30.6 Delicious Dee's task:Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction

[Dee]

If his flying/ what he did to become a hero occurs in the book and is directly mentioned then yes...then make sure you mention the connection

[Laurie]

Dee wrote: "If his flying/ what he did to become a hero occurs in the book and is directly mentioned then yes...then make sure you mention the connection"

The Hero is a pilot who successfully lands his jet that has problems. Thanks!

[Foxy Grandma]

In Tall Woman the descripion talks about the Cherokee as well as other places and people in western NC so I would also like to read A Popular History Of Western North Carolina: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers
Would this work?

[Dee]

sounds good beth ;)

[Christine US]

Would this work:

Fiction: Merry, Merry Ghost (main character is a ghost)

Non-Fiction: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

[Dee]

sounds good

[April]

SO for option A I could read Destined which is about a girl time traveling to the last days on board Titanic and spends most of the book on the ship and then read How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

[Dee]

sounds good to me

[Chris]

I've been wanting to read a Civil War book called The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War. Could I use Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer? To the best of my knowledge Black Flower doesn't deal directly with Lincoln's assassination, but they are both Civil War.
????

[Dee]

that's a bit of a stretch, but you could read Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief which is about lincoln's leadership during the war or something like Advance and Retreat which is about John Bell Hood who was the general of the battle mentioned in the description

[Chris]

Thanks. I'll keep looking.

[Hettie]

This is a slightly different take so I want to make sure it still fits in with the idea of the task.

I picked up Shakespeare: The World as Stage and was wondering if I could read this alongside one of the plays by Shakespeare.

The idea being that reading one of the plays will make me interested in reading about his life.

Thanks

[Dee]

looks good hettie - another book you might be interested in is Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd Edition

[Hettie]

Dee wrote: "looks good hettie - another book you might be interested in is Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd Edition"

Thanks Dee.

Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd Edition is available from my library so now I have to decide which to use. It's been added to my tbr list so I will definitely be reading it at some point.

[Karen Michele]

If I read a retelling of a myth, would this book work for my nonfiction choice?

The Everything Classical Mythology Book: Greek and Roman Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and Monsters from Ares to Zeus

Also, if I read a retelling based on Metamorphoses, would I then be able to read the Ovid original as my nonfiction book?

[Dee]

@Karen - if the fiction retelling was based on a greek/roman myth the first would be good; if you could find a re-telling of metamorphoses that could work - i'd have to see the fiction book to make sure

[Karen Michele]

Dee wrote: "@Karen - if the fiction retelling was based on a greek/roman myth the first would be good; if you could find a re-telling of metamorphoses that could work - i'd have to see the fiction book to make..."

Thanks,Dee,

I'll look into it further once I get a hold of my fiction choice.

[Fran]

Hi Dee!

Thinking about and or - good?

[Dee]

so your taking the experience of Jane Austen's life in the fiction and using a NF - sounds good to me ;)

[Fran]

I think the premise of going to 'Austenland' is to give the paying guest an 'Austen' experience; the time period,etc. but also to live out a fantasy based on one of her novels. I think it's a mix of Austen's real life and her novels depicted in the book. Does that still work if I read a non-fiction based on her?Sounds like it would, but want to make sure :)

[Dee]

yep, as long as the NF looks at austen, or life during her time period it'll work

[Fran]

Dee wrote: "yep, as long as the NF looks at austen, or life during her time period it'll work"

OK, great, thanks :)

[Cindy AL]

Ok, I'm trying to finish a series so I want to read The Shattered Vine or Weight of Stone. In these books the main character is the owner/vintner/wizard of a vineyard where the grapes are used to make wine that is then the source of magic. There was a great deal of talk in the first book (Flesh and Fire) about how the wines taste and what type of magic the white wine gives vs the red, etc (I'm not making this up, I swear, Flesh and Fire was very good, was up for an award, I think).

