Another Silly Game - Part 20

My post was last.....

Blood and Smoke by Stephen King

The "rules"/conventions:

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) altho 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.

The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid. In the giant TBR pile, but I have seen the TV series on BBCAmerica.

Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky; read a few years ago

Fire and Ice: United States, Canada, and the Myth of Converging Values by Michael Adams

A Walk Through the Fire by Marcia Muller read shortly after it was published

The Fire Thief by Terry Deary. I took this one out from the library to read a couple years ago.

Fire in the Mist by Holly Lisle. Read about a year ago.

The Mystery of the Fire Dragon by Carolyn Keene; read it as a youth

Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled The Mystery Of Baby Dinosaurs - John R. Horner (read 1998)

In Search of Canadian Political Culture by Nelson Wiseman

Political Discussions: Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular 1856-1886 by James G. Blaine

Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks That Decide Who Gets Elected by Stephen Marks

Ye Heart of a Man: The Domestic Life of Men in Colonial New England by Lisa Wilson.

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Welcome, Coobabe! I hope you enjoy LibraryThing.

Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

Heart of Stone by C.E. Murphy first book in a trilogy about five supernatural races.

The Crow: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite

As the Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer

The Way the Crow Flies by Anne-Marie MacDonald

Star Rigger's Way by Jeffrey A. Carver

The Star Thrower - Loren C. Eiseley (read 1985)

Wandering Star by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio; Mt. TBR

In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse

The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912, by Thomas Pakenham (read 15 Oct 1998)

Native Stranger: Black American's Journey Into The Heart Of Africa - Eddy L. Harris (read 1995)

From Africa: New Francophone Stories by Adele King; Mt TBR, soon though

An Army at Dawn The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy, by Rick Atkinson (read 31 May 2003) (Pulitzer History prize for 2003)

Faith At War: A Journey On The Frontlines Of Islam, From Baghdad To Timbuktu - Yaroslav Trofimov (read 2007)

The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Read for a book club.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott; listened to last year

Saving Faith by David Baldacci read last year

Book Mending: Some Short Cuts and Labor Saving Devices by H.R. Huntting Co.

Note: There is no hyphen between "labor" and "saving" in the title of this book, which was published in 1935. Treat them as separate words.

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson read in 2006.

Essays in American Colonial History by Paul Goodman.

Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gray's Elegy: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Herbert W. Starr (read 23 July 1975)

Tropical Classical: Essays From Several Directions - Pico Iyer (read 2002)

Great Secession Winter of 1860-61 and Other Essays
by Henry Adams - From the great TBR pile

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins

Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson: Rescuing Canadian Business from the Suds of Global Obscurity by Andrea Mandel-Campbell. Read a few years ago for a book club.

Drink with the Devil by Jack Higgins

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

The Devil and Miss Prym by Paul Coelho - still on the TBR pile

Three by Tey: Miss Pym Disposes, the Franchise Affair, and Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey. Read sometime or other.

The End of the Affair by Graham Greene; read a while ago

Howard's End by E.M. Forster

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris; excellent book, read last year.

What Came Before He Shot Her by Elizabeth George

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

Before Endeavours Fade: A Guide to Battlefields of the First World War, by Rose E. B. Coombs, MBE (read 4 May 1991)

Reading this is the next best thing to going on a tour of the battlefields...

First among Equals by Jeffrey Archer

Time Among The Maya: Travels In Belize, Guatemala, And Mexico - Ronald Wright - (read 1994)

The Book-Hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays by Octave Uzanne

Remember! Book-Hunter is one word!

A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire. Read earlier this year. It's the third in a series based on the Wizard of Oz, following Wicked and Son of a Witch.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Good-Bye To All That: An Autobiography - Robert Graves (read 2002)

So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams

Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern

The Kaiser's Daughter: Memories of H.R.H. Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick and Luneberg, Princess of Prussia translated and edited by Robert Vacha (read 15 Oct 1989)

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tay. Read in 2005

The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

read 2 years ago

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose: A Memoir Of Love, Exile And Crosswords - Sandy Balfour (read 2005)

Crimson Tide by Richard P. Henrick

In The Courts Of The Crimson Kings by S.M. Stirling

Courts of Love by Ellen Gilchrist

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir Of Science, Faith, And Love - Dava Sobel (read 2007)

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan - read when first published

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards read I think in 2006.

Your Memory: How It Works and How To Improve It by Kenneth L. Higbee. A book I need!

How to Open and Operate a Home-Based Catering Business by Denise Vivaldo. Read c. 1993.

Don't Open This Book! edited by Marvin Kaye (TBR)

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, by Melba Pattillo Beals (read 22 Dec 1994)

The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J. R. Moehringer. Read earlier this year -- a great book.

Tender At The Bone: Growing Up At The Table - Ruth Reichl (read 2008)

Table Talk by William Hazlitt

Don't Talk to Strangers by Beverly Hastings (TBR)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Read several years ago.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Read in 2006

And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw by Agatha Christie. Read years ago. Probably time to read again.

What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe; Mt. TBR

Up The Down Staircase - Bel Kaufman (read 1967)

Up High in the Trees by Kiara Brinkman - read a couple of years ago

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Central Manual Training High School of Philadelphia 1885-1910 by Howard N.Buswel

The famous bookseller, A.S.W. Rosenbach, attended this school, and wrote his first article on book collecting for the school paper. I was hoping it was included in this book. Not a chance. Not even Rosenbach's name was listed in the book.

High Crimes by Joseph Finder

The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Manifesto for Palestine, by Ronald Sanders (read 29 Aug 1985)

The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly, read about a decade ago.

Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay. Read twice (most recently last year) and didn't like it.

An Air That Kills by Andrew Taylor. The first book in a british police procedural series set in the 1950's.

Biggles - Air Commodore by W.E. Johns

Lords Of The Air: The Smithsonian Book Of Birds - Jake Page (read 1995)

Pretty Birds by Scott Simon. Read a few years ago; about teenaged girls working as snipers in the former Yugoslavia.

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris read in 2007

When Did You Stop Loving Me? by Veronica Chambers. Read a few years ago

Loving, by Henry Green (read 16 Jun 1999)

Loving without Tears by Molly Keane. On the TBR shelf.

Journey Without Maps - Graham Greene (read 1990)

Journey to Monticello: Traveling in Colonial America by James E. Knight. Read about two months ago, when I acquired the book.

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel. I just picked this book out of someone's library as a book I would like to read in another game thread on LT.

An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey by Richard Brautigan

Little Rivers: Tales of a Woman Angler by Margot Page; book club read, lovely

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Bee by Chris Cleave. My Early Reviewers book for February. Really, really good.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn, by Mari Sandoz (read 11 Apr 1970)

The Big Girls by Susanna Moore. Read last year.

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz, read within last year.

The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy, read about 2 years ago

Garfield Makes It Big by Jim Davis (read a few weeks ago)

Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas; TBR

Digging to America by Anne Tyler. Read, like all of her novels, when it first came out.

My Discovery Of America - Farley Mowat (read 2007)

Whitewater Rafting in North America: The 200 Best Rafting Adventures in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica by Lloyd Armstead. (Proof)read 1994.

North Toward Home, by Willie Morris (read 18 June 2006)

Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell. Read in 2007.

Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett

Haven't read this, but would love to.

Ladies Night by Jack Ketchum . Last read 2007.

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith Reread last year

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Read two years ago for a book club.

A Tree of Night and other stories, by Truman Capote (read 3 Oct 1951)

The Spooky Old Tree by Stan Berenstain
Read to my sons years ago.

The Heaven Tree by Edith Pargeter. Read years ago but on the TBR pile because I loved it so much.

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

Little Children by Tom Perrotta. Bought at a drug store when I was unexpectedly caught book-less in Kanata.

Stuart Little by E.B. White; read to all four children

A Little Change of Face by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre (read 1986)

Two Little Women by Carolyn Wells. Read when I was 8 years old.

