Spell the Month in Books ~ December

 

I found this on one of the blogs I follow, Books are the New Black who found it at One Book More. It was originally created by Reviews from the Stacks, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles.

DECEMBER

Of course, it gets harder and harder. I tried to find books that have only one title that begins with the letters of the month. I was quite successful so far but three Es in December - and I've had a few of those before even though I only started this in August - was getting quite difficult. But I wanted to stay with the one word challenge, so I found three titles with "The" in front of the main letter. I hope that counts.

I will have to come up with another idea for next year, I guess. Maybe some other bloggers have some good ones, who knows?

D
Abarbanell, Stephan "Displaced" (GE: Morgenland) - 2015
This is the story of a young Jewish woman who grew up in Palestine before it was Israel. A young woman who became a member of the resistance, fighting for their own country. But now it is 1946, the war is over and the world is not what it used to be.
 
E
Waltari, Mika "The Egyptian" (SF: Sinuhe Egyptiläinen) - 1945
The author studied ancient cultures and theology and the facts in this book are accurate. He couldn't print war books at the time, so instead he wrote this one which is not only Egyptian history but also everything about the human nature, its goodness and its cruelty.

C
Grass, Günter "Crabwalk" (GE: Im Krebsgang) - 2002
"Günter Grass has been wrestling with Germany's past for decades ..., but no book since The Tin Drum has generated as much excitement as this engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff." The author is not only a Nobel Prize laureate but one of my favourite German authors next to Thomas Mann.

E
James, Henry "The Europeans" - 1878
Whilst Henry James is no American Charles Dickens, he is quite good at describing the difference between the United States of America and Europe at the time. Especially that of the higher part of the society.

M
Brooks, Geraldine "March" - 2006
The protagonist of this story is John March, the father of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Marmee's beloved husband. A lot of his work is told in the background in "Little Women", here we can see the man himself, his ideals, his politics, he was an abolitionist as well as an advocate for women's rights, a dreamer of a better world.

B
Obama, Michelle "Becoming" - 2018
This book was everything I expected it to be. It was smart, witty, funny, warm. It was like the picture I have from the author, her husband, her family, what a loving family they are.

E
Buck, Pearl S. "The Exile" - 1936
Pearl S. Buck grew up mostly in China, the daughter of American missionaries. In her many novels she describes the life of Chinese people past and present. This is a biography of her mother, a missionary and the wife of a missionary, who led most of her adult life in a foreign place, who went through hard times both politically as well as personally.

R
Rutherfurd, Edward "Russka. The Novel of Russia" - 1991
If you haven't read Edward Rutherfurd's various epic historical stories, you definitely should choose one. Start with a region you are interested in. The author always does a lot of research which results in a superb telling of one country's life and history.