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24. A book with a weather element in the title
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The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition by William Kamkwamba
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Winter Wind by J.R. Rain
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
Brain Storm by Elaine Viets
Deep Storm by Lincoln Child
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Chasing Rainbows by Kathleen Long
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss by Anderson Cooper
Dashing Through the Snow by Mary Higgins Clark
Flowers in the Snow by Danielle Stewart
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
An Echo Through the Snow by Andrea Thalasinos
Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
Palm Trees in the Snow by Luz Gabas
Twister by Michael Crichton
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Tornado Terror: True Tornado Survival Stories and Amazing Facts from History and Today by Lauren Tarshis
Tornado Weather by Deborah Elaine Kennedy
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina by Rodman Philbrick
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 by Lauren Tarshis
The Hurricane Sisters by Dorothea Benton Frank

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Winter Solstice by Rosamund Pilcher
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Dry by Jane Harper
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest by Craig Childs
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
Winter Wind by J.R. Rain
Snow in May: Stories by Kseniya Melnik
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Room Temperature by Nicholson Baker



The German edition of Why Did You Lie? by Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is called Nebelmord, which translates to "Murder in the Mist". So the German version would fit the prompt and I'm fine, because the German edition is the one I have.
The original title is "Lygi", meaning "Lies".
My question is now: In this particular case, I would count the German edition for the prompt but not the English or the original, but what if the original mentioned the "mist" and the German did not? I don't speak Icelandic, but if the original title fitted the prompt, would it then be OK to use a translation of that book for the prompt, even if the translated title no longer fitted it?
For instance, last year I read "Reconstructing Amelia", which is called "Die letzte Wahrheit" ("The Last Truth") in German. Would it have been OK to use it for the "Character's name in the title" prompt (I didn't)? Because I feel there are two ways to approach this: Either you're super strict and only count the actual titles you're reading, or you will always let the original title count, no matter what the translation, and also the translated title of the edition you're reading.
Thoughts? Or should this actually be a separate topic?

Half of a Yellow Sun
Death in the Clouds
Gone with the Wind
The Snowman
The Ice Princess
Smilla's Sense of Snow

CyberStorm
Windfallen
Windwitch
A Storm of Swords
White as Snow
Gone with the Wind
Snow Like Ashes
Siege and Storm
Cloud Atlas
The Shadow of the Wind
The Name of the Wind


Does it say how cold it actually is? I have always wondered because from my perspective warfare during winter is nothing special and "cold" is only really worth mentioning if it's closer or over (or below?) -40 degrees...


I should read a book about one mission during which temperatures of -50 C have been mentioned. Then a bit of skiing, maybe about 100 km to home, enemy soldiers behind you... Well, at least they had methamphetamine.

Korea is a hugely mountainous country, both North and South and a lot of the war was conducted in the mountains (problematic for Americans because they were best with tanks, which they had few of and in many areas they weren’t very practical). At the southern tip, in Busan, you wouldn’t ever need winter jackets, but in the north in the mountains it’s very cold. Basically they didn’t bother to issue the soldiers winter supplies because they thought it would be a super easy win and they wouldn’t be there for the winter. Then they scrambled to try to supply people when China entered the war.
I went camping in a tent one weekend where it hit -40 with the windchill. I don’t ever want to be that cold again!




Outlander: A Breath of Snow and Ashes! I am working on the series--so I am excited that I get to use this book category!



The law versus the spirit of the law? This is about reading books, isn't it? Even if it has elements of a marathon or a race? And Chinook says it well in another thread, where she suggests we all struggle with dilemmas about guidelines in different ways.

I'm thinking about re-reading some of my V.C. Andrews next year, and she has a number of weather titles:
Rain
Lightning Strikes
Eye of the Storm
The End of the Rainbow (I assume Rainbow works as a weather word)
Pearl in the Mist
Anna wrote: "Is Wuthering Heights too much of a stretch?"
I don't think it's a stretch at all!! I count "wuthering" as a weather word.
I don't think it's a stretch at all!! I count "wuthering" as a weather word.

The German edition of Why Did You Lie? by Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir is called Nebelmord, which translates to ..."
Conny, I didn't notice any other responses, so I'll put in my two cents. I don't think there are any challenge police, so if it seems ok to you, then go for it!


I'm excited to see some of you reading Gone with the Wind... one of my favorites!

The Lightning Thief
The Mists of Avalon
The Sea of Storms
Prisoner of Night and Fog
The Shadow of the Wind
The Mist
Empire of Storms
Snow Like Ashes
Flame in the Mist
Gone with the Wind



The Snow Child
Girls Made of Snow and Glass
Snow White: A Graphic Novel
The Abominable Snowman (a Choose Your Own Adventure book!)
Rain Reign
Waiting for the Rain
Eye of the Storm
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Flood and Fang
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
I'll Give You the Sun
I obviously have a lot to pick from, but I hope the list is useful to some of you, too.



Wind from the Abyss By Janet E Morris and
When the Wind Blows by James Patterson
sitting here at the moment but it will probably be Wind from the Abyss after I read High Couch of Silistra for the Book on another planet and The Golden Sword as the next book in a series. Mum loved those books and I always wanted to get around to reading them. I can remember always having to go to the Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney when I went there for a day trip with my boyfriend at the time (3 hours away by train) to see if I could get the next one in the series for her. And yes even though Mum died 16 years ago and I actually bought the books for her around 35 or more years ago I still have her copies on my shelf to read. In fact I still have all of her old friends put away.
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