Connections Challenge
1) Pick any book - Red Herrings and White Elephants
2) Title shares a word with the previous book’s title (elephant) - Hiding The Elephant - How Magicians Invented the Impossible
3) Set in the country where the previous author is from (USA) - My Girls - A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
4) Published the same year as the previous book (2018) - André Bjerke - i kampens glede : en biografi
5) +/- 30 pages to previous book (524-584) - Ingrid Alexandras arv - kongefamiliens tiaraer og kvinnene som har båret dem : en historie om krig, kjærlighet, makt og prakt gjennom 250 år
6) Similar title font to previous book - Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen
7) Author shares name with character from previous book (Jane) - Ringenes herre - ringens brorskap : en guide til filmen
8) Cover shares item with the previous cover (Hobbits) - Hobbiten - en uventet reise i bilder
9) Shares a narrative technique with previous book - Star Wars in 100 Scenes
10) A book the previous character would read at the beach (Darth Vader) - Josef Stalin : En historia om terror och förtryck
11) Same publisher as previous book (Historiska media) - Världens sju underverk
12) Non-fiction inspired by something in previous book - Egyptens pyramider
13) Cover is on opposite side of colour wheel to previous book (orange/lilla) - 1873 - 13 svarta sagor del 5
14) Character shares profession with previous character
15) Recommended by someone else based on your review of previous book
16) Goodreads rating +/- 0.25 of previous book’s rating
17) Inspired by something in the previous author’s bio
18) Shares main theme with previous book
19) Set in same time period as previous book (1900-tallet) - Lassie - The Extraordinary Story of Eric Knight and the World's Favourite Dog
20) Title has same number of vowels as previous title (3/25) - Ape-Man - The Unoffical and Unauthorised Guide to 100 Years of Tarzan
21) Is somehow connected to your prompt 20 and prompt 1 picks - ELEPHANTS ON ACID - AND OTHER BIZARRE EXPERIMENTS
Kortlista ble kunngjort i dag - https://www.biblioteketslitteraturpris.no/ - hvor mange har du lest? Jeg har lest 2 - Ikle mennesker og regne med og Gjentakelsen. Begge gode, så spent på resten 🤓
Tone står bak bloggen Tones bokmerke som er en veldig fin bokblogg jeg koser meg med. Her legger jeg til bøkene hun har gitt meg lyst til å lese.
en bok basert på et eventyr
en bok med handling fra ditt hjemsted
et politisk memoar
en bok fra Oprah's bokklubb
en science- fiction roman
en bok publisert i 2015
en bok hvor handlingen er om sommeren
en bok skrevet av en komiker
den første boken du ser i en bokhandler
en bok fra biblioteket
Ekstra utfordringer på siden av The 52 Book Club Challenge 2025 som jeg leser.
“Read It, Watch It”
January – March: In the public domain - BOK - Sherlock Holmes En studie i rødt
FILM - Basil the Great Mouse Detective
Lunar New Year 2025 - Set In A Country That Celebrates Lunar New Year - Not For Parents Asia - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know & Not For Parents China - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
Lunar New Year 2025 - By An Asian Author - They called us enemy
Mars #1 - A Book You’ve Been Meaning To Get To “Eventually" - The White Devil
Mars #2 - The Last Book You Acquired But Haven’t Read - The Bird Atlas - A Pictorial Guide to the World's Birdlife
Mars #3 - Prettiest cover on your TBR - Gift - historien om drycker, pulver och mordiska uppsåt
April – June: A fairy tale retelling - BOK - Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy - Villains #4
FILM - Maleficent
April #1 - Let out a breath they didn't know they were holding
April #2 - A book that makes you roll your eyes
Mai #1 - (Starter) Seasonal Salad — A leafy, green cover - Jorden rundt på 80 trær
Mai #2 - (Starter) Slow-roasted tomato soup — A slower-paced story
Mai #3 - (Main) Seafood Sharing Platter — Buddy read with a friend
Mai #4 - (Main) Chef’s Passport Plate — An author from a country you’ve never visited - Blondie Goes to Hollywood
Mai #5 - (Dessert) Baked Alaska — Set in Alaska
Mai #6 - (Dessert) Tiramisu — Set in Italy - Familjen Medici - det vackra folket i Florens
Mai #7 - (Dessert) Pavlova — Set in New Zealand
July – September: A character with red hair - BOK - The Chronicles of Prydain
FILM - The Black Cauldron
Lunar New Year 2025 - A Wise Character - Rivers of London (Rivers of London 1)
September 2025 - Beat Your Record - Inre landskap och yttre rymd del 2 - Del 2 Från J. G. Ballard till Gene Wolfe
October – December: More than a million copies sold
Dette er de nominerte til Lytternes romanpris 2024. Og gratulerer til vinneren Tormod Haugland🥳 Det var også min favoritt🤩
The 52 Book Club 2025 Challenge
A Pun In The Title
A Character With Red Hair - Hobbiten
Title Starts With Letter "M"
Title Starts With Letter "N"
Plot Includes A Heist
Genre 1: Set In Spring
Genre 2: Set In Summer
Genre 3: Set In Autumn
Genre 4: Set In Winter
Author's Last Name Is Also A First Name
A Prequel
Has A Moon On The Cover
Title Is Ten Letters Or Less
Climate Fiction
Includes Latin American History
Author Has Won An Edgar Award
Told In Verse
A Character Who Can Fly
Has Short Chapters
A Fairy Tale Retelling
Character's Name In The Title
Found Family Trope
A Sprayed Edge
Title Is A Spoiler
Breaks The Fourth Wall
More Than A Million Copies Sold
Features A Magician
A Crossover
Shares A Universe With Prompt 28
In The Public Domain
Audiobook Has Multiple Narrators
Includes A Diary Entry
A Standalone Novel
Direction In The Title
Written In Third Person
Final Sentence Is Less Than 6 Words Long
Genre Chosen For You By Someone Else
An Adventure Story
Has An Epigraph
Stream Of Consciousness Narrative
Cover Font Is In A Primary Color
Non-Human Antagonist
Explores Social Class
A Celebrity On The Cover
Author Releases More Than One Book A Year
Read In A "-Ber" Month
"I Think It Was Blue"
Related To The Word Puzzle
Set In A Country With An Active Volcano
Set In The 1940's - Includes WWII
Set In The 1940's - Not Including WWII
A Book With 300-400 Pages
Published in 2025
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