AlphaBook meme

I was bored the other night, couldn't go on the computer because my eyes have been bothering all week (nothing serious, just annoying), so I invented a meme.

The Rules (for there must always be RULES):

1. Go through the alphabet, and for each letter, think of a book you've read that starts with that letter (A, An, and The do not count).

2. You must write down the FIRST book you think of for any given letter. This may make for some odd choices, but them's the breaks.

3. You must have actually READ the book. (I thought of lots that started with some letters, but I hadn't read them.)

4. If you think of a more impressive-sounding book for a particular letter, but you've already written your first thought down, you CANNOT change to the more impressive-sounding book. As an example, you have to leave "Fifty Famous Fairy Tales" (the Whitman Publishing pink and white one) on the list, even if you come up with fifty more impressive books afterwards.

5. If you can think of a book for X, you win... my lasting admiration (I can't afford real prizes!)

6. You can then tag as many people as you like. The more the merrier.


And now (drumroll, please), my answers to the meme. I've put in authors where I knew them, partly just to prove that some of them are real books.

The Art of the Letter, by Alexandra Stoddard

Bunny Blue (one of my favourite tiny picture books when I was very small)

Clan of the Cave Bear, by Jean Auel

The Dreaming Suburb, by R. F. Delderfield

Elizabeth, the Queen

Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (which I preferred to call Fifty Famous Fairy Fables when I was a child. It seemed right, somehow.)

Gift from the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh (This is a wonderful book!)

Home: a Memoir of my Early Years, by Julie Andrews

If You Could See What I Hear, by Tom Sullivan

Julie, by Catherine Marshall

Karen, by Marie Killilea

A Light in the Window, by Jan Karon

Mister God, This is Anna, by Fynn

New Meanings for Old, by Paul Trudinger (my New Testament prof from Theological College days)

On the Beach, by Nevil Shute

Perelandra, by C. S. Lewis (I need to read this again. I was in the wrong mind-space when I read it over 25 years ago, and it spooked me. I think I'd like it more now.)

Q's Legacy, by Helene Hanff (About Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who, as Helene says, was "all by himself her college education".)

Rabbit Tales in Temiskaming

A Swiftly Tilting Planet, by Madeleine l'Engle

These Happy Golden Years, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Underfoot in Show Business, by Helene Hanff (a delightful read about her years as a struggling playwright in New York)

The Very Fairy Princess, by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton (my current favourite children's picture book. It's a joy!)

Watership Down, by Richard Adams

X

The Young Victoria

A Zoo in My Luggage, by Gerald Durrell (although not my favourite of his books, still definitely a recommended read!)


And I tag Brian Sibley, Anne (in Reno), Cap'n Stephel, Little Miao, Mella (are you around, Mella? Are you okay?) and anyone else who'd like to play!