You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

PART 2

2/12


Book Name and Cover: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

Question and Explanation:
16. What is your favourite Ice cream flavour? – Read a book that either represents that flavour by the colour of the cover, or in the title. You may also chose a book that represents that flavour in some way.
Favourite Ice cream flavour: Coffee (coffee colored book cover)
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Faisa wrote "The one thing this challenge has helped me with is discover a variety of obscure authors I would have never come across otherwise. What about your reading list?

My reading list is so huge now, I will not live long enough to read all of the books there, but it does not stop me from adding titles. I love it when a challenge makes me go out of my way to discover a new author or genre that I have not read before. It is one of the things that has kept me in this group for so many years.

PART 2

3/12


Book Name and Cover: The Princess Bride

Question and Explanation:
45. Do you prefer green or black olives? Neither? Read a book with either a predominantly green or black cover depending on your answer.
Green
The Princess Bride (cover is greenish)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Faiza wrote: "PART 2

3/12


Book Name and Cover: The Princess Bride

I loved that book as well! Even though it is one of the few books that I actually read after seeing the movie.

PART 2

4/12


Book Name and Cover: Neuromancer

Question and Explanation:
39. What is your birthstone using the US 2016 listing. Read a book with that gemstone on the cover, in the title, or the colour of that gemstone is the colour of the cover.
Tanzanite, Zircon, Turquoise
Neuromancer (colour of cover)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

5/12


Book Name and Cover: Man's Search for Meaning

Question and Explanation:
44. Do you prefer shoes or bare feet? – Read a book where your selection is on the cover or in the title, or get creative and find a book that represents your choice.
Bare feet
Man's Search for Meaning (holocaust > imagery of treading bare feet through concentration camps)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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6/12


Book Name and Cover: The Pale Horse

Question and Explanation:
34. What is your favourite animal (other than domestic pets)? – Read a book with that creature on the cover, in the title, or in the story.
A horse
The Pale Horse

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

7/12


Book Name and Cover: Interstellar

Question and Explanation:
5. What is your favourite movie? – If the movie is an adaptation, read the book that inspired the movie. Or, read a book that is written by the same author. Or, read a book that has the same title. If the movie is not an adaptation, read a book with a similar theme or has the same title.
Favourite movie: Interstellar
Interstellar (novelisation of the movie)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

8/12


Book Name and Cover: The Invention of Solitude

Question and Explanation:
6. What is your favourite book? – Read it again. Or, read a book that has the same title.
Favourite book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (selected "Solitude" as the keyword)
The Invention of Solitude

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

9/12


Book Name and Cover: The Good Luck of Right Now

Question and Explanation:
10. Are you right or left handed? – Read a book with that word in the title.
Right-handed
The Good Luck of Right Now

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

5 stars! Good to know, I have it planned for the same task :)

Peggy wrote: "5 stars! Good to know, I have it planned for the same task :)"

It was so good to read something this uplifting and life-assuring after a long list of awfully serious books. I can't wait to read more of this author.

I read Silver Linings Playbook by him, really enjoyed that. And I liked the movie too.

PART 2

10/12


Book Name and Cover: Lost Horizon

Question and Explanation:
13. What is your favourite type of food?
Favourite cuisine: Chinese (selected a book set in China/Tibet)
Lost Horizon

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

11/12


Book Name and Cover: The Secret Lives of Married Women

Question and Explanation:
9. What is your relationship status? – Read a book with that word in the title, or where the main character or author shares that status. Or…. Get creative. What kind of book will be representative?
Relationship status: Married
The Secret Lives of Married Women

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 2

12/12


Book Name and Cover: Neverwhere

Question and Explanation:
14. What is something you use daily? Read a book with that word in the title. Or, is on the cover. Or…. Get creative. What kind of book will represent that item?
Vaseline
GR synopsis for Neverwhere uses the phrase "between the cracks" > vaseline applied to cracked, chapped lips
Neverwhere

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

ooo good link!

Congratulations on finishing Part 2!

Cherie wrote: "Congratulations on finishing Part 2!"

Thank you Cherie!

PART 3

1/26


Book Name and Cover: The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Question and Explanation:
50. What language would you like to learn to speak? – Read a book that was translated from that language to one you do speak.
Italian
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (translated from Italian to English by Shaun Whiteside)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

2/26


Book Name and Cover: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Question and Explanation:
35. What type of holiday do you prefer? Read a book in that setting or that represents your choice.
Mountains
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (narrator is on a cross-country trip)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

3/26


Book Name and Cover: Travels with My Aunt

Question and Explanation:
18. What is your favourite season? – Read a book with either the season in the title, or set in that season.
Spring
Travels with My Aunt

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

4/26


Book Name and Cover: The Haunting of Hill House

Question and Explanation:
33. Would you rather encounter a ghost, an alien, or neither? – If ghost, read a ghost story.
Ghost
The Haunting of Hill House

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

That's one of my all time favourite books. The first edition I read was in Readers' Digest of Condensed Books. My parents used to subscribe to them.

PART 3

5/26


Book Name and Cover: Cosmopolis

Question and Explanation:
23. Do you prefer a shower or bath? – Read a book with your selected word in the title, or depicted on the cover.
Shower
Cosmopolis (water droplets book cover)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Janice wrote: "That's one of my all time favourite books. The first edition I read was in Readers' Digest of Condensed Books. My parents used to subscribe to them."

How nice. I don't know what Condensed Books were. Installments in the Readers Digest?

They are abridged books - they are shortened to make them easier to read. Supposedly the essence of the story isn't sacrificed.

