The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

10.3 - 3 X 3
Read a book that has a three word TITLE that consists of a list of exactly three different words that are all the same part of speech: three nouns, three verbs, three pronouns, etc. Dictionary.com will be used to determine a part of speech. Subtitles should be ignored.
Yours Mine Ours
Eat, Pray, Love
Blood Salt Water

OK
These words are a list of the 3 words that are the same parts of speech
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Boy, Snow, Bird
Breath, Eyes, Memory
City, Sister, Silver
Eat Slay Love
Gold Fame Citrus
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Love Hate Envy
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Only Ever Always
Point, Click, Love
Rock Paper Tiger
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing
Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories
Sit! Stay! Speak!: A Novel
Stranger, Father, Beloved
Thin, Rich, Pretty
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (they are shown as a list on the cover with checkboxes)

These don't work

These are not lists of words
Code Name Verity
Ice Like Fire
Half Moon Hill
Jade Dragon Mountain
Candy Corn Murder
Wolf Creek Wife
Toasting Up Trouble
Small Great Things

Faithful, Fit & Fabulous: Get Back to Basics and Transform Your Life - in just 8 Weeks - & counts as a word, not a 3 word title

This help thread is open!

Code Name Verity

Would this work for 3 nouns?

My daughter scoured our overdrive database and found 5 that would work, so I'm sharing those, but I'm seeking approval for the first one.

1. Ice Like Fire
according to dictionary.com the word "like" is also a noun

2. Half Moon Hill

3. Eat Slay Love

4. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

5. Candy Corn Murder

Can I get Wolf Creek Wife approved? They should all be nouns.

Boy, Snow, Bird - all nouns

Bea wrote: "Boy, Snow, Bird - all nouns"

OK

Kathy G. wrote: "Code Name Verity

Would this work for 3 nouns?"

Those may be seen as 3 nouns, but they are not a list of words.

Donna wrote: "My daughter scoured our overdrive database and found 5 that would work, so I'm sharing those, but I'm seeking approval for the first one.

1. Ice Like Fire
according to dictionary.c..."

Eat Slay Love and Zombie Spaceship Wasteland work as a list. The others may be words that can be the same part of speech, but they are not a list of words.

Pamela wrote: "Can I get Wolf Creek Wife approved? They should all be nouns."

They are nouns, but they are not a list of words

Judy wrote: "Would Toasting Up Trouble work? I think they can all be used as verbs. Thanks!"

They may be used as verbs, but they are not a list of words

Would 'Best Served Cold' the fourth book in Joe Abercrombie's First Law World Series work? Thanks for letting me know. New to this. :)
If this doesn't work, could I put down 'Eat, Pray, Love' as my book for the category? Not sure if you can use the examples given in the task threads. Thank you again.

Laure wrote: "Would 'Best Served Cold' the fourth book in Joe Abercrombie's First Law World Series work? Thanks for letting me know. New to this. :)
If this doesn't work, could I put down 'Eat, Pray, Love' as my..."

Best Served Cold They are not a list of words.
You may use any book listed as an example.

I get it now. Thanks

So, if I understand correctly, Snow, Glass, Apples would work?

Brooke wrote: "So, if I understand correctly, Snow, Glass, Apples would work?"

It would if it was not 25 pages.

Would Only Ever Always work? They are all adverbs and don't make much sense together except as a list.

I think I understand this now. Do symbols count in the word count? The books on my list that come close to fitting all throw an "and" before the last item in the list. Faithful, Fit & Fabulous: Get Back to Basics and Transform Your Life - in just 8 Weeks is the closest I've found so far. Does the & count?

Thanks! This task is harder than it appears.

Dlmrose wrote: "Laure wrote: "Would 'Best Served Cold' the fourth book in Joe Abercrombie's First Law World Series work? Thanks for letting me know. New to this. :)
If this doesn't work, could I put down 'Eat, Pra..."

Thanks, I'll go with the second option then.

Ok, take two: would Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories work? Or does the ": Stories" take it out of the running?

Coralie wrote: "Would Only Ever Always work? They are all adverbs and don't make much sense together except as a list."

Yes, that works

Pamela wrote: "I think I understand this now. Do symbols count in the word count? The books on my list that come close to fitting all throw an "and" before the last item in the list. [book:Faithful, Fit & Fabulou..."

