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1starbox
Edited: Jun 21, 2013, 2:32 pm

Link the last word (not numeral ) of the third book's title of a previous participant/poster
to a new list of your own book titles - A List of 3 Titles.

The next poster will repeat the same process of the game.

Articles- a, an, the not included.
Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace
The Betsy by Harold Robbins

Betsy Ross: Designer of our Flag by Ann Weil
A Flag full of Stars by Brad Ferguson
Stars and Planets by Jay M Pasachoff

3silverfish999
Edited: Jun 23, 2013, 10:29 pm

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6silverfish999
Jun 26, 2013, 3:37 am

Do you allow other English Language book titles ?

12rolandperkins
Edited: Jun 28, 2013, 4:34 pm

Line of Vision by David Ellis

Vision in White
by Nora Roberts

The White Guard
by Mihail Bulgakov

16rolandperkins
Edited: Jul 9, 2013, 1:17 am

17WillowOne
Edited: Jul 9, 2013, 5:46 pm

The Brendan Voyage (Modern Library Exploration) by Tim Severin and Malachy McCourt

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz

Long Time Coming by Edie Claire

18starbox
Edited: Jul 12, 2013, 3:57 pm

#17 is incorrect: first book should begin with 'Biography' to play off previous one.

Playing off #16

The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton
Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock
Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood

19rolandperkins
Edited: Jul 17, 2013, 3:51 am

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30bookymouse
Jul 18, 2013, 3:30 pm

Beyond summer by Lisa Wingate

Summer Morning, Summer Night by Ray Bradbury

Night watch by Linda Fairstein

33rolandperkins
Edited: Aug 5, 2013, 8:20 am

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36bookymouse
Aug 6, 2013, 11:33 am

Oleander girl by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Girl in translation by Jean Kwok

The Translation of the Bones by Francesca Kay

39rolandperkins
Edited: Aug 6, 2013, 2:29 pm

The Novel* in Antiquity
by Tomas Hagg

Antiquity: from the Birth of the Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman
Empire by Norman Cantor

Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard

(Glad there's no "Fiction Only" rule in this game. I've
learned that any title starting with "novel" - - isn't likely to BE a novel!)

50rolandperkins
Edited: Aug 9, 2013, 9:31 pm

Glory Road by* Bruce Catton

The Road Builders
by B, G. Hennessy

Builders of the Anceint World:
Marvels of Engineering
by National Georgaphic

*a non fiction by Catton, part of his
The Army of the Potomac series;
same title: a novel by Robert Heinlein

61rolandperkins
Aug 12, 2013, 5:30 pm

The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan

Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves

Milton in America by Peter Ackroyd

64starbox
Aug 13, 2013, 12:50 pm

Morons and Madmen by Earl W Emerson *
Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics by Roy Porter
Lunatics R Us by Chris McClarren

*Memories of my friend's son observing a moorhen on the canal and telling me he wanted to feed the moron!

75razzamajazz
Aug 25, 2013, 4:25 am

Upgraded.

79Diane-bpcb
Edited: Aug 26, 2013, 11:34 am

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80razzamajazz
Aug 26, 2013, 1:22 am

You are not following the game rules.

First Title: start with " singing" , exclusive of the article, a. the.

Second Title: start with "last word" of the first title.

Third Title: start with "last word" of the second title.

See previous postings above. Good attempt.Try again.

81Diane-bpcb
Edited: Aug 26, 2013, 6:07 pm

Singing for Dummies by Pamelia S. Phillips

Dummies Guide to Facebook Slang by Bangambiki Habyarimana

Slang Rules! by Orin Hargraves

82starbox
Aug 26, 2013, 12:17 pm

#78 is wrong: should start with 'never'

83rolandperkins
Aug 26, 2013, 3:17 pm

"78 . . .should start with "never". (82)

RIght. Sorry; I inadvertently proceeded to the last word of my own first titleʻs* first word.

*My first title was going to be "Never so Few" and I jumped to its last word without listing it!

84rolandperkins
Aug 26, 2013, 3:45 pm

I have corrected #78, making it still end with
". . .singing" so that 81
can be correct. (But I could do that only by making 78 a list of 4 instead of 3). If thatʻs ok, then 81 is the one to play on now.

85Diane-bpcb
Aug 28, 2013, 1:10 am

>rolandperkins- are you next?

86rolandperkins
Edited: Aug 28, 2013, 1:25 am

". . . are you next?" (85)

If my scanning of 81--85, and of the rules is correct, the next player is anyone (except the most recent player (78 -- me)! ) who can list a sequence of 3 books, in which the first one
starts with the word "Rules" i.e. with the last word of 81.
Unfortunately that would seem to be a word that may often appear elsewhere in the title, but seldom as the first word. But there is no "FICTION ONLY!" rule in this game (see the title), so there must be some non-fictions which begin with the noun
"rules".

