Day 3 Mini-Challenges
So here are the mini-challenges for the third (and final) day of the read-a-thon! Book Soulmates posed these romantic questions:
1. Which author do you credit for your love of romance novels?
{Most of us have one particular author that we thank for introducing us to romance. Isalys's happens to be Jennifer Haymore. Who is yours?}
2. What is your favorite type of romance?
3. Who is your favorite romantic couple?
1. I had actually written off the romance genre completely, believing that it was all purple prose and terrible writing, until I read Georgette Heyer. Now I’ve devoured all her historical romances, and I’ve even started branching out to other authors in the genre, notably Laura Kinsale and Julie James.
2. My favorite subgenre of romance is definitely Regency/historical - as long as it’s done well and with an eye to accurate details! I’m normally not as drawn to contemporary and paranormal romances, although sometimes they can be fun too!
3. Aside from Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice (which isn’t technically a romance novel), I’d definitely have to go with Sophy and Charles Rivenhall from Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy. They drive each other crazy, but they also really admire each other’s strength of character, and it’s so obvious they’re meant to be! It also doesn’t hurt that I always picture Richard Armitage as Charles.... :)
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Then Book Faery wanted to know where we've been! We were requested to go to this map and pin the places where our books have been set. I pinned Paris for Marie Antoinette, Vancouver for An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries, and London for A Spy in the House.
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Finally, Not-Really-Southern Vamp Chick had this task for us:
1. Pick up 6 random books from your bookshelf (and/or use the books you’re reading)
2. Take the first sentences from them.
3. Come up w/ the best 4 sentence opening paragraph to a book you can manage.
4. YOU GET A BONUS POINT IF IT INVOLVES VAMPIRES!
5. Leave your paragraph in the comments.
There was silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension.[1] In the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.[2] Dear Melissa Fuller, This is an automated message from the Human Resources Division of the New York Journal, New York City’s leading photo-newspaper.[3] The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.[4]
1. Georgette Heyer, April Lady
2. Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
3. Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door
4. Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
1. Which author do you credit for your love of romance novels?
{Most of us have one particular author that we thank for introducing us to romance. Isalys's happens to be Jennifer Haymore. Who is yours?}
2. What is your favorite type of romance?
3. Who is your favorite romantic couple?
1. I had actually written off the romance genre completely, believing that it was all purple prose and terrible writing, until I read Georgette Heyer. Now I’ve devoured all her historical romances, and I’ve even started branching out to other authors in the genre, notably Laura Kinsale and Julie James.
2. My favorite subgenre of romance is definitely Regency/historical - as long as it’s done well and with an eye to accurate details! I’m normally not as drawn to contemporary and paranormal romances, although sometimes they can be fun too!
3. Aside from Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice (which isn’t technically a romance novel), I’d definitely have to go with Sophy and Charles Rivenhall from Georgette Heyer’s The Grand Sophy. They drive each other crazy, but they also really admire each other’s strength of character, and it’s so obvious they’re meant to be! It also doesn’t hurt that I always picture Richard Armitage as Charles.... :)
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Then Book Faery wanted to know where we've been! We were requested to go to this map and pin the places where our books have been set. I pinned Paris for Marie Antoinette, Vancouver for An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries, and London for A Spy in the House.
~~~~~
Finally, Not-Really-Southern Vamp Chick had this task for us:
1. Pick up 6 random books from your bookshelf (and/or use the books you’re reading)
2. Take the first sentences from them.
3. Come up w/ the best 4 sentence opening paragraph to a book you can manage.
4. YOU GET A BONUS POINT IF IT INVOLVES VAMPIRES!
5. Leave your paragraph in the comments.
There was silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension.[1] In the hall of the Tigris Palace Hotel in Baghdad a hospital nurse was finishing a letter.[2] Dear Melissa Fuller, This is an automated message from the Human Resources Division of the New York Journal, New York City’s leading photo-newspaper.[3] The last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school.[4]
1. Georgette Heyer, April Lady
2. Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia
3. Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door
4. Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth