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Squares 7 & 8 Suggestions for the 16 Festive Tasks
These are short lists, so I'm cramming them into a single post. Here are my 4-5 star reads for squares 7 & 8 for the 16 Tasks of the Festive Season.
Square 7: December 10th & 13th:
International Human Rights Day: Read a book originally written in another language (i.e., not in English and not in your mother tongue),
- The Son: A novel by Jo Nesbø
- I really need to step up on my (Book Riot) We Need Diverse Books shelf.
–OR– a book written by anyone not anglo-saxon,
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
- The Good House by Tananarive Due
- Letter to my Daughter by Maya Angelou
- Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Last Werewolf by Glenn Duncan
- Maya Angelou Poetry Collection by Maya Angelou (audiobook, ISBN 0375420177, read by the author, gorgeous!)
–OR– any story revolving around the rights of others either being defended or abused.
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
–OR– Read a book set in New York City, or The Netherlands (home of the UN and UN World Court respectively).
- Night Film by Maria Pessl
Saint Lucia's Day: Read a book set in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden - and Finland for the purposes of this game) or a book where ice and snow are an important feature.
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Son: A novel by Jo Nesbø
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
- Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Square 8: December 12th - 24th:
Book themes for Hanukkah: Any book whose main character is Jewish, any story about the Jewish people –OR– where the miracle of light plays a significant part in the stories plot.
- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Book themes for Las Posadas: Read a book dealing with visits by family or friends, or set in Mexico, –OR– with a poinsettia on the cover. –OR– a story where the main character is stranded without a place to stay, or find themselves in a 'no room at the Inn’ situation.
- None that I could think of.
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