Monday, October 9, 2017

#MadLibMonday - Cooking for Ghosts by Patricia V. Davis

When I was growing up, I loved Mad Libs. The excitement of sort of writing your own story really appealed to me. So I thought it would be fun to mesh that love with my love of books by turning blurbs into mad libs and letting you guys write your own book blurbs. 

For anyone that doesn't know how Mad Libs work, I will ask you for certain parts of speech or other specific things (i.e.: date, age, color, etc.) which you will write down. After you have completed your list, scroll down below the cover image to find the redacted blurb. Then read through it substituting your words where applicable. Try not to laugh. (Laughing is actually strongly encouraged, because this is supposed to be funny.)

Some brief definitions of the parts of speech.
Noun: Person, place, or thing.
Verb: Describes or indicates action.
Adverb: Modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb expressing manner, place, time, or degree (gently, here, now, very).
Adjective: Names an attribute of a noun (pretty, blue, large)
Pronoun: A word that can function as a noun (I, we, they)
Preposition: a word that combines with a noun or pronoun to form a phrase that usually acts as an adverb, adjective, or noun (on, after, for)

And with that, here we go.

1: Plural noun
2: Adjective
3: Verb, past tense
4: Plural noun
5: City
6: Verb ending in s
7: Verb
8: Plural noun
9: Adjective
10: Plural noun


Genre: Mystery/Paranormal
Published: October 1, 2016
Pages: 360

Do (   1: Plural noun   ) broken long ago forever leave a (   2: Adjective   ) trace?

A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is (   3: Verb, past tense   ) by a tragedy from her past.

Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over (   4: Plural noun   ). They decide on impulse to open The Secret Spice, an elegant café on the magnificent ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary, currently a floating hotel in (   5: City   ). Rich in history and tales of supernatural occurrences, the ship (   6: Verb ending in s   ) her own desperate secrets.

The women are surrounded by ghosts long before they (   7: Verb   ) aboard, but once they do, nothing is quite what it seems. Not the (   8: Plural noun   ) they meet, not their brooding chef’s (   9: Adjective   ) recipes, and not the Queen Mary herself. Yet the (   10: Plural noun   ) they encounter help them discover that there’s always a chance to live, as long as one is alive.

Nominated for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, COOKING FOR GHOSTS is an unforgettable tale of love, redemption, and divine female power.

Now that your fun is through, here is the real blurb for Cooking for Ghosts by Patricia V. Davis.

Do hearts broken long ago forever leave a tangible trace?

A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is haunted by a tragedy from her past.

Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over recipes. They decide on impulse to open The Secret Spice, an elegant café on the magnificent ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary, currently a floating hotel in Long Beach, California. Rich in history and tales of supernatural occurrences, the ship hides her own desperate secrets.

The women are surrounded by ghosts long before they step aboard, but once they do, nothing is quite what it seems. Not the people they meet, not their brooding chef’s mystic recipes, and not the Queen Mary herself. Yet the spirits they encounter help them discover that there’s always a chance to live, as long as one is alive.

Nominated for the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, COOKING FOR GHOSTS is an unforgettable tale of love, redemption, and divine female power.

If you enjoyed this mad lib, please leave a comment below with your list and be sure to share it with your friends! - Katie 

10 comments:

  1. This was really fun, I generally put ridiculous answers for any mad lib I do to cheer me up at the end.

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    1. The more ridiculous, the better! That's kind of the point of mad libs after all :) - Katie

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  2. looks like a cute read with or without mad libs

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    1. Right. I actually have a review copy of this book, and thought it would be a great selection for a mad lib for October because ghosts. Thanks for stopping by. - Katie

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  3. Love this! I laughed!
    1: Chickens
    2: furry
    3: danced
    4: dogs
    5: denver
    6: spins
    7: jiggle
    8: airplanes
    9: purple
    10: books

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    1. Darn those purple recipes not being what you expect them to be! This was awesome. Thanks for playing. - Katie

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  4. 1: feathers
    2: large
    3: slept
    4: husks
    5: NYC
    6: Jumps
    7: cry
    8: roses
    9: stinky
    10: quarters

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    1. They may want to get a new chef if all he has are stinky recipes! Thanks for playing! - Katie

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  5. Oh now this is goood. Who would have ever thought madlibmonday....Love it

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  6. I just realized it's been weeks since I've done one of these. Now I know why my Mondays have sucked!
    1: limes
    2: saucy
    3: killed
    4: tombstones
    5: Atlanta
    6: plays
    7: crochete
    8: jumps
    9: pretty
    10: dragons

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