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.
February: Freebie
I find it harder and harder to choose books that I haven't presented in this challenge, yet. And I cannot promise that here are going to be only books I never chose. I have tried to stick to a theme: Reading/Writing. That can be a book, a letter or a diary. And I even found a book with Y in the original language, so in order not to take the same book for the umpteenth time, I took that!
FEBRUARY
Geraldine Brooks describes how she started writing to many different people from all over the world because she felt so far away from everything. That was the same for me.
E
Truss, Lynne "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" - 2005
A hilarious book for those people who do know the use of the apostrophe (and other parts of the English grammar that seems to be so difficult to learn for some) and see a mistake right away. It's hilarious.
Taylor, Andrew James "Books That Changed the World" - 2008
A list of important books that made a major impact on our present view of the world.
RBythell, Shaun "Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown" - 2022
Another book by Shaun Bythell about his shop and his customers, his clients and his friends. Absolutely hilarious
UA ollection of short stories, in all of them, there is a typewriter, mostly an older one, not an electric one, not a computer, no, one of those nice old mechanical ones.
ASolzhenitsyn, Alexander "August 1914" (RUS: Солженицын, Александр Исаевич/Узел I - «Август Четырнадцатого», Красное колесо/Avgust chetyrnadtsatogo) - 1971
A tale of the First World War - or the Great War as it was called before the Second World War happened - from the Russian side.
RTaschler, Judith W. "Novel without a U" (GE: Roman ohne U) - 2014
I was drawn to this book because of the typewriter on the cover. One story takes place during World War II and afterwards in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp; the other is set in present-day Austria.
In this novel, the protagonist reads a book. And it changes his entire life.
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Happy Reading!
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves is hilarious. :D
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, Lark. Fantastic.
DeleteI definitely want to read Eats, Shoots and Leaves!
ReplyDeleteEleanor has an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter that she specifically asked for when she was 8 or 9. She loves to type.
You definitely should, Sarah. I'm sure you'll love it.
DeleteHow nice that Eleanor has a "real" typewriter. I still have my old one with which I learned how to type at around the age of 10 or so, so almost six decades ago.
We once were in a museum for kids where they had an exhibition about writing. There was an old typewriter that the kids could use but the ribbon had come loose. I just sat down at it and fixed it. The kids stared with great eyes as if I were a little green man from Mars. ;)
That was smart to choose a theme yourself!
ReplyDeleteI have only read your E, and bravo for U, I cheated with a French article on that one:
https://wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/09/spell-the-month-in-books-february-2026/
Well, it was a Freebie after all.
DeleteGood idea for the future if I need another U, like in June or July. ;) Thanks, Emma.
Oh, got creative there with the Y did you? Good for you!
ReplyDeleteHaha, yes, I had to. Emma accused me of cheating (😉) But I might do it again whenever I find a good book for the chain.
DeleteThanks, Davida.