Trish's second ATY challenge

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50. A book with a silhouette on the cover - Where the Crawdads Sing - *****

Okay, possibly a bit of a stretch, although the trees are definitely in silhouette.

I loved this book. I'd say it's probably one of my favourite reads this year. I found myself drawn in by the sense of place, and while I know some people didn't like the ending, to me it just seemed to fit.

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32. A book related to the 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Japan - The Honjin Murders - ****

Set in Japan just before WWII (although it was first published in 1973). This was an unexpected pleasure, and highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a good locked room mystery.

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52. A book related to time - The Time Traders - ***

Somehow, I never read Andre Norton when I was younger. I quite enjoyed this, although it did seem a bit dated.

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48. A book published in 2020 - The Black Cat Breaks a Mirror - ****

The latest installment in a fun, cat-centred cozy series. First published 21 July 2020.

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45. A book by the same author who wrote one of your best reads in 2019 or 2018 - The Last Emperox - ****

This was the final volume in the Interdependency trilogy - I gave the first one 5* in 2018 and the second 4* in 2019 - and it rounded it off nicely.

Recommended for anyone who likes space opera with a side order of humour, and where each book isn't the size of a doorstop.

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44. A book related to witches - Witch Is When Everything Went Crazy - ***

Book #3 in an entertaining paranormal cozy series with a sarcastic POV character with a custard cream obsession

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43. A book related to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse - Mort - ****

The fun thing about rereading Terry Pratchett after thirty years, is that I don't remember them htat well, so it's like reading them for the first time again.

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42. A book that was nominated for one of the ‘10 Most Coveted Literary Prizes in the World’ - A Streetcar Named Desire - ***

Won the Pullitzer for drama in 1948. I'd heard of it, obviously, and I knew the film was a Marlon Brando classic, but I didn't actually know the story until finally reading it.

Not the book I was going to use for this prompt, but it's getting late in the season, and the last book on my list is going to take a while.

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46. A book about an event or era in history taken from the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" - The Final Days - ****

This sequel to All the President's Men, The Final Days discusses the last 100 days of the Nixon administration, following the Watergate revelations and proceedings in Congress. The research behind it is incredibly detailed, and yet it's written in a semi-fictional style.