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Use The Last Letter of the Previous Posting To Start Your Title (2014) part 36

Dit onderwerp is gemarkeerd als "slapend"—het laatste bericht is van meer dan 90 dagen geleden. Je kan het activeren door een een bericht toe te voegen.

1fyrfly
jul 23, 2014, 8:18 pm

playing off

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

2fyrfly
jul 23, 2014, 8:20 pm

3razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 23, 2014, 10:42 pm

4Schmerguls
Bewerkt: jul 24, 2014, 8:45 am

#2 does not play off Stiff Upper Lip, so I will:

841. Persian Lions, Persian Lambs: An American's Odyssey in Iran, by Curtis Harnack (read 28 Feb 1966)

5razzamajazz
jul 24, 2014, 8:52 am

6fyrfly
jul 24, 2014, 9:13 am

#2 plays off Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

#4 is using a different book and author, sans Jeeves

__________________________

playing off #3

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill

8ThrillerFan
jul 24, 2014, 10:41 am

Since it says last letter of the previous posting and not previous title, I'm going to assume that means I need to take the "E" from the Subtitle, not the "R" from the official title of the previous post.

Electric Jesus Corpse by Carlton Mellick III

9razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 24, 2014, 10:45 am

10fyrfly
jul 24, 2014, 11:43 am

13amanda4242
Bewerkt: jul 24, 2014, 7:15 pm

14razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 24, 2014, 10:45 pm

16razzamajazz
jul 25, 2014, 9:09 am

17Schmerguls
jul 25, 2014, 10:39 am

First of all, my apologies for my stupid error in #4, where I thought "Lip" was the last word.

//S//

3240. The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London (read 5 Sep 1999)

19amanda4242
jul 25, 2014, 3:39 pm

20bookwoman247
jul 25, 2014, 4:54 pm

//E//

The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwabe

23razzamajazz
jul 25, 2014, 10:03 pm

25fyrfly
Bewerkt: jul 26, 2014, 12:20 am

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

26razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 26, 2014, 12:41 am

//A//

All The King's Horses(Semiotexts(e)/Native Agents) by Michele Bernstein

27Boobalack
jul 26, 2014, 1:38 am

Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi

//Schmerguls, your error wasn't stupid, it was just an error. We all make mistakes from time to time. Cheers! :-}//

28razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 26, 2014, 3:01 am

//R//

The Rolling Stones by Robert A Heinlein

Our eyes can "tricked" our vision, we see what we want to see, our brain waves tells us so, it is very common. :-)

29Schmerguls
jul 26, 2014, 8:14 am

//S//

1959. A Stillness Heard Round the World The End of the Great War: November 1918, by Stanley Weintraub (read 24 Nov 1985)

last letter would be deemed to be N

Incidentally, this is a great book--spends all its time telling what a relief the world felt when the Great War ended

30razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 26, 2014, 8:24 am

31amanda4242
jul 26, 2014, 2:04 pm

33razzamajazz
jul 26, 2014, 6:54 pm

34amanda4242
jul 26, 2014, 7:49 pm

35razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 27, 2014, 12:01 am

40razzamajazz
jul 27, 2014, 2:43 am

41Schmerguls
jul 27, 2014, 9:10 am

//S//

4395. Son of the Wilderness The Life of John Muir, by Linnie Marsh Wolfe (read 20 Dec 2007) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1946)

44amanda4242
jul 27, 2014, 7:29 pm

45razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 27, 2014, 10:34 pm

46Schmerguls
jul 28, 2014, 9:14 am

//E//

5167. Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada translated by Michael Hofmann (read 26 May 2014)

48razzamajazz
jul 28, 2014, 9:39 am

49fyrfly
jul 28, 2014, 9:49 am

50razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 28, 2014, 9:56 am

51amanda4242
jul 28, 2014, 12:57 pm

52razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 28, 2014, 11:31 pm

53bookwoman247
jul 29, 2014, 8:18 am

54razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 29, 2014, 8:32 am

//O//

Osaka 1614-1615: The Last Samurai Battle by Stephen Turnbull

56Boobalack
jul 29, 2014, 8:15 pm

57razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 30, 2014, 3:15 am

59DCavin
jul 30, 2014, 2:35 pm

61razzamajazz
Bewerkt: jul 30, 2014, 11:03 pm

//E//

The Escape by K A Applegate

62Schmerguls
jul 31, 2014, 9:28 am

//E//

3655. The Empress of Farewells The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico, by Prince Michael of Greece translated from the French by Vincent Aurora (read 27 Nov 2002)

