5.1 - I Did It!

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

5.1 - I Did It!
Read a book that contains the phrase "confession(s) of" in its title or subtitle. The word "confession" can be singular or plural in the phrase, but no other variations are allowed.

The phrase "confession(s) of" must be used - the word "confession" alone is not enough.

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

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[mstan]

Yes! I am going to re-read Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, one of my favourite books. Those who enjoy light YA may want to read the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series by Louise Rennison...

[Katrina]

Here's a few for those who are looking:

[Bea]

Thanks, Kaatrina! I had searched and decided on the book I wanted to try to get and then forgot later what it was! Now I remember... !

[Bea]

Others that I found:

[Janice]

If you are still looking for a book, I highly recommend The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough especially if you enjoy biographical fiction, circus stories, and/or quirky characters. (It also works for 15.7 as it has tigers on the cover.)

[Dee]

i highly recommend Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated - I read it a couple of seasons ago and about died laughing in a few spots

[Katrina]

Also, for those who like the 1001 books you must read before you die, there's one on the list, it's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

[Candiss]

For those wanting to read a classic Japanese author in translation: Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima, which deals with the experience of living as a gay man in post-war Japan.

[Chris]

Janice CA wrote: "If you are still looking for a book, I highly recommend The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough especially if you enjoy biographical fiction, circus stories, and/or quirky characters. (..."

I second the recommendation. It's a very unusual story and it's stuck with me ever since I read it a couple of years ago.

[Dee]

I would recommend Confessions of Madame Psyche by Dorothy Bryant.
It is a very quirky book with a lot of California history in it.

[Nick]

Katrina wrote: "Also, for those who like the 1001 books you must read before you die, there's one on the list, it's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."

It's a 19th century gothic, a precursor to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Not as well written as that, but still pretty good because it's so strange.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Is this book acceptable? Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Is this book acceptable? Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson"

Yes, anything with the phrase "confessions of" that otherwise meets the general SRC requirements, such as number of pages, works just fine.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Sandy wrote: "♥Robin ♥ wrote: "Is this book acceptable? Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas: Further, Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson"

Yes, anything with the phrase "confessions of" that otherwise meets the ..."

Thanks!

[Sarah]

"Confessions of Georgia Nicholson" is the title of the book series. If I read another book from this serie but that does not contain the "confessions of" in its title or subtitle, is it still acceptable?
The "confessions of" will still be there. But as the name of the series.

http://www.goodreads.com/series/41190...

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Sarah wrote: ""Confessions of Georgia Nicholson" is the title of the book series. If I read another book from this serie but that does not contain the "confessions of" in its title or subtitle, is it still accep..."

No, the book title or subtitle must contain the phrase, not the series title.

[Sarah]

Damn. Thank you!

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Sarah wrote: "Damn. Thank you!"

I borrowed my book from the library and it had the subtitle on it. I wonder why some of them have subtitles while others don't.

[Sara ♥]

I think all the books have the subtitles on the cover. If you get the book from the library and it's there, a librarian can add it to the title for you. I'm not sure why these books, in particular, often don't have the subtitle spelled out... (I've noticed that before, as I've read them...) Maybe because it makes the title SUPER DUPER LONG?

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Sara ♥ wrote: "I think all the books have the subtitles on the cover. If you get the book from the library and it's there, a librarian can add it to the title for you. I'm not sure why these books, in particula..."

Please keep in mind that just because something is written on the cover doesn't make it a subtitle. Typically, there's a title, followed by a colon, followed by a subtitle. I don't know what the policy is for librarians to add something as a subtitle, but I did look at a number of the book covers showing in the other editions, and it didn't look as if these were actually subtitles on the cover - there was a title, then somewhere else on the cover the series name.

[Sara ♥]

Yeah, I think it's kind of a gray area... *shrugs*

[Donna Jo]

Years ago in library cataloging class the rule was it didn't matter what was on the cover. You went by what was on the title page. I didn't go on to become a cataloger and I'm retired now, so I don'tknow if the same rules prevail. (I lived through three complete changes of catalging rules from ALA to AACR 2.5 before I said somebody else can do the nitty gritty.)

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

I got curious about this, so looked at the GR librarian manual, which doesn't really deal with this - I couldn't find any information on what is a "subtitle" and when it's okay to change the title of the book to add a ":subtitle." Unfortunately, as we've found in the case of page numbers for ebooks, the fact that someone is a librarian doesn't mean that they have any basis for editing a book description, and so often the GR data is just not reliable or accurate.

One thing I did find as an "acceptable" source was author website and/or publisher website, so I checked those for this series of books - and neither website showed the series information as part of the title/subtitle of the books.

[Robin (Saturndoo)]

Sandy wrote: "I got curious about this, so looked at the GR librarian manual, which doesn't really deal with this - I couldn't find any information on what is a "subtitle" and when it's okay to change the title ..."

This has been interesting on this series of books. One of my libraries has the part of this series with the old covers and the other part with the new covers. The other library I visit has the whole set with the old covers. I bought a couple of the books with the old covers and the title page of the first book says "Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicholson." I am curious and will have to go see what the other books in the series say on the title pages.

[Sara ♥]

Interesting... Well, I won't mess with the titles as they are now, then.

[Nicki]

A few from my shelf that might interest some!