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Seeking My Precious Tomes in Middle Earth

The Challenge will be for 16 books, and we are all going to hike with Frodo and Samwise through Mordor. In order to complete the challenge, I need to complete these 16 books. We'll call this Badge One.


If I wish to pursue further badges, there will be 4 additional categories: Pilgrimages, Adventure Hikes, City Tours, and Literature Treks. Each Category has 3 sub categories. Three pilgrimages, three adventure hikes, three city tours, and three treks based on literature.

Pilgrimages
Adventure Hikes
City Tours
Literature Treks

Each subsequent badge will be awarded after 48 books. I may pick and chose 3 sub categories from the 4 categories. In fact, I could chose one entire category if I prefer.

Badge 1 - 16 books
Badge 2 - 48 books
Badge 3 - 48 books
Badge 4 - 48 books
Badge 5 - 48 books
Total Badges - 208 books.

✔️Have on hand

Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth


WoF Almeta ~ My Precious Tomes

Start - Bag End Hobbiton.
✔️Task: Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your HOME 1 Jan
Connected by HOME
✔️Murder on the House (Haunted HOME Renovation Mystery 3) 325 pages 3 Jan
Connected by HOME
✔️ HOME for the Haunting 3 Jan
Connected by PUBLISHED 2013

Checkpoint 1 - Bree
✔️Task - Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4
PUBLISHED 2013 A WINTER's Promise (The Mirror Visitor, #1) 4 Jan
Connected by WINTER
✔️The Wolf in WINTER (Charlie PARKER #12) 5 Jan
Connected by PARKER
✔️The Dragon Scroll by :I.J. PARKER 6 Jan
Connected by HISTORICAL FICTION

Checkpoint 2 - Rivendell
✔️Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.
HISTORICAL FICTION Valley of SHADOWS 8 Jan
Connected by SHADOWS
✔️Mask of SHADOWS 10 Jan PUBLISHED 2017
Connected by 2017 publishing date
✔️PUBLISHED 2017 The Devil's Bible (Bohemian TRILOGY 10 Jan
Connected because both are TRILOGIES

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
✔️Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.
(Santori TRILOGY, #1) Santori 11 Jan
BLACK cover by Maris BLACK
Connected by author's last name and BLACK in title
✔️ The BLACK MASK 12 Jan
Connected by MASK
✔️The Man in the IRON:MASK 13 Jan
Connected by IRON

Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
✔️Task: Read a book with "Iron" in the title.
The IRON Hand of Mars by Lindsey DAVIS 14 Jan
Connected by authors last names DAVIS
✔️Bryan DAVIS' Wanted: A Superhero to SAVE the World, 15 Jan
Connected by SAVE in the title
✔️God SAVE The Child mpg MYSTERY THRILLER 17 Jan
Connected by main page of MYSTERY THRILLER

Finish - Mount Doom
Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.
✔️mpg MYSTERY THRILLER The River We Remember 421 pages 17 Jan

Badge requested 18 Jan

I cannot figure out how you are getting the word within the book link to work in bold caps.

Cherie wrote: "I cannot figure out how you are getting the word within the book link to work in bold caps."

***grin***

I'm not! Turns out only the file number within the link format "book:": and" |" (and any character) will show up as the book link.

If you'll look closer, only certain words have the underlined link. I removed the rest of the title and placed those words outside of the standard link format.

So "God SAVE" is not in the link and I can use the BOLD format.

The remaining "The Child " words are within the bracketed link format ="book: alphabet |######".

God SAVE The Child The abbreviated link still takes you to the correct book main page.

TA DA!!!

