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Well done everyone! Lots of right answers, although number 4 wasn't identified:

Jane Eyre (J in air)

Plane (refers to Jane being described as being plain in the book)

There were a couple of disgruntled people whom did not much care for the visual clues. I'd just like to say that if you were to realise the amount of time and effort that goes into creating each image, perhaps you wouldn't be so critically dismissive. However, I can understand that not all the quizzes posted are to everyone's liking and, for this reason, we do try to offer different formats.

As always, thank you to everyone who took part!

Can you guess the 10 book titles these images represent? 📚🤔

As always, please use >!SPOILERS!< if you are able to, so everyone gets a chance at solving the quiz.

I am feeling nostalgic and would like to know what everyone used to read. What was your favourite book when you were little, and why did you love it so?

My absolute favourite was The Call Of The Wild (Jack London).

I used to love the outdoors as a kid. I have such fond memories of when my dad would take me camping "In The Wild!" At first, it was just him and me. It didn't take long before my friends joined us (I would excitedly tell them about my "just about survived" adventures in the Great Outdoors every Monday morning in school following a camping trip). We fancied ourselves explorers, indomitable adventurers who dared to ignore all the dangerous perils of a wild land... Yeah, good times.

I guess it's not surprising that The Call Of The Wild would become my favourite book growing up...

Honourable mention goes to The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

I’ve put together a very short story, but here’s the catch: it is stitched together entirely out of six famous book quotes. Can you name the book title (and author, for bonus points) for each quote?

Drop your answers in the comments below and, if you are able to, please use >!Spoilers!< so everyone gets a chance to play. Hope you enjoy the quiz!

Last week's post included images that specifically pointed to the book titles, this time there are a couple of images that instead point to well known plots/characters in the book...

Hope you enjoy the quiz, any feedback is always appreciated.

Please use >!SPOILERS!< if you are able to, as this allows everyone to take part.

A rare first edition of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird has been found among items donated to Oxfam, according to the charity.

The copy of Harper Lee's seminal 1960 work was discovered in a box of American books given to the charity's bookshop in Portobello Road, west London.

It has since been acquired by the British Library and will join its national collection.

Shop manager Olivia Haysman-Walker, who identified the copy as being a first US edition, said the book could easily have been missed. "There were lots of books to work through in the donation, but we recognised To Kill A Mockingbird and thought it was worth taking a closer look."

She added: "We realised quite quickly that we had something really special.

"The dust jacket showed its age, and although it was worn around the edges, the pages inside were in beautiful condition.

"It's amazing to think that this book has passed through our Oxfam bookshop and into the national collection at the British Library.

For decades, during her scientific research, Marie Curie handled dangerous radioactive materials like radium and polonium without modern safety gear.

During WWI she trained medical staff and operated mobile X-ray units on the front lines, exposing her body to high levels of X-rays.

This high level of continuous exposure resulted in bone marrow disease, which ultimately she did not survive.

To this day, and for an estimated 1500 years therein, her notebooks and papers are and will remain radioactive ☢️

Mary Elizabeth Frye wrote the verse on a brown paper shopping bag to comfort a young friend, Margaret Schwarzkopf, whose mother had died overseas and who could not visit the grave.

Frye never copyrighted or officially published the poem during the early years, causing it to circulate anonymously for decades.

Her authorship was not widely known or officially confirmed until 1988, when she publicly stated she wrote it, a fact later verified through research popularized by advice columnist Abigail Van Buren.

Some literary debates note that a similar-themed poem titled "Immortality" was published by Clare Harner in 1934, leading to occasional discussions on parallel inspirations or overlapping versions, but Frye remains widely credited as the author of this specific text.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow,

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain,

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush,

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there.

I did not die.

A recent survey by Thortful asked people to name their favourite words of the English language, here are the results:

CUDDLE took the number 1 spot, with 77.1% of respondents voting it as a word they genuinely love.

PICTURESQUE came in a very close second at 76.9%, favored strongly for its visual imagery.

AURORA took third place with 74.9% of the votes.

SERENDIPITY was voted the fourth most popular word with 72.1% of the votes.

My personal favourite would have been LULLABY...

Ok, Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye): Dismissed as an annoying, privileged whiner, but isn't he a deeply traumatised teenager grieving his brother's death?

Question number 5 had two possible answers, so both are accepted as correct answers.

The role Margaret Mitchell's husband played during her accident has long been speculated upon.

The accident that caused the death of Albert Camus has been suspected to be linked to KGB operatives

Welcome to our new (hopefully regular!) weekly post: The Wednesday Reading Lounge.

Think of it as a Book Club of sorts, a place where you can share your favourite books, authors, quotes and passages, book trivia (of course!), share images of your favourite book cover art and so much more...!

Need book suggestions? Ask away!

Want to recommend your favourite books? Please do!

Are you a budding author and would like to share some examples of your work? We'd love to read it!

You get the idea. The Wednesday Reading Lounge will be what you make it, let's see where it takes us...!

I'll start today with one of my favourite book dedications:

C.S. Lewis for his Goddaughter Lucy Barfield taken from The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe

My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books...

As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather,

C. S. Lewis.