Wednesday, March 31, 2010

GAME: The Bookword Game (sticky post)


I've had a few bloggers I've met and then followed because of our taste in books. A long time ago, there was a challenge called Something About Me, and I met a few Bookmates that way. Hey, did you see how I did that and dropped in the new bookword for a person with the same taste in books as yourself? That's how easy this Bookword Game is.

So, Bookmate is the word, suggested by Julie, for the person with the same taste in books as you. Thanks Julie! It's quite a perfect word, because after reading some of Suey's lists of her favorite books, I knew that I had found a Bookmate.

On to the next word. One of our 'fans' suggested this one: There is a particular sort of novel of which I always profess to be passionately fond: the sort with one plotline in the olden days with people doing their olden-day thing, and one in the present with eager scholars researching the very olden-day events in the other plotline. There you go - a book with plots in the olden days, and in the present day, with people looking into the olden days time. I'm pretty sure the book I read called The Tenth Gift is this kind of book. Suggestions in the comments please, and a poll next week at Suey's.


(oh, my. I'm sure someone else could have worded that more elegantly, but it just shows that we need a word for this, instead of letting people like me try to describe it)

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I love these kinds of books!
*shrieks* Hooray! There so needs to be a word for this! I am going to think of at least one. When it's a present-day person who falls into the olden days they call it a time-slip novel, so maybe a book-slip novel? That might be dumb.
Oh great one! Possession comes to mind as another example of this. Hmmmm... but I'm going to have to ponder some more if I'm to come up with a word suggestion....
I'm thinking a flashbook (like flashback). Though, that probably doesn't quite capture what you're talking about.
How about a Now and Then Book?
Parallel lines
Parallel Parking
Parallel Booking
Historical friction?
Time Chaser
Two-Timing Tome (or Book - doesn't really matter)
Hind-sighted Book/Story/Mystery
Time Warp Mystery
History Mystery

I think I should stop now! Teehee. Love Possession.
Julie Julie Julie... how am I supposed to pick from your list? I'm just choosing a couple of my favorites....

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