What’s In a Name?
On the ninth day of My Twelve Days of Challenges, I’m bookchatting about What’s in a Name Challenge 3?
Like the TwentyTen Challenge, this one has a huge fun quotient because, I think, by its very nature, it’s whimsical. It reminds me of those creative writing exercises you sometimes got in school, when you were given a list of items or events and told to combine them somehow into a story.
If I was to do that with these categories, I’d be eating mushroom soup, in a hammock woven from a vine, strung between two tress in a swamp, day-dreaming about being the princess of England, and composing a song about it between mouthfuls.
A book with a food in the title: Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms
A book with a body of water in the title: Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel
A book with a title (queen, president) in the title: Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Little Princess
A book with a plant in the title: Zora Neale Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934) #276
A book with a place name (city, country) in the title: Pat Barker’s Liza’s England
A book with a music term in the title: Andrea Levy’s The Long Song (2010)
I’d thought it would take some time to finish this one (the last one was holding me up), but then my quest to read the Orange Prize longlist offered up Andrea Levy’s title. So I was actually finished in May.
I expect this year’s will take me longer Tempted? Here’s the link to What’s In a Name 4?
The categories are completely different: so much fun!
Is this one of your favourites too?
That’s kinda true, Erin, but it’s also funny how many books naturally suggest themselves; at first glance the categories seem really specialized, but when you go through your TBR list, there are usually far more choices than you would have guessed.
I hope you have fun with it, Melwyk. I thought the gem one would be one of the easier ones, but I have very few gem-ish titles on my own TBR. Maybe Canlit and jewellery don’t naturally mix.
This is one of my favourite challenges! I agree, it is so whimsical, and the reading selections are so varied, that I always have fun with it. I just finished it this week…and am looking forward to joining in on the 4th round as well 🙂
How clever! This challenge must really take some thinking. I think I’d end up just staring at lists of books, trying to figure out which ones would fit!