The Outline
1. Link back to who tagged you2. Share the Graphic on your blog3. Share the Outline on your post4. Share a detail you love about the season of summer into fall5. List at least 7 random/ specific things YOU love to read about in books, big or small6. Tag 7 people who would enjoy taking part/whose answers you are curious to read!
Here we go!
First off, it's no longer summer or fall, but one thing I love about the change of seasons when autumn finally hits here sometime in October is that my creativity takes a big boost!
Now for my seven specific little things I love in a book:
1
Escape from wrongful imprisonment
This sounds terrible, but I LOVE it when a character gets accused of a crime they didn't commit and gets sent to prison for it... and then escapes. Prison escapes in general are something I love a lot, but when it's from a prison sentence they didn't deserve? Gimme gimme gimme.
An example: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
2
Band of brothers
If you give me a group of guys who are mostly unrelated but just act like brothers, look after each other like brothers, basically consider each other brothers -- I'm all over it.
An example: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
3
Surviving on a deserted island
Stories of having to survive using only what you have around you will always grab me. I love seeing how ingenious people can be, even fictional people.
A couple examples: The Black Stallion by Walter Farley, The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
4
Exploring abandoned spaces
I love abandoned spaces in general, and having characters explore or discover one in a book is always going to draw my attention!
An example: Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
5
A woman tries to seduce a guy, and he tells her to get lost
Is there anything more wonderful? And the harder she is trying to get him into bed, the more awesome it is when he refuses.
An example: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
6
Antagonistic opposites become friends
Friendships in fiction are usually more compelling to me than romances, and when you get two people who don't like each other and are nothing like each other, but then they have to work together and slowly become friends -- so, so good!
An example: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
7
Amnesia
Why is amnesia such a fun plot point? I don't even know why I love it, but I do. Maybe I've just forgotten why?
An example: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
Okay, time to tag seven friends. I tag:
Play if you want to!
Band of brothers can almost never go wrong. That's one of my favorites too :) Fictional friendships in general are so delicious and compelling.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read a lot of amnesia stories, but I recently read Lady of Weeds by W. R. Gingell, and I loved it! So maybe I should read more amnesia stories.
Ruth, it's really one of the best tropes, like the best subset of Found Family ever.
DeleteI wouldn't say I have watched or read a lot of amnesia stories, but the ones I've encountered, I've liked a lot!
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ReplyDeleteWell, anyhow, I really like this list! Exploring abandoned spaces is a fun one and my daughter and I loved Gone Away Lake. I like Band of Brothers and the man telling the flirty woman to get lost. lol!
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DeleteGone-Away Lake is an unmatched bit of delicious storytelling!
Thanks so much for the tag! I hadn't thought about it before, but exploring lost places is SO cool!! I adore Gone Away Lake and the sequel!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Grace! Glad you're also a fan of Gone-Away Lake. The sequel is fun too!
DeleteGlad you could join! I loved reading your answers, and agree with a ton of these!
ReplyDeleteIt was fun :-) Thanks for the tag -- I'm glad you liked it.
DeleteRe: amnesia; "Maybe I've just forgotten why?" XD Haha, love it! I am also quite fond of this. Lately I was watching a show and I thought this was going to be a plot point and got super hyped, only for it to go another way, so I was a bit disappointed.
ReplyDeleteChloe, haha! Someone got my joke! Yay!
DeleteYeah, amnesia is always just such a compelling plot point. Maybe because I rely heavily on my memory, so it would absolutely drive me bonkers, and that fascinates me?