Where does this book fit?

[Erin]

Lindsey wrote: "Since The Ship of Brides is a fiction based on a true event would it count as a novel based on a real person? I mean the characters aren't real so its kind of a stretch, but who know..."


Not sure, but could you use it for a book set at sea?

I used Moloka'i for based on a real person. The main character wasn't based on a single specific person but was a composite of several real people. There were other characters in the novel who were totally real though.

[Erin]

Loren wrote: "Erin wrote: "I'm wondering where I can fit The Lake of Dreams

I also have Vinegar Girl on my Libby library shelf. Not sure if that will fit any of the prompts..."

I..."


Awesome! I had no idea what I was going to read for that one!! Yay.

[Allie]

Where would The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life fit?

[Nikky]

I’m using the ship of brides as book set at sea Lindsey, although I haven’t even read the blurb I’ve just assumed lol

[Amber]

Selwa wrote: "Any suggestions for Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro? I'm thinking of slipping back in to my local library's book club and am hoping I can use those books to fulfill thes..."

I'm planning on starting that soon and am using "a book with song lyrics in the title". There is a Florence and the Machine song with those lyrics. It's also a movie so if you watch the movie first that could work, too.

[Melanie]

Besides the obvious "death/grief" prompt, where could "The Fault in our Stars" fit?

[Ayla]

Catharina wrote: "Amber wrote: "Ayla wrote: "My question is, where does The Chemist fit?"

Hmm, I've not read it but from the description possibly the protagonist could be described a bit of a villai..."

Thanks Catharina! I'm really enjoying it so far!

[Crumb]

I just finished Everything Here Is Beautiful. It would clearly fit under mental illness.. but I could also use it as an author with a different ethnicity as me. If the author is Asian-American would that still work? I'm Caucasian-American. This might seem like a silly question.. but I'm throwing it out there anyway!

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Crumb wrote: "I just finished Everything Here Is Beautiful. It would clearly fit under mental illness.. but I could also use it as an author with a different ethnicity as me. If the author is Asi..."

It really depends on what you want to get out of the prompt. Some people are using it to mean 'anyone with a different skin color than me' and others are really preferring to use it as 'someone with a different culture than me'.

[Johanne]

Crumb wrote: "I just finished Everything Here Is Beautiful. It would clearly fit under mental illness.. but I could also use it as an author with a different ethnicity as me. If the author is Asi..."

You can do that. Ethnicity is quite a broad term, and doesn´t necessarily have to do with skincolour or nationality. From Wikipedia:
"An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, society, culture or nation. Ethnicity is usually an inherited status based on the society in which one lives. Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance."

So, according to this, it depends on if you yourself, define your cultural heritage, language and so on as different from theirs.

[Crumb]

That is very helpful, Johanne. Thank you.

[Crumb]

Can anyone tell me if Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman would fulfill the microhistory prompt?

Other options I'm thinking of are: Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything or The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine? Would any of these count?

[Olivia]

Does Wintersong fit anywhere?

[Miriam]

There is a song called Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan, so you could use it for the song lyrics prompt.

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

Crumb wrote: "Can anyone tell me if Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman would fulfill the microhistory prompt?

Other options I..."

The definition of microhistory that I've seen is (paraphrasing) the story of a specific person or event, told in such a way that it's a commentary on the larger social context, so by that definition I think Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure might fit very well. The other two are the sorts of books most people are using to fit the prompt (the history of one specific thing or kind of thing over a longer time period), so I think those would be acceptable as well, depending on how strict you feel about using the formal definition.

[Crumb]

Thank you, Raquel! I think I will go with Bachelor Nation!

[Jacqueline]

Allie you could use "Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*k" as a book about mental health.

[Crumb]

For this book : The Bookseller of Kabul
Would it fulfill the prompt involving a bookstore?
I know it could work as an author with a different ethnicity as mine, but I am wondering if I could use it for the prompt involving a bookstore or library?

[Olivia]

Miriam wrote: "There is a song called Wintersong by Sarah McLachlan, so you could use it for the song lyrics prompt."

Thanks!

[Trish]

Does anyone have any suggestions for where Henry V would go? I already have one for "based on a real person" and wondering if there's anything else that would work for it!

[Kerry]

Maybe for a country that fascinates you or a book tied to your ancestry if applies.

[Trish]

Kerry wrote: "Maybe for a country that fascinates you or a book tied to your ancestry if applies."

Thank you, totally slipped my mind! I will definitely slot it in for book tied to your ancestry since I have some English somewhere in there!

[Anwesha]

Where would The War that Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life #1) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley i.e The War that Saved My Life fit?

[Johanne]

@Crumb. I definitely think you could use 'the bookseller in Kabul' for the 'bookshop / library' prompt. I haven't read it but it seems to fulfill the prompt, and I saw someone else posting in another thread, that they were using it for that.

[Ingrid]

Hi guys! I already asked but no one answered me... I just finished "The Story of the Lost Child" Elena Ferrante (last in the Neapolitan series). For those who read it, could it fit in either "a book about feminism" or has it been recommended by a celebrity book club? I know it can fit other categories but I have troubles filing those two... Thanks!

[Crumb]

Thank you, Johanne. I will use it for the bookstore prompt.

[Lucy]

Hi, I'm wondering where I could fit the following books:
A kiss before dying by Ira Levin and The Metamorphosis by Kafka.

Any ideas greatly appreciated!

[Mary Anne]

Where can I fit A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson?

[Johanne]

Ingrid wrote: "Hi guys! I already asked but no one answered me... I just finished "The Story of the Lost Child" Elena Ferrante (last in the Neapolitan series). For those who read it..."

