Saw this on Facebook as a challenge for people to guess the title and author of books based on six-word summaries. In no particular order, here are some of my faves:<\/p>\n
Anorexic city girl proves excruciatingly introspective. [Rebecca Josephs’ Early Disorder]<\/em><\/p>\n Clare escapes becoming Niall’s kinky doll. [Sarban’s Doll Maker]<\/em><\/p>\n Laura learns magic and rescues brother. [Margaret Mahy’s Changeover]<\/em><\/p>\n Dead lesbian seeks ingenues for dinner. [Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla]<\/em><\/p>\n Being royal makes growing up complicated. [Maria Gripe’s In The Time of the Bells]<\/em><\/p>\n Enemies bang each other into “love.” [This works for both Johanna Lindsey’s Warrior’s Woman<\/em> and E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey.]<\/em><\/p>\n Alice keeps her cool amidst bullshit. [Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Underground<\/em> and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There]<\/em><\/p>\n Self-absorbed language experiments obscure the plot. [Greer Gilman’s Moonwise]<\/em><\/p>\n And some short stories:<\/p>\n Princess knows she’s in a fairy tale. [A.S. Byatt’s Tale of the Eldest Princess]<\/em><\/p>\n Valley Girl totally kicks vampire butt. [Esther Friesner’s Blood-Ghoul of Scarsdale]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saw this on Facebook as a challenge for people to guess the title and author of books based on six-word summaries. In no particular order, here are some of my faves: Anorexic city girl proves excruciatingly introspective. [Rebecca Josephs’ Early Disorder] Clare escapes becoming Niall’s kinky doll. [Sarban’s Doll Maker] Laura learns magic and rescues… Continue reading Plots of favorite books in six words<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-i-actually-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}