You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

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

side trip:
1)The Madrid
Location: It is between Quebec and Montreal,
task: Read book where MC travels to another city.
About: the Madrid was sold a few years ago. The new owners destroyed the scary building and rebuild a new one and called it Madrid 2.0
Task: read the 2nd book in a series,
Souvenir: This is a road stop where traveller stop to rest eat etc. So is plenty of travel related items in the shop.
Read a book with map in the title or the over.

2)The Cow from the Laiterie Charlevoix
Location: Baie St-Paul is a pretty little town, known as the Cultural Capital of Canada. Lot of art galleries, etc. I love spending a day there. Did you know that this is where the Cirque du Soleil began?
Task: Read a book with Cirque or Soleil in the title.
About: Well, obviously, the Laiterie Charlevoix makes cheeses.
Task: read a book with a yellow cover
Souvenir: One cheese of theirs I really like is the 1608. It came out in 2008 when we celebrate the 400th year of Quebec city.
Task: Read a book that has more than 400 pages

3) La rencontre
Location: it is just beside the farmer's market
Task: read a book with a fruit or vegetable name on the cover
About: The deer mirror each other, but are not quite the same
Task: Read a book with an alternate history,
Souvenir: I would get a miniature of the statue.
Task: read a book with an animal on the cover.

4)Dog statue at the entrance of the chenil de la poursuite
Location: :According to google, i can drive there in less than 30 minutes.
Task: Read a local author
About:. This is a kennel
Task: read a task in which a dog has an important role in the story.
Souvenir: A would bring back a dog collar.
Task : Read a book with someone wearing something around her/his neck on the cover

5) La fontaine de Tourny
1- Location: Now in front of the Parliament in Quebec City, it was originally in Bordeaux.
tsk: read a book set in France
2- About: the fountain was a gift to the city from Peter Simons, then head of Simons
Task: read a book where the MC is a shop owner
3. Souvenir: This is a fountain so,...
Task: read a book with water on the cover

Badge 1

1st Site : Fountain of Youth (12)
Location: The Dutch House
About: Fortune Favors the Dead
Souvenir: The Light of All That Falls

2nd Site : Hawaii Five-O Jack Lord Bust (13)
Location: The Unhoneymooners
About: La Dame de Reykjavik
Souvenir: Changer l'eau des fleurs

3rd Site: The Big Aboriginal Hunter (27)
Location: Terra Nullius
About: Black Dawn
Souvenir: Premier Sang

4th site: The Snail House (36)

Location : Project Hail Mary
About: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Souvenir: A Wild Winter Swan

Side Trip: Le Madrid (1)
Location: La Mémoire de Babel
About: Last Seen Wearing
Souvenir: La carte et le territoire

Badge 2
1st Site : Poppy Memorial (6)
Location: Americanah
About: Le flambeur de la Caspienne
Souvenir: A Good Enough Mother

2nd Site : Bewitched Statue (16)
Location: Fall of Night
About: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Souvenir: Les Mémoires d'un chat

3rd Site : Giant Dog and Taxi Cab (17)
Location: Westside
About: Dieu n'habite pas La Havane
Souvenir: The Bone Season

4th Site : World's Largest Killer Bee (19)
Location: The Son
About: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Souvenir: Sucre noir

5th Site : The Big Prawn (25)
Location: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
About: RESET – Le Voile de lumière
Souvenir: Anéantir

6th Site : Big Beer Can (28)
Location: Halifax Express
About: The Gift of Rain
Souvenir: Brébeuf

Side Trip : La rencontre
Location: Partners in Lime
About: L'empire bleu sang
Souvenir: Kitty Goes to Washington

Badge 3

1st Site : Spirit of the West (3)
Location: Queen of Fire
About: Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
Souvenir: La reine des neiges

2nd Site : lowhard the Bony Horse (7)
Location: The Fifth Gospel
About: If We Were Villains
Souvenir: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

3rd Site : Foamhedge (20)
Location: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
About: Peau d'âne
Souvenir: Maïna

