Play Book Tag discussion

Monthly Tags:

Jan - mental health - Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Feb - family drama - The Perfect Lover by Stephanie Laurens
Mar - Africa - The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
Apr - gothic - The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe
May - short stories - Shadows of the Past by Sharon Shinn
Jun - beach reads - Cakewalk by Claire Hastings
Jul - Regency - Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James
Aug - cultural - When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Sep - made me cry - Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Oct - feminist - The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
Nov - first in a series - Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
Dec - books about books - The Book Stops Here by Kate Carlisle

Pursue It! Book It! Track It!

JANUARY:
1/4 suicidal ideation (exact words) - Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith - Chapter 51, 66% into the book

FEBRUARY:
Item Collected: divorce (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 9, page 160, 43% into the book: "I suspect what we overheard the other night between Henry and James was discussion of a possible divorce."
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: The Perfect Lover by Stephanie Laurens

Item Collected: sibling rivalry (situation)
Location in Book: Chapter 17, page 331, 90% into the book: "I hate him, you know... But in our house, it was always Ambrose. He got everything, I was given nothing. Only Ambrose mattered. Even now. I love Mama, I've cared for her dutifully, I remain by her side...yet even now, all Mama thinks about is Ambrose."
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: The Perfect Lover by Stephanie Lauren

Item Collected: bigamy (situation)
Location in Book: Chapter 1, page 14, 3% into the book: "Kate’s eyebrows shot up so high that it gave her an instant headache. Conrad had married without divorcing Kate and the woman was pregnant? She was still staring at the lady when the Hispanic woman popped up and her hands knotted into fists. “You can’t be married to Conrad! I am his wife."”
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: The Barefoot Summer by Carolyn Brown

Item Collected: coming out (exact/situation)
Location in Book: Chapter 19, page 184, 86% into the book: "I came out to my family.”
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: Status Update by Annabeth Albert

MARCH:
Item Collected: ebola (exact)
Location in Book: Introduction, page 1, 1% into the book: "Some years ago, while I was researching The Hot Zone, a book that focuses on the Ebola virus, I may have had a meeting with an unknown strain of Ebola.”
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston

Item Collected: habitat destruction (situation)
Location in Book: Chapter 2, page 89-90, 40% into the book: "Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders...Global climate change may be helping the hemlock adelgids spread both north and south...Wherever it goes, it seems to get into every hemlock. It kills saplings before they can produce seeds, and so, in every place it arrives, it stops the hemlock species from reproducing. Many experts have concluded that the insect could kill nearly all the eastern hemlocks; if so, the species would essentially disappear from the wild.”
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston

Item Collected: equator (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 13, page 81, 29% into the book: "In the midafternoon, when the sun is high overhead—the earth’s equator close to the ball of burning fire...”
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: The Queen of Water by Laura Resau & Maria Virginia Farinango

Item Collected: safari (situation, character must go on safari)
Location in Book: Chapter 3, page 27, 14% into the book: "She had gone, again as so many others do, to a safari camp on the edge of the river and had stayed there for four days.”
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith

APRIL:
Item Collected: graveyard (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 17, page 335, 97% into the book: "Autumn spiced the air on the day they returned to London over two months later, and, at Thomas’s insistence, he, Rose, William, and Alice went walking up South Audley Street, then turned off to stroll past the Audley chapel and into the graveyard beyond.”
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: Loving Rose: The Redemption of Malcolm Sinclair by Stephanie Lauren
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Item Collected: lights turning off unexpectedly (situation)
Location in Book: The Premature Burial, page 263, 96% into the book: "But, before I could find words to reply, the figure had ceased to grasp my wrist, the phosphoric lights expired, and the graves were closed with a sudden violence, while from out them arose a tumult of despairing cries, saying again: “Is it not—oh, God! is it not a very pitiful sight?”
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: raven (exact)
Location in Book: The Raven, page 270, 99% into the book: "In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore...”
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: pointed arch (exact or description)
Location in Book: The Fall of the House of Usher, page 105, 38% into the book: "The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within.”
Location in Book: William Wilson, page 200, 73% into the book: "It was very long, narrow, and dismally low, with pointed Gothic windows and a ceiling of oak."
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allen Poe
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

