Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296010 times)

hats · « **Reply #760 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:10:28 PM »

Runaway Jury

by John Grisham

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lucky · « **Reply #761 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:16:32 PM »

the star thrower

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Rich Man, Poor Man, ( Howard Fast)

GinnyAnn · « **Reply #762 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:25:15 PM »

No Time For Sargents by Hyman

from N in Man

hats · « **Reply #763 on:** March 22, 2009, 05:33:28 PM »

September

by Rosamunde Pilcher

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GinnyAnn · « **Reply #764 on:** March 22, 2009, 07:35:48 PM »

Roll Over and Play Dead by Joan Hess

Playing on September

JoanK · « **Reply #765 on:** March 22, 2009, 09:12:16 PM »

(The) Hours

on asHes

pedln · « **Reply #766 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:01:44 PM »

Sweet Grass

by Mary Alice Monroe

posting on Hour s

PatH · « **Reply #767 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:26:16 PM »

Aucassin and Nicolette

Author unknown, 13th cent., on GrAss

Gumtree · « **Reply #768 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:28:42 PM »

Shirley

Charlotte Bronte

ON GrasS

Gumtree · « **Reply #769 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:35:13 PM »

PatH You sneaked in there while I was thinking - isn't there an opera Aucassin & Nicolette as well - probably based on the story.

PatH · « **Reply #770 on:** March 22, 2009, 11:02:44 PM »

Goodness, Gumtree, you're so right. It's by Gretry, first performed in 1779.

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.

PatH · « **Reply #771 on:** March 22, 2009, 11:16:36 PM »

Enemy Mine

Barry Longyear, on shirlEy

Shirley is new to me.

Gumtree · « **Reply #772 on:** March 23, 2009, 09:07:40 AM »

Eugenie Grandet

Honore de Balzac

on Enemy MinE

Gumtree · « **Reply #773 on:** March 23, 2009, 09:20:20 AM »

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.

hats · « **Reply #774 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:04:35 AM »

The Power And The Glory

by Graham Greene

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Fran · « **Reply #775 on:** March 23, 2009, 10:34:45 AM »

The Rising Sun

by Michael Ctichton

R, from GloRy

lucky · « **Reply #776 on:** March 23, 2009, 11:01:50 AM »

The Rising Sun

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Nun's Story

niecie · « **Reply #777 on:** March 23, 2009, 11:28:56 AM »

You're Only Old Once

on StorY

Dr Seuss

PatH · « **Reply #778 on:** March 23, 2009, 12:44:35 PM »

(The) Cyberiad

Stanislaw Lem, on onCe

JoanK · « **Reply #779 on:** March 23, 2009, 03:42:22 PM »

Doctor Doolittle

Frybabe · « **Reply #780 on:** March 23, 2009, 04:54:13 PM »

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.

JoanK · « **Reply #781 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:03:48 PM »

That sounds fascinating. I'm going to ask about it in Mystery Corner.

lucky · « **Reply #782 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:38:16 PM »

Lost In A Good Book

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King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

PatH · « **Reply #783 on:** March 23, 2009, 06:28:57 PM »

Life is a Dream

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, on TabLe

PatH · « **Reply #784 on:** March 23, 2009, 06:37:02 PM »

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.

niecie · « **Reply #785 on:** March 23, 2009, 07:15:57 PM »

My Life in France

on DreaM

Julia Child

lucky · « **Reply #786 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:12:59 PM »

My Life In France

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The End Of The Affair ( Graham Greene)

lucky · « **Reply #787 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:39:27 PM »

The End Of The Affair

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Rain ( Somerset Maughn)

lucky · « **Reply #788 on:** March 23, 2009, 09:15:28 PM »

Rain

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Nancy Drew mysteries

Fran · « **Reply #789 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:04:40 AM »

In The Walled Gardens

by Anahita Firouz

I, from mysterIes

PatH · « **Reply #790 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:37:44 AM »

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

niecie · « **Reply #791 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:45:02 AM »

Memoirs of a Geisha

post on NaMe

can't remember author's name

Fran · « **Reply #792 on:** March 24, 2009, 09:53:07 AM »

A.D. 62: Pompeii

by Rebecca East

A, from Geisha

PatH · « **Reply #793 on:** March 24, 2009, 10:06:24 AM »

(The) Island of Dr. Moreau

H. G. Wells, on PompeiI

Fran · « **Reply #794 on:** March 24, 2009, 10:56:17 AM »

Ulysses S. Grant

by Josiah Bunting and Arthur M. Schlesinger

U, from MoreaU

lucky · « **Reply #795 on:** March 24, 2009, 11:10:42 AM »

Ulysses S Grant

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Taming Of The Shrew ( Shakespeare)

PatH · « **Reply #796 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:08:02 PM »

Wonderful Life

Stephen Jay Gould, on ShreW

lucky · « **Reply #797 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:11:26 PM »

Wonderful Life

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Evangeline ( Wadsworth)

Fran · « **Reply #798 on:** March 24, 2009, 12:19:00 PM »

Fallen Skies

by Phillipa Gregory

F, from LiFe

lucky · « **Reply #799 on:** March 24, 2009, 05:24:17 PM »

Fallen Skies

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Sacred Hunger ( Barry Unsworth)

A truly great book on England the slave trade

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Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296010 times)