Another Silly Game Part 22

Plays and games for little folks: Sports of all sorts, Fireside fun, and Singing games by Josephine Pollard

Da Rules:

1. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.

2. The repeated word in the new title must be other than an article ("a", "an", or "the").

3. The repeated word must be spelled exactly as the word was spelled in the previous title. E.g., "prune" is not the same word as "prunes", and "loyal" is not the same word as "loyalty."

4. The repeated word must be in the title as shown on the title page of the book--not, e.g., part of the series name unless such is part of the title as shown on the title page.

5. If you have read the book it would be informative that you so indicate and tell when you read it, if you can.

6. Try to use Touchstones (put brackets around the title and around the author) although they often don't work.

7. A hyphenated word is one word, not two: e.g., "thunder-clouds"; and if used must be repeated in full, not in part only.

point of information

moibibliomaniac hath written:

>3. The repeated word must be spelled exactly as the word was spelled in the previous title. E.g., "prune" is not the same word as "prunes", and "loyal" is not the same word as "loyalty."

query:

does this mean that English words spelled differently in different English-speaking countries, e.g. 'honour' and 'honor', 'color' and 'colour', 'theater' and 'theatre' are likewise not interchangeable?

thanks.

the education of little tree by forrest carter

Little Bee by Chris Cleave. ER book read earlier this year. Absolutely loved it.

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

mirrordrum

>3 mirrordrum: I would say the repeated word needs to be spelled the same as it is spelled in the title. Hence "honor" and "honour" are not interchangeable.
The rules, or "suggestions for rules" date back to Nov. 18, 2008.

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

let us now praise famous men: three tenant families by james agee and walker evans

originally read it many years ago during a brief james agee period.

#6 thanks for the info moibibliomaniac

Three Men in a Boat: to Say Nothing of the Dog by Jerome K. Jerome

finished it yesterday

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, tbr

Black Dog by Stephen Booth. Read this mystery in January, 2005.

Black Raven: Book One of the Shetland Island Quartet by Ann Cleeves; Read and enjoy in 2008

the black mountain by rex stout

Trixie Belden and the Black Jacket Mystery by Kathryn Kenny. Read when I learned to read, age 4.

Black Soil, by Josephine Donovan (read 8 Sep 2000)

I surely agree with miobibliomaniac (#6). Identical spelling means identical spelling.

A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre which is in my TBR pile.

#15 yeah, i have to laugh at myself. how many times did i say to grad students, "what is it about the word 'identical' that you don't understand?'" and now here i go. *sigh* it causeth one to be humble in the face of one's frailties.

sorry 'bout that.

blood lure by nevada barr

Blood Sport by Dick Francis

Blood Orange by Drusilla Campbell

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris. TBR

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit

The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918 by Patricia O'Toole

(that makes the third book today added to my TBR list)

High Five by Janet Evanovich

High Blood Pressure Lowered Naturally--Your Arteries Can Clean Themselves by Janica McCall Failes

Not read: I lower my blood pressure unnaturally!

I'm willing (eager) to follow the rules, but would argue that "color" and "colour" are the same word, despite the difference in spelling. They mean the same thing and it's conceivable that the same book could be published in the UK and the US with only the spelling difference.

high tide in tucson: essays from now or never by barbara kingsolver

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Hannah Green

read in the 70's

Garden of Malice by Susan Kenney

The Beast in the Garden by David Baron; read a few years ago, enlightening.

Oh, and I think that colour is colour but is not color...

the virgin in the garden by a. s. byatt

read some time in the last 10 years.

The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and the Disaster in Madison Square Garden, by Robert K. Murray (read 4 June 1980)

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Read a few years ago.

The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square by James Traub

Storm of the Century by Stephen King. Read in March of 2001.

Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

The Perfect Paragon by M C Beaton

The Perfect Basket: How to Make a Fabulous Gift Basket for Any Occasion by Diane Phillips - bought during a Martha Stewart phase. Someday I might actually make something.

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by jack kornfield

a wonderful book if you're into this kind of thing.

