24 Tasks – Door 12 – Book
Karen Baugh Menuhin: Murder at Melrose Court
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Door 12 — Northern Hemisphere: Read something with snow or ice on the cover or read a ghost story. I read the second book of this series, The Black Cat Murders, as my (you guessed it) “Black Cat” square book for this year’s Halloween Bingo, and while there […]
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Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lost Tools of Learning
24 Festive Tasks: Door 12 – World Philosophy Day, Book: Read a book about philosophy or a philosopher, or a how-to book about changing your life in a significant way or suggesting a particular lifestyle (Hygge, Marie Kobo, etc.). My pick for this holiday was Dorothy L. Sayers’s 1947 Oxford lecture The Lost Tools of […]
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Ann Cleeves: White Nights
24 Festive Tasks: Door 12 – St. Andrew’s Day, Book: Read a book set in Scotland. Rather easy choice, this one … And notwithstanding the fact that there’s a fairly obvious giveaway to the “who” very early on — and I’m beginning to clue in on Cleeves’s approach in terms of construction, writerly perspective and […]
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Michael Connelly: The Late Show (Renee Ballard, Book 1)
24 Festive Tasks: Door 12 – St. Andrew’s Day, Book: Andrew was the first apostle; read the first book in a series. OR: Andrew and Peter were brothers; read a book about brothers. OR: Read books about or set in Scotland or by a Scottish author, or set in Charleston, South Carolina (which is where the […]
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