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The title tonight refers to a favorite name of mine for a fictional book or a pub. I am not sure if someone else has mentioned it before at Write On! or in a book, but it sticks in my mind as one I like. If it has not already been used, I might use it in a story of my own.
Here is a story which I found that is cute:
The Cracked Pot: A Story For Anyone Who's Not Quite Perfect
http://amazingwomenrock.com/...
What got me started on this train of thought is that I have an old vase with butterflies on it with a hairline crack that I bought for $1.50 forty seven years ago this month just before I got married. It is not something for the Antiques Road Show, I assure you, but I just love it.
Picture of the vase:
http://www.flickr.com/...
Closer up photo to see one of the butterflies:
http://www.flickr.com/...
It is fun to make up the names of Inns and Taverns. Some fictional inns are famous and some real inns have truly neat names.
This site has pictures of the signboards:
The 23 Weirdest Pub Names In Britain
From Brown Edge to The Drunken Duck.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
This site has 732 possibilities:
http://home.earthlink.net/...
Some interesting ones from the list:
Monk and Eggplant
Mountain Home Inn
Mousehole
Mug o' Ale
Mulled Apple
Murdered Priest
Musty Moldan's Mighty Morsels
Nag's Head
Naughty Damsel
Wiki has a list:
List of fictional bars and pubs
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Kelly McCullough’s hero, Aral, lived at The Gryphon’s Head Tavern which is a cool name. I have just started the fourth story in the Fallen Blade series, Blade Reforged, and the tavern has fallen on hard times. That is sad and Aral is blaming himself for its demise.
In Patrick Rothfuss’ books (The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One and the sequel The Wise Man’s Fear) the name of the Inn is the Waystone Inn.
Martha Grimes’ mysteries have real Pubs in the titles:
Wiki says:
Grimes is best known for her series of novels featuring Richard Jury, an inspector with Scotland Yard, and his friend Melrose Plant, a British aristocrat who has given up his titles. Each of the Jury mysteries is named after a pub.
Richard Jury series
The Man With a Load of Mischief (Boston: Little, Brown, 1981)
The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Boston: Little, Brown, 1982)
The Anodyne Necklace (Boston: Little, Brown, 1983)
The Dirty Duck (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984)
Jerusalem Inn (Boston: Little, Brown, 1984)
Help the Poor Struggler (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985)
The Deer Leap (Boston: Little, Brown, 1985)
I Am the Only Running Footman (Boston: Little, Brown, 1986)
The Five Bells and Bladebone (Boston: Little, Brown, 1987)
The Old Silent (Boston: Little, Brown, 1989)
The Old Contemptibles (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991)
The Horse You Came In On (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993)
Rainbow's End (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995)
The Case Has Altered (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997)
The Stargazey (New York: Holt, 1998)
The Lamorna Wink (New York: Viking, 1999)
The Blue Last (New York: Viking, 2001)
The Grave Maurice (New York: Viking Penguin, 2002)
The Winds of Change (New York: Viking Penguin, 2004)
The Old Wine Shades (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006)
Some names that entered my head, but I don’t know if I have read about them somewhere or not because so many of my fantasy heroes end up at taverns:
The Well Read Book
The Fond Fisherman
The Wicked Ale
The Wild Wind and Tame Forest
So what inns’ names have you remembered or made up?
A lot of authors have made up fiction books in their stories. When I was rummaging around at Google, I found an incredible list at Wikipedia. I have always been interested when a fiction author like Sara Paretsky or Dana Stabenow mention real books that the protagonist is reading. That is fun. But I hadn’t realized about the fiction books that have been created due to authors having fun.
Here is the wiki site so you can check out your favorite authors such as Douglas Adams or Tolkien and be amazed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/...
A fun example of the list is Terry Pratchett:
Works invented by Terry Pratchett
A few found in the Discworld series:
100 Walks in the Ramtops, by Eric Wheelbrace
Almanack de Gothic
Cooking with Brains, by Chef Aimsbury (Chef dé Canine Cuisine, Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork)
The Show Judges' Guide to Dragons, by Lady Sybil Ramkin
Grim Fairy Tales
I Spy....Demons, by Professor Cuvee of Unseen University
Inne Juste 7 Dayes I Wille Make You a Barbearian Hero!, by Cohen the Barbarian
The Joye of Snackes, by "A Lancre Witch"
The Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork
Liber Immanis Monstrorum, by Professor Cuvee of Unseen University
Necrotelicomnicon
The Summoning of Dragons, by Tubal de Malachite
True Art of Levitatione
In Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman):
The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
In Wintersmith:
Survival in the Snow (by T.H. Mouseholder)
Cooking in Dire Straits (by Superflua Raven)
Among the Snow Weasels (by K. Pierpoint Poundsworth)
The Habits of Wolves (by Captain W.E. Lightly)
Magnaventio Obtusis (by Perspicacia Tick)
Passion's Plaything (by Marjory J. Boddice)
Just a few from the Harry Potter books that made me smile:
J. K. Rowling
Achievements in Charming
Basic Hexes for the Busy and Vexed
Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks
Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts
Powers You Never Knew You Had and What to Do With Them Now You've Wised Up
Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches by Franklin Filibuster
Sports and games
Beating the Bludgers—A Study of Defensive Strategies in Quidditch by Kennilworthy Whisp
Flying with the Cannons
Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp (Whizz Hard Books, 1952)
Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland
Transportation
Handbook of Do-It-Yourself-Broomcare
Which Broomstick?
Muggles
Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy (Little Red Books, 1987)
Muggles Who Notice by Blenheim Stalk (1972)
The Philosophy of the Mundane: Why the Muggles Prefer Not to Know by Professor Mordicus Egg (Dust & Mildewe, 1963)
You may know some that didn’t make the Wikipedia list, of course.
Then I thought it might be fun for you to make up some of your own book titles, tonight.
Some examples:
What Happens When You Cross a Wizard by Burnt to a Crisp (pub. New Hazards, Inc 958 BC)
Fleeing Atlantis by Kite by Earnest Windbag III (pub. Great Adventures, 12 BC.)
The Monk Who Kicked the Habit by Stay Off Booze (Pub. Fortunate Endeavors 1213 AD.)
Diaries of the Week:
Write On! happy 4th of july
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
R&BLers: Galloping Through the Reading Year 2013
by Limelite
http://www.dailykos.com/...
A Happy Story. Books, Books, And More Books (w/ Photos)
by webranding
http://www.dailykos.com/...
AIDS Walk Austin - my first diary of 2013
by anotherdemocrat
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Kos Katalogue Mothership - HOTLIST THIS!!!
by Sara R
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Contemporary Fiction Views: Putting anger to use
by bookgirl
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Diagon Abby site Google:
https://maps.google.co.uk/...
Click on the picture at the far left and then wait. It takes a bit of time to load and then you can click on the arrows on the walk and up in the left hand corner to go left or right, etc.
Robert Fuller says:
The Rowan Tree
"Part 2: The Holiness of the Heart's Affections" is up. Part 2 of Book 1 is set in the 1990s, approaching closer to the current day.
http://www.rowantreenovel.com/...
This round of the Goodreads Giveaway ends in 4 days. Enter the contest to win a free copy of the paperback version of the book. I will be signing those copies.
http://www.goodreads.com/...
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