Ever After: A Williamsburg Novel by Elswyth Thane. In my TBR pile, but just thinking about another book of hers I've read, I want to go dig it out and put it on the top of the heap.

if death ever slept by rex stout

The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 1963, by William Manchester (read 31 May 1969)

James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States by Fern G. Brown

Eliana Americana: Charles Lamb in the United States, 1849-1866 by Wallace Nethery

Pox Americana by Elizabeth A. Fenn

Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone

had for the kids when they had the pox

Cooking Light Chicken Cookbook by Susan M. McIntosh

the light fantastic by terry pratchett

The Light in the Piazza by Elizabeth Spencer

Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy. First book of hers that I read - in February 1983.

a candle for st. jude by rumer godden

one of my favorite authors as a late teenager and very young adult.

Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson

a fine and private place by peter s. beagle

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Weighed in the Balance by Anne Perry. In the TBR pile, but near the top.

A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee

The Delicate Prey and other stories, by Paul Bowles (read 2 Mar 1952)

Stories Told: Stories and Images of the Berger Inquiry by Patrick Scott. Read last year.

Told by an Idiot by Rose Macauley. In my TBR stacks.

The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants by Henry Steele Commager

An Ascent to Joy: Transforming Deadness of Spirit by carol ochs

The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer. One of my very favorite cookbooks.

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy, by Rumer Godden (read 11 Sep 1990)

Between Pacific tides: An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico by Edward Ricketts

not a book I've read cover-to-cover but a book originally of my father's and one that we shared as we explored the area between the tides in southern California 50 years ago.

Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener. Read in 1969.

A Sea of Words: A Lexicon and Companion to the Complete Seafaring Tales of Patrick O'Brian by dean king

The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler. A humorous little dictionary.

Endgame and Act Without Words by Samuel Beckett. Read way, way back in college.

Think On My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language by David Crystal

Oh! The Thinks You Can Think by Dr Seuss - read to the kids

Think: Why Crucial Decisions Can't be Made in the Blink of an Eye by Michael R. LeGault. Read shortly after reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.

Why I Wake Early: New Poems by mary oliver

Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol

death of an expert witness by p. d. james

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton

if death ever slept by rex stout

Death on a Pale Horse by Sin & Salvation

The Pale Indian by Robert Arthur Alexie.

New England: Indian Summer 1865-1915, by Van Wyck Brooks (read 19 May 2008)

The Summer Before The Dark by Doris Lessing

Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy. Read last year and did not at all enjoy these stories!

Dark Side of the Sun by Terry Pratchett. Quite a while since I read this.

Out of the Sun by Robert Goddard. Read in June of 1999.

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Sophie and the Rising Sun by Augusta Trobaugh

Food of Japan: Recipes from the Land of the Rising Sun by Walter Wagner a gift I gave to my son.

Nothing Like the Sun by Anthony Burgess. Read many years ago; it's a fictional bio of part of Shakespeare's life.

black like me by john howard griffin

With Friends Like these by Nicholas Coleridge

These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories by Nancy E. Turner

These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon

Harbors and High Seas, 3rd Edition : An Atlas and Geographical Guide to the Complete Aubrey-Maturin Novels of Patrick O'Brian by dean king

The Cat Who Lived High by Lillian Jackson Braun

Who lived here? A baker's dozen of historic New England houses and their occupants by M.A. De Wolfe Howe

the spy who came in from the cold by john le carre

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Mayday: The U-2 Affair : The Untold Story of the Greatest US-USSR Spy Scandal by Michael R. Beschloss (touchstone points to a different book title. It seems to be the same book, but mine was published in 1987 and the touchstone book was published in 1988.) My title does have the word "spy" in it. Really...

Anyway, read in 1993 for my degree in International Relations

Achhh...All that and it didn't get posted before jennieg's book.

The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene. Read decades ago...

Secret of the Old Mill by Franklin W. Dixon

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. Listened to it on audio two or three months ago.

the long secret by louise fitzhugh

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Berry

The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

Old childhood favourite.

Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. On my wish list.

That Old Ace in the Hole by E. Annie Proulx

Stories From the Old Testament Retold by Logan Pearsall Smith

The Care and Feeding of Books Old and New: A Simple Repair Manual for Book Lovers by Margot Rosenberg

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis

read a couple of years ago

Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich, by Alison Owings (read 25 Dec 2001)

Too Many Women by rex stout

Too Many Cooks by Rex Stout on my TRB list.

Many A River by Elmer Kelton. Sitting on my TBR shelf.

