2023 Nonfiction Challenge - Crimes, Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas
Talk75 Books Challenge for 2023
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It is Spooktober (October) and time for a new topic.
October's topic is Crimes, Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas.
This month we will be exploring different kinds of Enigmas. If you want to find out what did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Does the Bermuda Triangle exist, really? Where did DB Cooper go? Or you can explore anything puzzling that intrigues you like who is the Mona Lisa? There are a spate of true crime books that are on the market and finding out how Ted Bundy was caught is one of the puzzles you want to know more about? It could be that the world Enigma conjures images of Bletchley Park or Tuxedo Park for you. Take your pick of what interests you in this category and let us know what you are reading.
October's topic is Crimes, Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas.
This month we will be exploring different kinds of Enigmas. If you want to find out what did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Does the Bermuda Triangle exist, really? Where did DB Cooper go? Or you can explore anything puzzling that intrigues you like who is the Mona Lisa? There are a spate of true crime books that are on the market and finding out how Ted Bundy was caught is one of the puzzles you want to know more about? It could be that the world Enigma conjures images of Bletchley Park or Tuxedo Park for you. Take your pick of what interests you in this category and let us know what you are reading.
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Here is a list of the remaining topics for 2023. If you like to plan ahead go ahead and start finding a book title that will fit the coming topics, here they are.
October: Crimes, Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas. What did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Does the Bermuda Triangle exist, really? Where did DB Cooper go? Or anything puzzling that intrigues you.
November: Matters of Faith and Philosophy. Basically: books about any ideas that shape the way we live and how we interact in society.
December As You Like It. Yes, it's the other perennial bookend! A go-anywhere/read-anything challenge.
October: Crimes, Mysteries, Puzzles, Enigmas. What did happen to the Princes in the Tower? Does the Bermuda Triangle exist, really? Where did DB Cooper go? Or anything puzzling that intrigues you.
November: Matters of Faith and Philosophy. Basically: books about any ideas that shape the way we live and how we interact in society.
December As You Like It. Yes, it's the other perennial bookend! A go-anywhere/read-anything challenge.
3benitastrnad
I am going to try to hit two out of the four words listed in our topical prompt. I am going to read Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R. A. Scotti. Art theft has always fascinated me and I just have to wonder about the desire to possess something like a work of art. Stealing it means that it will no longer be enjoyed by many people and will only be enjoyed by one - or a select few. And I am curious about how these things come about.
On August 21, 1911 the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre. It was gone for more than twenty four hours before it was discovered missing. Clearly, at some point the painting was recovered, so I want to know how and why this happened.
On August 21, 1911 the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre. It was gone for more than twenty four hours before it was discovered missing. Clearly, at some point the painting was recovered, so I want to know how and why this happened.
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The disappearance of the princes in the tower is one of those historical mysteries that has always fascinated me - at least since I read Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time many years ago - so I am reading Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall.
