What’s In A Name? is being hosted again in 2016 by Charlie at The Worm Hole. It runs from January to December. During this time you choose a book to read from each of the following categories. The titles in brackets are the books I€™ve initially chosen, but this could change over the year as I have more than one for each category.

• A country (Stephen Fry in America)
• An item of clothing (The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins)
• An item of furniture (The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend)
• A profession (The Chimney Sweeper€™s Boy by Barbara Vine )
• A month of the year (The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim)
• A title with the word €˜tree€™ in it (The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell)

These are the books I did read:

• A country – Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
• An item of clothing – A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards
• An item of furniture – A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin
• A profession – Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
• A month of the year – The Madness of July by James Naughtie
• A title with the word €˜tree€™ in it – The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver