The Reading Challenge Group discussion

This year-long challenge is based on the game of Clue. Each character from the game represents the career of the MAIN CHARACTER (male or female) of the book you read.
For example, for Miss Scarlet/career in law you might go with The Firm. For MrGreen you might choose The Name of the Rose.


Miss Scarlet: career in law
Colonel Mustard: career in the military
Nurse White: career in medicine
Reverend Green: career in religion
Professor Plum: career in education
Mrs. Peacock: career in business
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...

Yay, this is a fun challenge! Thanks Renee!

I am in for this one.

Mrs. Peacock, a career in Business: The Master of the Mill by Frederick Philip Grove (The Clark Family-millionaire industrialists)

Colonel Mustard, a career in the Military: Old Mortality by Walter Scott (Henry Morton becomes a Major General)

Miss Scarlet, a career in Law: The Case of the Sulky Girl: A Perry Mason Mystery #2 by Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason)

Professor Plum, a career in Education: The Professor by Charlotte Brontë (William Crimsworth)

Reverend Green, a career in Religion: Such Is My Beloved by Morley Callaghan (Father Dowling)

Sergeant Gray, a career in Law Enforcement:Avalanche by Patrick F. McManus (Sheriff Bo Tully)

Nurse White, a career in Medicine: An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (Doctor Stockman)

Mr. Brown, a spy: Ashenden: or, The British Agent by W. Somerset Maugham (the title character)

Bonus: Mr. Body: The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
(the title character)

I'm in!

✔️Miss Scarlet: career in law Gevaarlijk spel Liesbeth van Kempen 304 p. 1 january 2019 1 star MC IS general prosecutor
Colonel Mustard: career in the military
✔️Nurse White: career in medicine You Belong To Me Mary Higgins Clark 384 p. 1/7/2019 3 stars Dr. Susan Chandler
Reverend Green: career in religion
Professor Plum: career in education
Mrs. Peacock: career in business
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story

This was fun last year. I'm in again!

Miss Scarlet: career in law - Friction (Judge Holly Spencer)
Colonel Mustard: career in the military - Tragedy in the Shenandoah Valley: The Story of the Summers-Koontz Execution (Capt George Summers)
Nurse White: career in medicine - The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Charlie Cullen)
Reverend Green: career in religion - To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Nuns & priests of Our Lady of the Angels parish & school)
Professor Plum: career in education - Don't Tell (Dr Max Hunter, professor of history)
Mrs. Peacock: career in business - The Pawn (Gabriel Miller)
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement - Have You Seen Her? (SBI Agent Steven Thatcher)
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy - Artemis (Jasmine - smuggler)

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story - Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (President James Garfield)

Renee’s Character Challenge 2019 : FINISHED!
This is the first year I’ve tried this one. 👀

This year-long challenge is based on the game of Clue. Each character from the game represents the career of the MAIN CHARACTER (male or female) of the book you read.


Miss Scarlet: career in law: Do or Die lawyer
Colonel Mustard: career in the military: The Man in the Brown Suit Colonel Race (army/MI5)
Nurse White: career in medicine: Ordeal by Innocence doctor
Reverend Green: career in religion: The Murder at the Vicarage vicar
Professor Plum: career in education: Getting Schooled
Mrs. Peacock: career in business: Love Among the Chickens
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement: Macbeth police/SWAT
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy: The Paris Spy WWII spy

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story: ________

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...

Oohh have fun Renee!
Quick question- One book I am considering reading is a victorian era mystery where the mc's are a married couple, and she is a midwife. Would that count for nedicine, or does it need to be a bigger part of the story?

I definitely think that works. Sounds interesting.

Thanks Renee! It was in a pile of books a coworker gave me, along with another mystery I am going to use for this challenge as the MC is an ADA. She really helped me out lol!

Well, she did give you a whole pile of books so, yeah, she did. :D

Haha, yes! She gave me about 30 books, and another coworker gave me 3 boxes full, about 250 books! I made out that day haha!!

For Mr. Brown do thieves fit in this category?

I think I need to know more about the character, Michele. Spies & Con Artists have made a career out of subterfuge.

For religion, the book I am considering has the MC as a high priestess of vampire religion. Would that count?

Vampire Religion??? How intriguing!
I think, yes. It sounds like the vampires within the world-building have developed their own culture and religion.

