Another Silly Game Part 35

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:

For the Love of Books. the Adventures of an Impecunious Collector by Paul Jordan-Smith

The art of courtly love by Andreas Capellanus.

Hymen's præludia, or, Love's master-piece. Being that so much admired romance entituled Cleopatra by Gautier de Costes de La Calprenède

The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce. Bought today so added to the tbr pile.

Bestiary Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford M.S. Bodley 764 by Richard Barber - received sometime in the early 90's as a gift.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - read not that long ago...right before the movie came out.

Bored of the Rings; a parody
by Harvard Lampoon

The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

this is kind of cheating as i never actually finished it. my karate instructor really wanted me to read it and i tried but i've never completed it. i think i tried reading it about 15 years ago when i was still able to practice karate.

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit - read in 2000 to my youngest daughter. It's really good.

It by Stephen King - read a long time ago

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre. Read earlier this month.

*Edit is purely for Touchstones

As the Romans Did: a Sourcebook in Roman Social History by Joann Shelton

U.S. Air Force: A Complete History (Hugh Lauter Levin's Military History) by Dik Daso

The Troubled Air by Irwin Shaw

Fresh air fiend : travel writings, 1985-2000 by Paul Theroux. The author is a neighbor, when he's not at his other house in Hawaii -- or on the road.

Humidity is too low today for touchstones.

The works of Mr. William Shakespear. Adorn'd with cuts, revis'd and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Rowe, esq. by William Shakespeare

My oldest volume of Shakespeare (1709).

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List by Patricia Schultz (touchstones aren't working) - book was a gift in 2001

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Captain's Wife by Douglas Kelley

The Honest Whore : With the Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing wife by Thomas Dekker

Young Man with a Horn by Dorothy Baker

read in the 70's

The Man who was not "With It"
by Herbert Gold

A Man Called Blessed by Ted Dekker

The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling

Called out of Darkness; a Spiritual
Confession by Anne Rice

We Are Called: A History of St. Mary's Parish, Remsen, Iowa, by Rick Roder (read 10 Apr 2006)

#3 by CharlesLamb does not correctly respond to #2 and should have been ignored by #4 AHS-Wolfy, but was not!

We Are Your Sons by Robert Meeropol

#3 by CharlesLamb does not correctly respond to #2 and should have been ignored by #4 AHS-Wolfy, but was not!

mea culpa...

Hail Mary, Full of Grace....

Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie. Read earlier this year.

#29, Perhaps I was playing from the word of in post #2 and being clever and combining with being in post #4. Though I'll be honest and admit that was just a fortunate occurrence.

The Rebellion of the Hanged by B. Traven

Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution by Jeff Shaara

Roots: the Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley

A catalogue of the Burney family correspondence, 1749-1878, by Joyce Hemlow

Gedichte nach den Erstdrucken,
1878 - 1908 / Poems following the first printings, 1878-1908 by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Children of First Man by James Alexander Thom

First Light by Peter Ackroyd

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Caught in the Light by Robert Goddard - I went on a Robert Goddard reading binge in July 2008 and read all of his books I could get a hold of (about six) in about 4 days. Love his mysteries/thrillers.

Desire caught by the Tail
by Pablo Picasso

My edition of it is the original French: Le desir Rattrape par la queue -- an ex-Library copy--a status which made me doubt my original idea that it might be valuable.

Desire: A Play, by Pablo Picasso (read 23 Jan 1952)

The title link goes to the wrong book. I suppose this could be the same book as #40, but the titile of the book I read is as I give it, so the title at least is different.

#30 AHS-Wolfy--you are right. I did not notice that you could have been playing (in #4) to #2, and should have recognized that.

The Desire of Every Living Thing by Don Gillmor

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

I slogged through this last year.

Eater of Souls by Lynda S. Robinson - read a few years ago.

