On the Fourth Day of Pink Carnation….
My author gave to me… four Pink Carnation tote bags!
Here’s your question for today: If you could put only four books in your tote bag before being stranded on that proverbial desert island, which four books would they be?
(Note: you are under no obligation to include a Pink Carnation book!)
Four winners will be chosen at random from among the entrants– regardless of book choice.
1. Time Travelers Wife
2. Black Tulip
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
4. Goodnight Moon
1. Wicked
2. And Then There Were None
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip
4. Gone With the Wind
l. The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
2. Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
3. Forever Amber – Kathleen Winsor
4. Voyager – Diana Gabaldon
(I’d cheat and have Pink Carnation on kindle!)
I’m not sure I can narrow it down to 4 books. First I’m picking between authors. Something by:
Shannon Hale
Mary Balogh
Lisa Kleypas
Lauren Willig
I’m going to take Susan’s tactic and name four authors:
Bill Bryson
Lauren Willig
Jen Lancaster
Edward Rutherfurd
(And then I’ll cheat by stapling all their books into one gigantic monograph.
Oh this is too hard. How can you narrow it down to four? I’d have to cheat too!
1. all the Pink series
2. the sookie stackhouse books
3. the harry potter books
4. a toss up between Philippa Gregory or Jane Austen.
I think I would have to sneak in a kindle!
1. Scarlet Pimpernel
2. Bleak House
3. Harry Potter series (I know I’m cheating)
4. Pink Carnation series
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Masque of the Black Tulip (by far my favorite of this series)
3. Eat Pray Love
4. The Bhagavad Gita
Can’t I just put in a loaded kindle instead avoid the choosing?
Pride and Prejudice
North and South
In Search of Lost Time (Proust)
Madame Bovary
Can’t I just put in a loaded kindle instead avoid the choosing?
Pride and Prejudice
North and South
In Search of Lost Time (Proust)
Madame Bovary
Don Quixote
1.Demelza
2.Seduction of the Crimson Rose
3.Dragonfly in Amber
4.Through a Glass Darkly
1. Mistletoe by our dear Lauren, absolutely my new fav of Pink
2. A Matter of Class by Mary Balogh
3. Emma by Miss Austen
4. Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
That was really difficult, ah…I think if I was restricted to only 4 books, I would probably have them memorized from cover to cover, along with the publishing info and all, haha.
THis is probably the hardest question I’ve ever had to answer … not even exaggerating. And I see that many here feel the same way. Since I have NO WAY to narrow down my library to 4 books, I’ll just name the first 4 books I can think of as faves:
– Time Traveler’s Wife
– Redeeming Love
– The Catcher in the Rye
– The Mischief of the Mistletoe (Which, might I add, is probably my favorite Pink book. I love that it’s just so light-hearted!)
And if I had a Kindle or Nook or other e-reader, I’d want to count that too … 🙂
1. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
2. As Sure as the Dawn by Francine Rivers
3. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Phantom by Susan Kay
3. Sherlock Holmes Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Sherlock Holmes volume 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Masque of the Black Tulip (Miles!)
3. The Winter Rose
4. North and South (not the one that takes place during the Civil War!)
That was tough to do. I’m not sure I could really choose only four!
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Jane Eyre
3. Outlander
4. Into the Wilderness
I would take my nook and solve the problem with taking too many books….oh whatever did we do without technology.
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
2. The Devil in Winter, Lisa Kleypas
3. The Deception of the Emerald Ring, Lauren Willig
4. Tap and Gown, Diana Peterfruend
I’ve always hated it when credit cards suggest the security question of “what is your favorite book?” since it really depends on my mood, so I can’t really answer the question. This is almost JUST as bad. For today, my 4 favorite books are:
1. Black Tulip
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
3. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (out of all of your characters I relate the most to Charlotte…not to mention Hentrietta and Miles play a prominent role in this book)
4. The Other Boleyn Girl
I tried to think of books I had read multiple times…
1. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Four is tricky but if I had to…
Maia by Richard Adams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The World According to Garp by John Irving
1. Persuasion
2. Blood Lily/Black Tulip (it’s a tie between those two!)
3. When He Was Wicked
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Almost narrowed it down to 4!
OK, I’m cheating like everyone else! 😀
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Harry Potter series
3. the Pink Carnation series
4. The Secret Circle trilogy by L.J. Smith
I hope I finally win a giveaway here! GOOD LUCK ALL!
Green Dolphin Street
Desirée
Outlander-Gabaldon
Any Brunetti Donna Leon mystery
For an old lady, I can carry a heavy book bag. I would have do it by authors and they would be:
Patricia Veryan
Georgette Heyer
Lauren Willig
George MacDonald Fraser
So tough! No Kindle for me though, I like holding an actual book.
1. The Masque of the Black Tulip
2. The Birth of Venus (Sarah Dunant)
3. Bet Me (Jennifer Cruise)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I no particular order
1. Deception of the Emerald Ring
2. To Catch a pirate, Jade Parker
3. Can You Keep a Secret, Sophie Kinsella
4. It Had to Be You, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
pride & prejudice
the black jewels trillogy(one book with all three in it)
black tulip or night jasmine
harry potter & the order of the pheonix
Hmmm…
In no particular order:
1. Mischief of the Mistletoe
2. Shades of Grey – Jasper Fforde
3. Doomsday Book – Connie Willis (’cause I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet)
4. Once and Future King – T.H. White
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Masque of the Black Tulip
Persuasion by Jane Austen
1. The Other Boleyn Girl
2. Ender’s Game
3. Memoirs of a Geisha
4. Temptation of the Night Jasmine
1. Time Traveler’s Wife
2. Little Women
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
4. A Ring of Endless Light
1. Count of Monte Cristo
2. Lord of the Rings
3. Harry Potter series
4. Deception of the Emerald Ring
Sooo hard! So many of my favorites are in series! And I feel like it’s cheating to just name a whole series as one book…
I’ll go with:
1. The Complete Works of Jane Austen (annotated if possible. Also, muahaha – 6 novels for the price of one!)
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (my favorite of the 7, but I’m sure a complete HP series book is just around the corner…)
3. The Thirteenth Tale (no explanation necessary. This book is amazing.)
4. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (staying true to the beginning, even though a complete series book of these would be great also…)
1) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
2) Anything from the Amelia Peabody Series
3) Tintin. There must be an anthology out there with a bunch all bundled together. If I got really bored I could make some kind of flipbook animation thing.
4) Proust. It’s the only way I’d actually finish it otherwise.
This was too difficult, I love my kobo and having all the books.
1. Pink series, Emerald Ring if I have to pick.
2. Emma
3. Harry Potter series seems like a good idea. I also am really enjoying Stieg Larrson’s series.
4. Instructional manual on raft construction. Maybe I should cross off Harry Potter and get another book on water purification . . .
1. Harry Porters (esp. The Half-Blood Prince and Goblet of Fire)
2.Deception of the Emerald Ring ( though I’d sneak all of them in 🙂 )
3. Crime and Punishment/ Anna Karenina
4. One of those big complete books of Jane Sustenance Books
Oh, and something big like a dictionary that I wouldn’t mind using for a smoke signal.
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my Bible 🙂
a Nancy Drew mystery
The Masque of the Black Tulip
Arabian Nights
1. The Book Thief
2. Ella Enchanted
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. The Fountainhead
1. The Mischief of the Mistletoe
2. Curse the Dawn by Karen Chance
3. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
4. Bright Star (The Love Letters of John Keats)
Pride and Prejudice
Gone With the Wind
Wuthering Heights
All of my Julia Quinns and Lauren Willigs magically compiled into one large volume
…and that’s the short version. Couldn’t this have been the 11th day, so we’d have more books to bring?!
I would take:
My Sister’s Keeper, and the first three Harry Potter books.
