Task 11: Read a book with a reference to transport.

[Karen]

Use this Topic to discuss books you’re reading or that fit the 11th Scavenger Hunt task.

[Ellinor]

I read The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas. A rowing boat plays an important role.

[Rose]

The Time Machine

[Sean]

Rose wrote: "The Time Machine"

Nicely done!

[Debbie]

I’m glad I didn’t put Harley Merlin where they use portals to transport themselves 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Shereen]

I've just finished Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne.

[Bucket]

The Shipping News. Boats and ships abound! Not to mention a major car wreck.

[Valentina]

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]

Rickshaw Boy. Finished it earlier this year- super depressing but really good.

[Bob]

A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

[Debbie]

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

[Amanda]

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]

Debbie McGreevy wrote: "The Time Machine by H.G. Wells"

I will be reading this one soon.....

[Debbie]

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.

[Irem]

"If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler"? The traveller is transporting themselves?

[Sean]

Irem wrote: ""If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler"? The traveller is transporting themselves?"

certainly! love the creativity

[James]

Heart of Darkness No creativity here. The whole story is about a journey by steam boat up an African river.

[Ellinor]

I also read The Bitter Glass by a female author. A train and a boat play an imprtant role here.

[Sean]

The autobiographer in Promise at Dawn is a navigator in the French Air Force during WWII. He and his various planes see some adventure.

[SaraSian]

Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Orlando rides horses, ice skates, joins a traveling gypsy party, sails, drives a car and travels through time

[Dina]

For this task I'll read Closely Watched Trains by Bohumil Hrabal.

[Mel]

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.

[Jo]

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.

[Sean]

Jo wrote: "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."

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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Yrinsyde]

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.

[Luke]

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.