I found this
on Joseph @ The Once Lost Wanderer. But the original version is believed
to be BooksandLala’s. It looks fun,
so... let’s play!
The rules:
Find a book on your bookshelves that
contains (either on the cover or in the title) an example for each category.
You must have a separate book for all 20, get as creative as you want and do it
within five minutes! (or longer if you have way too many books on way too many
overcrowded shelves!)
1. Food
The Guernsey
Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
2.
Transportation
Murder on
the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
3. Weapon
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
4. Animal
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
5. Number
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
6. Something
You Read
The Pickwick
Papers by Charles Dickens
7. Body of
Water
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
8. Product
of Fire
The Flames of Rome by Paul L. Maier
(review in Bahasa Indonesia)
9. Royalty
Anna and the
King of Siam by Margaret Landon
10.
Architecture
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
(review in Bahasa Indonesia)
11. Item of
Clothing
The Ladies’
Paradise by Émile Zola
12. Family
Member
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
13. Time of
Day
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Music
Tales of the
Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15.
Paranormal Being
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
16.
Occupation
Rouge Lawyer by John Grisham
17. Season
The
Rainmaker by John Grisham
I live in a tropical country (Indonesia), where we only have two seasons in a year: dry and rainy (monsoon) seasons.
18. Color
The Black Tulip by Alecandre Dumas
19.
Celestial Body
Test of
Magnitude by Andy Kasch
I was offered the e-book by the writer, to be read and reviewed years ago, but somehow I couldn't find the right mood to do it (and now I shamelessly use it for this challenge 🙈). Very sorry, Andy! I wish you have the best writing career!
20. Something
That Grows
Germinal by Émile Zola
ger·mi·nal [jərmənl]
(adjective)
relating to
or of the nature of a germ cell or embryo.
* in the
earliest stage of development.
* providing
material for future development.
If you read this challenge and want to do it, consider yourself tagged.
Delighted to see you managed to put a couple of Zola's into your list. I will do this tag too...at some point :-)
ReplyDeleteOf course! Zola is always on my mind, haha..
DeleteLooking forward to your post, then.. :)
This is a really neat and fun idea. It does seem like a lot of books to commit oneself to. Of course they are books that one has lying around anyway.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your upcoming commentary on these works. Happy reading!
Actually I have read most of them, only missing no. 1,7,19.
DeleteSome I have reviewed (you can follow the link to the posts), but some I did not, which I regret now. But it gives me a good reason to reread them someday, and finally give them proper reviews.
Hmm, this one looks like a little challenge. Maybe I'll try it this weekend. May husband is leaving for Hong Kong on Friday, so it will be a loooong weekend. I'll have some time on my hands.
ReplyDeleteGood one, for Paranormal Being. That one would stump me.
It was fun, indeed, Ruth! I'm very excited to see yours.
DeleteActually Paranormal Being is not that tough. Phantom instantly popped up in my head. The hardest one was Celestial Body, because I'm no fan of sci-fi. Luckily I remembered the e-book given by the author years ago, otherwise I would have forgotten him completely, haha...
Happy looong weekend! and hopefully you'll enjoy it with some good readings (and a little fun challenge!)... ;)
Very nice. I wouldn't have figured out "rainy" as a season, but yes, that makes sense. :) Thanks for playing along. Something about this challenge was a bit out of the ordinary...and I guess I wasn't alone in thinking that. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteAnd I still can't imagine how you guys handle four different seasons in a year! :))
DeleteYes, a bit out of the ordinary. I wouldn't have related celestial body with my readings. But maybe the creator is an "omnivore reader". It makes sense that she put those variable categories. But that has made this challenge more challenging and fun!