Saturday, April 9, 2011

Readathon Book Sentence Mini-Challenge!

During my very first Readathon, my favorite mini-challenge was the Book Sentence challenge.  It was missing from the last Readathon, so I offered to host it this time if no one else suggested it as a challenge.

So how does it work?

Take a look at your bookshelves.  Grab a few books and try to make a sentence out of just the titles.  Take a picture and upload to your blog, twitter or facebook.  Leave a link in the comments along with your email address.  One lucky, random  winner will get a $15 gift card from Amazon or Book Depository, so this contest is open to everyone.

Here's some pictures of past book sentences I've done for previous challenges to give you an idea of how the challenge works:
 When she was bad, Scarlett burned Whitehorn Woods

 The idiot girl and the flaming tantrum of death, falling into the dark.

The good fairies of New York loop garden spells into the dark.


Use at least 3 books to make your sentence (but there's no limit of books you can use past that.... as long as it fits in a picture).  The true challenge of this is to use books you have on hand.  Please, only use the book titles themselves, that's what makes the challenge interesting!




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56 comments:

  1. brandileigh2003@yahoo.com

    In my sixteenth summer I had to ask my sister to die for me, she had mercy.

    Sixteenth Summer- Dalton
    Die for Me- Plum
    Mercy- Lim

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  2. I love this idea and I'm so happy you resurrected it, but I'm sleepy and low on coffee. Next fall?

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  3. Fun! Here is mine:

    http://vampsrus.blogspot.com/2011/04/mini-challenge-14-book-title-sentences.html

    vampsrus(at)gmail(dot)com

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  4. Hands down the most fun mini-challenge so far, in my opinion! I've posted my sentences: http://thefreshchuff.livejournal.com/966677.html#cutid3, but Livejournal's running into some problems tonight (I'm tearing hairs out over here) so here are the links to my pictures themselves, in case my journal won't load:

    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5222/5604816398_ccc278f115_z.jpg
    "Stiff upper lip, Jeeves, have mercy. Johnny's got his gun."

    http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5186/5604230481_b72bc72d4d_z.jpg
    Speak, Girl Interrupted; you can't go home again.

    (like that's what they're referring to her, in this ... indian tribe or odd space colony where they've encountered this girl whose journey has been interrupted, and who is seeking a way home she cannot find.)

    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/5604812296_d7bac5fdcc_z.jpg
    "We have always lived in the castle," thus spoke Zarathustra, speaker for the dead.

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  5. I don't have a lot of book titles with verbs in them (weird) anyways here is mine (challenge is at the bottom of the post):

    http://dragonflyy419.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/24-hour-read-a-thon/

    dragonflyy419ATgmailDOTcom

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  6. Here's mine:

    http://thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com/2011/04/readathon-book-sentence-mini-challenge.html

    It is what it is. =O) Thanks for the fun!

    truebookaddictATgmailDOTcom

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  7. It was easiest for me to tweet mine, so here we go:

    http://twitter.com/bookgoil/status/56890491857403904

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  8. I loved this one and I managed to make my sentence with the two books that I have finished in this read-a-thon. (4 books were used in all). Enjoy!

    http://stilettostorytime.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/deweys-24-hour-read-a-thon-2/

    Courtney
    stilettostorytime at gmail dot com

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  9. Ack, I forgot to leave my email address! It's icemulderATgmailDOTcom. :)

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  10. This is a fun one. Here's mine:

    http://cowhugger.tumblr.com/post/4481609487/24-hour-read-a-thon-update-mini-challenge

    smartin_90 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com

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  11. My sentence is:

    "All my road before me, relentless long walk to freedom"

    here is my link if you want to see the picture!

    http://abductedbybooks.blogspot.com/2011/04/abducted-by-kates-sentence-challenge.html

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  12. Here are my three http://www.lisasworldofbooks.com/2011/04/dewey-24-hour-read-thon-mini-challenge_09.html

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  13. Here's my sentence: http://twitter.com/#!/parchmentgirl37/status/56892024988774400

    kate[at]parchmentgirl[dot]com

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  14. Here is my sentence:

    "Girl Mary was at Passarola Rising Loving Mr Darcy; The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet"

    Deborah@ThirtyCreative
    thirty.creativestudio@gmail.com

    Post link: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=203325699688945

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  15. "We disappear, beloved, far from the madding crowd."

