Kareni Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 I still need to come up with some odd book for my sister. I always give her a completely-off-the-wall book at Xmas. Any suggestions welcome. Or there's Game of Scones: All Men Must Dine: A Parody by Jammy Lannister. For your father: Some favorites of my father (who died some years ago) ~ Herman Wouk's Don't Stop the Carnival Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd series. The first book is World's End. Winston Churchill's six volume The Second World War (book series) Regards, Kareni 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 (edited) Stacia, A couple of ideas for your sister. I loved The Dinosaur Feather by Gazen https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-dinosaur-feather-by-sj-gazan-is-a-weird-and-ingenious-new-mystery/2013/12/08/e87599e6-5c21-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html?utm_term=.84e7584e85c1. Perhaps more mainstream authors might be better. I read the first couple by SJ Bolton and had to quit (intense and violent). It's a series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12778381-now-you-see-me. This series by Chelsea Cain is another one I needed to quit. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2655716-heartsick But the me who used to read a lot of graphic police procedural/thriller would have loved both series. Eta....I read your post late in the night and I think my memory failed, I should have looked again before writing. I think now you meant actual cults etc not fictional. Anyway I will leave my ideas for intense thrillers in case anyone else needs them. The Dino Feather was just plain good. Danish translation. I've read the sequel. Edited December 4, 2016 by mumto2 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Oh I have just the perfect book recommendations. Entertaining is Easy by Dorothy Draper - It's a bit hard to find but if you can find it then it's just an absolute delightful "how to entertain" book set in the 30's and 40's. It offers helpful advice on throwing a costume party at Christmas and how to host a party to listen to the boxing match on the radio. Wonderful! Almost as charming is the 1970 Betty Crocker's Hostess Cookbook which I could send to you, Stacia. It gives menu and decoration ideas as well as recipes. The latter includes things like Olive Surprise Roast with Tomato Gravy, Pink Cucumber Float, and La Bombe Rose. Bonus: section on garnishes. Learn to make Painted Turnip flowers. Holiday menus include that teen favorite, the Bobbing Apple Punch Bowl and jello salads for all occasions. Let your personal shopper know if I should drop this in the mail. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 I have also finished the Bingo card...... B Female author...Gail Carriger, Manners and Mutiny Historical.....Judith Cutler, The Keeper of Secrets (109th Cent. England) Pick by cover....Katie MacAlister, Steamed Translated......Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart Epic.....Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett I Published 2016....CS Harris, When Falcons Fall Revisit an old friend.....Linda Lael Miller, Forever and the Night Over 500 pages.....Justin Cronin, The Passage Banned.....John Green, Looking for Alaska Nautical....Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander N Number....Katherine Neville, The Eight Fairy Tale adaptation...Kristine Grayson, Utterly Charming Free Space....Elizabeth Duncan, The Cold Morning Light Mystery....Robert Barnard, The Mistress of Alderly 18th Century....Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto G Dusty.....90 minutes in Heaven, Dan Piper Birth year......The Clocks, Agatha Christie Classic.....The Children of Green Knowe, L.M. Boston Color.....Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs Arthurian....Sword of the Rightful King, Jane Yolan O Picked by Friend....A Load of Old Bones, Suzette Hill Play....Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Rowling Non Fiction....The Patchwork of Lucy Boston Nobel Prize-winning author..... Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse Set in another country....The Arcof the Swallow, Gazen (Denmark) Before I forget, I plan to rean a Murakami in January because of tradition. No preference. Anyone want to join me? 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Crown Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 One of my favorite end of the year things is reading everyone's lists! Especially seeing what they read to fill in various categories. Stacia, the zebra perfects that shelf. I need to do something nice like that with my books besides random piles and doubleshelving. Here's a book idea that's not for everybody, but is right for somebody - I got it for someone who moved to a new parish: "How To Get Along With People in the Church." http://www.christianbooksaustralia.com/shop_image/product/65528.jpg The cover is the best part; what are those nice folks really thinking, underneath? 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Thank you everyone. Robin, how about graphic novel? And scifi is good because it where both soft and hard science meet up with philosophy, and how artists/writers influence the future (for example, flip phones) because the engineers read/watch scifi. And I have bingo in at least one direction but I am havng trouble remembering the exact names of the books. Epic - Brandon Sanderson's most recent Mistborn novels as well as a reread of the three original ones. These are epic in the "sweeping saga" sense. Kingdoms fall and there are wars and heros and mystical stuff and politics and some gross scary parts that would have kept me from reading them except that they were a parting gift from my youngest when he left for college. Large swaths of them I enjoy. Good, absorbing escape, which is why my son chose them. Arthurian -Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Nautical - Hornblower 