Joyce’s Spring Challenge

[Joyce]

The Phrases:
1. springtime - The Disobedient Wife
2. bloom - Home
3. sun shining - Wolf Hall
4. baby animals
5. eggs - The Evening and the Morning
6. tulips - The Shout
7. jellybeans - Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed
8. rainstorm - The Vanishing Half
9. sprout - Alabama Chrome
10. warming - Where Is She?
11. spring break
12. raincoat - The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

How to Fill the Prompts:
1. Phrase contains BOTH letters of the author's name (ignore middle initial)
2. Phrase contains the first letter of the title (ignore or include A, An, and The)
3. Phrase is exemplified on the cover (your interpretation)
4. Phrase is found somewhere in the text (should be exact word)

[Joyce]

Phrase 12 - “he had faith in the impermeability of the sturdy raincoat provided by the Post Office.” The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

[Joyce]

Phrase 10 - “Drinks at waterside establishments are best under the warming sun.” Where Is She?

[Joyce]

Phrase 2 - “A few of her mother’s irises managed to bloom.” Home

Also “Yellow tulips and white lilacs. It was a little past the season for both of them, but they would do.”

“French toast. Oatmeal. Eggs and toast.”

[Joyce]

Phrase 6 - “‘Nah, I hate Dutch food,’ said Matt. “Cheese and tulips. That’s all there is to it.’” The Shout

Also “There was a cup of tea already on the kitchen table. ‘Eggs?’ asked Barbara.

[Joyce]

Phrase 1 - “‘But Nav Ruz in springtime is when we Tajiks celebrate new start.’” The Disobedient Wife

[Joyce]

Phrase 9 - “‘Lark says her mama’n daddy remember an ice storm one spring to rival it, killed every last sprout they’d planted, but never saw a snowstorm like this in all their years farming.’” Alabama Chrome

Also “I won’t remember swampy heat after a rainstorm that didn’t cool nobody,”

[Joyce]

Phrase 5 - “‘All right,’ said Wynstan. ‘As soon as cows lay eggs.’” The Evening and the Morning

[Joyce]

Phrase 7 - “I filled her a glass and she said, ‘Eddie and Charlie and Robert and all of our jellybean menfolk are right in the fourteenth parlour there playing poker for matches on the bed.’”

“He asked in the low flicker of the light from the stove cracks, ‘My, my, where have you jellybeans hidden your lantern?’” - Seeds of Man: An Experience Lived and Dreamed

[Joyce]

Phrase 8 - “But didn’t he shield her with his jacket when they were caught in a rainstorm, leaving himself dripping wet?” - The Vanishing Half

[Joyce]

Phrase 3 - “They are at Lambeth - Audley, himself, the archbishop - the sun shining strongly through the windows.” - Wolf Hall

[Joyce]

Phrase 11 - “Our crack-of-dawn departure on the Saturday morning of the first day of spring break did not occur.” - Dark Waters

[Joyce]

Phrase 4 - “She had never been all that confident around children. They were like unruly baby animals, except they could talk, and they apparently took about eighteen years to be fully trained.” - Springtime at Wildacre