Book Club Review 2025

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Across
  1. 2. The crime BOSS of the Corleone family (Vito's title)
  2. 5. The fictional setting of Hard Times
  3. 8. The crop grown on Karen Blixen's plantation in British East Africa
  4. 12. The philosophical system centered on "Fact" criticized in Hard Times.
  5. 13. The final destination of the Tibetan Lama's spiritual quest in Kim: the River of the
  6. 14. The first name of the author of Robinson Crusoe
  7. 16. The name of the consigliere (advisor) to Don Vito Corleone
  8. 18. The working-class gang to which Ponyboy Curtis belongs
  9. 19. The tribe of people, including Kamante, with whom Karen Blixen formed deep connections in Africa
Down
  1. 1. Mary's sickly cousin at Misselthwaite Manor, who is cured by the garden
  2. 3. Thomas Gradgrind's profession at the beginning of Hard Times
  3. 4. The Bohemian immigrant woman whose life story is told by Jim Burden
  4. 6. The street urchin protagonist of the Rudyard Kipling novel
  5. 7. The novel is set in the 1940s and 1950s in this major American city (The Godfather).
  6. 9. The first name of the author of Hard Times
  7. 10. The author of The Outsiders, who used initials to disguise her gender
  8. 11. Josiah Bounderby boasted of being a self-made ______
  9. 14. Ponyboy Curtis's oldest brother, who acts as a paternal figure in The Outsiders
  10. 15. The novel is set in the 1940s and 1950s in this major American city (The Godfather).
  11. 17. The initially sour and neglected protagonist of The Secret Garden