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1001-Books Scavenger Hunt, 2021
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Task 11: Read a book with a reference to transport.
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I’m glad I didn’t put Harley Merlin where they use portals to transport themselves 🤣🤣🤣🤣
For this task I read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The setting and all the elucubration of Marlowe happens on a boat during the shipping on an African river.
Amanda wrote: "Rickshaw Boy. Finished it earlier this year- super depressing but really good."Decided to remove my double dip of rickshaw boy here instead of in "non-latin language".
Just read Manhattan Transfer to fulfill this one
Rose wrote: "Debbie McGreevy wrote: "The Time Machine by H.G. Wells"I will be reading this one soon....."
It's a super short read. I didn't particularly care for it. Not sure why it's on the list.
"If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler"? The traveller is transporting themselves?
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certainly! love the creativity
Heart of Darkness No creativity here. The whole story is about a journey by steam boat up an African river.
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Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Orlando rides horses, ice skates, joins a traveling gypsy party, sails, drives a car and travels through time
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark. This book was amazing! One of my favorites that I've read on the list this year. Very short and captivating. 5 stars.
China Mieville - Railsea. Love this book centred around a…well sea of railways with a rather huge nod to Moby Dick in the shape of a giant, mutated, albino mole.
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Railsea is not a LIST book. But Moby-Dick certainly is. This challenge is designed to be done with books from Boxall's book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
Try this link if you need a copy of the list.
I finished Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris. It opens on her flying to Pariss. I remember reading this years ago and it is a lovely story. It also very evocative of post-war Britain.
A few works that I read this year that would fit is 'Pilgrimage' by Dorothy Richardson (all 2200+ pages of it!), 'The Radetzky March' by Joseph Roth, and 'Quo Vadis' (Whither goest thou?) by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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