Prompt 37: A book with a color in the title

[Alexis]

I read The White Mouse, by Nancy Wake. She worked with the French Resistance during WWII. It was interesting and when she was telling humorous stories, there was so much life in her story-telling, but when telling the more serious parts of her life, it was hard to hear her voice. Still glad that I read it.

[Luella]

I've settled on The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

Funny I read Yellow Wallpaper years ago and loathed it. Guess I might think of a re-read.

[Julia]

I'm going to read "Red Leaves" by Paullina Simons.

[Gabriella]

Death by black hole and other cosmic quandaries by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

[Malgorzata]

If it wasn't for this challenge, I probably still wouldn't have read White Oleander - and I'm really glad I did! It's a sublime book, beautifully written, reads like poetry. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My other options were Black-Eyed Susans and The Crimson Petal and the White - both are still on my "to read" list.

[Melody]

I just finished Patton Oswalt's memoir Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film. Reading it was like having a conversation with someone that you've almost met several times or passed by, but never really noticed (I've lived in LA for the past 7 years, and frequent many of the locations in the book). It was entertaining and sometimes painfully true in the way that awkwardly echoes within the depths of your soul. Definitely recommend it for any film buff or LA revival theater goer.

And since this is a thread about color titles, did you know that we call movie theaters the silver screen because they used to actually be lined with a coating of real silver? It increased the reflective quality of the screens, enhancing the black and white images projected onto them.

[Michelle]

Went with The Picture of Dorian Gray. SO WEIRD.

My teenage daughter will be reading it for school this year so I'm super glad we can discuss it. (I often read books with her for that purpose.)

[Christophe]

I had severeal ideas for this prompt. I thought of either Purple Hibiscus or Half of a Yellow Sun since I've been told Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is pretty good; but I didn't quite find the time to order them so I decided on The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi, which had been sitting on our shelves for years. Then I sort of pondered on wether black actually was a color; plus I wasn't quite taken by the first page so I put it on the back burner for now.

So I searched our shelves for the Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson - I'd like to have a book of poetry on my list - but didn't find it, probably because we don't own it (I could swear I saw it once though). Doing that I happened upon The Crazy Green of Second Avenue by Erje Aden which had been misplaced on our poetry shelves, on account no doubts of the Frank O'Hara preface.

Red it in one afternoon. Fascinating, both crazy and maddening, frantic little book, it is!