The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

15.2. Back to school – English class
Homophones are words that are spelled differently and have different meanings, but are pronounced the same. This list should help you get started: Homophones

Two words are not homophones just because they are spelled differently for regional reasons - for instance, color and colour, gray and grey, are different spellings but with the same meaning.

For this task, you may choose either the 1 or the 2 book option. Subtitles may be used, but not series titles or series numbers.

A. Read two books that have homophones of the same words in their titles (including subtitles).
For example, The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World Via Its Worst Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes and Until it's Over (its and it's)

OR

B. Read one book that has homophones of the same word in one title (including subtitle).
For example, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond (our and hour) or The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost: A Memoir of Three Continents, Two Friends, and One Unexpected Adventure (to and two)

Numbers in the title don't work - they must be written as words.

Words incorporated into other words don't work - for example, The Thirteenth Tale and Tailchaser's Song

word pairs (or groups) suggested in help thread:
their/there
too/to/two
time/thyme
maine/main
four/for
no/know

I couldn't find the homophone list from the link.

neither could I - but I already had an idea of what i was going to use

I couldn't find the list either, but I found another site: http://www.homophone.com/

Weird - the link worked before, after reading the comments I tried and got the main website - so I just re-pasted my original info, and it seems to be working now!

Can we use the author's name as one of the homophones? e.g. Night Train to Lisbon and something by India Knight?

SuzieR wrote: "Can we use the author's name as one of the homophones? e.g. Night Train to Lisbon and something by India Knight?"

The homophones need to be in the book titles.

Could I read The Thirteenth Tale and Tailchaser's Song?

Just some suggestions:

two/too
Two for the Dough
Too Good To Be True

time/thyme
A Time to Kill
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme

Maine/main
Maine
The Main Corpse

mstan wrote: "Could I read The Thirteenth Tale and Tailchaser's Song?"

No, the words themselves have to be homophones, so it won't work to have one of the words incorporated into another word.

OK got it. I think I may read Four Ways to Forgiveness (FOUR) and The Word for World is Forest (FOR) then.

Another suggestion:

No One You Know

Christine US wrote: "Just some suggestions:

two/too
Two for the Dough
Too Good To Be True

time/thyme
A Time to Kill
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme

Maine/m..."

Would Too Good To Be True work for B?

Jennifer N. wrote: "Would Too Good To Be True work for B? "

it certainly would

For two/to/too, will the numeric number 2 also work? What about if it's part of a larger number like in Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First?

I would like to know the answer to the previous question too please.

Lori (BNPL) wrote: "I would like to know the answer to the previous question too please."

Rachel Renee wrote: "For two/to/too, will the numeric number 2 also work? What about if it's part of a larger number like in [book:Columbus Was Last: From 200,000 BC to 1492, A Heretical History of Who Was First|15838..."

I am sorry - this slipped right by me - maybe it was all the earthquake/hurricane excitement, LOL!

No, numbers don't work - it has to be a spelled out word.