It's the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt, where there's a list of books one has to find.
Thanks for tagging everyone, The Nocturnal Fey!
The problem then was I was too busy, but now that I have free time (sort of), I plunged into it!
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| I'm this giddy right now. |
Find an author's name or title with the letter Z in it
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| The Dapitan Correspondence of Dr. Jose Rizal and Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt compiled by Romeo G. Jalosjos I love Rizal and his love for the country so much. This book is a gem for me. |
Find a classic
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| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley It says so in the cover. :D This is one of the books which opened my mind about the real world. |
Find a book with a key on it
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| Murder at the Abba by Isaac Asimov My one and only book with a key. I haven;t read this one, though. |
Find something on your bookshelf that's not a book
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| 50 yen, stress ball, two bean bags I just went to Japan for some days, and these are the 'souvenirs' that I brought. It happened that I have no other place to put these on, so they're on my shelf. |
Find the oldest book on your shelf
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| The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, and Gulliver's Travels and Other Writing by Jonathan Swift My first book, thus oldest book I own is the former. The latter's the oldest published book (1726, first edition). |
Find a book with a girl on the cover
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| Animorphs #48 The Return by K.A. Applegate This one's easy because I have Animorphs collection. Picked Rachel because I love how her character grew. One of the best characters that I've read, ever. |
Find a book that has an animal in it
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| Pyramids by Terry Pratchett, and Animal Farm by George Orwell Forgive me for not picking one, but I've got to show you these two lovelies. I love the book art of the former; I love the theme of the latter. Please read these two books. |
Find a book with a male protagonist
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| Smaller and smaller circles by F. H. BatacanMany of my friends nudged me into reading this, and when I did, I knew why. |
Find a book with only words on it
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| How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie This helped me cope up with the world. |
Find a book with illustrations in it
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| Instructions by Neil Gaiman Given to me by my boyfriend after graduation, this book is wonderfully illustrated by Charles Vess. Don't miss this book if you're a Gaiman fan, too. |
Find a book with gold lettering
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| Wilderness Tips by Margaret Atwood I bought this without a jacket, let's just assume the lettering in the jacket is gold, too. This is my first (and only aotm) Atwood, and I enjoyed every story in this book. |
Find a diary (true or fictional)
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| The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank This inspired me to bits. After reading this, I needed my diary to look as intellectual as hers. |
Find a book written with a common name (like Smith)
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| Kung Baga sa Bigas by Jose F. Lacaba Just like Marie for girls, Jose is one of the common names for boys in the Philippines. (I have three Joses in this list.) |
Find a book that has a closeup of something on it
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| Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett My first Pratchett book (that I've finished)! Been looking forward to read him again ever since. |
Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period
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| The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Set in 16th century. I must reread this. |
Find a hardcover book without a jacket
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| The Prophet by Khalil Gibran Given to me by my boyfriend without a jacket. He memorized most of the passages of the book so he gave it to me. One of his favorites. Became one of mine, too.Find a book with stars on it |
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| The Joy of a Peanuts Christmas by Charles M. Schulz There's this need in me to have books that can be read by children. This is one of those. |
Find a teal/turquoise colored book
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| Viajero by F. Sionil Jose Lots of information from this book. |
Find a non-YA book
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| New Poems in Pilipino edited by Federico Licsi Espino Jr. I have many non-YA books, but this one is such a gem (a Marcos-era project), so I picked it. |
Gods, I enjoyed it so much that I'm tagging everyone who reads this, to spread the fun!
