Boxing Day
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Final Tally
The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed Joker cards used: The Squares, Books and Other Tasks: Square 1: November 1st: All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos & Calan Gaeaf Book themes for Día de Muertos and All Saint’s Day: A book that […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day
Tasks for St. Stephen’s Day / Boxing Day — BONUS task: box up all the Christmas detritus, decorations, or box up that stuff you’ve been meaning to get rid of, or donate, etc. and take a picture and post it. Won’t be donating this, but anyway, here’s the result of my after-Christmas house cleaning: … […]
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Ngaio Marsh: Tied Up in Tinsel
16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day Book themes for Boxing Day/St. Stephen’s Day: Read anything where the main character has servants (paid servants count, NOT unpaid) or is working as a servant him-/ herself. Well, I guess one could count Roderick Alleyn as a public servant, seeing as he’s a […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Updates / Blackout
I’ve yet to read at least one book for some of the squares, but I’ve completed a minimum of either one book or one task for all of the squares, and in several cases, more. The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Square 15 – Boxing Day: Cat in a Box
Tasks for St. Stephen’s Day/Boxing Day: Show us your boxes of books! –OR– If you have a cat, post a picture of your cat in a box. The current feline denizen of my home — Teddy — won’t be caught dead in anything enclosing him, but Holly loved boxes and was, consequently, in heaven whenever […]
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16 Tasks of the Festive Season: Updates
I’ll be tracking my completed books, tasks, and points comprehensively here. The Markers: Stack of Books: Books read Red Bows and Ribbons: Other Tasks completed The Squares, Books and Other Tasks: Square 1: November 1st: All Saints Day / Día de los Muertos & Calan Gaeaf Book themes for Día de Muertos and […]
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The Festive Tasks in Calendar Form – December
Reblogged from: Murder by Death Posting this just in case anyone else finds it useful. November is here. Square 5: Book themes for Advent: Read a book with a wreath or with pines or fir trees on the cover –OR– Read the 4th book from a favorite series, or a book featuring 4 […]
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Introducing the 16 Tasks of the Festive Season!
Reblogged from: Murder by Death Themis-Athena’s Garden of Books and I have put together a little something to celebrate the festive season we hope you’ll like. Our goal was to represent as many of the festive holidays and traditions that happen at this time of year around the world as we reasonably could, and […]
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