Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 12:57 PM EDT
- -callie
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List 3 (or more) books that follow the theme left by the previous poster. Then create the next theme.
Anything goes theme-wise! Let's not be too picky about "The's" and spelling.
A nod to yoga and her music theme game :-)
Let's begin!
theme - books with a color in the title
Green Eggs and Ham
The Color Purple
The Scarlet Pimpernel
How Green Was My Valley
The White Tiger
next theme: love
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 3:57 PM EDT
- chazz508
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Love: ...books about love, not necessarily in title...?
Love Story
Wuthering Heights
Water for Elephants
Fly Away Home
Body Surfing
Next: A number in the title (and not all Janet Evanovich!)
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 4:12 PM EDT
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Yeah chazz, I kind of left it open ended.
Farenheit 451
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (Dr. Seuss again!)
Tale of Two Cities (just reread this - it was great)
1984
next: books set in New York
Now I want to comment on the listed books! I never read (or heard of) Body Surfing. Good?
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 6:02 PM EDT
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New York:
Bonfire of the Vanities
Live Wire- Love ALL Harlan Coben books especially his Myron Bolitaire ones
Dirt - Staurt Woods - Stone Barrington books - detective from NY, pretty good
Last Night at Chateau Marmont - just finished, pure fluff, but not good fluff (same woman that wrote Devil Wears Prada, also Everyone Worth Knowing which was funnier than the Prada one)
Stuck on #5 ......I guess The Devil Wears Prada....Laura Wreisenburg again...try to think of a better one.
Body Surfing was good. I like Anita Shreve (she also wrote The Pilot's Wife). I find an author and if I like her, I try to read her other books. My lists are SOOO much fluffier than yours callie......geesh, tale of two cities......I'm kinda of embarassed at my stuff!! I really go for the escapism!
I see a couple of science fiction ones, are you into that?
Next: Death
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 6:06 PM EDT
Just to interject a comment:
Midnight Cowboy was set in NYC. Excellent book, and the movie was probably one of the better film translations of a book.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 6:19 PM EDT
Death:
Death in Venice -- never read it, but Woody Allen always references it!
On Death and Dying (Kubler Ross)
Going Postal (Terry Pratchett)
Dead Midnight (Marcia Muller -- all her stuff is good)
Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie)
Recently read the Pratchett book and liked it.
Next: Letters -- books in the form of letters or with lots of letters (correspondence) in them.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 6:41 PM EDT
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Sandwich, I just looked up Marcia Muller....she has quite a few books....do you need to start at the beginning or can I just jump in? Which did you like best ? (Always looking for a new author)
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:15 PM EDT
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The Greatest Generation
The Gurnsey Literary and Potato Peel Society - love, love this book
The Lake House
Persuasion - not lots of correspondence that I remember, but it was pivotal!
and that's all I've got! That was tough sandy :-)
okay, murder by poison
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:23 PM EDT
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Re: Book Theme Game:
Sandwich, I just looked up Marcia Muller....she has quite a few books....do you need to start at the beginning or can I just jump in? Which did you like best ? (Always looking for a new author)
Posted by chazz508
If you like detective fiction, she's excellent. In her Sharon McCone mysteries, I think
Edwin of the Iron Shoes is first. You don't have to start at the beginning, and I think the only reason why I particularly like the early ones is that after 10 or so in a series, I kind of get character fatigue -- so the later ones might be better, but that's not my experience, just because I naturally enjoyed the first ones the most. I forget which one was my favorite, as it's been so long since I read the early ones. (It was probably either
Ask the Cards a Question or
The Cheshire Cat's Eye.)
I had that same problem with those alphabet mysteries -- you know the A is for, B is for ones -- I only made it to J -- they were still good, I just got kind of sick of them.
I hope -callie doesn't mind us diverting off the game now and then -- hard to write lists of books without going off on tangents! 8^)
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:23 PM EDT
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Oh, no chazz! I'll read anything! Tons of mysteries, especially in the summer. Have read some sci-fi and like some, but it isn't the shelf I go to first. Bonfire of the Vanities was my first thought for a NY book. I like fluff!
Didn't read that Prachett book, but another one she co-authored with Neil
Gaiman. And since I've read a couple of his as well. I guess that's kind of fantasy humor stuff.
And have read a couple by Marcia Muller, but it's been a while. Now I'll go back to her!
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:26 PM EDT
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Nope, not me sandy! See above :-)
I'm the same. Get on a streak until I'm sick of the characters.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:29 PM EDT
-callie, it was tough!! I thought of the Potato Peel one. Possession I think has correspondence -- maybe? There are probably lots of nonfiction books to choose from.
Persuasion was a good one -- Pride and Prejudice would work, too, as the letter from Darcy is the turning point of the book.
I know I've read others, but naturally I can't think of them! This is why I find this such a hard game -- but fun.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:35 PM EDT
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Re: Book Theme Game:
Oh, no chazz! I'll read anything! Tons of mysteries, especially in the summer. Have read some sci-fi and like some, but it isn't the shelf I go to first. Bonfire of the Vanities was my first thought for a NY book. I like fluff! Didn't read that Prachett book, but another one she co-authored with Neil Gaiman. And since I've read a couple of his as well. I guess that's kind of fantasy humor stuff. And have read a couple by Marcia Muller, but it's been a while. Now I'll go back to her!