The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip by Jerry West (read decades ago)

A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

Play It As It Lays by Didion, Joan

Play With Fire by Dana Stabenow

Fire Starter by Stephen King

fire from heaven by Mary Renault

The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard. In my TBR stacks.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell. Read it in a class many years ago; probably would enjoy it more now.

At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace by Thomas, Claude Anshin

started last year and still reading slowly. amazing.

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Read about two years ago to my daughter.

Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic by Oxenhorn, Harvey

read a number of years ago. one of my favorite non-fiction books.

The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

Read last year.

Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. Read with great fascination about ten years ago.

animal dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

read most recently last year.

Animal Appetite by Susan Conant

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Story of an African Farm A Novel by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner) (read 19 Aug 1988)

The Body farm by Patricia Cornwell

The Body in the Lighthouse by Katherine Hall Page

The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes by Charles K. Hyde.

The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Danton. In the TBR pile, but I just love the title!

Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters. I read this Amelia Peabody mystery in March of 2003.

track of the cat by Nevada Barr

The Cat Who Came to Breakfast by Lilian Jackson Braun

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe.

The American Country Inn and Bed and Breakfast Cookbook by Kitty Maynard. Skimmed with great appetite.

The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Legend of King Arthur and the Round Table & Pop-up Book by Graham Brown

the once and future king by t. h. white

Once Upon a Summer by Janette Oke

the greengage summer by rumer godden

The Long, Hot Summer by Rochelle Alers

Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

Secrets from the Center of the World by Harjo, Joy

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton. Read in January 2000.

Annals of a Former World by John McPhee

A Heart as Wide as the World by Sharon Salzberg

The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket

Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard DeVoto (read 19 Aug 2001) (Pulitzer History prize in 1948)

# 137 (Cariola) does not correctly respond to #136 and so was correctly ignored by #138, which did respond to #136, albeit with the word "in" which I know some of you do not think approriate--I used it once and was questioned as to its appropriateness

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. The first in the Tales of the Otori series which I quite enjoyed.

The Nightingale Legacy by Catherine Coulter

Edward Kennedy and the Camelot legacy by James MacGregor Burns

158> Well, Rulemaster, I was trying to give us something to work with aside from "Lighthouse" and thus went for the longer title. As soon as someone posted To the Lighthouse, it could have been a dead thread. Sorry about the "s". However, I don't see that #138 ignored my post. I don't think the player meant "in" to be the connecting word, and he/she picks up "Great."

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo. Read to my grandson last summer.

Edward Moxon, Publisher Of Poets. by Harold G. Merriam

Arthur Capper: Publisher, Politician, and Philanthropist, by Homer E. Soclofsky (read 4 Mar 1987)

Cariola, you are right about #138--it did respond to your post. My error in not noting 'great.' If To the Lighthouse had been used, could a response have been to "To"? Have we decided negatively on that? I am not sure....

"To" isn't an article, but it does seem a bit too easy . . . so can I use "and" from your title? (Just kidding!)

Arthur Helps Out by Marc Brown. Read to a nephew last Christmas.

Y'all are correct; I was playing off "great." But I feel I should point out that "To the Lighthouse" wasn't the only option there; the previous entry was "The Body in the Lighthouse," so "Body" could have been used--lots of choices there!

The rules only mention articles, not short prepositions, though they feel like "cheating" to me. But when the same word is an adverb . . .

Freelance Writing for Magazines and Newspapers: Breaking In Without Selling Out by Marcia Yudkin.

Garner on Language and Writing by Bryan A. Garner

My review is dated January 7, 2009.

The Language of Adam by Russelll Fraser. Just gave it away in a swap.

The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977 by Adrienne Rich

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

A Sense of Honor by James Webb. From my husband's book shelves.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film by Emma Thompson

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

the stone diaries by carol shields

i read, or rather listened to, this book some years ago and can't remember it at all so it's back on my TBR list.

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart. Read last year.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter.

The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare by William Shakespeare

Just to confuse you, Shakespeare's name is spelled "Shakspeare" in the title. It is not a misprint. That is how it was spelled when the book was published in 1806, and that is how the word must be spelled if it is selected as the repeated word in our game.

Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II, by Michael Gannon (read 26 Dec 1995)

(With all that to choose from, I wonder which word will be selected?)