Okay I'll do my best Renee, now how to describe him and not give the story away. John Dortmunder is described as a criminal mastermind that has the worst luck. He can plan any caper down to the tiniest detail but it never fails something always goes wrong. In the story I read he took a job to steal an emerald. He plans the job, four of them in fact, but he does have in the back of his mind that they might not turn the emerald over. (view spoiler)[He does end up doing a switch on the guy but only because the man cheated him first. Honestly I'm not sure if he qualifies, and if he does it's just barely. Truthfully the character UN Ambassador Major Iko the guy that hires him fits better since he was planning a double cross from the beginning. He ordered the jewel stolen from a neighboring country because he basically felt his country deserved it more. He tried to get it by legal means but that didn't end up working so he decided to just take it, promising a payment that he never intended paying. (hide spoiler)]

I think I’m going to leave it up to you, Michelle. I tried to do a little online research, and don’t see much con artist in Dortmunder. But I haven’t read the books so it’s kinda gray. If it’s like an Oceans Eleven or The Italian Affair style heist then I’d say definitely. But it’s totally your call.

Thanks Renee, they basicly worship Nyx, the greek goddess of night, but have thier own way of doing it. Hopefully this one is good, its the same author who wrote House Of Night, which started good but went down hill after book 5 or 6

FINISHED! This was fun, but I’m not going to go for another round. I’ll pick up a different challenge instead. :)

Also, I’ll update with the Extra Credit if I can find the right book.

Way to go, Renee! 👏

Thank you, my dear!

Okay finally making my post once I got the chance to rethink the books I've read this year and the main characters in them.

Clue : The Character Challenge 2019

Miss Scarlet: career in law Dracula Jonathan Harker 4/25
Colonel Mustard: career in the military
Nurse White: career in medicine Soul Eater, Vol. 06 Professor Stein 3/25
Reverend Green: career in religion
Professor Plum: career in education Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Professor Minerva McGonagall 1/10
Mrs. Peacock: career in business
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story Bad Blood, Harry Woods 4/5

Good for you! It gives you a nice start to the challenge.

Whoo-hoo! Finally finished - see message 6 for my list!

Way to go, Cindy!

Great sleuthing!

Thanks!

LOL, I just saw this because of Cindy's update! Let me see what I can do here! Gonna concentrate on books I've read this summer but will add others I've read this year as needed.

Miss Scarlet: career in law
Roseanna Chaldecott is a high powered lawyer whose best friend and law partner dies suddenly and this is the aftermath.
Colonel Mustard: career in the military
four main characters, and Alfred Fick is the military person
Nurse White: career in medicine
Louisa Casson is a medical student who becomes a nurse in the past
Reverend Green: career in religion
Reverend John Ames tells the entire story through his letters.
Professor Plum: career in education
Miss Jean Brodie is a teacher
Mrs. Peacock: career in business
The main character is a banker who spends the majority of the book trying to build the business of the dragons
Sergeant Gray: career in law enforcement
Hilarious book about Retired Police Officers in Wichita, Kansas "coming out of retirement" in secret to fight crime. Seriously. You should read this.
Mr. Brown: career as a con artist or spy
A set of books about spy school. Main character is one of the students and daughter of the headmistress of the school.

Extra-Credit..
Mr. Black/Mr. Boddy: is dead or dies in the story
If we're talking about deadish and dead, then would be perfect, lol. I don't want to explain or there will be many spoilers!
Oh, but would be perfect since the narrator IS dead!

Woo hoo, this was a fun treasure hunt!

This is a fun game, Eileen! I really love this and bingo and bookopoly, it’s fun to play these games and fit the books in!

Cindy wrote: "This is a fun game, Eileen! I really love this and bingo and bookopoly, it’s fun to play these games and fit the books in!"

Yes, I love mixing board games with books! To me, it's like a treasure hunt!

I finally finished the challenge, message 3.

Woo hoo! Congratulations, Rosemarie!

Thanks, Eileen.

Great going! With an interesting selection of titles as always!

Thanks, Renee.

Just saw this, so looking a my list...

Ms. Scarlet : Lawyer. ....... may be stretching it but the author is a Lawyer... The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Col. Mustard: Military........Never Quit by Jimmy Settle

Nurse White: Medical.......Dr. Death by Wonderly. This actually a podcast, and I'm so glad I didn't know the story before my surgery.

Rev. Green: Religion....... Born Survivors by Wendy Holden. Now this might not be a religious book for some, more spiritual, it's so had to understand how this came about, and we never, ever want to see anything like this ever again.

Prof. Plum: Business..... Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark

Sgt. Grey: Law Enforcement...... Bloody Genius by John Sandford

Mr. Brown : Spy or Con Artist........ The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle. Saw the movie after reading the book, book was okay but hard to follow until the end. Movie left out a lot of the book, think I liked the movie a little bit better.

Mr.Black : A dead body at the beginning.......The Girl in the Ice by Ribert Byndra

That's an interesting list of books, Katherine.

Rosemarie wrote: "That's an interesting list of books, Katherine."

Agreed. I haven't read any of them!