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Amy - message 21
Bea - message 19
Coralie - message 8
Karin - message 6
Laure - message 32
Tien - message 5
Tien wrote: "GOAL: 12 unique authors mentioned in book/sEXPIRY: April-30
REWARD: 500 points
1. The 12 authors mentioned MUST be unique.
2. Authors mentioned MUST be a real person (ie. no fictional author)
3..."
Can one fiction book have more than one real author named in it so that we can find 12 in less than 12 novels?
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2. George Sand
3. P. G. Wodehouse
4. George Orwell
5. Harold Acton
6. Salman Rushdie
7. Christopher Marlowe
From The Secret History Read 03/31
”I was looking for the tomb of a famous writer – Marcel Proust, I think, or maybe George Sand.” -page 501
"I packed pajamas, toothbrush, shaving kit, and a couple of paperback books (P. G. Wodehouse, who I thought might cheer him up) and left the suitcase with the receptionist." -page 564
"George Orwell - a keen observer of what lay behind the glitter of constructed facades, social and otherwise - had met Julian on several occassions, and had not like him... - this, apparently, Harold Acton, who was also in Paris then and a friend to both Orwell and Julian..." -page 605
"Hampden's own Salman Rushdie." -page 610
"I had always loved Christopher Marlowe, and I found myself thinking a lot about him, too." -page 646
8. H. Rider Haggard
9. Nat Gould
From The Big Smoke Read 04/19
"Not for me love. I'd sooner go to bed with Rider Haggard." - page 46
"She's a beaut. Nat Gould at his best. I'll lend it to you when I'm finished." - page 114
10. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11. Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. Charlotte Brontë
From The Semester of Our Discontent
"Calista had named her after the famous suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton because she was a fierce and snappy kitten."> - @11%
"Monday morning, as I inserted my office key, the next door--with its poster of Nathaniel Hawthorne peering stiffly ahead as if his collar were too tight--swung open." -@13%
"Victorian literature, with a specialty in Charlotte Brontë." -@17%
These all come from The Red and the Black but those will be on different pages. With 100 pages of this book under add book/author, I'll just link to my edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... The protagonist was a scholar. Many of these are French authors and this novel was written France during the 19th C but they are real :).1. "You are very good, Monsieur Sorel," one replied with a very marked interest. "You see all these balls, these fetes, like a philosopher--like Jean Jacques Rousseau--these follies astonish you... page 284
2. He also knew M. de Maistre's On the Pope, and with as little faith in the one as in the other.de Maistre, Joseph
3. He repeated angrily the verse from Corneille, which Madam Derville had taught him a few days before:... page 81
4. He must hear them recite one of La Fontaine's fables. page 140
5., 6. 7, 8. Luckily there crept into the discussion the question as to whether Horace was rich or poor, and agreeable, pleasure-loving, reckless man turning out verse to amuse himself, like Chapelle, the friend of Molière and La Fontaine, or a poor devil of a poet laureate, following the court and writing odes on the King's birthday, like Southey, the defamer of Lord Byron. page 243
9. ..or that would betray forbidden reading, usually kept quiet after a few passing remarks on Racine and on weather. page 251
10. It just happened that the evening before Julien had seen Marino Faliero, a tragedy by Casimir Delavigne. page 295
11. She told him the day before that she was reading D'Aubigne's and Brantome's histories. page 302
12. "Peculiar reading," Julien thought, "for a girl, and the Marquise doe not permit her even to read Walter Scott's novels." page 302
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As long as they are clearly referring to that particular author, just surnames are fine.
1. Elie Wiesel2. Alfred Lord Tennyson
3. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4, Henry Vaughan
5. Henry Fielding
6. John Donne
From A Ring of Endless Light Read April 3
Grandfather came out with a paperback book "It's by Elie Wiesel" he said. - page 80
"Nature is red in tooth and claw."
"Who says?"
"Alfred Lord Tennyson. And it's true." - page 84
we'd started on Joseph Andrews, a really funny book by Henry Fielding - page 162
Grandfather was asleep, the book of Henry Vaughan's poetry open beside him. - page 223
Grandfather - when he was himself - had quoted John donne to me: - page 283
and he told me to read Antoine de Saint-Exupery's books about flying. - page 270
7. Hans Christian Andersen
8. Jeppe Aakjaer
9. Martin Anderson Nexo
10. Knud Rasmussen
11. Johannes Jensen
12. Tom Kristensen
From To Siberia Read April 6
"Hans Christian Andersen stayed at Bangsbo," I say - page 13
Once she tqakes a book from the shelf and reads aloud from Jeppe Aakjaer. - page 65
They have all Nexo's books in Lone's home, but not because they like him. - page 66
and maybe Knud Rasmussen's book about the great sledge journey across Greenland. - page 67
I read the books that Jesper reads and I read Johannes V. Jensen and Tom Kristensen who drinks too much and is not a nice man. - page 80
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LOL
Unfortunately it's got a dewey number classification (133.4) so I'm going to go with it's being NF, sorry!
