
Howard Hughes: The Untold Story
by Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske
on the H from EartH
-
Now I generally don't mind an N or S E and Y but X is a bit tricky.
Y2K
Arthur Kopit
on ....Untold StorY
-
Oh K!
King Solomon's Mines
by
Rider Haggard
-
She
Also by H. Rider Haggard
on mineS
We don't have to apologise for e's and s's, because we can skip them. But "n" is becoming a problem.
Remember, we can skip the letters S E X Y.
We could make a rule to skip "n"s, but then it would be "SNEXY" WICH DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME RING.
-
Half Life
Hal Clement, on SHe
Sci-fi, in which the happy ending is that the scientists in an off-world colony, dying of various environment-related diseases, realize that they will be able to get a bit more research done before they collapse. (Don't laugh, for a scientist that is a happy ending.)
-
I would be glad to settle for being SNEXY rather than SEXY if I could get rid of the dreaded N. I had a really neat title for She, but it ends in N, and I won't do that. We tried to put it to a vote once, but got only a tepid response.
-
Hey PatH - you just got a mental block on N :)
Elder Edda
Anonymous though sometimes attributed to Saemundr the Learned
on Half LifE
-
Anne of Green Gables
on eddA
Do you read the Eddas, Gum?
-
On S in Gables
She Stoops to Conquer
by
Oliver Goldsmith
-
Remembering Babylon
David Malouf (Aussie)
on She Stoops to ConqueR
Do you read the Eddas, Gum?
Have read a couple - the Elder Edda was in my mind as my son and I were talking about it a little earlier.
-
News from Nowhere
by William Morris
on the N from BabyloN
This is THE William Morris of wallpaper and fabric design fame.
-
Rachel's Garden
by Marta Perry
R, from nowheRe
-
Nowhere to Run
by CJ Box
One "n" deserves another.
-
Now, Now aNother N..Here you are....
(The) Noonday Demon
by
Andrew Solomon
This is one of the most famous non-fiction books on Depression. It is sub-titled "An Atlas of Depression"
-
Never Wave Goodbye
by Doug Magee
N, from demoN
-
Exodus
Leon Uris
On ...GoodbyE
-
Unnatural Death
Dorothy L. Sayers, on ExodUs
-
(The) History of Mr. Polly
by H. G. Wells
on the H from DeatH
-
On Y in PollY
Yesterday's Child
by
Sonia Levitan
(A teen novel)
-
(The) Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin, on ChilD
-
David Copperfield
by Dickens
-
On D
Daisy Miller
by
Henry james
-
Red Gauntlet
Sir Walter Scott
On Daisy MilleR
I loved History of Mr Polly all those long years ago. Has it been discussed ?
-
Tis
by Frank McCourt
on gauntleT
-
On the I in Tis
The Iron Heel
by
Jack London
-
Goodness, Jude, I haven't thought about Jack London for quite a while. In the spirit of his other, non-political side,
(The) Luck of Roaring Camp
(and Other Sketches) Bret Harte, on HeeL
-
Proof
by Dick Francis
on camP
-
From Outer Space
Hal Clement, on ProoF
-
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margeret Mead
on spaCe
-
On A in SamoA
All Quiet on the Western Front
by
Remarquee
-
Track of the Cat
by Nevada Barr
-
Tied up in Tinsel
Ngaio Marsh, on CaT
-
The Last Song
by Nicholas Sparks
L from tinseL
-
Great Expectations
by Dickens
on sonG
-
(The) Story of my Life
Helen Keller, on ExpectationS
The just-guessed (by Traude) book in Author, Author.
-
sneaky!
(The) End of Sorrow
by Elknath Easwaran
on lifE
-
(The) Wind's Twelve Quarters
Ursula K. Le Guin, on SorroW
-
Sea of Words
on quarterS
-
(The) Deep Range
Arthur C Clarke, on WorDs
-
Google for Dummies
by Brad Hill
on ranGe
-
Iceworld
Hal Clement, on DummIes
-
Devil Bones
by Kathy Reich
-
(An) Excellent Mystery
Ellis Peters, on BonEs
-
Rules of Etiquette
by Emily Post
on mysteRy
-
(An) Equal Music
Vikram Seth, on etiquettE
-
(The) Cat who Smelled Smoke
by Lillian Jackson
-
Killashandra
Anne McCaffrey, on SmoKe
-
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
-
All's Well That Ends Well
Shakespeare, on DAys
-
Loves Labor Lost
by Shakepeare
on welL
-
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare, on LosT
-
(The) Tempest
-
(The) Trial
Franz Kafka, on TempesT
-
Little Dorrit
by Dickens
on triaL
-
Thud
Terry Pratchett, on Dorritt
-
Deadfall
by Sue Henry
on thuD
-
(The) Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin, on DeadfalL
-
Shopaholic and Sister
by Sophie Kinsella
on darkness
-
Rocannon's World
Ursula K. Le Guin, on SisteR
-
Dirty Blonde
by Lisa Scottaline
on worlD
-
Dracula
Bram Stoker, on BlonDe
-
Anger Management
by Trifate
on draculA
-
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, on ManagemenT
-
Dying for Chocolate
by Davidson
on mockingbirD
-
(The) Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan, on ChocolaTe
-
Everywhere that Mary Went
by Lisa Scottaline
-
Tales From the White Hart
Arthur C. Clarke, on wenT
-
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
on harT
I was stuck on a subway once with nothing to do but read this. Reading it was worse than being stuck on the subway.
-
(The) Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams, on CanceR
I tried that book too, but fortunately I wasn't trapped anywhere and could ditch it.
-
Shopaholic and Baby
by Sophie Kinsella
Yes, a waste of time. This is clearly a much more productive occupation.
-
Brain Wave
Poul Anderson, on BaBy
-
Vanity Fair
by Thackery
-
Riders to the Sea
J. M. Synge, on FaiR
-
Alls Well that Ends Well
by Shakespeare
Where is everyone?
-
(The) Light Fantastic
Terry Pratchett, on WelL
Maybe we scared them away with our slugfest 2 days ago. :)
-
(The) Cat who could read backwards
by Lillian Jackson Braun
I'm set with c's til the next millenium.
-
(The) Devil in Velvet
John Dickson Carr, on BackwarDs
Better do them in order, or you'll forget which cats you've used. D is starting to be a problem for me, but that one just popped into my head.
-
Thanksgiving Day Murder
by Lee Harris
on velveT
-
Rainbow's End
Ellis Peters, on MurdeR
-
Well you two really have had a 'slugfest' - can tell you were enjoying yourself ...
Daisy Miller
Henry James
On Rainbow'd EnD
-
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
by Laurie Viera Rigler
Yes, it reminded me of the old days when it was a contest, and we would slug it out in the middle of the night!!
But I was afraid we'd scared everyone else away.
-
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Thomas Hughes
on ............AddicT
-
(The) Savoy Operas
by W.S. Gilbert
on schooldayS
-
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
on ...OperaS
-
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Cory Doctorow, on WinD
-
March
Geraldine Brooks
on ...KingdoM
-
hOW TO fIX ALMOST ANYTHING
on marcH
-
Gilgamesh
author unknown, on AnythinG
OK, JoanK, are you going to tell me how to fix everything?
-
(The) Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
on gilgamesH
No, but as your older sister I'll tell you everything that needs fixing! ;)
-
On R in Hunter
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
by
Kenneth Koch
(Teaching Great Poetry to Children)
-
Died Blonde
by Nancy J. Cohen
-
Digging Up the Past
Sir Leonard Wooley, on BlonDe
-
(The) Turn of the Screw
by
Henry James
-
Wuthering Heights
on screW
-
There Are Doors
Gene Wolfe, on HeighTs
-
The Scoop
by Fern Michaels
S, from DoorS
-
Portnoy's Complaint
on scooP
-
On T
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
By
Jules Verne
-
Autobiography
Benvenuto Cellini, on SeA
A riot of artistic temperament, court politics, huge ego trips, depravity, etc.
-
Yes to your comments on the Cellini PatH - but such a classic -
And I see you've given me a dreaded Y so I'll have to think....
