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20.1 - Most Improved Player - Perletwo's task: No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Read!
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Reserved for approved books for Option 1
Reserved for approved books for Option 2Codename Villanelle
The Last Bookaneer
The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
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Dee wrote: "Assuming BBQ works for barbeque?"I think so, yes.
BBQ is an abbreviation, not an acronym, but it's the task creator's call of course.
Aprilleigh wrote: "BBQ is an abbreviation, not an acronym, but it's the task creator's call of course."Free dictionary lists as acronym - https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.co... but bbq also works for be back quick
Would Nazi work as a portmanteau? In German, it is made by shortening & alteration from Nationalsozialist, from national + Sozialist. In English it is made from national + socialist.The Perfect Horse: the Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis
Thank you.
Tammy AZ wrote: "For No. 2 - would 
work?"Since it's a series with the antagonist's relationship at the heart of all three books, yes, it works.
Kim wrote: "Would Nazi work as a portmanteau? In German, it is made by shortening & alteration from Nationalsozialist, from national + Sozialist. In English it is made from national + socialist.[book:The Per..."
Yes, that is a portmanteau.
Laura wrote: "How about Bookaneer as a portmanteau of Book and Buccaneer:The Last Bookaneer"
Yes, this works.
Sorry it took so long - I haven't been getting email notifications on this thread for some reason.
Was just about to ask about the 2nd book in the Villanelle series. Instead I will just say well done Suzanne
Barbara ★ wrote: "Would you accept JFK? 
"Is it in reference to the airport or the person? If it's the airport, I might be willing to stretch it a bit.
Lauren wrote: "For option #3 A SEAL's Secret even though it has the possessive attached?"It's an acronym in a title, so it works!
Can I assume Tolkien's series (The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) are all acceptable for Option 2, as you specifically mentioned Fellowship/Sauron as a hero/villain relationship?
Aprilleigh wrote: "Can I assume Tolkien's series (The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) are all acceptable ..."Yes you may so assume!
It's been a very long time since I read the Hobbit; is Sauron a significant part of that story? What I mostly remember is the cave stuff with Smaug.
I haven't read it recently myself, but I would assume The One Ring and Sauron to be, for all intents and purposes, the same "villain."If that's too much of a stretch, that's okay, too.
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Sauron isn't a factor in The Hobbit or There and Back Again - nor are the members of the Fellowship.
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Half the fun of the James Bond novels and movies is the array of ingenious yet grotesque villains and their byzantine plots for world conquest. This task honors them: the Blofelds, the Draxes, the Drs. No, and their wonderfully bizarre henchmen such as Oddjob and Jaws.
This is a one book task. REQUIRED: Indicate which option you've chosen when you post.
1. The title of the post is a play on the famous exchange "Do you expect me to talk?" "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" - fun on the page, but immortalized by the merrily ringing line delivery of Gert Fröbe as the title character in the movie Goldfinger. In his honor, read a book by a single author whose first and last initials can be found in either GERT FROBE (umlaut not required) or AURIC GOLDFINGER.
2. Though Bond fights a variety pack of villains through the series and its book and movie extensions, his arch-nemesis is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Blofeld's uber-consortium of evil organizations. Read a book in which the main character faces an ongoing personal nemesis or recurring villain. The ongoing personal nemesis or recurring villain must appear in more than one book/work.
Examples of arch-nemesis relationships: Sherlock/Moriarty; Clarice Starling/Hannibal Lecter; Harry Potter/Voldemort; the Fellowship/Sauron; Luke & Leia/Darth Vader; Dracula/Van Helsing; and so many more.
Required: If the nature of the ongoing, established hero/villain relationship is not clear from the Goodreads main page, provide links to other book pages or other sites to establish fit when you post.
3. Blofeld's consortium is called the SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion or SPECTRE, and among its subsets is the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH ("SMERt' SHpionam" [Смерть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam], meaning "Death to Spies"). Grammatically speaking, SPECTRE is an acronym, and SMERSH is a portmanteau. Read a book with either an acronym or a portmanteau in the title/subtitle. Ex:
SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (SEAL - acronym - stands for SEa, Air, and Land); YOLO Juliet (YOLO - acronym - stands for You Only Live Once); Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (affluenza - portmanteau - from affluence and influenza); Kiss & Blog (blog - portmanteau - from web and log)
These lists might give you some ideas:
List of Common Acronyms Acronyms must be used as acronyms and appear in all caps in the book's title/subtitle (i.e., KISS must mean Keep It Simple, Stupid).
List of portmanteaux
REQUIRED: Identify the word you used and its source words when you post.