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20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018)Murder on the French Riviera (Miss Underhay #16) by Helena Dixon
+20 Task
+5 Combo (10.3 - at least 90% in Nice, France)
+10 Female
Post total: 35
Season total: 265
10.8 Are You a Bookshop or Library Person? (Valerie's task)Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.8 MPG Magical Realism; 20.10 - author born in Japan)
+10 Female
+10 Review
Post total: 40
Season total: 230
Review
"An old library... a library devoted just to writers' collections... definitely a most odd, unconventional sort of place."
Books ➕ Food 🟰 Perfection 👌
Honestly, a job working with books all day (or rather night) with accommodation & dinner being provided sounds like an absolute dream! And to top it all off, dinner is usually inspired by some book or other!! I had an Anne of Green Gables themed picnic with a group of friends some years ago and it was so much fun but so very much work involved. So to have a dedicated chef to research and cook book-inspired meals everyday would really blow my mind - can someone please open a restaurant exactly like this?
Dinner at the Night Library is very much a cozy read; it is gentle on the heart and yet charms the mind. It is rather like an interconnected short-stories in that all stories are set in the Night Library with the same cast of characters (plus some visitors et al). The stories are primarily told from Otoha Higuchi's (most recent hire) perspectives but in between, there were other staff's perspective / backstory as to how they came to work at the Night Library. The novel opens with Otoha's arrival at her new job at the Night Library which then follows her discovery of how the library functions, the idiosyncrasies of her coworkers, the eccentricities of their customers, and ends with how the Night Library was founded. The ending makes me believe that there is a sequel coming or maybe it's a bookworm's wishful thinking but I would love to visit these friends at least one more time.
Last week, just as I was in the middle of reading this nove, I was pleased to have discovered that Tom Kenneally had donated his collections to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts! You could visit the Tom Keneally Centre and browse his collections of [mostly research] books; some of them even have his notes.
"The past lives on here in this library"
15.5 SSSquare N3 - FREE
No Way Back (Jack McNeal #1) by J.B. Turner
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 190
15.4 SSSquare G2 - A book first published in the five years 2021-2025
All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot by Lucinda Price
published 2024
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 175
15.3 SSSquare O2 - Author with a six-letter last name or with a total of 16 letters in their name
Eternity in Kyoto by Héctor García
6 letters in author's last name
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 160
20.10 Fall Vacation (Joanna's task)The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa
author born in Japan
+20 Task
+5 Combo (20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018))
+10 Female
Post total: 35
Season total: 145
In post #42 I claimed"20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018)
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods #1) by Beth Cato
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 - MPG Food, 10.9 - @69% "She nibbled more cheese.")
+10 Female
Post total: 40
Season total: 90"
Could I please change/move to:
10.5 Leo Tolstoy
A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods #1) by Beth Cato
+10 Task
+10 Combo (20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018), 10.9 - @69% "She nibbled more cheese.")
+10 Female
Post total: 30
Season total: 110*
*adjusting season total following last post on #56
Hope this is okay - sorry for messing this up :)
15.2 SSSquare N4 - A book with both a 1 and 6 in the number of pages in the MPE
A Resistance of Witches by Morgan Ryan
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 120
15.1 SSSquare N2 - A book written by two authors (or two people writing under one author name)
The Grave Artist (Sanchez & Heron #2) by Jeffery Deaver & Isabella Maldonado
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 105
20.6 Fall Equinox (Fall 2018)A Thousand Recipes for Revenge (Chefs of the Five Gods #1) by Beth Cato
+20 Task
+10 Combo (10.5 - MPG Food, 10.9 - @69% "She nibbled more cheese.")
+10 Female
Post total: 40
Season total: 90
10.6 Ninetieth (Rosemary's task)Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
+10 Task
+5 Prize-worthy
+5 Jumbo (676p)
Post total: 20
Season total: 50
20.8 A Touch of Magic (Anika's task)The Wolf's Eye (The Order of the Seven Stars #2) by Luanne G. Smith
+20 Task
+10 Female
Post total: 30
Season total: 30
15.40 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang
A4 - setting: Asia (Korea)
+15 Task
+150 points for your third and subsequent subchallenge completions.
Post total: 165
Season total: 1,125
15.39 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Strangers in Time by David Baldacci
C6 - 400-500 pages (435p)
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 960
15.38 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Faebound (Faebound #1) by Saara El-Arifi
E1 - Genre: Fantasy
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 945
Rosemary wrote: "Post 583 Tien wrote: "15.35 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
F3 - translated from Japanese
+15 Task
+5 Old (pub 2017)
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That is so weird because that line wasn't showing on my spreadsheet - it's meant for the next post, #593, and it's not showing there... sorry, don't know what's happened with my brain on that day!
15.20 WI 11-12 "Christmas in Vegas"Lady of the Lake (The Witcher #5) by Andrzej Sapkowski
Author's last initial: S-T-U
Page length: 101-140/501-540 (531p)
Published date: 1989-2000 (1999)
+15 Task
+5 Old
+5 Big
+150 points for your third subchallenge completions.
Post total: 175
Season total: 930
15.37 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
F6 - translated from Icelandic
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 755
15.36 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"Limelight (A Penny Green Victorian Mystery #1) by Emily Organ
C5 - 324-425 pages (340p)
+15 Task
Post total: 15
Season total: 740
15.35 FA13 "Pick 'n' Mix"The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
F3 - translated from Japanese
+15 Task
+5 Old (pub 2017)
Post total: 20
Season total: 725
