Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296061 times)

JudeS · « **Reply #1960 on:** May 05, 2010, 05:51:00 PM »

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

PatH · « **Reply #1961 on:** May 05, 2010, 07:34:45 PM »

(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.

PatH · « **Reply #1962 on:** May 05, 2010, 07:37:01 PM »

Jude, did you like the Stevenson when you were a child? I loved it.

Fran · « **Reply #1963 on:** May 07, 2010, 02:03:56 PM »

Wisdom's Daughter

W- from "Bow"

by India Edghill

PatH · « **Reply #1964 on:** May 07, 2010, 03:17:01 PM »

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.

PatH · « **Reply #1965 on:** May 07, 2010, 09:07:50 PM »

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.

JudeS · « **Reply #1966 on:** May 08, 2010, 02:18:20 PM »

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).

Gumtree · « **Reply #1967 on:** May 08, 2010, 04:13:35 PM »

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.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1968 on:** May 08, 2010, 04:35:36 PM »

Glory Road
by Robert A. Heinlein

on the G from LeGs

Gumtree · « **Reply #1969 on:** May 09, 2010, 11:19:17 AM »

Diana of the Crossways
George Meredith

on Glory RoaD

PatH · « **Reply #1970 on:** May 09, 2010, 07:57:09 PM »

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.

PatH · « **Reply #1971 on:** May 09, 2010, 08:03:53 PM »

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?

Fran · « **Reply #1972 on:** May 10, 2010, 11:36:18 AM »

Stay a Little Longer

by Dorothy Garlock

S, from BackboneS

JudeS · « **Reply #1973 on:** May 10, 2010, 04:27:15 PM »

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

JoanK · « **Reply #1974 on:** May 10, 2010, 04:46:52 PM »

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

Frybabe · « **Reply #1975 on:** May 10, 2010, 04:59:17 PM »

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

on the A from MedeA

Gumtree · « **Reply #1976 on:** May 11, 2010, 03:37:01 AM »

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.

Fran · « **Reply #1977 on:** May 11, 2010, 10:18:36 AM »

Rumpelstilskin

by Brothers Grimm

R-from CountRy

JudeS · « **Reply #1978 on:** May 11, 2010, 11:56:59 PM »

On N
Now We Are Six
by
A.A.Milne

JoanK · « **Reply #1979 on:** May 13, 2010, 02:58:47 PM »

"Island in the Center of the World"

JudeS · « **Reply #1980 on:** May 13, 2010, 05:46:24 PM »

On D
Double Indemnity
Screenplay by
Raymond Chandler & Billy Wilder

PatH · « **Reply #1981 on:** May 13, 2010, 07:38:56 PM »

(The) Trial

Franz Kafka, on IndemniTy

Guess I ran out of children's books.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1982 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:19:25 AM »

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis

on the L from TriaL

PatH · « **Reply #1983 on:** May 14, 2010, 11:21:56 AM »

By the Shores of Silver Lake

Laura Ingalls Wilder, on WardroBe

Gumtree · « **Reply #1984 on:** May 14, 2010, 11:45:34 AM »

The Kreutzer Sonata

Leo Tolstoy

on ...Silver LaKe

JudeS · « **Reply #1985 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:10:01 PM »

We are now into the Russians-so
On A
Anna Karenina
by
Leo Tolstoy

JoanK · « **Reply #1986 on:** May 14, 2010, 02:27:54 PM »

Angels and Demons

(note -- there's an "s", you don't have to use "n". I think we should ban "n"s.

PatH · « **Reply #1987 on:** May 14, 2010, 03:00:39 PM »

(The) Silver Chair

C. S. Lewis, on DemonS

another of the Narnia series

JoanK · « **Reply #1988 on:** May 14, 2010, 08:14:46 PM »

Rats, Lice and History

Gumtree · « **Reply #1989 on:** May 15, 2010, 12:25:18 AM »

The Year of Living Dangerously

Christopher Koch

on ... and HistorY

JudeS · « **Reply #1990 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:57:57 AM »

On L
Lysistrata
by
Aristophanes

Gumtree · « **Reply #1991 on:** May 16, 2010, 10:44:32 AM »

Agamemnon

Aeschylus

on LysistratA

Fran · « **Reply #1992 on:** May 16, 2010, 01:05:40 PM »

The NoteBook

by Nicholas Sparks

N, from Agamemnon

PatH · « **Reply #1993 on:** May 16, 2010, 08:55:07 PM »

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.

JoanK · « **Reply #1994 on:** May 16, 2010, 09:23:08 PM »

War and peace

Tolstoy

JudeS · « **Reply #1995 on:** May 17, 2010, 05:15:19 PM »

On C from PeaCe

Crime and Punishment
by
Dostoievsky

PatH · « **Reply #1996 on:** May 19, 2010, 06:14:58 PM »

(The) Titan's Curse

Rick Riordan, on PunishmenT

PatH · « **Reply #1997 on:** May 19, 2010, 06:20:10 PM »

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.

Gumtree · « **Reply #1998 on:** May 20, 2010, 11:45:02 AM »

Eye of the Storm

Patrick White

on ... CursE

Frybabe · « **Reply #1999 on:** May 20, 2010, 11:48:52 AM »

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

on the M from StorM

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