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The Nickster hosted at Bout of Books -- Mix 'n Match (instructions right below!)
Pick out 10-15 books from your shelf, from your local library, or from a local bookstore. They can be any genre, any language, and any length. In each book, flip to a random page and pick the 1st word (articles such as "the", "and", "an", "or", etc. don't count as the 1st word). Use all these 1st words to try to create an actual sentence. If the books are in different languages, feel free to translate them to all one language or leave them as they are! also, you can add in some articles, such as "the", "and", "an", "or", etc., if you want to make the sentence flow better. Here is an example:
I was sitting in my office at the time of writing this so the books I used are all non-fiction and work-related.
The words I ended up with are:
- home
- primer
- that
- images
- phases
- students
- what
- people
- catapult
- needed
- fills
- says
My sentence is "'What students needed was a primer to catapult them home, that fills the images and phases', says people". You can tell the sentence tense is a little off, but that's okay! Let's see what you can come up with. Post it in the comments below and good luck!
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I ended up with the following words: sergeant, numbers, Western, sea, then, demon, but, my, prince's, eyes, First, were, world , he, wait. And I came up with this slightly odd abstract concoction:
ReplyDeleteFirst were the prince's numbers on the Western sea. Then, the eyes of the sergeant, my world. But he waits for the demon.
My Mix 'n Match sentence:
ReplyDeleteAfter the final air shadow way of the sun & starlight circus begins, everyone great & wise there is zombie.
Words & books used:
- AFTER (Laura Buckle's The Hallowed Ones)
- FINAL (Dean Lorey's Monster Madness)
- AIR (Alayna Williams' Dark Oracle)
- SHADOW (Neil Gaiman's American Gods)
- WAY (Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley)
- SUN (Marcus Sedgwick's Midwinterblood)
- STARLIGHT (Peter Newman's The Vagrant)
- CIRCUS - (Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus)
- BEGINS (Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys)
- EVERYONE (Ernest Cline's Ready Player One)
- GREAT (Peter V. Brett's The Painted Man)
- WISE (Alison Goodman's Eona)
- THERE (Neil Gaiman's Stardust)
- ZOMBIE (Steven Harper's The Doomsday Vault)
So, that's it. I used 14 books from my own bookshelves.
Really fun challenge.
Aleksandra N
My words:
ReplyDeletegrabbed
thought
sharp
really
generally
eager
young
warning
feelings
I grabbed sharp lightening and thought I'm really generally young and the feelings are a warning.
I really like this one!
Deletemy words: * called
ReplyDelete* dandelions
* messages
* Scorpious
* eyes
* these
* only
* claimed
* keys
* get
* clothing
* beside
* warm
These messages beside the warm clothing called Scorpious and the keys claimed only the dandelions get eyes.
I posted this on my blog with an image of the books used http://book-reviewd.blogspot.com/2016/08/mix-n-match-sentence.html
WORDS:
ReplyDeletePART
AUDITION
BOOKS
LUCK
CELEBRATE
SUNDAY
HIS
ONE
SOFT
TOURISTS
The audition is on Sunday for the part of one of the tourists I will need his soft books then we can celebrate my luck.
Not my best, but this was hard!
Sir peered at mom and told the known backing people "love must be studied."
ReplyDeleteThat was my sentence, ha! The list of books will be posted in my blog post! But I enjoyed this challenge!
This was a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteMy words:
memories
passengers
real
graphs
had
were
dead
expected
defenders
triggered
like
run
Sentence I made:
The defenders had run like were expected, the passengers had triggered real memories of dead graphs.
Words:
ReplyDeleteSuggesting
Sweet
Living
Discarded
Satisfaction
Majesty
Plain
Nineteenth
Attempt
Stopped
Opponent
After my *nineteenth* *attempt* of *suggesting* to my *opponent* that *living* with *majesty* gives *sweet* *satisfaction*, I *stopped* after being *plain* *discarded*.
wow, superb!
DeleteMy words were:
ReplyDeleteLink
Tourism
Coraline
Demon
House
Abercrombie
Rain
Completely
Wolves
Praise
Room
My Sentence:
Tourism was fun to Link, who likes Coraline and lives in a demon house by Abercrombie in rain and completely full of wolves and praise in his room.
Here is the link to my sentence:http://justyouraveragereviews.blogspot.com/2016/08/bout-of-books-17-day-one-update-and-day.html?m=1
ReplyDeletethanks for the fun challenge. Here is what I came up with: #BoutofBooks @wordsandpeace Day 2 #challenge #sentence https://wordsandpeace.com/2016/08/23/bout-of-books-17-day-2-challenge/
ReplyDeleteI used 10 books for today's challenge. Here are my words:
ReplyDeleteAnd
Both
I
One
You
Held
Hoping
Curiously
Jonah
Now
My Sentence:
You and I both held one Jonah, curiously hoping now.
I posted the challenge on my blog. https://bookrockgoddess.wordpress.com
ReplyDeleteI had 14 books and my word are:
truth place plan Castle eyebrows
disapproving muddy Carlos blood according
Jack splatter sounded night
I used them in this sentence:
The truth according to Jack was that night Castle sounded disapproving of the plan and the muddy blood splatter on Carlos's eyebrows.