The Years
Virginia Woolf
on autobiographY
-
Haiku
by Henderson
on autobiograpHy
-
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
on HaikU
-
Deja Dead
Kathy Reichs, on WooD
-
Death on the Nile
Agatha
on Deja DeaD
Right at this minute I'm enjoying the morning sun streaming in through the window and my 'cup of tea' - we've had so much cold weather that I'm luxuriating in the comfortable warmth of the sunshine but know it won't be long before the days heat up again. - I really should go and do some work.
-
Endurance--Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing, om NilE
I didn't even realize I had this book. It's got JoanK's name, in her handwriting, inside. Er--do you want it back, Joan?
-
Gumtree, It's well after supper for me, but we're going through those lovely fall days of blue skies and reasonable temperatures. No colorful leaves yet. We've passed (I hope) the record long stretch of 100 degree temperature with high humidity.
-
GEORGICS
by Virgil
on voyaGe
That book on Shackleton is great -- much better than his own account.
-
(the) Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger, on GeorgiCs
In that case, don't expect me to give it back for a while.
-
On E
Erewhon
by
Samuel Butler
-
The dreaded N has held us up again. I'll break the impasse with
Neuromancer
William Gibson, on ErewhoN
I'm pretty sure I've used this before, and if anyone wants to call me on it I'll accept 20 lashes with a wet noodle and banishment for 3 turns, but at least I've broken the stalemate.
-
I thought of this title because I went to a book signing by William Gibson today, and brought my battered paperback of Neuromancer for him to sign. Details in the Sci-Fi discussion for anyone who cares.
-
I didn't realise there was a stalemate - just haven't looked in.
The Rambler Essays
Samuel Johnson
on NeuromanceR
-
On Y
Year of Living Dangerously
by
Christopher Koch
-
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Michael Curtiz
on ...dangerouslY
-
(The) Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, on DandY
-
Germinal
Emile Zola
....thinkinG
-
On L
Lost Horizon
by
James Hilton
-
Nemesis
by Agatha Christie
on horizoN
-
Why am I getting all the SEXY letters - well not so many X
Saltbush Bill
A. B 'Banjo' Paterson - iconic Aussie poet
on NemesiS
-
Hey, don't complain. I came up ith an "N"
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquival
on bilL
-
The N doesn't seem to be a problem - can't think why everyone complains about it.
The Egoist
George Meredith
on ... ChocolatE
-
On T
Tristram Shandy
by
Laurence Sterne
Sorry-The dreaded Y returns
-
It's not dreaded by me, since I feel free to skip it, but here's one:
Ysabel
Guy Gavriel Kay, on ShandY
-
Loves Labour Lost
by Shakespeare
on L
-
The Tempest
Wm S.
on Love's Labour LosT
-
(The) Truelove
Patrick O'Brian, on TempesT
-
Edmund Ironside
Unknown - sometimes attributed to William Shakespeare
on TruelovE
-
On D
(The) Death of Ivan Ilych
by
Leo Tolstoy
-
The Hand of Ethelberta
on ...Ivan IlycH
Thomas Hardy
-
Alls Well That Ends Well
by Shakespeare
-
Love's Labour Lost
W. SHakespeare
on ....Ends WelL
-
Timon of Athens
Shakespeare, on LosT
-
On N
Nostromo
by
Joseph Conrad
-
Ocean on Top
Hal Clement, on NostromO
-
Pericles Prince of Tyre
in part, by Shakespeare
on Ocean on ToP
-
Richard II
Shakespeare, on TyRe
(Someone's already done Richard III.)
-
(mmm, is the last letter I, twO, or seconD??) I'll assume I
Iolanthe
by W.S. Gilbert
-
Hogfather
Terry Pratchett, on IolantHe
-
This is a message for Joan K in Author,Author from Judy Shernock (JudeS).
My computer went down completely. Probably need to buy a new one. I am using an old laptop and I can't seem to get any message onto "Author,Author". You can call me at 408-255-1142 for the new clues or perhaps help me figure out how to connect with the Author, Author quiz.
Or someone else can be "IT".
Hope you see this. I will be home tomorrow after one PM CA time.
-
Gotcha. I'll try to call you at 1:30 or 2.
-
From Hogfather:
Rumpole and the Primrose Path, by John Mortimer.
-
Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
on ...Primrose PatH
-
Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places
by Brad Steiger
R, from GableR
-
Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Meade, on PlaCes
-
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
on the A in Samoa
-
(The) Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing, on DyinG
-
Kafka Soup
by Mark Crick (sp?)
on notebooK
-
(The) Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli, on SouP
-
Cyrano de Bergerac(C from Prince)
by
Edmond Rostand
-
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Robert Browning
on BergeraC
-
From CamE:
Envious Casca, by Georgette Heyer
-
Alone
Richard Byrd, on CascA
Goodness! I haven't thought of that book for decades, but it suddenly popped into my head. Admiral Byrd was one of my childhood heroes, a topnotch Antarctic explorer. Alone describes a winter spent solo at an Antarctic meteorological station, where he nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
-
Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac
On Alone
PatH: I have an old paperback copy of Alone - now all brittle and yellowed.
Byrd seems to have been a great man.
-
The Thirteen Clocks
by James Thurber
on Grandet
-
(The) Kindly Ones
Anthony Powell, on ClocKs
I love The Thirteen Clocks. My favorite line: "We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked".
-
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
on oneS
-
(The) Gormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake, on SprinG
I know I've used the first volume of this (Titus Groan) but I haven't used the trilogy before.
-
On Y
(The ) Yellow Room
by
Gaston Leroux
(He also wrote The Phantom of the Opera)
PatH I once heard Admiral byrd speak when I was a young child. It was amazing.
-
(The) Moon is a harsh Mistress
Robert Heinlein, on RooM
Lucky Judy!
-
Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw
on ...MistresS
-
The dreaded N; but I've got one.
Night of Power
Spider Robinson, on JoaN
-
Rats. Lice and History
by Hans Zinner
on poweR
-
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke, on HistoRy
-
Almayer's Folly
Joseph Conrad
on ...Rama
-
On L
Little Men
by
Louisa May Alcott
-
Oh, no, the dread N!
Needle
Hal Clement, on MeN
-
ON L
The Left hand is the Dreaner
by
Nancy Ross
-
Raj Quartet
-
On T
Tender is the Night
by
Fitzgerald
-
How To Be an American Housewife
by Margaret Dilloway
H, from nigHt
-
Eugene Onegin, by Pushkin
on "e" from "Housewife"
-
Neuromancer
William Gibson, on OnegiN
I think I've used Neuromancer before, but since Ns are such a problem, I'll claim special privileges since I recently heard Gibson talk and got him to sign my battered paperback of Neuromancer.
-
(The) Rose and the Yew Tree
by Agatha Christie
-
Eucalyptus
Murray Bail
on ...Yew TreE
We talked about this one quite recently ...
-
Yes, and I bought it. Plan to start reading it today.
Spy who came in from the Cold
by LeCarre?
-
Divine Justice
by David Baldacci
D, from colD
-
The Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
on ...JustiCe
-
St. Peters Fair
by Ellis Peters
on taleS
-
Racundra's Third Cruise
Arthur Ransome, on FaiR
I already used the first cruise, which I own. Dunno if there's a book about the second, but the third is available on Amazon.
-
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
on ...Third CruisE
-
Sanctuary Sparrow
by Ellis Peters
on cruiSe
-
Westward Ho!
Charles Kingsley
on SparroW
-
(The) Old Buzzard Had It Coming
by Donis Casey
on hO
A mystery several in the Mystery Corner recommended. Detective-- a pioneer woman with 10 children.
-
On G
Go Tell it on the Mountain
by
James Baldwin
-
Aha ! one of those pesky Ns...
Nobody Knows My Name
James Baldwin
on ...MountaiN
-
Moving can be Murder
on naMe
-
On R
Robinson Crusoe
by
Defoe
-
on the O
On Writing
Stephen King
-
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, on WritinG
-
Lilian's Story
Kate Grenville
On .... SteeL
Grenville is an Aussie writer - this is one of her best... here's a little from the blurb:
"Lilian strides through her life reciting Shakespeare for a shilling, using reluctant taxi drivers as her private charioteers, falling in love with 'Lord Kitchener'. Magnificently self-confident, she can say at the end: 'I am ready for whatever comes next.'