I think I get it. :o)

PILGRIMAGES
✔️Have on hand

Tour of Slovania, Croatia, and Bosnia

Start - Zagreb
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a character or author has the name Mark. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Soul Thief: (Blue LIGHT Series) ("Light" in the series) 18 Jan
✔️LiGHT from UNCOMMON Stars ("Light" in the title/"Uncommon" in the title) 19 Jan
✔️ALL I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten UNCOMMON Thoughts on Common Things ("Uncommon" in the title/"All" in the title) 20 Jan

Checkpoint 1 - Ptujska gora
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book that has a tag of "gothic" on the main book page. "gothic" on MPG (hide spoiler)]
✔️ALL That Consumes UsErica WATERS ("all" in the title/author "waters")
✔️ WATERS of Eternal Youth ("Waters" in titlr/MPG Mystery) 22 Jan
✔️ MYSTERY at Maplemead Castle ("mystery" in the title/MPG Mystery ) 23 Jan

Checkpoint 2 - Postojna Caves
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a train on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Ambush by BARBARA Nickless (MPG Mystery/"Barbara" in author's name) 24 Jan
✔️Echo of Old Books BARBARA Davis (author's name"Barbara"/MPG Mystery ) 26 Jan
✔️2 Bodies for the Price of 1 (MPG Mystery/MPG Mystery ) 27 Jan

Checkpoint 3 - Opatija
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book where the character goes on holiday to a beach resort. Pearl Sands Beach Resort #1/
(hide spoiler)]
✔️ Poison in Paradise (MPG Mystery/Animal on the cover) 28 Jan
✔️Running with Sherman ( Animal on the cover/Memoir ) 30 Jan
✔️We Are BRIDGES: A MEMOIR (Memoir/"Bridge" in the title) 31 Jan

Checkpoint 4 - Medjugorje
(view spoiler)[BRIDGE on the cover
Task: Read a ghost story. "Ghost(s)" must be tagged on the main book page. (hide spoiler)]
✔️A Ghostly Light 1 Feb (a bridge on the cover/MPG Ghosts) 1 Feb
✔️Ghost Wood Song by Erica Waters 2 Feb (MPG Ghosts/MPG Ghosts) 2 Feb
✔️The GHOST ORCHID ( 3 Feb (:Ghost in the title/Orchid in the title) 3 Feb

Finish - Dubrovnik
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book that was made into a movie.
made into the film Adaptation focused on the rare ghost ORCHID (hide spoiler)]
✔️The ORCHID Thief ("Orchid" in the title /MPG History) 4 Feb

Camino Trail
Start - Sarria
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book that has "King" in the title, or the author is named King. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Driving the KING (MPG History/MPG Music) 5 Feb
✔️White Tears (MPG Music/MPG Music) 6 Feb
✔️Fifty in Reverse (MPG Music/titles begins with a numeric value) 7 Feb

Checkpoint 1 - Palas de Rei
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with "Body" in the title. (hide spoiler)]
✔️3 Men and a Body (humor/title begins with a numeric value) 8 Feb
✔️15 SECONDS (title begins with a numeric value/a measure of time in the title) 10 Feb
✔️A Few Minutes Past Midnight (a measure of time in the title/Mystery) 10 Feb

Checkpoint 2 - Melide
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book where a nun is a significant character. ~ Sister Fidelma (hide spoiler)]
✔️Death of a Heretic Peter Tremayne (mystery/mystery) 11 Feb
✔️Binary JOHN Lange (view spoiler)[a.k.a. Michael Crichton (hide spoiler)]12 Feb (mystery/author John)
✔️A Darker Shade of Sweden JOHN Henri Holmberg (author' John/ Short Stories) 13 Feb

Checkpoint 3 - Arzua
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book where the cover is 75% yellow, (hide spoiler)]
✔️The King in Yellow by ROBERT W. Chambers (Short Stories/author Robert) 14 Feb
✔️The DEVIL'S Breath ROBERT R. Irvine (author Robert/author Robert) 14 Feb
✔️The Running Grave ROBERT Galbraith (author Robert/Published Sept. 2023) 15 Feb

Checkpoint 4 - O Pedrouzo
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a bridge prominently on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Golden Gate (Published Sept. 2023/MPG Mystery Thriller) 16 Feb
✔️DEAD Eleven (Connected by MPG Mystery Thriller/"Dead" in the title) 16 Feb
✔️Better DEAD ("Dead" in the title/"Dead" in the title) 21 Feb

Finish - Santiago de Compostela
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a significant character or author named "James" (hide spoiler)]
✔️DEAD Simple Peter James 22 Feb ("Dead" in the title/MPG mystery)