Four Souls by Louise Erdrich

Better Homes and Gardens Four Seasons Gardening: A Month-By-Month Guide to Planning, Planting, and Caring for Your Garden by Ann Reilly Dines - try to follow the guidelines in this, but am a dismal gardener.

Better Read than Dead; a Psychic Eye
Mystery by Victoria Laurie

Well Read and Dead by Catherine O'Connell

Shadow of the Well of Souls
by Jack Chalker

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Shadow of a Dark Queen
by Raymond Feist

Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch by Haywood Smith

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Fever season by Barbara Hambly

The Irrational Season (The Crosswicks Journal, Book 3) by Madeleine L'Engle - in my TBR pile

The Shell Book: Florida, Gulf, and the Caribbean by Sandra Romashko

The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher

The Status Seekers by Vance Packard

The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley

How the Irish Saved Civilization
by Thomas Cahill

The Great Shame: And The Triumph Of The Irish In The English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally

Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance by John Hale - In the TBR pile

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
by Jakob Burkchardt

A Modern Renaissance Library 200 Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Leahy by Michael Knies

See review in Comments section

The Puzzlemaster Presents: 200 Mind-Bending
Challenges by Will Shortz

52 Scrapbooking Challenges by Elsie Flannigan - so good!

Fifty-two Pickup by Elmore Leonard*

*I read this about 40 years ago. Of one of my f favorite authors, Leonard said, "People think
(George V.) Higgins learned from me, but I learned from Higgins."

Challenges by Helen M. Robinson (editor) - my old high school literature anthology, but still a great book. I'm the only one in LibraryThing with this book, so the touchstone doesn't work. I'm also playing off of #69, since #70 is not an exact copy of 52.

I don't have anything to play, sorry. I just checked Amazon, and 52 Pickup is the correct title for the book by Elmore Leonard, not Fifty-two, so number 70 still stands as the most recent post, though it should be

52 Pickup by Elmore Leonard

The Pickup Artist by Terry Bisson

Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist, by Richard Rayner (read 20 Dec 2002)

Re #51 and #52, I think one has to take a title as it is entered, even if the actual title is different. For instance, if "1984" is entered, "nineteen eighty-four" would not correctly respond, I'd think... See Rule 5.

Billy Phelan's greatest game by William Kennedy.

Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman

Billy: The Untold Story of A Young Billy Graham And The Test of Faith That Almost Changed Everything by William Paul McKay

Billy: The Untold Story of A Young Billy Graham And The Test of Faith That Almost Changed Everything by William Paul McKay

Pat Nixon: the Untold Story
by Julie Nixon eisenhower

Rounding the Horn : being the story of williwaws and windjammers, Drake, Darwin, murdered missionaries and naked natives by Dallas Murphy.

Naked Came the Manatee by Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, et. al

Read this and the sequel where diff. authors each wrote diff chapters.

Naked in Death by J.D. Robb

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Màrquez

"1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold" by "France Daigle and Robert Majzels"

Dwight D. Eisenhwer, 1953 - 1961
by Tom Wicker

Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1953 by Luther H. Evans

Year Zero by Jeff Long

Tokyo year zero by David Peace.

Quite A Year for Plums by Bailey White

Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home by Susan Hill - just got this last week - it looks really good.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan

Comfort me with apples by Peter de Vries.

Big Russ and Me by Rim Russert

A Year or so with Edgar by George V. Higgins

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Just above my Head by james Baldwin

Have put this on my Wish List; one of the few novels I would want to own. I read it in the 70s.

How does 94 relate to 93?

My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva

The Judgeʻs Story by Charles Morgan

The Other Side of the Story by Marian Keyes. Read in May of 2006.

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon.....ah for those summer days as a teenager!

The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner

Persons from Porlock, and other interruptions by Vincent Starrett

Persons and Places: the Background of
my Life by George Santayana

Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

Geoffrey Chaucer of England: A masterful recreation of Chaucer's life and art by Marchette Chute.

