Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

This prompt will make you hunt for punctuation in the title of books. Punctuation can be . , ? ! () ' " : - or other symbols as & that are considered typography as stated in this wiki article.

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Suggestions:
Titles with a Question Mark
Titles with an Exclamation Point
Titles with Parenthesis
Books about punctuation,
some have some in the title

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Optional questions:
- What are you reading for this category?
- Why did you choose this book?

First one that came to mind:
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

I'll probably do a picture book.

I'll be reading:

Duck!


The audiobook has been sitting in my audible library for a while. So it'll be good to finally listen to it.

I was thinking P.S. I Love You or 84, Charing Cross Road. 84, Charing Cross Road also fits the “takes place in a bookstore or library” prompt for the Popsugar challenge so it might be a good chance to kill two birds with one stone.

There are so many books with a colon before a subtitle that I may just use whatever subtitled book I read that doesn't fit any other prompt! But I'm also intrigued by S., which I came across when looking for books with a unique format, so I may slot that here.

I love how Krik? Krak! fits this prompt! I also think the reviews look good for this one.

I tried to find books that had the punctuation in the title itself (not the subtitles), but I had no problem finding 100 different books that I want to read.

I've narrowed it down to:
#GIRLBOSS
Ender's Game
Love, in English
84, Charing Cross Road
Single, Carefree, Mellow
Eat Only When You're Hungry
The Husband's Secret
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Where Am I Now?
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Jacqueline wrote: "I was thinking P.S. I Love You or 84, Charing Cross Road. 84, Charing Cross Road also fits the “takes place in a bookstore or library” prompt for the Popsugar challenge ..."

84, Charing Cross fits so many prompts from this challenge. I feel like I have it under all of the categories! (Unique structure, short read, punctuation, country I've never been to, author with the same initials). I'll definitely be reading it next year, I just don't know which category I will assign it to.

Tracy wrote: "First one that came to mind:
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?"

That’s a good one!!

Might make this one easy and read How the Grinch Stole Christmas! but would like to find one with a question mark too

Emily wrote: "I tried to find books that had the punctuation in the title itself (not the subtitles), but I had no problem finding 100 different books that I want to

I LOVED
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

I have Whose Body? penciled in, with Sing, Unburied, Sing and The City & the City as backups.

I'm considering reading Swamplandia! for this, because it's been sitting on my shelf for so long, but honestly I could probably pick about 100 books from my TBR list and they'd fit, so this'll be an interesting category to fill.

I have a plan of reading S. but if that doesn't happen, I may wait and fill this in later.

Different?...You Have Always Been Different: A personal healing journey, sprinkled with stardust, serendipity and a handful of life changing miracles.

Reading Henrietta Who? by Catherine Aird

This is next in the series so thought I would try to carry on with it.

I am reading Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami. I have never read Murakami and thought a collection of short stories would be a good place to start.

I`ve already read Always and forever, Lara Jean !

I plan on reading S. for this one.

I had a LOT of non-fiction options for this one but in the end decided on The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

I'm reading it this week ahead of my upcoming trip to Stockholm. It'll be nice to get a bit of background before visiting :)

I picked Alex, Approximately for this prompt. It was on my TBR for the 2017 releases and I ended liking it a lot, so I used it for my challenge.

I'm planning to finish Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? today for this topic. I chose this one because I wanted a book with either a question mark or exclamation point.

I really wanted a book with a semicolon in the title since that's my favorite form of punctuation, but I couldn't easily find one.

I was really surprised to discover how MANY books on my TBR have punctuation in the title!!

My top choice is:
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin

I was reading the first book in the series when the author died, and I was so upset at the thought of having no more books to read by her, ever, that I just ... stopped reading her books. I've been "saving" them. But really what I'm doing is preventing myself from enjoying an awesome book, so enough of that, I should read the next book in the series. This is the year!

This was fun! I read The Queen's Poisoner for my week #2

Review posted in the Alphabetized thread :)

Agatha Christie –

Q: What are you reading for this category?
A: Who Moved My Cheese?

Q: Why did you choose this book?
A: My company gave it to all the leaders, so we have to read and argue about it later. They'll base all the training of 2018 in this book.

- What are you reading for this category? As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
- Why did you choose this book? a book club of mine chose it a the next book, this is where it fit

- What are you reading for this category?
I am reading Gold Boy, Emerald Girl by Yiyun Li.
- Why did you choose this book?
I read another collection of her stories (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) for another challenge and really enjoyed her writing style, so I searched out this collection as well (which conveniently fit into this category).

What are you reading for this category?

Why did you choose this book?
I was considering this for a love story for a book club I organize. I decided against it for the book club but decided to read it anyway and it hit a prompt in both of my book challenges so that made me happy.

Finished 1/28/18 #5 of 52

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

I chose this book because I have always loved science and was curious what the answers to the questions would be.

What are you reading for this category?

No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club: Diary of a Sixtieth Year

Why did you choose this book?

I put it on my TBR after it came through the drop at work one time and it sounded cute and it's short.

What are you reading for this category?

I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for this category. (Finished January 19)

Why did you choose this book?