-
Reading the Bones
Sheree Thomas, editor. An anthology of speculative fiction from the African diaspora.
on StoRy
-
A New Leaf
by Thomas Kinkade
and Katherine Spencer
N, from boNes
-
Fire in the Deep
Verner Vinge, on leaF
Action at last. Everyone seems to have forgotten us.
-
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
on deeP
-
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut, on PrejudiCe
-
Lacuna
-
Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton, on LacunA
-
Coming of Age in Samoa
on innocenCe
-
All Clear
Connie Willis, on SamoA
-
I think we've used up this game. Unless anyone wants to keep it, I'll throw it out in a few days. We can always start it up again later/
-
on cleaR
never read this
-
Hi, bluebird, I wondered where you were.
-
Hi, PatH!
It is fun to play word games and learn here. All seniorlearn people visit the holiday open house!
-
Random Winds
R-from CleaR
by Belva Plain
-
Darwin's Radio
by Greg Bear
on WinDs
It's in my TBR pile.
-
I've read it. it's good.
Old Man's War
John Scalzi, on RadiO
-
Rats, Lice and History
on Wars
Remember, "Y" is a leter you can skip if you want (SEXY).
-
I'm up for the challenge, JoanK.
You Can't Go Home Again.
by Thomas Wolfe
on the Y from History
-
And N was the one we would run out of.
Neuromancer
William Gibson, on agaiN
This was a groundbreaking book when it came out in 1984, defining the cyberpunk movement. I recently, at a book signing for a more recent book, got Gibson to autograph my battered old paperback.
-
R. U. R.
-
Roll, Jordan, roll
by Dorothy Park Clark
on R
crime novel published the year I was born
-
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
on rolL
Do you recomend "Roll, Jordan, Roll"?
-
Starship and Haiku
S. P. Somtow, on GrasS
-
Do you recomend "Roll, Jordan, Roll"?
I don't know JoanK. I haven't read it. This is pretty much the only info about the subject matter I can find. The book was originally published for the Double Day Crime Club. Kirkus Reviews has a very skimpy synopsis.
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dorothy-park-clark-2/roll-jordan-roll/#review
I am having trouble finding any info about her at all. I did find a bio about her in The Encyclopedia of Louisville which is in Google Books. Here is the link in case you want to try to read the tiny print. http://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC&pg=PA601&lpg=PA601&dq=Dorothy+Park+Clark&source=bl&ots=byxarTJf_g&sig=Ik_37PSa2iSC3e2NVmy766BWUAk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=31f-TpiDNaHb0QGu_42EAg&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Dorothy%20Park%20Clark&f=false
From what it says, her novels were pretty popular in their day and fairly accurate regarding their time period and settings. She also wrote several non-fiction books. All of the books are out of print as best I can tell. I am not sure how many were written under the pseudonym, Clark McKeekin. Isabelle McKeekin and Clark co-wrote a number of these books together. I found even less information nor any books listed, new or old, under that pseudonym.
Lots of luck finding the book if you are interested. Open Library lists librarys that have the book, and I see a few used listed on various used book sites, but it seems to be rather scarce.
-
Under the Dome
by Stephen King
on the HaikU.
-
Middlemarch
George Eliot, on DoMe
-
How to Win friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie (remember that one?)
on middlemarcH
-
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, on PeopLe
-
(The) African Queen
on cholerA
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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
You have the option of ignoring the letters S,E,X,Y if they are at the end of a word. example: if House is the last word, you could use E (HousE), S (HouSe) or U (HoUse)
* 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 PatH (rjhighet@earthlink.net)
Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat
on QueeN
-
Forever Amber
-
Relentless
Jack Campbell, on AmbeR
One in my well-liked series of sci-fi naval battles.
-
Frybabe, thanks for posting a Farley Mowat. I was trying to think of his name yesterday and not coming up with it. People tell me I would like him, but for some reason I've never gotten around to reading him. Any suggestions about where to start?
-
PatH, the only Mowat book I read was People of the Deer. It is about a trip he took from Churchill going west of the Hudson Bay into the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories and into Manitoba, traveling much of the caribou migration route. This was his first book, published in 1952, revised in 1975. His No Man's River is apparently based on experiences from that same trip.
Owls in the Family was very popular. He wrote a well received book about Dian Fossey called Woman in the Mists . Most of his books are non-fiction.
-
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark twain
on relentLess
-
Iceworld
Hal Clement, on MississippI
-
Daemon
by Daniel Suarez
on the D
-
The dreaded N again. But I thought of a good one.
(La) Nouvelle Heloise
Jean Jacques Rousseau, on DaemoN
-
(The) Egg and I
on heloisE
-
Iceworld
Hal Clement, on I
-
Doctor Doolittle
-
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
on DoolittlE
-
"Nurse and Spy in the Union Army"
I was stuck for an "N", so went over to nonfiction, and there it was! Thanks, Fry: hop e you weren't planning to use it.
-
(The) Mousetrap
Agatha Christie, on ArMy
-
(The) Pirates of Penzance
on mousetraP
-
Cranford
Elizabeth Gaskell, on PenzanCe
-
Dead in the Water
-
Raise the Titanic
by Clive Cussler
on WateR
-
(The) Cyberiad
Stanislaw Lem, on TitaniC
-
This is my first attempt and I ope it is in consonant with the rules :)
(A) Doll's house (following CuberiaD)
Play by Norwegian Henrik Ibsen
-
You've got it, Traude. Don't forget that if a word ends in any of the letters in SEXY you may optionally ignore those letters. So for A Doll's House, I could play on House or House or House. Also, you're not supposed to repeat a title, but we had a long gap when nobody played, so I think we're starting over on that one, OK to repeat something you used before the gap.
-
Shikasta
Doris Lessing, on HouSe
-
Your help is much appreciated, PatH.. Thank you. One quick question : Cues can be taken from both a title AND an author's name, is that right?
On houSe
Seneca,
De vita beata
-
Actually, we always stick to titles, even though the classics are often refered to only by the authors name.
But someone, somewhere has probably written a book named Seneca.
America 1908 on senecA (post on americA, unless you know a book that starts with 8 ?!?)
-
84 Charing Cross Road
by Helen Hanff
How's that for an 8?
-
Brava, Frybabe!
-
Thank you, JoanK! I'm sorry about my silly question. The title of the game says it all !! :D
on 84 CharinG cross Road
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
-
After a huge gap i have returned. I'm not 100% sure of all the rules but I think nonfiction titles are OK.
So on Galileos DaughteR
I will say Roget's Thesaurus
-
Any title is OK. I think a lot of us have gotten fuzzy about the rules, so I re-posted them at the top of this page.
-
Scout's Progress
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, on ThesauruS
So, for example, on this one you could use R (ProgRess) E (ProgrEss) or S (ProgresS)
-
On R
Rabbit Run
John Updike
Are Children's Books OK to use for titles?
-
Yes, and plays and pamphlets.
Norstrilia
Cordwainer Smith, on RuN
-
On A from NanA
All the King's Men
by
Robert Penn Warren
-
Thank you very much, PatH. The information was just the information I needed. Sorry for not checking the rules before jumping in. >:(
On All the King's MeN
The Needle's Eye
(1972) by Margaret Drabble
-
Oh, good, Traude, you picked up the dreaded N, so I don't have to spend one of mine. (You'll find out eventually that we run out of Ns and get increasingly desperate.)
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card, on EyE
We're glad you joined us. rules can always be picked up en route.
-
My Sisters Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
-
Roughing It
Mark Twain, on KeepeR
-
PatH, :)
Roughing It
Tell-Tale Heart, The
by Edgar Allan Poe
-
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume, on HearT
-
On NothinG
(The) Gathering
Ann Enright
-
on Tales from a Forth-Grade Nothing
Gösta Berling (aka Gösta Berling Saga, The, 1891)
by Selma Lagerlöf
-
on Tales of a Fourth Grade NothinG
Ghosts,
a play (1881) by Henrik Ibsen
-
(A) Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens, on GhosTs
-
PatH, In answer to "Tales of a Fourth Grade NothinG" i posted first one and - when it did not ,appear - a second one, which suffered the same fate. Both started ewith the correct letter. Should I resubmit at least one of them
-
They both show up on my screen. Take your pick of re-submitting one or, since you can't post on your own word, taking a turn on my word.