The Jesus Trail
Start - Nazareth
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a house on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Just Like Home 25 Feb (MPG mystery/MPG mystery)
✔️Kiss 25 Feb (MPG mystery/MPG mystery)
✔️WEDDING Circle 25 Feb(MPG mystery/"Wedding" in the title

Checkpoint 1 - Cana
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book where a wedding takes place. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Bollywood Bride 26 Feb (a wedding takes place/MPG Romance)
✔️Under Locke 26 Feb (MPG Romance/MPG Romance)
✔️One of Us Is Back(One of Us is LYING)(MPG Romance/"Lying"in the subtitle) 26 Feb

Checkpoint 2 - Kibbutz Lavi
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with sofa on the cover.(sofa/couch on the cover) (hide spoiler)]
✔️LYING on the COUCH 27 Feb ("Lying" in the title/Couch in the title)
✔️COUCH 28 Feb ("Couch" in the title/Couch" in the title)
✔️It Was an Ugly COUCH Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward ELIZABETH Passarella 29 Feb ("Couch" in the title/author's name Elizabeth )

Checkpoint 3 - Migdal
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with author named "Mary". (author named Mary) (hide spoiler)]
✔️Wyllard's Weird MARY ELIZABETH Braddon 1 Mar (author Elizabeth/author Mary)
✔️Window at the White CAT MARY Roberts Rinehart 2 Mar .(author Mary/"cat" in title)
✔️Curiosity Killed the CAT Sitter 3 Mar ("cat"the title/MPG Mystery)

Checkpoint 4 - Mount of Beatitudes
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with "Bless", "Blessed", "Blessing" in the title (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee) 4 Mar (MPG Mystery/1st in series)
✔️Son of a Trickster (Trickster #1) 5 Mar (1st in series/Published 2017)
✔️Van(Cold Fury HOCKEY) 6 Mar (Published 2017/Hockey)

Finish - Capernaum
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book that has a medical doctor or nurse as the main character. NURSE (hide spoiler)]
✔️In Your Wildest Dreams 7 Mar (Wildcat HOCKEY #4) (Hockey)

Badge requested 8 Mar

Adventure Hikes


Start: Cuzco, Peru
(view spoiler)[From Listopia Books Based on Mythology by Marginalised Authors (#86 on the list) (hide spoiler)]
✔️SKIN Folk:8 Mar (hockey theme/"skin" in the title)
✔️Murder Under Her SKIN Hart and Halloway's Travelling Circus and Sideshow 9 Mar
("skin" in the title/circus setting)
✔️Gifted (Donovan Circus) 10 Mar (a circus setting/MPG Fantasy)

Checkpoint 1: Sacred Valley
(view spoiler)[Read a book that has river in the title, or a river on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Fevre Dream GEORGE R.R. Martin 11 Mar (MPG Fantasy/author named George)
✔️Flashman GEORGE MacDonald Fraser (author named George/author named George) 12 Mar
✔️Maame Jessica GEORGE 13 Mar (author named George/MPG Fiction)

Checkpoint 2: Moray
(view spoiler)[Read a book with the theme of archaeology. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧A Room Full of BONES 14 Mar (MPG Fiction/"Bones" in the title)
✔️🎧Greedy BONES 15 Mar ("Bones" in the title/MPG mystery)
✔️🎧The LOST Notebook 353 pages, 2022 16 Mar (MPG mystery/"Lost" in the title)

Checkpoint 3: Tortora
(view spoiler)[Read a book with the word canyon or tomb is in the title. Subtitles will be allowed on this task. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The LOST Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder 17 Mar ("Lost" in the title/MPG mystery)
✔️🎧Fear Itself(Fearless Jones, #2) 18 Mar (MPG mystery/Walter Mosley)
✔️🎧Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones#3) 19 Mar
(Walter Mosley/(mystery )

Checkpoint 4: Huchayccasa & Ipsaycocha Passes
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is set in the mountains. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧ONE by One 20 Mar (mystery/One in the title)
✔️🎧United as ONE 21 Mar (One in the title/One in the title)
✔️🎧The ONE 22 Mar (One in the title MPG Mystery)

Finish: Machu Picchu
(view spoiler)[Read a book with both words Lost AND City in the title or subtitle. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧City of the Lost (Rockton/Casey Duncan #1) Kelley Armstrong| 403 pages 23 Mar
(Connected by MPG mystery)

West Highland Way - Scotland

Start: Glascow
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is set in a seaport. (Port Townsend) (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The Best BAD Things (MPG mystery/bad in title) 24 Mar
✔️🎧BAD Magic (Bad, #1) by Pseudonymous BOSCH 400 pages (name Bosch) 25 Mar
✔️🎧The Narrows (Harry BOSCH #10) by Michael Connelly 405 pages (name Bosch/#10 in series) 26 Mar

Checkpoint 1: Glengoyne Distillery
(view spoiler)[Read a book where the main character is in his/her 30's. (Amanda Fitch in mid-thirties) (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The Camera Man: A DC SMITH Investigation by Peter Grainger (#10 in series/Smith in sub-title) 27 Mar
✔️🎧The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf by ALEXANDER McCall SMITH 296 pp (Smith/Alexander) 28 Mar
✔️🎧ALEXANDER's Bridge, Willa Cather 196 pages (Alexander/bridge in title) 29 Mar

Checkpoint 2: Bridge of Orchy
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a bridge on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧To Hold the Bridge (Abhorsen, the old kingdom) Garth Nix 29 Mar
✔️🎧The Bridge Home Padma Venkatrama 208 pages (bridge in title/set in India) 29 Mar
✔️🎧A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves) by Vikram Seth set in India 1474 pages (bridge in sub- title/author's name is Seth) 31 Mar

Checkpoint 3: Rannoch Moor
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a steam train on the cover. You must see the steam, (hide spoiler)]
🎧🎧The Lost Train : Seth Crossman 226 pages (author's name is Seth/Thiller) 1 Apr
✔️🎧All the Dangerous Things Stacy Willingham 326 pages, (Thiller) 19 Apr
✔️🎧The Secret Child (DI Amy Winter, #2) Caroline Mitchell 336 pages (thriller/Secret in the title) 20 Apr

Checkpoint 4: Devil's Staircase.
(view spoiler)[Read a book with "Inn" in the title. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn, Amber Logan 318 pp (Secret in the title/) 21 Apr
✔️🎧The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child (Secret in the title) 21 Apr
✔️🎧 The Secret of Snow by Viola Shipman (Secret in the title/Snow) 22 Apr

Finish: Fort WIlliam .
(view spoiler)[Read a book that was originally written in a language other than English. (Norwegian) (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Blood on SNOW (Blood on Snow #1) Jo Nesbø 207 pages (Snow in the title) 24 Apr
(Connected by published in October)

West Coast Pacific Rim (Canada)

Start: Pachina Bay
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is set in dual timelines. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Spider Woman's Daughter (Leaphorn & Chee, #19) by Anne Hillerman 301 pages (Published in October/ last name Hillerman) 25 Apr
✔️🎧Finding Moon Tony Hillerman 319 pp (last name Hillerman/MPG mystery) 26 Apr
✔️🎧Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, Book 2) by iAN Rankin (MPG mystery/name ian) 27 Apr

Checkpoint 1: Tsusiat Falls
(view spoiler)[Read a book with stairs on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Let It Bleed by IAN Rankin 288 pages (name Ian) 28 Apr
✔️🎧Wings of Fire (Inspector IAN Rutledge, #2) by Charles Todd 323 pages (name Ian/MPG mystery) 29 Apr
✔️🎧Sleuthing for a Living (Mackenzie & Mackenzie P.I. #1) JENNIFER L. Hart (MPG mystery/name Jennifer) 30 Apr

Checkpoint 2: Walbran Creek
(view spoiler)[Read a book with Tide in the title. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧DARK Tide (Waterfire Saga, #3) JENNIFER Donnelly 392 pages (name Jennifer/Dark in title) 1 May
✔️🎧The Demon Lover (Fairwick Chronicles, #1) by Juliet DARK 416 pages (author's name Dark/MPG fantasy) 2 May
✔️🎧The BEST of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories 473 pages (MPG fantasy/Best in title) 3 May

Checkpoint 3: Camper Bay
(view spoiler)[Read a book set in San Francisco. (with the San Francisco branch of the Continental Detective Agency) (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧BEST Cases of the Continental Op Dashell Hammett 7h 28m (Best in title/mystery) 4 May
✔️🎧The Book Supremacy (Bibliophile Mystery, #13) Kate Carlisle 322 pages (mystery/about books) 5 May
✔️🎧The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1) by Jenny Colgan 6 May
(Connected by about books/#150 on the 4 Colors on Cover List )

Checkpoint 4: Thrasher Cove
(view spoiler)[Read a book from this list 4 Colors on Cover (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The Seed KEEPER Diane Wilson 372 pages (#150 on the 4 Colors on Cover list)/Keeper in the title) 7 May
✔️🎧KEEPER of the CASTLE Juliet Blackwell 336 pages (Keeper in the title/Castle in the title) 8 May
✔️🎧Naked Heat (Nikki Heat by Richard CASTLE 288 pages (author's last name is Castle/MPG detective) 9 May

Finish: Gordon River
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a mode of transport on the cover. The item must be large and a prominent item on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse #1) Colin Dexter 282 pages (Connected by MPG detective/Literary award Nominee) 10 May

City Walks

Reykjavik, Iceland
Start: Nautholsvik Geothermal Beach
(view spoiler)[Read a book with the word "Lagoon" or "Swim" in the title. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Okorafor|588356] 304 pages (Literary award Nominee/Lagoon in the title) 11 May
✔️Dead LAGOON (Aurelio Zen) by MICHAEL Dibdin (Lagoon/Michael ) 13 May
✔️Timeline MICHAEL Crichton (Michael/time travel) 15 May

Checkpoint 1: National Museum of Iceland
(view spoiler)[Read a book that has an obviously old building on it. (hide spoiler)]
✔️A Stitch in Time Kelley Armstrong 336 pp (time travel/time traveL) 17 May
✔️The FIRST Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North (time travel/"first" in the title) 19 May
✔️Before They Are Hanged (The FIRST Law, #2) by Joe Abercrombie 441 pp ("first" in the subtitle/MPG fantasy) 21 May

Checkpoint 2: Sun Voyager
(view spoiler)[Read a book about the Vikings (hide spoiler)]
✔️SKY in the Deep Adrienne Young 340 pp (MPG fantasy/Sky in the title) 22 May
✔️Elephant in the SKY 2018 Heather A. Clark (Sky in title/mental illness) 23 May
✔️A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara 720 pp (mental illness/LGBT) 25 May

Checkpoint 3: Rainbow Street
(view spoiler)[Read a book with the genre LGBT on the main book page. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Delilah Green Doesn't Care (LGBT/LGBT) 26 May
✔️Giovanni's Room James Baldwin Paris (LGBT/LGBT) 27 May
✔️🎧In the Dream House :Carmen Maria Machado (LGBT/Literary Award) 29 May

Checkpoint 4: The Einer Jonsson Museum
(view spoiler)[Read a book set in Philadelphia. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Caught DEAD in Philadelphia Gillian Roberts 234 pp (Literary Award/"Dead" in title) 1 Jun
✔️Cupcakes, Lies, and DEAD Guys
(Annie Graceland Mystery #1) 2010 320 pp Pamela DuMond
(Dead in title/mystery) 2 Jun
✔️Little Tiny Teeth (Gideon Oliver #14) Aaron Elkins (mystery/red cover) (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)] 3 Jun

Finish: Hallgrimskirkja
(view spoiler)[Read a book set in Iceland (hide spoiler)]
✔️RED as Blood Lilja Sigurðardóttir 276 pages (red in title/mystery) 4 Jun

Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

Start: McLarty Treasure Museum
(view spoiler)[Read a book with one of the following words in the title: treasure, Gold, Silver, or Copper. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Treasure State C.J. Box 275 pp (mystery/"Treasure" in the title) 5 Jun
✔️The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven ("Treasure" in the title/Classics) 7 Jun
✔️DON''T Look Now and Other Stories 272 pp (Classics/"Don''t" in the title) 8 Jun

