[ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:16:10 +0100
Given that I know 3 and 6 in my list are Danny and The road respectively,
amongst us we've cracked it. I will come clean about 3. I pasted the synopsis
into google and it gave me the answer.
On 13 Jun 2013, at 23:18, Trish Talbot wrote:
> 1 is "About A boy" by Nick Hornby.
> 2 is "I Captured A Castle" by Dodie Smith.
> Don't know 3 but I'm happy to take Ian's word for it.
> 4 is "A Short History Of Tractors In eukranian" by Marina Lewika.
> 5 is "To Kill A Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee.
>
> I don't know 6.
>
> Trish.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Russell"
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>> Ian,
>>
>> I am sure your number 1 is correct, and number 4 also.
>>
>> Let's see what others come up with.
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
>>
>> OK, I'm gonna put my head up above the parapet and my arse on the line. I
>> think the ones I know are:
>>
>> 1. About a boy by Nick Hornby (which I've never read).
>> 2. No idea though I ought to recognise the family name.
>>
>> 3. Danny Champion of the world by roald Dahl (which I've never read but
>> my
>> kids have.
>>
>> 4. I think that can only be a history of tractors in Ukrainian (which
>> I've
>> never read).
>>
>> 5. to Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (which I'm ashamed to say I've
>> never read) I recognised the manes.
>>
>> 6. the road by cormac McCarthy.
>>
>> 4.
>>
>> On 13 Jun 2013, at 14:47, David Russell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In the latest RNIB Read On magazine they are running a competition to
>>> identify books from brief summaries. As it is father's day this
>>> weekend, the books all have a father and child relationship as the main
>> theme.
>>>
>>> I think I know three of them but I am sure some of you can do better.
>>>
>>> Go on, show me how clever you all are and forward the answers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. "After a pleasant relationship with a single mother, Will comes up
>>> with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up
>> women.
>>> For this purpose, he invents a two-year-old son called Ned."
>>> 2. "The Mortmain family is poor but exotic. Cassandra's father is a
>>> writer suffering from writer's block who has not published anything
>>> since his first book."
>>> 3. "Danny was only four months old when his mother died and lived with
>>> his widowed father William in a Gypsy caravan, where William operates
>>> a filling station and garage."
>>> 4. "The novel details in comic form the varied reactions by two
>>> daughters when their widowed father marries a much younger Ukrainian
>> immigrant."
>>> 5. "The main story takes place during three years of the Great
>>> Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama. It
>>> focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother
>>> Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer."
>>> 6. "An unnamed father and his young son journey across a grim
>>> post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a major unexplained
>>> cataclysm has destroyed civilization and most life on Earth."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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