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Biweekly Memes
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Human Search Engine with a Twist

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - A father and his son walk alone through burned America
The Stand by Stephen King - a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people.
Next: Cowboys (yeehaw)

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - a Western tome with cowboys.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - another Western novel with cowboys.
Next: apartheid

- story of "black man's country under white man's law"
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
- autobiographical work of South African president Nelson Mandela, this book contains a lot of commentary on apartheid
Keyword: manners




Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton - story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set against the background of a land (South Africa) and a people riven by racial injustice.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela - tells of mandela's lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa.
Next: Invisible

Marie: Yung sagot ni Beatrice for the keyword na aimless. :)
Tuloy ang ligaya then!

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - a novel of manners, a novel without a hero.
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - another novel of manners about the New York aristocratic circle.
Next: Death by shotgun

Hemingway: A-Biography by Jeffrey Meyers - Ernest Hemingway also killed himself via shotgun.
Next: Invisible

- MC is literally invisible
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
- book about boy who turns invisible overnight
next: accident

Accident by Danielle Steel - the daughter of the MC got into a car crash at the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin - one of the characters dies of a car accident.
Next: May-December love affairs

Girl with the Pearl Earring - Griet is 19, Vermeer is 33
next: discovery

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov - the nymphet is barely 12.
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier - a young bride becomes the second wife to a widower.
Keyword: Commission

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier - young lass in her early 20s, and her widower husband in his 40s.
Next: Guild

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GIlbert - journey to self-discovery
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - coming of age and sexual discovery
Keyword; Commission

- Joe is a comic book artist and comic books artists get commissioned to do stuff (am I doing this connection stuff right..... feeling ko pilit HAHA)
Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell
- the MC tries to sell his army commission
keyword: celestial

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick - Love interest is a fallen angel (angels are considered as celestial beings)
Next: Guild

- MC is part of a mercenary guild
Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh
- MC is a guild hunter, which just means she hunts vampires and brings them back to people who hire her (the series name is Guild Hunters, if that helps)
keyword: time

The Time Traveller's Almanac by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - an anthology of time travel stories
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - discusses the nature of time among other things
Next: Booby Trap

The Black Book of Booby Traps by Lyle Whitney - teaches how to make, construct, and install booby traps
Deathtrap! Improvised Booby-Trap Devices by Jo Jo Gonzales - how to turn everyday, common things to booby traps.
Keyword: Bullet

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - George put a bullet through Lenny's brain
Dead and Gone by Andre Vachss - MC ends up in a hospital with a bullet through his brain, an eye missing and severe disfigurement
Next: Vigilante

V is for Vendetta by Alan Moore - Masked vigilante known only as "V" stars in this
Watchmen by Alan Moore - A group of human superheroes administering vigilante justice
Keyword: Turtle

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - there's one whole chapter dedicated to a turtle crossing the road.
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende - Morla the turtle is mistaken for a mountain because she is so big.
Next: amnesia

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella - female protagonist suffers from this at the outset
The Maze Runner by James Dashner - Male character suffers from this
Keyword: Cough

The Maze Runner by James Dashner - MC has no memory of anything except his name at the beginning of the novel
keyword: winter

The Golden Road by L. M. Montgomery - Cecily develops a persistent mild cough
Next: Bad Blood


Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - So much bad blood between the Capulets and the Montagues.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Bad blood between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons when their kin run away with each other.
Next: poisoning

- MC poisoned herself.
Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
- One of the characters took a poison pill.
Keyword: General Relativity

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yep. more like wasted purposes. >.<