So for the non-fiction book I want to read a book about tasting wine.Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style or Oldman's Brave New World of Wine: Pleasure, Value, and Adventure Beyond Wine's Usual Suspects
Will this combination taste good, LOL?

[Dee]

@ Cindy - from what I can tell, sounds like it will work if the continue the talk about how wines taste in the 2nd/3rd books ;)

[Cindy AL]

Thanks, judging from the blurb and the first book the description of the wines should continue, if they are too far off, I will try to put them elsewhere.

[KSMary]

Could I use something like Nineteen Minutes and then read Columbine?

[Dee]

they both feature school shootings so yes

[Kate]

I was wondering if Born Wicked and a book about the Salem Witch trails would work?

[kiki]

i've got a couple of ideas i'm toying with, but i want to make sure either of them work...

could i read A Swiftly Tilting Planet as my fiction, and Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension as the non-fiction? swiftly tilting planet deals with time travel, and hyperspace discusses time warps as a way of traveling through time.

another one i'm wondering about...could i read Zombie for fiction and The Monster of Florence for non-fiction? zombie deals with the subject of a serial killer, and monster is an investigation into a real serial killer.

thanks for your help! :)

[Dee]

@ Kathryn - if Born Wicked focuses on them being persecuted for being witches something on the Salem Witch Trials would work, but I can't tell from the description

@ Kiki - they both sound good

[kiki]

great, thanks so much!!!! :)

[Kate]

Dee wrote: "@ Kathryn - if Born Wicked focuses on them being persecuted for being witches something on the Salem Witch Trials would work, but I can't tell from the description

@ Kiki - they both sound good"

I haven't read it yet, but my understanding is that they live in a time where witchcraft is forbidden so they have to keep it secret. This is the review I read: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

[Dee]

Based on that review I'll say yes

[Kate]

Dee wrote: "Based on that review I'll say yes"

Thank you!

[Sue]

Just to make sure I've got this straight, I could read any of the Harry Potter books and then readThe Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works.

[Dee]

yep you could ;)

[Sue]

Thanks, Dee!

[Karen Michele]

I have found two fiction books that I think would work with the original Metamorphoses by Ovid as the non fiction choice. They are:

Primavera

Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis

Do either of those fiction options work for you with the Ovid?

[Cassie]

I'm thinking of option A, and I was wondering if I could use Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart, and then Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945 as its nonfiction partner.

[Dee]

Cassie - can you explain the connection to me because I'm not seeing it - aside from the time period

@Karen - Boy Meets Girl does, but since I don't know the stories in Ovid, i'm not sure about Primavera - if they are directly related then yes

[Cassie]

Oh. I was just thinking of the retail and consumerism connection, since she's working at Tiffany and the other book is about American consumerism.

[Dee]

ok, that makes sense - sounds good

[Cassie]

Thanks!

[Anne (Booklady)]

Dee, I'm very confused about your task. I don't get it. I'm dense. Could you send me a PM to explain it, please?

[♥Meagan♥]

What if I read Fever and then The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks because they both seem to be about genetic engineering?

[Dee]

sorry for the delay Meagan - having not read Fever (or Wither) this was a harder one for me to determine - and based on the reviews of it that I read, it seems that the focus isn't so much on the genetic engineering in the world, only that it has happened (I found mention of the world in the description of the first book, but not in the second). So i'm going to say no, however, if you do read it and there is a focus on it, then let me know.

[♥Meagan♥]

Dee wrote: "sorry for the delay Meagan - having not read Fever (or Wither) this was a harder one for me to determine - and based on the reviews of it that I read, it seems that the focus isn't so much on the g..."


Thank you! That's what I figured, but I was hoping :)

[Valorie]

If I read Third Grave Dead Ahead for my fiction book, would Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife work for my non-fiction book?

[Deedee]

I'm considering a pair of books:
Fiction The Sherlockian -- a major character is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; and
Non-Fiction Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini -- also starring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Would that pair work for this task? Thanks!

[Jennifer W]

Can I read The Last Battle, which is the final book in the Narnia series, and The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia?