TIOLI stands for 'take it or leave it' challenges, challenges which you can either accept or not without guilt. Every month I will take some of these challenges and I will list them here by month with the book I read for them.
April
TIOLI 1. Read a book with a title in which the last letter is in rolling alphabetical order: Remote Control by Andy McNab (L)
TIOLI 19. Read a book that has won a literary prize - BUT it must be a prize not featured previously on TIOLI: Under the Snow by Kerstin Ekman (Sherlock-Priset (Sherlock Award) 1961)
March
TIOLI 5. Read a book about a 20th century woman, group of women or women’s organization: My Enemy's Cradle by Sara Young (Lebensborn)
TIOLI 6. Read a book with a title word that is a heterograph/homonym (same pronunciation, different spelling, different meaning): Mask by Evangeline Anderson (mask/masque)
TIOLI 7. Read a book with a title that contains 2, 4, 8 or 16 words: Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst (4 words)
TIOLI 16. Read a book by an author who has used more than one pseudonym: A Plague on Both Your Houses by Susanna Gregory (aka Elizabeth Cruwys, aka Simon Beaufort)
February
TIOLI 3. Read a book with a word of at least 5 letters in the title that is an anagram of another word: The Three-Arched Bridge by Ismail Kadare (Bridge/Begird)
TIOLI 18. Read a book originally written in a language that you do NOT speak and read: The Use of Man by Aleksandar Tisma (Serbian) & The Shadow in the River by Frode Grytten (Norwegian)
January
TIOLI 6. Read a book that was long or short listed for or won the Orange prize: The Tiger’s Wife by Thea Obreht (winner 2011)
TIOLI 8. Read a book where a word in the title can be used as a verb as well as another part of speech: Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Last/noun and adjective)
TIOLI 19. Read a book which has a beverage mentioned on page 10: Serving Up the Harvest by Andrea Chesman (water)
TIOLI 20. Read a book which has an Acknowledgements section which is no longer than 6 paragraphs: Affairs of Steak by Julie Hyzy (exactly 6 paragraphs)
TIOLI 22. Read a book whose chapters are prefaced with a poem or quotation: Sixteen Brides by Stephanie Grace Whitson (Bible quotes)
TIOLI 23. Read a first book (either debut or first in a series) by an author you've never read before: Flowerbed of State by Dorothy St. James (First in the White House Gardener series)
