24 Tasks – Door 6 – Book
Akashic Noir Series: Helsinki Noir
Festive Tasks Master Update Post HERE Festive Tasks, Door 6 – Color(s), Book: Read a book with a cover that is more than 50% red or green. Ugh. I thought I’d seen the most cynically sordid that Scandi-noir is able to produce after I’d read Jo Nesbø and Arnaldur Indriðason, but some of the […]
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The Medieval Murderers: The Deadliest Sin
24 Festive Tasks: Door 6 – St. Nicholas’ Day / Sinterklaas, Book: Read a story involving children or a young adult book, or set in the Middle Ages, or a book whose cover is primarily orange (for the Dutch House of Orange) or red (for St. Nick’s robes / cloak), or a book with oranges, […]
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Audre Lorde: Coal
24 Festive Tasks: Door 6 – St. Nicholas’ Day / Sinterklaas, Book: A Czech Republic tradition for St Nick’s Day is groups of three “people” – St Nick, Angel, and Devil – to roam the streets the night before St Nick’s Day and stop children to ask them if they have been good during the […]
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E.C.R. Lorac: Murder by Matchlight
24 Festive Tasks: Door 6 – Veterans’ / Armistice Day, Book: Read a book involving a war, battle, or where characters are active military or veterans, or with poppies on the cover, or honor the ‘unknown soldier’ of your TBR and read the book that’s been there the longest. This is set in 1945 London, […]
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A Very French Christmas
24 Festive Tasks: Door 6 – International Day for Tolerance, Book: Read any fiction/non-fiction about tolerance or a book that’s outside your normal comfort zone. (Tolerance can encompass anything you generally struggle with, be it sentient or not.) OR Read a book set in Paris. An anthology of French Christmas short stories, from 19th century […]
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