Better late than never!
Every single month so far I have forgotten this meme from Jana’s Reviews From the Stacks, until I spy Jennifer @Tasmanian Bibliophile at Large or Lisa @ANZLit Lovers post.
I love compiling this list as it gives me a good excuse to go back over my older posts, checking them for missing links, weird formatting and other inconsistencies that occured during the changeover from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago.
Jana often includes a theme to add an extra spice to the challenge – this month is ANIMALS.
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | Seigfried Sassoon
Fox-Hunting is not normally a title that would grab my attention, but the delicious Faber Modern Classics covers did.
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is Sassoon’s semi-autobiographical remembrances of life in rural Kent before the ravages of WWI scarred a generation. They are lovingly nostalgic, yet tinged with the bittersweet knowledge of what is to come.
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The Animals in That Country | Laura Jean McKay
An award winning Australian book that captured my attention a couple of years ago.
The premise for The Animals in That Country is quite simple – a flu virus – the ‘zoo flu’ as it becomes known in the book – causes the communication barrier between humans and other animals to disappear. What could possibly go wrong? Surely we love our pets and if they could talk to us they would finally tell us how much they love us too.
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Yours Sincerely, Giraffe by Megumi Iwasa
Y was not an easy month to find a book with an animal in the title, so I had to resort to a children’s book I read during the 2017 Readathon.
The premise of the story is simple – Giraffe is bored. Until, that is, he spots a sign on a tree from an equally bored pelican who has decided to start up a postal service, ‘willing to deliver anything anywhere’!
Have you read of these books? Or have a I tempted you to try one for yourself?
| This post was written on the traditional land of the Wangal clan, one of the 29 clans of the Eora Nation within the Sydney basin. This Reading Life acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are our first storytellers, and the traditional custodians of the lands, seas, and skies on which we live and work. |
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I don’t like fox hunting either, but I think I would love to read the Siegfried Sassoon. I loved his poetry when I was a girl.
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I meant to read some of his poetry after reading this book, as well as the two follow up memoirs, but, of course, I haven’t! Too many other books distracted me along the way.
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Well, if I were to ever run across a children’s book about a penguin’s and giraffe’s postal service, it would be snatched up immediately! After reading the Sassoon book, it inspired me to try his poetry and read Pat Barker’s trilogy about that war.
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Gecko Press are renown for their quirky children’s books. Some don’t quite hit the sweet spot for me, but this one certainly did.
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Great list. And you even found one with Y without cheating. Well done. I will think about that the next time.
My Spell the Month in Books.
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By the end of the year will have used up our backlist of Y titles I think!!
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I know. Even though there are only four months with a Y.
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what a fun meme! I’ve read Sassoon’s trilogy, but the others are completely new to me. May is tempting and a good place to start, September seems a bit more daunting!
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May is a very good month to start Jane! We’re the second and third books in Sassoon’s trilogy as good as the first?
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I can’t remember any of them in detail but yes, I certainly read them with interest!
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I can think of plenty of books with titles beginning Y but got completely flummoxed by the added requirement to make them animal related!
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I was the same until I checked my children’s list. You can count on a kids book having an animal character or two 😊
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Y is a difficult initial letter to identify amongst books read so well done for finding a title. And of course there are four months in the year with a Y ending! Needless to say I was unsuccessful in finding just one…
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I’m pretty worried about all the e’s I will need by the end of the year as well!!
However it’s a fun way to check in on my old posts and see what others are reading.
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What a cool theme! Love your post – a few short months coming up. Good luck for autumn and winter! 😀
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Thank you – I’m also a little nervous about all the ‘e’s I will need by the end of the year!
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