Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt (Evelyn Knight Edition)

Hey, guys, this is Evelyn Knight again! I have accepted the challenge from Kamama to do this activity. Well, actually, it was more like I was excited when I saw it and started doing it myself. Anyway, here is my version of the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt:

Find an author’s name or title with the letter Z in it:

I’ll go with Violet’s Perplexing Puzzles. I should thank my sister for letting me put some of her books on my shelf, otherwise there wouldn’t be any for me to put down for Z! This one is from the Life of Faith Violet series (based on the books by Martha Finley), which is really good.

Find a classic:

I chose A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This is just a solid choice and it has a nice weight to it. I could have said Little Women, but this has the “classic” classic feel.

Find a book with a key on it:

This was easy for me. I thought immediately of The Lost Clue by Mrs. O.F. Walton which is published by Lamplighter. I love this book so much for the strong story and role model characters.

Find something on your bookshelf that’s not a book:

Well, I have a lot, considering I use some space for cross stitching. One of my favorite things is a glass cross, which actually is sad since it was in a flower arrangement at my great aunt’s funeral. Okay, that got really sad. But it is a beautiful cross, and I use it as a bookend.

Find the oldest book on your shelf:

Since I’ve replaced my books before I can’t remember the oldest one I got, so I’ll go with the oldest one written. Probably Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors although it was abridged for when my theatre group did it.

Find a book with a girl on the cover:

I’ll go with Raiders from the Sea by Lois Walfrid Johnson. Bree is on the cover, but the funny thing is, she’s behind a boy even though she is the main character. The cover isn’t my favorite, but I like the dramatic ship in the front and seeing those two main characters.

Find a book with a boy on the cover:

Okay, I’m not going with the same cover above–although technically I could. There’s a book I read for school called The Chosen by Chaim Potok with a boy holding books and having a serious expression on his face. It’s a good book, although I didn’t like the language in it.

Find a book that has an animal in it:

I decided to go with a lesser known book called Storming by K.M. Weiland. Although the story isn’t really about the dog, the dog plays a very important role in the story and character development.

Find a book with a male protagonist:

Sir Knight of the Splendid Way. One of the best books I’ve ever read. I love Sir Constant, the main character, and I love the truths portrayed in this allegory.

Find a book with only words on it:

I decided to choose The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. This book was also one I had to read for school, and the cover is actually very pretty with branches around the title, but nothing else. Strangely enough, the words are all lowercase letters, even the author name.

Find a book with illustrations in it:

Um. I immediately thought of the Wingfeather Saga. Does Pembrick’s Creaturepedia count? It basically is a book of illustrations.

Find a book with gold lettering:

I looked up at my lamplighter collection and saw how almost every book has gold lettering. I’ll go with The Alabaster Box by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Florence Morse Kingsley because it is such a pretty cover that also feels nice and leathery. The story took time to get into but won me over in the end.

Find a diary (true or fiction):

I don’t have a diary on my bookshelf, just like Kamama.

Find a book written by someone with a common name:

I’ll go with The Black Star of Kingston because his name is S.D. Smith, or technically Sam Smith which is relatively common.

Find a book that has a closeup of something on it:

When Through Deep Waters by Rachelle Dekker has a closeup of a face. I really couldn’t find a good one to fit the prompt, but the cover is pretty cool.

Find a book that takes place in an early time period:

Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace is probably my oldest time period (it is around the time of Jesus), so Kamama has me beat there.

Find a hardcover book without a dust jacket:

The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers. I’m sorry, I didn’t like the dust jacket and took it off. Besides, underneath the book has a gold title on the spine.

Find a teal/turquoise colored book

I looked up and saw The Raider’s Promise in the Viking Quest series. So I’ll go with that. It is really pretty in color, and this book makes me cry every time I read a certain part of it.

Find a book with stars on it:

The Charlatan’s Boy by Jonathan Rogers. They aren’t real stars, just ones to decorate the cover and make it seem like a circus. I don’t especially care for the colors, but it is definitely striking.

Find the longest book you own:

Yeah, Kamama just blew it out of the water for hers! I can’t even compare, but my longest book is Dreamlander by K.M. Weiland, and it’s 532 pages, including the pages that come in the front. It is a great book too, and made me ugly cry at the end.

Find the shortest book you own:

The Pearl by John Steinbeck. A depressing book, but interesting. I had to read it for school. It’s 90 pages long.

Find a book with multiple POV’s:

The Warden and the Wolf King by Andrew Peterson. The POV’s are Janner, Kalmar, Sara, and probably Artham. I didn’t want to go through all of it and pick them all out, but the book is really thick and there’s a lot of characters. Maraly and Gammon are in there somewhere too.

Find a shiny book:

I chose The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien because my cover has a red and gold shiny binding mixed with green.

Find a book with flowers on it:

Millie’s Unsettled Season from the Life of Faith series (based on the original books by Martha Finley) is one that has flowers, although technically all of them do in the Life of Faith books.

That was a lot of books! I hope you recognized some of them. I’m glad Kamama had the idea to do this. I definitely had fun doing mine, and I hope Auriel and Serena do their own version too!

Keep writing and reading, everyone!

~Evelyn Knight