oldskoolchallengeclub
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the #OnceUponAHalloween! challenge by @hook.me.a.book. The task is “to build a spooky Halloween story using BOOK TITLES from your shelves. The darker, stranger and more gloriously nonsensical, the better! Bonus kudos for stories that leave us wondering what on earth you’ve been reading.” My entry is a doomed…
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Today I’m posting for the oldskoolchallengeclub October scavenger hunt, selecting eight books based on international days and observances in October and turning them into a little quiz. Scroll to see if you can guess the books I’ve chosen based on the hints, or just skip right to the last slide to see my selection. First…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the #HauntedHaiku challenge. @hook.me.a.book asked for “a haunting haiku using THREE book titles—one for each line, in the traditional 5–7–5 syllable format.” Books used: Danger Lies Within by Kim KrenikThe Only Way is Murder by Lou CollinsCatch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale with Stan Redding…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the #ToilAndTrouble challenge. @jac_in_a_book asked for covers featuring witches, which seemed like a great opportunity to showcase these miniature books featuring my favourite coven, the Witches from Discworld by Terry Pratchett. The books are 2.5 cm/1 inch tall, and the series consists of the following titles: Equal Rites…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the #bookitechture challenge by @jac_in_a_book. The task is to find book covers with houses and buildings. What you do with these covers is up to you. My take is to set up a dodgy real estate agency. Their prices are a steal, just don’t ask what happened to…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with #DateWithABook by @hook.me.a.book, with a chat about a bookish date, using book titles to answer these questions: Who was your date with?Where did you meet?What time was the rendezvous?What did you wear?What did you talk about?Will there be a second date? Books used for this challenge:– The Book…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with the Cluedo challenge by @chapter1.page1, finding book titles to answer the questions Who was the murderer? Where did the crime occur? With what was the murder committed? “Where” in Cluedo refers to a room in a house, but I don’t have any book titles in my collection that…
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Many thanks to @taherasplace for tagging me in the One Word Title challenge by Dee @chapter1.page1 for the #oldskoolchallengeclub. I had a look through my ebook collection and came up with these 10 books. Alice by Gary Gautier From Goodreads: Alice’s commune seems a small hippie utopia in a dreamlike forest, but the utopian surface…
