June Book Blogging: Guess the Book (Public Post)

[author_by_night]

I realize book blogging is more about book reviews, but the book I'm reading is more of the self-help variety, so while it's definitely a book, I think I'll wait until I find something more literary. :) In the meantime, let's play a game.

Vaguely describe a book in the comments - the plot, one story arc, characters. Then have people guess which books you're talking about.  Once enough people have guessed or enough time has passed (give 24 hours, LJ/DW move slow these days), leave a comment with the book you were describing. 

Example 1:

Girls take each other's clothes and write about it.

Book: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Example 2:

A man in Salinas kills his friend.

Book: Of Mice and Men.

Ready... set... go!

Comments

[cloudsinvenice]

An eternally young man travels the world in search of his origins and the meaning of his life.

[gingicat]

Orphan girl is adopted by middle-aged siblings, creates havoc.

Woman brainwashes children into unrealistic scenarios and denies it.

Dyslexic boy bumbles into a weird summer camp.

[gingicat]

The one about Lazarus Long?

[cloudsinvenice]

No, but now I'm intrigued and will look that up!

[cloudsinvenice]

Anne of Green Gables!
Mary Poppins?

[marzipan77]

Holes?

[gingicat]

Yes to both!

[gingicat]

No - haven't read it. Would you recommend?

[gingicat]

It's Heinlein, so, super horribly misogynistic.

[marzipan77]

It's a classic!

[ilthit]

Orlando, though he doesn't finish as a man?

[ilthit]

Tired of his job, an important person leaves to slum on a farm while his granddaughter takes over the family business.

Three old women go on vacation and one of them traps her sister in a mirror.

Someone has to take over the old post office, so the city forces a condemned man to do it as a kind of community service.

[justphoenix]

The last one is Going Postal

[cloudsinvenice]

Good guess, but nope!

[cloudsinvenice]

Ahhh yes, that's what's kept me from getting into his stuff so far.

[ilthit]

True!

[rhi]

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief on 3?

[rhi]

That first one is Mort. The second is Witches Abroad. The third is Going Postal.

[gingicat]

Yes :)

[gingicat]

❤️

[author_by_night]

That was my first guess too!

Wow, I am fail, I didn't play my own game :P

[author_by_night]

Bohemians commit infidelity and make art tragically in a communist country.

Girl possesses classmate to get to her former crush.

Man goes to stop tragedy, finds love instead.

[hitchhiker]

'reaper man' for the first one?

[katarik]

1) Reaper Man

2) Witches Abroad

[ilthit]

Second and third were correct, you're just slightly off on the first, but that's my fault. Death leaves of his own accord in Mort, but I was thinking of Reaper Man, when he's forced off the job.

[ilthit]

That's the one I was thinking of, though I misremembered the reason he left that time.

[ilthit]

Correct!

Re: Wow, I am fail, I didn't play my own game :P

[gingicat]

I may have read the last one, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t read the others.

[goljerp]

A boy coming of age, his robot, and pet are forced to discover / uncover the creators of the mysterious artifacts scattered around the universe.

(Kind of long, but it's also kind of obscure)

[ETA: darn missing slash. Also, do I need another hint?]
[ETA: it's been a week, and it looks like people have stopped looking at this post... so I'll leave one last clue for whomever stumbles across this in the future: this book was authored by someone who appears in the previous comments. Although it's not the same book as any of the other ones.]

[author_by_night]

All I can think of is A Boy and His Dog.

And I'm sorry no one bit the bait here! Unfortunately as for myself, I wasn't sure what any of the books were. I don't think enough people caught on, which is a little disappointing.