Two Weeks in another Town by Irwin Shaw

Town schooling in early New England, 1790-1840 by Catherine Fennelly

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (read 2007)

Our Town by Thorton Wilder read in high school.

Lullaby Town by Robert Crais. Another one from the wish list.

The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town A Memoir, by Dale Bumpers (read 27 July 2004)

Really an enjoyable book to read.

Terror in Tiny Town by A. G. Cascone (read 2003)

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild; read a couple of years ago

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler

The Ghost Walker by Margaret Coel. Read a year or two ago.

The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne; read a few years ago

The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, And The Search For Lost Species - Scott Weidensaul (read 2008)

Take These Broken Wings by Lyn Andrews. Read a few years ago, a british family saga.

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos. Read a few years ago when it came out. Great book.

The Clue of the Broken Locket by Carolyn Keene; read in my youth

You Can't Do Business with Hitler, by Douglas Miller (read 6 Feb 1944)

Burglars Can't be Choosers by Lawrence Block read 1988

You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe;TBR

Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper

Lost and Found by Carolyn Parkhurst; read a few years ago

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Trouble in Paradise by Robert B. Parker, read within a year or two of its release in 1999.

A review of the text of Milton's Paradise lost: in which the chief of Dr. Bentley's emendations are consider'd by Zachary Pearce

Sounds like a fun game. Just thought I'd play too!

Welcome, CharlesLamb!

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum: Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead by Heinrich Boll; Mt. TBR

Where the Wild Things Are! by Maurice Sendak

Where the Bee Sucks: A Flower Anthology by Iolo Williams

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

In A Dry Season by Peter Robinson, read in 2007.

In a Hollow of the Hills by Bret Harte

The Hollow Years: Europe in the 1930s, by Eugen Weber (read 27 Feb 1996)

The Hollow Man by Dan Simmons

The Hollow Crown The Follies, Foibles and Faces of the Kings and Queens of England by John Barton first read in 1982, browsed often since then.

Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe by Nancy Goldstone. Just received this about a week ago, so on Mount TBR.

Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov read in college.

The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

I read the whole series in one summer a couple years ago.

Three Cheers For Me by Donald Jack. A very funny book, read in 2006.

Three centuries of English booktrade bibliography : an essay on the beginnings of booktrade bibliography since the introduction of printing and in England since 1595 by Adolph Growoll and Wilberforce Eames

Curtains for Three by Rex Stout. Read ages ago.

1066 and All That A Memorable History of England Comprising, All the Parts You Can Remember Including One Hundred and Three Good Things, Five Bad Kings, and Two Genuine Dates, by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman (read 31 Oct 2004)

talk about funny books! I LOL-ed on every page.

Mercurius Britanicus or Mercuries swift messanger: being a monthly bulletin of English literature and history prior to 1800 by Maggs Bros

>174 Schmerguls: A fun read it was!

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. Read last year.

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes. Mount TBR.

And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander. First book in a historical mystery series, on my wish list.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson from the TBR pile.

Fruit of the Poppy by Robert Wilder read years ago.

Strange Fruit Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights, by David Margolick (read 1 Dec 2004)

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg read about 1990, but before I saw the movie.

Christ's Kirk on the Green, in three cantos. Canto 1 by James I., King of Scotland; Canto 2, 3 by Allan Ramsay.

The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein read about 30 years ago.

Murmurs Of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record - Carl Sagan (read 1984)

The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen; read a few years ago

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamont; read a few years ago

The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel. Read about two years ago, for the book club.

Days Without Number by Robert Goddard. Read in 2003.

Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlen read in college.

The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: read it last year

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair; read about 20 yrs ago but just bought a used copy for a reread

The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling

Life Above The Jungle Floor - Donald Perry (read 1990)

Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
Read several times.

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

Owls Well That Ends Well by Donna Andrews. Read a few years ago and re-read this past year.

Wish You Well by David Baldacci. Read in 2004.

Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (Thursday Next Series)
Like all the Thursday books. Fun, humor, light, simple.

I Wish You Love by Andre Kostelanetz on my wish list.

For You the War Is Over: American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, by David A. Foy (read 21 Jul 1994)

You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker first read the book, not this copy, in high school. Obtained this copy shortly after Nursing School.

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould (read about 2 years ago.)

Made in America: An Informal History Of The English Language In The United States - Bill Bryson (read 2009)

The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus: The Ultimate Language Reference for American Readers by OUP. Read parts of it c. 1995.

American Steel by Richard Preston

An American Childhood by Annie Dillard; lovely book, read several years ago

Old Glory: An American Voyage Down The Mississippi - Jonathan Raban
(read 1997)

Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth by Paul Murdin (reading it right now)

Castle Perilous by John DeChancie originally read a long time ago and re-read a couple of years ago.

Captain Underpants and The Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants by Dav Pilkey

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester. Read about ten years ago.

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Read 10 or so years ago.

A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage by Mark Twain read in the summer of 2007

Very Strange Bedfellows The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, by Jules Witcover (read 28 Oct 2007)

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler; read years ago for book club

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Cold Dark Matter by Alex Brett. A detective story set in Ottawa.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami; read a year or so ago

After Thirty Years: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The man from St Petersburg by Ken Follett

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison read 2008

The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman; read a year or two ago.

A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson. Read in 2004.

A Man of Property by John Galsworthy

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster; read last year

Games To Keep The Dark Away by Marcia Muller read 1986

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, by George Orwell (read 2 Apr 2002)

Night Flying by Rita Murphy

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly, read last year

Don't : a manual of mistakes & improprieties more or less prevalent in conduct and speech by Oliver Bell Bunce

Not A Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer. Read more years ago that I can even remember!

Light A Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy; read on summer vacation years and years ago

Louisiana Power And Light - John Dufresne (read 2001)

The Louisiana Purchase by Robert Tallant

Recommended Country Inns: The South: Alabama/Arkansas/Florida/Georgia / Kentucky/Louisiana/Mississippi/North Carolina/South Carolina by Sara Pitzer. Read c. 1993.

edited to try to get whole title to show

God, Country, Notre Dame, by Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. with Jerry Reedy (read 28 Dec 1996)

For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It by Mark Pendergrast. Read when it came out.

Hard Sense in Soft Words: Sayings from the Great Oral Tradition of Ireland by George B. Ryan read in 2005

Hard Evidence by John Lescroart

Hard Times by Charles Dickens; read last year

The New York Times Bread and Soup Cookbook by Yvonne Young Tarr. Read several pages of it right after I received it about a month ago! (Made the basic bread recipe.)

New York Dead by Stuart Woods. Read in August, 2006.

The History Of The Five Indian Nations Of Canada, Which Are Dependent On The Province Of New York In America, And Are The Barrier Between The English And French In That Part Of The World by Cadwallader Colden

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar;

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between The Orinoco And The Amazon - Redmond O'Hanlon (read 1995)

Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Felicia's Journey by William Trevor; read a while ago

Journey Through My Years, by James M. Cox (read 30 May 1947)

So, just for fun, do you know who James M. Cox was?

Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman

I didn't but I do now. Thanks for the challenge, Schmerguls. It is amazing the number of things I have learned since I joined LibraryThing.

Cox, James Middleton, 1870–1957, American political leader and journalist, b. Butler co., Ohio. After serving on the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, he bought the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (1898) and subsequently acquired several other papers in different states. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1909–13). As governor of Ohio (1913–15, 1917–21) he became prominent as a supporter of President Wilson. Nominated in 1920 as presidential candidate by the Democratic party with Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his running mate, Cox, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations, was soundly defeated by Warren G. Harding.

The Philby Files: The Secret Life of the Master Spy - KGB Archives Revealed by Genrikh Borovik

From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw by Agatha Christie. Read . . . have no idea when, really.

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman; pretty good mystery, read a few years ago

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry, read a few years ago.

How to Build a Poor Man's Morgan Library by Norman Strouse

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Friends and Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey

Letters from a Lost Generation The First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends: Roland Leighton, Edward Brittain, Victor Richardson, Geoffrey Thurlow (read 26 June 2003)

(This is the title--a situation where the people who wrote the letters are the authors, I suppose, but I think every word listed (except the article of course) would be a candidate for the next post, right?)

Thirty-Five Letters of Cicero by Cicero. Read in college.

*touchstone not working

The Screwtape Letters: How a Senior Devil Instructs a Junior Devil in the Art of Temptation by C. S. Lewis.

For the Love of Letters: A Guide to the The Art of Letter Writing by Samara O'Shea

The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine, read several years ago

The Letter of the Law by Tim Green. Read last year.

The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens; read and loved

What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson on my TBR pile

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Read in college, I think.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson

own it and want to read it but haven't yet

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Darkness and the Dawn by Thomas B. Costain

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Storm Breaking by Mercedes Lackey. Read most recently within the last year.

Breaking Away by Kristin Hunter Lattany

Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt; read several years ago

How to Clean Practically Anything by Monte Florman

Anything Can Happen, by George and Helen Waite Papashvily (read 27 Apr 1945)

(#272 violates the rule, since "dreams" is not the same word as "dream." Just to let you know somebody is watching...)

Get Anyone to Do Anything by David J. Lieberman

Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

From Here to Eternity by James Jones

Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

Born Free by Joy Adamson

>282 Schmerguls: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize it. Will pay better attention in future.

The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression by L. W. Sumner Read for a book club on public policy.

The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies by Rosemarie T. Morewedg. Just acquired at a library book sale, so on Mount TBR.

Woman Without a Past by Phyllis A. Whitney.

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

World Without End by Ken Follett

The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene (read 11 Nov 1952) (Book of the Year)

The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard read in fits and starts throughout 1988,I have a son and this was painful for me.

Howards End by E. M. Forster. Read years ago.

The End Of Nature - Bill McKibben (read 1998)

At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict by Roland Paris

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

Language in Action by S.I. Hayakawa

The Language of the Night by Ursula K. LeGuin.

Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis. On Mount TBR.

The Nocturnal Naturalist: Exploring The Outdoors At Night - Cathy Johnson (read 1992)

West With the Night, by Beryl Markham (read 5 May 1999)

Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill

Out of Print and Into Profit: A History of the Rare and Secondhand Book Trade in Britain in the Twentieth Century by Giles Mandelbrote

Rare Birds by Edward Riche. Very funny.

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

Birds, Beasts, And Relatives - Gerald Durrell (read 1995)

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson. A YA read.

The City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
(A VERY good YA read!)

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston Read it this year and loved it.

Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman

My first Hillerman. Read a few years ago & it got me hooked.

Catherine the Great: A Biography of the Woman Who Became Empress of All the Russias by Zoe Oldenbourg. Yep, on the TBR pile.

Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda. Read for a book club.

Queen Of The Tambourine by Jane Gardam (yes, read, many times - favourite book)

The Making of The African Queen or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind. by Katherine Hepburn
read in 1997

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Revised) by Joseph Murphy

Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda - life changing book

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Next Door to Power: Human Interest Stories about 45 Vice Presidents by G. Wayne Dailey

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene. Read in 2006.

The Laws of Attraction by Sherryl Woods - a romance novel.

The Hand of God, by W. A. Dostal (read in the 1930s--maybe about 1937)

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/andrews.htm

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by Fustel de Coulanges.

Okay, here's the thing: I only post things from my LT library here. I've cataloged maybe a third of my library, but everything new that comes in gets cataloged as it comes in. And that's my story of why everything I post is in the TBR pile, and I'm sticking to it.

The Laws of Our fathers by Scott Turow read a while ago.

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter. Read last year.

Under Two Flags, by "Ouida" Louise de la Ramee (read 26 May 1996)

Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan. Read in 2006.

Tea for Two by Cathy Maxwell on wishlist.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

The Path to the Spider's Nest by Italo Calvino a coming-of-age novel set during WW II in Italy, on my wish list.

Islam: The Straight Path by John L. Esposito, a good read about the truth of Islam, not the hype that newspapers or extremist terrorists would have us all believe. Read it my sophomore year in college.

Straight On Til Morning: A Biography Of Beryl Markham - Mary Lovell - read 1986

April Morning by Howard Fast read in the 70's & again in the 80's when my children were in high school.

Chase the Morning by Michael Scott Rohan. Read this after reading some of his Winter of the World series quite some time ago (10-15 years at least).

Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg. Read a couple months ago: positively wonderful (as is anything from the Dear America or My Story series).

Early One Morning by Robert Ryan. First book I read this year.

Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement by Rodney Rothman; sweet little story, read a few years ago when a premature retirement seemed much more likely than it does now...

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life and Times of George Washington by Samuel Schmucker

Washington Square, by Henry James (read 25 Jun 2002)

I had nothing to do with the touchstones which show up for this.

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton. Read last year.

Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor. Part of a British Mystery series set in the 1950's.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Lonely Vigil : Coastwatchers of the Solomons by Walter Lord read in 1979

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, by Brian Moore (read 1 Feb 1987)

A Passion for Books by Lawrence Clark Powell

The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich read for Lent.

Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. TBR.

Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot

Read over 5 years ago.

No Other Man, by Alfred Noyes (read 25 Nov 1943)

Behold The Man by Michael Moorcock

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The Whole Duty of Man, Laid Down In a Plain and Familiar Way for the Use of All, but Especially the Meanest Reader by Richard Allestree

The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America by Joy Day Buel. Read about three years ago.

A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver. Read earlier this year.

The Good Daughter by Wendi Lee

A Good Clean Fight by Derek Robinson. Read in June of 1998.

Good Company , Sri Shantanand Saraswati

The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan, read when first published 5 or 6 years ago

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Earth Abides - George R. Stewart (read 1978)

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 by L. Ron Hubbard

A Bed of Earth: The Gravedigger's Tale by Tanith Lee

Read about a year and a half ago, especially memorable since it was one of the books I read as I was recovering from surgery.

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary by Simon Winchester

Oxford English : The Essential Guide to Grammar, Spelling, Pronunciation, Slang, Vocabulary, Proverbs, Scientific Medical Legal and Computer Terms ... compiled by I C B Deare, Guild Books, 1986

(incredibly, "not found" using Touchstones)

The New Oxford Dictionary of English by Judy Pearsall. Read every entry labeled "US" or "North American" summer 1997.

The Pocket Oxford Spanish Dictionary by Carol Styles Carvajal, which could never fit in any pocket I've ever seen.

A Pocket Full Of Rye by Agatha Christie. A Miss Marple mystery that I read many years ago.

Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

I'm ashamed to say I never read this yet. But at least I admitted that - I'm not a phony!

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore, Maryland, June 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and July 1 and 2, 1912, Compiled by Urey Woodson (read 5 Sept 1945)

Umm...am I missing the link between these two?

Hmm. If you are, MissTeacher, so am I. Anyone? Skip back to #382 or move on with #383?

I vote to skip back to #382 I think they used "in" as the connection, but that's not allowed.

I vote to skip back to #382 I think they used "in" as the connection, but that's not allowed.

Not specifically disallowed (only "a" "an" and "the" are forbidden) - but I agree, I think the prohibition should be widened to include in on and but at if to of it and maybe by with from etc. I think commonsense should apply.

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins - this looks a definite TBR !

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon. About to re-read for a book club.

Shadow of a Doubt by William Jeremiah Coughlin

Wolf in Shadow by David Gemmell. A Jon Shannow novel read several years ago.

Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron. Read last year for a book club.

Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat (read 9 Nov 1986)

Yes, "in" is the connecting word, and while maybe you are right that it should not be allowed, under the rules it has been, up to now. If "in" is not allowed, should "out" also not be allowed? I admit that the only reason I used "in" is that there was no match in my list for the other words, so I suppose i should not have responded...Sorry.

> 393

You followed the rules. I just thought the rule was inadequate, but I should have contacted the originator to say so. "My bad".

No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook and Pay the Rent You Blew It 'Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again by Edgardo Vega Yunque.
Read last year.

Perfect Party Menus When You Don't Have Time to Cook by Nancy Holmes.

Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Shakspeare's Four Folios. An Account of the Four Collected Editions Together With a Census of the Known Perfect Copies by Dodd Mead & Company

Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty

Perfect Grave by Rick Morfina. A thriller I read a couple of years ago.

#382 - Tid - I've never read Catcher In the Rye either!

Death in a Fishpond A Perfect Husband, A Perfect Marriage, A Perfect Murder? by Howard R. Lemcke (read 12 Feb 2006)

What would you all think of adding to the rule disallowing "the", "an", and "a" "any word of only one or two letters"? I think that would get most of the words which probably should not be allowed, though "and" and "but" and "with" would not be excluded. Just a thought.

I'm happy with that Schmerguls, though I would add "and" and "but" to the list too.

I think we probably realise we should be matching on one of the "meaningful" words rather than a "particle" or linking word.

There could be exceptions of course, though we would judge these on their merits. For example, if Bill Clinton ever published a memoir entitled "It Depends on What You Mean by Is", then I would certainly class "Is" as a significant word in that particular context !!

The Perfect Storm - A True Story Of Men Against The Sea by Sebastian Junger. Read 2000

A Light in the Storm: the Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse

The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett. Hasn't everybody read this? ;)

I thought I read the rules at one time that said no articles, prepositions or conjunctions. That would mean no a, an, the, in, of, with, and, but, or, etc. Of course, a lot of prepositions are "substantial" words in a title, like Under Orders. Personally, I only go with the words that should be capitalized in a title, namely nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns...and some interjections and prepositions if necessary. But then again, I am an English teacher, and by all accounts and accusations, a nerd.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowlings.
Wonderful book I read when it first came out. The margin notes are my favorite part. I really wish that it had been more comprehensive, though.
BTW #405, I'm always so excited when I see other people are familiar with the Dear America series, it truly is fantastic (for adults as well as children).

Beasts and Super Beasts by Saki

Now there's a writer !

Super in the City by Daphne Uviller

For once, the book I'm actually reading has had a chance to be in this game!

City of Thieves by David Benioff, one of my recent favorites!

Thieves World by Robert Asprin. Read the series quite a while ago but can't remember exactly when.

The World At Night by Alan Furst. An excellent thriller about WWII that I read a couple of months ago.

Saturday Night by Marjorie Holmes. Read when I was a teenager.

>407 MissTeacher: We talked months ago about not using conjunctions and prepositions, but never included banning their use in the rules. Personally, I think we would be asking for trouble if we banned the use of conjunctions and prepositions. We would probably need a grammar monitor to determine if a word was being used as an adverb or as a preposition. Let's just keep it a fun game.

Night Fall by Nelson DeMille; read when first published and one of my favorite DeMille books

Simon's Night, by Jon Hassler (read 27 May 1996)

This is a really funny book.

Night Train by Martin Amis

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich; read several years ago

Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America With Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti

A Long Trip to Teatime by Anthony Burgess. Read way back in the 1980's.

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

> 425 I love that book!

The Way of the Sufi by Idries Shah (a lovely introduction to this enigmatic mystical sect)

A Long Way From Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland, by Tom Brokaw (read 18 Jan 2003)

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Read some time last year.

Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein

American Harvest: Regional Recipes for the Vegetarian Kitchen by Nava Atlas.

Dancing at the Harvest Moon: A Novel by K. C. McKinnon read shortly after publication

The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven - one of the best autobiographies of all time and the one I've probably read the most

Since I'm not sure the last post is correct (Moon's vs. Moon), I'll add
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. I read it a few years ago and thought it was one of Heinlein's better later novels.

Void Moon by Michael Connelly

The Word and the Void is an omnibus edition of a series by Terry Brooks which I read at the beginning of last year.

The F Word by Jesse Sheidlower

A Word Of Honor by Nelson DeMille. One of his older novels from the 1980's.

