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Human Search Engine with a Twist
Death at La Fenice by Donna LeonMurder mystery set in Venice
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camillieri
Murder mystery set in Sicily
Keyword gloves
GlovesMoonlight on Nightingale Way by Samantha Young
- the main character removed her oven gloves after heating a burger
Fever by Maya Banks
- the male protagonist bought her girlfriend some winter gloves because her hand was freezing and she doesn't own any.
Keyword: BDSM
^50 shades does not count. HAHAHA!Has to be hardcore, people!
Ycel wrote: "^50 shades does not count. HAHAHA!Has to be hardcore, people!"
Whoo! :P
The Story of O by Pauline Reage"The Story of O relates the love of a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer for Rene. As part of that intense love, she demands debasement and severe sexual and psychological tests."
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix by Shawna Kenney
"The true story of a young woman who funded herself through college in the States by working as a dominatrix."
Keyword: Perspicacious
Emma by Jane AustenEmma thinks she is perspicacious about people's romantic compatibility and meddles with their love lives to disastrous results.
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson is amazed by Holmes' perspicacity on their first meeting, when Holmes deduced his service in Afghanistan.
keyword librarian
Librarian The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco
- One of the characters is an unusual librarian.
Lilith by George Macdonald
- One of the characters is a librarian.
Keyword: B-Movies
Benny: I already used that Eco! Quick ibahin mo. XD
The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking by John McCarty; profiles of 15 different exploitation filmmakers, such as Jess Franco and Fred Olen RayInvasion of the B-Girls by Jewel Shepard, who herself appeared in many drive-in style flicks; interviews with "Hollywood starlets" such as Linnea Quigley, Caroline Munro, and Michelle Bauer
Keyword: Tokyo
All She was Worth by Miyuki MiyabeMystery about a Tokyo woman who suddenly disappears.
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Serial murderer and rapist leaves bodies at Shiba Park, Tokyo.
Keyword silk
wala na! deduction na lang. hahahaha.
SilkHouse of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
- Involves a secret society where a piece of silk is used a sort of password.
Silk by Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos
- A superheroine whose costume is made from spider-silk.
Keyword: Opera
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies is about funding operas.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick involves an android opera singer.
Keyword: Paris
KRISTEL: Ba't puro morbid ang Tokyo? I was hoping to see Kitchen or any Yoshimoto. HAHAHAH!
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAbout an architect in Paris during World War II
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Half is set in Paris during the French Revolution
keyword coach
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier'. There’s a nameless football coach.The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith. How Phil Jackson mentored Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Keyword: wedding
Argh, Ycel! You beat me. And it's good to see you here! :)
ANGUS: Nanggugulo lang. Cos you guys are like Energizer bunnies.
WeddingGoodbye Columbus by Philip Roth - The wedding scene in Roth’s 1959 novella, in which working-class Neil Klugman falls in and then out of love with upper-middle-class Brenda Patimkin, brings together a range of realistic wedding guests, including the relative who keeps grabbing his wife’s boobs in public, a bunch of drunk party-goers, and the wise half-brother of the groom’s dad, who tells Neil, “don’t louse it up” with Brenda.
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers - Lonely 12-year-old tomboy Frankie’s older brother, Jarvis, is engaged, and she sees the wedding as the ultimate way to belong in this achingly beautiful coming-of-age story.
Next: sheep
Far from the Madding Crowd byThomas Hardy. Adorable sheep! (Farmer Oak being a shepherd).Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann features a flock of anthropomorphic Irish sheep out to solve the murder of their shepherd.
Keyword: maritime
ANGUS: Oo, grabe kayo! Nabinat ako sa kakatawa! You guys are fierce!
MaritimeMoby Dick by Herman Melville - of ships and whale-catching.
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - "The Shipping News" is a column by Quoyle, the MC, which is basically about ship stuff, like arrival, docking, departure, etc.
Next: swans
Ycel, kasi naman, if you let TFG people play competitive games, all hell breaks loose! Remember the frantic owls that shut down Goodreads last December 2013 (was it not you who had that brilliant idea of sending in Moogle owls? Hahaha!)