63bookwoman247
Bewerkt: jul 31, 2014, 9:43 am

64razzamajazz
jul 31, 2014, 10:08 am

65Schmerguls
aug 1, 2014, 10:34 am

//N//

643. A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord (read 16 Mar 1961)

66razzamajazz
aug 1, 2014, 11:33 am

67Boobalack
aug 1, 2014, 9:43 pm

The Yankee from Tennessee
by Noel Bertram Gerson

68razzamajazz
aug 2, 2014, 1:33 am

69Schmerguls
aug 2, 2014, 8:44 am

//E//

2305. Earl K. Long The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics, by Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples (read 14 July 1990)

70razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 2, 2014, 9:48 am

72razzamajazz
aug 4, 2014, 8:26 pm

74razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 4, 2014, 11:11 pm

//S//

Shoot the stars:How to become a celebrity photographer by Brad Elterman

75Schmerguls
aug 5, 2014, 12:35 pm

76overlycriticalelisa
aug 5, 2014, 5:50 pm

78razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 5, 2014, 9:30 pm

79Schmerguls
aug 6, 2014, 12:11 pm

80razzamajazz
aug 6, 2014, 10:38 pm

81Schmerguls
aug 7, 2014, 12:21 pm

//E//

2684. Elizabeth Empress of Russia, by Tamara Talbot Rice (read 18 Dec 1994)

83razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 7, 2014, 10:07 pm

//N//

No Logo: No Space,No Choice,No Jobs by Naomi Klein

84Boobalack
aug 7, 2014, 10:38 pm

85fyrfly
aug 7, 2014, 11:15 pm

86razzamajazz
aug 7, 2014, 11:54 pm

88razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 8, 2014, 3:09 am

89Schmerguls
aug 8, 2014, 10:11 am

//H//

4658. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett (read 7 Jan 2010)

90razzamajazz
aug 8, 2014, 10:32 am

93razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 8, 2014, 10:26 pm

94Schmerguls
aug 9, 2014, 9:31 am

//E//

3161. Evolution And The Sin In Eden: A New Christian Synthesis, by Anthony Zimmerman, S.T.D. (read 17 Feb 1999)

Last letter is S even though I can't get the subtitle blue

95razzamajazz
aug 9, 2014, 9:49 am

97razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 9, 2014, 10:30 pm

98Schmerguls
Bewerkt: aug 10, 2014, 10:58 am

//Y//

5105. The Year Without Summer 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History, by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman (read 26 Dec 2013)

I usually avoid y-ending titles but use this one since I know I have never used it before.

99Boobalack
aug 10, 2014, 6:03 pm

101razzamajazz
aug 10, 2014, 10:14 pm

//C//

Coma by Robin Cook

102fyrfly
aug 10, 2014, 11:58 pm

103razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 11, 2014, 2:57 am

105razzamajazz
aug 11, 2014, 10:11 am

106Schmerguls
aug 11, 2014, 12:17 pm

107fyrfly
aug 11, 2014, 4:07 pm

109razzamajazz
aug 11, 2014, 11:04 pm

111razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 11, 2014, 11:53 pm

112Schmerguls
aug 12, 2014, 11:13 am

1098. The Era of Good Feelings, by George Dangerfield (read 5 Dec 1970) (Pulitzer History prize in 1953) (Bancroft Prize in 1953)

113Boobalack
Bewerkt: aug 13, 2014, 8:02 pm

116razzamajazz
aug 13, 2014, 10:03 pm

117Schmerguls
Bewerkt: aug 14, 2014, 11:00 am

wrong game, Razz.

Playing on #115:

//L//

340. Look Homeward, Angel A Story of the Buried Life, by Thomas Wolfe (read 7 Jun 1948) (Book of the Year)

118razzamajazz
aug 15, 2014, 12:29 am

119fyrfly
aug 15, 2014, 10:20 am

121razzamajazz
aug 16, 2014, 10:52 pm

123razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 16, 2014, 11:57 pm

124fyrfly
Bewerkt: aug 17, 2014, 6:28 am

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

125fyrfly
aug 17, 2014, 6:56 am

#123 is incorrect
playing off #122

The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol

126Schmerguls
aug 17, 2014, 12:05 pm

129razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 17, 2014, 10:10 pm

130Schmerguls
aug 19, 2014, 11:23 am

//S//

473. The Seven Storey Mountain, by Thomas Merton (read 26 Feb 1955)

131fyrfly
aug 19, 2014, 11:39 am

132Boobalack
aug 19, 2014, 7:35 pm

133Schmerguls
Bewerkt: aug 20, 2014, 11:34 am

134fyrfly
aug 22, 2014, 9:56 am

135Schmerguls
Bewerkt: aug 22, 2014, 11:54 am

//A//

995. Asquith: Portrait of a Man and an Era, by Roy Jenkins (read 22 Jan 1969) (Book of the Year)

136Boobalack
Bewerkt: aug 23, 2014, 8:09 pm

138fyrfly
aug 24, 2014, 10:12 am

144fyrfly
aug 27, 2014, 1:11 pm

149RENRIGHT
aug 27, 2014, 10:02 pm

The New Baby

150razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 29, 2014, 12:02 am

The New Baby by Mercer Mayer

Next:

The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

Note: by

1.Bracket once the book's full title. ( with a vertical bracket)
2.Bracket the author's full name. ( with double vertical brackets )

Touchstone will appear and the entry will be in blue color to state that the real book exists.