Posted by -callie
Terry Pratchett is a guy, actually. Going Postal starts with an execution, and the condemned man falls through the trap door and wakes up with a proposition -- to take over the running of the post office (a job no ones wants).
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:36 PM EDT
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Pride & Prejudice - that would've worked too!
It is a little hard. I guess we'll see how it goes
LOL! That is a great plot!
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:41 PM EDT
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Hey, now I have to say that five titles is pretty tough. Is four okay? This is a hard game.
I thought you were going for the same style as the movies thread, Callie; we would go by book title word, linking by theme, character, authors, etc. as in that thread. That could get pretty funny, you know. :)
I'll try this, but I don't know if I can come up with five consistently.
Epistolary style books (some might be diary form)
Frankenstein
Carrie
The Color Purple
Lemony Snicket
NEXT: Cookbooks (or any cooking theme)
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:48 PM EDT
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-callie, it was tough!! I thought of the Potato Peel one. Possession I think has correspondence -- maybe? There are probably lots of nonfiction books to choose from. Persuasion was a good one -- Pride and Prejudice would work, too, as the letter from Darcy is the turning point of the book. I know I've read others, but naturally I can't think of them! This is why I find this such a hard game -- but fun.
Posted by EnjoyEverySandwich
for New York-- Breakfast At Tiffany's
for Letters-- A Woman of Independent Means
I can't list five of ANYTHING without taking all day. And I'd probably have to include plays at that. I'll enjoy lurking if you don't mind.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 7:56 PM EDT
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I have to agree with you guys. I knew it would be challenging, but this may be too tough. I'll start a regular book association as well and see if that works better.
and I hope you'll come play Elkie!
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:04 PM EDT
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I modified to 3, and added the other thread!
cooking:
Julie & Julia
Silver Palate
Moosewood
titles with fog
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:04 PM EDT
Murder by Poison and Cookbooks -- now combining those two might be hard -- or easy, depending on how bad a cook you are!
I know there's loads of mysteries with poison as the weapon -- but I'm having trouble remembering which books featured poison versus some other method. I did think of
I, Claudius
Seductive Poison (about the Jonestown massacre)
Princess Bride
Strong Poison (Dorothy Sayers)
A Study in SCarlet (Conan Doyle)
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:21 PM EDT
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this was a great idea callie...just ordered Going Postal and Ask the Cards a Question from the library!
I did the alphabet series too Sandwich...couldn't go all the way on that one. Did you ever try the Stephanie Plum series from Janet Evanovich? So funny, I think she's up to 16.
Back to Fog.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:28 PM EDT
I don't find this harder than the music list-of-5, though I confess I've had to double check some answers -- like I was pretty sure Study in Scarlet involved poison but I wasn't sure, so I googled the plot. (SInce I was too lazy to go find my copy of the book!) It also helps a little if movies or tv shows were made out of the books -- a little head start on the book search. :)
Next one is titles with "Fog", I think. And I got nothin'!
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:29 PM EDT
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One of my favorite mystery series was by Jane Haddam. The main character was a retired FBI agent of Armenian descent. It's been a while, but I really like them.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:36 PM EDT
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Re: Book Theme Game:
this was a great idea callie...just ordered Going Postal and Ask the Cards a Question from the library! I did the alphabet series too Sandwich...couldn't go all the way on that one. Did you ever try the Stephanie Plum series from Janet Evanovich? So funny, I think she's up to 16. Back to Fog.
Posted by chazz508
I might have read one. I used to be really into detective fiction, but I've gotten out of it a bit lately.
You know who is really great? Liza Cody. She's British, and her main character is totally unlike other detectives -- she (the main character) is not that smart and not well educated, and all of her observations are seen through that lens. So instead of seeing the story thru the eyes of someone like the author (and the reader!) the clues unfold with the heroine often missing some of the pieces. Not a formula mystery for sure.
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:43 PM EDT
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Ok, Got to remember that one too.
Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter, but half the book is her getting into nutty situations and flirting with the 2 guys that like her, so they're not total mystery books.
The only thing I can think of for fog is that short story by Stephen King The Mist, which is about a big fog but it's not in the title!!
Re: Book Theme Game
posted at 6/12/2011 8:43 PM EDT
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I don't find this harder than the music list-of-5, though I confess I've had to double check some answers -- like I was pretty sure Study in Scarlet involved poison but I wasn't sure, so I googled the plot. (SInce I was too lazy to go find my copy of the book!) It also helps a little if movies or tv shows were made out of the books -- a little head start on the book search. :) Next one is titles with "Fog", I think. And I got nothin'!
Posted by EnjoyEverySandwich
The Fog Comes in on Little Pig Feet (I read this as a YA, and could never forget the title) -- Rosemary Wells -- It's a very good read.
NEW THEME: Transportation (land, sea or air)
