Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296038 times)

Fran · « **Reply #1360 on:** June 03, 2009, 02:46:45 PM »

Dance With Me

by Luanne Rice

D, from nakeD

PatH · « **Reply #1361 on:** June 03, 2009, 05:33:45 PM »

Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Judith Martin, on Me

Gumtree · « **Reply #1362 on:** June 04, 2009, 12:10:42 AM »

Wonderful titles cropping up...

The Reader

by either Robert Louis Stevenson

or more recently Bernhardt Schlink

bellemere · « **Reply #1363 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:34:29 AM »

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer

bellemere · « **Reply #1364 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:35:55 AM »

Who said "That day, we read no further."?

PatH · « **Reply #1365 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:37:48 AM »

Hornblower and the Atropos

C. S. Forester, on ReicH

Gumtree · « **Reply #1366 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:17:27 AM »

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

Gumtree · « **Reply #1367 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:19:37 AM »

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

Frybabe · « **Reply #1368 on:** June 04, 2009, 01:49:07 PM »

Rest in Pieces
by Rita Mae Brown

on the R from Sailor

PatH · « **Reply #1369 on:** June 04, 2009, 03:01:46 PM »

(The) Essential Haiku

(Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited by Robert Hass, on PiecEs

JudeS · « **Reply #1370 on:** June 04, 2009, 05:33:01 PM »

on U from HaikU

Under the Tuscan Sun
by

Frances Mayes

bellemere · « **Reply #1371 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:17:57 PM »

"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.

bellemere · « **Reply #1372 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:19:25 PM »

A Nervoud Splendor

Frederic Morton
on the N in Sun

PatH · « **Reply #1373 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:48:10 PM »

(A) Rare Benedictine

Ellis Peters, on SplendoR

Great quote, bellemere, too bad I don't know who said it.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1374 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:43:20 PM »

It's Kafka

Gumtree · « **Reply #1375 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:48:15 PM »

The Erl King

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

on Rare BenedictinE

bellemere · « **Reply #1376 on:** June 05, 2009, 09:00:47 AM »

Yes, the frozen sea qoute is Franz Kafka, in a personal letter to a friend. I think you are on to me, Gumtree!

bellemere · « **Reply #1377 on:** June 05, 2009, 09:03:20 AM »

Great Expectations, hope it's not been used already.Charles Dickens
on G in
Erl King.
Who said "I'll drown my book" ?

Fran · « **Reply #1378 on:** June 05, 2009, 10:12:00 AM »

Nights In Rodante

by Nicholas Sparks

N, from ExpectatioNs

Gumtree · « **Reply #1379 on:** June 05, 2009, 11:06:29 AM »

Essay on Man

Alexander Pope

On ...RodantE

Gumtree · « **Reply #1380 on:** June 05, 2009, 11:30:28 AM »

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.

PatH · « **Reply #1381 on:** June 05, 2009, 12:19:55 PM »

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.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1382 on:** June 05, 2009, 12:51:28 PM »

Deception Point
by Dan Brown

on the D from Dead

PatH · « **Reply #1383 on:** June 05, 2009, 02:27:31 PM »

(The) Talisman Italian Cookbook

Ada Boni, on PoinT

Kind of the Italian equivalent of Fanny Farmer

bellemere · « **Reply #1384 on:** June 05, 2009, 09:42:42 PM »

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."?

Gumtree · « **Reply #1385 on:** June 06, 2009, 12:02:37 PM »

Bellemere : You've got me on this one...for a while there I thought you had the inside track to my mind.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1386 on:** June 06, 2009, 12:11:03 PM »

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

on King's Row

maybe I should have put up Walden

bellemere · « **Reply #1387 on:** June 06, 2009, 12:52:15 PM »

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. )

bellemere · « **Reply #1388 on:** June 06, 2009, 12:55:33 PM »

Doctor Zhivago, on the D in worlds.
Boris Pasternak.
Who is lucky to get the O?

Gumtree · « **Reply #1389 on:** June 06, 2009, 01:07:27 PM »

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 -

PatH · « **Reply #1390 on:** June 06, 2009, 01:35:27 PM »

(The) Tritonian Ring

L. Sprague de Kamp, on GorioT

PatH · « **Reply #1391 on:** June 06, 2009, 01:43:57 PM »

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.

bellemere · « **Reply #1392 on:** June 06, 2009, 07:06:32 PM »

The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
part of that monumental series. Today not much read.
except by maybe doctoral candidates.

bellemere · « **Reply #1393 on:** June 06, 2009, 07:10:52 PM »

Who said, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised."

PatH · « **Reply #1394 on:** June 06, 2009, 07:29:51 PM »

Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar, on StorM, sorry about the N

bellemere · « **Reply #1395 on:** June 06, 2009, 10:46:13 PM »

My favorite book of recent years. Subject of a Great Books Institute in Connecticut two years ago.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1396 on:** June 07, 2009, 01:22:20 AM »

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

PatH · « **Reply #1397 on:** June 07, 2009, 09:27:16 AM »

Old Yeller

Fred Gipson, on NostromO

I had to look up the author of that one, too.

bellemere · « **Reply #1398 on:** June 07, 2009, 05:09:31 PM »

Rumpole of the BAiley

John Mortimer

PatH · « **Reply #1399 on:** June 07, 2009, 09:52:00 PM »

(The) Embarassment of Riches

Simon Schama, on BailEy

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Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296038 times)