    We Disappear by Scott Heim
    Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

    I thought this set of 3 had a bit of romance to it. :P

    Posted on my blog as well:

    http://www.roofbeamreader.net/2011/04/book-title-challenge-24-hour-read-thon.html

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  17. I love this challenge! Mine is:

    As I lay dying in the bleak midwinter the memory of love never let me go.

    Photo (scroll down!): http://erinreads.com/2011/04/readathon-updates-april-2011/


    erinreadsblog {at} gmail {dot} com

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  18. This is awesome. Here's my post for the sentence...

    I know why the caged bird sings one true thing about a boy.

    http://avidreader25.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-title-sentence-mini-challenge.html

    avidreader25 [at] gmail [dot]com

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  19. The Protector Promises The Shadow Queen Eternal Love.

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  20. This is my favourite challenge so far, even if it was a little frustrating due to the books I could've used best being in German.

    Anyway, mine is:

    Death in the Afternoon: Reaper Man, blameless.

    Link (scroll down): http://wordsandfood.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/allys-readathon-eng/

    email: allylaleh (AT) gmx (DOT) net

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  21. I posted my pic on Twitter: http://yfrog.com/h72litpj

    Please Don't Be True, The Eternal Ones Matched Red Riding Hood.

    Please Don't Be True--Naylor
    The Eternal Ones--Miller
    Matched--Condie
    Red Riding Hood--Cartwright-Johnson

    leahmcclung@gmail.com

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  22. Here's one from Mineola Library Reading Team .... from Rocio!


    http://readingwithchessie.blogspot.com/2011/04/rocios-book-sentence.html

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  23. I always like this challenge! I posted mine here - http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2011/04/readathon-mini-challenge.html

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  24. I hope I'm not too late! Here's my link, since I don't use blogger and my name won't link to anything useful:

    http://inintw.wordpress.com/?p=664

    The boys from Brazil learn to write Chinese characters reading Lolita in Tehran.

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  25. Just in the nick of time! Here is my sentence:

    Across the universe, darkness becomes her rival.

    http://wp.me/pzUn5-mi

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  26. Here's Robin's book sentence from Mineola Memorial Library.

    http://readingwithchessie.blogspot.com/2011/04/robins-book-sentence.html

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  27. Love this one! thanks for hosting it =D

    http://krissa22.tumblr.com/post/4482358425/angie-i-says-envy-american-gods

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  28. This is one of my favorite challenges too. It's fun staring at all my book titles.

    I decidedly need more verbs.

    http://sjkessel.blogspot.com/2011/04/shels-response-to-book-sentence-mini.html

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  29. This was fun. I did two which I've embedded in my update post here.

    caribousmom (at) gmail (dot) com

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  30. Such a great idea! I made 3 sentences and posted to the Vamps R Us blog.

    http://vampsrus.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-sequence-mini-challenge.html

    Thanks for offering this mini challenge!

    ~Lily

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  32. So much fun! Here are mine:
    http://thebookgroupie.blogspot.com/2011/04/great-book-title-challenge.html

    "In spite of the gods, the diviners speak: ask again later."

    "Husband and wife, kiss, kiss, best friends forever!"

    "20th Century ghosts march in a perfect world."

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  33. Here is Lauren's Book Sentence from Mineola Memorial Library.

    http://readingwithchessie.blogspot.com/2011/04/laurens-book-sentence.html

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  34. Scroll down to the 8pm update, and there we are! http://www.ericsatchwill.com/2011/04/09/april-2011-read-a-thon-progress-blog/

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  35. my sentence: American Gods fade into the cold fire so yesterday The God of Small Things haunted The Dew Breaker.

