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21. A book with your favorite color in the title
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Nov 11, 2017 11:38PM
My favourite colour is yellow, for it is bright, bold and makes me feel joyful. My selection for this prompt is The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Having read the synopsis though, it doesn't sound like this novel will be bright or joyful haha nevertheless I look forward to reading this short novel
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LOL NO that is not a bright and joyful book!! I read it in college, and I LOVED it, so I do recommend it. And yes it's short.
Tiffany wrote: "Orange is my favorite color and it is a tricky one. Here's what I'm come up with:Oranges are not the only Fruit
Out of Orange
A Clockwork Orange"
Also my favorite color. Here are some other ones:
Code Orange
Orange Is the New Black
The Orange Girl
Five Quarters of the Orange
Oranges
Out of Orange
My Life in Orange
Tropic of Orange.
You guys, my favorite color is leopard print. Help!
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That's not a color, it's a pattern! pick a color in your favorite leopard print and search for that?
The first 4 books of Ann Cleeves Shetland Island series:Raven Black
White Nights
Red Bones
Blue Lightning
Paula wrote: "You guys, my favorite color is leopard print. Help!"I'm in the "it's a pattern, not a color" camp. But if you're determined to go with it, there's always The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards...
Hmmm...the color purple. or the Lavender Garden by Lucinda Riley sounds good. If all else fails there's my favorite book from childhood: Harold and the Purple Crayon.
Sara wrote: "And if you don't have a favorite color, you can just pick any color!My favorite color is gray/grey. The first book I thought of is a HARD NO - Fifty Shades of Grey. But I have a b..."
Someone may have already suggested this, but there is also Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde. He's one of my favourite authors, he's a bit of a cross between Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams
So what if you have a hard time picking a favorite color!?! Wondering if this books would count? Its about all kinds of colors..Color: A Natural History of the Palette
BlackBlack Beauty by Anna Sewell
Blue
Pastures of the Blue Crane by Hesba Brimsmead
Both can also be used for children's classics you haven't read.
Nadine wrote: "Trina wrote: "My favourite colour is yellow, for it is bright, bold and makes me feel joyful. My selection for this prompt is The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Having..."Haha - yeah, rather disturbing and sad (especially when you learn more about Charlotte Perkins Gilman's life).
I really like the reading Heather Klinke did for the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast: The Yellow Wallpaper
Paula wrote: "You guys, my favorite color is leopard print. Help!"That's not a color lol
Lindi wrote: "I hope the "white is a SHADE not a COLOR" people aren't hangin' around because I'm eyeing White Oleander for this prompt ;)"If it's a crayon in the crayon box, it's a color :)
Sara wrote: "And if you don't have a favorite color, you can just pick any color!My favorite color is gray/grey. The first book I thought of is a HARD NO - Fifty Shades of Grey. But I have a b..."
I agree on your HARD NO. How about The Picture of Dorian Gray or Agnes Grey?
Blue:Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Little Boy Blue by M.J. Arlidge
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Blue by Danielle Steel
Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
Blue Heaven by C.J.Box
Blue Monday by Nicci French
The Blue Zone by Andrew Gross
For those whose favorite color is blue: https://www.ranker.com/list/books-wit.... I'll be reading Carl Sagan's The Pale Blue Dot.
Elizabeth wrote: "HELP!!! I'm looking for "pink""The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Pink
My Life in Pink & Green
Princess in Pink
The Pink Suit
The Man in the Pink Suit
Riding the Pink Line
One Pink Line
The Thin Pink Line
Surrender the Pink
Warning: Haven't read any of these, but it's a place to start!
Sanasai wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "HELP!!! I'm looking for "pink""The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Pink
My Life in Pink & Green
Princess in Pink
[bo..."
This is actually a great start. Thank you so much!
I'm really excited to read Green on Blue which just so happens to have my top two favorite colors in the title! I'm hoping to convince my husband to read it too. He seems interested, which is amazing since he generally doesn't like fiction. But the subject hits close to home for him so I think I can win him over :)
Rachael wrote: "Sara wrote: "And if you don't have a favorite color, you can just pick any color!My favorite color is gray/grey. The first book I thought of is a HARD NO - Fifty Shades of Grey. B..."
you can also read Between Shades of Gray
Rachael wrote: "Sara wrote: "And if you don't have a favorite color, you can just pick any color!My favorite color is gray/grey. The first book I thought of is a HARD NO - Fifty Shades of Grey. B..."
if you have a hard time picking a colour, I highly suggest Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
if there's anyone with good suggestions for the colour white I'd gladly accept them
Јована wrote: "if there's anyone with good suggestions for the colour white I'd gladly accept them"The Woman in White
Tara wrote: "Devil in the white city!"Megan wrote: "Јована wrote: "if there's anyone with good suggestions for the colour white I'd gladly accept them"
The Woman in White"
thank you!
Red NoticeThe Golden Bowl
The Scarlet Letter
Lilac Girls
Raibow's End
My favorite color is Purple.The Color Purple
Purple Hibiscus
Riders of the Purple Sage
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
The Passion of the Purple Plumeria
Purple Cane Road
Јована wrote: "if there's anyone with good suggestions for the colour white I'd gladly accept them"Nights In White Satin
There are a whole heap of books with the same title
Nights in White Satin would also work for the Song title prompt....
My favorite color is pink, and I have heard great things about the book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.
JoAnna wrote: "My favorite color is pink, and I have heard great things about the book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr."Oh, THAT is really great. There are at least 2 more to follow along as Judith grows older.
"Beneath a Scarlet Sky" by Mark Sullivan
Tiffany wrote: "Orange is my favorite color and it is a tricky one. Here's what I'm come up with:Oranges are not the only Fruit
Out of Orange
A Clockwork Orange"
The Orange Girl
If you like old school PI mysteries, John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series all have colors in the Titles: The Deep Blue Goodbye, Nightmare in Pink, A Purple Place for Dying, The Quick Red Fox, Bright Orange for the Shroud, Pale Grey for Guilt, Dress Her in Indigo, The Long Lavender Look, The Turquoise Lament, The Lonely Silver Rain are a few.
I'm stuck between blue (Blue Asylum) and purple (Purple Hibiscus). At least I have options on hand for both.
For lovers of urban fantasy and the color red, the ninth book in Seanan McGuire's October Daye series is A Red-Rose Chain. Granted, this is not a series you can start in the middle of, but I was able to use the first five books in this year's challenge.
I'm using this prompt as an opportunity to read a children's book Pinkalicious. One of my nieces had a birthday party themed after this book a few years back so it must be good!
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"You get what you get and you don't get upset!
... But I got VERY upset."
Nadine wrote: "Pinkalicious is great!!!! (I was not so impressed with the various sequels, though)"You get what you get and you don't get upset!
... But I got VERY upset.""
I didn't realize that quote was from Pinkalicious! We used a variation of that all the time when I worked with the Girl Scouts!!
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Going with Green Mansions by William Henry Hudson for the favorite color green!
Aubrey wrote: "I'm stuck between blue (Blue Asylum) and purple (Purple Hibiscus). At least I have options on hand for both."Blue Asylum was ok. Nothing spectacular but I wouldn't say it was bad either.
Noticed another one on my shelf for the color black:Black Horses for the King
It's been a long time since I read it, but if you like mythology/historical fiction I remember it being a fairly interesting story focusing on King Arthur's blacksmith.
If anyone is into biography and the colour blue, then I would recommend Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
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