Book-Challenge

The book I'm choosing is The Warlock In Spite of Himself by Christopher Stasheff. I have read this book many times, along with it's sequels.

The book is a fantasy where the hero, Rod, lands on a planet which has a medieval society, witches and warlocks and all kinds of mythical creatures. Rod, using technology, is thought of as a warlock by the planet's inhabitants. The planet is threatened by evil agents from the future. Rod, of course, winds up fighting them helped by his robotic horse, Fess, who is a very old computer with a bad capacitor that causes him to shutdown when over-excited. Along the way, Rod meets a young witch. They fall in love. (If some of this sounds like you've heard it before, note that this book was written in 1969.) The fun for me is in the humor, the characters, and the mix of genres. And, in the series, about watching the love story and seeing the family grow - and grow up.

The biggest thing in common with the recent plot is adventure, the book has lots of adventure. And since this book is the first of a series (actually the start of several related series because the author eventually writes books about the original hero's children) it is like the plot which left things not yet finished with more to come. The book also has witches in common with the plot, although Stasheff's witches are good, not evil. In some ways, Gramarye, the planet on which the adventure in the book takes place is like an island because it is somewhat isolated from the other planets in it's universe. I think of it as a sort of "space island". And, like the plot, there is definitely humor (Elwood would probably like it, since some of it is certainly his style) along with the adventure. The hero's partner is a robotic horse with a flawed computer brain (he has a weak capacitor). And like the Omen Islands are threatened by a powerful sea witch, Gramarye is threatened by powerful agents from the future. So, to me, it seems like there are many parallels to the plot.

Happy Trails

Here is my entry for Wednesday.

Sinbad the Sailor is not just one book per se, it's a story cycle. Many of the ideas in it are re-used and recycled for adventure stories of the Bad Omen type.

Sinbad has fantastic adventures going to magical places, meeting monsters, and encountering supernatural phenomena, and not all of them are desert-y, there are definitely tropical India and Southeast Asia type settings, so kinda like Omen. And the end monsters of the plot have been stop-animated by Harry Hausen in many movies, some of which were sinbad-like or borrowed heavily from it.

Woot, an HA win! All the 502 and 504s were making Wardrobe hard to use so I was all like 'five items or less aisle at the grocery store'.

I recently read the weirdest book. It's French it's called L'atlantide.

It has temples and theoretically islands. So in theory, atlantis didn't sink, the water dissappeared and it became the sahara. So it has islands. And there's a temple in it where the queen of atlantis buries her lovers... So not really like ours thankfully. But it does have some fierce temple guardians. And her victims are lured to the temple by letters scribbled on the walls, so that's somewhat similar aha.

Also, these don't count as spoilers. The book is at leat 70 years old and definitely not a masterpiece. I read it because my grandpa liked it when he was young.

I would like to enter the raffle. :)

We already have you down for the first entry. In order to get more entries you need to participate in the daily challenges. :) I believe the current active challenge is on this post.

Oh, I must have missed it. I thought we didn't have down when I looked yesterday.

Thanks for letting me know. :)

Adventure Challenge ~

I had to scan my bookshelves because it had been a while, about 30 years I think, since I read Irving Stone's, The Origin. The book chronicles the life of Charles Darwin, best known for his theories regarding evolution. I was a science nut when I was younger, and the book made a big impression on me. The story, of course, has a lot of island adventure with regard to the voyage of the Beagle. What endeared me most to Darwin, though, was that he really enjoyed walking, and would use it as a way to focus his thinking. I was interested that he made a garden walk in his yard that he could meander every day in order to work through his theories in his head. I always wished I had such a walk. I guess I sort of do now ...it's not part of my yard, but it is just outside my front door =)

Challenge 3

I haven't had a chance to read many books lately, let alone ones related to the recent plot (not exactly my preferred reading genre although I love games with those themes), so I'm gonna go with Count of Monte Cristo.

