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Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

This was suggested by Mary.

Connect any six books in your library to each other by any way you want. One book will remind you of another because the author’s name is similar, a fictional character shows up in someone else’s book, another author is talked about by characters in a book, maybe the same friend recommended both books, or whatever. Books from a series count as one entry in your list.


OK I went into the office, faced the two big shelves, closed my eyes and reached out for a book. (1) Epitaph for an Angel by Lauren Maddison is a Connor Hawthorne Mystery. This reminds me of (2) Sleeping Bones, a Kate Delafield Mystery by Katherine Forrest because they’re both lesbian detective novels. Sleeping Bones reminds me of (3) Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold which is not in any way shape or form a lesbian detective novel but it has bones in the title. Lovely Bones reminds me of cornfields which leads me to (4) Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres because the kids in the book lived out in the country, and there was a lot of child abuse in that book. Jesus Town leads me to (5) Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver because it’s the first “Christian Missionary” type book that pops into my head. Though the two are pretty different, they’re connected in my mind. From PWB I’m reminded of Mental Multivitamin and my surprise at seeing her post that said she had not read it and anytime I think of MMV I think of (6) Night by Elie Wiesel because her blog is where I heard of Oprah’s choice for the HS Essay Contest.


There you go – my six – odd but sort of fun.


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On Friday….

Booking Through Thursday

Reach out a hand, and grab the book that is closest to you. Turn to page 231, or pick a page at random if the book isn’t that long. Locate the first sentence of the last paragraph on that page.

  1. Type the sentence here: From "Emotionally Weird"…  There was a small knot of relatives of the deceased who, unlike the residents of The Anchorage – all of whom were clearly veteran funeral-goers – did not possess mourning outfits and were self-consciously attired in plums and greys and navy blues.
  2. Does the sentence make sense out of context?   Makes sense to me.
  3. Does reading the sentence make you want to read the rest of the book? Why or why not? That’s one hell of a long sentence, isn’t it? I’m not sure it makes me want to read the book but I am always interested in funerals and veteran funeral-goers.

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Women’s Writer Meme

The first Literary Luna-day was held today! Yea for Literary Luna-days!  I wonder what next week’s will be… I guess we should work on this week’s before we start thinking about that, shouldn’t we?  This one is the Women Writers Meme!  Just BOLD those you’ve read, ITALICIZE the ones you’ve been meaning to read and ??? the ones you have never heard of.

Allcott, Louisa May–Little Women
Allende, Isabel–The House of Spirits
Angelou, Maya–I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Atwood, Margaret–Cat’s Eye
Austen, Jane–Emma
Bambara, Toni Cade–Salt Eaters

??Barnes, Djuna–Nightwood
de Beauvoir, Simone–The Second Sex
Blume, Judy–Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
Burnett, Frances–The Secret Garden
Bronte, Charlotte–Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily–Wuthering Heights
Buck, Pearl S.–The Good Earth
Byatt, A.S.–Possession

Cather, Willa–My Antonia
Chopin, Kate–The Awakening
Christie, Agatha–Murder on the Orient Express
Cisneros, Sandra–The House on Mango Street
Clinton, Hillary Rodham–Living History
Cooper, Anna Julia–A Voice From the South

Danticat, Edwidge–Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davis, Angela–Women, Culture, and Politics
Desai, Anita–Clear Light of Day
Dickinson, Emily–Collected Poems
Duncan, Lois–I Know What You Did Last Summer
DuMaurier, Daphne–Rebecca
Eliot, Geroge–Middlemarch

Emecheta, Buchi–Second Class Citizen
Erdrich, Louise–Tracks

Esquivel, Laura–Like Water for Chocolate
Flagg, Fannie–Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Friedan, Betty–The Feminine Mystique
Frank, Anne–Diary of a Young Girl
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins–The Yellow Wallpaper

Gordimer, Nadine–July’s People
Grafton, Sue–S is for Silence
Hamilton, Edith–Mythology
Highsmith, Patricia–The Talented Mr. Ripley
hooks, bell–Bone Black
Hurston, Zora Neale–Dust Tracks on the Road
Jacobs, Harriet–Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

??Jackson, Helen Hunt–Ramona
Jackson, Shirley–The Haunting of Hill House
Jong, Erica–Fear of Flying
Keene, Carolyn–The Nancy Drew Mysteries (any of them)
Kidd, Sue Monk–The Secret Life of Bees
Kincaid, Jamaica–Lucy
Kingsolver, Barbara–The Poisonwood Bible