Life-Records of Chaucer. Part IV: Enrollments and Documents from the Public Record Office, the Town Clerk's Office, Guildhall, London, and Other Sources; Comprising All Known Records Relating to Geoffrey Chaucer by R.E.G. Kirk

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot - read about 15 years ago

Odes to Common Things by Pablo Neruda

The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

that was just so obvious...

Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast

The Edward Said Reader by Edward Said

On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature, by Alfred Kazin (read 28 Sep 1970)

I am ignoring #113 since it does not respond to #112. #94 did not respond to #93 and should have been ignored by #95, but was not. Rule 2 should be reviewed and if followed we would not have these non-responses, might I say?

Five seasons; a baseball companion
by Roger Angell

The Sharpe Companion by Mark Adkin

The Oxford Companion to English Literature
by Margaret Drabble*

*This author is just now being added to my
"Favorites" list.

History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine from its first settlement in 1779, to the present time by William Lapham.

Ford County by John Grisham

A Ford, not a Lincoln by Gerald R. Ford

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

How to form your own corporation without a lawyer for under $50.00 by Ted Nicholas

ETA: We bought this back in the day before dirt -- read it but never formed that corporation. lol

Under the Penitence by Mary Gentle

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

I picked this up for fifty cents at a sale. Very boring reading. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you like long descriptions of everything they ate and of everything they did to restore the old house they bought and of everything…well, you get the picture. Yawn.

edited to correct incorrect speeling spelling.

The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov - favorite author, one of my favorite books.

The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris

The Red Ape; orangutans and human origins
by Jeffrey Schwartz

A Red Death by Walter Mosley

Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn

James Branch Cabell by Carl Van Doren

Dear James by Jon Hassler

James Boswell and his World
by David Daiches

Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Map of Bones by James Rollins

The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
by R.A. Skelton (and others)

Vinland the Good by Nevil Shute

Good Sam: Jesusʻs Story of the Good Samaritan
by Glenda Palmer

Gone for Good by Harlan Coben

Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army by Stephen E. Ambrose

Citizen Hearst by W.A. Swanberg

A survay of London· Conteyning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that city, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Since by the same author increased, with diuers rare notes of antiquity, and published in the yeare, 1603. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. VVith an appendix, contayning in Latine Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen by John Stow

Odds Against by Dick Francis

read during my Dick Francis period in the 80's and 90's.

Against Interpretation
by Susan Sontag

The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth - I've been meaning to read this for years.

The Passover Plot by Hugh Schonfield

Venice preserv'd, or, A plot discover'd : a tragedy : as it is acted at the Duke's theatr by Thomas Otway

theatr is not a misspelling.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

moibibliomaniac playing for Donald and Mary Hyde

Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and Reform, by Elizabeth G. Gleason (read 15 Feb 1995)

A Tract on Monetary Reform
by John Maynard Keynes

The Study of American English, SPE Tract No. XXVII by William A. Craigie

The Race Question and the Negro A Study of the Catholic Doctrine on Interracial Justice, by John LaFarge, S.J. (read 13 Jan 1946)

Epic season: the 1948 American League pennant race by David Kaiser. Certainly the best pennant race of all time.

Rat Race by Dick Francis

another one from my 80's DF period

The Rat on FIre* by George V. Higgins

*Higgins is on my favorites List, but, to me, this is the most disappointing of his crime novels; it is based on the true crime stories of arson cases in Greater Boston in the 1980s.

His most disappointing book overall, I thought, is the non-crime novel A Year or so with Edgar.

The Rat Poems by Peter Meinke

The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
by Pablo Neruda

My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated by Bobby Fisher

End Games; an Aurelio Zen mystery
by Michael Dibdin

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

Augustine came to Kent by Barbara Willard

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century, by John Andrew Rice (read 3 Feb 1979)

One of the very few books I read only because of its title

The salt-box house; eighteenth century life in a New England hill town by James Reuel Smith.

