Reading with Style discussion

20.8 - Kate S's task - It's alphabetic
Read a book whose title or author has three consecutive letters in alphabetical order (i.e. fiRST; DEFoe; lAB Coat).

Some suggestions:

Authors:
Dante Alighieri
Oscar Hijuelos
Simon Vestdijk
Alan Furst
E. M. Forster
Zora Neale Hurston
Alan Hollinghurst
Wendy Wasserstein


Titles:
The First Circle
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
The Worst Hard Time
Doctor Faustus
Nop's Trials

Options from my to-read lists:

Dante Alighieri
Oscar Hijuelos
Simon Vestdijk
Agamemnon
E. M. Forster
Zora Neale Hurston
Alan Hollinghurst
Wendy Wasserstein
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
The Worst Hard Time
Borstal Boy
The Day I Began My Studies In Philosophy: And Other Stories
Doctor Faustus

Not as many as Kate and Liz, but

Thunderstruck
Alan Furst
I'm Not Scared
Liberty's Blueprint: How Madison and Hamilton Wrote the Federalist, Defined the Constitution, and Made Democracy Safe for the World

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
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Science fiction writer Jack McDevitt
more later

Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi" in "through his" so it repeats the h but has the appropriate letters around it.

Any book with 'and other stories' in the title would be good for this task and would qualify for 10 not-a-novel style points too :-)

I also have:
Author Val McDermid (crime)
The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I Am Not Myself These Days by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Christin wrote: "Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi" in "through his..."

Sorry Christin, no variations on this one. The book looks interesting, though. Thanks.

Kate S wrote: "Christin wrote: "Can the book have the three letters in sequence but one of them repeats? For example: She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror which has "gh hi..."

Sounds good ^_^ Yeah, it looks like a fun read so I was interested to see if it worked ^_~

Lots of words start with def like define, defiance,definition etc..

ooh, good catch!

No P lace Like Home
There are piles of books with this title. No anything that starts with "p" works too like No Pain,No People, etc..

Can we wrap around when we get to the end of the alphabet?
Ex YZA, ZAB?

Rebekah wrote: "Can we wrap around when we get to the end of the alphabet?
Ex YZA, ZAB?"

Sorry Rebekah, only A->Z on this one.

Also Afghanistan

Joanna wrote: "Also Afghanistan"

Good one!