151RENRIGHT
aug 29, 2014, 12:40 am

152Schmerguls
aug 29, 2014, 11:04 am

Playing on #150, the last correct post:

851. Still Quiet on the Western Front: Fifty Years Later, by Gene Smith (read 13 May 1966)

153RENRIGHT
Bewerkt: aug 29, 2014, 12:59 pm

157razzamajazz
aug 30, 2014, 4:13 am

159razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 30, 2014, 10:10 am

160Schmerguls
aug 30, 2014, 4:07 pm

161razzamajazz
aug 30, 2014, 10:20 pm

163razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 31, 2014, 1:34 am

//E//

The Escape by Katherine Mansfield- a short story

167razzamajazz
Bewerkt: aug 31, 2014, 9:25 am

168Schmerguls
aug 31, 2014, 11:57 am

//T//

1608. The Theses Were Not Posted: Luther Between Reform and Reformation, by Erwin Iserloh English translation by Jared Wicks S.J. (read 28 Dec 1980)

169amanda4242
aug 31, 2014, 1:09 pm

171ahef1963
aug 31, 2014, 11:54 pm

//t//

(The) Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Read in third-year university, so 1983??

172razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 1, 2014, 7:03 am

173Schmerguls
Bewerkt: sep 1, 2014, 10:37 am

//S//

5052. The Sojourn, by Andrew Krivak (read 12 Aug 2013)

175Boobalack
Bewerkt: sep 1, 2014, 8:10 pm

176razzamajazz
sep 1, 2014, 10:00 pm

//L//

Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare,

one of the Bard's romance plays.

177fyrfly
Bewerkt: sep 1, 2014, 10:04 pm

178razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 1, 2014, 10:13 pm

180henkl
sep 2, 2014, 2:17 am

181razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 2, 2014, 8:56 am

183razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 2, 2014, 10:14 am

184henkl
sep 2, 2014, 10:25 am

//D//

Daddyji ; Mamaji by Ved Mehta

185razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 2, 2014, 11:43 am

186Schmerguls
sep 2, 2014, 12:43 pm

//M//

1204. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (read 23 Dec 1972)

188Boobalack
Bewerkt: sep 2, 2014, 6:23 pm

189razzamajazz
sep 2, 2014, 6:55 pm

190RENRIGHT
Bewerkt: sep 3, 2014, 2:14 am

191razzamajazz
sep 3, 2014, 4:00 am

192henkl
Bewerkt: sep 3, 2014, 5:32 am

193razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 3, 2014, 10:13 am

195Schmerguls
sep 3, 2014, 2:04 pm

//H//

3425. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, by Herbert P. Bix (read 26 Mar 2001) (Pulitzer Nonfiction prize for 2001) (National Book Critics Circle biography award for 2000)

197razzamajazz
sep 4, 2014, 2:58 am

199Schmerguls
sep 4, 2014, 11:56 am

//L//

2440. The Last of the Barons by Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) (read 3 Apr 1992)

204razzamajazz
sep 5, 2014, 4:43 am

205Schmerguls
Bewerkt: sep 5, 2014, 7:45 am

//S//

3227. The Special Prisoner, by Jim Lehrer (read 8 Jul 2000)

206RENRIGHT
sep 5, 2014, 8:23 am

207ahef1963
sep 5, 2014, 11:17 am

//e//

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

211fyrfly
sep 5, 2014, 9:33 pm

212RENRIGHT
sep 6, 2014, 12:07 pm

Dog Stories by Dylan Schaffer

215razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 6, 2014, 11:09 pm

//E//

Emma by Jane Austen

216ahef1963
sep 7, 2014, 1:40 am

//A//

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

217RENRIGHT
sep 7, 2014, 2:47 pm

218fyrfly
sep 7, 2014, 5:38 pm

219Schmerguls
sep 7, 2014, 7:01 pm

220razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 7, 2014, 10:08 pm

//S//

The Singapore Grip by J.G.Farrell

224Schmerguls
sep 8, 2014, 11:02 am

//N//

Napoleon The Path to Power by Philip Dwyer (read 29 Nov 2013)

226amanda4242
Bewerkt: sep 8, 2014, 4:52 pm

Dit bericht is door zijn auteur gewist.

