Title meme!

[rheasilvia]

1. Find a title.
Any title, be it hauntingly, lyrically beautiful, irresistably quirky or awe-inspiringly insipid.

2. Share it!
Leave the title in the comments.

3. Let me find the story your title should have.I'll tell you a little bit about the story that I feel fits your title (which may or may not be the story I would have written for the

Comments

[rheasilvia]

This is clearly a fantasy novel set in a world where humans are not the dominant species - that niche is filled by the Riani, a hominid species not dissimilar to humans in appearance, but so utterly unlike them in all other respects that humans still struggle to understand anything about them. Riani are not particularly interested in humans and leave them pretty much to their own devices, relocating them when they are occupying land the Riani wish to build on, preventing significant advances in technology and stopping feuds and other such disturbances, but otherwise ignoring them

[rheasilvia]

:-))

(Unfortunately, now I rather want to read it too! Would you perhaps like to write it...? *manga eyes*)

[girlearthless]

the undisclosed desires of the heart.

[rheasilvia]

This expressionistic novel is about the isolation and alienation of humans in big cities. It is a pastiche of seemingly unconnected scenes from the lives of people living in three of the largest cities in the world: Seoul, Tokio and Shanghai. All in all, seventeen protagonists from very different walks of life - from a young thief and occasional prositute to the powerful head of an international corporation - are portrayed through glimpses of their everyday lives.

As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that all of these seemingly unconnected people, events and are actually closely linked, by more than their shared dissatisfaction and unfulfilled hopes and dreams. It is this very connection that, in the end, provides hope of real, meaningful human connections still being possible, even in the coldest and most merciless of steel and concrete jungles.

[girlearthless]

*______* I would totally read this. Human connections that weave people together, I like this image, very very much. (and you may have also inspired me to write fic about this)

[rheasilvia]

Oooh, I'm glad you like the concept so much!

Yes, please, write! Write! And then share what you have written! :-))

[solo]

Loose Moose Blues

[rheasilvia]

Clearly, this is a satirical novel about a successful and career-oriented businesswoman forced to leave her home city of Moscow when she inadvertently becomes the witness to a brutal murder by the mob. The witness protection program - chronically low on funds -relocates her to a remote town in Siberia, where she is left to more or less fend for herself until the case finally goes to trial… if, indeed, it ever does.

She re-opens a local bar - the "Loose Moose" - throws herself into revitalizing the town's failing economy, and founds a software firm as well as a fast food, hardware and moose supplies emporium. Though she misses her old life, she also finds her attitude towards the natives changing slowly but surely as she becomes more and more entangled in local life, and even finds herself running for mayor.

The novel is written in a light, raunchy style, is somewhat experimental in terms of narrative continuity, and is unapologetically frothy.

[solo]

Wow. That is very impressive. I'd even read that, I think.

You seem to have a bit of an Eastern/Slavic theme going on in these things...

[rheasilvia]

Really, you'd read that? Eeee! :-)) "Loose Moose" sounds like a slightly risqué kind of bar, so... the rest kind of followed. *g*

You seem to have a bit of an Eastern/Slavic theme going on in these things...

Yes, absolutely! :-) Which is simply because I would really like to read more stories set in those countries, and others besides. Provided, of course, the authors know what they're writing about and/or do their research.

(I started to go on about this subject a bit, but... well, I think that's an axe to grind another day. ;-) )

[ununoriginal]

ten thousand miles without a cloud :)

[rheasilvia]

This is a series of light-hearted and adventurous nautical tales, bound together by a narrative frame involving a seasoned old sea captain, who is entertaining his grandchildren with what he claims are true stories. Several recurring characters as well as the themes of adventure, discovery and incredible run-ins with strange creatures, cultures and natural phenomena tie the stories together.

It is unclear how much truth the increasingly fantastical tales hold - which include such events as sailing off the end of the world, wrestling a kraken of the deep for a crate of tea, and engaging in a shouting match with a hurricane. While the children the stories are told to take them all as pure invention, the sea captain repeatedly swears to their literal truth, and some elements of the narrative frame suggest that this may be more than merely a trope of sailor's yarn.

[ununoriginal]

lolz, a shouting match with a hurricane, krakens and tea - it sounds like crack of high order. interesting! ^_^

[rheasilvia]

:-)) Well, who ever heard of seamen telling tame tales? *g* Glad you like!

(And that was the last crate of tea, with the next port weeks away. Who wouldn't wrestle a kraken for it under those circumstances!)

[ky_rin]

revolution solution~

[rheasilvia]

This is a humorous and slightly bawdy coming-of-age novel set at a fictional college somewhere on the East Coast of the US. The main characters are two very different freshmen - one an ambitious, scholarly student who has wanted to become a doctor as long as he can remember, the other a party girl who is mainly at college to have fun and find someone to marry. Both characters are eventually forced to acknowledge that the plans they've made for their lives are unsuitable for them and impossible to realize, and that they have no choice but to re-orient themselves completely.

In the end, the scholarly student joins a fraternity and throws himself into parties and making friends, and the party girl decides to become a lawyer and a politician and change the world.