Genre Books
The Girl Scout Cookie Tag
updated
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Created by Nicole’s Bookish Nook
I was tagged by @BookChatWithPat8668
Prompts:
1. It's A Hard Knock Life by Jay-Z: A fiction or nonfiction book about an orphanage, a poor family, or an orphan,
2. Walk This Way by Aerosmith ft. Run DMC: A favourite book of yours that blends genres,
3. Just Lose It by Eminem = A Book that you think is funny or ridiculous (in a bad way),
4. Thunderstruck by AC/DC: A Book that shocked you (in a good or bad way),
5. Welcome to the Jungle by Guns 'n Roses: A book about L.A or a book that takes place in or around L.A,
6. Gimmie Me All Your Lovin' by ZZ Top: Your favorite romance book. Or, if you do not read romance, your favorite couple in any book,
7. Fight for Your Right (To Party) by The Beastie boys: A book centered around a celebration,
8. Firestarter by Prodigy: A book that has "fire" in the title or has an orange/red cover,
9. Humble by Kendrick Lamar: a fiction or nonfiction book that left you stunned at the audacity of the main character or the writer.
10: Tag Others
@backawayfromthedonkey
@Montie-Adkins
@royreadsanything
@Maeve_Ever_Books
@RaynorReadsStuff
@AaronReadABook
@arronjameshook
@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk
@gingerbibliophile
@apoetreadstowrite
@BookBuds
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"A Confederacy of Dunces"
"No Bed for Bacon"
"Bored of the Rings"
"Doon"
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"The Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger"
"Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey"
and "1900; Or the Last President"
by Ingersoll Lockwood
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Here I am on Goodreads:
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William Morris: The Water of the Wondrous Isles
H Warner Munn: Merlin's Ring
H Warner Munn: Merlin's Godson
Patricia Wrightson: The Ice is Coming
Patricia Wrightson: The Dark Bright Water
Patricia Wrightson: Journey Behind the Wind
Brian Aldiss: Comic Inferno
Clifford D Simak: Project Pope
Sterling E Lanier: The Unforsaken Hero
Bob Shaw: Vertigo
Edgar Pangborn: West of the Sun
Patricia McKillip: The Moon and the Face
Jane Gaskell: The Dragon
Jane Gaskell: Atlan
Jane Gaskell: The City
Jane Gaskell: Some Summer Lands
Brian Stableford: Halcyon Drift
Hilbert Schenck:A Rose for Armageddon
James Gunn: The Joymakers
Brian Lumley: Necroscope II: The Lost Years
Brian Lumley: Necroscope III: The Source
Brian Lumley: Necroscope IV: Deadspeak
Brian Lumley: Necroscope V: Deadspawn
Deborah Turner Harris: Caledon of the Mists
Janet Morris and CJ Cherryh: The Gates of Hell
Janet Morris and CJ Cherryh: Heroes of Hell
Fritz Leiber: Swords against Death
John Wyndham: Chocky
T Lobsang Rampa: The Cave of the Ancients
Dante: Inferno
Hatcher Childress, David Lost Continents and the Hollow Earth
Toronto, Richard War over Lemuria
Toronto, Richard Shaverology
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Victober is a month-long reading event hosted by:
@katiejlumsden
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@katehowereads
@BlatantlyBookish
The Challenges
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialized
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Group Read: The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Note: we are reading 2 chapters a day and ending on the 18th with the last 3 chapters)
Including:
The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat
Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by George WM Reynolds
The Lancashire Witches by Willaim Harrison Ainsworth
Hauntings by Vernon Lee
The Mystery of M Felix by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
Trilby by George Du Maurier
Uncanny Tales by Mrs Molesworth
The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh
A Master of Mysteries by LT Meade and Robert Eustace
Alton Locke by Charles Kingsley
East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood
Under Two Flags by Ouida
Far Above Rubies by JH Riddell
Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy
The Nether World by George Gissing
Red as a Rose is She by Rhoda Broughton
The Wages of Sin by Lucas Malet
The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green by Cuthbert Bede
Erewhon by Samuel Butler
The Egoist by George Meredith
The Astonishing History of Troy Town - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith
Dodo - EF Benson
The Heir of Radclyffe - Charlotte M Yonge
The Executor - Mrs Oliphant
Chastelard, A Tradegy - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Mirk Abbey - James Payn
A Princess of Thule by William Black
A Comedy of Masks by Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore
Esther Waters by George Moore
Helbeck of Banisdale by Mrs Humphrey Ward
The Cloister and the Heath by Charles Reade
The Maid of Sker by RD Blackmore
Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater
The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne
A Double Story by George MacDonald
The Coming Race by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
After London by Richard Jeffries
The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medina and Mecca by Richard Burton
The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - David Livingstone
How I Found Livingstone - Henry M Stanley
A yacht Voyage Around England - WHG Kingston
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - Isabella L Bird
Travels in West Africa - Mary Kingsley
London labour and the London Poor - Henry Mayhew
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Principle in Art by Coventry Patmore
Here I am on Goodreads:
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goodreads.com/user/show/153718778-genrebooks
Here I am on Voxer:
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Here I am on Spotify:
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Here I am on Goodreads:
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web.voxer.com/u/genrebooks
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I was tagged by @Montie-Adkins , the original tag is from @TheBookPonderer
1. What kinds of Booktube content makes you feel good or gives you encouragement?
2. How has Booktube motivated you or encouraged you to do something you might not have done otherwise?
3. How has Booktube inspired you to put more positivity out into the world?
4. What is your favourite comment to hear someone say about you or your channel?
5. What are some unexpected happy surprises of Booktube?
6. What is a positive outcome you’ve gotten from making videos?
7. Which Booktubers make you laugh?
8. Which Booktubers warm your heart and make you feel all happy inside?
9. Who are some of your favorite commenters who don't have their own channel?
10. What is something new you can do to put more positive energy out into Booktube?
Here I am on Goodreads:
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Here I am on Voxer:
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Here I am on Spotify:
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Tagging:
@RaynorReadsStuff
@BookZealots
@gingerbibliophile
@BookChatWithPat8668
@Maeve_Ever_Books
@tahlia__nerds_out
@BeyondBooks-wt5il
The prompts:
1) read a book about art (fiction or nonfiction)
2) experience art (live performance or museum/gallery visit)
Bonus prompt: create art or tell us about a work of art that has special meaning to you
Your "Framed! In September" hosts are:
@bouquinsbooks
@anotherbibliophilereads
@HannahsBooks
@lindysmagpiereads
@heathergregg9975
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#shaketember is a #booktube reading event all about old Billy #shakespeare hosted by:
@booksimnotreading
@OldBluesChapterandVerse
@adayofsmallthings
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As well as my Victober picks for the coming month, I also have the latest random pick from the "Tote Bag of Mild Peril", three American novels of the 1890s, fairy tales, serializations and why I'm probably too busy to pitch in for Occult Detective October...
Timestamps:
Intro - 0:00
The Tote Bag of Mild Peril - 0:57
Victober - 2:27
Ingersoll Lockwood - 6:52
Don't, Mr Disraeli - 7:55
Back to Victober - 8:47
Outro - 10:58
Victober is a month-long reading event hosted by:
@katiejlumsden
@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711
@katehowereads
@BlatantlyBookish
The Challenges
Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialized
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play
Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Group Read: The Doctor’s Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Note: we are reading 2 chapters a day and ending on the 18th with the last 3 chapters)
Books Mentioned:
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton - Larry Niven
Zanoni - Edward Bulwer Lytton
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
No Name - Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback - James Sheridan Knowles
Sybil - Disraeli
Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger - Ingersoll Lockwood
Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood
1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood
Don't, Mr Disraeli - Caryl Brahms & S J Simon
The Doctor's Wife - M E Braddon
After London - Richard Jeffries
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
The Lost Continent - C J Cutliffe Hyne
The Princess & the Goblin and The Princess & Curdie - George MacDonald
Phantastes - George MacDonald
Evenor - George MacDonald
Savrola - Winston Churchill
The Well at World's End - William Morris
Various Stories - Algernon Blackwood
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#booktube #librarytour #books #sf #scifi #fantasy #bookshelforganization #bookshelftour #bookshelf
Prompts
1) What are your thoughts on spine breaking
2) Bookmarks or dog-earing pages?
3) Page tearing or ripping?
4) Writing in books
5) Ripping covers & Book Binding
6) Who do you tag?
@booksimnotreading
@OldBluesChapterandVerse
@adayofsmallthings
This week I looked at:
Henry VI pt 1
Henry VI pt 2
Henry VI pt 3
Richard III