Kingston, Maxine Hong–The Woman Warrior
Larsen, Nella–Passing

L’Engle, Madeleine–A Wrinkle in Time
Le Guin, Ursula K.–The Left Hand of Darkness
Lee, Harper–To Kill a Mockingbird
Lessing, Doris–The Golden Notebook

Lively, Penelope–Moon Tiger
Lorde, Audre–The Cancer Journals
Martin, Ann M.–The Babysitters Club Series (any of them)
McCullers, Carson–The Member of the Wedding
McMillan, Terry–Disappearing Acts
Markandaya, Kamala–Nectar in a Sieve
Marshall, Paule–Brown Girl, Brownstones
Mitchell, Margaret–Gone with the Wind

Montgomery, Lucy–Anne of Green Gables
Morgan, Joan–When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
Morrison, Toni–Song of Solomon

Murasaki, Lady Shikibu–The Tale of Genji
Munro, Alice–Lives of Girls and Women
Murdoch, Iris–Severed Head

Naylor, Gloria–Mama Day
Niffenegger, Audrey–The Time Traveller’s Wife
Oates, Joyce Carol–We Were the Mulvaneys
O’Connor, Flannery–A Good Man is Hard to Find
Piercy, Marge–Woman on the Edge of Time
Picoult, Jodi–My Sister’s Keeper
Plath, Sylvia–The Bell Jar

Porter, Katharine Anne–Ship of Fools
Proulx, E. Annie–The Shipping News
Rand, Ayn–The Fountainhead

Ray, Rachel–365: No Repeats
Rhys, Jean–Wide Sargasso Sea
??Robinson, Marilynne–Housekeeping??
Rocha, Sharon–For Laci
Sebold, Alice–The Lovely Bones
Shelley, Mary–Frankenstein
Smith, Betty–A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Smith, Zadie–White Teeth
Spark, Muriel–The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Spyri, Johanna–Heidi
Strout, Elizabeth–Amy and Isabelle
Steel, Danielle–The House
Tan, Amy–The Joy Luck Club

??Tannen, Deborah–You’re Wearing That?
Ulrich, Laurel–A Midwife’s Tale
Urquhart, Jane–Away
Walker, Alice–The Temple of My Familiar
Welty, Eudora–One Writer’s Beginnings
Wharton, Edith–Age of Innocence
Wilder, Laura Ingalls–Little House in the Big Woods

Wollstonecraft, Mary–A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginia–A Room of One’s Own

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Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

This week’s questions were suggested by Kim.

  1. Do you have a favorite character(s)? Again with the favorites? A million favorites! Today let’s go with Dexter!
  2. What book/author is he/she/it from? Darkly Dreaming and Dearly Devoted
  3. Why do you like this person–what is it about the way he/she was written that drew you to them? He’s a good kind of evil, sort of like me
  4. Is there something more you would like the author to tell you about them? Of course but I can wait for future installments of the Dexter series to have all of my questions answered!

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Booking Through Thursday

Pick one of your favorite authors.  Ummmm I don’t do favorites!  OK fine, since Alexander McCall Smith is coming to town, I’ll pick him.

  1. What are some of your favorite books by this author? #1 Ladies Detective Agency
  2. Why do you like this author?   I like the characters in this series
  3. Have you read everything by this author? Why or why not? Nope.  The Philosophy Club book I read was boring.  And then the one about sausage dogs, argh, that was worse than boring!

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New Authors – Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday

Today’s questions were suggested by Christine.

  1. How do you decide to read a book by an author you haven’t read before? An unknown author has little to do with my book selections.  Now if I’ve hated a book by a particular author, I probably won’t rush to read another by him/her.
  2. What sort of recommendations count most highly in making that decision? Recommendations that count highly?  Ummm any recommendation is good.  If I simply see a book mentioned in a blog, on a message board, in an article – whatever – I will reserve it at the library or drop it into my Amazon wishlist to reserve later.  I’m not picky.




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Booking Through Thursday

This week’s questions about self-help books are from Nicki.

  1. Have you ever read a self-help book? Sure, I read everything
  2. What do you think about self-help books in general? Some of them are pretty interesting but some are trite, oversimplified or downright dangerous.
  3. Would you ever recommend a self-help book?
    Sure I would, I have recommended self help books in the past.

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