[ebooktalk] Re: Read on competition
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:59:38 +0100
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.
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> 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.
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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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