The last day of the Read-a-Thon and Wicked Awesome Books has another mini challenge.
Challenge
We all enjoy a good love story (don't deny it!), but sometimes the two (or three or four) characters involved in a love story struggle so much, that I just want to say, 'hey, _____ would be so much better for you!' So in the spirit of matchmaking, I'm setting you with the task of playing cupid and shooting your arrows at two characters from different books in, what I'm calling, LET'S PLAY MATCHMAKER!
Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter) and Murtagh (Eragon)
An insane pairing, perhaps, but I like it. Luna is so unequivocally good and kind and unflappable, I would love to see her not be phased at all by Murtagh's nasty past and simply accept him. He doesn't want to be bad, and I think Luna's intelligent nuttiness would be good for him.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
A Synopsis Based on the Cover
The Bookish Type has another mini challenge.
Pick any book from your readathon pile and write a fake synopsis based solely on the cover. The synopsis does not have to be related to the actual book at all, just the pretty, pretty cover.
Working with automatons, Dina as often been fascinated by making things "alive", but she finds her father's experiments on the mechanical men troubling when she realizes he's trying to make a fully functional replacement for her dead brother. What is created is something that is her brother but isn't. A machine that has his eyes and mannerisms and memories, but is somehow wrong. Horrified, yet still drawn to the image of her beloved brother, Dina must decide what is human, what is not, and whether playing God should ever be tampered with.
Pick any book from your readathon pile and write a fake synopsis based solely on the cover. The synopsis does not have to be related to the actual book at all, just the pretty, pretty cover.
Working with automatons, Dina as often been fascinated by making things "alive", but she finds her father's experiments on the mechanical men troubling when she realizes he's trying to make a fully functional replacement for her dead brother. What is created is something that is her brother but isn't. A machine that has his eyes and mannerisms and memories, but is somehow wrong. Horrified, yet still drawn to the image of her beloved brother, Dina must decide what is human, what is not, and whether playing God should ever be tampered with.
Love Triangle Challenge
Another mini challenge, this on from YA Bliss.
Top Three Love Triangles
This one is hard for me because there are love triangles and there are GOOD love triangles. So often the author falls into the trap of making an attempt at a love triangle then shoving one character down your throat.
1. Gale/Katniss/Peeta- The Hunger Games
This one worked because both guys were suitable for Katniss and you could understand her being torn over them. She'd grown up with Gale and he was so much like her, yet Peeta was so kind. You sort of know which way it's going to go, but it was well done.
2. Raoul/Christine/Erik- The Phantom of the Opera
This is a weird, weird love in the fact that no one really deserves anyone else. Erik is a murderer and obsessive and slightly crazy, but his love for Christine is pure and there is that part of Christine that loves Erik just for the genius he is. Raoul is an idiot, though Christine is no rocket scientist herself. Yet she obviously ends up with Raoul, fitting for a flighty girl and I suppose Erik deserves his fate for his homicidal tendencies, but Erik's story is so sad you feel more deeply for him that most jilted sides of a love triangle.
There honestly aren't any more than that that I'd consider "good" love triangles that I've read, at least that I can remember.
Top Three Love Triangles
This one is hard for me because there are love triangles and there are GOOD love triangles. So often the author falls into the trap of making an attempt at a love triangle then shoving one character down your throat.
1. Gale/Katniss/Peeta- The Hunger Games
This one worked because both guys were suitable for Katniss and you could understand her being torn over them. She'd grown up with Gale and he was so much like her, yet Peeta was so kind. You sort of know which way it's going to go, but it was well done.
2. Raoul/Christine/Erik- The Phantom of the Opera
This is a weird, weird love in the fact that no one really deserves anyone else. Erik is a murderer and obsessive and slightly crazy, but his love for Christine is pure and there is that part of Christine that loves Erik just for the genius he is. Raoul is an idiot, though Christine is no rocket scientist herself. Yet she obviously ends up with Raoul, fitting for a flighty girl and I suppose Erik deserves his fate for his homicidal tendencies, but Erik's story is so sad you feel more deeply for him that most jilted sides of a love triangle.
There honestly aren't any more than that that I'd consider "good" love triangles that I've read, at least that I can remember.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Mythology Mini Challenge
It's Once Upon a Read-a-thon week, so expect more posts than the usual, both reviews, challenges from other blogs, and I'd like to discuss book rentals at some point this week.
This is a challenge from IB Book Blogging.
Mini Challenge Question 1:
What is your favorite type of myth (Greek, Roman, Egyptian etc)?
Greek, though I do like Norse mythology as well. Being a World History teacher the Greek myths are easier to expose the kids to, especially with connection to English.
Mini Challenge Question 2:
What is your favorite book with some type of mythology in it?
The Percy Jackson series, which I have a feeling is going to be the answer to a lot of peoples'. It managed to blend the nastier parts of mythology and modernize it into something accessible. Special mention to 'Til We All Have Faces by CS Lewis as well. Beautiful take on the Psyche myth with it's own mystical spin on things.
This is a challenge from IB Book Blogging.
Mini Challenge Question 1:
What is your favorite type of myth (Greek, Roman, Egyptian etc)?
Greek, though I do like Norse mythology as well. Being a World History teacher the Greek myths are easier to expose the kids to, especially with connection to English.
Mini Challenge Question 2:
What is your favorite book with some type of mythology in it?
The Percy Jackson series, which I have a feeling is going to be the answer to a lot of peoples'. It managed to blend the nastier parts of mythology and modernize it into something accessible. Special mention to 'Til We All Have Faces by CS Lewis as well. Beautiful take on the Psyche myth with it's own mystical spin on things.
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