One-Liner Challenge with Whatever’s on the Shelf

Thanks to Keiko and Ryuji for nominating me!

The Rules:

• Accept and thank your challenger(s) by linking back to their post.
• Make a post of one-sentence summaries and/or roasts of at least five books.
• No spoilers!
• Link back to The Awkward Book Blogger so she can see your post.
• Challenge as many or as little people as you want!
• Have fun!

Stuff on My Shelf

I can’t really decide on which books, so I guess I’ll pull out random books from my shelf! Not that I own that many books – I mostly borrow from the library. The books I do own are mostly for school courses.

Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis

Greek gods have fun watching intelligent dogs die.

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Happy families don’t have issues, but happy families aren’t real.

The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood

A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a prison system that tries its best to create happiness during the depression (by manufacturing sex robots and prostituting chickens!).

Greek Myths II by Robert Graves

Zeus will have sex with anything that’s female.

The Republic by Plato

Greek dudes with too much free time construct imaginary kingdoms.

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

Darwin: not trying to offend anyone here (God is behind everything), but *whispers* people came from animals.

***Beyond this point is the more obscure stuff in non-English languages.

Kogepan: Even Bread can have Encounters… by Miki Takahashi

Burnt Bread envies his more beautiful friends and gets drunk on milk all day.

Realistic Clay Desserts Dream Factory by Boutique-sha

Teeny tiny inedible food perfect for poisoning Arrietty.

Quality Japanese Cream Cheese Yougashi by Weida Huang

Cream cheese recipes for gigantic batches enough to make your whole family fat. (Ingredients are listed in kilograms)

Italianissimo 2 by Denise De Rome

I’m a linguaphile, okay? (Not sure why Italian, and not sure why pt. II. Do not question my impulse buys.)

Naruto: Rin/Hei no Hon by Masashi Kishimoto

Ah, the early Naruto days when everybody had reasonable powers.

I Wanted to Miss Someone Strongly by Mitsuyo Kadota and Sanai Masafumi

Atmospheric Japanese prose doesn’t really try to make a point.

The Girl in the Roof by Jiro Akagawa

The piano-playing neighbour happens to be a chainsaw murderer and a ghost. (I think that’s what it’s about anyways – I’m too scared to finish it)

Nominations

To continue the fun…

• Pop Culture Literary
• Angelica Destler
• mattdoylemedia
• thespookyredhead
• rossiroad

Only if you feel like it, obviously~