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WI 15-16 20.1 Grazia Deledda
Will The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma qualify?http://bookoxygen.com/?p=6265
Within the review is this - The Nigerian oral storytelling tradition looms large and that, along with the rhythm of the language gives a very strong sense of place and time.
Beth wrote: "Will The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma qualify?http://bookoxygen.com/?p=6265
Within the review is this - The Nigerian oral storytelling tradition looms large and ..."
Yes!
For Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith:"And he invokes a vivid sense of place."
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Joanna wrote: "For Agent 6 by Tom Rob Smith:"And he invokes a vivid sense of place."
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Excellent! (And I must find a way to get to this series!)
I'm guessing maybe this won't work, but it's worth a shot. I've been checking books I'm reading to see if they fit here, and there's a book called Sense of Place that is throwing off some of the results. Anyway, I did find this list, but it's not a review exactly: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/9....Thanks!
Cory Day wrote: "I'm guessing maybe this won't work, but it's worth a shot. I've been checking books I'm reading to see if they fit here, and there's a book called Sense of Place that is throwing off some of the re..."Ha! that's a good start, but we really want something for a specific author or title.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Cory Day wrote: "I'm guessing maybe this won't work, but it's worth a shot. I've been checking books I'm reading to see if they fit here, and there's a book called Sense of Place that is throwing o..."I figured. It's just for combos so I think I'll give up on some of these ;) Thanks for looking!
Will this work for Three Men in a Boat?http://niallthinksandwrites.blogspot....
Scrolling down to #46 and #47:
"(46) Thursday 19th September
Three Men In A Boat
Jerome K Jerome
This must be the fourth or fifth time I’ve read this book, but it’s still a joy. Uproariously funny, in a sort of proto-Wodehouse style (I wonder if Plum read it). It’s a shame JKJ didn’t write more works of comedy. One slight quibble: the non-comedic bits leftover from when the book was a straight travel guide haven’t aged well, and seem out of place – most strikingly the scene where they come across a suicide, which seems like it’s from another genre and another book entirely.
(47) Wednesday 26th September
Three Men On The Bummel
Jerome K Jerome
Sequel to the above. Brilliantly funny in parts, but lacks the prequel’s strong sense of place and story. The ending is weak, with a long and boring discursus on “the German character” which is variously inaccurate, dated, and repetitive, and the oddly censorious extended discussion of German student habits, especially the Mensur, seems completely out of place. Entertaining nevertheless, especially some of the stuff about bikes and “overhaulers”."
D wrote: "Will this work for Three Men in a Boat?http://niallthinksandwrites.blogspot....
Scrolling down to #46 and #47:
"(46) Thursday 19th September
Three Men ..."
Yes, we'll take that - thank you. Several members this season will be glad to have the combo points!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "D wrote: "Will this work for Three Men in a Boat?http://niallthinksandwrites.blogspot....
Scrolling down to #46 and #47:
"(46) Thursday 19th September
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Thanks, Elizabeth. I had been looking for a reference for Three Men on the Bummel for 20.1, but couldn't find one. But I'll be happy for the 5 points on Three Men in a Boat, which I've already read and posted.
Amanda wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Amanda wrote: "You are making that sound like I CAN get all women writers! "You have All the Birds, Singing on your shelves, and Evie Wyld is identified..."
Does this mean it also fits the ANZAC Day task too?
Rebekah wrote: "Does this mean it also fits the ANZAC Day task too? "
Do you mean 10.6, the Australia Day Premiere Awards task? I don't see that on any of the lists.
Is this quote from a review on Amazon acceptable for The Outsider by Albert Camus?"However, the sense of place and especially the evocation of the heat, sun, sea, the streets of the town, the courtroom and his prison cell remain convincing and beautifully expressed in clear, clean prose. Mersault's world view and his in-the-moment limited expectations still engaged me as a study of character, but less as an existential pioneer and martyr and more as an unreflective and mildly hedonistic individual."
Lagullande wrote: "Is this quote from a review on Amazon acceptable for The Outsider by Albert Camus?"However, the sense of place and especially the evocation of the heat, sun, sea, the..."
Yes, that will be fine.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Lagullande wrote: "Is this quote from a review on Amazon acceptable for The Outsider by Albert Camus?"However, the sense of place and especially the evocation of the ..."
Many thanks.
And for The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood?"This book has an evocative sense of place, it grounds you firmly in a time and a setting, snags your interest on a range of hinted-at characters in the opening, with the promise of sinister things lurking beneath. "
(from Sarah Tinsley's blog The Power of Words)
Lagullande wrote: "And for The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood?"This book has an evocative sense of place, it grounds you firmly in a time and a setting, snags your interest on a range ..."
