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- dialectTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
written partially in dialect
- dependence
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
dependence - the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- hand
The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell
title
- professional
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
protagonist is an attorney
- lick
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
because, ice cream
Hand:The Power
The Fourth Hand
The Left Hand of Darkness
At Wave's End
(Hand on cover)Dialect:
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Grapes of Wrath
Lick:
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston
A book with a character without a lick of sense (maybe A Confederacy of Dunces)
A book with a focus on a pop/jazz/blues/rock/country band or musician (guitar lick) - The Commitments
I kind of love the idea of reading something written in dialect! The Color Purple and some of Toni Morrison's books spring to mind (The Bluest Eye, or Beloved), or Trainspotting, for a non-American example, or even a fictional dialect, like A Clockwork Orange.
Lick: things you lick (lollypops, ice cream, etc.)
Hand: hand on the cover or in title
Professional: books about a specific job
For hand - The Wonder Lover by Malcolm Knox
For dependence:
Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer (drug dependence, co-dependence)
For lick:
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
(pretty sure this was a lollipop before it shattered!)Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
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Dialect - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer andThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
or Song of Solomon
Professional could be anything with a doctor, lawyer, architect, etc.
- dialectA Brief History of Seven Killings part-written in Jamaican patois
- dependence
A Jest of God features a mother overly-dependent on her adult daughter
- hand
The Black Hand: The Epic War Between a Brilliant Detective and the Deadliest Secret Society in American History
- professional
My Dark Vanessa about the abuse of professional power
- lick
Crescent so much food-tasting goes on
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I have a question about this prompt. Are we to use the word generator on our own or use the words above that are already chosen?
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My Dark Vanessa (other topics)A Brief History of Seven Killings (other topics)
Crescent (other topics)
A Jest of God (other topics)
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Liane Moriarty (other topics)Mary Roach (other topics)
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We just voted in A book related to a word given by a random word generator for our 2021 list, and Avery thought it would be fun to pick a few words as a group and see what everyone comes up with.
Using the generator, here are the words we got:
- dialect
- dependence
- hand
- professional
- lick
Let's see what y'all can come up with!