Sunday 29 June 2014

Today's post is brought to you by the letter...

Simon over at Stuck in a Book came up with an interesting meme where we say our favourite book, author, song, film, and object beginning with a particular, randomly assigned letter. His was M and he came up with some great suggestions, so I volunteered to join in as long as he didn't give me an X or Z! Well, I avoided those but came out instead with the letter U which, I have to say, has proved quite challenging for some categories. I did suggest to Simon there might be a little bit of cheating involved...

Favourite Book...
A surprisingly easy start, seeing how much I love Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher-Stowe


My battered (but much loved) edition features fantastic, original illustrations by Jenny Nystrom-Stoopendaal



Favourite Author...
Hmm, a trickier one until I switched to first names and remembered Umberto Eco - my favourite being this


Have to say I did struggle a bit with Foucault's Pendulum though...

Favourite Song...
This classic popped into my head when thinking about songs and stopped me from coming up with anything else





Favourite Film...
I know the original French film is 'Intouchables', but translated into English it begins with a 'U' (I did say there'd be some cheating involved!). A really lovely, bittersweet comedy...



Favourite Object...
This may well be the biggest cheat of all but I love this UTTERLY adorable butterfly my younger daughter drew at nursery when she was four


What was I to do? I'm not exactly in love with my umbrella!

This has been a great idea and fun to think around, so thank you for coming up with it, Simon! I'm off to have a look at other people's letters now..






4 comments:

  1. Impressive work with 'U'! I'd have come UNSTUCK (hahaha) much earlier.

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  2. Great choices! U was much harder than O (which is what I got); I'm very impressed at your unique list. :)

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    1. Thank you - you have some great choices too! I particularly love your Origami Yoda and agree that thinking of an object was surprisingly difficult (hence my complete cheat...)

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