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I realize book blogging is more about book reviews, but the book I'm reading is more of the self-help variety, so while it's definitely a book, I think I'll wait until I find something more literary. :) In the meantime, let's play a game.

Vaguely describe a book in the comments - the plot, one story arc, characters. Then have people guess which books you're talking about.  Once enough people have guessed or enough time has passed (give 24 hours, LJ/DW move slow these days), leave a comment with the book you were describing. 

Example 1:

Girls take each other's clothes and write about it.

Book: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Example 2:

A man in Salinas kills his friend.

Book: Of Mice and Men.

Ready... set... go!

Date: 2019-06-11 05:54 pm (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
An eternally young man travels the world in search of his origins and the meaning of his life.

Date: 2019-06-12 01:07 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
The one about Lazarus Long?

Date: 2019-06-12 10:51 am (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
No, but now I'm intrigued and will look that up!

Date: 2019-06-12 11:56 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
It's Heinlein, so, super horribly misogynistic.

Date: 2019-06-12 03:12 pm (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
Ahhh yes, that's what's kept me from getting into his stuff so far.

Date: 2019-06-12 01:02 pm (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
Orlando, though he doesn't finish as a man?

Date: 2019-06-12 03:11 pm (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
Good guess, but nope!

Date: 2019-06-12 01:06 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
Orphan girl is adopted by middle-aged siblings, creates havoc.

Woman brainwashes children into unrealistic scenarios and denies it.

Dyslexic boy bumbles into a weird summer camp.

Date: 2019-06-12 10:52 am (UTC)
cloudsinvenice: "everyone's mental health is a bit shit right now, so be gentle" (Default)
From: [personal profile] cloudsinvenice
Anne of Green Gables!
Mary Poppins?

Date: 2019-06-12 11:55 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (geeky-library)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
Yes to both!

Date: 2019-06-12 11:55 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
No - haven't read it. Would you recommend?

Date: 2019-06-12 11:57 am (UTC)
marzipan77: (Default)
From: [personal profile] marzipan77
It's a classic!

Date: 2019-06-12 09:15 pm (UTC)
rhi: Hermes running, caduceus in hand (Hermes running)
From: [personal profile] rhi
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief on 3?

Date: 2019-06-12 10:48 pm (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
Yes :)

Date: 2019-06-12 01:06 pm (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
Tired of his job, an important person leaves to slum on a farm while his granddaughter takes over the family business.

Three old women go on vacation and one of them traps her sister in a mirror.

Someone has to take over the old post office, so the city forces a condemned man to do it as a kind of community service.

Date: 2019-06-12 01:23 pm (UTC)
justphoenix: (Default)
From: [personal profile] justphoenix
The last one is Going Postal

Date: 2019-06-12 03:28 pm (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
True!

Date: 2019-06-12 09:16 pm (UTC)
rhi: Animated icon with the Ankh-Morpork coats of arms and some of the anthem. (Discworld rebel songs)
From: [personal profile] rhi
That first one is Mort. The second is Witches Abroad. The third is Going Postal.

Date: 2019-06-13 07:26 am (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
Second and third were correct, you're just slightly off on the first, but that's my fault. Death leaves of his own accord in Mort, but I was thinking of Reaper Man, when he's forced off the job.

Date: 2019-06-12 10:49 pm (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
❤️

Date: 2019-06-13 12:33 am (UTC)
hitchhiker: image of "don't panic" towel with a rocketship and a 42 (Default)
From: [personal profile] hitchhiker
'reaper man' for the first one?

Date: 2019-06-13 07:33 am (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
That's the one I was thinking of, though I misremembered the reason he left that time.

Date: 2019-06-13 01:38 am (UTC)
katarik: DC Comics: Major Slade Wilson and Captain Adeline Kane, text but I can make you better (Default)
From: [personal profile] katarik
1) Reaper Man

2) Witches Abroad

Date: 2019-06-13 07:34 am (UTC)
ilthit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilthit
Correct!

Re: Wow, I am fail, I didn't play my own game :P

Date: 2019-06-13 09:43 am (UTC)
gingicat: deep purple lilacs, some buds, some open (Default)
From: [personal profile] gingicat
I may have read the last one, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t read the others.

Date: 2019-06-13 11:53 am (UTC)
goljerp: Photo of the moon Callisto (Default)
From: [personal profile] goljerp
A boy coming of age, his robot, and pet are forced to discover / uncover the creators of the mysterious artifacts scattered around the universe.

(Kind of long, but it's also kind of obscure)

[ETA: darn missing slash. Also, do I need another hint?]
[ETA: it's been a week, and it looks like people have stopped looking at this post... so I'll leave one last clue for whomever stumbles across this in the future: this book was authored by someone who appears in the previous comments. Although it's not the same book as any of the other ones.]
Edited (Added another clue for posterity) Date: 2019-06-21 11:01 am (UTC)

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