SP 20 10.8 Go to Jail (Joanna's Task via Anika)

[Kate S]

Read a book where jail or prison plays a role OR a book by an author who has been to prison or jail.

Please post discussions and questions about task 10.8 in this thread.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

We had a similar task in Summer 2014 (help thread that season). Below are the authors who were claimed that season and all of them are pre-approved this time around.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Anne Frank
D.H. Lawrence
Daniel Defoe
Dashiell Hammett
Edgar Allan Poe
Etty Hillesum
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hubert Selby Jr.
Ignazio Silone
Ivo Andric
J.G. Ballard
Jack Gantos
John C. Maxwell
John Cleland
Jorge Amado
Kurt Vonnegut
Michael G. Santos
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Paulo Coehlo
Thomas Buergenthal
Watchman Nee
William S. Burroughs
Xiaobo Liu

[Valerie]

I found this list:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Thanks, Valerie!

[Bea]

Anne Perry should be added to that list.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Bea wrote: "Anne Perry should be added to that list."

You are welcome to post a link. The list are those that were used previously.

[Bea]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Bea wrote: "Anne Perry should be added to that list."

You are welcome to post a link. The list are those that were used previously."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Perry

[Ed]

I think this should work....Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas ?

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_... which indicates at least two different individuals who are imprisoned...one at the Bastille and another at Vicennes.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Bea wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Bea wrote: "Anne Perry should be added to that list."

You are welcome to post a link. The list are those that were used previously."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_..."

Thanks, Bea. Be sure to mention it when posting - you don't need to repost the link.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Ed wrote: "I think this should work....Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas ?

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_... which indicates at least two different indi..."

That sounds just right!

[Karen Michele]

Does it have to be an official prison? Does our group read The Warlow Experiment work for the task? It sounds like an intriguing book!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Karen Michele wrote: "Does it have to be an official prison? Does our group read The Warlow Experiment work for the task? It sounds like an intriguing book!"

Yes, it must be a jail or prison. Of course it could be fictional, but I think just isolating in the basement doesn't go with the spirit of the task.

[Karen Michele]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Does it have to be an official prison? Does our group read The Warlow Experiment work for the task? It sounds like an intriguing book!"

Yes, it must be a jail..."

Thanks --- As usual, I have lots of others in mind;)

[Bryony]

Could I check if The Gallows Pole would work for this, please?

According to reviews, the story is told partly through extracts from a prison diary kept by the main character.

For example:

“These third-person chapters alternate with appallingly spelled diary entries penned by an imprisoned Hartley; he looks back at the road that brought him nigh (to the gallows pole), the “king’s” voice to explicate his story.”

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Bryony wrote: "Could I check if The Gallows Pole would work for this, please?

According to reviews, the story is told partly through extracts from a prison diary kept by the main character.

Fo..."

Sounds perfect!

[Katy]

How big a role does jail need to play? City of Thieves looks like it might work - they're "thrown in a cell"?

[Beth]

If Anne Frank works, then concentration/internment camps work? So how aboutWhen the Emperor Was Divine for subject matter?

[Rebekah]

Jeffrey Archer was imprisoned for perjury and perverting justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...

Also on the list I noticed a book by John McCain was there. So would Prisoners of War be acceptable? What about people incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay?

What about concentration camps during Holocaust or the Japanese Interment Camps?

[Rebekah]

Karen Michele wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Does it have to be an official prison? Does our group read The Warlow Experiment work for the task? It sounds like an intriguing boo..."

But they drink tea! (Smile)

[Rebekah]

Another list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Karen Michele]

Rebekah wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Does it have to be an official prison? Does our group read The Warlow Experiment work for the task? It sounds ..."

Yay and thanks for the tip;)!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Katy wrote: "How big a role does jail need to play? City of Thieves looks like it might work - they're "thrown in a cell"?"

I don't remember that being a big part, but it is a part and we'll allow it.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Beth wrote: "If Anne Frank works, then concentration/internment camps work? So how aboutWhen the Emperor Was Divine for subject matter?"

Yes. Titles and authors both.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Rebekah wrote: "Jeffrey Archer was imprisoned for perjury and perverting justice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey...

Also on the list I noticed a book by John McCain was there. So would Pr..."

Yes. Please reference "approved" when you post.

[Tien]

Just an article which may be of interest : Crime authors who served time in prison

[Ed]

Martha Stewart ; - )

[Rebekah]

What about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?
Thinking of Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz

POWs count, Don’t they? I think I saw John McCain on a list.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Rebekah wrote: "What about prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?
Thinking of Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz

POWs count, Don’t they? I think I saw John ..."

Yes.

[Deedee]

Here's another list: behind bars: 12 famous authors who spent time in jails and prison

Includes
Jack London: spent thirty days in the Eric County Penitentiary for being homeless

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Thanks, Deedee

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I don't know how many of you have read the 1001 title The Riddle of the Sands, first pub'd in 1903, so I'm reading it for 10.6. I just started it, and actually have nothing (yet) to say about the book. But I always start by reading introductions, at least until they start to be spoilerish. Much to my surprise, some of the biographical information on Childress, the son of an English father and Irish mother, at the time of the Irish Revolution, was arrested and jailed, convicted of treason and summarily executed.

But by which side? For this task, it doesn't really matter, but he fits. It turns out one of the Irish factions did the job. I think I need to read more about the Irish Revolution.