Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers | Book Characters Named for Flowers

 

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.


This Week's Top Ten Tuesday Topic:
May Flowers
Characters with Floral-Inspired Names
 
I went back and forth on how to interpret this week's prompt. Book titles with flowers?
Floral book covers? I finally settled on characters named for flowers. Apparently those 
are used often because I had no problem coming up with quite a list. Enough so that I 
had to whittle it down to ten. Lily was by far the most popular and I think I could have
created a list of all book with characters named Lily. But I kept it to two. 😏

Oh, and it should be noted that until today I had no idea that Katniss, Daphne and Hazel
were flowers. Who knew!


Character: Lily Bloom

Character: Lily Calloway

Character: Calla Fritz

Character: Daisy Jones

Character: Daisy Calloway

Character: Rose Calloway

Character: Hazel Bradford

Character: Daphne Palmer

Character: Katniss and Primrose Everdeen

Character: Poppy St. James


Have you read any of these books?

38 comments

  1. Tanya, get out of my head! This was originally how I wanted to do this prompt, but I could not find enough "flower" names on my read shelf. Though, now I have learned there are more that I didn't realize were flower names. I could have included The Simple Wild. Look at that!

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    1. Sam - Great minds, right? :) Call from The Simple Wild would have been a great pick!

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  2. I always forget that Daphne is a flower name!

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    1. Ellie - I was so surprised to learn that Daphne was a flower! lol

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  3. What a great list! Other than Daisy Jones, I don't think I could have remembered enough actual character names!

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    1. Angela - For some reason character names stick with me. :)

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  4. I love punny titles. Kudos to Pucking Around.

    Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.

    Lydia

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  5. I didn’t know Katniss or Daphne were flower names either!

    Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.

    Astilbe

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    1. Astilbe - Glad I wasn't the only one who didn't realize that. lol

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  6. Poppy is one of my favorite names. Hope you’re well my friend.
    www.rsrue.blogspot.com

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    1. Regine - I don't across the name Poppy often, but I love it, too!

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  7. Fun way to interpret the theme! I chose covers, and chose the sequel to It Ends With Us for one of my picks.
    HERE is my post.

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    1. Hi Lisa! Both IEWU and It Starts With Us have such pretty covers!

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    1. Sophie - I think Sam went with characters who were florists or gardeners... but close! :)

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  9. I love that you went with characters with flower names! What a fun idea. :D

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    1. Lark - I was surprised at how many characters had flower names!

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  10. I love how you focused your list on character names!
    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/may-flowers-book-covers-with-flowers/

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  11. Until today I had no idea about Katniss and Hazel! Good work!

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    1. Lisa - I definitely got a lesson in flower names when searching. :)

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  12. Well now, Lily Bloom is certainly an excellent choice for this post. I love how you focused on flower names in books.

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  13. Love that the Addicted books are on here. It was always so fun for me that all the sisters had flower names. 😂 I knew about Katniss bc it was kind of hinted at the books I think, but I didn't know Hazel was a flower!

    aimee @ aimee can read

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    1. Aimee - Even though I knew Katniss's sister Primrose was a flower name, I didn't figure out that Katniss was, too!

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  14. You know, I do sort of remember hearing that Katniss was a kind of flower. I had no idea bout Daphne or Hazel. Very interesting. Flower names are always popular - I know several Lillies and Heathers. My own name is from a flower and means "lily of the valley."

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

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    1. Susan - I've heard of a black-eyes Susan so I guess I could have used that, too! :)

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  15. I had no idea Katniss and Daphne were names of a flower! The Summer Swap (last book I finished) had a Lily in it too, lol! I almost wished you did all the books with Lily in it, haha! Loved No One Can Know!

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    1. Rachel - I totally should have done all books with the name Lily. There are a LOT of characters named Lily out there!

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  16. I did know about Katniss and Hazel, but Daphne is a new one to me.

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    1. Ali - I'm still surprised about Daphne being a flower name! lol

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  17. That's quite a list. I've only read It Ends With Us and Daisy Jones.

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    1. Lucy - I really loved Daisy Jones. I keep meaning to watch the series on Prime but haven't done that yet.

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  18. Oh I love this take on the theme and I love the names! I didn't realize the name Daphne was floral inspired.

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    1. Katherine - I had no idea that Daphne was a flower until I started searching.

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  19. This is a fun interpretation of the prompt! And I think I could come up with ten books that use Lily, too. 😃

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