Spring 2012 20.8 - Kate S's task - It's alphabetic

[Liz M]

20.8 - Kate S's task - It's alphabetic
Read a book whose title or author has three consecutive letters in alphabetical order (i.e. fiRST; DEFoe; lAB Coat).

[Kate S]

Some suggestions:

Authors:
Dante Alighieri
Oscar Hijuelos
Simon Vestdijk
Alan Furst
E. M. Forster
Zora Neale Hurston
Alan Hollinghurst
Wendy Wasserstein


Titles:
The First Circle
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
The Worst Hard Time
Doctor Faustus
Nop's Trials

[Liz M]

Options from my to-read lists:

Dante Alighieri
Oscar Hijuelos
Simon Vestdijk
Agamemnon
E. M. Forster
Zora Neale Hurston
Alan Hollinghurst
Wendy Wasserstein
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
The Worst Hard Time
Borstal Boy
The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy: And Other Stories
Doctor Faustus

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Not as many as Kate and Liz, but

Thunderstruck
Alan Furst
I'm Not Scared
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
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[Deedee]

Science fiction writer Jack McDevitt
more later

[Christin]

Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi" in "through his" so it repeats the h but has the appropriate letters around it.

[Rosemary]

Any book with 'and other stories' in the title would be good for this task and would qualify for 10 not-a-novel style points too :-)

I also have:
Author Val McDermid (crime)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

[Kate S]

Christin wrote: "Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi" in "through his..."

Sorry Christin, no variations on this one. The book looks interesting, though. Thanks.

[Christin]

Kate S wrote: "Christin wrote: "Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi..."

Sounds good ^_^ Yeah, it looks like a fun read so I was interested to see if it worked ^_~

[Rebekah]

Lots of words start with def like define, defiance,definition etc..

[Christin]

ooh, good catch!

[Rebekah]

No P lace Like Home
There are piles of books with this title. No anything that starts with "p" works too like No Pain,No People, etc..

[Rebekah]

Can we wrap around when we get to the end of the alphabet?
Ex YZA, ZAB?

[Kate S]

Rebekah wrote: "Can we wrap around when we get to the end of the alphabet?
Ex YZA, ZAB?"

Sorry Rebekah, only A->Z on this one.

[Joanna]

Also Afghanistan

[Rebekah]

Joanna wrote: "Also Afghanistan"

Good one!