Hi. I looked into it a bit, and I think you could use it for both. It is mentioned in relation to Emma Watson´s book club "Our shared shelf" that has a feminist agenda. And she´s a celebrity I´d say :) It seems agreed upon that some of the themes in the book have to do with feminsim. I haven´t read the series, or I´d answered before.

[Tania]

Is there a good category for After the Quake by Haruki Murakami?

[Sarah]

Tania wrote: "Is there a good category for After the Quake by Haruki Murakami?"

Author of different ethnicity if you're not Japanese?

[Tia]

Cam someone help me with "celebrity book club". I mean what does that mean??

[Tara]

A book club run by a celebrity. Think like Oprah’s book club. A couple others who have them are Emma Watson, Emma Roberts, Lena Dunham and Reese Witherspoon.

[Johanne]

As someone else mentioned: David Bowie's son started a book club reading from Bowie's top 100 favourite books. I think I might choose one of them, there are a lot of books I'd like to read. http://www.davidbowie.com/news/bowie-...

[Jacqueline]

There is a thread for the celebrity book club prompt Literary Escpades. It tells you where to find them.

Emma Watson has one on here called My Shared Shelf. It's a feminism book club. Felicia Day from Buffy, Bring it On 2 and so much more has one called Vaginal Fantasy here on Goodreads as well. Reece Witherspoon has one on Instagram and Facebook. The official ones are the ones with hello sunshine in the title. That's her production company. There's also an unofficial one through here that gives you her monthly picks as well as the mods picks. All three of these are in my groups so if you click on my name and go to my profile page and look at my groups you'll find those three at least.

There's also Oprah and David Bowie and Sarah Michelle Geller and all sorts of celebs who love to read.

[Leona]

I am using goodreads' ideas for personal reasons.

[Nadine in NY]

I didn't know there was a SMG book club too!! Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of all the books rec'ed by Gellar and all the books rec'ed by Witherspoon? I know there are lists of all the Oprah books ... not that it really matters for me, I'm reading The Alice Network now, which was rec'ed by Witherspoon, but it would be interesting to see complete lists.

[Juliebean]

I just finished "Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett. Any ideas?

[Amber]

Julie wrote: "I just finished by Terry Pratchett. Any ideas?"

A childhood classic you've never read
A book set on another planet
Book in a series you've started (Discworld)

[Jacqueline]

Reece's books can be found on Instagram at reecesbookclubxhellosunshine. She also has a Facebook page. Here is a list up until sometime last year that I found by googling.

http://ew.com/books/2017/04/03/reese-...

SMG just posts her books she recommends on her Instagram every now and then. Lately it's been more about her company Foodstirs though.

[Tia]

Jacqueline wrote: "There is a thread for the celebrity book club prompt Literary Escpades. It tells you where to find them.

Emma Watson has one on here called My Shared Shelf. It's a feminism book club. Felicia Day..."
Actually I am part of Emma watsons book club. So i guess i can go with that. Thankyou😊😊

[Sabrina]

Would The Golden Compass qualify for a book that takes place on another world? I'm not sure if a parallel universe qualifies if it's still technically Earth.

[María]

Hi!! Does anyone know where At Risk by Patricia Cornwell fits? Thank you :)

[Raquel (Silver Valkyrie Reads)]

María wrote: "Hi!! Does anyone know where At Risk by Patricia Cornwell fits? Thank you :)"

Not having read the book... *maybe* it would fit in the prompt about death or grief? There's at least one murder involved obviously, but I'm not sure how much of a focus the actual death is.

[Heather]

Sabrina wrote: "Would The Golden Compass qualify for a book that takes place on another world? I'm not sure if a parallel universe qualifies if it's still technically Earth."

The prompt is "set on a different planet". Technically, The Golden Compass is set on Earth. But it's also your challenge and you can interpret the prompts how you want. I think the spirit of this prompt is to read science fiction or science nonfiction. If you think parallel universes fit the spirit of the prompt, go ahead and count it. If you think not, there are a lot of other prompts the book could fit.

[Sabrina]

Heather wrote: The prompt is "set on a different planet". Technically, The Golden Compass is set on Earth. But it's also your challenge and you can interpret the prompts how you want. I think the spirit of this prompt is to read science fiction or science nonfiction. If you think parallel universes fit the spirit of the prompt, go ahead and count it. If you think not, there are a lot of other prompts the book could fit.

What would you suggest for the prompt? I've been meaning to read it for a while but not sure which prompt would fit.

[Meredith]

Sabrina wrote: "Heather wrote: The prompt is "set on a different planet". Technically, The Golden Compass is set on Earth. But it's also your challenge and you can interpret the prompts how you want. I think the s..."

Might be a perfect time to decide gold is your favorite color...

[Kacey]

So i found two books that fit for 35. A past Goodreads Choice Awards winner Before I Fall and Feed . What other prompts might they fill. Other then death I've filled that one.

[Ellie]

Sabrina wrote: "Would The Golden Compass qualify for a book that takes place on another world? I'm not sure if a parallel universe qualifies if it's still technically Earth."

The National Theatre did a stage production of His Dark Materials some time ago so it could be a book that is also a stage play or musical. I don't really recommend the film but if you have seen it you can use for the movie you have already seen. I also think original covers are a bit ugly (although as you are calling it The Golden Compass you probably don't have the UK edition as it's called Northern Lights over here).

[Cendaquenta]

Currently reading The Thing Around Your Neck. Could that fit anywhere? I've already filled the "author of different ethnicity" prompt.