Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors

The topic for this week’s Top Ten Tuesdays is Book Titles That Sound Like They Could Be Crayola Crayon Colors.

It’s been 11 months since I’ve done one of these (for no real reason), but this topic was so…strange that I had to try it. I’d like to say that I could describe what these particular crayons would look like, but if I could describe subtle nuances of color, I’d be writing things for book blogs to talk about, not writing about books for my blog. I got some input from my daughter, but I probably should’ve asked for more, this is her area.

(in no order whatsoever)

	White Noise by Don DeLillo I’m thinking this is a white with little specks of gray/black, like a TV tuned to a dead channel (for those who are of a certain age), or maybe Cookies and Cream ice cream. A fitting visual depiction of the variety of external stimuli and odd notions that combine into the titular white noise.
	Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames Maybe this is too on-the-nose, but I’m thinking the deepest, darkest red—almost black. Like if you took a red rose and super-saturated it with, well, blood. I haven’t read it yet (don’t ask me why, I don’t have a good reason), but I’m thinking that Rose spends a good deal of time pretty saturated with blood.
	The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams So salmon is sort of a pinkish-orange, right? So start with that and then add a little gray for doubt. Which, I guess sounds like fish that’s been left in the fridge for too long and you no longer want to cook with it. A pretty unappealing idea, but that’s a fairly specific color. An odd enough idea, that it might appeal to Dirk Gently, the protagonist of the incomplete novel that lends its title to the book.
	Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire It’s right there in the name, isn’t it? Green Grass Fields. Don’t think I could improve on it. (well, maybe the mixers at Crayola could figure out how to add a dew-like glisten, I think that’d be a nice touch).
	Jade City by Fonda Lee What would concrete made with jade as the aggregate look like? That’s what comes to mind here. That’s not what the novel makes you think of at all, but it fits for a crayon, I think.
	Woad to Wuin by Peter David Obviously, you start with a good blue woad (yeah, that’s a tautology, shhh). But then the wuin, sorry, ruin brings up ideas of browns or grays. Leaving me with a muddy blue, I guess. It’s been a couple of decades, but I believe that’s a decent description of ol’ Apropos of Nothing: muddy blue.
	Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman I’m thinking this is a nice, comfortable violet. Which is not really in the spirit of the book, but it fits the name.
	Lethal White by Robert Galbraith Part of me wanted to try to look up the description of the horse that described this way in the book, but as anyone who’s read it knows, that’s just too much effort for a jokey post. So instead, I’m leaning toward a white. A bright, intense, burn-your-retina white. Except safe for kids and their crayons.
	Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Steel-gray is your base, but I was stuck after that. My daughter offered, “The color you’re missing from Jane Steele is a red. Idk why but Jane makes me think of some sort of red.” I don’t get a red off of Jane (maybe because there’s no way that “plain Jane Eyre” would go for red). But, Jane Steele is a murderer, I remembered. Nothing says murderer like red (except, I guess, a fancy prose style).
	Burning Chrome by William Gibson A gleaming, bright orange chrome is what my minds-eye conjures up here. Shiny and bright (and hot), like most of the stories in that book.