Starting with the last two books you have finished reading and the author's name. Name one or more things they both have in common.
Fugitive Pieces by
Anne Michaels &
Blood Brothers by
Nora Roberts1. Female authors
2. Time
3. Childhood
4. Memory
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Thirteen orphans by Jane Lindskold and
The Iron Hunt by
Marjorie M. Liu.
1. Urban fantasy
2. Parallel universes
3. Female athors
4. Published in 2008
5. The first in a series
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Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk and Contending Forces by Pauline Hopkins
1. Networks
2. Sexual Identity
3. Family Identity
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
And where were you Adam by Heinrich Boll
1. Male Authors
2. War
3. Told from the perspective of soldiers who have no control and whose deaths are senseless and meaningless.
4. Lots of guts; very little glory.
5. Insightful, depressing, engrossing, compelling.
6. According to LT's Will you like it?, there is a very high certainty that I won't like either of these books -- I'm glad I didn't check before I'd read them.
A Certain Justice by P.D. James
Enduring Justice by Amy Wallace
1) female authors
2) both have justice in title
3) involve psychopaths
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Glad you guys are liking my new thread.
The last two books I've actually finished reading...
The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks
and
Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
Um...
1. Male authors
2. Three words in each title
3. Librarything thinks I "probably won't like" either of them, but it was wrong
I think those two titles prove how varied my tastes are. :P
Wow.
Mine were
Running Blind by Lee Child (a Jack Reacher Novel) and
Forest of Hands and Teeth a young adult zombie novel.
Similarities:
1) err... people died in both
2) I read them each in one day
3) both the main characters kissed someone
That's about it that's common.
Oh, dear, a tricky one. Mine are:
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym and
Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco
So, have they got anything in common at all?
1) both are novels from the 2nd half of the 20th century
2) both are by European authors
3) both involve a group of characters including a clergyman, an academic, a painter and a naval officer
The last two that I had finished:
The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez and
The Murder Farm by
Andrea Maria Schenkel1. Both are crime stories (even if they are on the two opposite sides of the genre)
2. Both are not originally written in English
3. Both are part of my Reading Globally Challenge (which I need to update)
4. Both are relatively short novels
5. Both were published in English in 2008
6. Read both of them in London during a business trip
7. (edit) Both have "murder" in the English title
8. (edit) Read in English (not my native language)
PS: The edits are after I looked through some of the entries.
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Murther and Walking Spirits by
Robertson DaviesThe Battle of Waterloo by J. Christopher Herold
Hmm. These books are about as far apart as the North and South Poles. One's about a murdered man's spirit following his murderer around and seeing "movies" of his ancestors. The other is a non-fiction account of the Battle of Waterloo.
Both written by men.
Both men have passed away, Herold in 1964 and Davies in 1995.
Both wrote many books.
That seems to be about it.
> 17 they both have "Connell" in the author's names!
Snoop : What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Gosling (somehow that's the only way the touchstone would work)
Spain for Dummies by Neil Schlecht
Nonfiction
Male authors
.... got nothing
When the Wind Blows by
John Saul and
Ghoul by
Brian Keene1. Both are horror novels.
2. Both are written by male authors.
3. Both are written by authors still alive as of October 27, 2009.
4. Both involve at least 1 main character under the age of 18 ending up dead.
5. Both are in the mid-300s in number of pages.
6. Both involve kids wandering off where they don't belong.
7. If both became "Author and Title" puzzles on Wheel of Fortune, you could buy any vowel and still maintain your turn.
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kristenn: Both titles start with "S"
#18 crazybatcow....Duh! lol...thanks!
#23 SylviaC...lol...
callmejacx...pretty good game!
Columbine and
Company of Liars Both begin with C
Both set during real historical events (the Columbine high-school massacre and the plague)
Both kinda gave me the creeps
ET close brackets
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Red Bones and
The Cruelest MonthBoth
take place in April
and in a country other than my own
as detectives search for the murderer of a woman
surrounded by a cast of interesting, small town people
and are written by a woman
Babylon by Bus by Ray Lemoine and Jeff Neumann an
The Great Influenza by John Barry
Demonstrate massive ineptitude by very corrupt local governments.
Demonstrate massive ineptitude by military leaders.
