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General RelativityThe Forever War by Joe Haldeman - makes use of the relativity effects as a metaphor for the culture shock of US soldiers returning from Vietnam.
A World Out of Time by Larry Niven - plays on relativistic time-dilation effects.
Next: Phones buzzing like crazy
KEYWORD?baka pag pinush yan maging scenario or phrases na lahat ng susunod.
Aaron: Pwede naman since, at the rate this thing is going, mauubusan na tayo ng words.
Phones buzzing like crazyThis Man by Jodi Ellen Malpas
- The female protagonist receives more than 10 calls from the possessive male protagonist after their love quarrel.
Such a Girl by Karen Siplin
- the MC is a telephone operator at the hotel and receives a lot of calls from the guests complaining about the hotel services.
Keyword: Diversity
Diversity- Cultural diversity counts right?
Round is a Mooncake by Jenny Thong - A curious young girl explores her home and neighborhood and marvels at objects that are different shapes—a round rice bowl, a square pizza box, and a rectangular cell phone—which are also a clever reflection of the traditional Chinese and American cultures that enrich her world.
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth - The moving tale of a young African American girl who, dispirited by the ugliness she sees in her neighborhood, seeks to find “something beautiful,” and is inspired by those around her to see the beauty in everyday sights and objects.
Keyword: Hay
Aaron, check messages 10 and 11 for the KEYWORD issue. :P
HayA Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley - about the Cook family farming their very flat farm in Iowa. The Cook daughters' husbands make hay bales from time to time.
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier - Ada has to learn manual jobs like hay cutting and blames those for her depression.
Next: broken bones
Broken BonesThe Stand by Stephen King
- One of the characters broke his leg after a fall.
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? by John R. Powers
- Another one of the characters broke his bones.
Keyword: Uselessness
Argh! Deleting, sayang ang books. :))
UselessnessJude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy - A recurrent theme is that of the uselessness of trying to atone for previous mistakes.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - In the novel's world, uniqueness is uselessness and uniformity is bliss, because social stability is everything.
Next: catharsis
Macbeth by William Shakespeare- The MC experiences catharsis at the end.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
- Same as above, the MC, at the end, experiences catharsis.
Keyword: Keyword
KeywordThe Familiar: Volume 1, One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski - the keyword "familiar" is highlighted in pink all throughout the book.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - the keywords used by the author so the reader may know that there is a time shift are words in italics.
Next: Burning houses
Burning HousesThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - houses in districts with known rebels were being burned down.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - Cal's grandparents house and province got burned when they left for the USA
Keyword: Homophobia
HomophobiaMonstress by Lysley Tenorio
- In one of the stories, one of the characters is at the receiving end of homophobia.
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- The MC is homophobic despite being a homosexual.
Keyword: Emeralds
Ben, is continuously fighting even if you are doomed and being beheaded by your enemy cathartic for you?
Angus, you mean Macbeth? The MC had one line that is cathartic for him:Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Keyword: EmeraldsUncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
The plot revolves around jewelry called the "Cleopatra Emerald"
Jewels: A Secret History by Victoria Finlay
Nonfiction that discusses Cleopatra's emerald mines among other jewels.
Keyword: Siberia
SiberiaCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Some of the scenes in the novel is set in Siberia
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Set in a Siberian prison camp.
Keyword/s: Hysterical Realism
White Teeth by Zadie SmithThe novel mocked by James Wood with that term.
Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Over the top and wordy detail about geographical scholarship, not the considered distillation of life. The elements that makes it hysterically realist.
Keyword
Diatribe
Kristel, I think you should have answered Emeralds instead of Keyword. :)
Or oops, that was an error on the post, hehe. :)
Yep I answered books about emeralds! I planned to put the header "Keyword: Emeralds" but forgot.
Arguably by Chirstopher Hitchens- Hitchens, in most of his essays, often engages in a diatribe against something (eg religion, military, politics)
After The Tall Timber by Renata Adler
- Another essay collection that often engages in a diatribe against something.
Keyword: Abstract Expressionism
I'm trying to slow things down! Hahaha!
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh, Gregory Smith Biography of the famous "motion painter"
The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock
Children's book dramatizing the life of Kadinsky.
Keyword
camera obscura
*pops in, hoping to join**sees Benny's post*
ayan na lalabas na ang ex post facto laws
Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller - MC is a photographerEight Girls Taking Pictures by Whitney Otto - about female photographers in the 20th century
keyword: magis
And also to defend my keyword, it's an actual gadget/instrument!
Haha joke lang. Simple keywords lang ako. :D
I have nothing to say for my keyword except that Atty Monique said so, I was in a hurry to find a word, and I put the first Latin word that popped into my head HAHA
In my defense, kaya lang naman ganyan keywords ko is to slow things down a bit. Hahahaha. Para sa mga busy.:D
Punyeta! Magheheadmaster mode na nga lang ako, haha!
Sobrang hirap magstay away langya nakakainis kayo =))
I thought "magis" was plural for "magi" hahaha!
"magus" yung singular diba? sana qualified yung sagot ko XD
erm not really, it's a Latin word meaning doing more for God :)) (O AYAN NA CLUE)
wait redacted my answer. ive never even known in my life that magis is an actual word XD
The Sparrow by Mary Doria RussellSome Jesuits do the ultimate missionary work by going to space.
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
An evangelical does the ultimate missionary work by going to space.
Keyword: movie musical
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw - inspired My Fair Lady at West End which then became a moviePhantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux - inspired the now Broadway staple which in turn inspired the movie
keyword: song titles
Lit Riffs edited by Jonathan Lethem and Tom Perrota- One of the stories is titled "I Shot The Sheriff" which is also a title of a song by Bob Marley.
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- basis for a song titled "The Dogs of War" by Pink Floyd.
Keyword: Deconstructionism
On Grammatology by Jacques DerridaThis is the seminal text within the theoretical framework of Deconstruction.
The Spivak Reader by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Deconstructed the identity of the postcolonialism, and concludes that the true marginalized person (subaltern) has no voice in discourse
Keyword semiotics
Also this Biweekly Meme is brought to you by The Short Story Station presenting "I Shot The Sheriff"" by Touré.
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown - MC studies symbols and teaches how to interpret them for a livingWitch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew tries to make heads or tails of a symbol to solve a case
keyword: smut (para fun HAHA)
SmutThe Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure - A retelling of Sleeping Beauty, but instead of Beauty waking up with a kiss, she was fucked by the Prince. And the world of sexual adventures begins...
Beauty's Punishment by A. N. Roquelaure - ...and continues with this one. Beauty is now a naked slave sold to someone through an auction.
Next: chainsmoking (ayaw ko ng mga mahirap!)
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