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steeljam wrote:Book scorpions patrol piles of old books eating up dust mites and booklice.
I wonder if they can also take care of 303 Bookworms?
Grace Speaker wrote:Caboodle/National Book Tokens are running another 'Guess the Book title' game again to win a year's supply of books:![]()
http://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/
I got to 17/20 quite quickly, but then got stuck and had to go and make a couple of tea to get the old grey matter working. Got there in the end, but have to admit to not having read at least 6 of them in the list
I thought so too, the only one I had a real struggle with was the Gravediggers one. But they're still fun to do . . . maybe an idea for a future DWCon or Drummers quiz . . .?chrisboote wrote:Grace Speaker wrote:Caboodle/National Book Tokens are running another 'Guess the Book title' game again to win a year's supply of books:![]()
http://caboodle.nationalbooktokens.com/
I got to 17/20 quite quickly, but then got stuck and had to go and make a couple of tea to get the old grey matter working. Got there in the end, but have to admit to not having read at least 6 of them in the list
I found this to be the easiest one they've set so far
Only one caused me a lot of headscratching - until I googled for the correct title
Most of the ones that I can think of are from the scribbling of that Shakespeare bloke, unless these titles from Spike Milligan, mayherestinpeace, count?:Pat wrote:Here's a book puzzle for you...
Lot's of books have titles which are quotations/phrases from other books, plays or poems e.g. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" comes from Burns' "To A Mouse" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is from Bacon's Scottish play.
Can you think of longer chains? A book whose title comes from a book whose title comes from another book?
Grace Speaker wrote:Most of the ones that I can think of are from the scribbling of that Shakespeare bloke, unless these titles from Spike Milligan, mayherestinpeace, count?:Pat wrote:Here's a book puzzle for you...
Lot's of books have titles which are quotations/phrases from other books, plays or poems e.g. John Steinbeck's "Of Mice And Men" comes from Burns' "To A Mouse" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" is from Bacon's Scottish play.
Can you think of longer chains? A book whose title comes from a book whose title comes from another book?
Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall
Monty: His Part In My Victory
chrisboote wrote:Stephen King's Dreamcatcher is titled with a direct reference to a chapter in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, which gets its title from the line in Macbeth ("By the pricking of my thumbs ...") which itself took its title from the corruption of the name MacBest* in Boece's Scotorum Historiae**
So will a four-book chain do you?
* Yes, MacBest - the name the German translators gave to Wyrd Sisters
** Coo, O level English Lit finally useful
chrisboote wrote:And Macbeth not in Scotorum Historiae? I was taught that as an article of faith in school
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