Deal with many, many sudden fatalities, societal breakdown, communication problems, confusion, isolation, mass panic.
Are about people trying hard to help others in very harsh, dangerous working/living environments.
Nation by Terry Pratchett
and
The Art and Science of Clicker Training for Horses by Ben Hart
Now then, let's see...
Both include elements of struggling to communicate - Mau and Daphne with each other, humans with horses.
Both include elements of making do with what you've got without flying off to spend money at the shop - stripping bare the Sweet Judy or using plastic cones as training targets.
Oh yes, and both promote non-violence, responsibility and understanding.
Phew!
(Both good reads, too.)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman and
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Both are:
written by men who are still alive
stories in which children are in danger
stories in which the parents are put in danger as a consequence of their children's choices
about good vs. evil
fiction
scary
and both contain events which wouldn't happen in real life...if we're lucky.
It is nice to come back after a week and see that many have come and played this silly game. Tomorrow it will be my turn to play.
>31,
Of all these post, yours showed heroic effort in tying two totally disparate books, together! LOL
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Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by
Matthew Sanford and
The Cellist of Sarajevo by
Steven Galloway1. Overcoming great difficulties (paraplegia from a car accident and the siege of Sarajevo)
2. Obstacles to day to day living (how to resume and control basic bodily functions, and getting water and food)
3. Transcendence despite unimaginable circumstances (tranquility via yoga, and playing beautiful music in a bomb crater)
4. Physical and mental damage
5. Counting our blessings
Not sure if I can find much in common between
The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock and
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, but here goes:
1) Both talk about the weather and problems it causes
2) Both talk about times of upheaval (civil war, ice ages and nuclear disasters)
Let me see. I almost forgot about this thread. It doesn't seem to be all that popular :(
Let me see I last finished
Unseen by
Nancy Bush and before that it was
People of the Book by
Geraldine Brooks1. Female Authors
2. Mystery
3. The Past
4. Didn't like the way it ended.
Falling Angels by, Tracy Chevalier and
The Angel Game by,Carlos Ruiz Zafon
1.Both have Angel in the title
2.Both were set in the early 1900's
3.Both are historical fiction
(What a great thread!)
Oh brother.....
Deerbrook and
Sylvester1. One word in each title
2. Historical novels set in England
3. Most virtue is rewarded in the end
The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
and
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
1. Pulitzer Prize wniners
2. both were made into movies
3. Male authors
4. both the lead characters are fathers
5. both lead Characters are single (one a widower the other divorced)
6 They are destined to be on my favorite book list
7, They both take place in the fall.
8. They both have made me look into more of the authors work
Nobody's Fool and
All the Pretty HorsesMessage edited by its author, Dec 5, 2009, 12:12pm.
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Ummm....
1.) Both have a main character becoming romantically/physically involved with someone who is not their spouse/soon to be spouse due to some magical circumstances.
2.) Both have witches.
3.) In both, main characters break their limbs.
4.) Ghostly apparitions in both.
5.) Both authors are AWESOME.
20th Century Ghosts by
Joe Hill and
The White Rhino Hotel by
Bartle BullHmmm.
Both are written by men, one the son of a famous author (Hill), and the other the father of a famous journalist/author (Bull).
Both are vividly written with lots of imagery.
Without getting really crazy, that's about it. (crazy would include: both have lots of characters, both have death, both have conversations.....) otherwise, they're 180 degrees from each other.
Passing by
Nella Larsen and The Cat Came Home for Christmas by Cleveland Amory.
both are short,
both are told in the narrative fashion,
both were relaxing reads,
both are "types" of love stories,
and in both the majority of the story takes place inside.
belva
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin and
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
wow umm...
1. they both have teenage girls as the main characters
2. they both are fiction (I guess that is cheating...too easy)
3. both have a bit or more of "love story" in them
The last two books I read were
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike and
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. It's really hard to find a common factor.
They both take place in the United States (completely in the first, partly in the latter).
* THE ONLY THING THEY REALLY HAVE IN COMMON MAY BE CONSIDERED SPOILERS...
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Both of the main men turn out to be homosexuals.
