The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

THE ALLURE OF ALLITERATION - Read A Book Whose Title Contains Alliteration - The Title Must Have 2 Or More Words That Begin With Same Letter Back To Back OR With Only A Short Word In Between (i.e. A, And, In, On, The etc.)
Ex. Fatally Flaky Or Handbags and Homicide

If you need suggestions for books to read for this task post a request here.

Some suggestions:

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
The Shivered Sky by Matt Dinniman
The Silver Skull by Mark Chadbourn
Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge
The Ten Thousand by Paul Kearney
Wizard World by Roger Zelazny

Also some Janet Evanovich - Fearless Fourteen and Finger Lickin Fifteen

Picture Perfect by Jodi Piccoult

Pride and Prejudice - Austen
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Sense and Sensibility - Austen
Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Woman in White - Collins
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Wednesday Wars - Gary D. Schmidt
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Nicholas Nickleby - Dickens
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
If Not Now, When? - Primo Levi
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked, and Spewed - Lance Carbuncle
The Water-Method Man - John Irving
Anne of Avonlea - LM Montgomery
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
The Pickwick Papers - Dickens
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
Mary Modern - Camille Deangelis

Will you allow the K/hard C Initial sound combination, as in A different Kind of Cowboy?

Do titles like the following work? I assume yes but since they're the same words figured I'd ask. I have other options as well but wanted to check.

Absalom, Absalom!
Lucia, Lucia

Patricia wrote: "Do titles like the following work? I assume yes but since they're the same words figured I'd ask. I have other options as well but wanted to check.

Absalom, Absalom!
[book:Lucia..."Yes those are fine.

Donna Jo wrote: "Will you allow the K/hard C Initial sound combination, as in A different Kind of Cowboy?


"For the purposes of this task it needs to have the same letter.

I thought for this challenge there couldn't be any other words except and, the, of, etc. So a Tale of Two Cities wouldn't work b/c of Cities??

A few more (some might be duplicates of previous lists):
Chicks in Chainmail
Miad to Match Gest, Deeanne
Six Suspects Swerup, Vikus
Judgement on Janus Norton, Andre
Fatally Flaky Davidson, Diane Mott
Grave Goods Franklin, Ariana
Bedside, Bathtub & Airmchair companion to Jane Austen Adams, Carol J.
Sword & Sorceress edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Love Lies Bleeding Albert, Susan Wittig
Rosemary Remembered Albert, Susan Wittig
The Perfect Poison Quick, Amanda
The Woad to Wuin David, Peter
A Husband's Wicked Ways Feather Jane
Mairelon the Magician Wrede, Patricia C.

Here are some I found on my bookshelves:

Bed & Breakfast by Lois Battle
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo
Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole (6th In Immortals Series)
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Reservation Road by John Burnam Schwartz

Hi Cynthia.

Could you clarify if the examples posted by Cait and Donna Jo are all acceptable? My interpretation of the task was each word of the title had to be part of the alliteration, with the exceptions of words like 'a', 'the' and perhaps 'of'.

Thanks!

I've come across a couple more books that would fit this task:

Playing For Pizza A Novel by John Grisham
Lucy's Launderette by Betsy Burke

I read Lucy's Launderette a few years ago, and I remember it as a fairly enjoyable chick-lit book.

A couple more for the list:

Perfect Poison by Amanda Quick
Picture Perfect by Fern Michaels

I may finally read Pride and Prejudice for this task! Maybe ...

Jennifer wrote: "Hi Cynthia.

Could you clarify if the examples posted by Cait and Donna Jo are all acceptable? My interpretation of the task was each word of the title had to be part of the alliteration, with the ..."

As long as there is two words that begin with the same letter in the title and if there is a word between them it is only (a, the, and etc.) it's ok if there are other words at the beginning or the end so...
Ex.
The Trial - not okay
Sex as a Second Language A Novel - not okay
Don't Look Down - not okay
The Time Traveler's Wife - okay
Burning Bright - okay
Breakfast in Bed - okay

Hi Cynthia:

Would Dark Desires After Dusk be OK or is the word "after" too big for this task?

Thanks!

Cynthia, would The Wake of the Wind A Novel work for this task?

Petra wrote: "Cynthia, would The Wake of the Wind A Novel work for this task? "No because it has more than one word in between the two w words

Krista wrote: "Hi Cynthia:

Would Dark Desires After Dusk be OK or is the word "after" too big for this task?

Thanks!
"Yes because it has dark desires at the front

Okay! Thanks!

Another 2 suggestions -
Stand the Storm by Breena Clarke
July, July by Tim O'Brien

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

How about: Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt?

Deedee wrote: "How about: Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt?"

No because will and world are separated by more than one word and became is too long a word for the two Shakespeares to work.

A great one which I'm going to read is

The Luminous life of Lily Aphrodite!

Hello.

Another recommendation: Smilla's Sense of Snow which is a great book!

Any mystery/crime/Perry Mason fans out there, don't forget Erle Stanley Gardner was fond of alliterations... I have The Case of the Worried Waitress on my shelf but I may not use it for this task.

Case of the Grinning Gorilla
The Case of the Terrified Typist
Some Women Won't Wait
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
Case of the Cautious Coquette

etc...

hi can i just check whether The Hotel New Hampshire would work for this task? I have eliminated it from all others so far and i was hoping to use it for Abigail's task...

Heidi wrote: "hi can i just check whether The Hotel New Hampshire would work for this task? I have eliminated it from all others so far and i was hoping to use it for Abigail's task..."


Heidi, if it doesn't work for this task, can you fit it into BJ Rose's task (Snowed in & loving it)? That's a great catch-all task.

Heidi wrote: "hi can i just check whether The Hotel New Hampshire would work for this task? I have eliminated it from all others so far and i was hoping to use it for Abigail's task..."

No it would not work for this task.

Is this book ok? Tartan Tragedy aka The Wild Island

The copy I owned has only 'Tartan Tragedy' on the front which suits this task perfectly, or so I thought. I just found out that it was renamed.

Really hate when they rename the titles. I almost bought two copies of new GM Ford's novels by mistake.

Cynthia wrote: "Heidi wrote: "hi can i just check whether The Hotel New Hampshire would work for this task? I have eliminated it from all others so far and i was hoping to use it for Abigail's task......"

Thanks Cynthia - that means I can definitely use it for Abigail's task!

Night wrote: "Is this book ok? Tartan Tragedy aka The Wild Island

The copy I owned has only 'Tartan Tragedy' on the front which suits this task perfectly, or so I thought. I just found out tha..."

yes

Cynthia wrote: "Night wrote: "Is this book ok? Tartan Tragedy aka The Wild Island

The copy I owned has only 'Tartan Tragedy' on the front which suits this task perfectly, or so I thought. I just f..."

Thanks!

Would Wide Sargasso Sea be okay for this task?

Petra wrote: "Would Wide Sargasso Sea be okay for this task? "

Yes

Does Absalom, Absalom! work or do the two words need to be distinct?

Cynthia, would Beside a Burning Sea be okay for this task?