Monday, 4 November 2024

Spell the Month in Books ~ November

Reviews from the Stacks

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

November: Food or Autumn Decorations on the Cover

I've done challenges with food on the cover before, but - of course - most of them don't help with the spelling of the month November. If you'd still like to see them, here is one:
Top Ten Books with Food on their Covers 

In order to get all the letters, I used books that had food or eating in the name of the title or in the picture on the cover. I also used a German book. I think I am allowed since I read books in many different languages, so I should benefit from that. I always have to think about the time my son was in the Boy Scouts (an English speaking group) and he got a patch for his German and other foreigners got patches for their language. One of the English speaking boys complained and said they had to take a test in order to get a patch like that. The Boy Scout leader said, okay, we can do the whole session in German or Danish, because that's what these boys do all the time, they use a foreign language in order to participate. There were no more words about that.

NOVEMBER
Robertson, Adele Crockett "The Orchard: A Memoir" - 1995
E
Truss, Lynne "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" - 2005
M
Montasser, Thomas "Monsieur Jean und sein Gespür für Glück" [Monsieur Jean and his sense of luck] - 2015
B
McCall Smith, Alexander "Espresso Tales" (44 Scotland Street #2) - 2005

R
Mo, Yan "Red Sorghum. A Novel of China" (Chinese: 红高粱家族 Hóng gāoliang jiāzú) - 1987

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Happy Reading!

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10 comments:

  1. I´ll try this one! thank you for stopping by my blog

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    1. You're welcome, Mrs Calloway. I always enjoy a little Swedish reading and your content is always interesting. Sorry for answering in English, though. My Swedish is not THAT great.

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  2. Awesome! I almost chose Eats, Shoots and Leaves as well!
    Great find for R!
    https://wordsandpeace.com/2024/11/04/spell-the-month-in-books-november-2024/

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    1. It definitely is a great book, Emma. I have to include it at least once a year with all the Rs in the months.

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  3. Blackberry Wine is a favorite book of mine. I should reread that one. :D

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    1. I still have to read some new books by Joanne Harris. But, yes, I liked Blackberry Wine a lot better than Chocolat where I prefer the film over the book.

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  4. Great spelling! I love Bill Bryson and Notes from a Small Island is one of my favorites, which I have read at least twice. Eats, Shoots and Leaves is also a classic :) Well done!

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    1. Definitely also my favourite by him, Jane, it was the first one I read and I lived in the UK at the time. So great. And I was glad I could find so many nice books for this, that's not always the case.

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  5. You have a nice set of books for food and autumn decorations. I love Harris and loved Blackberry Wine, as well as her other books.

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    1. So do I, Lisbeth. Everybody seems to mainly love Chocolat but that is probably my least favourite by her.

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