Friday, December 10, 2010

What's in a Name Challenge 4


 When I started blogging last year I noticed a lot of reading challenges in which I wanted to participate.  I started out with the best of intentions, but sadly my ambition petered out and I didn't complete any of them.  One of my problems, I think, was that I did not have a plan of action; that is, I should have selected the books ahead of time so that I had a focus. 

  The What's in a Name Challenge, hosted by Beth Fish Reads, is one of the challenges I failed at in 2010, but in 2011 I am going to attempt it again.  And because I have an absurd amount of books on my to-read shelf, I am making (almost) all of my selections for this challenge from them.

  The challenge is fairly straightforward:  between January 1 and December 31, 2011, read one book in each of the following categories:


1.A book with a number in the title: Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris  Completed!

2.A book with jewelry or a gem in the title   Suggestions please?  I have nothing (NOTHING) on my shelf that meets this requirement  Summer at Tiffany -- Completed!

3.A book with a size in the title:  The Whole Five Feet by Christopher R. Beha  Completed!

4.A book with evil in the title:  The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston

5.A book with a life stage in the title:  Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden  Completed!

6.A book with travel or movement in the title: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea

So aside from the jewelry/gem title, I'm set to go! 

Have you read any of these books?  Do you have other recommendations for any of these categories?

5 comments:

  1. How about Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbon, The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott, Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart, Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi, Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume, The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum? These are a few on my book lists. Good luck!

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  2. I've chosen The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields for the jewellery-related book. I was stumped on that one, too :/ Another suggestion is The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl series). Good luck :)

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  3. Carin -- Thank you! I do have Summer at Tiffany on my shelf ...

    Teacher/Learner -- I read The Stone Diaries a few years ago and found it interesting but I think I need to revisit it. (I agree with you that the jewelry category was a stumper!)

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  4. What's in a name? is my favorite challenge. I hope you complete it this year. Just selecting a book to fit any of the categories is a challenge.

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  5. Five Quarters of the Orange is in my top 10 books of all time, Sue! I hope you love it.

    Haven't heard of this challenge before - must check it out.

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