Looks like I've got characters breaking out of somewhere!
ReplyDeleteRemember, Alexander, to tell how River slowly rubbed the candle lump into a long key.
River
tell
key
rubbed
Alexander
slowly
long
lump
candle
remember
Words:
ReplyDeleteEnjoy
Possible
Thinner
Crying
Fight
Stumbled
Woven
Try
Moment
I try to enjoy each passing moment, not crying, woven thinner; I stumbled but now I fight.
Well that turned out to be strangely poetic :P
everyone
ReplyDeletesmall
holding
why
dollmaking
maybe
someone
felt
only
speaking
Maybe everyone holding small felt dollmaking kits was ready, but why was only someone empty-handed speaking?
Walked (Pride and Prejudice)
ReplyDeleteGiant (Fire and Hemlock)
Gloriously (The Hidden Oracle)
Home (Daughter of the Forest)
Fair (Deerskin)
Cold (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld)
Mildly (Fangirl)
Now (Catching Fire)
Feral (Magic Bleeds)
So (Easy)
And so the giant walked home, looking cold but gloriously fair and only mildly feral now.
https://cuidadocomodalmata.wordpress.com/2016/08/22/bout-of-books-17-goals-and-updates/
! :)
My words were: one, well, looked, lift, a, the, leopard, handsome, that, yes, some, into
ReplyDeleteand my sentence is: Some looked at the handsome leopard and yes, one lift that into a well
A little awkward but I think it works!
My words (translated because they are all portuguese translations):
ReplyDelete- pity
- numerous
- powerless
- Nathan
- no
- take
- during
- plentiful
- more
- asked
And my sentence:
Nathan asked if during numerous no more take pity, he's plentiful powerless.
Weird, I know, but I did my best...
Here's a link
ReplyDeleteCame-Blythewood
David- Rebel Belle
Spot-Sin Eaters Daughter
When- Every other day
Work-Beautiful Disaster
Outside- The Heir and the Spare
Her-Stealing Parker
Jane- My Lady Jane
Checking- Four
whatever- Rebel of the sands
Fountain- Hotel Ruby
When David came to work. He spotted her, Jane outside checking the fountain for whatever reason.
My words were: midterm, room, octopus, then, do, preparation, scrubby, music, name, nodded, way, Mother, done, we, read.
ReplyDeleteThese words were ridiculous, so my sentence is kind of out there:
"Do midterm preparation the music room way," Mother read, and we nodded. "Then name the scrubby octopus, and done."
My words:
ReplyDeletenot
learn
while
you
had
late
military
counted
appeared
My sentence:
You should not learn magic while the military appeared late and had counted.
Here is mine:
ReplyDelete"The mister knew by the few three came to the reviving apartment with inferior news."
Here the link to my photo and books used: https://www.instagram.com/p/BJeL3EJDyBg/
~Cecily@fallingwings
Fun challenge!!
ReplyDeleteMy words I had to use are:
Langley, hook, nodded, men, only, maybe, collar, like, Alice, thing, moral, snobbishness, light, paraphrase, perhaps
My sentence didn't make much sense, but here it is:
Maybe, Alice nodded, only men get a hook in the collar to go to Langley to paraphrase a thing like light moral snobbishness, perhaps.
So here are my words!
ReplyDeletethis
kill
eerie
back
down
church
married
Macy
relief
Snape
And my sentence:
"To kill relief, Macy and Snape married down in the back of this eerie church."
And the books I used:
Night of The Living Dummy by R.L. Stine
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
The Carniverous Cavern by Lemony Snicket
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy
True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
Dangerous Girls by R.L. Stine
Goddess by Josephine Angelini
Pride and Prejudice & Zombie by Seth Grahame-Smith
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by JK Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne
Link To My Challenge Post:
http://www.rainydaysandpajamas.com/2016/08/bout-of-books-17-challenge-2-reading.html
Fun!!
ReplyDeleteHere are the words I got: letters, tongues, bees, adulation, usual, smoked, Saturday, spring, unrecorded, old
On a Saturday in spring, the usual old adulation likes the tongues of bees went unrecorded like smoked letters.
I tried my best haha.
This was great! My sentence was:
ReplyDelete"Hi," the mysterious masked English Captain smiled. "Why sleep now? Much to hear, things to gather. Christmas is beginning."
You can see what books I used and such at my blog. Thanks so much!
The gloomy dustbin wanted to have midnight tea with the pearly supporters whispering about the eleven descendants of Fred.
ReplyDeleteI choose from the Harry Potter universe.
Sorcerer's Stone : whispering
Chamber of Secrets : Fred
Prisoner of Azkaban : tea
Goblet of Fire : eleven
Order of the Phoenix : gloomy
Half-Blood Prince : dustbin
Deathly Hallows : midnight
Cursed Child : want
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them : pearly
Quidditch Through the Ages : supporters
The Tales of Beedle the Bard : descendant
I did a 2nd one on https://heavingbosomsblog.wordpress.com.
Darn. Missed hopping on the link bandwagon. :/
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome to join us unofficially! :)
DeleteThanks! I will. :)
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