Hooked on Books discussion

Hi Jazzy. Amanda's busy, so she got me to set this up for us.

So we start off with our first names to start with. I do yours & you do mine.

✅ First Name
J - Mar 11th - What Are You Doing With Your Life? - J. Krishnamurti - 1989 - ⭐️⭐️
A - Mar 13th - The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health - David B. Agus - 2016 - ⭐️⭐️
Z - Mar 11th - Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead - Richard V. Greene - 2006 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Z - Mar 14th - Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness - Paul J. Zak - 2022 - ⭐️⭐️
Y - Mar 15th - You Can Change Your Life: With the Hoffman Process - Tim Laurence - 2003 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hi Richard, lovely to meet you! I'll make my list then read the books from it

First Name
7/7
✅ R : The Other Typist (2013) - Suzanne Rindell 384pp Author 24/3/24 5★
✅ I : A Single Man (1964) - Christopher Isherwood 186pp Author 13/3/24 3★
✅ C : By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968) - Agatha Christie 208pp Author 11/3/24 5★
✅ H : Four Puddings and a Funeral (2017) - H.Y. Hanna 340pp Author 17/3/24 5★
✅ A : This is the Grass (1972) - Alan Marshall 196pp Author 13/3/24 5★
✅ R : Nobody Leaves: Impressions of Poland (1962) - Ryszard Kapuściński 111pp Author 12/3/24 4★
✅ D : Demons (1872) - Fyodor Dostoevsky 842pp Author 13/3/24 4★

Here is the link for the book requirements for this group:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The general rules of conduct for this group:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

The Q&A for this challenge (or you can just ask me):
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Here is the message that Amanda puts in each Name Game post:

You will first take your partners name and treat it like acrostic form. Take each letter of your partners name and read a book that starts with that letter in the title or the author first or last name. For example if someone was partnered with me you would read books:

A-An Anonymous Girl
M-Murder on the Orient Express
A-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
N-New Moon
D-Divergent
A-The Alchemist

or

A-Agatha Christie
M-Mark Twain
A-Alexander Potter
N-Newman, Kim
D-Day, Alyssa
A-Akemi C. Brodsky

Or any of the combination of the two.

Once you complete each others name only 1 team member has to go over to the Name Game Check-In.

There will also be bonus tasks after you finish each others names to get to know each other better.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here (the Q&A link).

I've been in this group since October. Everyone here is lovely; I haven't come across any bad seeds (not that I'm looking for any).

If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask me. Or you can Ask the Mods directly:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oh and because I read about 30-50 books a month, I now have 3 Name Game partners. Apparently I'm the only person who has more than 1 at a time haha. I like to challenge myself. I only read non-fiction, as I just love to learn things & how to become a better human.

Cheers Richard. I like reading classics and in my older age have discovered cosy murder mysteries. I'm in a few different bands/music classes. This weekend I shall be away to Wrokław from Fri-Sun to celebrate the birthday of a friend. We're leaving Friday afternoon, spending Sat. There and coming back Sunday morning. We got quite the deal on the flight and accommodation, I couldn't have taken the train to London for the price of the ticket!

I also like studying languages, Duolingo is the craic!

Oh cool, what languages do you study on Duo? I'm learning Spanish & Russian at the moment.

Next Monday I'm going to start a travelling Vietnam & Cambodia with my mother for 2 weeks. Enjoy your trip! I will as well.

Sounds like a brilliant trip! Have a bonny time with your mum!
Here is my Duo profile

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/Zazo...

I've added you. My username is Richo Da Vinci.

There's someone named Rico Da Vinci from Italy!

Oh really? It's not me, I'm in Australia. I'm just a fan of Leonardo.

Aren't we all? :)

Purrfection

Back from my weekend away in Wrocław, 6/7 books read, and working on the 7th.

All seven books read!

Question 1: Some of you may have established where each other is from in conversation. If not where are you from?
Task 1: Read a book set in the state or country your partner is from.

Australia.

England.

✅ Q1: Where are you from?

England
Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson - 2006 - ⭐️

Sorry Richard, I just read a lot of books set in Australia, so I have to start a new one!

I'll start this one tomorrow. Hope you're having a grand holiday!

AUSTRALIA
Miles Off Course (2017) - Sulari Gentill 352pp


In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic – Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed.
And then Harry Simpson vanishes.
Croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned for the High Country where Rowland hunts for Simpson with a determination that is as mysterious as the disappearance itself. Stockmen, gangsters and a belligerent writer all gather to the fray, as the investigation becomes embroiled with a much darker conspiracy.
Murder, treason, trespass, kidnapping, betrayal… Again, Rowland Sinclair finds himself in the middle of it all.

