The challenge: "Can't think of a book title" or "Can't think of a book idea"?

I've always thought that the book title was the easiest part, but the book story the hardest. I tried this idea for both titles and story lines. Use the names of songs and the lyrics to get ideas. When listening to a song one day I said, what if that was a book title, what would the story be, and it took off from there.

Top 10 songs today:
Royals; Roar; Wrecking Ball; Wake Me Up; Hold on, We're Going Home; The Fox; Rap God; Holy Grail; Applause; Blurred Lines.

All but two are easy or the least challenging. Wrecking Ball and Blurred Lines look the most intriguing.
Let's take Wrecking Ball as the title of a book.The best part is whether you like or don't like the song and or artist, it doesn't matter. You don't even have to listen to the song and it's probably best not to be swayed by the meaning of the actual song. You could even take the worst song and make a book title out of it.

What could the title be about? An abused relationship, or some crazy home breaking adultery, a couple of angles here; the last dance at a high school homecoming; a detective or soldier who goes on a rampage.

How about some Lyrics to the song as titles:
WE clawed, we chained our hearts in vain.
Some possibilities here. Mostly as a love story gone wrong, but the clawed part could lead to a monster or the current vampire/werewolf craze.
We jumped, never asking why.
How about a sky diving group and their charismatic or hypnotic leader.
We kissed, and fell under your spell.
Lots of obvious ones here. Black magic, etc.
A love no one could deny.
This one has a very wide range of topics. Love of whom, what, where, even Why. Love of adventure; self; addiction; God; food; dieting; just too many to chose from.

Blurred Lines is an interesting title:
Obvious is right and wrong, but what kind of right or wrong? Same thing about Good and Bad; How about a race driver losing his sight. A portal between two worlds. Someone deciding to come out of the closet or have a sex change.

You could probably take each of them and try to match a genre to it. Mystery, Detective, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Love Stories, even your favorite person as a back door approach to their life or a back door approach to a time in History.

You could do the same thing to the Top 10 Songs of all time or the Top 10 songs of an era or year or ANY song if you thought about it.
Just try the title or look at the lyrics.
There are endless possibilities.
Misspelling the title or using homophones, homographs or homonyms also works in thinking of book titles.

Explore your fun side or dark side.

It's Baseball time again. Here are some Baseball Records that will not be broken. Not this year or EVER!

Charles 'Old Hoss' Radbourn's 59 games WON in 1 year.

OK, pitchers don't even pitch 59 games a year now, unless they're a relief pitcher. The last pitcher to even get 30 was Denny McClain in 1968 with 31 wins. Radbourn not only won 59 games, he started 73 games. He had an ERA of 1.38 and struck out 441 batters.
Ted Williams, 84 game On-Base Streak
And I thought the 56 game hitting streak of Joe DiMaggio was the one to beat. Getting on base 84 times in a row, WOW!
Matt Kilroy's 513 KO's in one year
No modern pitcher, Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax, Randy Johnson, even had close to 400.
Joe DiMaggio's famous 56-game hitting streak
Never, never, never, going to be broken, Pete Rose came close.
Ted Williams .553 Single Season On Base Percentage
No one will even get close to .500
Babe Ruth's .847 Single Season Slugging Percentage
Hugh Duffy's .440 Single Season Batting Average
The last one to do it was Ted Williams .402, in 1941. Closest after that is George Brett's .390 in 1980
Babe Ruth's 1.379 Single Season OPS (On Base + Slugging %)
Billy Hamilton's 198 Single Season Runs Scored
Chief Wilson's 36 Single Season Triples
Tim Keefe's 0.86 Single Season ERA
George Bradley's 16 Single Season Shutouts
Fernando Tatís 2 grand slams in a single inning

Josh Gibson’s 84 Home Runs in 1936. (Negro Leagues, no steroids!)
Cool Papa Bell's 175 stolen bases in a 200-game season in 1933

Cy Young's 7356.0 innings pitched in a career.

Cy Young's 511 Lifetime Wins
Sam Crawford's 309 Lifetime Triples
Pete Rose's 4,256 Lifetime Hits
Tris Speaker's 792 Lifetime Doubles
Nolan Ryan's 5,714 Lifetime Strike Outs
Nolan Ryan's SEVEN Lifetime No Hitters
Only 26 players in baseball history even have two. Only five have three, only two have four

But -----Johnny Vander Meer  had TWO in the same year, 
Back-to-BACK!

Cal Ripken's 2,632 Consecutive Games Played
Joe Nuxhall, Youngest Player, 15 years old and 316 days,
Satchel Paige, Oldest Player, 59 years old and 80 days
Will White's 75 Most complete games in a season

The safest of them all is Walter Johnson's Lifetime 41 triples, as a batter, and he was the PITCHER!

Possibilities for this and any season, BUT HIGHLY UNLIKELY:
Rickey Henderson's 130 Single Season Steals
Baseball Almanac
Major League Baseball

I am with you still

For anyone who has lost a loved one, as we just lost Antionette. Hold them always in your heart when a new day dawns.

I AM WITH YOU STILL 

I give you this one thought to keep -
I am not gone, I do not sleep.

I rustle your hair when the warm winds blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of summer rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.

When you awaken in the mourning hush,
I am in the graceful uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the star that shines at night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am with you in a quiet room.
I am the song the birds sing,
I am in each and every lovely thing.

Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still - in each new dawn.
I'm still here --- I have not gone.
I will always be in your heart.

An adaptation of the poem by Mary Frye

The Death of the BOOK

From a link in Arts and Letters Daily. http://www.aldaily.com/ to; http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/4659371294/the-death-of-the-book

"Pity the book.  It’s dead again. Suddenly they seem clunky, heavy, and almost fleshy in their gross materiality. Their pages grow brittle. Their ink fades. Their spines collapse. They are so pitiful; they might as well be human."

Funny, or not, books are kind of the mirror to the soul. It used to be that when you walked into someone's home or office you would find a bookshelf full of books, or at least a book lying on a table. You could tell a lot about the books represented there. A glimpse into the psyche of one who lives or works there. The books were lined up along a shelf and could show what interested the occupant. You could tell how diverse their interests were and if they were "high-brow" or "low-brow", had a since of humor, or leaned toward the weird and off-beat. You could learn a lot about a person by the books they read.

Not so, anymore. More and more books are being downloaded to computers, readers like Kindle, and to the iPad or smart phones. Now a part of the soul of a person is being hidden from view. People don't need the bookshelf anymore; they don't even print the cover of the book to display their recent interest.

I have books that can be handed down from generation to generation. Books that may spark the interest in some far fringe of the curious who peruse the titles. They can even pick up the book and leaf through it. You can't do that with the downloaded books. They are most likely going to be erased from the memory of what ever they are stored on and lost not only to the owner, but their followers.

I can see the use of downloading a book or two, but at the current cost of the downloaded book compared to holding one in your hand, the cost is way too high. I can usually buy a book for less then $20. The cost to down load most top selling books, or even newly published books is about $9, when it should be less then $2. After all, they didn't have to go through the same publishing process of printing thousands of copies. All they had to do was store the data - once - and send the data to - anyone. Maybe when the cost becomes more realistic, I'll download more books, but for now I like the comfort of holding it in my hands and kind of letting people look into my soul when they see it on the table or in the bookshelf.