Oh goodness, only 4 books….
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip (I love Miles and Hen :))
4. and probably Poison Study by Maria Snyder.
That’s such a short list! I’d have to find a way to bring my entire bookshelf though. Maybe I can find a bag like Hermione’s in HP7…..
Wow that is so hard but i will give it a go,
1) deception of the emerald ring
2) the queens fool by Philippa Gregory
3) something by Tracy Chevalier
4) the bible
Which will help me pray real hard, to get me off that island and go get more books:)
If I was to cheat I would say that I’ll just bring my iPad which has the library fully stocked:)
1) The Masque of the Black Tulip
2) Little Women
3) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
4) The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Oh that was agonizing! I fully agree with Laura, I’d bring my Kindle!
1) Seduction of the Crimson Rose by the lovely and talented Lauren Willig
2) American Gods by Neil Gaiman
3) Everything’s Eventual by Stephen King
4) The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice writing as AN Roquelaure
1. Any book from Elizabeth Peters.(The Last Camel Died At Noon, if I has to pick)
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
3. Rebecca
4. Secret History of the Pink Carnation or the Bloody Lily book
1. A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson
2. The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnely
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip
4. Betrayal of the Blood Lily
Pink Carnation
Fried Greene Tomatoes
Jane Eyre
Emma
This is just ridiculously hard! hmmm o i’m going to try and stay true to the four books even though i’d gladly give up something else on the island in exchange for more books!
1. Harry Potter 7 by JK Rowling
2. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
3. Alanna: the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce(I know this is a YA series, but I’ve read it once every year since I was 13!)
4. The Mask of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig (it’s my favorite :-))
My Bible
A survival guide [including instructions for boat/raft building, communicating SOS and desert island living skills]
Temptation of the Night Jasmine
The Complete Works of Jane Austen[fine leather bound because, well, why not?]
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2. All the King’s Men
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip
4. The Shadow of the Wind
Oh this is hard:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Deception of the Emerald Ring
The Spellman Files
Pretty in Plaid
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Outlander
3. Atonement
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
1. Bible
2. The Deception of the Emerald Ring
3. Gone With The Wind
4. The Complete Works of Jane Austen
1) any from the Pink series
2) any of the Harry Potter books
3) Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
4) My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. Harry Potter-Any or all of the books!
3. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.Any of the books from the Pink Series.
Son of a Witch
The Jane Austen Collection…not cheating because they all come in one book:)
Pink Carnation
The Lost Symbol
Four books
1. The Masque of the Black Tulip
2. Sullivan’s Island
3. Plantation
4. The Time Travelers Wife
I love all of these books and could read them over and over. If I could take four series I would take the pink carnation series, the Harry Potter series, the Percey Jackson series and as many Dorothea Benton Frank novels as I could carry.
Emma, by Jane Austen
The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes
Nana (any volume), by Ai Yazawa
Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer
Ummm… I accidentally posted my comment on goodreads.com. Sorry for that!
I wonder what our answers might be five and ten years from now? Interesting…
1. The Bible
2. A blank book for writing my own story
3. The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig
4. Mine till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas
1. The Blue Castle by L.M.Montgomery
2. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
3. Persuasion by Jane Austen
4. The Bible According to Mark Twain
1 the outsiders
2 Mary Balogh slightly series
3 Lady Emily series by Tasha Alexander
4 and pink series…all
1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
2. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
3. A Vision of Light (Judith Merkle Riley)
4. Rachel’s Holiday (Marian Keyes)
Well since the Pink Carnation books are my favorite, this does not take much thought.
1. The Secret History of the Pink
Carnation
2. The Masque of the Black Tulip
3. The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
4. The Betrayel of the Blood Lily
On the fourth day … the author gave to me
4 thrilling books,
3 fresh quotes,
2 selfsame FAQs,
And a hero in her story.
😉
* Pride and Prejudice
* Gaudy Night
* Flashman in the Great Game
* The Complete Sherlock Holmes
That’s a HARD question!
