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1moibibliomaniac
Here Are The Suggested Rules of the Game:
1. Please play on the most recent correct post.
2 Please verify that no one else has posted while you were preparing your post.
3. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.
4. The repeated word in the new title must be other than an article ("a", "an", or "the").
5. 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."
6. 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.
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.
8. If you have read the book it would be informative that you so indicate and tell when you read it, if you can.
9. Try to use Touchstones. Put brackets around the title and double brackets around the author. If Touchstones don't work, try using an html link.
My play:
American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America by William Targ
1. Please play on the most recent correct post.
2 Please verify that no one else has posted while you were preparing your post.
3. The title of the book cited must have one word, at least, which is the same as a word in the previous title.
4. The repeated word in the new title must be other than an article ("a", "an", or "the").
5. 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."
6. 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.
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.
8. If you have read the book it would be informative that you so indicate and tell when you read it, if you can.
9. Try to use Touchstones. Put brackets around the title and double brackets around the author. If Touchstones don't work, try using an html link.
My play:
American West: A Treasury of Stories, Legends, Narratives, Songs and Ballads of Western America by William Targ
2rolandperkins
Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
3janoorani24
Porsche Legends: Inside History of the Epic Cars by Randy Leffingwell - one of my husband's books.
5Boobalack
Lights Out by Jason Starr
6TheoClarke
Would this game be more at home in the Playing Games and Solving Puzzles group? You would be very welcome.
8pkg427
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
10janoorani24
A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman - read in the mid-80s.
11mirrordrum
Paradigms Lost: Images of Man in the Mirror of Science by John L. Casti
haven't read it but it sounds fascinating and i wanted to get involved in the new game.
haven't read it but it sounds fascinating and i wanted to get involved in the new game.
13Schmerguls
The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy translated by Laurence Binyon, La Vita Nuova translated by D. G. Rossetti, Excerpts from the Rhymes and the Latin Prose Works - Edited by Paolo Milano (read 11 Sept 1955)
Sorry to play using such an obvious title--finished reading it on a date not yet infamous
Sorry to play using such an obvious title--finished reading it on a date not yet infamous
15moibibliomaniac
Notice:
We have been invited to join the new group Playing Games and Solving Puzzles( see #6). What is the general consensus? Are you comfortable with the current arrangement or would you rather accept the invitation?
We have been invited to join the new group Playing Games and Solving Puzzles( see #6). What is the general consensus? Are you comfortable with the current arrangement or would you rather accept the invitation?
18mirrordrum
#15 i'm comfortable with the current arrangement as this game is book-related. however, if people could find it more readily under the games and puzzles heading, that would be fine. whatever. :)
19janoorani24
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers by Will Durant.
#15 - I'm also happy with it here, but will move if necessary.
#15 - I'm also happy with it here, but will move if necessary.
20CharlesLamb
Philosophical letters: or, Modest reflections upon some opinions in natural philosophy by the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish
I like it here!
I like it here!
23Boobalack
I also like it here but won't gripe if the majority wishes to change. This is not the first time someone has mentioned changing. #15, since you're the only one who even acknowledged the invitation, maybe you could notify #6 of our decision, whatever it turns out to be.
I have no post for our game. Carry on, please.
I have no post for our game. Carry on, please.
24JamesBoswell
A modest plea both for the caveat, and the author of it. : With some notes upon Mr. James Howell, and his sober inspections. by Roger L'Estrange
This is moibibliomaniac playing as James Boswell. Sometime tomorrow afternoon, I will review all responses concerning the invitation, and notify #6 of what the majority ruled.
This is moibibliomaniac playing as James Boswell. Sometime tomorrow afternoon, I will review all responses concerning the invitation, and notify #6 of what the majority ruled.
25rolandperkins
Works and Lives: the Anthropologist
as Author by Clifford Geertz
as Author by Clifford Geertz
26janoorani24
How Fiction Works by James Wood - in my TBR pile
31PaperbackPirate
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury - read in October
The invitation is nice, but I feel like more people would play if it stayed here (more traffic).
P.S. But if it does move that's fine with me too.
The invitation is nice, but I feel like more people would play if it stayed here (more traffic).
P.S. But if it does move that's fine with me too.
35janoorani24
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - read in about 1980
37Schmerguls
Father Malachy's Miracle A Heavenly Story with an Earthly Meaning, by Bruce Marshall (read 7 Feb 1947)
I hope we stay here I have never had any trouble finding this game, and I play nearly everyday.
I hope we stay here I have never had any trouble finding this game, and I play nearly everyday.
39LynnB
Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci. Read last year, then had to read the other two in the series.....
