Week 3 Prompt
1.The next book in the series is The Lunatic Cafe.
2. Two books that I would suggest are Anthill by Edward O. Wilson and The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve. Anthill has similar themes that revolve around nature and the science that surrounds it. The Last Time They Met also is very lyrical but shares the romantic themes of The Prodigal Summer rather than the nature ones that are present in Anthill.
3. I would suggest the Asian saga by James Clavell. In particular, Shogun and Gai-Jin both focus on Japan around the time when it was becoming less of an isolationist nation. Another book that does not take place in Japan but deals in part with Japanese culture is The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan. It takes place right after World War II and follows a woman who finds a Japanese garden at her childhood home and the gardener who takes care of it.
4. Something that has a similar tone is A Possibility for Violence by Dror Mishani. This novel shares similar themes with both having detectives solving a seemingly innocuous mystery that turns out to be more than the detectives were first expecting. Another author that might be of interest to you is Ruth Rendell. She writes mysteries with a psychological twist to them.
5. If your husband is looking for a book about zombies, I would suggest Sleep Over by H.G. Bells which is similar in tone and style to World War Z. The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C. Schlozman also has a darker feel acting like zombies are real but it focuses on the science of them more than the military tactics. If he is looking for more graphic novels, I would suggest The Last of Us by Neil Druckman which follows a young girl who has only lived in a world after zombies have arrived and destroyed it.
6. (I answered this question as if the patron wanted a book that was made into a movie within the past five years.)
A book that is being turned into a movie later this year is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. This books follows two sisters in France while it was occupied by Germans in World War II. Another book that was recently turned into the movie was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. This book follows an author who finds inspiration for her next book in a letter from a man that she has never met. Lastly, I would suggest Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. The movie for this book is a bit older, being released around seven years ago, but it does have some big names in it like Tom Hanks. The main theme of Cloud Atlas is to tell stories that are interconnected to each other but can stand alone.
7. From what I can tell them these look like some good options but having not read them all I can not be sure that there is no bad language. True Fiction by Lee Goldberg follows a thriller writer as he gets caught up in a terrorist plot that he helped the government plan to stop. The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer follows a doctor and nurse as they discover that everyone in an operating room where a patient died is being killed one by one.
Looking through all the options there are a lot of great tools to use to find new books. I usually use Goodreads when trying to find books for myself, though I will use fantasticfiction.com to find series order of books for authors that I am less familiar with. I also listen to what authors that I like recommend. My favorite author has a podcast where he talks about writing tips and will often recommend books that he thinks are good examples of the different topics that he and his co-hosts talked about in the episode. Something that I have been using recently to find new science fiction and fantasy books is the Hugo awards list. I decided to read some of the award winners of the past several years and so far I have not been disappointed. That being said, after exploring NoveList for this week’s homework I am going to start to use it when I need book recommendations. When at work I use mainly the same resources but I will also look through Kirkus reviews to have a better idea of what books are currently being published in genres that I do not typically read in.
2. Two books that I would suggest are Anthill by Edward O. Wilson and The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve. Anthill has similar themes that revolve around nature and the science that surrounds it. The Last Time They Met also is very lyrical but shares the romantic themes of The Prodigal Summer rather than the nature ones that are present in Anthill.
3. I would suggest the Asian saga by James Clavell. In particular, Shogun and Gai-Jin both focus on Japan around the time when it was becoming less of an isolationist nation. Another book that does not take place in Japan but deals in part with Japanese culture is The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan. It takes place right after World War II and follows a woman who finds a Japanese garden at her childhood home and the gardener who takes care of it.
4. Something that has a similar tone is A Possibility for Violence by Dror Mishani. This novel shares similar themes with both having detectives solving a seemingly innocuous mystery that turns out to be more than the detectives were first expecting. Another author that might be of interest to you is Ruth Rendell. She writes mysteries with a psychological twist to them.
5. If your husband is looking for a book about zombies, I would suggest Sleep Over by H.G. Bells which is similar in tone and style to World War Z. The Zombie Autopsies by Steven C. Schlozman also has a darker feel acting like zombies are real but it focuses on the science of them more than the military tactics. If he is looking for more graphic novels, I would suggest The Last of Us by Neil Druckman which follows a young girl who has only lived in a world after zombies have arrived and destroyed it.
6. (I answered this question as if the patron wanted a book that was made into a movie within the past five years.)
A book that is being turned into a movie later this year is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. This books follows two sisters in France while it was occupied by Germans in World War II. Another book that was recently turned into the movie was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer. This book follows an author who finds inspiration for her next book in a letter from a man that she has never met. Lastly, I would suggest Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. The movie for this book is a bit older, being released around seven years ago, but it does have some big names in it like Tom Hanks. The main theme of Cloud Atlas is to tell stories that are interconnected to each other but can stand alone.
7. From what I can tell them these look like some good options but having not read them all I can not be sure that there is no bad language. True Fiction by Lee Goldberg follows a thriller writer as he gets caught up in a terrorist plot that he helped the government plan to stop. The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer follows a doctor and nurse as they discover that everyone in an operating room where a patient died is being killed one by one.
Looking through all the options there are a lot of great tools to use to find new books. I usually use Goodreads when trying to find books for myself, though I will use fantasticfiction.com to find series order of books for authors that I am less familiar with. I also listen to what authors that I like recommend. My favorite author has a podcast where he talks about writing tips and will often recommend books that he thinks are good examples of the different topics that he and his co-hosts talked about in the episode. Something that I have been using recently to find new science fiction and fantasy books is the Hugo awards list. I decided to read some of the award winners of the past several years and so far I have not been disappointed. That being said, after exploring NoveList for this week’s homework I am going to start to use it when I need book recommendations. When at work I use mainly the same resources but I will also look through Kirkus reviews to have a better idea of what books are currently being published in genres that I do not typically read in.
I liked your choices for book-to-movie adaptations! I was having trouble using Novelist for that question because I was only finding books that had been published in the last five years and turned into movies, rather than books that had just been adapted in the last five years. How did you go about finding books for that question? Or did you just remember recent movie adaptations?
ReplyDeleteI also like that you pointed out the Hugo awards list - I've found lots of great stuff on the Hugo and Nebula listings!
I actually used IMDB for that question and found a list of movies that had been made based on books (as well as a bunch of other info about the movies). I thought that would be a good way to work the question, especially since I wanted to find a movie that was an actual good movie and well done to pair with a good book recommendation.
DeleteGreat job on the assignment! Full points :)
ReplyDeleteI liked your choice of Japanese sagas by James Clavell, which I have read, which are very detailed offer great insight to Japan and the culture. It is interesting that several of the books within the assignment were during or after World War 2, which is a period I have always been fascinated with and will likely check out these books in the future. You did very well with all the assignment questions and i look forward to reading more blog entries in the future.
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