[ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
- From: "CJ & AA MAY" <chrisalis.may@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:08:42 +0100
I knew "All About a Boy" and "A Short History of Tractors in the Eucrane".
Alison
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I only knew about a boy.
Love Mandy X
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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.
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From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:59 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
> Ian,
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> I am sure your number 1 is correct, and number 4 also.
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> Let's see what others come up with.
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> David
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> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: 13 June 2013 20:44
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
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> OK, I'm gonna put my head up above the parapet and my arse on the line. I
> think the ones I know are:
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> 1. About a boy by Nick Hornby (which I've never read).
> 2. No idea though I ought to recognise the family name.
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> 3. Danny Champion of the world by roald Dahl (which I've never read but
> my
> kids have.
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> 4. I think that can only be a history of tractors in Ukrainian (which
> I've
> never read).
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> 5. to Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee (which I'm ashamed to say I've
> never read) I recognised the manes.
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> 6. the road by cormac McCarthy.
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> 4.
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> On 13 Jun 2013, at 14:47, David Russell wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> 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.
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>> I think I know three of them but I am sure some of you can do better.
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>> Go on, show me how clever you all are and forward the answers.
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>> 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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