-
All is well. The problem lay with my (tardy) bookmarks and was detected when I went through the index. Forgive my temporary befuddlement.
Continuing on (A Tale of Two CitieS
(The)
STORY OF SAN MICHELE
by Axel Munthe
(One of my all-time favorites)
-
Little Dorritt
Charles Dickens, on MicheLe
Why am I on a Charles Dickens kick? Could it have anything to do with our current book discussion?
-
on Little DorritT
Time Machihe, The
H. G. Wells
-
On Time MachiNe
No Graves As Yet
Anne Perry
-
Timescape
Gregory Benford, on YeT
-
on Timescape
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
-
Mallworld
S. P. Somtow, on FroMe
-
on Mallworld
Doll's House, A
by Henrik Ibsen
-
Gone with the Wind
Margeret Mitchell on nothinG
-
(The) Devil in Velvet
John Dickson Carr, on WinD
-
To Kill a Mockingbird
over to you.
-
Death comes to the Archbishop
Willa Cather, on MockingbirD
-
Please Din't Eat the Daisies
by Jean Kerr
on archbishoP
-
Second Wind
Dick Francis, on DasieS
-
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
-
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque, on DraculA
-
Tom Sawyer
-
Ramona
Helen Hunt Jackson, on Sawyer
-
Austentatious
By Alyssa Goodnight
-
Starship and Haiku
S. P. Somtow, on AustentatiouS
-
Under the Linden tree
by Margeret Reid
-
Rewards and Fairies
Rudyard Kipling, on TRee
-
Elephants Can Remember
by Agatha Christie
-
(The) Red and the Black
Stendahl, onRemembeR
-
The Kiterunner
by Houseini
-
(The) Red Notebook
Paul Auster, on KiterunneR
-
Keep the Apadistra Flying
By george Orwell
-
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond, on FlyinG
-
(The) Last of the Mohicans
By James Fenimore Cooper
-
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Peter Høeg, on Mohicans
-
War and Peas
by Jill Churchill
on snoW
-
(The) Star Thrower
Loren Eisely, on PeaS
Equal parts poetry, science, fantasy, and madness. Unforgettable.
-
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By Kate Douglas Wiggens
-
Mastering the Art of French cooking
Julia Child, et al, on FarM
-
Grime and Punishment
by Jill churchill
on cookinG
-
Twilight Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on PunishmenT
-
How to fix almost everything
by Stanley Schuler
on watcH
-
(The) Grey King
Susan Cooper, on EverythinG
-
Great Expectations
by Dickens
on kinG
-
Silver on the Tree
Susan Cooper, on ExpectationS
# 5 of the excellent series of which The Grey King is #4
-
(The) Elephants Journey
by Saramago
on treE
-
(The) Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, on JourneY
-
Green Eggs and Ham
by Dr. Suess
-
Mort
Terry Pratchett, on HaM
-
Twilight
by Stephanie Meyer
-
Tempest-Tossed
by Robertson Davie
on Twilight
-
On TosseD
(The) Deerslayer
James Fenimore Cooper
-
(The) Rebel Angels
Robertson Davies, on DeerslayeR
-
Life on the mississippi
by Mark Twain
-
Interesting Times
Terry Pratchett, on MississippI
-
(The) Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Ernest Hemingway
on interesting TimeS
-
On MacombeR
Reap the Wild Wind
Thelma Strabel
-
Death on the Nile
by Agatha Christie
on winD
-
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
on Death on the NilE
-
The dreaded N again.
Night Watch
Sergei Lukyanenko, on EdeN
This is the first of a trilogy (now 4) by a Russian sci-fi/fantasy writer, in which he manages to reduce the conflict between good and evil to a rule-ridden bureaucracy. It's contemporary, but there is a background of myth and legend, vampires and shape-shifters, and sordid life in modern-day Moscow. If you happen to have a taste for this sort of thing, it's excellent.
-
Homo Faber
by Max Frisch
on Night WatcH
-
R. U. R.
Karel Capek, on FabeR
This play first popularized the term robot. It's still good reading, with interesting social commentary.
-
(The) Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov
on R.U.R
-
On KnighT
Treasure Island
R.L. Stevenson
-
Dead in the Water
by Dana Stabanow
on islanD
-
Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy, on WateR
-
Everyman
by Philip Roth
on NativE
-
The Night Villa
by Carol Goodman
on the N
-
As you Like It
by Shakespeare
on villA
-
Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo, on IT
-
After the Fall
by Arthur Miller
-
(The) Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. LeGuin, on FalL
-
Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
on Darkness
-
West of Here
by Jonathan Evison
-
On HerE
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
-
Egmont
Drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
on HerE
-
Oops, Jude. Did not see your post. .
(The) Notes of Malte Lautids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke
on EdeN
-
(The) Ghormenghast Trilogy
Mervyn Peake, on BrigGe
-
You post on what you see. Traude, Jude probably posted while you were composing your post, so you couldn't have seen it. This used to happen a lot in the fast-moving forerunner of this game. As long as you post on what was last when you started, you are OK. One reason we say what we're posting on is to clear up confusion in these cases.
-
Gone with the Wind
by Margeret Mitchell
on triloGy
-
The Dark Tower
by Stephen King
on WinD
Traude: Egmont sounded familiar and, sure enough, Beethoven wrote Egmont, Op. 84 for the play.
-
Rembrandt's Eyes
by Simon Shama
on toweR
-
(The) System of the World
Neal Stephenson, on EyeS
-
Darwin's Century
by Loren Eisley
on worlD
-
(The) Gambler
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
pn BrigGe
-
On GambleR
(The) Red Pony
John Steinbeck
-
(The) Night Country
Loren Eisely, on PoNy
-
You Can't Take it with You
by Moss Hart
on CountrY
-
Up From Slavery
Booker T Washington, on YoU
-
You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
on SlaverY
-
Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
on AgaiN
-
(The) Spy that Came in from the cold
on circuS
-
Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux
on ColD
-
On CaT
Ten Little Indians
Agathe Christie
-
She
by H Ryder Haggard
on indianS
-
Episode in Palmetto
by Erskine Caldwell
on ShE
-
Orlando
Virginia Woolf, on PalmettO
-
One for the Money
by janet Evanovitch
on orlandO
-
Youngblood Hawke
by Herman Wouk
on MoneY
-
Kaputt
by Curzio Malaparte
on HawwKe
-
Thud
Terry Pratchett, on KaputT
-
Death Comes to Pemberley
by P D James
For a mystery reader, D is the easiest letter
-
On PemberleY
You Can't Take it With You
Kaufman & Hart
This is the title of a play. I imagine that is OK since in its original form it is a writtern manuscript.
-
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowy
on YoU
-
Othello
by Shakespeare
on volcanO
JUDE: I've been assuming that plays are OK.
-
Yes, they are. Just about anything written, with a title, is OK.
Ossian's Ride
Fred Hoyle, on OthellO
-
Elbow Room
by James Alan McPherson
on RidE
-
Mission of Gravity
Hal Clement, on RooM
-
(The) Years
by Virginia Woolf
on GravitY
-
Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
on yeaRs
-
Early Aumn
by Louis Bromfield
on SagE
-
Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on AutumN
-
Taras Bulba
by Nicolai Gogol
on NighT
-
As I lay Dying
by William Faulkner
on bulbA
-
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen, on DyinG
-
(The) Trial
by Kafka
on ghosTs
-
Lorna Doone
Richard Blackmore, on TriaL
-
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by Thomas Gray
on doonE
-
Dune
Frank Herbert, on ChurchyarD
-
(The) End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
on dunE
-
(The) Raphael Affair
Iain Pears, on AffaiR
-
(The) Red and the Black
by Stendhal
on affaiR
-
Killashandra
Anne McCaffrey, on BlacK
-
Anne of green Gables
on A
-
(The) Light Princess
George MacDonald, on GabLes
Do you remember this book?
