I am a sucker for a bookish challenge, so when Carol shared this one on her blog last month I jumped at the chance to play along.
Our task: Answer the prompts without using the internet or looking at your bookshelves. Your answers have to come from memory!
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Some of these prompts were easy, others were harder. For each prompt, I recorded the first book that popped into my mind and I was surprised by some of my spontaneous answers, a few of which are books I haven’t read in years but came to me more readily than actual favorites or more recent reads (funny how the mind works sometimes). Here’s where I landed with our prompts:
NAME A BOOK BY AN AUTHOR NAMED MICHAEL: The Lincoln Lawyer, by Michael Connelly
I went through a Michael Connelly kick in my pre-blogging days, but it has been some time since I read one of his books. I remember really enjoying both his Lincoln Lawyer and Bosch series.
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NAME A BOOK WITH A DRAGON ON THE COVER: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
This was actually the second book I thought of; the first book that came to mind was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but when I looked up the cover I found that despite having the word “dragon” in the title, the current cover contains zero images of dragons.
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NAME A BOOK BY AN AUTHOR WITH THE SURNAME SMITH: I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
I loved this classic when I discovered it a few years ago. It definitely deserves more acclaim.
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NAME A BOOK SET IN AUSTRALIA: The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
A few of my favorite authors are Australian (among them Jane Harper and Liane Moriarty). This specific title is one I think about all the time.
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NAME A BOOK WITH A MONTH IN THE TITLE: Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt
I know I read this the year I was homeschooled (eighth grade), but unlike most of the books we read that year I remember little of this one beyond the title.
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NAME A BOOK WITH A KNIFE ON THE COVER: The Word is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz
I LOVE this whole series, and the book covers are all so clever.
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NAME A BOOK WITH THE WORD “ONE” IN THE TITLE: The One, by John Marrs
Hard to get more on the mark than this answer.
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NAME A BOOK WITH AN EPONYMOUS TITLE: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
I recently had a conversation about this book with a friend and was shocked to learn how much she hated it. Jane Eyre was one of the best books I read in high school.
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NAME A BOOK TURNED INTO A MOVIE: The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
I think almost every one of my other answers could have fit this prompt as well; it might be harder to name a book that hasn’t been turned into a movie. But I had to go with this classic—which happens to be one of the rare instances where the movie is actually better.
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I don’t do the whole blogger tag thing, but feel free to play along by posting to a blog of your own or simply sharing your answers in the comments!