Dutch Decorated Bookbinding In The Eighteenth Century by Jan Storm can Leeuwen

Dutch: a Memoir of Ronald Reagan
by Edmund Morris

The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea by James Brady

The Great War: Walk in Hell
by Harry Turtledove

Hearts of Fire: Great Women of American Lore and Legend by Kemp Battle

The Crossword Obsession: the History and Lore of the Worldʻs most Popular Pastime
by Carol Amende

The Unicorn Sonata by Peter Beagle

Deadly Sonata by Paul Myers

The Case of the Deadly Toy
by Erle Stanley Gardiner

A Shelf In My Book Case by Alexander Smith

I have replicated this shelf of books in my own library. You can read this essay here.

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers

read in the 80's.

The Oppenheimer Case; Security on Trial by Philip M. Stern

Lawrence and Oppenheimer
by Noel Pharr Davis

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird - I know I've used this recently, but have no books with Lawrence in the title and this is the only one with Oppenheimer.

The Defining Moment FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter (read 16 Sep 2006)

Cleopatra's Nose, the Twinkie Defense, and Fifteen Hundred Other Verbal Shortcuts In Popular Parlance by Glanze & Agel

An introduction to geometry. Containing the most useful propositions in Euclid, and other authors. by William Payne

Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities by Marian Keyes

Families are Different by Nina Pellegrini

The Palatine families of Ireland by Henry Z. Jones. Interesting story of how Palatine refugees ended up in Ireland.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee

don't know when i first read it but still dip into it from time to time.

The Famous Druids by Lewis Spence

Read this about 1971; "famous druids" means the folkloric perception of the druids. But it is of some use for a knowledge of the real druids.

Dead Famous by Ben Elton. Read in August of 2008.

Dead Aim by Iris Johansen

The Singing of the Dead by Dana Stabenow - have loved each of her mysteries since first discovering her in 1993.

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English by Geza Vermes

The Scrolls from the Dead Sea
by Edmund Wilson

The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Sea Change: Poems by Jorie Graham

The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.; to which are added, a glossary and the life of the author; embellished with a striking likeness from the collection of His Grace the Duke of Chandos. by William Shakespeare

The First American Edition of Shakespeare's Works. It is surprising that no American edition of Shakespeare's Works was published prior to 1795.

Mr. Oddity: Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
by Charles Norman

The Portable Johnson & Boswell by Louis Kronenberger

Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany
and Switzerland by James Boswell

The impossible friendship; Boswell and Mrs. Thrale by Mary Hyde Eccles

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

amongst my favorite Virginia Woolf books. i suppose i first read it in the 70's and have read it a number of times since, the latest being around the time the hours was made into a movie.

Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder (read Nov or Dec 1943) (Pulitzer Fiction prize for 1928)

The New San Francisco Magazine

The first issue of the New Francisco Magazine, May 1906, published after the earthquake, became known as the Salamander Number. My copy is a reprint.

Historical viewpoints; notable articles from American heritage, the magazine of history by Arthur Garraty.

the Heritage of Persia: the Pre-Islamic History of one of the Worldʻs Great Civilizations
by RIchard Frye

A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium, New Edition by Chris Harman

Duck and Horse in Race to the Stone of Life by Lily Daniels

Race Matters by Cornel West

Abacus now: Footnotes to Indecent pleasures, & observations on fine book printing, book-collecting, & matters personal, Including how to Survive in the Computer Age by William Targ

Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle

A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance by Roger Chartier

Horowitz: His Life and Music by Harold C. Schonberg

Jane Austen: a Llife by Claire tomalin

Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo

More Fun with Dick and Jane by Marc Gallant

Confessions of A Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Just for Fun: the Autobiography of an
Accidental revolutionary by Linus Torvalds

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella - playing off of #221

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel by Gregory Maguire

A Tourist in Africa by Evelyn Waugh

New preface to "The life and confessions of Oscar Wilde by Frank Harris and Lord Alfred Douglas

Playing off of #225, the most recent correct post

Preface to Plato by Eric Havelock

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel

Political Thought from Plato to the Present by Mont Judd Harmon - one of my Poli Sci texts from around 1977. (Playing off of #229 and #230, since I wasn't sure if Boobalack was playing off of "to" in #229 or not.)