Very Good, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse where The Swan Thieves: A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova. Because of the title.
Keyword: meet cute
ANGUS: Erm, I merely broached the idea. And then Benny improved upon it. And Lynai made sure we can't be sued. HAHAHAH!
Meet CuteThe Case of the Solid Key by Anthony Boucher - the source of "meet cute", in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."
The Hook Up by Kristen Callihan - "That’s when I see him. The second our gazes connect, hot tingles zap through me, making my breath catch and my nipples harden. The sensation is so unnerving that I can only sit there, my hand fluttering to my check where my heart struggles to break free."
Next: deformed faces
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo- The titular character has a deformed face.
Preacher by Garth Ennis
- One of the characters has a deformed face.
Keyword: Days
Ycel, umabot kaya sa Supreme Court, hahaha!
Ewwwww, nipples hardening? Anubah? Dapat may element of innocence. Chos.
^Ycel, ano beh, copy-pasted lang yan, hahaha! And there might be others who find hardened nipples cute!
ANGUS: Ha? Hindi naman tayo na-kick out sa GR, di ba *GRINS*O, back to work! Need to take meds. Kawawa naman si Marie.
DaysBridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding - Bridget fills the days of her diary with stuff about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - filled with hand-written notes and simple drawings of Greg's daily adventures.
Next: work
Ycel, hey hey, see you soon? Magpakita ka! :D
ANGUS: Baka next month pa. Ako ay alipin ng isang rockstar. And I'll be a radioactive sago for 3 weeks. I'll be able to blend in once I stop emitting kryptonite. Look up RAI treatment.
WorkThe Comforters by Muriel Spark
- One of the characters works at the BBC.
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
- One of the characters works as a newspaper editor.
Keyword: Misogyny
Pig Tales by Marie DarrieussecqAbout a woman in a dystopian future that slowly transforms into a pig as she is put in increasingly compromised and sexist scenarios just to have a job and exist in the world.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The main character is forced to having sex with her "master" and bear his child in place of his wife.
Keyword oral history
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood where women are reduced to baby-making machines.Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice by Jack Holland. Because title :)
Keyword: military school
Jack's Book by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee- An oral history of Jack Kerouac recorded through people that knew him.
Doing Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie
- A guide on how to do oral histories.
Keyword: End of History
The Last Man by Mary Shelley. Lionel finds himself the last man alive in the year 2100.The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard. Eco-disaster!
Keyword: pajamas
Pajamas7 1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell
- MC is a superintendent in a pajama factory.
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
- MC mistakes the Auschwitz camp uniform for pajamas.
Keyword: Bootlegging
Empire State by Adam Christopher. Bootleggers, detectives, superheroes and robots battle against an unknown enemy in this alternate reality version of Prohibition era New York.The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant. The exploits of Bondurant's grandfather, a member of a notorious gang of bootleggers, are fictionalized in this novel.
Keyword: high tea
A Room With A View by E.M. ForsterLucy Honeychurch excuses herself from high tea to confront a woman for gossiping about her.
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World by Laura C. Martin
The book discusses the difference between "high tea" and "low tea"
keyword calligraphy
The Calligrapher: A Novel by Edward Docx. The protagonist happens to eke out his stylish existence in the improbable vocation of calligraphy.Voltaire's Calligrapher: A Novel by Pablo De Santis. Set in 18th century Paris, where the malevolent remnants of the Dark Ages battle the progressive elements of the modern age.
Keyword: artwork
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierNovel based on a Vermeer painting.
Dancing for Degas, by Kathryn Wagner
Novel based on Degas's ballerina paintings
Keyword eagle
^typo. Minus points ba? Is Marie uber strict?
I edited, but I'm okay with deductions if ever!
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis, with Farsight the eagle.Guardians of Ga'hoole by Kathryn Lasky. With a couple of bald eagles, Streak and Zan.
Keyword: New England
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V cannot be killed since he is only an idea and that "ideas are bulletproof".
The Ancient Future Trilogy by Traci Harding where MC achieves immortality thanks to the god-like gene in her DNA.
Keyword: Italy