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

[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

[ilthit]

True!

[rhi]

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

[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.

[gingicat]

❤️

[hitchhiker]

'reaper man' for the first one?

[ilthit]

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

[katarik]

1) Reaper Man

2) Witches Abroad

[ilthit]

Correct!