Where does this book fit?

[Kerry]

Stephanie wrote: "Hi! Where would The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Sense and sensibility by Jane Austen, The diary of Anne Frank,The complete fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen,Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespear..."

I just read Unbroken for the 'book about or involving a sport' prompt which is #19 or A book made into a movie you've already seen #1
Romeo & Juliet would fit the 'book that is also a stage play or musical' #13
Sense & Sensibility would fit the Alliteration prompt or #1 prompt which is 'A book made into a movie you've already seen'
Angela's Ashes fits the 'A book made into a movie you've already seen' or a 'Country that fascinates you' prompt.

[Stephanie]

Thanks!

[Tania]

Any idea of where to put Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami? I've already put After the Quake down for the "author of a different ethnicity" prompt...But I seem to be reading a lot of his work this year, haha.

[Ellie]

Tania wrote: "Any idea of where to put Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami? I've already put After the Quake down for the "author of a different ethnicity" prompt...But I seem to be reading a lo..."

What about a country that fascinates you? Also as a translated work you could argue it is a book by two authors.

[Marjorie]

In ideas for what prompt Amor Towles Rules of Civility might fit?

[Johanne]

Oh mighty collective brain power - I have some questions for you:

I just read They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera and William Wenton and the Luridium Thief by Bobbie Peers and I need some help fitting them in. I didn´t mean to read either in 2017 and I already filled the borrowed prompt (they are from the library).

"They both die at the end" obviously fits the death prompt and also the LGBTQ prompt. I have books for those two already. I have a feeling I´m going to have a multitude of books for these two prompts. But I´m thinking it might read as an allegory, where the morale is to live your life without fear and regrets, as if it was your last day on earth. (I think I´m not spoiling more than the title here). Any thoughts on if you think this would work - or any other ideas - are welcome.

"William Wenton and the Luridium Thief" I have no idea. There is some alliteration, but I feel like choosing a book where the entire title is an alliteration for that. It´s a lot like steampunk, but with much more advanced technology, f.ex. a very advanced robot dog. I really like the prompt from last year that had the "subgenre you never heard about" - so my question is - is there a subgenre like steampunk but with more advanced technology? (It´s not cyberpunk either). Or any other ideas?

[Nadine in NY]

There are a bunch of "punk" subgenres that might work. I haven't read the book so I don't know which is a good fit. Look at: nanopunk, dieselpunk, clockpunk, biopunk, atompunk, decopunk, nowpunk & cyberprep.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Johanne wrote: "Oh mighty collective brain power - I have some questions for you:

I just read They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera and [book:William Wenton and the Luridium Th..."

There's a list of here of "_____punk"s. I don't see one that matches while quickly scanning the list, but it might depend on whether the technology is actually steam-powered or not, because a lot of them change based on variations in power source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpu...

[Nadine in NY]

^^^^ LOL same list! What did we do before Wikipedia?? :-)

[Johanne]

oh I knew it! thanks. i'll find a punk that fits ;)

[monica gaither]

Does anyone have any suggestions on what prompt the book The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo would fit into? Thanks!

[Anna]

Mel wrote: "If it's a library book, you could count it as "a book you borrowed or that was given to you as a gift"

::Facepalm:: Of course. If it doesn't end up fitting anywhere else, I may use it there. Thanks.

[Crumb]

Anna, I hadn't come to that realization either until just now! So funny!

[Devon]

Wendy wrote: "Just picked up An American Marriage - part of Oprah's book club. Which prompt would it fulfill besides the celebrity book club one or book published in 2018?"

The author is African-American, if that's a different ethnicity than yours?

[Milena]

monica gaither wrote: "Does anyone have any suggestions on what prompt the book The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo would fit into? Thanks!"

Celebrity book club, it's Reese Witherspoon's current pick.

[Stacey]

The Light We Lost also fits into alliteration. That’s the prompt I used it for 🙂

[monica gaither]

Thanks!

[Laura]

I’m reading a wrinkle in time with my daughter. I never read it before so I could use it as a child hood closet but I’m thinking I might want to use it for a book that takes place on a different planet? Thoughts? Any other prompts that would be acceptable to?

