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This week we’re invited to come up with our own take on the topic of Book Quotes.
My list is all about book titles that are quotations from other works of literature.
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (from the poem ‘The Second Coming’ by W. B. Yeats)
- This Green and Pleasant Land by Ayisha Malik (from the poem ‘Jerusalem’ by William Blake)
- Things Bright and Beautiful by Anbara Salam (from the hymn ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ by Cecil Frances Alexander)
- Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (from Shakespeare’s The Tempest)
- By The Pricking Of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie (from Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (from Macbeth)
- A Pocketful of Rye by Agatha Christie (from the nursey rhyme, ‘Sing A Song of Sixpence’)
- The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side by Agatha Christie (from the poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ by Alfred Tennyson)
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (from Paradise Lost by John Milton)
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (from the poem ‘The Wasteland’ by T. S. Eliot)
What Cathy Read Next... 
Great theme, Cathy. I’ll be thinking about that all day!
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I didn’t know that’s where the idea for the title of Brave New World came from!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-humorous-quotes-from-books/
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Very interesting topic! 😁
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Oh this was very clever indeed! Agatha Christie used a lot of lines from especially nursery rhymes and other poems.
Another one that would fit perfectly hear with your post today is Along came a Spider by James Patterson or Kate Serene.
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
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A great twist on this week’s topic! I’ve only read By the Pricking of My Thumbs, and I think it mentions in the book that the line is from Macbeth.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/10-most-recent-additions-to-my-physical-tbr/
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I often wonder where titles of books come from. Thank you for sharing these.
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Wow, there are a lot of book titles inspired by other works.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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Oh cool way to interpret the topic!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/05/24/top-ten-tuesday-369/
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Love this take on the topic! And both The Second Coming and Things Fall Apart are among my all time faves!
These are my quotes – hope the font is legible…
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Wow, what a cool post! Very creative topic.
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Very clever! Here in the US, James Herriot’s books were all named from the “All Creatures Great and Small” hymn, too.
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Ohh interesting! I have Things Fall Apart on my shelves. Might be time to dust it off. 🙂 Love this prompt!
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Fun theme! I recognize a lot of titles as being from other literary works, but I know I miss a lot of them, too. For instance, I only recognized four of the ones you chose. Thanks for the heads-up!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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Cool topic! Whenever I find multiple books with the same title, it’s usually because the title is taken from a quote. 🙂
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Great twist Cathy. The titles from poems were new to me. Shakespeare still inspires.
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