Make A Chain of Book Titles - A List of 3 Titles (Fiction/Non Fiction)

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1starbox
Edited: Jan 4, 2014, 9:22 am

Coping with Depression
Siang-Yang Tan

Depression Pie
by Nora Lee Ingle

Pie Town by Lynne Hinton
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Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett
Mouse or Rat ? Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond by Deepak Malhotra

5mysterymax
Jan 5, 2014, 8:06 am

The Magic Moscow by Daniel Pinkwater

The Moscow Club by Joseph Finder

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

(wasn't sure about using The to start titles, does that count?)

6starbox
Edited: Jan 5, 2014, 11:38 am

7starbox
Jan 9, 2014, 6:10 am

next player...

9rolandperkins
Jan 9, 2014, 7:17 am

First title of 8 does not follow 6: should be Spleen Butterfly > "Butterfly _____"

10starbox
Jan 12, 2014, 12:42 pm

(refresh game)

11rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 12, 2014, 7:07 pm

(accepting " . . . Past" (8)
as the one to play on:

Past Secrets
by Cathy Kelly

Secrets in the Attic
by V. C. Andrews

Attic of the Wind
by Doris Herold Lund

13rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 13, 2014, 1:34 pm

Jeremiah and Lamentations: from Sorrow to Hope
by Philip Graham Ryken


Hope of Heaven by John OʻHara*

Heaven, Texas
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

*My screen got a sidebar with this title and author,
apostrophe and all; but also a "John OʻHara -- no
results" message! Shows you Touchstones both CAN and CANNOT handle apostrophes.

15rolandperkins
Jan 13, 2014, 3:55 pm

*Steps of the Sun
by Walter Tevis

Sun Storm
by Assa Larsson

The Storm of Steel
by Ernst Juenger

*Steppes>Steps: I had to use the homonym on this one. It seems authors like to have "steppes" in the title
but not as the first word.

26rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 18, 2014, 7:08 am

I could continue this from
"Mummies. . .PARTS" only by
making the author statement part of the title (and misspelling the authorʻs name.) It appears that where "parts" is the first word in a title, itʻs also the ONLY word.

Parts* by Cal Kobalt

Cobalt 60 by Vaughan Bodeʻ

The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time
by Jonathan Vankin

*Just citing, not recommending.

27starbox
Jan 18, 2014, 9:29 am

The Time Machine by H G Wells
Machine Quilting made easy by Maurine Noble
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Ro Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind

36rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 22, 2014, 3:09 pm

40zigmarco120
Jan 23, 2014, 1:04 am

I'm gonna read it

44Peace2
Jan 25, 2014, 7:07 pm

47rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 25, 2014, 11:58 pm

51rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 30, 2014, 1:59 am

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole: the Man and his Music
by Island Music/Island Hearts

The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster

Chance Witness: an Outsiderʻs Life in Politics
by Matthew Parris

57rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 1, 2014, 7:54 pm

A Thread of Truth
by Nian Allan

The Truth about the Irish
by Terry Eagleton

The Irish Americans: a History
by Jay Dolan

60Peace2
Feb 3, 2014, 8:18 pm


Storm Prey by John Sandford

Prey to All by Natasha Cooper

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (read about 27 years ago approx - it was a school text)

62starbox
Edited: Feb 4, 2014, 7:16 am

75rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 10, 2014, 4:56 pm

Memphis Belle
by Monte Merrick

Belle de Jour; the diary of an unlikey call girl
by Belle de Jour

Girl, Interrupted
by Susanna Kaysen

77rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 1, 2014, 6:57 am

81rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 22, 2014, 12:03 am

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84rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 12, 2014, 5:12 pm

The Books at the Wake*
by James Atherton

Wake Me in Spring
by James Preller

Spring Fever
by P. G. Wodehouse

*the title refers to James Joyceʻs personal library, with
emphasis on those books that influenced his Finnegans Wake

91starbox
Edited: Feb 18, 2014, 11:43 am

The Power of Maps by Denis Wood *
The Maps of Tolkein's Middle-Earth by Brian Sibley
Middle-Earth : Visions of a modern Myth by Donato Giancola

* I always look up the authors I use in this game, and one of Denis Wood's books on cartography, Everything Sings, looks really interesting.

94rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 19, 2014, 2:39 pm

109rolandperkins
Edited: Feb 27, 2014, 12:38 am

Things not Seen
by Andrew Clements

Seen, unseen Disneyland: what you See at Disneyland but Never Really See
by Russell Flores

See you at Harrys*
by Jo Knowles


*Next may play on either
"Harryʻs..." (possessive) or "Harryʻs..." (contraction of "Harry is". But a reminder:
remember to omit the apostrophe if searching in
"Search".

123rolandperkins
Edited: Mar 7, 2014, 6:30 am

Parish Priest: Father Michael McGivney and American
Cathollcism by Douglas Brinkley

Catholicism: a Journey to the Heart of the Faith
by Robert Barron

Faith, Hope, Love
by Josef Pieper

129rolandperkins
Edited: Mar 12, 2014, 2:49 pm

137rolandperkins
Mar 16, 2014, 7:59 pm

Milk: the Surprising Story of Milk through the Ages
by Anne Mendelson

Ages* in Chaos
by Immanuel Velikovsky

The Chaos of Stars
by Kiersten White

*By "ages" Velikovsky meant
"chronology" - - the (to him)
chaoticaly erroneous chronology of conventional
historians. What was "chaotic" about Kiersten Whiteʻs stars, Iʻm not sure.

138starbox
Mar 18, 2014, 2:37 pm

Stars and Bars by William boyd
Bars suck! Internet Dating doesn't - Finding Sanity in the Insane World of Internet Dating by Jon Rubin
Dating Quilts: from 1600 to the Present by Helen Kelley

141rolandperkins
Edited: Mar 18, 2014, 10:04 pm

Better, Faster, Lighter Java
by Bruce Tate

"Java Man how two Geologistsʻ Dramatic Discoveries Changed Our Understanding of the Evolutionary Path to the Development of Modern Humans"*
by Roger Lewin

Humans of New York
by Brandon Stanton

*This title didnʻt get put into blue, I suspect not because itʻs too long, but because of the apostrophe in the 5th word.

142starbox
Edited: Mar 19, 2014, 3:28 pm

* Yes, I'm never sure why it does that - my Internet Dating book on recent post wouldn't turn blue even though I'm sure I copied it correctly!

York and the East Riding by J J Sheahan
Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
Rooster Crows by Ragnhild scamell

148starbox
Mar 24, 2014, 9:37 am

not clear on last title...

149rolandperkins
Mar 26, 2014, 1:20 am

147 Now stands, corrected
/
Sorry, Iʻve been having trouble getting a corrected
version onto the screen;
keep getting the old, uncorrected one.

157rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 1, 2014, 6:46 am

167rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 4, 2014, 4:17 am

A Broth of Betrayal
by Connie Archer

The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii*
by Helena G. Allen

Hawaii: Gem of the Pacific
by Oscar Lewis#

*omitting the dates (in digits) that follow this title.

#Disambiguation says that this author is "Oscar Lewis (2)", not the famed anthropological writer.

171Helenoel
Apr 5, 2014, 8:28 am

? Roland- other than Acts being an anagram for cats, I'm not sure I get the connection between posts 169 and 170? a problem with touchstones?

172rolandperkins
Apr 5, 2014, 10:13 am

Sorry. I remember now that The Places in Between
was intended to be (1) on the list, but I somehow didnʻt get it onto the screen, and began to think of "between" as the word to play on from 169.

Iʻve corrected it (170) making
". . . knights" the word for
172 to play on.

174rolandperkins
Apr 7, 2014, 12:52 am


Canada as Seen by the Camera of Yousuf Karsh
and described in Words by John Fisher
by Yousuf Karsh

The Fisher King
by Anthony Powell

King of Shadows
by Susan Cooper

176rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 7, 2014, 5:17 pm

178rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 10, 2014, 1:36 am

A Place in the Sun
by* Harry Brown and Michael Wilson

The Sun in the
Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by J. L .Heilbron

Observatories of the World
by Siegfried Marx

*a screen play (1951). Based on the much earlier novel : An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

180rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 10, 2014, 4:21 am

Night of the Long Knives
by* Max Gallo

Knives and Swords
by Dorling Kindersley

Swords into Ploughshares: a Collection of Plays about Peace and Social Justice
by Ingrid Rogers

*This title, or similar, has also been used by Nikolai Tolstoy and others.