[AF]

Laura wrote: "I’m reading a wrinkle in time with my daughter. I never read it before so I could use it as a child hood closet but I’m thinking I might want to use it for a book that takes place on a different pl..."

I'm putting it in time travel...

[Jess]

Does anyone have any recommendations for The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories I could include it as a book about feminism but I don't know if it's really about feminism or if it was just viewed as feminist because of its frank exploration of female sexuality.

The other prompt I was thinking of was an allegory. Would anyone who has read it say it was allegorical? Any other suggestions?

[Johanne]

@Jess, googling the title and allegory I found a bunch of articles discussing this. I just skimmed them, but it seems the stories have been interpreted as allegory.

[Johanne]

@Jess, you could also use the 'based on a fairy tale' favourite prompt from a previous year (2016 I think)

[Jess]

Johanne wrote: "@Jess, googling the title and allegory I found a bunch of articles discussing this. I just skimmed them, but it seems the stories have been interpreted as allegory."


Thanks, I wasn't planning on tackling the advanced prompts yet but I'm ahead so why not! I might read it for the 2016 prompt and then move it to allegory if I manage to finish the standard prompts. I'm sure I can make another book fit the previous year prompt.

[Kerry]

Could Wuthering Heights fit in the book about an anti-hero prompt?

[Nadine in NY]

Yes to Wuthering Heights!! Heathcliff and Catherine are both anti-heroes.

[Kerry]

Nadine wrote: "Yes to Wuthering Heights!! Heathcliff and Catherine are both anti-heroes."

Thank you Nadine!

[Lucy]

Could any help with which prompts The Great Gatsby would fit in to? I could use it for a book made into a move you've already seen but I was already planning to read The Lovely Bones for that one!

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Lucy wrote: "Could any help with which prompts The Great Gatsby would fit in to? I could use it for a book made into a move you've already seen but I was already planning to read [book:The Lovely Bo..."

I feel like this could be a minor spoiler, not so much for you since you've already seen the movie, but for random people who happen along the conversation I'll hide it with the spoiler tag.

(view spoiler)[Death and grief seems appropriate to me. Even though you don't find out until later in book, characters are really living with grief from the past that majorly affects their actions through the whole book. Plus, obviously, a couple of deaths. (hide spoiler)]

[Johanne]

The Great Gatsby is also an alliteration.

[AF]

Lucy wrote: "Could any help with which prompts The Great Gatsby would fit in to? I could use it for a book made into a move you've already seen but I was already planning to read [book:The Lovely Bo..."

I have The Great Gatsby on my list for a book with an ugly cover.

So ugly!

[Jess]

Lucy wrote: "Could any help with which prompts The Great Gatsby would fit in to? I could use it for a book made into a move you've already seen but I was already planning to read [book:The Lovely Bo..."

Most of the characters in The Great Gatsby are pretty awful people. I reckon you could call them antiheroes.

[eunice]

Would Jane Eyre fit into any of the prompts besides a book mentioned in another book? I’ve already read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for that one.

[Cendaquenta]

Eunice wrote: "Would Jane Eyre fit into any of the prompts besides a book mentioned in another book? I’ve already read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for that one."

Oh boy oh boy.
It could fit:

#1, a book made into a movie you've already seen (there are lots of adaptations)
#9, a book about a villain/antihero (Rochester is pretty antihero-ish a lot of the time)
#11, a book by a female author using a male pseudonym (originally published under the name "Currer Bell")
#13, a book that is also a stage play or musical (again, several of these)
#33, a childhood classic you've never read (it's not a children's book per se but it is a classic book, that a lot of people read/are encouraged to read when they are fairly young)

Edit: Also, Advanced #10, a book recommended by another Popsugar challenge-taker, because I recommend it! :)

If you're interested in other books by the Brontë siblings, Wuthering Heights would work for most (maybe all?) of the same prompts plus:
#10, a book about death or grief
#16, a book about mental health (eeeveryone in it has Issues)
#24, weather element in title ("wuthering" being a regional word for windy)
#28, song lyrics in title (Kate Bush's song of the same name)

[Lucy]

Where would Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolf fit? Any ideas?
Thanks

[Giulia]

Lucy wrote: "Where would Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolf fit? Any ideas?
Thanks"
Well, one of the main characters suffers from PTSD, so it can fit the "book about mental health" prompt.
And you can use it for the "book recommended by someone else taking the challenge" category, because I've read it last year and heartily recommend it, I loved it.

