Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512325 times)

PatH · « **Reply #6881 on:** October 22, 2014, 08:26:51 AM »

No C:

T ___ E

___ A S T

___ A ___ S

O ___

___ O ___ ___ E ___ ___

Letters guessed: A, C, E, N, O, R, S, T

Frybabe · « **Reply #6882 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:24:44 AM »

I see it!

The Last Days of Pompeii. It is on my Kindle TBR.

PatH · « **Reply #6883 on:** October 22, 2014, 09:52:35 AM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER

Fast work. I remember trying to tackle the book when I was a child, probably too young for it, but don't remember much about it. It probably seems super-romantic now. Let me know what you think when you read it.

Frybabe · « **Reply #6884 on:** October 22, 2014, 11:22:30 AM »

Fiction from a prolific and popular writer with a ton of awards.

__ __

__ __ __ __

__ __ E

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

marjifay · « **Reply #6885 on:** October 22, 2014, 02:10:08 PM »

bluebird24 · « **Reply #6886 on:** October 22, 2014, 05:30:13 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6887 on:** October 23, 2014, 06:06:27 AM »

One each.

__ __

__ __ __ __

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ N __ __ __

Letters Used: N, T

marjifay · « **Reply #6888 on:** October 23, 2014, 08:08:23 AM »

More E's?

Frybabe · « **Reply #6889 on:** October 23, 2014, 08:24:25 AM »

Lots of E's.

__ E

__ E __ E

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ __

Letters Used: E, N, T

marjifay · « **Reply #6890 on:** October 23, 2014, 09:52:54 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6891 on:** October 23, 2014, 01:17:25 PM »

One R.

__ E

__ E R E

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ __

Letters Used: E, N, R, T

JoanK · « **Reply #6892 on:** October 23, 2014, 04:10:01 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6893 on:** October 23, 2014, 04:49:50 PM »

No B's.

__ E

__ E R E

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ __

Letters Used: B, E, N, R, T

bluebird24 · « **Reply #6894 on:** October 23, 2014, 05:13:01 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6895 on:** October 24, 2014, 06:14:55 AM »

Two W's. This should be a big help.

W E

W E R E

T __ E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ __

Letters Used: B, E, N, R, T, W

PatH · « **Reply #6896 on:** October 24, 2014, 10:16:14 AM »

Might as well fill in the H. Maybe there's another one too. This is driving me nuts. I saw the "we were the", but everything I could think of for the last word had a letter that had already been guessed.

marjifay · « **Reply #6897 on:** October 24, 2014, 11:00:36 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6898 on:** October 24, 2014, 11:48:08 AM »

an H and an S

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ S

Letters Used: B, E, H, N, R, S, T, W

JoanK · « **Reply #6899 on:** October 24, 2014, 04:06:25 PM »

No clue, but we need another vowel. O?

Frybabe · « **Reply #6900 on:** October 24, 2014, 07:25:01 PM »

No O's.

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ __ __ __ N E __ S

Letters Used: B, E, H, N, O, R, S, T, W

marjifay · « **Reply #6901 on:** October 24, 2014, 07:46:58 PM »

PatH · « **Reply #6902 on:** October 24, 2014, 07:57:46 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6903 on:** October 25, 2014, 07:29:55 AM »

One A, no D's. This was one of the books picked for Oprah's Book Club (not recent). It was also made into a TV movie.

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ __ __ A N E __ S

Letters Used: A, B, D, E, H, N, O, R, S, T, W

JoanK · « **Reply #6904 on:** October 25, 2014, 04:11:21 PM »

bluebird24 · « **Reply #6905 on:** October 25, 2014, 05:23:40 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #6906 on:** October 25, 2014, 05:28:39 PM »

No I's, one L.

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ L __ A N E __ S

Letters Used: A, B, D, E, H, L, N, O, R, S, T, W

PatH · « **Reply #6907 on:** October 25, 2014, 07:10:40 PM »

Goodness: this guess brings us up to half the alphabet. G?

Frybabe · « **Reply #6908 on:** October 26, 2014, 06:44:45 AM »

No G's.

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ L __ A N E __ S

Letters Used: A, B, D, E, G, H, L, N, O, R, S, T, W

PatH · « **Reply #6909 on:** October 26, 2014, 03:01:31 PM »

Thirteen letters to go.

Y?

Frybabe · « **Reply #6910 on:** October 26, 2014, 04:04:39 PM »

Yes! a Y.

W E

W E R E

T H E

__ __ L __ A N E Y S

Letters Used: A, B, D, E, G, H, L, N, O, R, S, T, W, Y

PatH · « **Reply #6911 on:** October 26, 2014, 05:32:20 PM »

Well, I've never heard of the book, but from the letters I've got left to play with, I think we must have been the Mulvaneys.

Frybabe · « **Reply #6912 on:** October 27, 2014, 06:35:22 AM »

Winner Winner Winner

PatH, I've never read any of Joyce Carol Oates works. The movie was showing here on the Lifetime TV channel a few weeks back. Blythe Danner and Beau Bridges starred in the movie which was nominated in 2002 for three Emmy's. It is about a family that runs a successful family business. They are at first glance a "perfect" family until something happens. The story follows the family as it slowly disintegrates, and after many years finally comes back together again.

marjifay · « **Reply #6913 on:** October 27, 2014, 09:38:41 AM »

Good for you, PatH! That one took some doing!

I've never read any Joyce Carol Oates either. The book gets mixed reviews, I see, at Amazon. I might watch the movie because I really like Beau Bridges.

marj

marjifay · « **Reply #6914 on:** October 27, 2014, 09:45:00 AM »

I looked up my long TBR list, and I've had Joyce Carol Oates' THE GRAVEDIGGER'S DAUGHTER on it for a long time. I think it's the length of the book that put me off - 582 pages.

It does sound interesting, but dark. Publisher's Weekly starred review said, " At the beginning of Oates's 36th novel, Rebecca Schwart is mistaken by a seemingly harmless man for another woman, Hazel Jones, on a footpath in 1959 Chatauqua Falls, N.Y. Five hundred pages later (which includes a backstory of her life), Rebecca will find out that the man who accosted her is a serial killer, and Oates will have exercised, in a manner very difficult to forget, two of her recurring themes: the provisionality of identity and the awful suddenness of male violence."

Marj

bluebird24 · « **Reply #6915 on:** October 27, 2014, 05:56:09 PM »

I never read We are the Mulvaneys.
Nik Wallenda will walk tightrope sunday over Chicago river.
Watch discovery channel.

PatH · « **Reply #6916 on:** October 27, 2014, 07:24:56 PM »

Bluebird, I hope Nick Wallenda makes it. That sort of thing really scares me.

Frybabe, that was a super quiz. We don't often have to work through so much of the alphabet. I only finally got it because there were so few letters left that could make sense.

Marj, if you ever read The Gravedigger's Daughter, let me know what you think of it. It combines a theme I find interesting, the provisionality of identity, with one I can't stand, the awful suddenness of male violence.

New quiz--non-fiction, not in our usual sphere:

T ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___ ___

marjifay · « **Reply #6917 on:** October 27, 2014, 09:08:18 PM »

There must be E's somewhere?

PatH · « **Reply #6918 on:** October 27, 2014, 09:37:16 PM »

Yes.

T ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___

___ ___ ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Letters guessed: E

Frybabe · « **Reply #6919 on:** October 28, 2014, 08:52:47 AM »

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512325 times)