Checkpoint 1: Turkey Creek Sanctuary
(view spoiler)[Read a book that has one of these words in the title: Turkey, Creek, Butterfly (hide spoiler)]
✔️If the Creek DON'T Rise, Leigh Weiss 305 pp ("DON'T " in the title) 10 Jun
✔️Don't Fear the Reaper Stephen Graham Jones|96300] ("Don''t" in the title)
✔️The Game DON'T Change Mazaradi Fox ("Don''t" in the title/ historical fiction) 11 Jun

Checkpoint 2: The Wizard of Oz Museum
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is a retelling of a fairy tale. (retelling Medusa) (hide spoiler)]
✔️Stone Blind Natalie Haynes 373 pp (historical fiction/a retelling) 15 Jun
✔️Letters to Zell :Camille Griep 336 pages (a retelling) 17 Jun
✔️Mechanica, Betsy Cornwell 307 pp (a retelling/bridge on the cover) 19 Jun(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Checkpoint 3: Manatee Observation Deck
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a bridge traversing a body of water. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Old BRIFGE: A Joe Johnson Thriller 2 :Andrew Turpin 462 pp ("bridge" in title) 21 Jun
✔️Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10) Walter Mosley 22 Jun(view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)](bridge on the cover)
✔️Where Are You Now? MARY Higgins Clark 289 pp 24 Jun (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]
(bridge on the cover/author named Mary)

Checkpoint 4: Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a stormy seascape on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Stormy Petrel MARY Stewart 187 pages (Author Mary) 24 Jun
✔️Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by: MARY Roach (Author Mary) 25 Jun
✔️Emergency Contact MARY H.K. Choi 394 pp (Author Mary/published in March) 27 Jun

Finish: Kennedy Space Center
(view spoiler)[Read a book that has SPACE OPERA as a main page genre (MPG Space Opera) (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Collapsing Empire John Scalzi 333 pp (published in March/tagged Adventure) 28 Jun

Auckland

Start: Auckland Zoo
(view spoiler)[Read a book with one of the words turtle, giraffe owl, panda, or monkey in the title. (hide spoiler)]
✔️To Night Owl from Dogfish Holly Goldberg Sloan 302 pages (tagged Adventure) 1 Jul
✔️The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy #2) by Anthony Hope 212 pages (tagged Adventure/classics) 3 Jul
✔️Rupert of Hentzau (The Ruritania Trilogy #3) Anthony Hope 386 pp (tagged Adventure/classics) 5 Jul

Checkpoint 1: MOTAT (Museum of Transportation and Technology
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a large tram, train, vehicle, or plane on the cover. what is needed are OLD CLASSIC vehicles. classic pick-up truck (hide spoiler)]
✔️As GOOD as Gone by Larry Watson 341 pp (classic/"Good" in the title) 6 Jul
✔️A House with GOOD Bones T. Kingfisher ("Good" in the title) 7 Jul
✔️When She Was GOOD (Cyrus Haven #2) Michael Robotham
("Good" in the title)/author named Michael) 8 Jul

Checkpoint 2: Sky Tower
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is between 300 & 350 pages.~ 347 pages (hide spoiler)]
✔️The ROSE and the Thorn Michael J. Sullivan 347 pages (author named Michael/"rose" in the title) 10 Jul
✔️ROSE Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein 360 pages ("rose" in the title/) 11 Jul
✔️Snow White and ROSE Red (Matthew Hope #5) Ed McBain 248 pp (Rose in the title/mystery) 13 Jul

Checkpoint 3: Silo Park
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a tall man made structure on it. (hide spoiler)]
✔️A More Perfect Union (J.P. Beaumont #6) J.A. Jance 224 pp 14 Jul
(mystery)
✔️The Perfect Crime Les Edgerton (mystery) 15 Jul
✔️The Andromeda Strain (mystery/author Michael Crichton) 17 Jul

Checkpoint 4: Rangitoto Island-
(view spoiler)[Read a book set on an small island (Isla Nublar) (hide spoiler)]
✔️Jurassic Park 400 pp (author Michael Crichton)/set on an island) 19 Jul
✔️Gwen, in Green Zachary, Hugh 192 pp (set on an island) 20 Jul
✔️Deviled!: Maureen K. Howard 2015 (Lake Erie Mysteries) 250 pp (set on an island/mystery) 21 Jul

Finish: Howick Historical Village
(view spoiler)[Read a book set between 1840 and 1880. (set in 1851) (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Railway Detective (Inspector Robert Colbeck) Edward Marston 261 pages (mystery) 22 Jul

Inspired by Literature


Chasing Dracula.