[Piajensen13]

I started reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley but I am struggling to find a prompt that matches. Has anyone read it and knows where it might fit? Unfortunatly, I don't find the cover ugly...
If all else fails I can match it with a prompt from a previous years' challenge.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Piajensen13 wrote: "I started reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley but I am struggling to find a prompt that matches. Has anyone read it and knows where it mig..."

If England fascinates you, you could use that prompt.

You could probably shoehorn it into the death or grief prompt, since not only do dead bodies turn up in mystery stories, Flavia is always kind of dealing with the fact of her mother's death in the background.

Similarly, it's probably not quite old enough to count as a childhood classic, but if you believe in 'instant classics' you could squeeze it in there.

I think it's a later book in the series where she spends some time in the library?

And finally, it's a little backwards since you've already started to read it, but I'd be happy to recommend it because I really enjoyed that book!

[Diane]

Giulia wrote: "Lucy wrote: "Where would Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolf fit? Any ideas?
Thanks"
Well, one of the main characters suffers from PTSD, so it can fit the "book about mental health" prompt.
And you can..."
I read Mrs. Dalloway for #31 A book mentioned in another book. Found this list of many books mentioned in other books -- https://lithub.com/the-reading-lists-...
Mrs. Dalloway is mentioned in An Unnecessary Woman

[Ashley]

Any ideas where Northanger Abbey might fit?

[Fannie]

Maybe if you saw the movie first you could use it for that prompt.

[Sara]

Ashley wrote: "Any ideas where Northanger Abbey might fit?"

It's been made into a stage play, and apparently there is a quote from it as part of the preface to Atonement. Also, I'm assuming it is mentioned in The Jane Austen Book Club though I've only seen the movie version of that book.

[Simant]

Any ideas where The Hazel Wood would fit?

[Cendaquenta]

Simant ♥ Flipping Through the Pages wrote: "Any ideas where The Hazel Wood would fit?"

#34, a book published in 2018

or

#27, a book set on a different planet (I guess technically a fantasy world is a different planet)

are all I can think of just going off the summary.

#10, about death or grief, might work since the story is kicked off by the protagonist's grandmother dying but it's unclear whether that's a massive element in the ongoing narrative.
On the outside, there's #21, favourite colour, if you happen to like the colour hazel. Shame Advanced #5 is only fruit/veg in title, so hazel[nut] wouldn't count for that one.

[Ruby]

So, I just finished reading Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History and I was wondering if this would fit the microhistory prompt.
If not where would it fit?

[Bhavna]

Where would My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier and Sense of an Ending fit in?

[Cendaquenta]

Ruby wrote: "So, I just finished reading Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History and I was wondering if this would fit the microhistory prompt.
If not where ..."

Either microhistory or (depending what you think of Trump) "a problem facing society today"...

[Nadine in NY]

Ruby wrote: "So, I just finished reading Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History and I was wondering if this would fit the microhistory prompt.
If not where ..."

LOL I don't know, but I just finished Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House and I'm about to finish The Unmaking of the President 2016: How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency, so now I kind of want to read "Unbelievable" too!! I'm no help to you, but my TBR grows ...

[Piajensen13]

Raquel wrote: "Piajensen13 wrote: "I started reading The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley but I am struggling to find a prompt that matches. Has anyone read it an..."

Thank you for the quick response!
I already have something under the death/grief prompt but I might be able to shuffle it around. If not, I will use your recommendation for it.

[Ruby]

Cendaquenta wrote: "Ruby wrote: "So, I just finished reading Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History and I was wondering if this would fit the microhistory prompt.
..."

I completely overlooked that prompt and I think I might put it there since I already have a book that fills the microhistory prompt. Thanks for pointing it out!

[Ruby]

Nadine wrote: "Ruby wrote: "So, I just finished reading Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History and I was wondering if this would fit the microhistory prompt.
..."

Those books are also on my TBR list I just have to get my hands on them. I've heard they're both great books to read. As for Unbelievable, I couldn't put it down I definitely recommend it!