English Thought in the Nineteenth Century by D.C. Somervel

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Radical Assimilation in English Jewish History 1656-1945, by Todd M. Endelman (read 3 May 1990)

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe

Great Catchers of the Major Leagues
by Jack Zanger

A treasury of Mark Twain, the wit and wisdom of a great American writer Edited by Edited Lewis & Robeert Myers

Mark Twain Tonight! by Hal Holbrook

The poems of Mark Akenside, M.D by Mark Akenside

Collected Poems of Robert Service by Robert Service - one of my favorite poets - bought book in Dawson City in 1984.

The Collected Essays of Sir William Osler Volume III : The Historical and Biographical Essays edited by John P. Roland and Charles G. McGovern

Droll stories collected from the abbeys of Touraine by Honoré de Balzac

War Stories of the Green Berets: The Viet Nam Experience by Hans Halberstadt

janoorani24, Yes, I was playing off of the word "to." :-)

The Americans, the colonial experience by Daniel Boorstin.

The Wild Colonial Girl (Edna O'Brien)
by the Irish Literary Studies Series

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer - read in November 2008

Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse*

* Bob Fosse: Direcotr; Sweet Charit by Lucy Daniels (writer?), according to Touchstones.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Complete Crumb Comics: the Early Years of Bitter Struggle by Robert Crumb

Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart - one of my husband's books

Disorder and Early Sorrow
by Thomas Mann

Early American Bookbindings from the Collection of Michael Papantonio by Cornell University

My brother's keeper; James Joyce's early years by Stanislaus Joyce.

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
by Langston Hughes

Dream West by David Nevin

West with the Vikings
by Edison Marshall*

*I read as much as I could stand of this in the early 60s. Perhaps 1/3; I must admit I didnʻt give it a fair trial.

West End by Laura Van Wormer

West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco 1915 by Laura Ingalls Wilder

West With the Night by Beryl Markham

Son of the Endless Night by John Farris

Night of Sorrows by Frances Sherwood. Read in 2008.

The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel - in my TBR pile

The Coptic Gnostic Library: a Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices
by James Robinson, ed.

Miss Zukas And The Library Murders by Jo Dereske

A descriptive catalogue of the library of Charles Lamb by The Dibdin Club

Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, by David Donald (read 17 Mar 1968) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1961)

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk

The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations by Eugene Linden

Seeds of Destruction by Thomas Merton

The destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian. : In two parts. by Mr. Crown

Five Roman Emperors: Vespaisan, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan
by Bernard Henderson

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Not my cup of tea, but a friend gave it to me, so I read it.

Independent People by Halldor laxness

A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsyth Hailey

A Woman of Means by Peter Taylor

The Englishemans treasure, or treasor for Englishmen vvith the true anatomye of mans body, compiled by that excellent chirurgion Maister Thomas Vicary Esquier Sergeant Chirurgion to King Henry the 8. to King Edward the 6. to Queene Mary. and to our soueraigne lady Queene Elizabeth. And also cheefe chirurgion to S. Bartholomewes hospitall. Whereunto are annexed many secrets appertaining to chirurgery, with diuers excellent approued remedies for all diseases the which are in man or woman by Thomas Vicary

Black Bartlemyʻs Treasure
by Jeffrey Farnol*

* I read this some time before high school age. Not too good and not too bad, I thought. At a later age I would have said "mediocre" which to many people means "no good" --but not to me.

The Conan Chronicles: People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard

The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks

Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of
Classical Civilization by Martin Bernal

*Finally got hold of vol. 3 at Borders, after having owned v. 1-2 flor years. A favorite.

