Afternoon all. No doubt some of you are still sleeping off some recent gut-busting feast-related behaviour, so I thought I would make this a fairly gently post out of respect for your continuing processes of digestion. To that end, I thought I would float my current ideas for responding to Beth Fish’s “What’s In A Name” Reading Challenge. Given that the challenge only has six categories, and given that I am perfectly capable of reading at least 25 times that number of books in a year (probably), I have decided that I will attack this challenge twice.
But why, Bruce, why? What benefit could there be in submitting yourself to the same challenge twice? Well frankly, I’m glad you asked. And I’m touched by your concern….thank you dear reader! I have decided to respond to this challenge with a regular, run-of-the-mill, list of books that meet the requirements…..and then repeat this feat with books by or about Agatha Christie!! Brilliant! Long-time readers of this blog will be aware of my Christie fandom, and this seemed like a perfect excuse…ahem….opportunity to get some more Christies under the belt.
So here are my choices (at present) for each category, for my Christie Listie, and my Christie-less List.
Category 1: A book with Up or Down (or its equivalent) in the title
Category 2: A book with something you might find in your kitchen in the title
Category 3: A book with a party or celebration in the title
I should probably point out that while there are other Christie titles that more obviously fit this category, such as Halloween Party and After the Funeral, I have already read them. So I had to be a bit obscure instead (insert evil laugh here).
Category 4: A book with fire or its equivalent in the title
Category 5: A book with an emotion in the title
Annoyingly, Sad Cypress seems to be the only Christie title with an emotion in the title I can find. If anyone can find another, please feel free to let me know – I like to have options!
Category 6: A book with lost or found or its equivalent in the title
I’m being a bit cheeky in this category too: see, if something is archived, it is to allow it to be FOUND easily and prevent it from being LOST…..
Well, if anyone has any suggestions or feedback about these lists feel free to chime in. They aren’t set in stone (heheee, geddit? Gargoyle? Set in stone? Ahh, I crack myself up…..heheeeeeee! geddit? Stone? Crack Up? Ah, excuse me while I wipe the tears of mirth from my eyes….)
Until next time,
Bruce
The Bookshelf Gargoyle 
Agatha who?
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Yes, apparently she’s a new talent on the crime/mystery scene….looks quite promising in my opinion, but I don’t want to commit myself and end up looking silly later.
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Yeah these new people get a big rep but the Butler probably did it or that giant wasp on the front cover of that book. he looks a wrong ‘un.
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