    Picture here: http://twitter.com/#!/superspecs/status/56902276463333377

    I learned a few things doing this.
    A) It's really fun
    B) Owning a ridiculous number of books has some surprising benefits
    C) Authors should branch out and try titles that use different parts of speech. Nouns are holding a monopoly on book titles.

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  36. What a really cool challenge! Even I, with my non-creative kind of brain, thought to myself, "With ALL of these books around here, I SHOULD be able to find a sentence or two!"

    I added the challenge pics to my Read-a-thon post here: http://www.knittingandsundries.com/2011/04/deweys-readathon-starts-now.html

    knittingandsundries(at)gmail(dot)com

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  37. Ok - mine is posted:

    http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/dewey-read-a-thon-we-interupt-the-regularly-scheduled-hoo-hah-and-what-nots-of-this-blog/

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  38. Ack! Forgot email.

    SuperSpecs1[at]gmail[dot]com

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  39. Here is mine. I enjoyed this challenge!!!

    http://abookcook.blogspot.com/2011/04/book-spine-sentences.html

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  40. I also forgot to leave my email. jenndudley at gmail

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  41. This is such a great challenge!

    Here's mine:

    “In defense of women, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest at the back of the north wind — a handful of dust of mice and men (to say nothing of the dog, our mutual friend), for whom the bell tolls in cold blood, pale fire, where I’m calling from.”

    Here's a link to the picture and post: http://dilatorybibliophile.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/book-sentence-mini-challenge/

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  42. In my excitement, I forgot my email.

    ravingheretic@gmail.com

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  43. Here's Mine! "The whiskey rebels feed the children of men on a day like this" stazimel(at)gmail(dot)com

    http://www.cynicaloptimism.net/2011/04/part-3.html

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  44. My book sentence is here. My email is carina AT readingthroughlife DOT ca

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  45. Posted this on twitter at thebrainlair

    Losing my cool
    One Crazy Summer
    {then}Clarity,
    I am the wallpaper.

    http://yfrog.com/h7eo2iuj

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  46. Here's mine:

    http://seizethebookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/readathon-mini-challenge-book-sentence.html

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  47. My email: seizethebookblog(at)gmail(dot)com

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  48. “Speak, Charlotte. Sometimes you are what you speak.”

    http://nisababepraised.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/book-titles-make-sentences/

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  49. http://nisababepraised.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/readathon-book-sentence-mini-challenge/

    "Archangel Beatrice and Virgil rain the farthest shore."

    A little stilted, but I worked with what I had.

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  50. An Abundance of Katherine's
    Burn
    The Dark and Hollow Places.

    Picture here:http://www.thefakesteph.com/2011/04/readathon-post-two.html

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  51. Sex with kings, it sucked and then I cried.

    http://www.bookcrush.net/archives/115

    Posted at the bottom.

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  52. Here's Rachel's book sentence from the Reading Team in Mineola
    http://readingwithchessie.blogspot.com/2011/04/rachels-book-sentence.html

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  53. Oh, e-mail too. elle(at)bookcrush(dot)net.

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  54. Mary of the Mineola Library reading team posts this:
    http://readingwithchessie.blogspot.com/2011/04/marys-book-sentence.html

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  55. Nolatari's entry [nolatari (at) sbcglobal (dot) net]:

    Almost there, the Laments blink… leaving a trace, traveling light, broken for you.

    http://phrenetical.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/2011-april-readathon-challenge6-sentence

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  56. sorry no camera! so here's my response:
    "Elephants can remember the murder of Roger Ackroyd at Bertram's Hotel" http://bit.ly/eSEKXT all Agatha Christie novels...
    thx for the FUN Mini Challenge!
    blstef1 at mts dot net
    @_eHope

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