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Saturday, January 08, 2011

Saturday Word Play: Punctual Titles


Can you name the titles by the authors below based only on the punctuation?

1. Judy Blume ? ’,
2. Lynn Truss ,
3. Douglas Coupland !
4. M.G. Vassanji –
5. Stephen King ' '
6. Alice Munro , , , ,
7. Mary Shelley ;,
8. Robert Munsch -?
9. Jonathan Goldstein , !
10. Don McKay /

Feel free to answer all at home, but please answer only one in the comment section below. That will give 9 others a chance to play along.

12 comments:

Kate said...

Fun idea! I'm going to go for the one that I read just a few months ago:
#4: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (M. G. Vassanji)

Anonymous said...

2- Eats, Shoots and Leaves

raidergirl3 said...

3. Hey Nostradamus! by Coupland

gypsysmom said...

#6 by Alice Munro must be
Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtship, Marriage

I haven't read it but it's on my radar.

Barbara Bruederlin said...

What a fun idea! Kudos to you for this one.

#9 is Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bible!

Megan said...

1 must be Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

There should be a comma in the first sentence, though. Maybe I'm wrong. Hmmmm.

John Mutford said...

Megan: I knew you'd have fun with this one. Do you mean, "Are you there, God?" Personally, I'd add one in the Douglas Coupland title: "Hey, Nostradamus!"

Melwyk said...

10 is Don McKay's Strike/Slip. A fun challenge!

Anonymous said...

I beleave that #8 is Where is Gah-Ning? by Munsch.

Loni said...

#5 - 'Salem's Lot

John Mutford said...

You are all correct! The only one left is #7.

Bybee said...

I think it's got to be Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (sp?) but I'm not sure about the punctuation.

Cool game!