Month: March 2018
Kill 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 Agatha […]
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Robert Harris: Imperium for The Hob, District 12
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 text. […]
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for Maycomb County Courthouse
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 an honorary […]
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KYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Walter Mosley: A Red Death for Dr. John Watson
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 fiction; in […]
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KYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen for Lydia Bennet
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 stupid things […]
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Umm. Happy St. Patrick’s Day … I suppose?
(In our street earlier today — and yes, it’s still snowing. I hope the poor daffs are going to make it … and there we were, only a few days ago, basking in the early springtime sun and hoping winter was finally over!) Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1650846/umm-happy-st-patrick-s-day-i-suppose
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KYD Green Round: Victim Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Agatha Christie: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe for Ariadne Oliver
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 MoreHelp me show this newcomer to BL some love, please?
Reblogged from: Grimlock ♥ Inhumans Here she is. I like to keep up with people who are amazing, and who read what I don’t read. So far, this looks like another booklover, who reads what I don’t. Basically: looks amazing, I get to keep up with another genre/more genres, while reading what I love […]
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KYD Green Round: Suspect Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Dorothy L. Sayers: Unnatural Death for Stephen King
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
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Margaret Drabble: The Red Queen
I should have read the Crown Princess’s actual memoirs instead. Pretentious and self-centered. Forget the book blurbs — this actually isn’t about the Lady Hyegyōng but about Margaret Drabble and the “connection” she allegedly feels with this 18th century Korean princess. In fact, only the first half of the book even focuses on the Lady […]
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KYD Green Round: Suspect Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for J.K. Rowling
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
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for Planet Camazotz
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 potion, […]
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Reblogged from: BookLikes There’s no better way of celebrating the International Women’s Day than reading books written by female authors. We’ve looked through the book catalog, your posts and reviews, and women writers tag, and picked 10 great titles written by woman recommended by BookLikes community of book bloggers. What’s your favorite title written by female author? […]
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Freeman Wills Crofts: The Hog’s Back Mystery for the Green Dragon Pub
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 good […]
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KYD Green Round: Crime Scene Card Claim, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone for Gryffindor Common Room
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 […]
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J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – Reading Progress Update: A Cautionary Word on Cats
(I’m about 35-40% in now, but going back to the very beginning — I listened to this in the car today:) “Mr Dursley blinked and stared at the cat. It stared back. As Mr Dursley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror. It was now reading the […]
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Kill Your Darlings: The Crime Spree Continues
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1646390/kill-your-darlings-the-crime-spree-continues
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Kill Your Darlings! – Game Status Check
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Red Game Players: Obsidian Blue Team Tannat/Familiar Diversions Jennifer’s Books Reading is my ESCAPE Suspect: Unknown Victim: Unknown Cause of Death: Unknown Crime Scene: Unknown Green Game Players: Debbie’s Spurts Tea, Rain, Books Team Themis/MBD & Lillelara Night Time Reading Center Suspect: Unknown Victim: Unknown Cause of Death: Unknown […]
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KYD Green Round: Cause of Death Guess, Team MbD / Lillelara / TA – Ngaio Marsh: Killer Dolphin for “Mauled by a Demon Hound”
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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Let the sleuthing begin!
Reblogged from: Moonlight Reader Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1646042/let-the-sleuthing-begin
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