WordPlay Pot 43 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Tuesday Doesn't Come After Onesday #198

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 90

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Medium

CLUE : A broken unicorn, a shared dance, and a mother living in the past comprise this popular play.

Humor Pot 68 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Music Pot 37 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Great Song Writers: Paul McCartney

Witty Wordsmiths 153

“You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”

~ John Green

 

Junk Pot 33 (Meme/Pic Dump)

The Duchess of Padua

The Duchess of Padua is a five-act tragedy by Oscar Wilde, set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while Wilde was in Paris. After she turned it down, it was abandoned until its first performance at the Broadway Theatre in New York City under the title Guido Ferranti on January 26, 1891, where it ran for three weeks. It has been rarely revived or studied.

     Wilde first mentioned the possibility of writing a five-act blank verse tragedy in the Biograph in 1880, originally to be entitled The Duchess of Florence. Wilde was strongly influenced by Lucrezia Borgia (1833) and Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835), two Italian-set historical plays by Victor Hugo.

Movie/Film/TV Pot 37 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Great Movies Based On Books: Anatomy Of A Murder ; 1959

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 89

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Hard

CLUE : The story of a destitute soldier looking for a home who finds mad love, but this woman never sings him “Thank You.”

Witty Wordsmiths 152

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

~ Margaret Atwood

 

Humor Pot 67 (Meme/Pic Dump)

Word Pot 26 (Pic Dump)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J.K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the Harry Potter series. Set during Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of the boy wizard's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry's preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor, Albus Dumbledore.

     The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic on July 16, 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the first twenty-four hours after its release, a record eventually broken by its sequel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. There were many controversies before and after it was published, including the right-to-read copies delivered before the release date in Canada. Reception to the novel was generally positive, and it won several awards and honors, including the 2006 “British Book of the Year” award.

     Reviewers noted that the book had a darker tone than its predecessors, though it did contain some humor. Some considered the main themes love, death, trust, and redemption. The considerable character development of Harry and many other teenage characters also drew attention.

Picture Pot 37 (Pic Dump)

Sauron Is Everywhere

Already Read It! : A "Novel" Game 88

Can you guess the title and author of the novel depicted in the picture?

DIFFICULTY : Hard

CLUE : A realistic telling of life at war and how even the most idealistic patriots dream of peace and quiet.

Witty Wordsmiths 151

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

~ Mary Oliver