Bookplay – A wonderful word game using book titles of your print books – Courtesy of Jessica Norrie.

A brilliant book game from Jessica Norrie, using the titles of the print books you may have on your shelves…It involves reading the spines of the book across and you will get the idea from the first image.. There are many different ideas to inspire everyone’s creativity including children’s.. Please do head over and I am off to my book shelves to find something to share later.  Have fun.. thanks Jessica.

Bookplay

Still determinedly sticking to the positives about this p**ndemic, the creativity it’s brought out in some people is amazing. Have you seen the tableaux of famous art made in response to the Getty Art Museum Challenge? And last week this clever storytelling game appeared online (read the titles on the spines in order). If anyone can tell me  which clever librarians created this, I’ll happily credit them.

Of course I rushed off to see what I could come up with. I found myself immediately in sinister realms – by the way it helps if you add punctuation:

Missing, presumed a matter for the jury, invisible women vanish in an instant. Snap!

Some titles are easier to play with than others. Anything with that begins with “The” is tricky, but Invisible Women could have made multiple contributions, and I’m keeping an eye open for titles to go with, well, Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes. You don’t have to stick to books you have in the house. Swipe a few covers from Goodreads and away you go. It’s surprising how often the final title could just as easily go at the beginning.

A different, easier game is to find as many titles as you can containing, say, colours, places or people’s names.

 

There are many more book title games to play that Jessica has illustrated and will keep you busy for hours…Please head over to find out more.

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