No idea what the game is called. It's been going on for 122 threads of between a hundred and a hundred and fifty entries - so call it nearly fifteen thousand entries...!!!

The game is very simple. You have to suggest a real author and title which is relate in some way to the previous author and title. "In some way" is pretty flexible though. Some of them are obvious, some are a bit of a stretch....!!

So

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke

might be followed by

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

which might be followed by

The Birds by Doris Lessing

You get the idea. Just read back through and see how each goes on from the next. If one doesn't seem clear, think a bit - if you still can't get it, feel free to ask!

I think that I started this particular game, though I can't remember for sure now. But it's not the first time it's been played....though this is the longest by far that I am aware of.

Thanks for explaining that, Matin, I have been wondering as well, now I know!!

Popi

Thanks! I thought that was what was going on but was afraid to join in because I thought there might be some rules I didn't understand. And that's a LOT of threads!

If there are any rules, I haven't found them!!!! sometimes if you are completly stumped, as I often am, look back a few entries. Sometimes the new one is slow getting in and it refers to one two or three back.

Sometimes I think the link is because the stories are about the same thing. That kind of link is a chancy thing as unless a person has read both books, the link is a mystery.

There are frequent jokes. One of the best I saw was

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

followed by

Meissen Porcelain: Identification and Value Guide by Jim Harran and Susan Harran

Well, it made me laugh.

and if you can find a way to link the titles and the authors, you get double points! Winner hosts the next virtual party! Harvestfest?

What fun a virtual party with a virtual menu and I don't have to clean the house!

Ive played this on another forum and had a lot of fun. After a while tho I started running out of steam. Might try to get back in here.

What forum was it? Another reader forum?

granjan-we have had some doozies-a potluck in January that left poor Martin under the weather from his "warm" beer (hehehehe Martin...okay-cellar temperature), the Valentine's Day one at my island mansion went on for days and was such a sugar high we all needed a spa weekend, the Midsomer party was decadent and steamy....but we did play a rousing game of croquet to work off more calories.

I wasn't drunk or hung over, it's just that I had a bad pint.....

that's right-now I remember...