Very good - and it has a LOT of combos, too!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Rebekah wrote: "Does this mean it also fits the ANZAC Day task too? "
Do you mean 10.6, the Australia Day Premiere Awards task? I don't see that on any of the lists."
I was thinking of that. Now I see the Miles Franklin wasn't on the list
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Very good - and it has a LOT of combos, too! "Thanks, again. And it's a good read as well!
D wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "D wrote: "Will this work for Three Men in a Boat?http://niallthinksandwrites.blogspot....
Scrolling down to #46 and #47:
"(4..."
Well done, D! I kept thinking Three Men in a Boat fit the task so well, it was crazy that I couldn't find a reference, but in the end I gave up looking!
Also thanks to Lagullande for the extra Blind Assassin combo!
Rosemary wrote: "...I kept thinking Three Men in a Boat fit the task so well, it was crazy that I couldn't find a reference, but in the end I gave up looking! ..."Rosemary, I kept thinking the same thing. I spent a lot of time when I first read the book, looking for a reference. I think I could have read a short book in the time I spent looking for 5 points!
Another one for approval, please - Spill Simmer Falter Wither.Here's the "sense of place" reference: see paragraph 6.
Lagullande wrote: "Another one for approval, please - Spill Simmer Falter Wither.Here's the "sense of place" reference: see paragraph 6."
Looks good!
Looking for an ok for Kathy Reich's books. From the review for Monday Mourning - Like all of Reichs' books, Monday Mourning has a pronounced sense of placehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Monday-Mourni...
Heather wrote: "Looking for an ok for Kathy Reich's books. From the review for Monday Mourning - Like all of Reichs' books, Monday Mourning has a pronounced sense of placehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Monday-Mourning-..."
Yes, that is a good reference - I'll add her to the list!
Is this Amazon review close enough to qualify The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic? I know it isn't exactly right (time and place instead of sense of place), but the book certainly described Alaska at the time (but the authors were not born in Alaska, so it doesn't fit Winter Solstice):5.0 out of 5 starsBetter than fiction
By Thelma C. Johnson on February 12, 2004
Format: Hardcover
More thrilling than fiction are the stories of real-life events, especially those as gripping as this one. One of the problems of writing about an event of which everyone knows the ending is keeping the suspense going, as well as giving sufficient background for the reader to understand the depth of the crisis. The Salisbury cousins have been painstaking in their research, and have interspersed the narrative with information about weather, natives, history, and personalities so that we are caught up in the tension, pain, and struggle of the efforts of so many to bring serum to the isolated community under the worst possible conditions. For readers concerned with heroism, as well as delineation of a time and place, this is a page-turner.
Karen Michele wrote: "Is this Amazon review close enough to qualify The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic? I know it isn't exactly right (time and place instead..."We're being a stickler about this task, wanting the specific phrase "sense of place". Sorry, it's possible there is another review that would qualify this book.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Is this Amazon review close enough to qualify The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic? I know it isn't exactly right (..."It's fine ---- it was a great book and I searched pretty thoroughly for a review. I sure got an understanding of your state's climate and history! It's rated 4.02 now and I had planned to put it in Realistic Ratings, but now I can't so that's the way it goes. It was well worth it.
Karen Michele wrote: "It's fine ---- it was a great book and I searched pretty thoroughly for a review. I sure got an understanding of your state's climate and history! "Thanks for understanding. I'm sure it's not much consolation, but the book I'm reading now I had intended for this task. I decided while I was here to make sure I had posted my reference. Nope. So I went to find it and (@#$@#!!) it doesn't have the exact phrase and now I can't find another. Fortunately, I don't also have your problem of it's being 4.0 or higher, so it will go on 10.9. Still ...
That's what makes it a challenge;)!
I found one that does have the phrase for the book Lost in the City. It's in the 3rd review:https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Rec...
Karen Michele wrote: "I found one that does have the phrase for the book Lost in the City. It's in the 3rd review:https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Rec..."
Yay! You're good with that one, Karen.
Here's an analysis of Beryl Markham's West with the Night that mentions sense of place. Would this fit the task? It's a wonderful book.http://www.enotes.com/topics/west-wit...
Connie wrote: "Here's an analysis of Beryl Markham's West with the Night that mentions sense of place. Would this fit the task? It's a wonderful book.http://www.enotes.com/topics/west-wit......"
Yes!
In answer to a question from Karen in the General Questions thread, and cross-posting here.Karen, this might not help, because I don't know what tasks you need to fill in for finisher. I was curious about Alan Furst - wish I could get to him! But here is a reference that qualifies all of Furst for 20.1:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000...
"The true attraction, then, of this and the other books (Night Soldiers, The World at Night, Red Gold and The Polish Officer) is as companionable exercises in hindsight, all dominated by a calculated sense of place and romantic departure."
Would this work for The Eye of the Sheep?http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015...
It mentions sense of place about halfway down.
Coralie wrote: "Would this work for The Eye of the Sheep?http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015...
It mentions sense of place about halfway down."
Yes - good find!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Coralie wrote: "Would this work for The Eye of the Sheep?http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015...
It mentions sense of place about halfway down."
Yes - good find!"
Thank you. I was really stretching to find a place for it.
Elizabeth, you may know why I am asking this, but will this http://keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com... work for Half of a Yellow Sun ?
;)
Amanda wrote: "Elizabeth, you may know why I am asking this, but will this http://keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com... work for Half of a Yellow Sun ..."
Yes and yes!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Amanda wrote: "Elizabeth, you may know why I am asking this, but will this http://keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com... work for [book:Half of a Yel..."
Haha! Thanks. Noted it works for Feminism as well, and if I was desperate it works for my 10.1, so I would have got it squeezed in somewhere!
For E.M. Forster's Maurice...I found this link dandelionjournal.org/index.php/dandel... which on p.5 and 6 states:"Maurice’s progress to the outside is to seek identity rather than to escape or obtain euphoric pleasure. There are signs throughout the novel that the outside is where he feels he most belongs. In the novel, the outside is a place where homosexuality appears intimately connected to a sense of place:
[Maurice and Clive] cared for no one, they were outside humanity [...] Above them the waters of a dyke moved imperceptibly, and reflected interminable willow trees. Man who had created the whole landscape was nowhere to be seen [...] they laid their cheeks together and started laughing [...] Maurice smote him on the ribs, and for ten minutes they played up among the trees, too silly for speech. Pensive again, they stood close together, then hid the bicycle behind dog roses, and started.26
In his position as an aristocratic and closeted landowner, Clive becomes opposed to Maurice’s eventual philosophy of sexuality. However, here Maurice and Clive seem at one with the environment. Terramorphism is a recurring theme in the novel—people become part of the landscape or immerse themselves in the landscape, or emerge from the landscape as though they are a part of it."
Hope that works
Ed wrote: "For E.M. Forster's Maurice...I found this link dandelionjournal.org/index.php/dandel... which on p.5 and 6 states:"Maurice’s progress to the outside is to seek identity rathe..."
Yes.
FYI, terramorphism isn't defined with a google search, but I think I get the gist of it. ;-)
I would like to claim The Blue Guitar by John Banville but have not found a specific review containing the words "sense of place" (despite, in my opinion, that being a very strong element of the work, thus far).I am wondering if based on the reviews below there is enough evidence of Banville being a writer who uses sense of place enough to qualify all of his works? Please let me know...
"One feels that Kepler would be too ambitious an undertaking for a lesser author than Banville: it’s hard to imagine many other writers conveying such complexity with such concision (less than 200 pages!) whilst also giving such a vidid sense of place and history." https://hishighhorse.wordpress.com/ta... (regarding Kepler: a novel...which I now want to read)
"...seeps with a nearly tangible sense of place." http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002... (regarding Birchwood)
"...fashions a meticulously written installment notable for its palpable sense of place, a slate of fully drawn characters, and a meaningful denouement." - Kirkus" https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/... (regarding "Even the Dead by Benjamin Black (Banville's well-known pen name)
does that satisfy the judges?
Gabriel wrote: "I would like to claim The Blue Guitar by John Banville but have not found a specific review containing the words "sense of place" (despite, in my opinion, that being a v..."Sorry, Gabe. Those reviews would definitely qualify the books to which they refer, but not to the author's works as a whole.
I found this one for Per Petterson:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/b...
It mentions a couple of Petterson's books, but has a section where in Petterson elaborates on the inclusion of "sense of place" (used in an earlier paragraph). Will this work for all of his work? I am reading Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes in which Arvid is a young boy.
Karen Michele wrote: "I found this one for Per Petterson:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/b...
It mentions a couple of Petterso..."
Yes. Although the specific reference is to another book, what follows provides the context of "sense of place" for this author. Good find!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "I found this one for Per Petterson:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/b...
It mention..."
Yay - Thank you!
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