No problem. This hunt is harder - I love it!
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Bea wrote: "Can the author be referred to by last name only as in "Millet's The Sexual Life of Catherine M.? The author is Catherine Millet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...)."Yes, I got an answer on that one earlier :). I now have my list as I finished that book.
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Bea wrote: "Thanks, Karin. I had missed that response."It's okay, I posted that my list was done AND message 14 at the same time to make it easier :) .
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@Karin: we required 12 authors so you need to add 2 more. Also, you're missing the quotes...? I'm hoping you still have your library book :)
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2. Erich Kastner
3. Franz Kafka
4. Oscar Wilde
5. Catherine Millet
6. Marguerite Duras
7. Anaïs Nin
8. Joachim Ringelnatz
9. Bram Stoker
10. Philip Roth
11. Alice Munro
12. Robert Musil
From The Little Paris Bookshop (read 4/11/16):
p. 14, "Monsieur Perdue picked up the Hedgehog (The Elegance of the Hedgehog). The book's spine had been damaged by the fall. He would have to offer Muriel Barbery's novel for a euro or two to one of the bouquinistes on the embankment with their boxes of books for people to rummage through."
p. 22, "Do you know the writer Erich Kastner?"
p. 24, "The gray tomcat with the white priest's collar enjoyed sharpening his claws on Franz Kafka's Investigations of a Dog, a fable that analyzes the human world from a dog's perspective."
p. 44, "Madame Gulliver, Oscar Wilde spent six years writing it. He was later sentenced to prison and died a short time afterward. Didn't he deserve a little more than two hours of your time?"
p. 47, "The ladies generally voted for erotic books. Perdu delivered this kind of literature inside more discreet jackets: Alpine Flora wrapped around Millet's The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Provençal Knitting Patterns for Duras's The Lover, Jam Recipes from York for Anais Nin's Delta of Venus."
p. 54, "He had read aloud every evening - lots of verse, scenes, chapters, columns, short extracts from biographies and other nonfiction books, Ringelnatz's Little Bedtime Prayers (oh, how she's loved "The Little Onion") - so that she could drop off to sleep in this strange, barren world, the chilly north with its frozen northern folk."
p. 146, "Did you know that Bram Stoker dreamed up his Dracula?"
p.150, "Jean Perdu had been a young bookseller when Per David Olson was being talked about as a potential Nobel laureate for literature - along with Philip Roth and Alice Munro."
p. 159, "(Jean says that quoting Musil's The Man Without Qualities is not a sign of intelligence, merely of a well-trained memory.)"
Tien wrote: "Sorry for the delay in responding, guys... My son managed to use up all our bandwith at home?!! And now he's on school holidays and got not internet lol... tough luck, I told him.@Karin: we requi..."
Aaargh! NO, but I will get it back (screams in horror at such a detail!) And I had 12 on my list, but obviously was in a hurry.
ETA it gets worse. I can't see from the library which was my copy or the translator of the one I borrowed, so I may have to re find these on different pages.
Pretending to Dance1. Disk 4, Track 10 - Judy Blume
“Here’s the Judy Blume book I told you about: Forever.”
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
2. Disk 3, Track 6 Socrates
3. Disk 3, Track 6 Bertrand Russell:
“Now I could have said to you 'Let me tell you about Socrates' or I might have asked 'What are your views on Bertrand Russell'?”
4. Disk 4, Track 3 Proust, Marcel
"Before I could reply he had got up and slipped the book out of my hands. 'Proust, nice'!"
5. Disk 4, Track 3 William Blake
"I prefer the existentialists myself also Blake. Do you know him? William Blake? Yes I do."
6. Disk 5, Track 1 Plato
"He'd finished the book, he said. All of it? It was Plato's Republic! Yeah, it was good."
Gone Again
7. Chapter 66, 44:05 left in book James Joyce
"Like laughing at your own jokes some famous writer used to say. James Joyce. You sure? Yes, I learned it at Barnyard."
