MAR/APR - It's Not Easy Being Green

[Stephanie]

Okay, guys, this one is sort of a hodge-podge of all topics suggested but which also seemed to be linked to the color green. Be creative!

Read as many books as you want about something that is green or where green plays a major part. Please state what your green item is and it's part in the book you read.

(4/20, St. Pat's, gardening, Wales, etc....)

[Melki]

Great idea. I can't think of anything at the moment, but great idea, nonetheless.

[Sam]

Oooo nice one, will have to keep this in mind when picking my reads for the next two months :-)

[Rebecca]

Hey, I just finished The Green Mill Murder. I'm not sure anything more than the name of the club where the murder takes place is green, but it's in the title!

[Stephanie]

Rebecca wrote: "Hey, I just finished The Green Mill Murder. I'm not sure anything more than the name of the club where the murder takes place is green, but it's in the title!"

Works for me! And we have our first "Green" book!

[Rebecca]

Yeah, I could have put it under foreign settings (Australia), but I figured this category needed something.

[Melki]

I read Irish Fireside Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales. Since it's about the Emerald Isle, I hope it will count for this challenge.

[Stephanie]

Melki wrote: "I read Irish Fireside Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales. Since it's about the Emerald Isle, I hope it will count for this challenge."

Yep, this one is good for "green". I am also reading a book about the Emerald Isle and will add it here...

[Stephanie]

Finished:

In the Morning I'll be Gone by Adrian McKinty

Set on the Emerald Isle, taking place in and around Belfast of the 1980's during the the worst of The Troubles.

[Stephanie]

Just finished this short:

The Thyme Fiend: A Tor.Com Original by Jeffrey Ford

It's about a young boy who must drink tea made from thyme or smoke dried thyme cigarettes to keep the demons away. The green in this case is thyme.

[Melki]

Stephanie wrote: "Just finished this short:

The Thyme Fiend: A Tor.Com Original by Jeffrey Ford

It's about a young boy who must drink tea made from thyme or smoke dried thyme cigaret..."

Oh, I read that on March 12. Great story! Can I count it, too?

I also finished Young Skins: Stories, a collection of short stories set in a small village in Ireland where it seems everyone is preoccupied with drinking, fighting and having sex. (Come to think of it, not unlike the myths and legends book I read earlier in the month.)

[Sam]

Got two for this one from two very different green angles...

The first is Beautiful Darkness which is a dark fairy tale style story where tiny people discover the realities of nature after escaping the body of the girl they lived in.

The second is Beta Testing the Apocalypse which is a collection of ten short stories looking at modern society and how we interact with each other and our surroundings, particularly the natural world, from the creation of suburbia to applying economic value to the environment.

[Stephanie]

Melki wrote: "Oh, I read that on March 12. Great story! Can I count it, too?"

You got it and I have also added Young Skins...

[Sam]

Got my third for this one that not only is about the natural world but also has a lovely green cover with The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

[Melki]

Got in a gardening book - the incredibly useless Medical Marijuana Gardening Guide: A Step-By-Step Beginner's Guide to Marijuana Horticulture. Don't write books while you're high, kids.

[Rebecca]

LOL,Melki!

[Melki]

One more Irish goodie - Mystery Man, about a Belfast bookseller who takes up crime-solving.