4th Site: The Big Kookaburra (23)
Location: Kitty Goes to War
About: Tiohtiá : ke
Souvenir: The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

5th Site: Big Mosquito (24)
Location: À l'ombre de la mine
About: Lock In
Souvenir: Kitty and the Silver Bullet

6th Site: The World's Largest Sundial (26)
Location: Crowbones
About: I Am the Messenger
Souvenir:Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight

7th Site: The Big Sapphire Ring (30)
Location: Le Bureau des affaires occultes
About: Jade City
Souvenir: Ring Shout

8th Site: Caso do Penedo (37)
Location: L'été tous les chats s'ennuient
About: La Tempête des échos
Souvenir: Under the Whispering Door

Side trip: Le Chenil
Location: On tue...
About: The Sound and the Furry
Souvenir: Dead Heat

Badge 4

1st Site : The Big Nickle (5)
Location: The Madness of Crowds
About: Badlands
Souvenir: The Orphan Collector

2nd Site : Mermaids of St. Johns (9)
Location: Dead Man's Land
About: Lore
Souvenir: Race the Sands

3rd Site : World's Largest Hand Held Egg Beater (10)
Location: The Black House
About: The Oyster Thief
Souvenir: Les Violents de l'automne: Prix de L'Embouchure 2013

4th Site :Santa Claus House & Giant Santa (11)
Location: The Exiled Fleet
About: The Usual Santas
Souvenir: The Lion's Game

5th Site World's Largest Chest of Drawers (18)
Location: The Night Swim
About: Les lions rampants
Souvenir: Nothing to See Here

6th Site : Big Banana (22)
Location: Safe Harbour
About: Les hamacs de carton
Souvenir: Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake

7th Site : The Kelpies (31)
Location: The Lewis Man
About: Kitty Saves the World
Souvenir: Ulysse From Bagdad

8th Site : The Singing Ringing Tree (33)
Location: The Stranger Diaries
About: The Four Winds
Souvenir: Au cinquième étage de la faculté de droit

9th Site : Hill of Crosses (38)
Location: Éblouis par la nuit
About: La nuit des enfants qui dansent
Souvenir: Il ne faut pas parler dans l'ascenseur

10th Site : Fork of Vevey (40)
Location: Le Miroir des âmes
About: The Kaiju Preservation Society
Souvenir: Les délices de Tokyo

Side trip :vache de charlevoix
Location: Le Triomphe des Ténèbres
About: This Woven Kingdom
Souvenir: A Tale of Sorcery...

Esther wrote: "side trip:
1)The Madrid
Location: It is between Quebec and Montreal,
task: Read book where MC travels to another city.
About: the Madrid was sold a few years ago. The new owners destroyed the sca..."

Too funny... I thought about that also... guess I'll have to find another idea! The souvenir could also be about the strange singer D'amour who was often associated with le Madrid... ;)

Marie Claude wrote: ".Too funny... I thought about that also."

Of course you did. Le Madrid would pop in anyone from around here mind for this. There is still the big red roof, the monster trucks,... there is plenty to go around. You want to bring Normand L'amour back as a souvenir? Love in the tittle or a heart on the cover would work. Also, you are close enough of it for a local author.

Bon voyage Esther!

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Site 12, Location
3. The Dutch House
4. Audiobook (Hardcover, 337 pages)
5. Read a book with Dutch in the title
6. The Dutch House

Awesome! 4 days into the challenge and you have a book done. 👏🏻👏🏻

✔️

I'm listening to The Dutch House! I have 1 of 8 tapes left to go. Did you listen or read? Tom Hanks is the narrator and he does a great job.

Margo wrote: "I'm listening to The Dutch House! I have 1 of 8 tapes left to go. Did you listen or read? Tom Hanks is the narrator and he does a great job."

I did listen and I agree, he is a good narrator.