-
(The) Cat in the Hat
by Dr. Suess
on prinCess. No. I'm off, now. See you later, alligator.
-
Ellen Foster
by Kay Gibbons
on DunE
-
(The) Rise of the Dutch Republic
John Lothrop Motley, on FosteR
You missed our slugfest, Traude. Too bad.
-
Ellen Foster
by Kaye Gibbons
on DunE
-
Christ Stopped at Eboli
(Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
by Carlo Levi
on RepubliC
-
Indian Summer of a Forsyte
John Galsworthy, on EbolI
Traude, have you read the Levi? I have it on a rather dusty TBR pile.
-
To Have and to Hold
by Mary Johnston
on forsyTe
-
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie, on HolD
-
Long Days Journey into Night
by Eugene O'Niel
on niLe
-
In re Reply # 2491
PatH, Yes, I read Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli in the original Italian, many years ago. It indirectly touched my own life, and I could never forget either. When the chance to post this title presented itself, I jumped at it.
Carlo Levi (1902-1975)was born and brought up in the Italian region of Piedmont (Piemonte - Capital Turin = Torino), in the north west of Italy bortdering France and Switzerland. He studied medicine and became a practising physician.
His interest in politics, or perhaps more his dissatisfaction with the fascist regime led him to cofound with two other men an antifascist group called (Giustizia e Libertà ) = Justice and Liberty. In 1929 he was put in jail for two months and then sent to internal exile into one of the poorest, most desperate neglected areas in the Italian South. Though he was not allowed to "do anything", he felt compelled to minister to the sick and infirm among the residents and, after being ordered to stop - following the reports of the fascist mayor of the hamlet - continued in secrecy. Levi was pardoned in 1936 in a General Amnesty declared after Italian troops took Addis Ababa in the war with Italy's colony, Ethiopia. Levi left for France but eventually returned to Rome.
According to Dr. Levi's expressed wishes in his Last Will and Testament, he was put to rest in Aliano, in the former region of Lucania, now called Basilicata, Italy.
As I recall it, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli is a factual report in an essayistic form of evens and circumstances true to the time but deeply informed with compassion.
Please forgive me for going into these details.
-
(The) Thief
by Leonid Leontov
On NighT
-
Fifth Business
Robertson Davies, on ThieF
Thanks, Traude. I wanted that sort of detail. That's why I asked.
-
PatH , Thank you
(The) Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
on BusinesS
-
Straudetwo
I also was very impressed by the book Christ Stopped at Eberli. Thanks for giving me the background of the author.
On DiarIes
It's Greek To Me (Brush up on your classica)
Michael Macrone
-
I assume ME is the last word
Murders at the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Allen Poe
-
(The) Eldest Son
by John Galsworthy
on MorguE
-
On SoN
No Graves As Yet
Ann Perry
THis book is part of a five part series on WW1 . A great read (for those not involved in Dickens)
-
Till Morning Comes
by Han Suyin
(author also of A Many-Splendored Thing)
on YeT
-
Marjorie Morningstar
Herman Wouk, on CoMes
I hadn't thought of that book for decades, but it just popped into my head.
-
Rob Roy
on orningstaR
-
Orsinian Tales
Ursula K. LeGuin, on ROy
-
Love in the Time of Cholera
on taLes
-
On CholerA
About A Boy
Nick Hornby
-
You Can't Take it Woth You
by george Kaufman and Moss hart
on boY
remember the movie?
-
Unnatural Death
Dorothy L. Sayers, on YoU
-
Hairy Ape (The)
Play by Eugene O'Neill
on DeatH
-
Partners in Crime
by Agatha christie
on aPe
-
OK
__ __ E
__ __ __
__ __ __
__ __ __ __ __ .
Fiction
-
Sorry, wrong game. meant to do BLANKO
-
(The) Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
on CriMe
-
(The) Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein, on MargaritA
-
Six Characters in Search of an Author
org. : Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
by Luigi Pirandello
on ToklaS
-
(The) Rose Rent
by Ellis Peters
on authoR
-
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, on RenT
-
(A)Dangerous Friend
by Ward Just
on MockingbirD
-
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
on frienD
-
(Il) Conformista (the Conformist)
by Alberto Moravia
on VeniCe.
[Sideebar : An irresistible chance for me to mention Alberto Pinscherle (who took Moravia as his pen name), and his first wife, Elsa Morante,. contemporaries of Carlo Levi. One of Alberto Moravia's many stories, titled La Romana, was made into an unforgettable movie, Two Women, with Sophia Loren.]
-
As You Like It
by Shakespeare
-
On IT
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carre
-
(The) Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain, on SPy
-
Revelation : Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Bok of Revelations
by Elaine Pagels
on PaupeR
-
Nunquam
by Lawrence Durrell
on RevelatioN
-
Straude
I intend to get the book by E. Pagels.Have you read it?
What do you think?
Jude
-
On M
My Name is Red
Orham Pamuk
-
Jude, Revelaton was published earlier this month, and so far I've only read a review by Dwight Garner that was carried in the NYT.
The Book of Revelations has long intrigued me, because every now and then passages are applied to modern political events, or seem to foreshadow the latter. I haven't had a chance to order the book yet but it's a priority. Our library is good at ordering new books upon suggestions, but this one I'd like to own.
From the review I gather that Pagels sets out to explain - or put in context - the violent, frightening events in the book, which have mystified readers for centuries. The Book of Revelations was written by John of Patmos, a Jewish prophet and follower of Jesus.
Traude
-
Doctor Doolittle
by Hugh Lofting
on ReD
-
(The) Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan, on DoolittLe
You won't have read this unless there's an 11 year old in your life. It's the first of a 5 part series about a New York city boy who is the son of Poseidon and a mortal, and his battle to save the world from the return of Kronos.
-
Falling Slowly
by Anita Brookner (underraed in the U.S.)
on ThieF
-
(The) Leopard
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa, on SlowLy
-
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
on LeoparD
-
On ZhivagO
(The) Odyssey
Homer
Traude
Heard a fascinating interview with Pagels with Terry Gross. I plan to buy the book also. The most interesting point was how many people tried to vote against including it in the Codified Bible.
-
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
on Odyssey (I hope it was permissible in this case to use O again as the next starting point)
-
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell, on CraKe
You're supposed to use the last letter of the previous post (minus any of SEXY that you don't want) but there isn't any penalty.
Have you read Oryx and Crake? I like Atwood, but the reviews convinced me I wouldn't like this particular book.
-
Jude
Thank you for the update. Terry Gross's valuable opinion confirms that Revelation is indeed an important book.
Given our apparent interest in the subject matter, I wonder whether you have heard of Original Sinners : A New Interpretation of Genesis written by John R. Coats, published in January 2011. "A new interpretation" it is, all right. I've spoken about it with various church members who showed only barely veiled indifference. If you have not heard about book and author, the web has ample information.
Traude
-
PatH
You have repeated the rules recently and I did follow them - until today. It will not happen again.
Oryx and Crake.
I can't remember why I decided to read Oryx and Crake, well knowing that it is science fiction, territory in which I do not move comfortably and for which I have no compass. Even so it never occurred to me to cast the books aside. Instead, I felt compelled to take in as much as I could of the incongruous, unfathomable events, the demonstrated ruthlessness against the impotent masses by a much smaller group of secretive bosses; the end of civilization, a large city reduced to wilderness.
Is survival possible after massive bio-engineering and mutations of what species are left ? If - as I've heard since - science fiction relies generally more on scenes and events than on characters, what is the reader to make of the three surviving characters (two males and a waifish girl) in this book ? Are they meant to proffer a hint of hope in a new future, as unlikely as that is ? I don't know what message Atwood meant to convey in this book, or IF she meant to. For my part I was not optimistic.
I found Atwood and Margaret Drabble around the same period of time and read the books each wrote with enthusiasm and eagerness, waiting with bated breath for the next one. Both changed in time, so did their books. I could no longer follow Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. At some point I felt Drabble was being punctilious, and then worried whether something was wrong with me.
Summa summarum, I do not regret my venture into science fiction. Many things are worth trying - at last once. :)
-
Traude
I ordered the book by Pagels from Amazon.
I also read the description of "Original Sinners" but that doesn't interest me since I have read many fiction and non-fiction works on this subject-in Hebrew and English.
