My Head Is Full of Books: Six Degrees of Separation: From INTERMEZZO to ...?

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Six Degrees of Separation: From INTERMEZZO to ...?

Six Degrees of Separation

We Begin with:

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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Two brothers. One is a competitive chess player.

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The Tempest by William Shakespeare. In Scene I of Act 5 Miranda and Ferdinand play chess and flirt.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rawling. In this first book in the YA series, Ron has to play wizard's chess to dismantle the enchantment.
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The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker by Louis Sachar. A teenager is the cardturner for his blind uncle who plays Bridge. He doesn't know the rules of the game and the uncle can't see. It's a crazy situation.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. In the Oregon State Mental Hospital McMurphy gets the other patients to play Monopoly for real money. The game lasts for three days.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The characters play a lot of games. One is Whist, another game played for money. Elizabeth declines the invitation to play, implying she doesn't have the money to join in "fun" with the others who are behaving like snobs.
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. In this dystopian novel Offred, the breeder, is called to do something unusual, play Scrabble with the Commander.

Join the fun. See where you end up. Link: Books are My Favourite and Best 6-Degrees Meme.

-Anne