I'd been meaning to get around to the Chronicles of Narnia for a while and I thought it'd be a nice short read

- What are you reading for this category?
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
- Why did you choose this book?
Honestly, I picked this for another prompt on another list and I didn't think it worked very well for that prompt and I read through my list seeing if there was something that fit better. I saw this category and the apostrophe in the title and voila. A match was made!

For this task, I read Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman?. It has a question mark in the subtitle and was a random selection.

I read Hum If You Don’t Know the Words. I wanted to read the book since I'd read good reviews and hadn't read a lot set in South Africa, let alone this time period. I'd already read something else for the "Book set in Africa or South America" prompt and the apostrophe is a punctuation mark so I used it for this prompt.

I read The Husband's Secret for this week. I thought it was well written, a little confusing as it is British and if you do not know how to translate some things (like trolley for shopping cart). Definitely not what I was expecting based on the title.

I read Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward.

Gail W wrote: "I read Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward."

I'm so glad you posted this - I read that and it didn't even occur to me that it had punctuation in the title, but of course it does! I used it for "own voices" but it's good to know I can switch it to "punctuation" if I need to.

Liane Moriarty who wrote The Husbands Secret is actually Australian Kimberley :) but yeah we use English English. I’m actually surprised that they didn’t make her change it for American release.

One blogger I follow from Scotland had to change her book for release in America. She had to change the title from “Why Mummy Drinks” to “Why Mommy Drinks” for starters. Things like jumper are changed to sweater and pants were changed too. Pants in England are underpants whereas pants are trousers in other countries. Trolley would have been changed to shopping cart. JK Rowling had to change Harry Potter too. Sorcerer’s Stone from Philosophers Stone was the most notable change but she had to change other words too. Jumper to sweater, jacket potato to baked potato. There were others too.

Apparently publishers think that Americans might get confused if they are confronted by words they don’t use but the rest of us somehow learn to cope with American terms when we read American books because the change doesn’t work the other way around.

Jacqueline wrote: "Apparently publishers think that Americans might get confused if they are confronted by words they don’t use but the rest of us somehow learn to cope with American terms when we read American books because the change doesn’t work the other way around.

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I'm American and I've never understood that either. I know what a jacket potato and a car park and a jumper are. I know Brits spell aluminum as aluminium. It's not that hard! (Although, for Harry Potter, that was published by a children's publisher, so I can understand why they thought kids might be confused. But grown ups ought to be able to figure it all out!)

The kid thing might float if they did it the other way too. Brits, Aussies and Kiwis (and lets be honest...the rest of the world who speak English and not American because it is different) get the Books written in America just the way they are written with all of the differences left in. We have had to work out what the hell Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are forever. Over here jelly is what you lot call gello/jello and before google and the internet we were wondering why the hell you would put that on sandwiches with peanut butter. Sometimes you’d see it on TV if you were lucky and work it out. It’s jam over here. That’s not all of course as there are many differences but we somehow worked them all out from context so I’m sure American kids could do the same.

Also don’t get me started on chicken sandwich.....

LOL we have jelly, jam, and preserves here - they are all slightly different things! Your jelly is gelatin (aka Jell-O) here, as I'm sure you've figured out. Jelly is just gelled fruit juice, no seeds or fruity bits left in, jam has some fruity bits, and preserves has chunks of fruit left in. Although for "peanut butter and jelly" it could be jelly or jam or preserves, and it's still "peanut butter and jelly," or just "pb&j" :-) Do kids eat that in any other countries or is it a particularly American obsession?

Particularly American I think. Kids who want to play at being more American do try it I think. I never have. Hubby and the eldest are partial to peanut butter but never with jam. And I sometimes like a jam sandwich but without peanut butter. Actually I like my jam with cheese. I eat peanut butter straight out of the bottle with a spoon. The only other way to eat it is in satay or sometimes as peanut butter cups. Yeahhh I discovered them on a trip to the us and get some when I go over there.

Australians seem to favour more savoury things on our sandwiches lol like Vegemite.

And in saying cheese I like proper cheese made with milk products and aged properly not the stuff that is more like plastic or comes out of a can. I read somewhere that 70% of cheese in America doesn’t have any dairy in it whatsoever.

When I was a kid, I remember being able to get PB&J in a jar in Australia (Goober Grape??). I loved it, but no looking back, I’ve always been a sucker for salty/sweet combos. Peanut butter and honey, Vegemite and honey, chocolate & peanut butter. I do think it’s a particularly American obsession though.

Over here (Switzerland) my daughter learned about it from an American friend, and she loves it too, although she only rarely asks for it. She usually asks for Vegemite. 😁 Even though she’s lived here longer than in Australia, she’s still flying the flag!

Yeah I remember when they put the two of them in the one bottle. It was when my kids were younger. Didn’t ever buy it though.

American peanut butter is sweeter than the stuff we get. Actually so is their bread. PB&J is full of sugar.....

I’m glad she’s flying the Vegemite flag. It’s the one thing I crave when I go overseas.

Yeah that Goober Grape stuff was around in the 70s, but we never had it either.

Not all American peanut butter has sugar - the peanut butter I buy is just peanuts and salt. I can't compare the bread, since I've never had Australian bread!

I just finished G.I. Joe the real American hero for this week and rated it 5 stars

- What are you reading for this category? Anya's Ghost
- Why did you choose this book? I just wanted to read it and then I noticed that it could count for this category thanks to the little apostrophe in the title :)