MAY:
Item Collected: storytelling (exact or description)
Location in Book: Chief Executed Officers, page 68, 40% into the book: "I headed straight for Renata’s and poured out the story, bursting into tears before I’d even dropped to the couch.”
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: Shadows of the Past by Sharon Shinn
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: urgent travel (exact or situation)
Location in Book: The Double-Edged Sword, page 134, 78% into the book: "I rode like a madwoman through the night to the nearest villages, and stretched my arms out so that twenty people at a time could crowd around me and scratch at my flesh and be healed just by touching me. So exhausted was I, after three days of riding, that I collapsed in the square of one of these villages, unconscious and unmoving.”
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: Shadows of the Past by Sharon Shinn
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: pulp fiction (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 5, page 82, 27% into the book: "“Wow,” I whispered. The books were classic noir fiction. “Pulp fiction.” I counted twenty-two of them."
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: Peril in Paperback by Kate Carlisle
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: letter (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 5, page 76, 25% into the book: "The first letter, F, indicated the month the book was printed and the second letter, B, indicated the year."
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: Peril in Paperback by Kate Carlisle
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

JUNE:
Item Collected: surfing (situation, could be surging waves or internet) [there were so many instances in the book I picked the best one that really showed them surfing.]
Location in Book: Chapter 1969, page 117, 34% into the book: "He could feel the board catch on the wave, feel it steady itself. And he slowly got onto his knees, and then his feet, and stayed low. He was doing it. He was surfing."
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: sunburn (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 10:00 a.m., page 57, 17% into the book: "She had gotten a tiny bit of a sunburn on the apples of her cheeks and the bridge of her nose."
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: sandcastle (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 1959, page 85, 25% into the book: "Nina was building a sandcastle."
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: beach (situation, character must visit a beach)
Location in Book: Chapter 1956, page 36, 10% into the book: "That night, after they left the restaurant, they parked on the side of the road by the beach. Mick took June’s hand and pulled her out into the cool evening air, the two of them running their bare feet through the chilled sand."
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

JULY:
Item Collected: ball (characters must go to a ball)
Location in Book: Chapter The Day Before the Ball, page 20, 7% into the book: "The first ball at which Elizabeth had stood as hostess with her husband at the top of the staircase to greet the ascending guests had in prospect been somewhat of an ordeal, but she had survived the occasion triumphantly."
Number Collected: 1/4
Book: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Item Collected: Gretna Green (elopement situation)
Location in Book: Chapter The Bennets of Longbourn, page 8, 2% into the book: "Mrs Bennet’s sister, Mrs Philips, was assiduous in circulating her version of the elopement, that the couple had been on their way to Gretna Green but had made a short stop in London..."
Number Collected: 2/4
Book: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Item Collected: Hyde Park (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter The Trial, page 175, 69% into the book: "But when they reached the centre of London and the trees and green expanse of Hyde Park were behind them, Darcy felt that he was entering an alien state, breathing a stale and sour-smelling air..."
Number Collected: 3/4
Book: Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James

Item Collected: rake (exact)
Location in Book: Chapter 3, page 31, 11% into the book: "Surely this couldn’t be she…the wallflower Evangeline Jenner…alone in a carriage with a dangerous rake, racing madly to Gretna Green."
Number Collected: 4/4
Book: Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Pursue It! Book It! Track It! part 2

AUGUST:
Item Collected: culturally significant location (situation - person/character must visit a location that has a historical/cultural/religious significance in a foreign country)
Number Collected: 1/4
Location in Book: Chapter 2, page 28, 9% into the book: "I was standing on the deck of the steamer gazing back towards the harbour, towards the messy shoreline of boats, gangplanks, mud huts, dark wood jetties, behind them the large buildings of the Shanghai Bund, all now fading together into a single blur." (Note: Shanghai is China's biggest city, one of the world’s largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial center of China. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. The narrator spent his childhood in Shanghai and goes back there in the later part of the book.)
Book: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: food (situation - foreign recipe or description of how to cook foreign food)
Number Collected: 2/4
Location in Book: After acknowledgements, page 190, 93% into the book: "Aunty Lee’s Amazing Achar

Ingredients:
2 cups vegetables, chopped into thick matchsticks and bite-sized morsels. Use what you have and more of what you like. Traditional vegetables include cucumbers, carrots, Napa cabbage, red onions, hot peppers, cauliflower, and green beans. Leave the skin on the cucumbers and carrots but remove the seeds from cucumbers and hot peppers. For crunchier pickles rub a tablespoon of salt into your cucumber sticks and leave them to sweat.

Blanching Solution:
½ cup your best vinegar (can be white vinegar, rice vinegar, or wine vinegar. Remember: the better the vinegar the better your pickles!)
½ cup water
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar

For Rempah (Spice Paste):
1 red onion (chopped)
1 clove garlic
1 nub fresh ginger
1 nub fresh turmeric
2 dried hot peppers
1 tablespoon toasted belachan (fermented shrimp paste) Or use 1 teaspoon each of ginger and turmeric powder and 1 tablespoon of red chili pepper flakes, and substitute 1 tablespoon of anchovy paste for the belachan.