I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. Read when it came out; his next book is on my wish list.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Dolly and the Singing Bird by Dorothy Dunnett - currently reading

the singing sands by josephine tey

read numerous times over the past, 40 years.

The Girl From Seaforth Sands by Katie Flynn. On my TBR shelves.

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

odd girl out by Ann Bannon

Out of Range by CJ Box

Can't see an edit button to change my last post.

Like some of this series, others I think are dumb. This one was o.k.

Ohh, there it is. lol

Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg. Read many years ago.

Basin and Range by John McPhee

West of Pilot Range by Louis L'Amour. Another from my husband's shelves.

The Rise of the West A History of the Human Community, by William H. McNeill (read 23 Mar 1976) (National Book Award History prize for 1964)

Stories of Hawaii: Its History and Chief Industries by Ann Schilt French

the cat who ate danish modern by Lilian Jackson Braun

Who Stole My Cheese? by Ilene Hochberg

Call Me By My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh
by Thich Nhat Hanh

My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. Read it years ago.

My Native Land: Life in America, 1790-1870 by Warren S. Tryon. In the special research TBR library cart.

Touchstone only works when I put the end bracket in the wrong place. Weird.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

marvelous book. read it some years ago.

The Nature of Air and Water by Regina McBride. Read it a few years ago; absolutely hated it!

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath

Leaning, Leaning Over Water: A novel in ten stories by Frances Itani. Her very best so far!

The Water Clock by Jim Kelly. Read this mystery in April of 2004.

The Water Flowers by Edward Gorey. A signed copy!

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. Read several times.

Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews. Read back in my high school days.

the flowers of evil/les fleurs du mal by charles baudelaire

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie. Thought I'd read it but after reading the description on Amazon, maybe not. So will at some point.

The Moon and the Sun
by Vonda N. McIntyre
read May 2009

Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. It was one of my daughter's favorites.

moon tiger by Penelope Lively

read last year and loved it!

The Tiger in the Senate: The Biography of Wayne Morse, by A. Robert Smith (read 27 Oct 1962)

Catherine the Great: A Biography of the Woman Who Became Empress of All the Russias by Zoe Oldenbourg. In the mountain of TBR.

The World's Great Books edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. Read in September 1999.

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret of the Self by Susan A. Greenfield

i edited to put in a book that might be easier to work with. also one I've read, in part, much more recently than donovan's brain, which i read as a kid.

Hmm, OK. I was trying to move us away from "Brain," but your title has a lot to work with, too.

Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Read in a Renaissance Drama course years ago.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Comedian and Patentee of the Theatre Royal. Written by Himself; and Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries; the Whole Forming a Complete History of the Stage for the Space of Forty Years by Colley Cibber

Well, THAT sure gives us a lot to work with! Nice work!

The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, by Franz Werfel (read 2 Jan 1944)

A Book of Days for the Literary Year by Neal T. Jones

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. One of my favorite historical novels.

Tokyo Year Zero, an ER book...

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki.

i see by my outfit by peter s. beagle

Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark

See You in a Hundred Years: Discover One Young Family's Search for a Simpler Life . . . Four Seasons of Living in the Year 1900 by Logan Ward

Down to Earth: Toward a Philosophy of Nonviolent Living by John Nolt

Marriage of the Living Dark by David Wingrove

The Dark Room by Minette Walters. Read in August, 1998.

Search the Dark by Charles Todd

I like this series.

the dark wind by tony hillerman

Dark Roots: Stories by Cate Kennedy. (Really hated this one.)

In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse

(I would have loved to have gotten us away from dark, but couldn't do it)

The Wandering Soul by William Hope Hodgson

soul on ice by Eldridge Cleaver

A Cavern of Black Ice by J.V. Jones

the ice house by Minette Walters

In Search of a Past: The Manor House, Amnersfield, 1933-1945 by Ronald Fraser

Read for a subject at university on history and memory

Rogues and Heroes from Iowa's Amazing Past, by George Mills (read 1 Feb 1986)

American social patterns; studies of race relations, popular heroes, voting, union democracy, and government bureau by William Petersen.

State of the Union by Douglas Kennedy

State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy

The doctrines of a middle state between death and the resurrection by Archibald Campbell

moibibliomaniac playing as Samuel Johnson.
This is the shortened version of the title. Read the review to see the extended title.

a woman is talking to death by Judy Grahn

The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle. Listened to the audi version about a year ago.