186FYTYY655
Apr 10, 2014, 6:54 pm

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190rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 11, 2014, 1:03 am

197jbarret
Apr 12, 2014, 1:32 pm

Route 66: The Mother Road by Michael Wallis

Road Fever by Tim Cahill

Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

200rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 12, 2014, 5:28 pm

Candle in the window
by Grace Johnson

A Window in Thrums
by James Barrie

"Thrums from the Weaverʻs Kitchens: a Cookbook from the Seattle Weaverʻs Guild"
by Seattle Weaverʻs Guild*

*The title ends with "...Guild", and the title and author have a singular, not a plural, possessive: "Weaverʻs", which of course I canʻt get into blue because of the apostrophes. (Assuming that "Search" has got it right.) They follow the author statement with;
";S" (!?), and then it breaks off.

201rainpebble
Apr 13, 2014, 3:28 am

Guild Wars: Edge of Destiny by J. Robert King

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King; (I received this one as part of my Christmas package from "SantaThing" this year. I don't read Stephen King and yet I really liked this book.

203jbarret
Apr 13, 2014, 2:08 pm

A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Venice Rediscovered by John Pemble

206Helenoel
Apr 14, 2014, 8:16 am

210rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 14, 2014, 3:57 pm

"Grown-upsʻ Book of Books" by Vanessa Feltz

The Books at the Wake
by James Atherton

The Wake of the Wind
by J. California Cooper

213rainpebble
Apr 14, 2014, 7:20 pm

I'm confused.............

214rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 15, 2014, 8:12 am

"Iʻm confused" (213)

you mean by the
...Garden (211) > Primer (212) sequence.
Yes. Sorry. My mistake.
In between those, there was supposed to be a title starting with "Garden" and ending with "Primer". I didnʻt get it onto the screen.
Iʻve corrected it now, which makes ". . .Atlantic" the word for 215 to play on.

221rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 16, 2014, 2:14 am

Time, Work and Culture
in the Middle Ages
by Jacques Le Goff

Ages in Chaos
by Immanuel Velikkovsky

Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick

230rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 17, 2014, 5:26 pm

Pistols for Two
by Georgette Heyer

The Two Cultures and A Second Look: an Expanded
Version of The Two Cultures
and The Scientific Revolution
by C. P. Snow

Revolution in Science
by I. Bernard Cohen*

*Knew author.

234rolandperkins
Apr 18, 2014, 7:58 am

Men and Brethren
by James Gould Cozzens

The Brethren: inside the
Supreme Court
by Bob Woodward

Court of the Air
by Stephen Hunt

236rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 18, 2014, 3:38 pm

Glasses for Nutmeg
by Susie Piper

The Nutmeg of Consolation
by Patrick O Brian*

The Consolation of Philosophy
by Boethius

*The usual "No Results" message for OʻBrian, but they did put this title and author on a sidebar in blue, apostrophe and all!

240rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 19, 2014, 9:17 am

Pop goes the Weasel: the Secret Meaning of Nursery Rhymes
by Albert Jack

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
by Robert Service

The Man who was Not
With It by Herbert Gold

241starbox
Apr 19, 2014, 6:38 pm

244starbox
Apr 19, 2014, 8:48 pm

need a third title, Roland

245rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 19, 2014, 8:58 pm

Sorry. It is corrected, above (243)

(I got hung up on choosing and finally rejecting What Maisie Knew by Henry James - - rejected because
it would be too hard to play on: very few titles start with a subject-less past tense of a verb.)

247rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 20, 2014, 1:51 am

Wind, Sand, and Stars
by Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Stars Shine down
by Sidney Sheldon

Down Town
by Vildo Polikarpus

250starbox
Edited: Apr 21, 2014, 10:23 am

Cats in the Belfry by Doreen Tovey
A Belfry of Knees by Alberta Turner
*don't you come across some unexpected titles when perusing touchstones??)
Knees up Mother Earth by Robert Rankin

251rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 21, 2014, 6:34 pm

Earth is Room Enough
by Isaac Asimov

Enough about You, Let's talk about Me:
How to Recognize the Narcissists in your Life
by Les Carter

Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain

255rolandperkins
Edited: Apr 21, 2014, 11:33 pm

The Plains of Passage
by Jean Auel

A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster

"India after Gandhi: the History of the Worldʻs Largest Democracy"
by Ramachandra Guha
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