It took me some time to finish all the reviews, but I’m finally done. One challenge down, so many more to go!
What’s in a Name Challenge is hosted at Beth Fish Reads. This years categories are:
- a book with a topographical feature (land formation)
in the title - a book with something you’d see in the sky
in the title - a book with a creepy crawly in the title
- a book with a type of house in the title
- a book with something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title
- a book with something you’d find on a calendar in the title
With my husbands, for fun, we tried to work the complete list with books from just one author, like this:
By Italo Calvino:
- topographical feature (land formation): Invisible Cities (if they are invisible, you’d see the land formation below, right?)
- something you’d see in the sky: The Crow Comes Last
- creepy crawly: The Path to the Spiders’ Nests
- type of house: The Castle of Crossed Destinies
- something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack: Dollars and the Demi-Mondaine (this is my opt-out: it’s only a short story title, not a novel!)
- something you’d find on a calendar: If on a Winter‘s Night a Traveler
By Jules Verne
- topographical feature (land formation): The Mysterious Island
- something you’d see in the sky: From the Earth to the Moon
- creepy crawly: Humbug. The American Way of Life (Cheating? Who, me?)
- type of house: The Steam House
- something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack: Ticket No. “9672″
- something you’d find on a calendar: Around the World in Eighty Days
In the end, I looked at my shelves and I went for the following (with links and a few explanations):
- topographical feature (land formation): Last Night in Twisted River — I know, a river is not a land formation, but if it is twisted there must be hills and mountains to make it so, right?
- something you’d see in the sky: Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
- creepy crawly: Lord of the Flies
- type of house: Bleak House
- something you’d carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack: Odd and the Frost Giants — as in: I always have some odds and ends in my purse…
- something you’d find on a calendar: Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
Best read of this challenge, hands down, is Jessica Day George’s Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow, and if you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you go and get yourself a copy right this moment!
Have you read any of these? Can you suggest another author that would cover all the categories?
Way to go! This challenge is so much fun but I’m not doing very well with it so far. :\
Thanks! You are doing fine, I’m sure you’ll finish it in time — there are six months still to go, right?