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters. One of the Amelia Peabody series, which I've enjoyed, but this one is still TBR.

The Cat Who Came in From the Cold on my wish list.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre.

The Cold Cash War by Robert Asprin

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides. Read in college.

The Looking Glass War by John Le Carre

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Plato and a platypus walk into a bar-- : understanding philosophy through jokes by Thomas Cathcart.

A Walk Among Tombstones by Lawrence Block

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by John Crowley.

Beautiful Girlhood by Karen Andreola

Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith. I haven't read this yet, but I plan to.

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Monsieur Beaucaire and The Beautiful Lady by Booth Tarkington. Just got this at a used book store a couple of weeks ago.

That Lady by Kate O'Brien
(I take up a post because it's what I'm reading now. Sorry to all the folks who were going to jump on Monsieur Pamplemousse.

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King

Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus: Confessions of a Tour Leader by Brian Thacker

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, by Thomas De Quincey (read 9 Jan 1965)

The English Assassin by Daniel Silva

The prodigal tongue : dispatches from the future of English, currently reading...

A Stolen Tongue by Sheri Holman. I enjoyed it a couple of years ago.

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn

read aeons ago.

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way by Bill Bryson

Wok Your Way Skinny! by Annette Annechild.

Have your cake and eat it too! by Mary Engelbreit

At one time, I entertained the idea of collecting books whose titles were famous sayings.

Carrot Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

A Mind to Murder by P. D. James

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn. On my wishlist.

Beautiful Children by Charles Bock. Read last month.

The Random House Book of Humor for Children by Pamela Pollack

house made of dawn by n. scott momaday. i listened to it a few years ago. extraordinary.

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. Great book made into a really putrid movie.

The House on Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne read to my sons when they were little.

The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting by Elizabeth Cohen. Read about two years ago for book club; the author came to speak to us, too.

Trixie Belden and the Mystery Off Glen Road by Julie Campbell

Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer Mystery by Julie Campbell

this is the only one i remember because for dinner one night the girls fixed creamed tuna or creamed peas or something on toast. blech!

Gourmet trailer cooking! I so loved that series . . . I've manged to collect 26 of them so far!

Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Mansion by Julie Campbell.

The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion by Carolyn Keene

mystery mile by Margery Allingham

The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Mystery, by Douglas Woodruff (read 11 June 1979) (Book of the Year)

The appellation given means that it was the book most appreciated read in 1979, out of the 46 books I read that year)

299> Probably creamed tuna AND peas on toast (my mom used to make it).

303> Thank goodness there's a subtitle!

Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 by Lisa Picard. (Her English period books are a delight.)

A Directory of London Stationers and Book Artisans, 1300-1500 by C. Paul Christianson

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

I'm not sure i didn't use this in part 21 but, I'm embarrassed to say, i don't know how to find part 21 to check. i rather think i didn't. just can't be certain.

The Business of Dying by Simon Kernick. An author introduced to me by my brother. Read this one in April 2008

The Economist Business Traveller's Guides by the Economist.

death is a lonely business by ray bradbury

in my TBR queue

Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James

Holy Fools by Joanne Harris.

Holy Terror in the Hebrides by Jeanne Dams

The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. by James Boswell

Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites, by Brian Lamb and the C-SPAN staff (read 2 Apr 2001)

Look Homeward Angel: a story of the buried life, by Thomas Wolfe. One of my favorites.

Angel Square by Brian Doyle. Read aloud every Christmas when my boys were younger.

Washington Square by Henry James

General Washington by Woodrow Wilson

Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein. Yes, I actually read this. Understood it, well....not completely!

Food Editors' Favorites Treasured Recipes - Special Edition to Benefit MADD by Barbara Gibbs and Jame Baker Ostmann

Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations by Daniel Diehl - great reference book

Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes by Mark Crick. Read last year -- the author has provided recipes written in the style of various authors.

Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Jr. Bennett

Before the Storm by Judith Lennox. On my TBR shelves.

before midnight by Rex Stout

Before She Met Me by Julian Barnes. Read last year.

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie. Part of The First Law series that I read earlier this year.

A Dictionary of the English Language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings, and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found by Samuel Johnson

Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray.