230ahef1963
sep 9, 2014, 12:03 pm

231henkl
sep 9, 2014, 2:55 pm

//D//

David Hockney's dog days by David Hockney

232fyrfly
sep 9, 2014, 6:38 pm

235razzamajazz
sep 9, 2014, 10:05 pm

236ahef1963
sep 10, 2014, 12:09 am

//o//

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

237razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 10, 2014, 12:00 pm

238Schmerguls
sep 10, 2014, 1:39 pm

//Y//

1912. The Young Henry Adams, by Ernest Samuels (read 3 Mar 1985)

240razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 12, 2014, 10:20 pm

//N//

Norma Jean , Jumping Bean by Joanna Cole

www.librarything.com/work/345290

242ahef1963
sep 12, 2014, 12:14 am

//e//

(The) Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman

243razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 12, 2014, 9:04 am

//x//

X by Cory Doctorow

www.amazon.it/X-Cory Doctorow/8854116297

244henkl
sep 12, 2014, 9:21 am

//X//

Xantippe by Lambert J. Giebels

245Schmerguls
sep 12, 2014, 12:02 pm

//E//

5030. English Creek, by Ivan Doig (read 4 Jun 2013)

246razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 12, 2014, 12:09 pm

247amanda4242
sep 12, 2014, 8:03 pm

248Boobalack
sep 12, 2014, 8:25 pm

//Norma Jean, Jumping Bean
by Joanna Cole
razzamajazz, methinks you left out a comma in the title. :-}//

Almost Adam
by Petru Popescu

249razzamajazz
sep 12, 2014, 10:42 pm

250Schmerguls
sep 13, 2014, 11:34 am

//E//

4198. An Echo of Heaven, by Kenzaburo Oe Translated by Margaret Mitsutani (read 17 Aug 2006)

251ahef1963
sep 13, 2014, 12:15 pm

//N//

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

252Schmerguls
sep 14, 2014, 10:35 am

//E//

1250. El Escorial, by Mary Cable and the Editors of the Newsweek Book Division (read 3 Nov 1973)

256razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 15, 2014, 9:46 am

258Schmerguls
sep 15, 2014, 1:18 pm

//A//

5022. The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler (read 7 May 2013) (National Book Critics Circle fiction award for 1985)

259razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 15, 2014, 9:28 pm

260fyrfly
sep 15, 2014, 9:46 pm

261razzamajazz
sep 15, 2014, 11:00 pm

262Schmerguls
sep 16, 2014, 1:11 pm

//G//

3188. George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel, by Russel B. Nye (read 28 Apr 1999) (Pulitzer Biography prize for 1945)

264razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 16, 2014, 10:38 pm

266Schmerguls
sep 17, 2014, 11:28 am

//E//

645. The Execution of Private Slovik, by William Bradford Huie (read 19 Mar 1961)

267razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 17, 2014, 11:36 am

271razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 17, 2014, 10:11 pm

272RENRIGHT
sep 18, 2014, 9:53 am

//r//

The Revelation by Beverly Lewis - reading

273razzamajazz
sep 18, 2014, 11:15 am

275ahef1963
sep 18, 2014, 12:21 pm

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

276razzamajazz
sep 18, 2014, 8:16 pm

277Boobalack
sep 18, 2014, 10:00 pm

279ahef1963
Bewerkt: sep 19, 2014, 2:56 am

//L// or possibly //S//

I'm going to use //S// as it's officially the last letter

The Skull Beneath The Skin by P.D. James

282razzamajazz
Bewerkt: sep 19, 2014, 7:42 pm

283RENRIGHT
sep 19, 2014, 9:24 pm

284razzamajazz
sep 19, 2014, 10:01 pm

286razzamajazz
sep 21, 2014, 8:26 am

287fyrfly
sep 21, 2014, 9:43 am

288razzamajazz
sep 21, 2014, 9:48 am

290Glorybe1
sep 21, 2014, 4:27 pm

The Skystone by Jack Whyte

291Schmerguls
sep 21, 2014, 6:37 pm

292razzamajazz
sep 21, 2014, 8:20 pm

> Glorybe1

1. Use a vertical bracket - booktitle

2. Use two vertical brackets - writer's name

The Skystone by Jack Whyte

Touchstones will show the book title/author.

294Schmerguls
sep 22, 2014, 10:18 am

//K//

4550. Kon-Tiki Across the Pacific by Raft, by Thor Heyerdahl translated by F. H. Lyon (read 26 Mar 2009)

297Glorybe1
sep 23, 2014, 7:24 am

(The) Singing Sword by Jack Whyte