New Leaf Theme Suggestion Thread

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by gmw

Indeed, I start to think it might be harder to find something that doesn't reference the revenge/cold thing.

There are lots of books that use the phrase "best served cold". Enough to get very far afield from the original intent.

[Bookpossum]

I think we are straying from the topic, or rather, getting bogged down in detail.

How about a theme around water, so it could include a book like Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water, or books about the sea, of which there are a great many, or even Like Water for Chocolate.

[WT Sharpe]

An idea just struck me that seems rather good, but how do you feel?

Books Downloaded to my Pink Kindle

These could be books such as the novel, Ellery Queen vs Jack the Ripper: A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee), in which Inspector Queen finds an old unpublished manuscript by Dr. John Watson detailing Sherlock Holmes' seemingly unsuccessful pursuit of the famous London murderer and takes on his own investigation.

An alternate title could be: "Pink Kindle: Books written by Authors in an Alternative Universe after their Counterparts Here Died". Not very pithy, but I'm sure we could come up with something.

[Bookpossum]

How about Parallel Lives?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I think we are straying from the topic, or rather, getting bogged down in detail.

How about a theme around water, so it could include a book like Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water, or books about the sea, of which there are a great many, or even Like Water for Chocolate.

Or The Old Man and the Sea?

[orlok]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

An idea just struck me that seems rather good, but how do you feel?

Books Downloaded to my Pink Kindle

These could be books such as the novel, Ellery Queen vs Jack the Ripper: A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee), in which Inspector Queen finds an old unpublished manuscript by Dr. John Watson detailing Sherlock Holmes' seemingly unsuccessful pursuit of the famous London murderer and takes on his own investigation.

An alternate title could be: "Pink Kindle: Books written by Authors in an Alternative Universe after their Counterparts Here Died". Not very pithy, but I'm sure we could come up with something.

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

How about Parallel Lives?

Excellent suggestions, both.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

An idea just struck me that seems rather good, but how do you feel?

Books Downloaded to my Pink Kindle

These could be books such as the novel, Ellery Queen vs Jack the Ripper: A Study in Terror by Ellery Queen (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee), in which Inspector Queen finds an old unpublished manuscript by Dr. John Watson detailing Sherlock Holmes' seemingly unsuccessful pursuit of the famous London murderer and takes on his own investigation.

An alternate title could be: "Pink Kindle: Books written by Authors in an Alternative Universe after their Counterparts Here Died". Not very pithy, but I'm sure we could come up with something.

I'm sensing some overlap with both time travel and alternative history (which would be fine by me).

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

How about Parallel Lives?

I like it.

[JSWolf]

The idea of supporting one Reader over another in the book club is not a good one. So please dump the idea of a pink Kindle because it's just not a good idea.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

I think we are straying from the topic, or rather, getting bogged down in detail.

How about a theme around water, so it could include a book like Gavin Maxwell’s Ring of Bright Water, or books about the sea, of which there are a great many, or even Like Water for Chocolate.

I'm sure we can go far afield with water. There are plenty of books with water in the title or something to do with water.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

How about Parallel Lives?

I like that one. We can do "alternate universe" or "what if" type books. Very nice!

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I like that one. We can do "alternate universe" or "what if" type books. Very nice!

Isn't that a genre?

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

An idea just struck me that seems rather good, but how do you feel?

[B]Books Downloaded to my [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_(novella)"]Pink Kindle....

Originally Posted by orlok

Or The Old Man and the Sea?

Actually, in the Stephen King made-for-Kindle story UR, Hemingway was still alive and writing in an alternate universe. There were also works of Poe and Shakespeare unknown in this one that were available for those who owned a pink Kindle. The idea as it relates to the New Leaf Book Club would be to nominate stories written not by Poe, Shakespeare, etc., but by authors mudslinging* making a conscious and obvious effort to imitate their styles. I suppose Pride and Prejudice and Zombies would fit in this category.


* Rather than simply correct this swypo prior to making this post, I instead struck it out to show how much fun swypos can be.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Isn't that a genre?

Those are types of books that would fit with the theme Parallel Lives.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Those are types of books that would fit with the theme Parallel Lives.

Which seems to limit that theme to science fiction/fantasy.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Catlady

Which seems to limit that theme to science fiction/fantasy.

"Alternate history" fits. I quite like Parallel lives as a theme. But, you could pick a book about a gymnast that does the parallel bars.