The whole book is an adventure with this excerpt from the Goodreads synopsis: "he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and he becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth the treasure." It's also a story of wrongful imprisonment, which harkens back to Amy's wrongful sacrifice (I know not exactly but it reminds me a bit)

Thank you!! ^_^

Book-Challenge - Lord of the Flies, for many reasons :P But the main one being a team and working together

Challenge

I don't usually read books of this kind. The most recent ones I've read are the Clan of the Cave Bear series. It can be applied here as the characters always had to work as a team to gather plants and kill meat for food, clothing and all the necessary things to survive. Also about making lasting friendships and alliances.

I think The Odyssey fits the adventure theme quite well, and even has some sea witches sirens in it too!

Considering it's a classic, I don't think it's a spoiler to say it's about a man (Odysseus) who goes away to fight in the Trojan War and is waylaid on his journey home by many forces outside his control that leave him unable to return for years and years. After a decade of Odysseus being gone, his wife (Penelope) is besieged by suitors who believe her husband to be dead. Odysseus joins the plethora of suitors to prove his identity, win his Penelope back and kill fend off the greedy suitors.

Book- Challenge After seeing the movie last week, I just started reading Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. The main narrative involves a 'time-loop' based in an orphanage on the Welsh island of Cairnholm. There are no sea witches that I can remember, but there's a great deal of frightening monsters to battle with. If you haven't read the book, I'd recommend it! And if you haven't seen the movie, I'd recommend that too, though apparently it deviates from the novel (as most films do) but I do enjoy Tim Burton's movies and this one is no different.

This review page summarised it well, as 'a story about a boy who follows clues from his grandfather's old photographs which lead him on an adventure that takes him to a large abandoned orphanage on a Welsh island.'

Wow, thank you so much! I didn't even dream of winning this round. :D I'm so glad you liked my HA!

Challenge # 3:

Hmm. I haven't read any books except textbooks in the last few years, or at least that's what it feels like! XD So I'll name an old favourite: The Portable Door by Tom Holt. Imagine a door that you can take with you anywhere, and travel anywhere through. Sounds adventurous to me. :D Tbh it mostly takes place in an office though. Disclaimer: You will only enjoy this book if you enjoy nonsense and oddness. c:

Book Challenge

I think And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is a fitting choice due to the setting being an island. A very simple spoiler-free synopsis: ten people are invited to an island under different pretenses. Murder ensues.

So I totally missed day 2, unknowingly... Here is Book-Challenge :

Lord of the Rings series, including the The Hobbit and The Road Goes Ever On (song). so we're on this journey because of some letter, Matlal is Gandalf (because of his off-island educational background, (he explained this the odd time he spoke English well). Kahaleitzli is Sauron because he won high priest over Matlal and is the EVIL one. We're The Ring because we continue along the journey at risk of being sacrificed. We have a Sea Witch instead of a Witch King.

Challenge Day 3: The Singer of All Songs (or more generally, the Chanters of Tremaris trilogy). The characters are looking for practitioners of each of the types of magic: their quest leads them to search the coastal islands and jungles, and eventually they set up a school for magic on one of the islands.

Firstly, I would like to enter the raffle. :)

Secondly, — Book-Challenge — Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie — Chapter 8: The Mermaids' Lagoon — The mermaids were jealous and vain creatures like Merana making Amy's drowning similar to Wendy's. Omen Islands and Keel Hauliday colliding with the plot is very Neverland-ish. Pirates regarded mermaids as malevolent sea creatures whose magic should be feared. We're the pirates because we're not locals and all came to disturb Butterface, plus pirates and mermaids don't get along.

Book Challenge The Shifter by Janice Hardy (the first book from the Healing Wars Trilogy) Nya lives in a world in which some people are able to heal others by taking their pain and putting it into a special kind of metall called pynvium. Nya also has the ability to pull pain from others, but she cannot push pain into pynvium, but can only shift it into other people. When her sister Tali mysteriously disappears, Nya is faced with the difficult decision how to use her shifting. (probably way better summary than mine)

Similarities to the plot: The book is setted in a city called Geveg which is built on several islands. Nya tries everything to protect her little sister. This reminds me of Matlal helping his brother.