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A Book By Any Other Name…Dark

by Elisa

Welcome to this week’s A Book By Any Other Name. The game works like this: Each week I will choose a word and offer a few titles that I’ve come up with containing that word in the title. Then it’s your turn to come up with book titles containing the same word, without duplication. (I would also like the author, but that is just so I can find the book if I want to read it.)

This week the challenge continues, as we only managed to get to 36 titles last week. If you can get the number of titles containing the weekly word above 45 by Midnight Pacific Time this Friday, (with no more than 10 titles commented per person and not including *my* titles) I will post a poem that I wrote in High School on Saturday. I figure that this is a suitably embarrassing forfeit (you should see some of the terrible poetry I wrote in High School *shiver*) to encourage folks to work together to comment with enough titles. The challenge will remain in effect until I have to post that poem (*eek*), after which I will issue a new challenge. Good Luck! (Oh, and if you manage to come up with more than ten titles, why not get a friend to come and post them for you? The more, the merrier, and it looks great on my stats.)

Today’s Word is: Dark
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I Say:

The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Leroni of Darkover by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell
Dark Tower by Stephen King
The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carmen

You Say: …

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Posted in Monday Book Game on May 28th, 2007

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19 Responses to “A Book By Any Other Name…Dark”

  1. Debbie Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    Darksaber by Kevin Anderson
    Dark Horse (a Christian allegory, I can’t remember the author’s name)
    Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Descent by Lara Parker

  2. Debbie Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 10:36 pm

    And once again, good old Nancy Drew comes through:

    Secret in the Dark
    Tall, Dark and Deadly

  3. Elisa Says:
    May 28th, 2007 at 10:40 pm

    Hi Debbie. Okay, then. We begin with 5 titles.

  4. DaveP Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 7:01 am

    His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
    Into A Dark Realm by Raymond E Feist
    Dark Winter by Andy McNab

  5. Elisa Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    Thanks, DaveP. We are now sitting at 8 titles with three days left to go.

  6. Frances Says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 5:28 pm

    The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
    aaand…
    Dinosaurs Before Dark! (which must have been required reading in grade school…)

  7. Cloudy Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 7:25 am

    The Dark half - Stephen King
    The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon
    Dark Seduction - Brenda Joyce

    Can you tell I like my cheesy horror and sci-fi ;)

  8. Elisa Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 7:36 am

    Hi Frances!! *waves*
    Your two bring us to 10 titles.

    And better yet, Cloudy, your 3 titles bring us to 13. :)

    Thanks!

  9. Dianne Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

    My 5 titles are:
    Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L’Amour
    Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan
    Home Before Dark by Sue Ellen Bridges
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser

  10. Dianne Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    Oops! And number 5 is:
    Lisa, Bright and Dark by John Neufeld

  11. Elisa Says:
    May 31st, 2007 at 1:33 pm

    Hi Mom!
    Your 5 brings us up to 18 titles with about a day and a half left.

    Good Luck Folks!

  12. Debbie Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horrow Writers
    Dark Delicacies II: Fear
    Batman: the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
    Absolute Dark Knight by Frank Miller
    Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

  13. Elisa Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    Hi, Debbie. That brings us to my favorite number…23.

  14. The Vig Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 12:50 pm

    Batman: the Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miler
    Batman: the Dark Knight Archives volume 1
    Batman: the Dark Knight Archives volume 2
    Batman: the Dark Knight Archives volume 3
    Batman: the Dark Knight Archives volume 4
    Batman: the Dark Knight Archives volume 5
    Batman: Dark Victory by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
    Batman: the Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight
    Batman: Collected Legends of the Dark Knight Batman Begins: the Movie and Other Tales of the Dark Knight

  15. Elisa Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    okay, with those 9 titles, The Vig, we are at 32.

  16. Debbie Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    Scott actually has ten. The last two on his list got run together it looks like. Batman Begins: should start a new line.

  17. Rebekah Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 2:25 pm

    Late as usual but with starting my job at the Towne Square Branch this week I am a bit behind on everything:

    Dark Wind- Tony Hillerman

  18. Elisa Says:
    June 1st, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    Okay, with Scott’s extra one and Rebekah’s one that brings us to 34.

  19. Elisa Says:
    June 2nd, 2007 at 7:00 am

    And that’s the final count for this week. Thanks for playing, folks!

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