“…a rousing read that reeks of Australia in the 1930s, a politically charged time of rapid change, privilege and poverty, glamour and crime.” – Leila McKinnon, Australian Women’s Weekly

READ!
Miles Off Course (2012) - Sulari Gentill 382pp 31/3/24 5★

Question 2: What animal would you want to be reincarnated as
Task2: Read a book with the animal that your partner chooses on the cover or mentioned in text

Life is perilous for animals, at the mercy of humankind and other animals, so this must be a careful decision - and much different than the question of what is my favourite animal.

But if reincarnation was a thing, and if i wanted to be sure of being well treated, I would like to be a working Bernese Mountain dog

I'd possibly be a cat. I like being cared for but I also cherish my solitude time.

☂️ Another One Bites the Crust (2017) - H.Y. Hanna 1/4/24 5💧

How about if you read a book about a working dog?

✅ Q2. What animal would you want to be reincarnated as?

Dog
The Purest Bond: Understanding the Human–Canine Connection - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️

It even mentions a service dog.

Question 3: What is your favorite decade?
Task 3: Read a book that was set in your partners favorite decade.

For me it's the 2030's, or any decade in the future. Just for the technological & medical advances.

1920s. Having outlived the Great War and a global pandemic, everyone is ready to embark on a new life with gusto.

✅ Q3. What is your favourite decade?

1920's
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker - 2013 - ⭐️⭐️

2030s

✅ Metro 2033 (2002) - Dmitry Glukhovsky 458pp 4/4/24 4★

ooh I wonder what the next question will be?

I guess we'll never know.

Are we allowed to run this ourselves? it's going on 3 days since we finished the last question.

Richard wrote: "✅ Q3. What is your favourite decade?

1920's
Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker - ⭐️⭐️"

Parker was born in 1920. He was 9 in 1929. That kind of cut this one close! I had put the 1830s at first - a time of rebellion, revolution, and the industrial age. What would you have chosen for that?

sorry for the delay guys. sometimes goodreads doesn't notify me.

question 4: what is your favorite color?
task: read a book that is at least 50% your partners favorite color on the cover.

Jazzy wrote: "..."

I just had a little look through some of my library...

For the 1830's I could have chosen:

- Darwin's Sacred Cause - Race, Slavery, & the Quest for Human Origins

- Faraday, Maxwell, & the Electromagnetic Field - How 2 Men Revolutionised Physics

- Gentleman Jack - Regency Landowner, Seducer, & Secret Diarist - A Biography of Anne Lister

My fave colour is green.

Whilst my favourite colour is really hard to define, I like lots of colours - or lack of them. I adore monochrome bookcovers, black and white photos. But my favourite colour? Pink perhaps, since I have a sparkle pink Brian Setzer Gretsch guitar, lots of pink frocks, socks, shoes, hair ribbons, and a pink Pashley Poppy bicycle. Once I wore a blue dress to skiffle class and the gentleman behind me leant over and said - your frock doesn't match your guitar!

✅ My Life in Pink & Green (2009) - Lisa Greenwald 290pp 7/4/24 34/4/24 4★

✅ Q4. What is your favourite colour?

Pink
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto - 2023 - ⭐️⭐️

(More than 50% pink, with some green.)

Question 6: If you could turn the ocean into a liquid other than water, which one would it be?
Task 6: Read a book with a form of liquid on the cover.

I'd say milk. It's healthy to drink & it's good for the skin, to swim in.

I'd never want to mess with the ecosystem, but accepting a suspension of disbelief, I would have to say ink.

https://tibeto-logic.blogspot.com/201...

If all the world were paper,
And all the sea were ink;
If all the trees were bread and cheese,
How should we do for drink?
If all the world were sand'o,
Oh then what should we lack'o,
If as they say there were no clay,
How should we take tobacco?
If all our vessels ran'a,
If none but has a crack'a;
If Spanish apes ate all the grapes,
How should we do for sack'a?
If friars had no bald pates,
Nor nuns had no dark cloisters;
If all the seas were beans and pease,
How should we do for oysters?
If there had been no projects,
Nor none that did great wrongs;
If fiddlers shall turn players all,
How should we do for songs?
If all things were eternal,
And nothing their end bringing;
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing?

~Edward F. Rimbault

✅ The Day I Stopped Drinking Milk (2012) - Sudha Murty 9/4/24 5★