From Wikipedia, "Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which were abridged (or "condensed") specifically for Reader's Digest."

The volumes are all listed on the Wikipedia page and Haunting of Hill House was published in 1960, Volume 41.

PART 3

6/26


Book Name and Cover: Girl, Interrupted

Question and Explanation:
22. Have you been in an accident? – If yes, read a book set in a hospital, or with the word “accident” in title. If no, read a book that is a thriller, in which an accident is a high probability.
Yes
Girl, Interrupted (set in a hospital)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Janice wrote: "They are abridged books - they are shortened to make them easier to read. Supposedly the essence of the story isn't sacrificed.

From Wikipedia, "Most volumes contained five (although a considerab..."

Very interesting Janice. I would love to get my hands on one of these old books. I'm just wondering though how horror would come off in an abridged version, given that Haunting of Hill House is already a small book. Were you creeped out back then?

PART 3

7/26


Book Name and Cover: The Brothers Karamazov

Question and Explanation:
43. To what time period would you like to time travel? – Read a book either set in that time period, or published in that time period. Or, read a book about time travel where the character’s time travelled to that period.
1800s
The Brothers Karamazov (book published in 1880)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I noticed that you have 6/12 and 7/12 etc for your counter. Part 3 is the remaining books, and there are 26 of them. :)

PART 3

8/26


Book Name and Cover: Revolutionary Road

Question and Explanation:
20. What is your preferred mode of transport? – Read a book with your selection on the cover, or in the title, or it plays a significant role in the book.
Car
Revolutionary Road (a car on the book cover)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Janice wrote: "I noticed that you have 6/12 and 7/12 etc for your counter. Part 3 is the remaining books, and there are 26 of them. :)"

Thank you so much! I just noticed it. Will be making all the edits now.

PART 3

9/26


Book Name and Cover: Tobacco Road

Question and Explanation:
37. Who is your favourite author? – Read either a book by that author, or a book recommended by that author.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tobacco Road (from a list of books which greatly influenced Marquez)

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ripping through them!

I always used to find Readers Digests books at hotels or old holiday homes or bnbs. Now you've heard about them Fuzzy, I am sure you'll notice them everywhere!

I missed your earlier question about Haunting of Hill House, Reader's Digest version. Sorry!

I was in my early teens when I read it, and I was creeped out. But it also was the beginning of my love of horror.

PART 3

10/26


Book Name and Cover: Tuesdays with Morrie

Question and Explanation:
47. What is your height in inches? – Go to your TBR shelf and sort by number. Read the book that matches your answer. If you don’t have that many books on your TBR, select a listopia on a topic you are interested and read the book with the corresponding number to your height.
63 inches
Tuesdays with Morrie

My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

11/26


Book Name and Cover:
Call Me by Your Name

Question and Explanation:
30. Have you been to Europe? Where? – Read a book set in that location. If you haven’t been to Europe, read a book set in a European country you would like to visit.
(Never been to Europe, would like to visit Italy)
Call Me by Your Name 


My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

12/26


Book Name and Cover:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Question and Explanation:
17. What is your country of birth? – Read a book set in that country, or written by an author that was also born in that country.
Pakistan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
(Author Mohsin Hamid was born in Lahore, Pakistan)

A selections of favorite passages from the book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

13/26


Book Name and Cover:
Five Wishes: And The Prophecy of The Prince

Question and Explanation:
48. Who is someone you miss? – Read a book that represents that person in some way.
A distant, old friend
Five Wishes: And The Prophecy of The Prince (similar name initial)

My Review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

14/26


Book Name and Cover:
Rock Springs

Question and Explanation:
19. What is your current desk top picture? – Interpret that desk top picture any way you like. Read a book that represents that interpretation. 
Painting of a balcony overlooking the mountains
Rock Springs (a distant hill on the book cover)

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

15/26


Book Name and Cover:
End of the Past

Question and Explanation:
38. Do you prefer tea, coffee, or water? If water, read a book with the word in the title, or set on/near a large body of water.
Water
End of the Past (A non-fiction, history of Pakistan which is next to the Arabian Sea)

PART 3

16/26


Book Name and Cover:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Question and Explanation:
27. Do you have a tattoo? If you don’t have a tattoo, read a book with a tattoo on the cover, or represents a tattoo that you would want if you were to get one.
No tattoo (would like to get one of a tree, first chapter of the book starts with tree symbolism)
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

PART 3

17/26


Book Name and Cover:
In Evil Hour

Question and Explanation:
25. What is your favourite genre? – Read a book in that genre.
Magical Realism
In Evil Hour

A selections of favorite passages from the book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I am looking forward to reading this one, one day.

PART 3

18/26


Book Name and Cover:
Autumn

Question and Explanation:
49. What is your hobby? – Read a book that represents that hobby in some way. 
Reading
Autumn (a character reads books to her friend)

A selections of favorite passages from the book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

PART 3

19/26


Book Name and Cover:
Marriage, Manhattan Style

Question and Explanation:
32. What is the feature you are most often complimented on? – Read a book with that feature on the cover or in the title. 
Eyes (couple looking into each others eyes)

Great link for eyes!

PART 3

20/26


Book Name and Cover:
Exit West

Question and Explanation:
46. What is your Zodiac sign? – This one is wide open. Read a book that represents your zodiac sign in some way.
Sagittarius (arrow exits a bow)
Exit West

A selections of favorite passages from the book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Cherie wrote: "I am looking forward to reading this one, one day."

Hey Cherie. Apologies for the late reply. In Evil Hour was quite different from the usual Marquez prose style but one can definitely identify its beginnings. Quite a read it was! Would highly recommend it.