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In May, read one or more classic books or short stories that have a colour in the title.

The traditional rainbow colours include
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Depending on where you live, you may have more or fewer colours for a rainbow - but for this challenge can you build a complete rainbow using the list? Remember short stories are allowed!

Examples:

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (May Challenge 2023)
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Red

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Indigo

Violet

R O Y G B I V





Following the Yellow Brick Road
Cosmic
Jazzy
Kathy
Lynn
Nidhi
Nike
Trisha
Rosemarie
Shaina
Vit

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🌈 Red : The Red Room (1894) - H.G. Wells

🌈 Orange : Clockwork Orange (1962) - Anthony Burgess

🌈 Yellow: The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) - Gaston Leroux

🌈 Green : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1397) - Unknown

🌈 Blue : The Blue Lagoon (1908) - Henry de Vere Stacpoole

🌈 Indigo : Mood Indigo (1947) - Boris Vian

🌈 Violet : The Violet Book - Willis Boyd Allen (1855-1938)

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Red The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

🌈 Orange The Five Orange Pips, Arthur Conan Doyle

🌈Yellow The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux

Green

🌈 Blue The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Arthur Conan Doyle

Indigo

Violet

R O Y G B I V

Wonderful idea! 🙂🌺

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Red I dag röd... by Stieg Trenter publ 1945

Orange The Five Orange Pips by Arthur Conan Doyle publ 1891

Yellow Yellow Iris: Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie first publ 1937

Green Greenshaw's Folly - a Miss Marple Short Story by Agatha Christie publ 1956

Blue The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie publ 1928

Indigo

Violet

R G B I V

Nike wrote: "Wonderful idea! 🙂🌺"

Thanks, Nike! Good luck with your challenge.

Trisha always has the best ideas! Glad to have you on our journey Nike! x

a lot of mine are easy to find! Audiobooks on youtube, project gutenberg, etc.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow Challenge (May 2023)
Goal: 2 books

ROYGBV

✅Red The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene ❤️

Orange

✅Yellow : The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang💛

Green

Blue

Violet

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5/5 Calling this done and moving one book to June's challenge

Red
✅The Five Red Herrings - Dorothy L. Sayers (1931)
Orange
✅The Five Orange Pips - Arthur Conan Doyle (1891) 5/5/12
Yellow
✅The Yellow Face - Arthur Conan Doyle (1893) 5/5/23
Green
✅Green Tea - J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)
Blue
✅The Blue Room - Georges Simenon (1964)

Thank you for signing up already, Rosemarie & Kathy.

Tourmaline itself is like a rainbow…
Its colours range throughout all the rainbow hues from pale pink to deep indigo…
Randolph Stow - Tourmaline 1963
Green is a colour of meadows… Green is a colour of life…
Mario Vargas Llosa - The Green House 1965
Blue is a colour of sadness…
John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-By 1964

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Shaina wrote: "I'm going with White and Black.

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1. The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr
2. [book:The Littl..."

Shaina, please read the challenge & the template. The colours are:
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
You have chosen interesting books for a different challenge.

Dang! Sorry... let's blame it on my lack of sleep. I'll see if I can come up with something else

Shaina wrote: "Dang! Sorry... let's blame it on my lack of sleep. I'll see if I can come up with something else"

Thanks, Shaina. If you don’t have much time for this, remember that short stories are allowed! Jazzy also made a helpful suggestion in message #9.

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Red The Red Inn by Honoré de Balzac (1831)

Orange

Yellow

Green How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn (1939)

☑ Blue Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin (1957) May 23, 2023 4*

Indigo

Violet



R O Y G I V

I will definitely need to copy off of someone else's paper to come up with the rest of these ideas!

The book I've chosen for Red doesn't seem to be translated into English but I hope Jazzy will confirm that the Swedish word for red is in the title? Thank you 😘

Nike wrote: "The book I've chosen for Red doesn't seem to be translated into English but I hope Jazzy will confirm that the Swedish word for red is in the title? Thank you 😘"

I’m sure she will - but don’t worry, we trust you. If you know it’s the correct word then we’ll accept it, Nike.

Trisha wrote: "Nike wrote: "The book I've chosen for Red doesn't seem to be translated into English but I hope Jazzy will confirm that the Swedish word for red is in the title? Thank you 😘"

I’m sure she will - b..."

Thank you 👌🖍️

I've found a colorful writer in my quest for titles with Indigo. Unfortunately it's difficult to find her books for a reasonable price in my country. However I discovered that her titles include most colours. So I thought it might help you too:

Frances Crane has written:

The Flying Red Horse and Murder in Bright Red

The Yellow Violet Both yellow and violet!