On FlyinG
Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell
-
(The) Door in the Wall
Oliver La Farge, on WinD
-
Traude, I am very comfortable with Science Fiction, and I was still daunted by the reviews of Oryx and Crake. Sci-fi is all over the map, ranging from very character-driven to just the opposite, from having serious things to say to being just an adventure story for escape reading.
-
On WalL
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Pat
I read most of Awoods books but reading the synopsis about Oryx and Crake made me feel that she had Hit the BOTTOM of her career and wanted some attention. Couldn't read that book.
-
Agatha Christie: Mudrer in the Making
by John Curran (a book I got from the library today. Tell you if it's good).
on Lysistrata
Traude: you don't need to apologize: it's our game: we can do it how we like. Besides, look at the discussion you got.
Now we can discus Lysistrata!?!
-
Thank you very much, JoanK.
Around this time last night I found myself logged out but will spare you the unpleasant details. PatH was the only member I could reach by e-mail. I tried to log in but could not remember the password. Jane has since restored the old order. I am no longer silent !!
My gratitude to you both.
JoanK, Lysistrata, why not ? Women against War - an age-old theme.
On MakinG
(The) Green Man
by Kingsley Amis
Jude
I ordered Revelations from B&N (with gift card from Christmas)
Re Original Sinners : I understand.
I read the book with some hesitation and mixed feelings, and that is why I hoped to elicit some interest among parishioners. I would like to read the book again to see whether I still have the same reservations. Amazon has the hardcover for $10 (and a Kindle edition) but the book is a heavy tome and does not lend itself to being read in bed. However, I will be at a wedding in June to which the Rector of the church to which I belong has been invited. A retired Navy Chaplain will also attend. It is my plan plan is to seek them both out, unobtrusively of course, and mention the book.
-
(The) Nursing Home Murder
Ngaio Marsh, on MaN
Hooray, you're back, Traude. It's surprising how cut off one feels when that happens.
Have you read The Green Man? I rather liked it.
-
On MaN
Hiroshima Mon Amour
by Marguerite Duras
-
Just noticed my error. Mea maxma culpa.
on MaN
No Exit
by Jean Paul Sartre
-
Thud!
Terry Pratchett, on ExiT
-
(The) Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio
on ThuD!
-
(The) Naked and The Dead
by Norman Mailer
on DecameroN
-
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
on Dead
-
(The) Cherry Orchard
Anton Checkov, on DisgraCe
-
Dreaming Water
by Gail TTsukiyama
on Orchard
-
Restless in the Grave
by Dana Stabenow
-
(The) Valley of Fear
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on GraVe
-
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
on FeaR
-
On RoaD
Devil in the Details
jennifer Traig
-
(The) Sun Also Rises
on detailS
-
(A) Sport of Nature
by Nadine Gordimer
on RiseS
-
On NaturE
Echo-Land
Per Peterson
If you haven't read this Norwegian Author you are missing a great read. Especially "Out Stealing Horses" and "I Curse The River of Time".
-
Death of an Old Coot
on lanD
We mystery story readers have a long supply of "D"s
-
Tales from a Troubled Land
by Alan Paton
on CooT
-
Doctor Doolittle
by Hugh Loftinng
on lanD
-
On DoolittLe
(The ) Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
-
Aké: the Years of Childhood
Wole Soyinka, on LacunA
I'm not sure how much of this is the real title. go for either K/E from Ake, or D from Childhood.
-
Double Murder : A Murder Story
by Dorothy Sayers (written with members of The Detection Club)
on ChildhooD
-
(The) Razors Edge
on stoRy
-
Girl with Green Eyes
by Edna O'Brien
on EdGe
-
On EyeS
(The) Sunflower
Simon Wiesenthal
-
Rodin's Debutante
by Ward Just
on SunfloweR
-
Topaze
Marcel Pagnol, on DebutanTe
-
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
on TopazE
-
No Villain
by Arthur Miller
on EdeN
-
No Going Home
by Lyndon Stacey
My new library book is not only a good read, It starts with the dreaded "N".
-
Emilia Galotti
Drama in 5 Acts
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
on HomE
-
(The) Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
on GalottI
-
(The) Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, on IdioT
-
(The) Song of Bernadette
by Franz Werfel
on MusketeerS l
-
Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas, on BernadetTe
Might as well use up the Musketeers while I'm thinking of them.
-
(The) Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner
on After
-
Ten Years Later
Alexandre Dumas, on EngagemenT
Even that's not all for the Musketeers if you give me the right letters, since Ten Years Later is often split into three books.
-
(The)Road Back
by Erich Maria Remarque
(married to Paulette Goddard, who survived him)
on LateR
-
King Lear
By Shakespeare
on bacK
-
On LeaR
(A) Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
-
Not To Disturb
by Muriel Spark
on SuN
-
On DisturB
Broke Back Mountain
Anne Proulx
(Although this was originally a short story the movie script, I imagine, counts as a book)
-
Nevertheless
by Marianne Moore
on MouaiN
-
AHA! You gave me another Musketeer
Louise de la Valliere
Alexandre Dumas, on NevertheLess
-
Empire
by Gore Vidal
on VallièrE
-
Egil's Saga
Anonymous, ca. 1230, on EmpirE
Egil Skallagrimsson is about as unlikeable a character as you find. Subject to black rages, he committed his first murder when he was about 6, after losing a ball game, and his last when he was old and blind, keeping the hiding place of his treasure a secret by killing the slave who helped him hide it. He was also a highly respected poet. He wrote a touching lament over the death of his 2 sons, and once he bought his freedom when imprisoned by his old enemy King Eirick Bloodaxe by composing a poem in praise of the king. (Custom was that if the king kept the poem he had to free the poet, and the poem was so good Eirick couldn't resist.)
-
PatH, isn't it wonderful to dig into the old sagas, like Egil's, sometimes ? This one, I believe, has a connection with Norse mythology, possibly specifically Icelandic. Aaaah, the richness of books and history ...
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner
on SagA
-
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood, on RepOse
-
Yes, Traude, Egil's Saga is Icelandic, as was Egil. In his lament for his sons, Egil complains that Odin, as lord of death, has taken away his sons. But Odin is also the god of poetry, and has given Egil his poetic gift, and it is only the writing of this poem that gives him the will to cope with his grief.
-
Echoes
by Maeve Binchy
on CrakE
-
Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert, on Echoes
-
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
on Salambô
-
On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
on orlandO
-
Heartbreak House
by George Bernard Shaw
on BeacH
-
On HoUse
Ulysses
James Joyce
-
Smoke and Steel
Collectionof Poems
by Carld Sandburg
on UlysseS
-
Love in the Time of Cholora
on steeL
-
Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley
on CholerA
-
(The) Color Purple
on essenCe
-
Eyeless in Gaza
by Aldous Huxley
on PurplE
-
Antigone
Sophocles, on GazA
Hmm--wonder how come I thought of that one.
-
(The) Ebony Tower
by John Fowles
on AntigonE
-
Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett, on ToweR
-
Nothing Lost
by John Gregory Dune
on MaN
-
Two for the Lions
Lindsey Davis
on LosT
-
(The) Sound of Waves
Yukio Mishima, on LionS
It's a gentle and charming book, unlike The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, which I couldn't make myself finish.
-
Shipweck
by John Fowles
om WaveS
-
Apologies for typos. I miss letters in the beginning of a word, at the end, and often in the middle - without noticing it. Or I ind them later, as in this case.
Te title is Shipwreck by John Fowles
on WaveS
-
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson, on ShipwrecK
I make a lot of typos too. What saves me is a very bossy spellchecker that won't let me get away with anything.