-The Complete Chronicles of Narnia, omnibus ed. by C.S. Lewis
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
-The Bible
-The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
-The Masque of the Black Tulip
-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
-The Namesake
1. sati
2. kiss before midnight
3. a carnation book (not sure which)
4. bible
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
3. They Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
1) The World according to Garp
2) Eat, Pray, Love
3) The Masque of the Black Tulip
4) Inside the Kingdom
1. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
2. The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
3. The Miracle at St. Bruno’s by Philippa Carr
4. The Thurber Carnival (specifically The Car We Had to Push) by James Thurber
1. Pride and Prejudice (of course) – Jane Austen
2. Mischief of the Mistletoe (gotta love Turnip) – Lauren Willig
3. An Atlas – so I can try to figure out which island I am stranded on
4. A complete Encyclopedia – because who wouldn’t want to read up on anything-and-everything while sitting on a beach waiting to be rescued.
So hard to choose!
1. Persuasion by Jane Austen
2. A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
3. Atonement by Ian McEwan
4. Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Only four books?
Well…
1.Pride and Prejudice
2.When Christ and his saints slept by Sharon Kay Penman
3.Mischief of the mistletoe
4.Housewrights by Art Corriveau
Hmmm, only four?
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
2. Elementals by A.S. Byatt
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
4. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
So tough to choose!
1)Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
2)The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, MaGuire
3)A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
4)Ender’s Game, Orson Card
<3 So many lovely books to choose from!
1. All things Wise and Wonderful- James Herriot
2. The other Boleyn Girl- Philippa Gregory
3. And only to deceive- Tasha Alexander
4. The Spellman files- Lisa Lutz
1. Gone With the Wind
2. Pride and Predjudice
3. Lonesome Dove
4. Les Miserables (aka 1499 pages of fire fuel, just in case, I wouldn’t want to have to burn my other beloved books)
1) The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende
2) War and Peace by Tolstoy
3) The Norton Shakespeare (yay complete works!!!!)
4) The Book Thief
1. The Thornbirds
2. Jane Eyre
3. Gone With the Wind
4. The Good Earth
1. The Sunne in Splendour
2. Pride and Predjudice
3. Complete Works of Shakespeare
4. Outlander
The Historian By (elizabeth ka…something)
Fahrenheit 451
The Betrayal of the Blood Lilly
Harry potter ( i cant pick one)
PS. I love the seek them when and where you will bag. So Perfect
1. Emma
2. The Far Pavillions
3. Little Women
4. Black Tulip
1. Secret History of the Pink Carnation
2. Complete Works of Shakespeare
3. Peter Pan
4. Bible
~lAUra
1. Pride and Prejudice
2. Anne of Green Gables
3. Possession: AS Byatt
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Oooh! Four is hard but much easier than 1 which is usually the question.
1. Complete works of Jane Austen (I’ll have time on that island to read the 3 I haven’t yet)
2. Romancing Mr. Bridgerton (favorite Julia Quinn novel though my preference would be to have her 1st trilogy and the Bridgertons and any other books with Lady Danbury)
3. Katie Chandler series by Shanna Swendson (these 4 would fit because combined they are still shorter than a Harry Potter book which was the other option)
4. Full House by Janet Evanovich (though the entire Full Series would be nice)
Pink book that would have to go: Masque of the Black Tulip – I love me some Hen and Miles
1. Persuasion
2. Masque of the Black Tulip
3. Bet Me-Jennifer Crusie
4. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Only four? Way to make us book lovers really have to pick and choose…so I’m gonna cheat a bit!