Final Touch Ingredients:
½ cup vinegar (see above)
Fresh juice of one large lime (or half a lemon)
Dash of salt and pepper
Small can of pineapple chunks
Crushed roasted peanuts
Toasted sesame seeds

How to Prepare:
Bring your blanching solution to a boil. Blanch all your chopped vegetables (except for the cucumbers) and lay them out to dry on kitchen towels, where the cucumbers can rejoin them. The more you dry them here the better they will absorb your marinade later.

Blend all your rempah ingredients into a paste. If using powders you may need a few drops of oil to bind them. Heat a pan with a little oil and stir-fry your spice paste over low heat until it smells good. This will take 10 to 15 minutes.

Add ½ cup vinegar, the lime juice, and a teaspoon each of salt and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil then remove from heat immediately.

In a glass or ceramic bowl, add your pineapple chunks, peanuts, sesame seeds, and all your vegetables and mix well, pressing them down in the bowl. The marinade won’t cover the vegetables at this stage but the level will rise as your vegetables pickle.

If not eaten immediately, your achar should be stored in a glass container in the fridge. Stir thoroughly each time you help yourself. "
Book: Aunty Lee's Delights by Ovidia Yu
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: religious ritual (situation - must reference a religion and a ritual associated with it)
Number Collected: 3/4
Location in Book: Chapter 13 A Midnight Visitor, page 172, 44% into the book: "In her own religion, Zoroastrianism, vultures were an integral part of the death process. After funeral rites, bodies were carried to a tower so the birds could consume the flesh. It was simply a way for humans to give back to the world without contaminating the earth or water. "
Book: The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: immigration (situation - someone must arrive in a new country for the purpose of permanently living there)
Number Collected: 4/4
Location in Book: Chapter Los Melones Cantaloupes, page 46, 29% into the book: "He shoved their papers at them and waved them through. Mama took Esperanza’s hand and hurried her toward another train. They boarded and waited an hour for all the passengers to get through immigration." Note: The book starts out in Aguascalientes, Mexico, and after a tragedy, the family decides to (and does) immigrate to the US.
Book: Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

SEPTEMBER:
Item Collected: onion(s) (exact)
Number Collected: 1/4
Location in Book: Chapter 5, page 82, 34% into the book: "“Call it an onion,” I said, ignoring the casual superiority. “All right, it’s the top layer of an onion. What about it?”"
Book: Between Jobs by W.R. Gingell
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: college (situation - character must leave home and go to college)
Number Collected: 2/4
Location in Book: Chapter 8, page 101, 19% into the book: "Her mother, it seemed, was more excited about their college adventure than Kate was. In the towering high-rise of Haggett Hall, they made their way through the loud, crowded corridors to a small, dingy dorm room on the tenth floor. Here was where they’d stay during Rush. When it was over, they’d move into their sorority."
Book: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: Kleenex (exact)
Number Collected: 3/4
Location in Book: Chapter 14, page 187, 36% into the book: "“Shhh,” Mrs. Mularkey said soothingly, drying her tears with a Kleenex."
Book: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: wedding (situation - character must attend a wedding)
Number Collected: 4/4
Location in Book: Chapter 17, page 224, 43% into the book: "Inside, the music changed to “Here Comes the Bride.” They linked arms and walked toward the church’s double doors. One halting step after another, they made their way down the aisle.
Johnny stood at the altar, waiting for her."
Book: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

OCTOBER:
Item Collected: Elizabeth Blackwell (exact)
Number Collected: 1/4
Location in Book: Prologue, page 4, 1% into the book: "“In this building,” it read, “the first female doctor in America, Elizabeth Blackwell, established the first hospital for, staffed, and run by women.”"
Book: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: suffrage (exact)
Number Collected: 2/4
Location in Book: Chapter 4, page 74, 19% into the book: "The limited goal of woman suffrage—winning the vote for women who were still enslaved by their own ignorance—was, she believed, woefully premature."
Book: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: birth control (situation)
Number Collected: 3/4
Location in Book: Chapter 9, page 143, 37% into the book: "In March 1839 a substantial notice ran in the pages of the New York Sun, addressed “TO MARRIED WOMEN,” and laying out the argument for birth control forty years before Margaret Sanger was born."