43DeltaQueen50
Ride The Wind by Lucia St. Clair Robson. Sitting near the top of my TBR's.
45LynnB
The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher. On the TBR shelves.
47LynnB
The Language of Others by Clare Morrall. Read last year.
49PaperbackPirate
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson - read last year
50atiara
American Tragedy. Read most of it but it was too depressing for me.
54janoorani24
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by William P. Young - a TBR book.
57rolandperkins
Babrius and Phaedrus: Fables (in the Loeb Classical Library series)
by Phaedrus* and Babrius
*a Latin author; not to be confused with the friend of a Socrates in the dialogue Phaedrus by Plato
by Phaedrus* and Babrius
*a Latin author; not to be confused with the friend of a Socrates in the dialogue Phaedrus by Plato
65rolandperkins
Landscapes of Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast
by Jullan Tippett
by Jullan Tippett
67Boobalack
The Gold Coast by Nelson DeMille
D-Queen, I love Lucia St. Clair Robson and have all four of her books. At least I think there are only four, as I haven't been able to find another.
D-Queen, I love Lucia St. Clair Robson and have all four of her books. At least I think there are only four, as I haven't been able to find another.
74DeltaQueen50
Not Between Brothers by David Marion Wilkinson. On my TBR shelves.
75CharlesBoyd
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
76Boobalack
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
77janoorani24
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis - another TBR
79PaperbackPirate
The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
80Schmerguls
The Milwaukee Road: Its First Hundred Years, by August Derleth (read 18 Apr 1994)
82moibibliomaniac
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant
83JamesBoswell
A discourse concerning the one altar and the one priesthood insisted on by the ancients in their disputes against schism. : Wherein the ground and solidity of that way of reasoning is explained, as also its applicableness to the case of our modern schismaticks, with particular regard to some late treatises of Mr. Richard Baxter. Being a just account concerning the true nature and principles of schism according to the ancients. by Henry Dodwell
Lots of words to choose from!
Lots of words to choose from!
86jennieg
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
88jennieg
Harriet the Spy by Lousie Fitzhugh
92rolandperkins
Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon
by Andrea di Robilant
by Andrea di Robilant
94tropics
The Future Of Life - Edward O. Wilson
95deep220
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
96rolandperkins
Shirley* Baker and the King of Tonga
by Noel Rutherford
*doesn't matter for the game, but this Shirley was male.
by Noel Rutherford
*doesn't matter for the game, but this Shirley was male.
99Copperskye
The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
102PaperbackPirate
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer - read last year
103deep220
American's Prophet: Moses and the American Story by Bruce Feiler
108janoorani24
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Joffe Numeroff - one of my kids' favorites a few years ago.
109rolandperkins
Devil Take the Hindmost; a history of financial
speculation by Edward Chancellor
speculation by Edward Chancellor
110Schmerguls
The Rise of Benedict XVI The Inside Story of How the Pope Was Elected and Where He Will Take the Catholic Church, by John L. Allen, Jr. (read 14 Oct 2008)
114tropics
The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
118janoorani24
With No One As Witness by Elizabeth George
120jennieg
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
122pkg427
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
123rolandperkins
Fierce Pajamas: an Anthology of Humor Writing
from the New Yorker ed. by David Remnick
from the New Yorker ed. by David Remnick
124Boobalack
Student's Guide for Writing College Papers by Kate L. Turabian
This book got me through English Lit.
Oh, and history and any other course which required papers.
This book got me through English Lit.
Oh, and history and any other course which required papers.
125rolandperkins
The Pogo Papers by Walt Kelley
128tropics
Your Inner Fish - Neil Shubin
130jennieg
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
132janoorani24
I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb - read by my daughter in Dec 09. She gave it four stars.
134rolandperkins
Social Class and Mental Illness
by August deBelmont Hollingshead*
Read this aloud to a blind listener -- retired social worker-- in the late 50s
by August deBelmont Hollingshead*
Read this aloud to a blind listener -- retired social worker-- in the late 50s
136DeltaQueen50
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin. Read in July 2003.
137rolandperkins
The Garden of the Gods by Gerald Durrell
139CharlesLamb
The triumphs of Gods revenge against the crying, and execrable sinne of murther by John Reynolds
The repeated word, "Gods" is spelled exactly as it is spelled in the previous title. Modern editions of this work might spell "Gods" as "God's," but in this 1656 edition of this work, it is spelled as "Gods."
The repeated word, "Gods" is spelled exactly as it is spelled in the previous title. Modern editions of this work might spell "Gods" as "God's," but in this 1656 edition of this work, it is spelled as "Gods."