Start - London
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a group of people on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Hill of Beans: A Novel of War and Celluloid Leslie Epstein 352 pages (primary character well known) 28 Jul (view spoiler)[Jack Warner (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧The Howard Hughes affair (Toby Peters) by Stuart M. Kaminsky (primary character well known) 29 Jul
✔️🎧Never Cross A Vampire (Toby Peters) by Stuart M. Kaminsky (primary character well known/thriller) 31 Jul (view spoiler)[William Faulkner (hide spoiler)]

Checkpoint 1 - Paris
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with Halloween as a theme. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧All Hallows:Christopher GOLDEN 325 pages (thriller/author named Golden) 4 Aug
✔️🎧 MILK Run (Smuggler's Tales From the GOLDEN Age of the Solar Clipper ) Nathan Lowell 343 pp 17 Aug
("Golden" in the sub-title/Milk in the title)
✔️🎧MILK and Honey Faye Kellerman (Milk in the title/MPG thriller) 21 Aug

Checkpoint 2: Munich
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a character or author named Susanna or Susan. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Love Lies Bleeding (Chnia Bayles) Susan Witting Albert 336 pp (MPG thriller/author Susan Witting Albert) 3 Sep
✔️The Last Chance Olive Ranch 301 pp (author Susan Witting Albert/MPG mystery) 3 Sep
✔️ Last Sword Maker (The Course of Empire, #1) Brian Nelson 400 pages (MPG mystery) 11 Sep

Checkpoint 3: Budapest
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with savory food on the cover (hide spoiler)]
✔️Murder with Macaroni and Cheese(Mahalia Watkins Soul Food Mystery #2) by A.L. Herbert 405 pages (MPG mystery) 18 Sep
✔️GHOST a la Mode (A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery) Sue Ann Jaffarian 312 pp (MPG mystery/Ghost in the title) 23 Sep
✔️Ghost Hunter (Ghost in the title/wolf on the cover) 24 Sep

Checkpoint 4: Bran Castle
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book with a wolf on the cover, in the title, or about wolves. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧 Land of WOLVES (Walt Longmire, #15) Craig Johnson 320 pages (published in September/Wolves in the title) 25 Sep
✔️🎧The WOLVES 389 pp ("Wolves" in the title/MPG crime) 1 Oct
✔️🎧Quarry in the Black (Quarry #13) Max Allan Collins 320 pages (MPG crime) 3 oct

Finish: Bucharest
(view spoiler)[Task: Read a book tagged as "Crime" on the main book page. (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Murder in the CIA( Capital Crimes, #8) Margaret Truman 371 pp (MPG crime/thriller) 4 Oct

The Realm of the Elderlings calls you.

Start - Bearns
(view spoiler)[Read a book with one or more yellow flowers on the cover (hide spoiler)]
✔️🎧Tick Tock (sisterhood #34) by Fern Michaels (thriller/flowers on the cover) 10 Oct
✔️🎧Reef Road (flowers on the cover) 6 Oct
✔️🎧The Grace of Kings Ken Liu 640 pp (flowers on the cove/fantasy) 7 Oct

Checkpoint 1: Buck
(view spoiler)[Read a book from Nautical Tales List #92 on the list (hide spoiler)]
✔️Pirates! Celia Rees (fantasy/Pirates) 8 Oct
✔️DEAD Man's Chest : The Sequel to Treasure Island (MPG Pirates/"dead" in the title) 12 Oct
✔️Looking Good DEAD 12 Oct
(Roy Grace #2) by Peter James 336 pages ("dead" in the title/Grace in sub-title)

Checkpoint 2: Rippon
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a significant character is Grace, or is the name of the author. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Aged for Acrimony (A Tuscan Vineyard Cozy Mystery #6) Fiona Grace 195 pp (/author names Grace) 13 Oct
✔️China Dolls, Lisa See (Grace Lee, an American-born Chinese girl) 376 pages (character named Grace/San Fransico setting/(California city) 14 Oct
✔️L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet #3 ) James Ellroy 496 pages (California city/MPG mystery) 15 Oct

