Bout of Books - Challenges - Smiling Shelves

Bout of Books - Challenges

8/19/2014

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Book Spine Poetry

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The elegant universe
Burning bright,
Eating my words
Drenched in light.

Create a Sentence

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This was harder than I thought it would be! Here's my sentence:

He spoke on a still green January.

These are the books I used (I just pulled some off my giant stack of library books):
- Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
- Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
- Jerusalem Vigil by Bodie & Brock Thoene
- One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson
- The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book Chain

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This challenge was also harder than I expected! I came up with a lot of matching pairs and a few groups of three, but it was hard to find four in a row. And then I just had to keep scouring my shelves to see if I could possibly find a fifth to add to the list!

Dreaming in Code by Scott Rosenberg
The Code Book by Simon Singh
The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Spell It Out

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I've spelled out my name before for a previous read-a-thon's challenge, so I decided to do my blog name. This was actually easier than I thought. I guess when you own as many books as I do, you can find just about any letter you need. . .

The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer

Symphony by Jude Morgan
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Very Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
A Splendor of Letters by Nicholas Basbanes

4 Comments

Nobody@TheStoryGoes... link

8/21/2014 07:16:06 pm

Your poem is definitely better than mine! I too found the sentence challenge to be a bit difficult, I think it's been the hardest one so far! =)

Julie @ Smiling Shelves link

8/23/2014 03:00:06 am

The fact that my poem rhymes was totally coincidental. I didn't even realize it until after I had pulled all the books off the shelf. :) These are challenges are definitely challenging, but they're a lot of fun, too. That's what matters!