The & must be considered. It is not a 3 word title.

Brooke wrote: "Ok, take two: would Single, Carefree, Mellow: Stories work? Or does the ": Stories" take it out of the running?"

Yes, that works. Stories is the subtitle.

A perusal of the 1853 books on my to-read shelf turned up 3 possibilities. Do any of these work? Thanks!

Small Great Things - they can all be used as nouns

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing - all verbs

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - all nouns

Does this work?

Sit! Stay! Speak!: A Novel

Thank you.

What about a repetitive title?
Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls

Lisa wrote: "A perusal of the 1853 books on my to-read shelf turned up 3 possibilities. Do any of these work? Thanks!

Small Great Things - they can all be used as nouns

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Small Great Things - are all nouns but it isn't a list

These work
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Kim wrote: "Does this work?

Sit! Stay! Speak!: A Novel

Thank you."

That's a list, OK

Deborah wrote: "What about a repetitive title?
Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls"

They should be different words, I'll make the note.

Can i verify Happily Ever After works. Happily and Ever are adverbs and After becomes an adverb if used to mean "afterward" as per dictionary.com (which gives the phrase as an example).

Nicola wrote: "Can i verify Happily Ever After works. Happily and Ever are adverbs and After becomes an adverb if used to mean "afterward" as per dictionary.com (which gives the phrase as an examp..."

As you state, it's a phrase, not a list
They may be adverbs but it isn't a list

Dlmrose wrote: "Nicola wrote: "Can i verify Happily Ever After works. Happily and Ever are adverbs and After becomes an adverb if used to mean "afterward" as per dictionary.com (which gives the phr..."

Thanks, i saw you accepted Only Ever Always where Only Ever is an expression and the author treats "Only Ever Always" as a phrase in their author notes and not a random list so thought this may be accepted. Back to the drawing board :)

Will Love Hate Envy work?

They can all be nouns or verbs.

~Michelle~ wrote: "Will Love Hate Envy work?

They can all be nouns or verbs."

That works

Would Stranger, Father, Beloved work? All three words are nouns.

Sandra wrote: "Would Stranger, Father, Beloved work? All three words are nouns."

yes

Sea Glass Sunrise - all nouns

Dee wrote: "Sea Glass Sunrise - all nouns"

Is it a list? or "a sunrise like sea glass"

that's the title of the book - i'm guessing sunrise is like glass on the sea - would be the more drawn out title (based on how I read it)

I found 2 on my to-read list that I wanted to check on.

First is Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung. This seems like it should work, but, I just want to verify.

Second is City Sister Silver by Jáchym Topol. As this was translated from Czech, (and the original Czech title was just Sister) it was a bit difficult to see if this was a list or a phrase, but, from reading a Bookslut review, it seems like it represents sections of the books, so, it feels like a list to me. http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2004_...

Dee wrote: "that's the title of the book - i'm guessing sunrise is like glass on the sea - would be the more drawn out title (based on how I read it)"

The words in the title need to be a list of words.

Terri FL wrote: "I found 2 on my to-read list that I wanted to check on.

First is Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung. This seems like it should work, but, I just want to verif..."

Yes, they work- City, Sister, Silver lists them

Dlmrose wrote: "Dee wrote: "that's the title of the book - i'm guessing sunrise is like glass on the sea - would be the more drawn out title (based on how I read it)"

The words in the title need to be a list of w..."

How does it differ from Eat Prey Love - that isn't a traditional list format - same as the one I asked about...a list implies , or some kind of delineation between words

Dee wrote: "Dlmrose wrote: "Dee wrote: "that's the title of the book - i'm guessing sunrise is like glass on the sea - would be the more drawn out title (based on how I read it)"

The words in the title need t..."

Mange, chasse, aime Jedź, Poluj, Kochaj The punctuation isn't always present.

Here are two that I found

Thin, Rich, Pretty
Breath, Eyes, Memory

Heather(Gibby) wrote: "Here are two that I found

Thin, Rich, Pretty
Breath, Eyes, Memory"

Those work

Here's another that may work - Rock Paper Tiger.

Would Mom & Me & Mom work? Not sure if in this case the & counts as words.... Thanks.