The Whip
8. Page 3 William Shakespeare
"My genuine hope is, that in this tale you find not only some entertainment and pleasure but more important, that Charley's story might illuminate as Shakespeare wrote, 'What a piece of work is man...'"
9. Page 90 Charles Dickens
10. Page 90 Ralph Waldo Emerson
"As she passed a tiny bookshop she saw, displayed in the front window, copies of Charles Dickens' newest serial novel, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation, and also, copies of Emerson's Essays, volumes one and two."
11. Page 282 Mark Twain
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth is not." -- Mark Twain
The Black Angel
12. Page 155 George Gordon Byron
"But thee and me He never can destroy; Change us He may, but not o'erwhelm; we are Of as eternal essence, and must war With Him if He will war with us ..." -- Lord Byron, Heaven and Earth, a Mystery... (1821)
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"3. Non-fiction books are excluded"
I did this because I thought it'd be too easy with NF :(
Tien wrote: "oh, Amy, I am so sorry...!!!"3. Non-fiction books are excluded"
I did this because I thought it'd be too easy with NF :("
My fault...I should have read the instructions more carefully. I need that book for the SRC, so no big deal. Back to the drawing board.
Tien wrote: "oh, Amy, I am so sorry...!!!"3. Non-fiction books are excluded"
I did this because I thought it'd be too easy with NF :("
That's what I figured.
OKAY, I have now put in quotes. I changed which authors because I thought it better to use ones used right in the story itself, and not the quotes at the head of each chapter. Note that I did not count La Fontaine twice, even though his name appears twice, since each one has to be unique.Is it okay that 4 of them are in one long sentence?
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yep, that's fine, thanks!
The book I'm reading mentions John Tenniel's illustrations for Alice in Wonderland. Nevertheless, he is also an author in his own right so can I use him even though it is the illustrations that are referenced in the book?
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Tien wrote: "Yes, Lauren, as long as he is also an author and not just illustrator"Thanks Tien
Nonfiction was definitely easier, but I finally found my dozen in fiction books. I revised message 21 above with the new listing.
I've found my 12 and will post the list in a few minutes.
Hunting Expedition #2: Authors Book #1: A Grave Matter by Anna Lee Huber:
1. John William Polidori
P. 29: "A Vampire like Ruthven in Polidori's story"
2. Walter Scott
P. 51: "the mythical figure Sir Walter Scott had written about in one of his poems"
3. Robert Burns
P. 316: "Burns Night was traditionally celebrated on an evening around Robert Burns's birthday".
Book #2: Wicked Widow by Amanda Quick
4. William Shakespeare
P. 210: "Tell us, Lucinda, do you read a great deal of Shakespeare?"
5. George Gordon Byron
P. 210: "I prefer Lord Byron's poetry".
Book #3: An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire:
6. Nora Roberts
Chapter 2: "Didn't your mother know about Nora Roberts?"
Book #4: Murder in a Mill Town by P. B. Ryan:
7. Thomas Hood
P. 156: "It's from a poem by Thomas Hood, he said. The Bridge of Sighs".
Book #5: Because of Miss Bridgerton by Julia Quinn:
8. Christopher Marlowe
Chapter 8 : "He'd always thought ladies preferred slim volumes of poetry or plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe"
Book #6: Wicked in Your Arms by Sophie Jordan:
9. Ann Radcliffe
P. 94: "Perhaps it is unmanly of me to say, but I'm quite the fan of Mrs. Radcliffe".
Book #7: The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton
10. Tobias Smollett
P. 113: "The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett, a Scottish writer from the eighteenth century".
11. Charlotte Brontë
12. Daniel Defoe
P. 73: "I came upon familiar authors like Defoe and Brontë, their characters' words talking in my head"
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GOAL: 12 unique authors mentioned in book/s
EXPIRY: April-30
REWARD: 500 points
1. The 12 authors mentioned MUST be unique.
2. Authors mentioned MUST be a real person (ie. no fictional author)
3. Non-fiction books are excluded
4. You can read as many books as you like to meet your goal
5. As per Part B. 7. c : books read for Hunting Expeditions do NOT have to be listed books.
This can be any book you happen to be reading
6. Reward points can only be claimed ONCE per person.
7. Report your completed Expedition by posting here:
a. Link to your book edition; and
b. Noting page / location of your items (and what they are)
For example,
1. The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks - Read MM/DD
Agatha Christie @54%
”Instead, Ben set up a floor fan on the front porch of the house, angling the breeze toward Zeus, and sat beside the dog while he read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, one of the few books by Agatha Christie that he had yet to finish.”
Etc...