Just for fun, here’s something I saw on Annabel’s blog the other day: make an acrostic of your name from the titles of books that you’ve read this year. To make it more of a challenge, I decided to use my first name and surname. I managed it… just about. I had to use two books that I’d read but not reviewed as well as read, and even the original-language title of a book that I read in English. But that’s all part of the fun!
D is for Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas (tr. Rosalind Harvey and Anne McLean)
A is for Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
V is for (The) Vegetarian by Han Kang (tr. Deborah Smith)
I is for Into the Trees by Robert Williams
D is for Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
H is for Hotel Arcadia by Sunny Singh
E is for (The) End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. Susan Bernofsky)
B is for (The) Boy Who Stole Attila’s Horse by Iván Repila (tr. Sophie Hughes)
B is for (The) Beginning of the End by Ian Parkinson
L is for (The) Last Lover by Can Xue (tr. Annelise Finegan)
E is for (The) Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
T is for To Mervas by Elisabeth Rynell (tr. Victoria Häggblom)
H is for (At) Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison
W is for White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen (tr. Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah)
A is for Atlas: the Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Dung Kai-cheung (tr. Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson and Bonnie S. McDougall)
I is for In the Beginning Was the Sea by Tomás González (tr. Frank Wynne)
T is for Take It Cool by Jonathan Pinnock
E is for Ett Annat Liv (The Wandering Pine) by Per Olov Enquist (tr. Deborah Bragan-Turner)
23rd August 2015 at 10:54 pm
Fabulous idea – thought I’d have a go too:
S – Stranger than Kindness by Mark A Radcliffe
A – An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
R – (The) Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch
A – A is for Angelica by Iain Broome
H – H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
N – (The) Night Falling by Katherine Webb
O – Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill
A – All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
K – had to cheat for this one and go back to January 2014 for (The) Knot by Mark Watson
E – (The) Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81
S – (The) Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé
I’ll have to look out for more books starting with K!
31st August 2015 at 12:04 pm
Excellent! It’s funny how certain initial letters seem to cluster and others are sparse – I had plenty of books beginning with M, but no need to use them.
24th August 2015 at 3:47 pm
I’ll have to give this a go but I think I might fail with the first letter – I haven’t read anything beginning with ‘J’ in 2015!
31st August 2015 at 12:11 pm
You could always cheat a bit and go back to last year, like Sarah did above…
25th August 2015 at 12:03 pm
You have more interesting letters in your name than me – I had to find 2 x A, 2 x N, so I made myself AnnaBookBel like my email and got more 2s! Fun though – and always good to promote older posts.
25th August 2015 at 12:04 pm
Doh! Before you ask, it never occurred to me to add in my surname. 🙂
31st August 2015 at 12:11 pm
I decided to have a go at it when I realised I could use The Vegetarian for ‘V’. Added in my surname because five books didn’t seem enough!
31st August 2015 at 1:33 pm
Between the three of you (Annabel, Susan and yourself) you have tempted me into it, although I will have to go back a good deal longer to find a book with O. Plus I left out all those pesky articles in the titles… Great Bank Holiday procrastination, although it ain’t a bank holiday over here and I really should be getting on with some serious stuff…
31st August 2015 at 2:20 pm
D- Dorian ( Will Self)
A- Alun Lewis Collected Short Stories
V – ( The ) Verificationists -Donald Antrim
I – IQ84 (Book 1) – Murukami ( if I read one a year I can use it 3 times!)
D – Death in Summer ( Benjamin Black)
J- Journals ( John Cheever) ( bit of luck there!)
A – Americanah ( Chimandah Ngozie Adichie)
M- Middlemarch ( honestly- I’ve been ill and had loads of time so re-read classics!)
E- England and other stories ( Graham Swift)
S – Station Eleven ( E. St John Mandel)
Lucky with a short name. ‘A’ would have come out on top.