The Book Stacks

Welcome to this week’s A Book By Any Other Name!

Before I begin this week, I have an announcement to make. This will be my last week with The Books Stacks. I will have been blogging here a year on Thursday (which is also my birthday) and it now looks like I will be blogging for my library (at some point in the not too distance future.) I expect to cover much of the same sorts of things on that blog. So, in an effort to avoid duplication, and because maintaining four blogs is really difficult for me to do with a full time job, I am turning this blog over to the fabulous JM on Sunday. You may know her from - Fiction Scribe, Write Anyway, and YouTube Digger (and if you don’t, you should stop by and check out her blogs.)

Anyway, I know that she will take good care of my baby. And this is your last week to reach the goal and make me write that poem. I think that JM will continue the game, but I don’t know what her choice for the prize might be. Good luck!

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 (yes, that includes my titles.) I would also like the author, but that is just so I can find the book if I want to read it.

The current challenge: I challenge you all to reach 53 titles containing the weekly word by Midnight Pacific Time this Friday, (with no more than 10 titles commented per person and not including *my* titles in the total.) As we are now in the second series of this game, I offer you a brand new forfeit. If you all get together enough folks and titles to reach the current goal, I will write a poem about that word and post it Saturday. What word will it be? The challenge will remain in effect until I have to post a poem, 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: Rain

I Say:

Rain of Gold by Víctor E. Villaseñor
The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander Mccall Smith
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
The Rainmaker by John Grisham
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer

You Say: …

A Book By Any Other Name, Rain of Gold, Víctor E. Villaseñor, The Right Attitude to Rain, Alexander Mccall Smith, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain, Verna Aardema, The Rainmaker, John Grisham, After the Rain, Norma Fox Mazer