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Challenges: Year Long Main 2021
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Book Suggestions for 2017 Challenge
Tejas Janet wrote: "I don't eat it as often as some other fruits that I also like, but avocado is so luscious and delicious..."Yes, they are! Have you avocado trees in your area? Or you have to buy them? We have plenty of trees and in the season it is impossible to eat them all...
We buy them, Mariab. Usually from Mexico. Some people here have success growing them, but our attempts have failed : ( The best guacamole ever is fresh made in Mexico right at your table. So delicious!!!
The cover on at least one edition of What's Eating Gilbert Grape has a car, a truck and a van - and it's one of The YLTO group reads this month.
Oh, thank you, Joan! My hardcover library book is the one with the house on fire and in the lower left corner, partially covered by the author's name sticker on the spine, is Gilbert's blue pick-up truck in the driveway. This might be my #12 book.
Yup, blue pickup in the Grape driveway. I'm glad I made you laugh - "clever literary symbols" - I just had to share.
Peggy wrote: "Thanks for this thread Janice. I'm pretty sure I once heard about a book which I think is historical fiction, but one of the characters is a woman who actually was a real archealogist. Don't reme..."
People of the Book
Drawing in the Dust
both good reads!
Jannene wrote: "I used the word car for three things; something I use every day, I prefer car over truck and my favorite transportation. So, finding three books that have a car on them are quite difficult. The z..."
Plenty of stuff with Virgin in it (not the rude books however!) I'm a history fan so went with the Virgin Queen - anything Elizabeth I if you like historical
Mariab wrote: "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 wh..."
yeah....but Freddie!
Peggy - The Water Babies is about chimney sweeps and their exploitation through which Tom basically drowns and has a new life, eventually reaching the sea (an Isle) so I would say it should count but it's quite sad and a classic - Had thought of it but have read it at least twice before
I loved the water babies film as a child. I don't remember much about it now though.
Thanks for the book suggestions and confirmation of the water babies, Deborah!
I never knew there was a film! Peggy, I was so slow that you probably finished reading about the female archeologist - I was on a much earlier page and thought it was the current one!
Deborah wrote: "yeah....but Freddie! ..."True!
;-)))
The film is really old but my slim memory of it is that it was good. I might not think that now though if I were to watch it again.
Apologies if this has already been posted but I found a book with SHOWER in the title A Deadly Bridal Shower. I'm not a great fan of cozies but it's the best I've found so far.
Margo wrote: "Apologies if this has already been posted but I found a book with SHOWER in the title A Deadly Bridal Shower. I'm not a great fan of cozies but it's the best I've found so far."I found it too and thought that I may read it. Then I found Psycho which had a shower on the cover.
Jannene wrote: "Margo wrote: "Apologies if this has already been posted but I found a book with SHOWER in the title A Deadly Bridal Shower. I'm not a great fan of cozies but it's the best I've foun..."Oh good thinking! Psychopaths ate much more to to my taste than cozies ;-)
Thanks Margo! I also found Murder Can Rain on Your Shower a while ago. Both seem similar, a cozy with a murder and a bridal shower.I like cozies every now and then, for a quick in-between no-brain-read, so I'll probably read one of those two for the task.
I recently found A Shower Of Summer Days, which I'm planning to use for task #23 for shower over bath preference. It could also be used for task #29 for anyone whose favorite flower is daisy. Or #3 if you have blue-green eyes.
hum....try finding bath as a preference! Two Wife of Bath as a title, Library had only one and as kindle. I finally came up with The Ritual Bath.....something about ablutions seems to go with murder.....?????
Tejas Janet wrote: "I recently found A Shower Of Summer Days, which I'm planning to use for task #23 for shower over bath preference. It could also be used for task #29 for anyone whose favorite flowe..."
genius! I like May Sarton and that'll do for the olive question!
blast! only got an 'electronic resource'. Pshaw!
I can't remember who, Peggy maybe, had asked for wildflower books at one point. I was just gophering on my TBR for the toppler and found Burying the Honeysuckle Girls that would work for wildflowers.
Dom and I found "Killer Takes All" by Erica Spindler for bath. It has a bathtub on the cover with a dead lady in it.
Deborah wrote: "Tejas Janet wrote: "I recently found A Shower Of Summer Days, which I'm planning to use for task #23 for shower over bath preference. It could also be used for task #29 for anyone ..."
Cool! So glad you're excited, as I am to find this book!
Janice brought my attention to this series. I am no interested in reading it at all, but I though with so many fruits in the cover it might save someone's life here:
I see berries which I could use but I think I'll continue looking ;-)
I find those covers to be absolutely beautiful. And so not your typical erotica covers.
Sandra wrote: "Janice brought my attention to this series. I am no interested in reading it at all, but I though with so many fruits in the cover it might save someone's life here:[bookcover:Sweet Surrender|160..."
These are not the only covers for this series of books. Beware! I do not mean they are gross, but these "fruit" pics could be misleading.
Not at all. These are the Berkley edition covers. The other covers are more typical Erotica.
I found Dancing on Broken Glass
in a free little library, and I am using it for the shoes/barefeet task.
I already read my "shoes" book, Sandra, but thank you for the recommendation. I have added it to my TBR list. It might have enough brown on the cover to be used for "chocolate". I love the little bird house on the dresser.
For any of you horse lovers, I found this and started listening to it last night. Chosen by a Horse. The narrator is just fantastic. It is a sad, but very interesting story too. It is about a rescued horse and the lady who took her home, who has problems of her own.
Looking for recommendations for a book with bare feet on the cover?
Faiza wrote: "Looking for recommendations for a book with bare feet on the cover?"These are the books I have as my possibilities for this task:
Gemma
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Trans-Sister Radio
Janice wrote: "Faiza wrote: "Looking for recommendations for a book with bare feet on the cover?"These are the books I have as my possibilities for this task:
Gemma[bookc..."
Thank you so much Janice. The Human Cadavers book scares the daylights of out of me, and that's just the title. I'll check the availability of other two. Thanks again!
Mary Roach apparently approaches her books with a great sense of humour. I have another of her books to read - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void. The Stiff one is on my wishlist and only a possibility at this point.
Faiza - I also have
The Flight of Gemma Hardy on my TBR and I read
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body. for that task. I thought it was just ok, but it had lots of yoga poses to try if you're interested.
siriusedward wrote: "barefoot 
shoes....
"Suddenly One Summer looks good! I've put that on hold at my library for my list as well! Thank you.
anyone looking for a barefoot book - this is great
. It is pretty graphis in it's portrayal of the risks social media for teens.
For those needing a Christmas book, Replica is set around Christmas. I just read it for the toppler and it was an entertaining read. Also, for those who are travelling back to the 60s, The Andromeda Strain is set in the late 60s.
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For example for #11 - What is your birt..."
I'm aiming for staying close to guidelines. My questions are more along the lines of is this cover close enough to avocado green and covering enough? Avocado is my favorite fruit. I don't eat it as often as some other fruits that I also like, but avocado is so luscious and delicious.