Five Caught in a Treacherous Plot by Enid Blyton

the five bells and bladebone by Martha Grimes

Street of Five Moons by Elizabeth Peters

Half Moon Street by Anne Perry. Mount TBR.

Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

house of light by Mary Oliver

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III. I really hated the character of Kathy.

a sand county almanac by Aldo Leopold

The Sand Daughter by Sarah Bryant. On my wishlist.

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. I know a lot of folks love this one, but it bored me.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

by the time i finished this, i was seriously over both de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre! ;)

The unpublishable memoirs by A.S.W. Rosenbach

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle read last year.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm.

The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook by Gloria Bley Miller.

the Nero Wolfe cookbook by Rex Stout

Jamie's Dinners: The Essential Family Cookbook by Jamie Oliver

I would love to own this one!

A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver. Read earlier this year; not my favourite one of her novels.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

My favorite book in the world! Read this a few years ago.

Raymond and Agnes, or The Bleeding Nun of Lindenburg! A Melodrama in Two Acts. by W.H. Grosetti

A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman

Requiem for a Nun, by William Faulkner (read 18 Jan 1958)

The Requiem Shark by Nicholas Griffin. How can you not love a book about pirates! Read in Jan. 2001

White Shark by Peter Benchley read in 2006

White savage : William Johnson and the invention of America. He's a very interesting guy...

The White by Deborah Larsen. Fictionalization of a fascinating and true captivity story. You can tell that Larsen is also a poet from her beautiful prose.

Death In A White Tie by Ngaio Marsh

Track of the White Wolf by Jennifer Roberson. Part of the Cheysuli Chronicles series which it's been a while since I read.

The White Devil by John Webster. Great play.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. A twofer!

>362 jennieg: And a book I really enjoyed!

The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey. My favorite of the original Dragonriders trilogy. I just loved Ruth!

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Really looking forward to the sequel for this one arriving soon.

odd girl out by Ann Bannon

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis - finished 30 Mar 09. Loved it.

Out Stealing Horses by Per Pettersen; read and enjoyed several months ago.

all the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Read 3 or 4 years ago.

And All the Stars a Stage by James Blish -- classic semi-forgotten Sci-Fi author

too slow of a typer
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison. Read a couple of months ago.

Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men by Harold Lamb. In the TBR pile.

All Other Nights by Dara Horn. Read the ARC earlier this year.

All the Presidents Men by Carl Bernstein read back in the 80's.

Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez

Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Pulp Sci-Fi at it's best.

Men Against the Sea, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (read 19 June 1949)

HOW TO MANAGE MEN. by Mary Hyde

This is not the Mary Hyde whose books I collect. Nor is it the Mary Hyde who wrote English For The Thoughtful Child. The Mary Hyde I collect is the Mary Hyde who wrote and collected books about Samuel Johnson.

The Organized Executive: A Program for Productivity : New Ways to Manage Time, Paper, and People by Stephanie Winston - read in the early nineties. Thought it was a valuable book.

People of Darkness by Tony Hillerman read at least twice but not for a few years now.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Hunter of Worlds by C.J. Cherryh

Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America by Theodora Kroeber

The Last Plantagenets by Thomas B. Costain. Read a long time ago.

The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault

The Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper read in the 90's

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

James Joyce: a Lecture Delivered in Milan in 1927, by Italo Svevo. From my student days, a long time ago...

James Beard's American Cookery by James Beard.

American Primitive by Mary Oliver

Had a Good Time: Stories from American Postcards by Robert Olen Butler; TBR pile

Sacred Harp of American Poetry

A collection of religious verse published in 1862

Dear Harp of my Country: The Irish Melodies Of thomas Moore by James W. Flannery read in school.

All We Hold Dear by Kathryn Lynn Davis. On my Wish List.

All quiet on the western front by Erich Maria Remarque. Read for the first time about 35 years ago, re-read many times since.

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West

listened to this several years ago and would love to find time to read it again.

And All The Stars A Stage by James Blish

The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon

Read 15 or so years ago.

The Stars Look Down, by A. J. Cronin (read 19 May 1946)

A twofer!

Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland.

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham. Read about 40 years ago. Still one of my favorite kids books.

Boater's Bowditch : the small-craft American practical navigator, a gift from my kids in hopes that I would buy a boat...

American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

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