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I will quite often find this easy, though as I tend to link my reading. I have been wading through
Dickens by
Peter Ackroyd for the last two months and before that read
Barnaby Rudge.
I am currently reading
Devil's Brood by Sharon Penman and will then probably read
John Gillingham's biography of Richard I.
The last two books I read were
Sick of Shadows by Marion Chesney and
A NASCAR Holiday anthology.
Really not much in common with these two. They are both written by women (the anthology by three women) and are both fiction.
Oh, both have car crashes in them :-)
The last two books that I have read are
Curtain by Agatha Christie and
My Kids, My Life by Aurdrey Wood.
There two books could not be more opposite. I loved
Curtain and disliked
My Life, My Kids Curtain is a classic I will always want to remember.
My Life, My Kids was a book I should have never read. I feel that I wasted so much of my time with it.
I wish I was one of those people who, if they don't like a book, will stop reading it. I keep thinking that it has to get better. Most times it does. But not this time.
The Rake's Inherited Courtesan by Ann Lethbridge and
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Lets see...
Both have strong female characters who are misperceived by most of the people around them. Both main characters are placed under the guardianship of others by absent parents, and have little control over their life circumstances.
Both are written by women.
I read each of them in an evening.
I like this game because I try to vary my reading selections, so it is challenging for me. I read so many books that, if I read two similar novels or two nonfiction books on the same subject too closely together, I get mixed up as to which was which.
So, my last two books were
Canada and Other Matters of Opinion by
Rex Murphy and
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham.
Now, there's a challenge! But I can say that both were written by men who love language and use it with great dexterity. And, both explore the nature of art and artists. (Which I didn't realize 'til I started typing this message.)
Six Days in Marapore by Paul Scott (set on the eve of Indian indipendence)
Arabian Sands by
Wilfred ThesigerThe first one is a novel, the second is a travel – memoir book.
In the first one there are more than one main characthers , in the second , ultimately there is only one.
So at this point nothing joins them.
The only points they share,in my opinion, it is that in both of them the main – characthers , for "Six Days in Marapore", and the only one for "Arabian Sands", have to cope with a different culture, all of them are British , and the age is more or less the same. Late 40’s early 50’
#56...All one has to do is hear
Rex Murphy once and know that he is one of a kind and has such a talent, for words. He has an incredable way of looking at things and then using words in a way that is so unique. I need to get this book.
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Under The Dome by Stephen King and "A Sailor's Life" by Jan De Hartog
Other than both books are by male authors nothing else in common. One is Sci-Fi, the other a combination memior and advice on a career of a merchant sailor.
Jane Eyre and
The castle of Otranto.
1 - Both are by British authors.
2 - Both have elements of gothic. The Castle of Otranto, being the first 'Gothic' work of fiction.
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress and
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.
1. Female authors
2. Speculative fiction
3. Female protagonists of African ancestry who get involved with the wrong man
4. Incidental gay characters
5. Drug-addicted mothers
6. Eerily similar blighted urban landscapes
Dante: Poet of the Impossible by Greg Kelly and A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
1. Deal with death and the final status of souls
2. Deal with morality
3. Have huge ugly monsters
4. Are comedies, the latter especially.
5. Have a "sweetheart" character, Beatrice and young Sophie, who at some point guide the main character.
6. One has Italian characters, the other has characters in Italian suits.
7. Have religious themes; Catholicism for the former, Buddhism for the latter.
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Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock and
The Eye of Love by Margery Sharp
1. Both are written by British authors
2. Both have pairs of lovers who are physically separated for most of the book
3. Both have characters who think of themselves as inhabiting a character or role beyond their daily lives
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen/Seth Grahame-Smith and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Ummmm....
1. Both involve beheading?
2, And fighting?
3. And guns??
Then Came the Evening by
Brian Hart, and Homer & Langley by
E.L. Doctorow.
1. third person narratives
2. primarily male characters
3. male authors
4. settings (Idaho and New York) closely relate to story
5. criminals
6. lost potential
Something Missing by
Matthew Dicks and Deux heures by
Sylvia RozelierThese aren't even in the same language, but here goes:
1. In both cases, things are missing: physical things in the first, and information on a daughter's safety in another
2. Both have very little dialogue
3. Both main characters have important interactions with a parent.
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