Square Sixteen
Book: Read a book by an Australian author, set in Australia, or a book that involves horses.
Sabriel by Garth Nix (read by Tim Curry)Task 1: Pick your ponies! Pick the top 3 horses of this year’s Melbourne Cup race (and, if you want, 1 alternative.) As always, the horses in this year’s running will be announced 1 day ahead of the race (this year: Nov. 2) and the outcome as soon as the race is run (on Nov. 3).
You will get 1 bonus point for every correctly-guessed horse.
My picks: OH, I am soooo, sooo lazy! I am just going with the odds-makers' choices:
Sir Dragonet, Russian Camelot and Verry Elleegant
Alternative: Finche
The winning horses in this year's race are:
1. Twilight Payment
2. Tiger Moth
3. Prince of Arran
Task 2: The odds-on favorites to win this year are [...], with a betting amount of $[…]. If given that amount of money, what anticipated book(s) coming out in 2021 would you spend it on?
Here's the rub: I don't follow the pre-publication hype and I don't follow too many current authors such that I want to read their latest book the moment it hits the street. So, I am going to mark this one as contemplated but not completed.
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