Wednesday, September 8, 2010

New Contest!

Hello Marauders! Padfoot and Prongs here bringing you a BRAND SPANKING NEW weekly feature that we are sure will shock and amaze you. Ok maybe but not that, but it will be fun, we promise. Inspired by the fabulous tumblr Slaughterhouse90210 we gals over at GoodBooksInc have thought up a fun new literary game for us all to play together and we hope that every single one of you will get the urge to participate.

Here is what the end result will look like:
“She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.”  —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.”
—Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

So lets break it down. Essentially this new feature will be a weekly 'literary' caption contest participated in by you all and "refereed" by us. Each week we will provide you all with a fun and interesting photo which is in dire need of some sort of caption.
Here is where you come in. It will be your job as loyal readers and literary lovers to scour your brains, books, and Google to find a quote or passage from any novel, play, short story, essay etc. that might compliment the picture.

The rules are simple: as long as it's literary, it counts.

You can leave a comment with as many options as you like, however, we'd suggest bringing your A-game since only the very best captions will be rewarded. Also, please be sure to include the name of the work and if possible the author.

What's the reward you ask? Well depending on the week (and our budget) it will range from a virtual high five to anyone of our fabulous GoodBooksInc. items! We will announce the winner from the previous week at each new instillation of the weekly... so make sure to check back and see if your caption was picked!

So that being said... let's get this party started!! Below you will find the very first picture that is in need of captioning. Like we said, anything will count... but the more clever and appropriate the quote, the better your odds are of winning! We encourage you to check out the Tumblr mentioned above to get ideas on how to be creative with this, as well as GoodReads for a huge collection of quotes from every book imaginable. Good luck and happy searching!


*Caption Needed*

5 comments:

  1. "I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember!"

    Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

    “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”...or...

    Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

    The Little Prince by Pierre Boulle

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  2. "Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."
    — J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

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  3. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"

    -Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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  4. Great quotes so far guys! And leave it to Tara to pick the one I had in mind when I saw the pictureeeee!! Can't wait to see more.

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  5. Haha I see I posted the wrong author for my second set of quotes. I was going to post something from Planet of The Apes lol, I'm awesome.

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