140rolandperkins
On "Gods vs. "God's" (plural in 138; possessive singular in 139):
Since we've got a Search function that can't get near an apostrophe, I don't think we can hold anyone to including or leaving out the apostrophe even though those two (above) aren't strictly speaking the same word. Because "Search" would spell the possessive the same way as the plural.
Since we've got a Search function that can't get near an apostrophe, I don't think we can hold anyone to including or leaving out the apostrophe even though those two (above) aren't strictly speaking the same word. Because "Search" would spell the possessive the same way as the plural.
141janoorani24
Odds Against by Dick Francis
One of my favorites - features Sid Halley - one of the only heroes (maybe the only one) Dick Francis used more than once.
One of my favorites - features Sid Halley - one of the only heroes (maybe the only one) Dick Francis used more than once.
142Schmerguls
The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds, by Dewey W. Grantham (read 20 Apr 1995)
Re #140: my search engine differentiates between "God's" and "gods". Anyway if both come up in a search the searcher can tell the difference...
Re #140: my search engine differentiates between "God's" and "gods". Anyway if both come up in a search the searcher can tell the difference...
143moibibliomaniac
A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A.
Garner
Re #s 139,140,142: Rule 5 applies.
5. 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."
And "God's" is not the same as "Gods." I played #139 as Charles Lamb because no titles in my own library had words matching any in #138.
Garner
Re #s 139,140,142: Rule 5 applies.
5. 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."
And "God's" is not the same as "Gods." I played #139 as Charles Lamb because no titles in my own library had words matching any in #138.
144janoorani24
Dictionary of 501 German Verbs by Henry Strutz - I never did do well in German, in spite of my dictionaries.
145moibibliomaniac
First steps in German: An elementary grammar and conversational reader, based on Diesterweg, Becker and Otto by M. Th Preu
I still haven't taken my first step in German, but I have the book!
I still haven't taken my first step in German, but I have the book!
149PaperbackPirate
The Greek Myths: Volume 1 by Robert Graves
151Boobalack
Re #138: Gods was meant to be plural, not possessive.
Gods in Alabama
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, highschool quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ha!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Gods in Alabama
There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, highschool quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ha!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
152janoorani24
Off Base: Confessions of a Thief by Rickey Henderson - TBR
154alcottacre
The Face of Deception by Iris Johansen
155Schmerguls
Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face 1812-1861, by Maisie Ward (read 25 Dec 1980)
158janoorani24
Exploring Textile Arts by the Editors of Creative Publishing International
159DonaldandMaryHyde
Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : Including some remarks on grecian and gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written ; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts by Humphrey Repton
Playing on the word "arts."
Playing on the word "arts."
160tropics
The Architecture Of Happiness - Alain de Botton
161jennieg
The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama
162LynnB
The Sad Truth About Happiness by Anne Giardini. A bit disappointing, but perhaps that's appropriate given the title!
164jennieg
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
166jennieg
How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
168Boobalack
Joey Dee Gets Wise: A Novel of Little Italy by Louisa Ermelino
169LynnB
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
173janoorani24
The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies - TBR
174PaperbackPirate
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
175AHS-Wolfy
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg. Read last year.
176moibibliomaniac
The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell
178CharlesBoyd
Angel Unaware by Dale Evans Rogers
Yes, Roy Rogers' wife. It's been forever since I read it (I was a kid and I'm nearly 60 now) so I don't recall all the details, but they had a daughter die at a very early age.
Yes, Roy Rogers' wife. It's been forever since I read it (I was a kid and I'm nearly 60 now) so I don't recall all the details, but they had a daughter die at a very early age.
180janoorani24
Angel and Apostle by Deborah Noyes - TBR
181PaperbackPirate
Bright Angel Time by Martha McPhee
183janoorani24
The Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon - read last year.
184rolandperkins
A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick
185Schmerguls
The Chair of Peter A History of the Papacy, by Frederick Gontard translated from the German by A.J. and E. F. Peeler (read 29 Nov 1965)
187mirrordrum
The Indigo Bunting: A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Vincent Sheean
not sure when i read this. about 20 years ago, iirc.
not sure when i read this. about 20 years ago, iirc.
188janoorani24
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford - TBR
189jennieg
Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
190pkg427
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
191LynnB
Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards
192jennieg
The Children of Men by P. D. James
193AnnieMod
Future Men by Douglas Wilson
194jennieg
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
196jennieg
Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
197LynnB
The Little White Car by Danuta de Rhodes. Chick lit, but good chick lit.
198jennieg
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
200jennieg
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thorton Wilder
202jennieg
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
203mirrordrum
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations by George B. Schaller
read in the 80s. contains interesting gender biases, iirc. that stuff creeps in like original sin. ;)
read in the 80s. contains interesting gender biases, iirc. that stuff creeps in like original sin. ;)
206rolandperkins
Pigs is Pigs, and Other Favorites
by Ellis Prker Butler
by Ellis Prker Butler
208LynnB
The Pork Chop and Other Stories by Lowell Green
209Boobalack
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
211Boobalack
War Stories of the Green Berets: The Viet Nam Experience by Hans Halberstadt
212rolandperkins
How Green was My Valley
by Richard Llewelyn
by Richard Llewelyn
215janoorani24
Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia by James Kaplan - TBR
216PaperbackPirate
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien - read about 5 years ago or so
217mirrordrum
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume Two) by Julia Child
well it's not something i've actually read but i owned it for many years and tried to use it--so i read at it. :)
well it's not something i've actually read but i owned it for many years and tried to use it--so i read at it. :)
218tropics
The Art Of Travel - Alain de Botton
219Boobalack
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
220janoorani24
The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery by Enrique Joven - TBR
227Narilka
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
229janoorani24
The Year My Parents Ruined My Life by Martha Freeman - belongs to one of my kids.
230PaperbackPirate
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle - read last year
231Schmerguls
This is the Year, by Feike Feikema (later: Frederick Manfred} (read 26 June 1948)
232tropics
The Year Of Living Dangerously - C.J. Koch
235SamuelJohnsonLibrary
The Roman historie written by T. Livius of Padua Also, The Breviaries of L. Florus: with a chronologie to the whole history; and the topographie of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physick. To which is now added, A supplement of the second decad of Livy (which was lost.) Lately written in Latine by I. Freinshemius, he now newly translated into Englishby Livy
Playing on the word "lost."
Playing on the word "lost."
237moibibliomaniac
The Letters of Michelangelo by Michelangelo Buonarroti
238JamesBoswell
Lexicon tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish dictionary: : whereunto is adjoined a large nomenclature of the proper terms (in all the four) belonging to several arts and sciences, to recreations, to professions both liberal and mechanick, &c., divided into fiftie two sections : with another volume of the choicest proverbs in all the said toungs, (consisting of divers compleat tomes) and the English translated into the other three ... : more over, there are sundry familiar letters and verses by James Howell
Playing on the word "letters."
Now you have lots of words from this early dictionary (1660) to choose from!
Playing on the word "letters."
Now you have lots of words from this early dictionary (1660) to choose from!
239janoorani24
Dream Sewing Spaces: Design & Organization for Spaces Large and Small by Lynette Ranney Black
playing off of "large"
Have used this book to design and build a Murphy bed that incorporated a cutting table and design wall.
playing off of "large"
Have used this book to design and build a Murphy bed that incorporated a cutting table and design wall.
240PaperbackPirate
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich - from my wishlist
241CharlesBoyd
Open Range by Lauran Paine
242mirrordrum
basin and range by John McPhee
one of those books that's been in my tbr list ever since i read, or tried to read, Assembling California. i do love John McPhee but find him difficult to listen to. tarsome.
one of those books that's been in my tbr list ever since i read, or tried to read, Assembling California. i do love John McPhee but find him difficult to listen to. tarsome.
243janoorani24
The United States and the Pacific Basin: Changing Economic and Security Relationships by Mary Brown Bullock - read in about 1993
245PaperbackPirate
Oh, The Places You Will Go! by Dr. Seuss - read every year to my class
247tropics
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
249Boobalack
We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle
251LynnB
The Retreat by David Bergen. Read last year.
252rolandperkins
Xenophon's Retreat:* Greece, Persia, and the
End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
*A recent wish list item, with me. I doubt that Xenophon would like the "retreat" of the title. His word was Anabasis (The March Up Country); also doubt tht he knew he was in on the end of a "Golden Age".
End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
*A recent wish list item, with me. I doubt that Xenophon would like the "retreat" of the title. His word was Anabasis (The March Up Country); also doubt tht he knew he was in on the end of a "Golden Age".
254rolandperkins
The Hedgehog and the Fox; an essay on Tolstoy's
view of history by Isaiah Berlin
view of history by Isaiah Berlin
255LynnB
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Read last year.
257janoorani24
Women to Reckon With: Untamed Women of the Olympic Wilderness by Gary Peterson - TBR
261Schmerguls
His Family, by Ernest Poole (read 27 Apr 1958) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1918)
The first Pulitzer fiction prize-winner. Anybody else read it?
The first Pulitzer fiction prize-winner. Anybody else read it?