-
Diary of a Bad Year
by J.M.Coetzee
on KidnappeD
-
(The) Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on YeaR
-
(A) Standard of Behaviour
by WilliamTrevor
on HolmeS
-
On BehavioR
Return to Oz
L.Frank Baum
-
Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi, on OZ
-
Elegy for a Lady
by Arthur Miller
on TalE
-
On LaDy
Death Be Not Proud
by
John Gunther
-
(The) Devils Disciple
by George Bernard Shaw
on ProuD
-
(The) Devil's Disciple
by George Bernard Shaw
on ProuD
-
(The) Early History of the Airplane
by Orville and Wilbur Wright
on the E
-
Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett, on AirplanE
-
Everyman
by Philip Roth
on Equal Rites
-
Next
by Michael Crichton
on the N
-
Timescape
Gregory Benford, on NexT
-
(The) Prisoner of Zenda
on timescaPe
-
Alcatraz
by Max Brand
on ZendA
-
Zen Mind, beginners Mind
by Suzuki
on AlcatraZ
-
Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantsakis
on Zen mind, Beginners Mind
or
Dublin
by Maeve Binchy
on ... MinD
-
Kilimanjaro
by John Reader
on Greek
-
Of Time and the River
by Thomas Wolfe
on KilimanjarO
-
Relentless
Jack Campbell, on RiveR
-
Seeker
by Jack McDevitt
on the S in Relentless
-
(The) Rose Rent
by Ellis Peters
on seekeR
-
Tempest-Tost
(First Volume of The Salterton Trilogy)
by Robertson Davies
on Rose R enT
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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
You have the option of ignoring the letters S,E,X,Y if they are at the end of a word. example: if House is the last word, you could use E (HousE), S (HouSe) or U (HoUse)
* 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 PatH (rjhighet@earthlink.net)
-
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne, on TosT
Traude, are you a Davies fan? The third in the Salterton trilogy, A Mixture of Frailties, is one of my favorites.
-
Towards Zero
by Agatha Christie
on tosT
-
old man and the sea
on zerO
never read this
-
All the Kings Men
on seA
Hi, Bluebird
-
Glad the site is up and running again.
On N (Men)
Nicholas Nickleby
by
Dickens
-
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
by Agatha Christie
on nickleBy
-
Barbary
Vonda MacIntyre, on ThumBs
Stowaway cat on a space station helps save the day.
-
Roll of thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred Taylor
on barbaRy
-
Rendezvous With Rama
Arthur C. Clarke, on cRy.
Old style sci-fi of the "big dumb blob in space" variety.
-
Android's Dream
by John Scalzi
on the A in Rama
-
On M in DreaM)
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
-
(The) Tempest
on streeT
-
(On T in TempesT)
Typee
by
Herman Melville
-
Eight cousins
on Typee
Louisa may Alcott
found gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org
-
Early Kings of Norway
by Thomas Carlyle
on the E in Typee
-
Archy and Mehitabel
Don Marquis, on NorwAy
-
On L MehitabeL
Lost Horizon
by
James Hilton
-
How about 'No Roads Lead to Rome'. By R.S. Gompertz?
-
You found an N -- the most difficult letter!
Mrs. Pargeters Package
by Simon Brett
on roMe
(notice, Lorac, you can skip certain letters -- S,E,X, and Y. So the next person can start with either pachagE or packaGe).
-
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
on the G in PackaGe
-
Band Room Bash
by Connie Shelton
on gatsBy
-
Howard's End
E. M. Forster, on BasH
-
On D for EnD
(The) Devil Wears Prada
by
Lauren Weisberger
-
(The) Atrocity Archives
(science fiction)
Charles Stross, on PradA
-
On E in ArchivEs
Emotional Intelligence
by
Daniel Goleman
-
Catching Fire
by Suzane Collins
on the C in IntelligenCe
-
Rob Roy
by RL Stevenson
on fiRe
-
on the Y from RoY
Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay
-
I am assuming it is the l that is at the end of Ysabel and if so, how about
Love's Labours Lost
-
Did you notice that we've neglected this game for two years? Yes, it looks like we are using the last letter for the most part. I almost forget how to play this one.
on the T in LosT
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
-
hahaha a T for a T - let's see how many T's we can find - a title starting and ending in T - I wonder how many we can find...
here is one - Things Fall Apart
-
What fun to play again.. Do we discard initial "the"s and "a"s?
To Kill a Mockingbird.
-
Here is Ginny's original instruction.
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.
As I remember very, very common letter endings, like e and s at the end, were added later as an option.
-
The letters in SEXY at the end of a word could be ignored, or used, at the player's choice. One reason this died was that we were all getting stuck, having used up all the titles we could think of for some letters. But by now, we will all have forgotten all the titles, and can start over.
-
Death comes to Pemberley
-
I gave us a heading to remind us of the rules.
-
On the Y in Pemberley
(The) Yellow Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
-
Kidnapped
Roert Louis Stevenson
-
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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
You have the option of ignoring the letters S,E,X,Y if they are at the end of a word. example: if House is the last word, you could use E (HousE), S (HouSe) or U (HoUse)
* 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 PatH (rjhighet@earthlink.net)
-
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
-
Love's Labour Lost
Shakespeare.
-
Tempest Tossed
Robertson Davies
-
The Duchess of Malfi - Webster
-
Iceworld
Hal Clement
-
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
-
Tales from Shakespeare (R or E)
by the Lambs
on Don QuixoTe (skipping SEXY).
-
I do not understand - Tales of Shakespeare starts with a T - not sure what sexy has to do with Don Quixote - this is not making sense to me so I am out of here.
-
Don't go, Barb, I'll explain. You are allowed to ignore E, S, X, and Y if they are the last letters of the title. You don't have to, though. So, for Don Quixote, you could start with E, Quixote, or T, Quixote.
Here's an extreme example: The Little Foxes. You can use S--Foxes. You can ignore S and go to E--Foxes. you can ignore E and S--Foxes. You can ignore X, E, and S--Foxes.
SEXY comes in because it's an easy way to remember the four letters.
The reason for the rule is that it's too hard to find words starting with X and Y, and E and S are so common as endings, thay they would be overused.
-
Thanks Pat - I am glad I peeked in but I have a terrible time playing games and get frustrated too easily - hate playing monopoly or checkers much less all the other popular games - actually get upset like as a kid taking an exam - I can do scrabble and chess but the rest - oh dear - maybe other games are too much based on chance and cards drive me up the wall - all the secretiveness - yep, a case for a therapist ::) ;) and so I had no idea what JoanK was talking about and up came the stress level I figured this is not for me I need to run.
And so if I understand when a last word ends in s-e-x or y you drop that letter and go for the next letter in.
OK are there any other rules - gotta know - do not like things jumping out of the dark at me...
-
You can drop those letters. You don't have to. Look at the heading on this page; I've put the rules there, but I think you've got them all.
-
ah so...thanks
So the last one - we skip the e and go for R is that correct - if so The Republic by Plato comes to mind.
-
Excellent. You could also have not skipped the E, and used, say (The) Eumenides.
On the C of RepubliC:
Captains Courageous.
-
on the S in Courageous:
Sargasso of Space
by Andre Norton
-
(The) Color Purple
on Space
-
on the L in Purple
Lorna Doone
-
N in Doone
Nickolas Nickleby
-
I'll skip the Y and go for the B
Book of the Dead.
(Ancient Egyptian text).
-
Dead Water
Ngaio Marsh
-
Reynard the Fox or Fox
-
Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
-
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
by Lynne Truss
-
on the V in Leaves,
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
-
The Restoration of Rome:
by Peter Heather
-
The Restoration of Rome:
by Peter Heather
-
on the M in Rome:
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
-
Aleph
by Paulo Coelho
-
Howard's End
by E. M. Forster
-
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
-
And then There Were None
by Agatha christie
-
Edge of Eternity:
by Ken Follett
-
Yesterday
by Fern Michaels
-
84
-
Hi Ginger.
It's been a long time since anyone has participated in this game. If I remember correctly, the idea is to name a title that begins with the last letter of the title proceeding. In some cases, the next to last letter is used. In this case, it would be a y or a t.
Since it has been so long, and you are not likely to have known the "rules". I think it would be okay to start over again with your submission. So that would mean either the #4 to start, or the letter r to start the next titel. Anyone object?
Robinson Carusoe
The next title would begin with E. Does anyone remember if this was one of the letters that we can use the second to last insteat?
-
Delighted to vsee this start again.
FRY: "The next title would begin with E. Does anyone remember if this was one of the letters that we can use the second to last insteat?"
Yes, the letters you can skip spell SEXY. So in this case, the first letter of the book after Robinson CarusOE can be either E or O. We also ignore A and The at the beginning.