1. Badge 1, Book 13
2. Side trip 1 (Madrid), Location
3. La Mémoire de Babel
4. Audiobook (Paperback, 496 pages)
5. Read book where MC travels to another city.
6. Ophélie travels from Anima to Babel.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Side 27, souvenir
3. Premier Sang
4. Read a book with a hunting implement on the cover
5. Paperback, 173 pages
6. Knives

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Side 27, about
3. Black Dawn
4. Audiobook (Hardcover, 367 pages)
5. Read a book that is in a series with 12 or more books.
6. This is book#12 of the Morganville Vampire series.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Site 13, souvenir
3. Changer l'eau des fleurs
4. Paperback, 555 pages
5. Read a book where there a number of flowers on the cover.
6.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Site 36, about
3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
4. Audiobook (Hardcover, 444 pages)
5. Read a book with the genre LGBT on the main book page.
6. LGBT in the MGP

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Site 12, about
3. Fortune Favors the Dead
4. Audiobook (Hardcover, 321 pages)
5. Read a book set in the 1930's & 1940's.
6. set in 1942

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Site 13, about
3. La Dame de Reykjavik
4. Audiobook (Paperback, 310 pages)
5. Read a book that is MPG Mystery and is a police procedural.
6. Mystery on MPG and it is a procedural

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. Side trip 1 (Madrid), about
3. Last Seen Wearing
4. Audiobook (Paperback, 326 pages)
5. Read the 2nd book in a series,
6. 2nd book of the Inspector Morse serie

About: the Madrid was sold a few years ago. The new owners destroyed the scary building and rebuild a new one and called it Madrid 2.0

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Site 13, Location
3. The Unhoneymooners
4. Audiobook (Paperback, 400 pages)
5. Read a book set in Hawaii.
6. But o a bit at the beginning and the end, most of it is set in Hawaii.

end of Site 13!!!

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Site 27, Location
3. Terra Nullius
4. ebook (Paperback, 294 pages)
5. Read a book about Australian indigenous people.
6. Retelling of the ""colonisation"" of Australia.

this completes site 27.

✔️

titles mentionned in La carte et le territoire
Un roman français
Plateforme
Les particules \elementaires

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Side trip #1, Souvenir
3. La carte et le territoire
4. audiobook (Paperback, 428 pages)
5. Read a book with map in the title or the over.
6. La carte et le territoire

Souvenir: I would get a map. The Madrid is a road stop where travellers stop to rest eat etc. So there is plenty of travel related items in the shop.

This completes Side Trip #1

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Site 12, Souvenir
3. The Light of All That Falls
4. ebook (Hardcover, 864 pages)
5. Read a book where a character is immortal.
6. Ceden is immortal.

this completes site 12

✔️

I don't know how you are counting your books, but according to my records, you've read 13 books in badge 1.

I have 2 books left of the 1st badge.

My numbering is "me trying to adapt to the new rules" gone wrong. :)
Next badge's books will start at 1 and make sense.

I thought that perhaps you'd listed the books to be read and numbered them sequentially, and then stated which number had been read.

But that's not how it works. It's 1 of 15, 2 of 15, 3 of 15, etc.

I guess that comes from my shipping/receiving days. If the shipment had 5 boxes, they were numbered 1 of 5, 2 of 5, etc so that the receiver would know if boxes were missing from the shipment.

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Site 36, location
3. Project Hail Mary
4. ebook (Hardcover, 476 pages)
5. Read a book with a proper woman's name in the title
6. Mary

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Site 36, souvenir
3. A Wild Winter Swan
4. ebook (Hardcover, 240pages)
5. Read a book with duck, goose, swan, loon in the title.
6. A Wild Winter Swan

This completes site 36

✔️

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing the first badge.

You're getting right in to spreadsheets from the look of it! Great way to show your show your completed books.

Every yearly challenge add complexity to my tracking spreadsheet. So much fun.... (yeah. i am a nerd) but I learned of lot of things doing the challenged and toppler spreadsheets.

1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. Site 16, souvenir
3. Les Mémoires d'un chat
4. ebook (Paperback, 320 pages)
5. Read a book where the main character has a cat.
6.Story of Saturu and his cat Nana

✔️