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Old 01-22-2019, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Nantahala National Forest, NC
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Che Guevara
A Revolutionary Life

by Jon L. Anderson

754 pages of readable and fascinating bio
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Old 01-23-2019, 12:36 AM
 
Location: In my own personal Twilight zone
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Hi!


Girls (and boys ) I do need your help. I need to find a few books for a challenge but am completely lost and without any good ideas:


A book published posthumously (and please, not the Stieg Larsson series )
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
A retelling of a classic
A book that takes place in a single day
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
A book that includes a wedding (nothing too romantic if possible
A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent


Your suggestions are very welcome

Thank you!
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Old 01-23-2019, 04:33 AM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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A book that includes a wedding
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
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A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

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Old 01-23-2019, 05:54 AM
 
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A book published posthumously (and please, not the Stieg Larsson series )

Confederacy of Dunces. (worth reading anyway )
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Old 01-23-2019, 06:23 AM
 
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A book published posthumously: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent: Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple (I'm pretty sure that the family's house was a former convent - not sure if that counts)
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Old 01-23-2019, 07:07 AM
 
Location: East Coast
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Hi!


Girls (and boys ) I do need your help. I need to find a few books for a challenge but am completely lost and without any good ideas:


A book published posthumously (and please, not the Stieg Larsson series )
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
A retelling of a classic
A book that takes place in a single day
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
A book that includes a wedding (nothing too romantic if possible
A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent


Your suggestions are very welcome

Thank you!
Tough one.

There is a wedding in Crazy Rich Asians.

I was curious about the book in a movie thing. I figured some of the classics must be featured. I found this site which lists some -- I'd probably pick Catcher in the Rye. https://www.shortlist.com/entertainm...ad-books/84075

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Old 01-23-2019, 08:42 AM
 
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A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
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Old 01-23-2019, 09:14 AM
 
Location: East Coast
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A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Oh - another one for common phrase: Catch 22

And 1984!
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Old 01-23-2019, 09:35 AM
 
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Hi!


Girls (and boys ) I do need your help. I need to find a few books for a challenge but am completely lost and without any good ideas:


A book published posthumously (and please, not the Stieg Larsson series )
A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie
A retelling of a classic
A book that takes place in a single day
A book with a zodiac sign or astrology term in title
A book that includes a wedding (nothing too romantic if possible
A "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book
A book with no chapters / unusual chapter headings / unconventionally numbered chapters
A book that has inspired a common phrase or idiom
A book set in an abbey, cloister, monastery, vicarage, or convent


Your suggestions are very welcome

Thank you!
Are you a scriptwriter searching for potential movie material?
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Old 01-23-2019, 10:09 AM
 
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A book that inspired a common phrase or idiom: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
I meant to clarify - the common phrase would be "Lean in"
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