My KYD Reads … or: Harry Potter, and What Else I read in March 2018
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing — though with decidedly fewer new reads than I’d origianlly been planning — my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). Harry Potter – […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA: Summary of the Team’s Additional Cards & Points Claimed
Lillelara: * Severus Snape as a victim from the red game play. Book read: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. => 10 points * Green Dragon Pub as a crime scene from the yellow game play. Book read: Cocaine Blues. => 10 points => 20 extra points Themis-Athena: * Val McDermid: The Distant Echo […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA: Claiming Additional Cards
Since we solved all crimes in the green rounds, I’ve read and listened to the above books, for which I’m claiming extra cards on behalf of Team MbD / Lillelara / TA as follows: * Val McDermid: The Distant Echo => Suspect: Arthur Conan Doyle (genre: mystery) – Red Round => 10 points * […]
Read MoreKill Your Darlings – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA: Master Tracking Post
Aaaand … that’s a wrap. Round 1 Suspect Own guess / card played: Madeleine L’Engle – wrong – 5 points Correct guess: None Victims Own guess / card played: Katniss Everdeen – 5 points Correct guess: None Crime Scenes Own guess / card played: None Correct guess (by Nighttime Reading Center): […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Robert Harris’s Imperium has white lettering (and the lower part of the cover is black). In addition, the holders of Ancient Rome’s public offices — including this book’s protagonist, Marcus Tullius Cicero — had to organize a variety of games to entertain the citizens, so the words “game” and “games” appear repeatedly throughout the […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Maycomb County Courthouse: the crime scene that would fit most obviously with our game’s murderer (and unlike her own characters as victims, it’s not off limits to her per se). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is genre YA and features two characters who are fathers — Mr. Weasley and Mr. Diggory […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Maycomb County Courthouse: the crime scene that fits most obviously with our game’s murderer (and unlike her own characters as victims, it’s not off limits to her per se). Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is genre YA and features two characters who are fathers — Mr. Weasley and Mr. Diggory (plus […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Well, we still have one victim to guess and since it’s the victim of the very first murder it can’t be Katniss Everdene (the only other theoretically remaining option), since she was expressly excluded in the game’s first round. Walter Mosley’s Red Death, which I finished a few days ago, is genre crime […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Lydia Bennet can’t possibly die too many literary deaths, so I kind of hope she’s a victim in our round as well. (Mean streak — me?) Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen contains an extremely annoying POV character in its second part — who also happens to do more than her fair share of […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Since Agatha Christie has recently been observed visiting Scotland Yard (and we know she’s not the suspect), I think it just might be possible she’s been asked to identify one of the victims as Mrs. Oliver. Of course, the identification might have come out as a negative, but then again … it might not. […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Suspect Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Finished Dorothy L. Sayers’s Unnatural Death over the weekend and decided to use it for a Stephen King suspect guess (a book by an author whose [last] name begins with “S”). Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1650152/kyd-green-round-suspect-card-guess-team-mbd-lillelara-ta
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Suspect Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Obviously, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ticks off all three tasks associated with this particular suspect card … 🙂 Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1649466/kyd-green-round-suspect-card-guess-team-mbd-lillelara-ta
Read MoreKill Your Darlings – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA: Master Tracking Post
Round 1 Suspect Own guess / card played: Madeleine L’Engle – wrong – 5 points Correct guess: None Victims Own guess / card played: Katniss Everdeen – 5 points Correct guess: None Crime Scenes Own guess / card played: None Correct guess (by Nighttime Reading Center): Gryffindor Common Room […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets matches at least 2 of the tasks for the Planet Camazotz” crime scene card: “set in a different dimension of this world” and “published between 1918 and 2007”. If you award an “assist” to Hermione Granger for, inter alia, stealing the recipe for and concocting the polyjuice […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Phew. [TA wipes sweating brows.] Finished this one with just over a half hour to spare until the end of this round. Anyway, the cover of a book virtually drenched in green (both in the paperback and the audiobook version — and yes, I switched back and forth between both) is way too […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Claim – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Since I was already fairly far advanced in the book I’d been reading / listening to for this card when Nighttime Reading Center posted her guess (congrats again on getting there first! 🙂 ), the team agreed I’d just finish my book and claim the card for the points awarded for a crime scene already […]
Read MoreKYD Green Round: Cause of Death Guess – Team MbD / Lillelara / TA
Guess: Mauled by a demon hound. Book read: Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Dolphin (aka Killer Dolphin): Dolphin on the cover of the paperback edition. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1646207/kyd-green-round-cause-of-death-guess-team-mbd-lillelara-ta
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