Sunday, December 30, 2012

What's in a Name 2013

I found a reading challenge that I did a few years ago which now has a new host. I'm very excited to accept the challenge thrown down at Beth Fish Reads.

Here are the categories and the books I own with suitable titles:

A book with up or down (or equivalent) in the title:

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

A book with something you'd find in your kitchen in the title:

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel by Aimee Bender

By Bread Alone by Sarah-Kate Lynch

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel

Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel by Joanne Harris

and I have 3 unread Chicken Soup for the Soul books

A book with a party or celebration in the title:

Happy Deathday! by Alfred Hitchcock

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish

A book with fire (or equivalent) in the title:

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

A book with an emotion in the title:

Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan

Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook

Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan

The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall

The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel by Margot Berwin

The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman

A book with lost or found (or equivalent) in the title:

The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser

The Secret of Lost Things by Sheridan Hay

Lost Highways by Curtiss Ann Matlock

Lost Laysen by Margaret Mitchell

Who else wants to join in?!

P.S. I found the awesome library pic at Epic Win FTW.

1 comment:

auntangi said...

I have joined! I added it to my LT profile and picked out one book so far. I need to spend some time looking at my library to see if I have any others that will fit : )