My former co-worker slavenrm is semi-retired from caching now, and
so I recently adopted a number of his caches. One of my favorites
was his Recommended Reading puzzle, but I chose to
archive it because some clumsy fool lost the container.
But the concept of that puzzle deserved to live on.
Unfortunately, I'm not the avid reader that slavenrm is, so I had
to steal my recommended reading list from an institution noted for
its contemporary literary scholarship.
I'm referring, of course, to Oprah's Book Club. While you puzzle over the real
coordinates for this cache, consider picking up these past Oprah
favorites from your local library or bookstore:
Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (1997)
Jane Hamilton, A Map of the World (1989)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1972)
Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual
Autobiography (2001)
Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1943)
Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue (1997)
Alan Paton, Cry, The Beloved Country (1949)
Elie Wiesel, Night (English translation, 1958)
William Faulkner, Light in August (1942)
Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone (1991)
Joyce Carol Oates, We Were the Mulvaneys (1998)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2000)
FTF prize is an unactivated geocoin commemorating GeocoinFest
2007 in Temecula, CA.