I chose "O"
"On Thin Ice."
Next book E or C.
-
Emma
Next book begins with M or A.
-
Yes, thanks, Ginger, for starting us up again. I think we had all used up titles for some of the letters, but now we can have a clean start, and we'll forget what was posted two years ago.
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
-
Jane, you posted while I was writing. A poster posts on whatever they saw, so that would be T for the next person. I'll try to refine this as we go along.
-
Thanks....
To Kill a Mockingbird.
-
Welcome to:
(http://seniorlearn.org/bookclubs/graphics/booksgraphic.jpg)
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
You have the option of ignoring the letters S,E,X,Y if they are at the end of a word. example: if House is the last word, you could use E (HousE), S (HouSe) or U (HoUse)
* 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 PatH (rjhighet@earthlink.net)
-
Treasure Island
-
Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Gosh, you have your choice fo three letters next: R, S, or E
-
Sense and Sensibility
-
Ysabel
-
Dead in the Water. R
-
Revenge of the Lawn
Book of short stories by Richard Brautigan
-
Neptune Crossing
-
(The) Golden Compass
That gives you either S or A to start.
-
Absalom, Absalom!
-
Master and Commander
-
(The) Reverse of the Medal
#11 in the series
-
Liar
(By Nora Roberts)
-
(The) Rainbow Trail
by Zane Grey
-
(the) Little House on the Prairie. I or E
-
(The) Ionian Mission
#8 in the Master and Commander series
-
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
-
Northern Lights
-
Saturn Run
by John Sanford
-
Notorious Nineteen
by Janet Evanovich.
I remember N as the letter that became a problem.
-
Yes, I think eventually we added N to the optional letters.
(The) Nutmeg of Consolation
#14 in Master and Commander, and it still leaves you with an N.
-
Nemesis
Lindsay Davis's last book of the Didius Falco series.
Next: S or I
-
(The) Surgeon's Mate
#7
Gives you T or E
-
Eternity Road
by Jack McDevitt
-
Death Comes to Pemberley
BY P. D. James
L, E, OR Y
-
(The) Yellow Admiral
#18
-
Love in the Time of Cholora
-
Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier
by Peter Stark
Out last year, this is the true adventure of the Astor Expedition which set out to found a colony in the Pacific Northwest six years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
-
Rabbit Redux
-
Xenocide (part of the Ender's Game series)
by Orson Scott Card
next: d or e
-
Might as well start the series:
Ender's Game
-
Echopraxia
by Peter Watt
next: A
-
(The) Amber Spyglass
Third in the trilogy of The Golden Compass.
-
Seveneves
By Neal Stephenson
-
Valiant
By Jack Campbell
Frybabe, have you read Seveneves? The review I read suggested that you would have to spend an inordinate amount of time on learning the dynamics of the seven pieces the moon splits into, and the fragments from their collisions with each other. The reviewer thought it was eventually worth the effort, but I'm not sure I want to bother.
-
Pat, Seveneves is a very dense book (not to mention many, many pages). Seven Eves refers to seven women, not pieces of the moon, but yes, the book does dwell on technical aspects like orbital dynamics as well as other things necessary to survival in space including food and fuel. There are a few diagrams to help visualize the space station. It is a good book, but you do need to spend time with it.
-
That's true of all of Stephenson's books; you have to work very hard, but you do get a good payoff.
-
To Kill a Mockingbird
-
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh.
-
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
-
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
-
Treason's Harbour
Patrick O'Brian, #9
-
Robogenesis
by Daniel H. Wilson
-
(the)Outermost House
by henry beston.
One of my favorite books.
-
Starlight
Hal Clement
-
Terra Incognita
by Ruth Downie
Joan, thanks for bringing Henry Beston to my attention. Not only does The Outermost House sound great, but he wrote on called Northern Farm about his year on a Maine farm. Both are in my library system, so I added them to my TBR library list.
-
Aucassin and Nicolette
A 13th century French tale
-
East of Suez
play by Somerset Maugham
-
Zotz
By Walter Karig: an archaeologist discovers an ancient spell, which he tries to persuade the US to use as a weapon in WWII, but can't get through the bureaucracy. Karig was also a naval historian and authored a few of the Nancy Drew books. No, I haven't read Zotz.
Now someone still has a Z to deal with.
-
Zero Day
by David Baldacci
-
Artifact
Gregory Benford
An artifact from a Mycenaean tomb produces some remarkable physics and political intrigue. My favorite of his books.
-
Tyrannosaur Canyon
One of Douglas Preston's books, I didn't care for it and so never finished it.
-
Neuromancer
A groundbreaking cyberpunk sci-fi book, now relegated to classic status. William Gibson is fine with the book being outdated. At a book signing a few years ago he said that everything he wrote started to be obsolete as soon as it was done, and he seemed quite comfortable with the awful world of his current book. (I've forgotten now whether it was Patterns or Spook Country.)
-
Remnant Population
Ursula Le Guin
I couldn't get into Neuromancer. I am not sure I got past Chapter 1. Anyway, Spook Country is in one of my TBR piles. Patterns has been on my ever so forgetful mental to read list; it swims in and out of consciousness when I get a reminder.
-
Both Spook Country and Patterns are sitting in my TBR pile, one of them autographed. I zipped through Neuromancer, and its sequel Count Zero. I bet they look pretty quaint now.
-
(The) Nine Billion Names of God (on populatioN)
Book of short stories by Isaac Asimov. I bet you've read the title story, which is a stunner.
-
Dracula
-
Artifact
My favorite Gregory Benford. It combines archaeology and physics.
-
Twenty Years After
Alexander Dumas
The sequel to The Count of Monte Cristo
-
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke
Someone in my f2f sci-fi discussion group called this "people meet big dumb space blob", which is pretty accurate. It's a decent job, though. There are sequels, but I haven't read them, so I don't know where he went with the unknown civilization that left the blob nicknamed Rama.
-
Actually, Twenty Years After comes before The Count of Monte Cristo. I read the whole works as a young teenager, probably about the right time. The Three Musketeers was great, and Twenty Years After was pretty good too, but the third, Ten years Later, (which is a supernovel comprising three novels--The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask) was full of politics that were pretty opaque to me.
I reread The Three Musketeers in 1992. It's still good reading--romantic, flamboyant, with a lot of social digs, some humorous, I missed the first time. Maybe I should see how they look now.
-
Nuts! I got it confuseed again, PatH. Twenty Years After is the sequel to The Three Musketeers not The Count of Monte Cristo. I should have double checked my memory before posting. Sigh!
I haven't read The Three Musketeers since I was a youngster. It was the children/teen version of the book. I don't know how many movie/TV productions I've seen. I did read the adult version of The Count of Monte Cristo but didn't remember that it was set in Napoleon's time. It also didn't hit me until I started watching the James Caviezel version. I remember bits of both the 1934 movie and the 1975 TV production.
-
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
-
Enders Shadow
Orson Scott Card
-
(The) Warden
Anthony Trollope
-
Northern Lights
(Nora Roberts)
-
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
-
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
-
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
-
That's seA!
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
-
(The) Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
-
Desolation Island
Patrick O'Brian, #5
-
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
-
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
-
(The) Kite Runner.
by Khaled Hosseini
-
Redliners
By David Drake
-
The Rose Rent
Ellis Peters
-
The Time Traders
by Andre Norton
-
Star Ka'at World
Andre Norton
-
Deception Point
by Dan Brown
-
heading
-
Tehanu
Ursula K. LeGuin
-
Under the Volcano
by Malcolm Lowry
-
Over Sea, Under Stone
Susan Cooper
One of a five book series in which some modern (1970s) children get mixed up with Arthurian myth, magic and time shifting as part of a battle between good and evil. Good children's books.
-
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
by Chris Cleave
-
Ah, the dread N.
The Nitrogen Fix
Hal Clement
-
(The) Xenophobe's Guide to the English
by Antony Miall, David Milsted
-
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
-
Salem's Lot
by Stephen King
-
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
-
Downbelow Station
C. J. Cherryh
-
(The) Neverending Story
by Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim
-
Year of Magical Thinking
By Joan Didion
-
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald