First, let me introduce myself.
Bonjour! Enchanté! ¡Buenos días!
I am Debnance at Readerbuzz.
I love to read.
I especially love travel memoirs,
children's books, books about happiness,
creative nonfiction, and literary fiction.
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And this week's prompt from the Book Blogger Hop:
“Let’s talk crazy book titles.
Highlight one or two (or as many as you like)
titles in your personal collection that have the most interesting titles.
If you can’t find any, feel free to find one on the internet.”
Here's my response:
The Gold Bug Variations
by Richard Powers
The title is a warning to the casual reader:
"If you don't get the title, or
if you don't want to get the title,
beware."
In The Gold Bug Variations, author Richard Powers perspicaciously composes a novel with themes of puzzles (Edgar Allen Poe's The Gold Bug), music structure (Bach's Goldberg Variations), romance (two love stories that intertwine across twenty-five years), computer technology, art history, and DNA genetic codes. I remember reading this book when it was first published, maybe twenty years ago, feeling like I'd plunged into the deepest and most bewitching lake on earth, hopelessly unable to surface for 638 pages, desperate for a breath of air, powerless to return to the top of the water, smitten with the sparkle of the words all around me, bewildered by the enigmatic story, in awe of the intelligence of the writing.
How about you? What crazy book titles have you run across?
