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.
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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:

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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This bookshelf is viral Sally, I wonder who thought of arranging the books in such a meaningful manner! 🙂
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I don’t know Balroop…but they deserve a big round of applause.. xx
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Good idea….
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Thanks Nabeela..have a good weekend.
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Thank you…. Same to you….
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Love the creativity! 🙂
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I agree Tara.. thanks and have a good weekend.
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Thanks for reblogging Sally. i read somewhere that the original bookshelf idea came from a group of librarians and if I can find out who they are I’d love to credit them because they’ve given a lot of people a lot of enjoyment! have good weekend all.
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They have Jessica and thanks for passing this along.. still working on mine…xx
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Clever idea, Sally…
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Brilliant Jaye.. haven’t got all my spines in a row yet..hugsx
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Might take me a while, too, Sally…
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Now, that’s a cool idea! It would be interesting to see what I can come up with!😊. It sure beats the news.
Pat
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No kidding.. good luck.. I am still looking and it may take a while as I keep getting distracted and finding books to read again!
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So much fun and reminded me I did this a few years ago and posted it by stacking books with the spine showing the titles, creating a quote or poem. I just searched my posts for it, I can’t find it for the life of me in the search bar LOL. I’m losing the plot! But yes, this will be fun to do. ❤
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I hope you find Debby and post on FB, that sounds like another fun version of the game… hugs ♥
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Me too Sal. I’ll keep looking lol ❤
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I remember that post of yours, Debby. Hmm… I’ll try to think on the name of it.
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You rock woman! Lol, ‘spinebook poetry’, work play, bookplay. wordpuzzles, I ran out of search words! 🙂 🙂
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Is this it?
https://dgkayewriter.com/book-spine-poetry-chris-story-reading-apes-blog/
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Good catch Sarah… xx
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Omgggggggggg Sarah. LOL thanks for finding the link to my post! Omg, I went back several times putting in so many keywords to search and duhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it was a blog challenge! Goes to show how import keywords are for searching LOL. Thank you Lady!!! ❤
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😂 Not a problem. I don’t even remember what I searched for now. I think it was just ‘bookspine’ and ‘poetry’. ???
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I saw this earlier today and loved the uniqueness and creativity of the idea. It’s time to get another bookshelf as books are scattered around all over the house.
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It is brilliant Pete and have been perusing my shelves for inspiration… hope to put something together… and we need more bookshelves too..x
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What a great idea. Sorry, i am “late on the plate”. LOl Michael
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Pete Springer told me about these – what a clever idea!
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Brilliant.. will work on mine tomorrow and put on FB and tag a few people..hugsx
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look forward to seeing what you come up with!
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This does look like fun!
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I am hoping to put something together for FB next week..xx
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I love this idea. Definitely a great imagination (and robust book collection) to do this!
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It is a great distraction at the moment and I am also finding lost gems that I am going to read again…thanks Nicole..x
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I love this idea! I’ll have to see what I can come up with. 🙂
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I am working on mine Jan…..xxx
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Love this…. Brilliant idea! 🙂
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I think so too Kevin, going to give it a go..xx
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Well, that’s a great idea. Thanks, Jessica and Sally!
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Thanks Olga..does look like fun..hugsx
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I’ve seen this over the year but, honestly, didn’t think of it for this time. Thanks for sharing it again, Sally! Hope you’re well. ❤
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Thanks Sarah.. if ever there was a time to go through the bookcase it is now! We are doing fine thank you.. rural Ireland is a good place to be.. hugsx♥
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I’m glad to hear that. Stay safe and sane. 😉 ❤
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