92rolandperkins
Edited: Sep 12, 2013, 9:48 am

A Cookbook by Ted
by Ted Summerfield

Ted Williams: the biography of an American Hero by Leigh Montville

The Hero in History
by Sidney Hook

94rolandperkins
Edited: Sep 14, 2013, 7:39 pm

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97rolandperkins
Edited: Sep 15, 2013, 7:33 pm


Golf and be Damned
by Lawrence Lariar

Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett
by James Knowlson

Beckett and Zen*
by Paul Foster

*I have left out a 10-word subtitle. NEXT" may play on either "Zen" of this title or
"Beckett", the last word of the subtitle.

99rolandperkins
Edited: Sep 22, 2013, 1:33 am

*Dummies 101: Creating Web Pages by Kim Komando

Pages from a Cold Island
by Frederick Exley

Island in the Sun
by Alec Waugh

*The Hawaiʻi State Public Library gives "Dummies" as the first word of this title;
its LT page starts the title
with "Creating" (and LT seems to list no title in which "Dummies"is the first word.)

105rolandperkins
Edited: Oct 9, 2013, 5:06 pm

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106rolandperkins
Edited: Oct 10, 2013, 11:45 am

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107rolandperkins
Edited: Oct 10, 2013, 11:45 am

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108rolandperkins
Oct 9, 2013, 5:06 pm

The Pike River Phantom
by Betty Ren Wright

The Phantom of the Opera
by Gaston Leroux

Opera as Drama
by Frank Kerman

122rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 4, 2013, 4:11 pm

A Heap of Livin'. (And) Along Life's Highway
by Edgar Guest

Highway Cats
by Taylor Lisle

The Cats in Krasinski Square
by Karen Hesse

124rolandperkins
Nov 4, 2013, 4:13 pm

( is 123 a speed record? - -Your answer to 122 is clocked
at one minute BEFORE 122!)

125starbox
Nov 4, 2013, 4:18 pm

when I saw #122, I noticed you hadn't put an author for the last one. Did you post it then go in and re-edit it? Otherwise it must be due to the international dateline!!!

126rolandperkins
Nov 4, 2013, 4:48 pm

Q."Did you post (122) and then go in and re-edit it?"
(125)

A. Exactly.
And I wasn't protesting in 124, just expressing a surprise-instigated curiosity.
If one does go to look something up in "Search", the applicable
post has to be saved and left on the screen (which I didn't realize at first). Otherwise I have to start all over again.
That was my reason for leaving the unfinished post on the screen. (The difficulty was mainly with Title (1), the Edgar Guest "double feature". I was trying to find out if the 6 words were two titles published together, or
the full title of "A Heap o'
Livin'. Search's aversion
to apostrophes complicates this a little, but didn't really do any harm here.)

128starbox
Nov 5, 2013, 8:56 am

The Past is Myself by Christabel Bielenberg
Myself when young: the Shaping of a Writer by Daphne du Maurier
The Young Visiters * by Daisy Ashford

*since visiters is misspelt, the next player will be playing off 'visitors

129rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 5, 2013, 2:45 pm

139rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 12, 2013, 5:19 pm

155rolandperkins
Edited: Nov 28, 2013, 6:03 pm

Rome and Jerusalem
by Moses Hess

The Jerusalem Bible
by Bible (a celebrated Catholic translation)

The Bible and the
New York Times by Fleming Ruttledge

161rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 10, 2013, 7:55 am

Guitarist Guide to Classic Rock
(no author listed)

Rock Dreams
by Guy Peellaert

Dreams Underfoot: the Newford Collection
by Charles De Lint

169rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 15, 2013, 6:36 am

177rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 19, 2013, 4:40 pm

Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov

The Memory Collector
by Meg Gardiner

The Collector of Hearts:
New Tales of the Grotesque
by Joyce Carol Oates

"NEXT" may play on either
"...Hearts" the last word of
the main title, or on
"Grotesque", last word of the sub title.

187rolandperkins
Dec 22, 2013, 8:34 am


School Daze Series
by Jerry Spinelli

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Thirteen Alarming
Months by Lemony Snicket

Months and Seasons
by Christopher Meeks

194starbox
Edited: Dec 25, 2013, 7:12 am

Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nigel Slater's Real Food by Nigel Slater
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal by Mark Kurlansky

201rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 28, 2013, 6:21 am

Guide for the Perplexed
by Moses Maimonides
and used as a title by
E. F. Schumacher and others, and as a subtitle by
even more --in books for those "perplexed" by Husserl, Kierkegaard, and others.

A Perplexed Philosopher
by Henry George

Philosopher at Large; an intellectual autobiography
by Mortimer Adler

203rolandperkins
Edited: Dec 28, 2013, 8:01 pm

Bother with Boris
by Diana WHite

Boris and Bella
by Carolyn Crimi

La Bella Figura: a Field Guide to the Itlaian Mind
by Beppe Severgnini

207rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 1, 2014, 1:31 am

212rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 3, 2014, 8:22 am


Tiger Eyes
by Judy Blume

Eyes of the Empress
by Camille Bacon-Smith

The Empress of Earth
by Melissa Scott
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