1. The Complete Works of Jane Austen
2. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
3. Pink Carnation series (I can’t just have one…)
4. Harry Potter series
Yeah, I’m a bit of a cheater, but you’re so cruel to limit us! 🙂
1) Les Miserables (Because I love it and it would take ages to finish again)
2) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
3) Pride and Prejudice
4) A Tale of Two Cities
1. Jane Eyre
2. Pride & Prejudice
3. The India Fan by Victoria Holt
4. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
1. Outlander
2. The Masque of the Black Tulip
3. Kane and Able
This is a really tough choice. I really want to cheat and bring a kindle…
1. Masque of the Black Tulip
2. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
3. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
4. The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye
See Pammy. See Pammy cheat.
1. Complete works of Jane Austen (it’s in one volume…)
2. Brideshead Revisited
3. Possession (A.S. Byatt)
4. A toss up between Rebecca (Daphne du Maurier), The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova), and Jane Eyre.
And if I could throw in a Pink book it would be Seduction of the Crimson Rose.
This deserted island wouldn’t happen to have a public library, would it?
The collected works of Jane Austen
The entire Harry Potter series (I’m pretending it could all be put in one book haha)
The host by stephenie Meyer
Count of Monte cristo by Alexandre dumas
Wow this is hard! but without cheating…
1) Pride and Prejudice (no brainer :))
2) Venetia, since I’m only allowed 1 Georgette Heyer
3) The Scarlet Pimpernel (pretty much a no-brainer)
4) I was going to say Persuasion, but then I saw someone posted Eva Ibbotson, and I remembered The Morning Gift!
5) I just remembered Daddy Long Legs… I can’t not bring Daddy Long Legs… It’s going to have to be 5, sorry 🙂
I’m too prosaic for this sort of thing. I keep imagining I’m on that island with my tote bag and for the next several years, my reading material will consist of … well, let’s see –
1)Dictionary
2)Collected works of Jane Austen single volume
3)King James Bible
4)Lord of the Rings
I selected books that impacted me and if on a desert island, I hope other island inhabitants would also realize an impact in their lives:
1) Stranger in a Strange Land
2) Johnny Got His Gun
3) The Bourne Identity
4) To Kill a Mockingbird
1. Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen (collected works tome really would be the way to go here…)
2. These Old Shades-Georgette Heyer
3. The Seduction of the Crimson Rose-Lauren Willig
4.Le Petit Prince-Antoine de St. Exupery
1. P&P – Jane Austen
2. Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
3. Fables Collection – Bill Willingham
4. Lisa Kleypas book (anyone would do)
I would already have Lauren Willig, Nora Roberts, Matt Sturges and Robin McKinley’s works on my person somewhere, so that wouldn’t count.
1. Jane Austen Collection (if cannot do collections, it would be P&P, though Persuasion is my favorite)
2. The Villa by Nora Roberts
3. Shakespeare’s Anthology
4. Blank book to write my own musings
What a fabulous question, Lauren! Not only do we have to make a decision, we also get to see what people hold near and dear! A ‘How To Survive Anything’ book would be good… but who needs sustenance when you have a good book! 🙂
I don’t like books.
1. Persuasion
2. North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
3. Wives and Daughters
4. A toss up between either A Room with a View or Middlemarch
1. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
2. Brave New World
3. The Lovely Bones
4. Avalon High
Persuasion
The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
I love your books so the first two are (in no particular order!)
The Masque of the Black Tulip
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine ( i realized I am a lot like Charlotte in the book! Seriously!)
Soulless: Gail Carriger
The Girl who kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Stieg Larsson
😀
Gee, this is tough. I’ll probably not want to take anything too dreary. I think it would have to be Pride and Prejudice, Cotillion, The Code of the Woosters and any Agatha Christie mystery.
hmmm…..
Pride and Prejudice
Winnie-the-Pooh
Jane Eyre
Probably Finnegan’s Wake – being on a desert island would be a good time to finish it.
I think those four are a good balance of old and new reads.
For me, it would have to be books I could read over and over again. Those would be, in no particular order:
1. The Phantom of the Opera
2. Watership Down
3. Seduction of the Crimson Rose (my favorite to date)
4. The Hobbit
1.A Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
3. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
4. The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig (Gotta have a great romance!! :P)