Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 381440 times)

JoanK · « **Reply #2560 on:** April 15, 2012, 03:04:37 PM »

(The) Sun Also Rises

on detailS

straudetwo · « **Reply #2561 on:** April 15, 2012, 07:05:19 PM »

(A) Sport of Nature
by Nadine Gordimer

on RiseS

JudeS · « **Reply #2562 on:** April 16, 2012, 01:21:34 PM »

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".

JoanK · « **Reply #2563 on:** April 16, 2012, 02:06:03 PM »

Death of an Old Coot

on lanD

We mystery story readers have a long supply of "D"s

straudetwo · « **Reply #2564 on:** April 16, 2012, 03:21:10 PM »

Tales from a Troubled Land
by Alan Paton

on CooT

JoanK · « **Reply #2565 on:** April 17, 2012, 08:39:56 PM »

Doctor Doolittle

by Hugh Loftinng

on lanD

JudeS · « **Reply #2566 on:** April 18, 2012, 01:28:09 PM »

On DoolittLe

(The ) Lacuna

Barbara Kingsolver

PatH · « **Reply #2567 on:** April 18, 2012, 09:01:18 PM »

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.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2568 on:** April 18, 2012, 10:26:13 PM »

Double Murder : A Murder Story
by Dorothy Sayers (written with members of The Detection Club)

on ChildhooD

JoanK · « **Reply #2569 on:** April 18, 2012, 11:54:33 PM »

(The) Razors Edge

on stoRy

straudetwo · « **Reply #2570 on:** April 19, 2012, 05:16:37 PM »

Girl with Green Eyes
by Edna O'Brien

on EdGe

JudeS · « **Reply #2571 on:** April 19, 2012, 07:05:08 PM »

On EyeS

(The) Sunflower

Simon Wiesenthal

straudetwo · « **Reply #2572 on:** April 19, 2012, 09:18:55 PM »

Rodin's Debutante
by Ward Just

on SunfloweR

PatH · « **Reply #2573 on:** April 21, 2012, 04:25:59 PM »

Topaze

Marcel Pagnol, on DebutanTe

Frybabe · « **Reply #2574 on:** April 21, 2012, 05:39:20 PM »

East of Eden
John Steinbeck

on TopazE

straudetwo · « **Reply #2575 on:** April 22, 2012, 10:42:39 AM »

No Villain
by Arthur Miller

on EdeN

JoanK · « **Reply #2576 on:** April 22, 2012, 03:42:49 PM »

No Going Home

by Lyndon Stacey

My new library book is not only a good read, It starts with the dreaded "N".

straudetwo · « **Reply #2577 on:** April 22, 2012, 10:29:26 PM »

Emilia Galotti
Drama in 5 Acts
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

on HomE

straudetwo · « **Reply #2578 on:** April 23, 2012, 10:06:31 PM »

(The) Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

on GalottI

PatH · « **Reply #2579 on:** April 25, 2012, 12:41:21 PM »

(The) Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas, on IdioT

straudetwo · « **Reply #2580 on:** April 25, 2012, 05:42:40 PM »

(The) Song of Bernadette
by Franz Werfel

on MusketeerS l

PatH · « **Reply #2581 on:** April 25, 2012, 06:34:27 PM »

Twenty Years After

Alexandre Dumas, on BernadetTe

Might as well use up the Musketeers while I'm thinking of them.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2582 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:41:54 PM »

(The) Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner

on After

PatH · « **Reply #2583 on:** April 26, 2012, 11:49:35 AM »

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.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2584 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:03:55 PM »

(The)Road Back
by Erich Maria Remarque
(married to Paulette Goddard, who survived him)

on LateR

JoanK · « **Reply #2585 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:02:25 PM »

King Lear

By Shakespeare

on bacK

JudeS · « **Reply #2586 on:** April 26, 2012, 03:09:52 PM »

On LeaR

(A) Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

straudetwo · « **Reply #2587 on:** April 26, 2012, 08:59:28 PM »

Not To Disturb
by Muriel Spark

on SuN

JudeS · « **Reply #2588 on:** April 27, 2012, 02:11:30 PM »

On DisturB

Broke Back Mountain

Anne Proulx

(Although this was originally a short story the movie script, I imagine, counts as a book)

straudetwo · « **Reply #2589 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:03:11 AM »

Nevertheless
by Marianne Moore

on MouaiN

PatH · « **Reply #2590 on:** April 28, 2012, 11:18:52 AM »

AHA! You gave me another Musketeer

Louise de la Valliere

Alexandre Dumas, on NevertheLess

straudetwo · « **Reply #2591 on:** April 29, 2012, 12:17:21 AM »

Empire
by Gore Vidal

on VallièrE

PatH · « **Reply #2592 on:** April 29, 2012, 01:39:15 PM »

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.)

straudetwo · « **Reply #2593 on:** April 29, 2012, 04:59:06 PM »

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

PatH · « **Reply #2594 on:** April 29, 2012, 05:40:28 PM »

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood, on RepOse

PatH · « **Reply #2595 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:11:22 PM »

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.

straudetwo · « **Reply #2596 on:** April 29, 2012, 08:50:16 PM »

Echoes
by Maeve Binchy

on CrakE

PatH · « **Reply #2597 on:** April 30, 2012, 07:04:38 PM »

Salammbô

Gustave Flaubert, on Echoes

straudetwo · « **Reply #2598 on:** April 30, 2012, 09:55:09 PM »

Orlando
by Virginia Woolf

on Salambô

JoanK · « **Reply #2599 on:** May 01, 2012, 01:46:57 PM »

On the Beach

by Nevil Shute

on orlandO

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