Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296024 times)

Gumtree · « **Reply #1040 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:00:13 PM »

Welcome to:

Title Mania!

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

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

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

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

Hats Great to see you again !

JoanK · « **Reply #1041 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:08:21 PM »

Tis

By Frank McCourt

Saw him (via TV) at a baseball game the other day. He's gaining weight.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1042 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:11:14 PM »

Idylls of the King

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

on tIs

JoanK · « **Reply #1043 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:13:33 PM »

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

Gumtree · « **Reply #1044 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:28:48 PM »

Till We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

on SocieTy

JoanK · « **Reply #1045 on:** April 18, 2009, 12:41:35 PM »

(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)

PatH · « **Reply #1046 on:** April 18, 2009, 04:05:06 PM »

(The) Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas, on DusT

PatH · « **Reply #1047 on:** April 18, 2009, 04:06:22 PM »

Oops! I didn't notice the new page. That would have cost me in Rubbish!

niecie · « **Reply #1048 on:** April 18, 2009, 06:21:35 PM »

(The) Rescue

post on MusketeeRs

Nicholas Sparks

Frybabe · « **Reply #1049 on:** April 18, 2009, 10:38:49 PM »

Ulysses
by James Joyce

on the U from Rescue

Gumtree · « **Reply #1050 on:** April 19, 2009, 02:33:08 AM »

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

on UlyssEs

Frybabe · « **Reply #1051 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:17:27 AM »

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.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1052 on:** April 19, 2009, 11:29:03 AM »

The Satyricon

Petronius

on Number the StarS

I didn't know that so many book titles ended with S E X or Y

JoanK · « **Reply #1053 on:** April 19, 2009, 01:41:04 PM »

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!!

PatH · « **Reply #1054 on:** April 19, 2009, 02:16:08 PM »

I Sailed With Chinese Pirates

Aleko Lilius, on DIe

Adventurous journa;ism in the 1920s

JudeS · « **Reply #1055 on:** April 19, 2009, 07:11:23 PM »

on PiraTes

Tom Swift and the Motor Cycle
by
Victor Appleton

PatH · « **Reply #1056 on:** April 19, 2009, 07:49:15 PM »

(The) Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, on CycLe

Gumtree · « **Reply #1057 on:** April 20, 2009, 05:00:34 AM »

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.

Fran · « **Reply #1058 on:** April 20, 2009, 10:35:08 AM »

Rebecca's Reward

by Lauraine Snelling

R, from UndeR

niecie · « **Reply #1059 on:** April 20, 2009, 11:30:16 AM »

Dream When You're Feeling Blue

post on Reward

Elizabeth Berg - I enjoy all of her books

Gumtree · « **Reply #1060 on:** April 20, 2009, 12:32:02 PM »

Under Western Eyes

Joseph Conrad

on ...BlUe

JudeS · « **Reply #1061 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:49:30 PM »

S from EyeS

The Stranger
by
Albert Camus

JoanK · « **Reply #1062 on:** April 20, 2009, 03:11:04 PM »

Room with a View

by Fitzgerald

What is "cyberpunk"?

PatH · « **Reply #1063 on:** April 20, 2009, 04:00:02 PM »

(The) Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston, on VieW

PatH · « **Reply #1064 on:** April 20, 2009, 04:12:18 PM »

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".

Frybabe · « **Reply #1065 on:** April 20, 2009, 06:46:14 PM »

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.

PatH · « **Reply #1066 on:** April 20, 2009, 08:27:26 PM »

(The) Castle of Crossed Destinies

Italo Calvino, on PieCes

Fran · « **Reply #1067 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:05:18 AM »

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

by Katherine Frank

I, from DestinIes

Gumtree · « **Reply #1068 on:** April 21, 2009, 10:52:19 AM »

The Idea of Perfection

Kate Grenville

on ....Nehru GandhI

More Aussie stuff- this one won the Orange Prize 1999

PatH · « **Reply #1069 on:** April 21, 2009, 04:01:01 PM »

New Grub Street

George Gissing, onPerfectioN

JudeS · « **Reply #1070 on:** April 21, 2009, 04:58:53 PM »

T from StreeT

troubles of parents and children
by
Susan Isaacs

Frybabe · « **Reply #1071 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:58:14 PM »

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

lucky · « **Reply #1072 on:** April 21, 2009, 07:59:31 PM »

The North Shore Literary Trail

Posting on L

Lord Jim ( Joseph Conrad)

PatH · « **Reply #1073 on:** April 21, 2009, 08:38:16 PM »

(The) Monkey's Wrench

Primo Levi, on JiM

Fran · « **Reply #1074 on:** April 22, 2009, 09:23:41 AM »

(The) Help

by Kathryn Stockett

H, from WrencH

PatH · « **Reply #1075 on:** April 22, 2009, 10:44:57 AM »

(The) Periodic Table

Primo Levi, on HelP

Gumtree · « **Reply #1076 on:** April 22, 2009, 11:02:39 AM »

The Egoist

George Meredith

on Periodic TablE

Frybabe · « **Reply #1077 on:** April 22, 2009, 12:59:54 PM »

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

on the T from Egoist

JudeS · « **Reply #1078 on:** April 22, 2009, 03:49:03 PM »

A from SeA

An Ordinary Man
by
Karel Capek

PatH · « **Reply #1079 on:** April 22, 2009, 08:16:59 PM »

(The) Nazi Seizure of Power

William S. Allen, on MaN

Jude, I don't know that Capek. Have you read it?

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