Death-Wish Green

Murder in Blue Street and Death in the blue hour: A Pat Abbott mystery

The Indigo Necklace Murders


They are written between 1941 and 1965

And I just found plenty of more novels by her in all colours! 🙂🌈🎨

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (May Challenge 2023)
1/5/23 - 31/5/23
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Red The Red Badge of Courage

Orange

Yellow

Green

Blue

Indigo

Violet

R O Y G B I V

Nike wrote: "I've found a colorful writer in my quest for titles with Indigo. Unfortunately it's difficult to find her books for a reasonable price in my country. However I discovered that her titles include mo..."

Thanks, Nike. I've added The Indigo Necklace Murders to my challenge!

Nike wrote: "I've found a colorful writer in my quest for titles with Indigo. Unfortunately it's difficult to find her books for a reasonable price in my country. However I discovered that her titles include mo..."

That’s very helpful, thank you Nike. I spent ages searching for indigo & violet last night with little success.

I'm glad I could help you 🙂💜

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Red- The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Green- The Green Yearsby A.J. Cronin

Sorry for my lack of participation! Life, mild illness, blah blah excuses.

ooh a book by AJ Cronin Nidhi! Lovely Scottish author.

Röd = Red, of course (re. Nike) !

Everyone linked to here! x

Jazzy wrote: "Sorry for my lack of participation! Life, mild illness, blah blah excuses.

ooh a book by AJ Cronin Nidhi! Lovely Scottish author.

Röd = Red, of course (re. Nike) !"

Thanks Jazzy and I'm glad you've recovered and that you're back 🌺

It's good to have you back, Jazzy!

I read my two books and tomorrow my husband and I are leaving for a trip to Ireland! Neither of us have been there but everyone who has says we're going to love it.

Rosemarie wrote: "It's good to have you back, Jazzy!

I read my two books and tomorrow my husband and I are leaving for a trip to Ireland! Neither of us have been there but everyone who has says we're going to love it."

Have a wonderful holiday, Rosemarie.

Thank you, Trisha!

Hello, I understand having trouble getting the reading done. I hope to finish "Sonny's Blues" but that may be all for the month. I also had a health challenge and just got home from a gallbladder surgery.

Lynn wrote: "Hello, I understand having trouble getting the reading done. I hope to finish "Sonny's Blues" but that may be all for the month. I also had a health challenge and just got home from a gallbladder s..."

Lynn, I hope you start to feel better very soon. Don’t worry about reading challenges, you can do those another time.

So many fantastic colours…
“The sky was of that turquoise, verging on green, that comes between sunset and darkness, and had one star in it.”
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Randolph Stow - Tourmaline 1963
“Huddled under the canopy, stripped to the waist, the soldiers are asleep, with the greenish, yellowish noonday sun above…”
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Mario Vargas Llosa - The Green House 1965
“Rose-colored lightning webbed down. Water bounced knee high, silver in the green premature dusk…”
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-By 1964

Have a smashing time in Ireland, where are you going Rosemarie? I was in Dublin in March. xx

Lynn, Sorry to hear you've had a rough time, I hope you get well soon! xx

Lovely colours Vit xx

We were on our own in Dublin last weekend, and it was packed full of people for the big rugby match.
We started our group tour in Belfast and have been heading south and west for the wild Atlantic Way.

My friend Vinn was in Dublin at the match!

So I did after all finish two of the colours this month - yellow and orange ; Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

I'll meet both those gentlemen again in June. I might add I've always loved classic detective stories. It started with Enid Blyton and I started reading (Dame?) Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the age of ten and have loved them ever since. Though I must admit that I still haven't actually read as many Sherlock but watched him numerous times on film.

Even though Nordic Noir is quite popular these days I still do prefer the British crime novels, even the modern ones. I just love old charming ladies in small cottages and vicars in countryside churches killing using poisons. So I'm very content with the possibility of managing the monthly challenges in this group with decent British murders when I don't have enoght space to read more full length novels (due to other reading challenges).

Jazzy wrote: "My friend Vinn was in Dublin at the match!"

He must have had a blast!

Nike wrote: "So I did after all finish two of the colours this month - yellow and orange ; Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

I'll meet both those gentlemen again in June. I might add I've always loved class..."

I love them all, I'm reading a lot of Simenon and BLCC :D

I must confess I still haven't read more than two George's Simenon, that was a good reminder. I'll add him for future challenges in this group.

But who is BLCC?

Nike wrote: "I must confess I still haven't read more than two George's Simenon, that was a good reminder. I'll add him for future challenges in this group.

But who is BLCC?"

British Library Crime Classics! ☺️

Jazzy wrote: "Nike wrote: "I must confess I still haven't read more than two George's Simenon, that was a good reminder. I'll add him for future challenges in this group.

But who is BLCC?"

British Library Cri..."

Aha! 😄 So another delicious list for me to start digesting! Thank you 🥰

My pleasure, treasure - You're going to love them!!