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text 2019-07-31 22:59

BL-opoly: Robot Card for Square 17 ("Why?")

Themis-Athena's Garden of Books

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride - Cary Elwes,Christopher Guest,Carol Kane,Robin Wright,Wallace Shawn,Norman Lear,Billy Crystal,Rob Reiner,Joe Layden

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails - Sarah Bakewell,Antonia Beamish

Days in the Caucasus - Banine,Anoushka Rava

A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert - Gertrude Bell,Georgina Howell,Sian Thomas,Adjoa Andoh

Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela,Michael Boatman

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood - Helene Cooper

My Family & Other Animals - Hugh Bonneville,Gerald Durrell

Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates - Patrick Leigh Fermor,Crispin Redman

Winter im Sommer - Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen - Joachim Gauck

Here's my robot card selection:

1. Cary Elwes: As You Wish
2. Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Café
3. Banine: Days in the Caucasus
4. Gertrude Bell: A Woman in Arabia
5. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
6. Helene Cooper: The House at Sugar Beach
7. Gerald Durrell: My Family and Other Animals
8. Patrick Leigh Fermor: Between the Woods and the Water
9. Joachim Gauck: Winter in Sommer, Frühling im Herbst
10. Matt Haig: Notes on a Nervous Planet

... and the draw is for ... (drum roll):

So -- Gertrude Bell's A Woman in Arabia it is!