A Sense of Honor, by James Webb (read 20 Mar 2001)

Read long before he was Virginia's senator

The Course of Honor by Lindsey Davis, read maybe three years ago.

Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy - unfortunately, one of the many books in my TBR pile.

Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens (read 12 Oct 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1949)

Americana-beginnings: A Selection from the Library of Thomas W. Streeter, Shown in Honor of a Visit of the Hroswitha Club on May 3, 1951 by Thomas W. Streeter

Americana-beginnings is treated as one word.

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels

Beyond All Fronts A Bystander's Notes on This Thirty Years War, by Max Jordan (read 1 Sep 1946)

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. read it a while ago and liked it a lot.

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Read in the early 90s.

Wishing Water Gate by Elinor Lyon - favourite read as a child, wonderful plot

(bl**dy stupid broken Touchstones!! grumble grumble)

Thicker than Water by P.J. Parrish

Moon Over Water by Debbie Macomber read 2-28-09

Moon of Bitter Cold by Fred Chiaventone. A historical novel about the Fetterman massacre. Read in September, 2004.

Bitter Recoil by Steven F. Havill

Bitter Lemons, by Lawrence Durrell (read 15 Sep 2008)

Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: the Life and Times of Some Chickens by Sloane Tanen

An exceptionally funny book by visual artist Sloane Tanen.

Tales and Legends of National Origin or Widely Current in England From Early Times by W. Carew Hazlitt

Tales of Power by Carlos Castaneda

Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams

Watership Down by Richard Adams Read several years ago. Can't remember when, but not my favorite Adams book.

(couldn't resist)

Edited to say when I read it.

Lie Down With Lions a Ken Follett thriller that I read way back in the late 80's.

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson; read Feb 2009

Thinking Out Loud - On The Personal, The Political, The Public And The Private by Anna Quindlen read a couple of years ago

Personal History, by Vincent Sheean (read 14 Mar 1947)

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

The Pelican History of Music by Alec Robertson

Whale Music by Paul Quarrington

I read this sometime in the mid-90's.

Rough Music by Patrick Gale

Rough Justice by David Heilbroner

This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart--read May 12 2008

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman; one of my favorite Alice Hoffman books

Magic by the Lake by Edward Eager.

Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Landvik; read a few years ago

The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of An African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley. Read in February 2009.

A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring '20s, by Roger Kahn (read 13 Aug 2000)

The Fire From Within by Carlos Castaneda (perhaps the first of the series that is pure undiluted explanation rather than mind-blowing narrative)

Chung Kuo: The Stone Within by David Wingrove. Book 4 of an alternate history series. The last time I read this was about 2 years ago.

The Rolling Stone Interviews by Jann S. Wenner

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper (TBR)

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese; read last month

The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields; read in the 1990s.

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Guevara

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig - read it more years ago than I care to remember!

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones edited by Paul Reps - a lovely little book, full of lightly deep stories

Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva

The Secret of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks

American Indian Myths and Legends by Richard Erdoes

The American Civil War by Winston S Churchill read three years ago on a coast to coast road trip.

Life Goes To War: A Picture history of World War II by David G. Scherman. A pictorial book showing both the war at home in America and at the front. Great pictures from Life Magazine.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin; read a couple of months ago

The Human Stain by Philip Roth read some time back.

Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre - read for a class in Philosophy about 30 years ago.

Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race by Bob Fenster. One of my favorite books...

Bowing to Necessities: A History of Manners in America, 1620-1860 by C. Dallet Hemphill

Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides; in which are contained observations on the antiquities, language, genius, and manners of the Highlanders of Scotland by Donald M'Nicol

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

This Night's Foul Work by Fred Vargas. One of my many, many TBR's.

The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family by Jon Katz; read several years ago

Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher - an entertaining read but not a happy one.

Good Night Moon only just read every single night when my 3 children were youngsters and now to the grandchildren when they stay.

Gardens of the Moon the first book in the Malazan series by Steven Erikson. It's in my TBR pile.

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