A Short Guide to Classical Mythology by Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood.

Good for looking up references when they don't pop immediately into your mind...

A Manual of Classical Bibliography, Comprising a Copius Detail of the Various Editions; Commentaries and Works Critical and Illustrative, and Translations Into the English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, ..., of the Greek and Latin Classics by Joseph William Moss

He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behhrendt

Just One Look by Harlan Coben. Read in October, 2005.

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills*

* On my Favorites list. as with several of those authors, I donʻt own a book by him; all the reading has been from libraries.

Power of the Sword by Wilbur Smith

The Terrible Swift Sword by Arthur Steuer*

*I started this, and didnʻt get very far in it (in the 1950s?). By the time I went back to it, it had disappeared from the mainstream.
It is similar in plot to a book by James Jones a few year later: The Pistol, which I have read.
I havenʻt been able to find "Swift sword" (except Cattonʻs non-fiction) or the author Steuer in "Search". (remembering the spealling wrongly?)

The Sword and the Chain by Joel Rosenberg

Irish Chain by Earlene Fowler

Here you go, Roland:
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=6618476&matches=19&wquery=the+te...

I have no entry, so please continue from #292.

A Galic and English dictionary : Containing all the words in the Scotch and Irish dialects of the Celtic, that could be collected from the Voice, and Old Books and MSS. by William Shaw

The Italic Dialects by Robert Seymour Conway

Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic by Jane Stuart-Smith

The Dawn of Slavic; an introduction to
Slavic Philology by Alexander Schenker

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Word Made Flesh by Jack O'Connell from the TBR shelves.

Six Letter Word for Death by Patricia Moyes

The Wise Men Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas (read 8 Dec 1991)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins*

Read in the early 70s; it was the 13th book that he completed, and the first to be published; and the only one(?) to be made into a movie.

Philip Nolan's friends: a story of the change of western empire by Edward Everett Hale.

Friends Like These: My Worldwide Quest to Find My Best Childhood Friends, Knock on Their Doors, and Ask Them to Come Out and Play by Danny Wallace

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A. J. Jacobs - read last year

Ernie Pyle's War; America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin

Henrietta's War by Joyce Dennis

Black Powder War by Naomi Novik. On my TBR shelf.

英文版 黒い雨 = Black Rain by 井伏 鱒二.

The Small Rain: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle - read in about 1987

Small wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver

At large and at small : familiar essays by Anne Fadiman

The Compact Garden: Discovering the Pleasures of Planting in a Small Space by Brian Fawcett. Getting harder and harder not to repeat.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver

Small World by Tabitha King Wife of Stephen King

The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) by Robert Jordan

After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy by Robert Keohane - I remember that, though we didn't have it as assigned reading in any of my classes, we were still required to be familiar with it's contents if we hoped to pass the comprehensive exam for an International Relations degree. I read it quickly in 1993.

Looking After Pigeon by Maud Carol Markson - read this year for Early Reviewers. I really liked it.

Looking backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy. My grandmother's copy.

The 2000 Most Challenging and Obscure Words
By Noel Schur

Obscure Destinies by Willa Cather - in my TBR tower

Destinies: canadian History since Federation
by R. Douglas Francis

In #318: it's contents-- It is contents?

Since Yesterday The Nineteen-Thirties in America, by Frederick Lewis Allen (read 24 Feb 1947)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds by Charles Mackay.

>324 Schmerguls: : So, Schmerguls, I peeked at your profile to see if you belong to the Pedants Group, and discovered you aren't even a member of this group. Are you ashamed to claim us?

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

#324 I apologize for the misuse of an apostrophe in my post. Sometimes I type too fast and hit the send button before checking my spelling. Nice to see that someone actually reads my little comments.

The Celts: The People Who Came Out of the Darkness by Gerhard Herm - read in about 1985

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Elford Cameron

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum

Weird and Wonderful Words by Simon Winchester - one of my favorite browsing books

Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C.C. Bombaugh.

Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson

Troublesome Bible Passages
by Douglas Wingeier

Time Passages, 1940 Yearbook by Robert Burtt

Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

River God: a Novel of Ancient Egypt
by Wilbur Smith

A God in Ruins by Leon Uris

Out of the Ruins by Sally Wright

Love among the Ruins by Walker Percy

Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan. Just read this last month.

Uncle Wiggily's Story Book by Howard R. Garis.

The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit by Werner Holzwarth - from my wishlist

Strongbow: The Story of Richard & Aoife by Morgan Llywelyn

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick - in my TBR pile

Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams

Horowitz: His Life and Music by Harold C. Schonberg

Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter

Anthony Adverse, by Hervey Allen (read 30 Mar 2003)

Don't know about The Pedants, and have not been invited to join.

The Return of Anthony Trent by Wyndham Martyn.

My mistake. This is part of "Book Talk," so everybody's a member.

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman. Read in September.

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien - read before the movie came out

False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King by Louis Auchincloss - read in 1984 - excellent history

Dawn: Cutler Series #1 by V.C. Andrews

The General Danced at Dawn
by George MacDonald Fraser

Wolves of the Dawn by William Sarabande

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

The Wolf King (Legends of the Wolves, Book 3) by Alice Borchardt

LynnB ~ Did you like that book? It was pretty good but a little draggy, IMO.

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

the Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe

Cry Of The Peacock by Gina Barkhordar-Nahai

Thomas Love Peacock by F. Felton

I Love the Illusion: The Life And Career of Agnes Moorehead by Charles Tranberg

Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte

Agnes of God by John Pielmeier

Boobalack, I did like that book. But, it has mostly faded from my memory...it doesn't have the staying power of some books I've read even longer ago and remember in great detail. I was impressed, though, by the way the author seemed to capture Canada even though she has never been here.

In God we trust, all others pay Cash. by Jean Shepherd

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - read after seeing the movie Conspiracy Theory

In a Glass House by Nino Ricci

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl - belongs to my daughter - she loves Roald Dahl books

Great Sky Woman by Steven Barnes

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great War: American Front
by Harry Turtledove

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War by Clive Barker - Another of my daughter's books, which she has been after me to read.

All the Days and Nights; the collected
stories by William Maxwell

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus

Chung Kuo: Marriage of the Living Dark by David Wingrove. 8th and last of the Middle Kingdom series read 3 or 4 years ago.

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

The Nixon Recession Caper*

by Ralph Maloney

*Have read and owned this for some years; have never seen a hardcover of it. Superficialy similar to J.K. Galbraithʻs A Tenured Professor. I donʻt understand the economics of either of them.

The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler - not sure if I've read this or not. I went through a Clive Cussler phase a year or so ago, and they are all a blur.

Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, : the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea, belonging thereunto. With the several dnominations of their coasts, harbors, creeks, rivers, lakes, cities, towns, castles, and villages. Their customs, modes, and manners, languages, religions, and inexhaustible treasure; with their governments and policy, variety of trade and barter, and also of their wonderful plants, beasts, birds, and serpents. by Olfert Dapper

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates - read about 10 years ago. So good.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman - have read parts of it before having to return to library, now have my own copy to finish.

I Am In Urgent Need of Advice by Josephine Lawrence

Perennials for every purpose : choose the plants you need for your conditions, your garden, and your taste by Larry Hodgson. Scratching at the bottom shelf here...

Gardening With Perennials by Horticulture Magazine, editors - useful for my garden

Herb Gundell's Complete Guide to Rocky Mountain Gardening by Herb Gundell

Crooked Mountain by Ron Feldman - from my wishlist

The Sign of the Crooked Arrow
by Franklin W. Dixon

A Flower for Sign, by Louis Stancourt (read 31 Mar 1946)

At the Sign of the Lyre by Austin Dobson

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