Alternate example: Chapter 9, page 143, 38% into the book: "FEMALE PILLS.—MRS. RESTELL, Female Physician, informs the ladies that her pills are an infallible regulator of ******. They must not be used when ********. Prepared and sold only by herself. The unprintable words were menses and pregnant, but the implication was unmistakable."
Book: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: second wave feminism (exact)
Number Collected: 4/4
Location in Book: Chapter Spheres of No Influence, page 53, 26% into the book: "Eventually a backlash movement developed called Second Wave Feminism, which tried to get the women back out into the world and not just be wives and mothers and dependent on men."
Book: Good Oil by Laura Buzo
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

NOVEMBER:
Item Collected: sequence (exact)
Number Collected: 1/4
Location in Book: Chapter "Government House, Hobart Town, 1841", page 221, 69% into the book: "To Mathinna, the dances, with their choreographed footwork, were as logical as mathematics: the careful fitting together of a sequence; a series of movements that, done in the correct order, produced the intended result."
Book: The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: backstory (exact)
Number Collected: 2/4
Location in Book: Chapter 12, page 135, 44% into the book: "I’m sensing there’s a backstory there, but I’ll move on."
Book: The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: to be continued (exact)
Number Collected: 3/4
Location in Book: Chapter 23, page 226, 79% into the book: "Weatherly folded the sheet of paper, handed it to Bernie. “To be continued.”"
Book: It's a Wonderful Woof by Spencer Quinn
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: to be cliffhanger (situation)
Number Collected: 4/4
Location in Book: Chapter V: Iron Heart, page 355, 98% into the book: (view spoiler)["The redheaded young man knelt on one knee, and as the steward placed the crown upon Di’s head, Ana felt a strange shift in the universe, as if the stars had turned upside down and the sun was no longer theirs.

“Rise, Emperor of the Iron Kingdom,” said the steward, and the man rose to his feet again, turning his gaze to the crowd. His eyes shone blue—pupils as dark as space. Lightless, unending nothing.

A kingdom cast in shadows." The cliffhanger is that Ana, who was crowned ruler, is now deposed by the android she loved whose programming was turned so that he was made part of the HIVE mind. Will they be able to restore his programming and reclaim her throne? (hide spoiler)]
Book: Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Fly the PBT Skies

January - starting location Long Beach CA
Destination: London, England (tagged London by 27 people) (Europe)
Miles: - 5454.57
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

February - starting location London, England
Destination: Australia (tagged by 12 people) (Australia)
Miles: 9439.37
Steve & Me by Terri Irwin

March - starting location Australia
Destination: Morocco (tagged Morocco by 52 people) (Africa)
Miles: 10,449.8
Bonus miles: 500 (tagged Africa by 58 people)
Book: The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami

April - starting location Morocco
Destination: New Zealand (tagged New Zealand by 149 people https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) (Oceania)
Miles: 11,723.19 https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...
Book: The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

May - starting location New Zealand
Destination: Galapagos (tagged Galapagos by 28 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) (South America)
Miles: 6541.09 https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...
Book: Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

June - Starting location: Galapagos
Destination: Philippines (tagged Philippines by 9 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) (Asia)
Miles: 10,020.8 miles https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...
Book: The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai

July - Starting location: Philippines
Destination: Machu Picchu (tagged Machu Picchu by 9 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) (South America)
Miles: 11,407.96 (https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...)
Book: Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams

August - Starting location: Machu Picchu
Destination: Shanghai (tagged Shanghai by 17 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...) (Asia)
Miles: 10,903.33 https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...
Bonus miles: 500 (tagged cultural by 19 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Book: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

September - Starting location: Shanghai
Destination: Antarctica (Antarctica)
Miles: 8901.79 (https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...)
Bonus miles: 500 (tagged made me cry by 8 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Book: Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

October - Starting location: Antarctica
Destination: Labrador (North America) (tagged Labrador by 7 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Miles: 9672.99 (https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...)
Book: Annabel by Kathleen Winter
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

November - Starting location: Labrador
Destination: Tasmania (Australia) (tagged Tasmania by 7 people: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...)
Miles: 10,874.82 (https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...)
Book: The Exiles
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

December - Starting location: Tasmania
Destination: Long Beach CA (North America)
Miles: 7968.58 (https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...)
Book: A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Pursue It! Book It! Track It! part 3

DECEMBER:
Item Collected: primarily set in or about a library (situation)
Number Collected: 1/4
Location in Book: Protagonist is a librarian for a small Virginia town library where the murder occurs.
Book: A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: bibliophile (exact)
Number Collected: 2/4
Location in Book: Chapter 3, page 44, 14% into the book: "Finally, he reluctantly agreed, and I began the journey that eventually made me the bibliophile expert I was today."
Book: The Book Stops Here by Kate Carlisle
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: a main character is a writer (situation)
Number Collected: 3/4
Location in Book: This series features the author himself as a character in the books, acting as a sidekick to his fictional detective.
Book: A Line To Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Item Collected: collected works (exact or situation)
Number Collected: 4/4
Location in Book: This book is a collection of Emily Dickinson's work.
Book: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Review: