Book Suggestions for 2017 Challenge

[siriusedward]

Ì wrote ereader as the thing i use daily.dont know what to read for it though.

And it just struck me that Cukoo's calling can be used for Hair in the cover book.

[siriusedward]

Also car themed
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

[Mariab]

siriusedward wrote: "Ì wrote ereader as the thing i use daily.dont know what to read for it though."

I think Ready Player One could fit the task, then the book is about virtual reality (an e reader is a virtually xxsands of books) and reality change through technology,

[siriusedward]

Thanks Mariab.thats a great idea! And Virtual reality sounds good..i think so will alternate reality..will think on it some more..

[Dawn]

Mariab wrote: "I'm having difficulties myself with my favorite movie: Moulin Rouge.
I have searched books about courtesans, chorus girls, entertainment, show... with no avail.
I'm thinking if I can use only 1 wor..."

To tie in with the music hall/courtesan theme, how about Tipping the Velvet or Frog Music

[Kristie, Moderator]

What about reading Moulin Rouge? Or a book about a dancer / performer. There are a few different lists for those. Here's one with dancers: Great Dance Books

[siriusedward]

A different angle ..
a book on makeup.. (rouge).. or with if as a cover or with Actress / performers who have to be made up ?

[Sandra, Moderator]

Mariab, what about something set in Paris? If you are lucky you can even find something set in the Montmartre Quarter itself.

[Casceil]

Thanks for the parrot suggestion, Mariab. Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages looks interesting. And yes, parrots do speak. Another book I'm looking at is The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings.

[Mariab]

Thanks for all the fantastic suggestions about Mouling Rouge!!!
I recall the task says: "If the movie is not an adaptation, read a book with a similar theme or has the same title". Therefore, is whether theme or title, not location of story (which, sadly, rules out the fantastic suggestion from Sandra).
I have always thought the theme in Moulin Rouge is not a concrete story -fact which we are told at the beginning of the movie- but rather the void of the culture of entertainment and all the oblation it will made in its name. Here I was thinking something in the line of Freddie Mercury: the Show Must Go on, but I'm not too fond of biographies.

@Dawn Tipping the Velvet is a possibility!

@Kristie I'll check Moulin Rouge

[Dawn]

You could always go with a forbidden love theme. That might get you a few other options??

[Mariab]

Dawn wrote: "You could always go with a forbidden love theme. That might get you a few other options??"

That is a good idea.

[Janice, Moderator]

Somebody, can't remember who now, had said that the person she'd like to meet was herself as a child.... I stumbled across What Alice Forgot. The book blurb on Audible reads, "What would happen if you were visited by your younger self and got a chance to do a do-over?" I don't know if it would fit since the main character goes back 10 years to when she was 29, but it might be worth checking it out.

[Sarah]

Janice wrote: "Somebody, can't remember who now, had said that the person she'd like to meet was herself as a child.... I stumbled across What Alice Forgot. The book blurb on Audible reads, "What w..."

Pretty sure it was TJ.

[Sarah]

For the zodiac task. I'm a libra and I did a wiki search for the sign and found some interesting connections. Thought I'd mention it here for those who are stuck. For example, libra is the 7th zodiac sign, ruled by venus, it's an air sign, it's symbol is scales, all about balance and harmony, it's a masculine sign, it's a cardinal sign, and starts on the vernal equinox, september thru october, big in Rome back in the day, it is also represented by a gyphon. And that's without me looking at what character traits librans supposedly have. I think I'm going with the masculine thing, choosing a book with a man on the cover or a genre which is typically quite male (grim dark/fighting/violence).

[Camilla]

Thanks for the tip Sarah! That's one task for which I haven't even started gophering yet. I'm capricorn, which didn't immediately give me any great ideas, need to research.

[Peggy]

When I did a quick search for aries I found some characteristics that I couldn't immediately connect to books, but then I read that it's the 1st zodiac sign, so I'm going with a book that's first in a series.

I like your masculine connection Sarah!

[Sarah]

I have a lot of books with men on the covers, all in the dark fantasy genre so I'm sorted.

[Sarah]

I just looked at the wiki for Capricorn and I reckon you can make some interesting connections there Camilla.

[Ariane]

Thanks for the tips on the zodiac signs Sarah and Peggy! I haven't gopher for this one yet...

[KimeyDiann]

I don't know if anyone has pomegranate listed as their favorite fruit, but I just saw this cover and thought I would share here just in case.

[Jannene]

A book (Psycho) with a shower on it. and the English version .

[Sarah]

My partner mentioned psycho when I talked about showers. I dismissed it saying it was a film. I didn't realise there was a book too. I will have to check that out.

[siriusedward]

Suggestion for Brown eyes

Brown-Eyed Girl

[Tasha]

Suggestion for 1960s:

The Girls

[Mariab]

How come that a tiny, meager book like Animal Farm gives "readers also enjoyed" monsters books as Vanity Fair (867 p.) and The Magus (656 p.)????!!!!!

[KimeyDiann]

It seems like someone had dance listed as their sport on the questionnaire... I can't recall who. Slave to the Rhythm is 99 cents on kindle right now. https://www.amazon.com/Slave-Rhythm-B...

[Mariab]

My favorite festivity is Carnival (not the fair or circus, but the holiday). I don't find books about it (all have to do with fairs.
Ideas?

[Lanelle]

Mariab wrote: "My favorite festivity is Carnival (not the fair or circus, but the holiday). I don't find books about it (all have to do with fairs.) Ideas?"

After a quick search, I found The Body from Ipanema. The blurb says it is set during Rio de Janeiro's Carnaval. I remember Carnevale being mentioned in the beginning of Silent in the Sanctuary, but the main characters didn't stay in Venice long enough to participate in the festivities.

I've used two different spellings: Carnaval and Carnevale. I think both are correct depending what country you are in. Good luck, Mariab.

[Mariab]

Lanelle wrote: "Mariab wrote: "My favorite festivity is Carnival (not the fair or circus, but the holiday). I don't find books about it (all have to do with fairs.
Ideas?"

After a quick search, I found [book:The ..."
Thanks!

[Mariab]

I also need something with "Train", my favorite transport, other than The Girl on the Train or Murder on the Orient Express.
(for those SF lovers who have selected trains, like myself, there is Inverted World

[Camilla]

Mariab wrote: "I also need something with "Train"

Some suggestions:
- The Christmas Train (just okay, but a quick read)
- Around India in 80 Trains (haven't read it yet myself, I'll be using it for one of the India tasks in YLTO Geo)
- Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story (neither have I read this one yet, our library has it as audio so I have added it to my TBR, seemed interesting)

[Mariab]

Camilla wrote: "Mariab wrote: "I also need something with "Train"

Some suggestions:
- The Christmas Train (just okay, but a quick read)
- Around India in 80 Trains (haven't read it y..."

Thanks Camilla!

[Cherie]

There is also The Girl From the Train - I have a copy but I have not read it yet.

From my TBR: Night Train to Lisbon
The Great Train Robbery and Trains and Lovers.

[Sarah]

Train related - Iron Council

[Kristie, Moderator]

For train, there's also Orphan Train and The Orphan's Tale with a train on the cover and in the story.

[Mariab]

Thanks, Cherie and Sarah!

[Tejas Janet]

Marian, a train book I'd love to read is M Train by Patti Smith. Can't add link right now tho, sorry.

[Tejas Janet]

Marian!

[Tejas Janet]

Mariab, Darn autocorrect!!!

[Casceil]

Another suggestion for "train": Murder on the Flying Scotsman. This book is part of a series, but I read it before I read anything else in the series, and still enjoyed it. It is a cozy mystery set in the early 1920's in England. Daisy Dalrymple is a woman who grew up nobility, but after her brother was killed in WWI, the title and estate passed to a cousin or something. She now works for a living, as a travel writer, photographer-- much to her mother's horror. She is independent, smart, and very likeable.

[Mariab]

Tejas Janet wrote: "Mariab, Darn autocorrect!!!"
LOL, no worries and thanks!!

[Mariab]

Casceil and TJ, tanks. I'll check them.

[Peggy]

I think I'm going for the 50 books, so I did some more gophering for the questions I hadn't found any books for yet. There are a few I still struggle with:

- For relationship status, I wrote down 'living together'. There must be a lot of books in which the main character or author lives together without being married, but it's usually not in the book blurb or the author page. Any suggestions?
Oh, I just thought of the Hannah Swensen series, does anyone know if she starts living together in Lemon Meringue Pie Murder or Fudge Cupcake Murder?

- For favourite season, I have spring. I don't own any books with spring in the title, and from the blurbs it's hard to find one set in spring. Suggestions? :)

- I also need a thriller in which an accident is a high probability. I never ever read thrillers, so I have no idea how to go about it. And I need something not too scary or thriller-y.

- I need a book with wildflowers on the cover.

- And finally, a book set undersea.

Thanks for the help :)

[Lisa]

Peggy, I also went for spring for my favourite season and found it hard to find something but in the end I went for Cold Spring Harbour

There is a list here of oceanic/marine science fiction. Some of them are set undersea. I put Sphere on my list. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

With the relationship status, what about the The Paying Guests or another book with a same sex relationship? That might give you more options for characters living together but not being married. Another that springs to mind is The Crimson Petal and the White. I haven't read it but I think the main character lives with a man for a time without being married to him. Also, do the characters living together have to be in a relationship? If not, what about a book with a governess or housemaid as a main character? The Observations sounds quite good.

[Peggy]

Thanks for the list Lisa! I added Verne's 20.000 leagues under the sea for now. Not overly excited about it but it's free :) I think this is my least favourite of all the tasks.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I'm going with The Preacher for de facto/living together. It is book two in the series, so maybe if you can fit book one in the challenge or another read. Book one wasn't fantastic though, but I got it and book two signed. I should read the second as she apparently gets better with age/books.

However, as fiction likes the nice "neat" endings, marriage is kinda common, particularly in Anglo books. I'll let you know if I find more, my common law friend :P

[Peggy]

Thanks Rusalka! I'm hoping that I will read a book for another task for which I have many options, which turns out to have two unmarried people living together. But it might be good to haveba back-up.

I think I should be able to find something in chicklit, but if I can find something else that would be nice.

[Lisa]

Peggy wrote: "Thanks for the list Lisa! I added Verne's 20.000 leagues under the sea for now. Not overly excited about it but it's free :) I think this is my least favourite of all the tasks."

I gophered for all the tasks and it's my least favourite of them too. I think it's because a lot of books that will work for it are sci-fi and that's not a genre I get on particularly well with. I probably won't even manage to complete that task anyway. I reckon I could read 24 books but that task will be way down at the bottom of the list.

[Peggy]

Same for me Lisa. I looked for some more books and found Dark Life and The Maracot Deep, which may be slightly less SF than some others. I also found The Water Babies which seems like it will be set under water for the largest part of the book but not specifically under the sea so I'm not sure if it counts. If it does, I'm going to try to get a copy of that one. ....Janice? :)