INCOMPLETE
This is my first year to sign up for the popular What's in a Name Challenge, now hosted by Beth Fish Reads. Click the button or the link for more details and to sign up.
Here's How It Works
Between January 1 and December 31, 2012, read one book in each of the following categories:
- A book with a topographical feature (land formation) in the title
- A book with something you'd see in the sky in the title
- A book with a creepy crawly in the title
- A book with a type of house in the title
- A book with something you'd carry in your pocket, purse, or backpack in the title
- A book with a something you'd find on a calendar in the title
My Books
Here are some possibilities from my TBR shelves. Those I finished are in red, with links to reviews (hopefully).
TOPOGRAPHICAL:
- Swan Peak by James Lee Burke (reviewed here)
- Nickel Mountain by John Gardner
SKY:
- The Stars Look Down by A. J. Cronin
- Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
- Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow (reviewed here)
CREEPY CRAWLY:
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
HOUSE:
- Out of the Shelter by David Lodge
- The Gate House by Nelson DeMille
- Home Truths by David Lodge (reviewed here)
CARRIED:
- The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie
- The Black Book by Ian Rankin
- The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (reviewed here)
CALENDAR:
- The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
- A Month of Sundays by John Updike (reviewed here)
Last updated on December 27, 2012. I came close to finishing, but never got around to a Creepy Crawly book.
This is such a fun challenge. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteYou'll really enjoy the Ghost Writer. It's kind of controversial, but it had been picked for the Pulitzer when it came out but the Pulitzer awards board overruled the prize committee and gave it to Norman Mailer's also-amazing The Executioner's Song instead.
ReplyDeleteKathy: Thanks! I think it will be fun.
ReplyDeleteLH: What an interesting literary tidbit! I'm coming late to the Zuckerman Unbound trilogy, having started with the later Zuckerman novels for various reasons. I am really looking forward to Ghost Writer.