straight up nonsense: part the second

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

a patty post from the old files. not sure if we have enough active people to play this, but thought i'd dig it up and give it a try! if not, then i'll just look stupid. can you tell i'm missing this group? :)

title game

"Stole this from another group. Let's try a game. We start with the title of a book (or play, poem, short story) and author. Next person must use a title that has a word from the previous title. And, the, but, an, etc. do not count. If you cannot find a title with the word just go with another book by the same author..."

Start with:

willa cather - my antonia

[Shel, ad astra per aspera]

Antonia Saw the Oryx First, by Maria Thomas.

And then, Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood

(if I'm allowed consecutive entries)

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

margaret atwood - the handmaid's tale

[Greg]

A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens

(too easy)

[Christy]

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

richard brautigan - trout fishing in america

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Banks (it's the first thing that popped into my head!)

[Greg]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larson (sp?)

[Neil]

The Rose Tattoo -- Tennesee Williams

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

umberto eco - the name of the rose

[Greg]

Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

[Shel, ad astra per aspera]

The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe (ok. not a novel. but a short story!)

[Christopher, Swanny]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

edgar allan poe - the masque of the red death

[Neil]

Appointment with Death -- Agatha Christie

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

death comes for the archbishop - willa cather

[Neil]

The Archbishop's Ceiling -- Arthur Miller

[Greg]

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

(all right, not a novel...but if Shel can cheat, so can I!)

[Dan, deadpan man]

The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

anna karenina - leo tolstoy

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

[Brian, just a child's imagination]

Once There Was a War - John Steinbeck

[Pavel]

War of the Worlds, Herbert Wells.

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

brave new world - aldous huxley

[Christy]

The World According to Garp - John Irving

[Dan, deadpan man]

A Model World and Other Stories - Michael Chabon

[Pavel]

The Lost World, A. Conan Doyle.

[Neil]

Lost in a Good Book -- Jasper Fforde

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

[Brian, just a child's imagination]

This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

journey to the center of the earth - jules verne

[Maureen, mo-nemclature]

journey to the end of night - celine

[Neil]

Celine - Death on the Installment Plan

[Patty, free birdeaucrat]

Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman

[Martyn]

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

the death of bunny munro: a novel - nick cave

[Maureen, mo-nemclature]

death is a lonely business -- ray bradbury.

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes

[Dan, deadpan man]

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

[Christopher, Swanny]

The Heart of the Matter - Graham Greene

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

[Greg]

The Old Man and the Sea - Papa

[Shel, ad astra per aspera]

For Whom The Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway

(You know, I would love to read a Hemingway with you people one day.)

[Greg]

Shel wrote: "For Whom The Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway

(You know, I would love to read a Hemingway with you people one day.)"

Count me in.

Oh, back to the game:

Ten Indians - Papa (one of my all-time faves)

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

ten little indians - agatha christie

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

[Neil]

Bleak House -- Charles Dickens

[Jennifer, hot tamale]

the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson

[Kerry, flame-haired janeite]

The House on Fortune Street by Margot Livesey