WordPlay Pot 44 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Tuesday Doesn't Come After Onesday #203

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 92

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Easy

CLUE : When these “fellows” get together, their friendships “ring” true.

 

Literature Pot 27 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Books Recommended By Stephen King: The Cuckoo’s Calling ; Robert Galbraith

Witty Wordsmiths 155

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”

~ T.H. White

 

The Firm of Girdlestone

The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdlestone was made. A 1958 BBC television adaptation The Firm of Girdlestone was also produced.

 

Humor Pot 69 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 91

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Hard

CLUE : When a “sly” guy asks for a pound of your flesh, you know it is about more than just the money.

 

Picture Pot 38 (Pic Dump)

"The Zodiac Killer's" letter to the San Francisco Chronicle ; July 24, 1970

Witty Wordsmiths 154

“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”

~ Jerry Seinfeld

 

The Enemy in the Blanket

The Malayan Trilogy, also published as The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy in the United States, is a comic “triptych” of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonization of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration of the effects of the Malayan Emergency and of Britain's final withdrawal from its Southeast Asian territories. The American title, decided on by Burgess himself, is taken from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses: 

"The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: 

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep

Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,

'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." (ll. 55-57)

The three volumes are:

Time For a Tiger ; 1956

The Enemy in the Blanket ; 1958

Beds in the East ; 1959

   The title, The Enemy in the Blanket, is a literal translation of the Malay idiom "musuh dalam selimut," which means "to be betrayed by an intimate" (somewhat similar but not quite the same as the English "sleeping with the enemy"), alluding to the struggles of marriage but also other betrayals in the story. The novel charts the continuing adventures of Victor Crabbe who becomes headmaster of a school in the imaginary Dahaga (meaning "thirst" in Malay and identifiable with Kelantan) in the years and months leading up to Malayan independence.

Art Pot 38 (Pic Dump)

From Russia with Love Illustrations ; Ian Fleming ; (Illustrator: Fay Dalton)

WordPlay Pot 43 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Tuesday Doesn't Come After Onesday #198

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 90

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Medium

CLUE : A broken unicorn, a shared dance, and a mother living in the past comprise this popular play.

Humor Pot 68 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Music Pot 37 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Great Song Writers: Paul McCartney

Witty Wordsmiths 153

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

~ John Green