16 Tasks – 2
Tea, Chocolates, and a Book
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 2 – Guy Fawkes Night Tasks for Guy Fawkes Night: [… M]ake yourself a nice cup of tea and settle down with a good book to read. Which kind of tea is your favorite? Tell us why. The tea in this mug is Earl Grey, one of […]
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P.D. James: The Lighthouse
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 2 – Bon Om Touk Murder on a Secret Island P.D. James’s penultimate Dalgliesh novel, revisited courtesy of the splendid unabridged reading by Michael Jayston (known to fans of John le Carré as Peter Guillam from the adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Alec Guinness as George […]
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S.J. Parris: Heresy
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 16 – Kwanzaa Headless Chicken Parade Part 1: Giordano Bruno* Giordano Bruno (1548 – February 17, 1600) was an eminent Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological scientist, whose theories extended the then-novel Copernican model. Bruno proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets […]
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S.J. Parris: Heresy – Reading Progress Update: 331 of 474 Pages
Well, that went to hell in a handbasket (or close to it) pretty fast — and it had such a promising beginning! But either there is a major flaw in the plotting, or it’s clear ever since page 95 who was responsible for the death occurring on pages 91-94. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spoiler: Shades of Arthur Conan […]
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S.J. Parris: Heresy – Reading Progress Update: 42 of 474 Pages
Started last night; I’m reading this for Square 2, Guy Fawkes Night: “Any book about the English monarchy (any genre), political treason, political thrillers, or where fire is a major theme, or fire is on the cover.“ This seems to tick off all the categories — Tudor Era political and religious conspiracies; even on the […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 2 – Bon Om Touk
Tasks for Bon Om Touk: Post a picture from your most recent or favorite vacation on the sea (or a lake, river, or any other body of water larger than a puddle), or if you’re living on the sea or on a lake or a river, post a picture of your favorite spot on the […]
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The 16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Second Square: Guy Fawkes Night and Bon Om Touk
Guy Fawkes Night Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Bonfire Night, is an annual commemoration observed on November 5, primarily in Great Britain. Its history begins with the events of November 5, 1605, when Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators of the so-called Gunpowder Plot were arrested for planning to blow up explsives placed beneath the […]
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The Festive Tasks in Calendar Form – November
Reblogged from: Murder by Death I’m a visual person, and after all the planning, writing up and editing, I’ve long lost track of which book themes and which tasks are associated with which holidays, so I made this up for myself. I’m posting it here in case anyone else might find it useful. December […]
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