24 Tasks – Door 20 – Book
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Festive Tasks, Door 20 — Travel: Read a book that involves the main character travelling, or a story involving pilgrims on a journey of faith, be it personal, or religious. (For example: Eat, Pray, Love would be about a woman on a journey of self realisation.) The Appointment […]
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Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
24 Festive Tasks: Door 20 – Festivus, Book: Read anything comedic; a parody, satire, etc., books with hilariously dysfunctional families (must be funny dysfunctional, not tragic dysfunctional), or anything else that makes you laugh (or hope it does). I spontaneously decided to revisit Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest — in the 1977 […]
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Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Annual Christmas Reread)
24 Festive Tasks: Door 20 – Christmas, Book: Read a Christmas book. Hercule Poirot’s Christmas — what else? Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2004564/24-festive-tasks-door-20-christmas-book
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24 Festive Tasks: The Eight Final Holidays
The calendar’s eight final holidays and associated book tasks are: Door 17: Dec. 21 – Winter Solstice (Yule / Yaldā Night / Dongzhi / Soyal) Book: Read a book that takes place in December, with ice or snow on the cover, where all events take place in a single day or night, that revolves […]
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Martin Edwards (ed.) & Various Authors: The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (BLCC)
24 Festive Tasks: Door 20 – Christmas, Book: The third annual edition of the British Library’s anthologies of unjustifiedly-buried Golden Age Christmas mystery short stories, again edited by Martin Edwards. Great fun and a great way to segue into the holiday season, one story at a time. I’m using it as my book for, guess […]
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24 Festive Tasks: The Seven Final Holidays
As explained in this year’s Rules / Mode of Play post, we’re going to reveal the seven final holidays included in the card and the respective book tasks early on, so as to allow enough time to complete these books. The final holidays and book tasks are: Winter Solstice / Yuletide (December 21): Read any […]
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