18th Century - That really early scifi Micromegas Set in another country - Sense and Sensibility (and lots of others) (Posting before I lose this will be back) Nan Eta - I also read: Female Author - In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri Translated - Ma soeur est une sorciere by Dianna Winn Jones (and I can tell you children's book is significantly more difficult than Agatha Christie) Library - many, we'll use a Terry Pratchett - Steam Mystery - numerous Daisy Dalrymples Old Favourite - Artists in Crime by Ngaio Marsh Picked by a friend - The Plover. And abunch sent to us from dear Jane : ) 2016 - Shadows. Of self by Brandon Sanderson Over 500 - surely some of the Sandersons were, or perhaps better, I am half way through The Far Pavillions and will definitely be done by Christmas Picked for the Cover - Buddha Boy Non-fiction - some painting books. I will be back to fill in a titleafter I get the name of one off my website Historical - that one I read about impressionists. Something with Paris in the title. Hmmm... Play - Art, the play about the white painting that I'm the wrong culture to understand Nobel prize author - Kim Fairytale adaptation - a Mercedy Lackey that I think was called Beauty What was the dusty supposed to be? Everything in my house is dusty. Adjusting things a bit so they work better... Let's make Epic be my reread of the original Mistborn trilogy, 500 be The Bands of Mourning, and 2016 be Shadows of Self. That uses most of the Brandon Sandersons that I read. I'll use Midshipman Hornblower as my Nautical. I remembered that I read one of the Stephanie Plum mysteries which could count as Number in Title. I will read a Bone for my banned book (haven't read all of those yet and want to). But I am for sure not going to get to Birth Year and I probably don't have Colour in Title. I'll have to do a search and find the bingo card to see if that comes to anything other than some rows or columns. I'm happy I hit so many, though! This is the first time I have tried to do any of it, that I remember. Will post a better list later. I have to get dressed while my husband is around to give me a hand. Nan 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 (edited) Oh, and trying to finish dusty might encourage me to wade through the rest of my Spanish Treehouse book. Sigh. Robin, I have been counting audiobooks. I hope that is ok? I,ve been read aloud to my whole life so I never lost the ability to escape into them. Nan Edited December 4, 2016 by Nan in Mass 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 One of my favorite end of the year things is reading everyone's lists! Especially seeing what they read to fill in various categories. Stacia, the zebra perfects that shelf. I need to do something nice like that with my books besides random piles and doubleshelving. Here's a book idea that's not for everybody, but is right for somebody - I got it for someone who moved to a new parish: "How To Get Along With People in the Church." http://www.christianbooksaustralia.com/shop_image/product/65528.jpg The cover is the best part; what are those nice folks really thinking, underneath? They are smiling, so of course they are thinking, "Those people look nice. I hope they will be friends." : ) those of us who are more literal minded and have more literal minded children take comfort in the fact that even "way back", some people needed books like this. Stacia, what about that book written in icons? I read one awhile back and it was fun. Nan 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 On my phone, so I will post quickly & respond more later. Congrats, everyone, on bingo!!! Mumto2, I would read a Murakami in January. Jane, that '70s cookbook sounds revolting and perfect, lol. I am sure she would love it. Also looking forward to looking up all the other suggestions when I am back home on my computer. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 (edited) One of my favorite end of the year things is reading everyone's lists! Especially seeing what they read to fill in various categories. Stacia, the zebra perfects that shelf. I need to do something nice like that with my books besides random piles and doubleshelving. Here's a book idea that's not for everybody, but is right for somebody - I got it for someone who moved to a new parish: "How To Get Along With People in the Church." http://www.christianbooksaustralia.com/shop_image/product/65528.jpg The cover is the best part; what are those nice folks really thinking, underneath? Snort! I hate to even consider what they are thinking. Things at the village church have turned unfortunate. Our young vicar has resigned. The committee governing it have turned into a scene from a bad British mystery.....fyi, dh resigned last year so our rights are non-existent. The bell tower is probably closing. Moving to a new one which is fine...I had lunch with a large group of church ladies last week, I smiled and nattered like a pro......lunch was because of another group we all belong to and we got seated together. Obviously the gossip isn't quite out yet....we didn't go today. The thought was overwhelming and there was a Christmas Market in York. Edited December 4, 2016 by mumto2 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland Mist Academy Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Here's a book idea that's not for everybody, but is right for somebody - I got it for someone who moved to a new parish: "How To Get Along With People in the Church." http://www.christianbooksaustralia.com/shop_image/product/65528.jpg The cover is the best part; what are those nice folks really thinking, underneath? Anne Taintor problably knows... http://www.annetaintor.com/products/sale-magnets/sku01655/ http://www.annetaintor.com/products/magnets/sku01638/ Fun variety of gifts and lots of laughs! 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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