Checkpoint 3: Shoaks
(view spoiler)[Read a book with "green" in the title or subtitle, or the author is named Green. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Green MAN's Heir Juliet E. McKenna 266 pages (MPG mystery/"man" ln the title) 15 Oct
✔️The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir Paul Newman 297 pp ("man" ln the title) 22 Oct
✔️The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee, #12) by Tony Hillerman 320 pages (Connected by man in title/mystery) 22 Oct

Checkpoint 4: Tilth
(view spoiler)[Read a book with wine in a glass or grapes are on the cover. (hide spoiler)]
✔️A Good Day for Chardonnay(Sunshine Vicram, #2) by Darynda Jones 416 pages (mystery) 23 Oct
✔️Made for You Melissa Marr 356
pp (mystery) 24 Oct
????choice (mystery)

Finish - Farrow
(view spoiler)[Read a book with a characteristic in the title and is also the name of one of the farseers. List of Farseers: Bounty Farseer https://robinhobbelderlings.fandom.co... (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Bounty (Fox and O'Hare, #7) Janet Evanovich 320 pages (mystery/First published March) 25 Oct

Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe.

Start - Bosnia
(view spoiler)[Read a book with an orphan or orphans in it. (hide spoiler)]
✔️The Ogress and the Orphans Kelly Barnhill 392 pages (First published March/fantasy) 26 Oct
✔️Walking Practice Dolki Min (Fantasy, Aliens) 27 Oct
✔️Under the Skin 2013 Michel Faber (Aliens/MPG Fantasy) 29 Oct

Checkpoint 1: Budva, Montenegro
(view spoiler)[Read a book that is tagged as Mythology. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold Stephen Fry 416 pages (tagged fantasy/tagged Mythology.) 31 Oct
✔️Age of Myth Legends of the First Empire, #1) by Michael J. Sullivan 432 pp (tagged Mythology/adventure) 1 Nov
✔️My Salty Mary by Cynthia Hand (adventure) 2 Nov

Checkpoint 2: Shkoder, Albania

(view spoiler)[Read a book that has 430 - 438 pages based on the first print edition listed on the "editions" list on the main book page. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2) by Leigh Bardugo 435 pages (Adventure) 3 Nov
✔️What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile #1) Isabel Ibañez 416 pages (Adventure) 7 Nov
✔️The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus #1) Rick Riordan576 pages (Adventure/mythology ) 8 Nov

Checkpoint 3: Athens, Greece
(view spoiler)[Read a book about Ancient Greece, or Rome. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth Natalie Haynes 288 pages (Mythology) 9 Nov
✔️The IMMORTALS (Olympus Bound #1) Jordanna Max Brodsky 447 pages (Mythology/Immortals in title) 10 Nov
✔️My Soul to Keep (African IMMORTALS) by Tananarive Due 346 pages (Connected by Immortals in series name/MPG African American) 11 Nov

Checkpoint 4: Santorini, Greece

(view spoiler)[Read a book
from Best Adult Female Friendship Books List #46 on the list (hide spoiler)]
✔️Sula Toni Morrison 192 pages (MPG African American/Black author) 16 Nov
✔️The Mayor of Maxwell Street Avery Cunningham 528 pp pub Jan 2024 16 Dec (Black author/Prohibition Era)
set in 1921, Chicago, Historical Fiction, Fiction
Romance, Historical, Mystery, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Adult, Historical Romance, Race, Debut novel
Prohibition Era
✔️The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas (Forgotten Actresses, #1) by Laini Giles 18 Dec (Prohibition Era/)
Historical Fiction, Adult, New York, Ghosts, Film, American History, pub Aug 2015

Finish: Bucharest
(view spoiler)[Read a book where a serious illness changes a person's ability to maintain normal activities. (hide spoiler)]
✔️Sick: A Memoir Cory Martin 266 pages 20 Dec

Wow, only 2 books away from your first badge! Go Almeta 🕺

Are you to try to keep the chain going between hikes or will you give yourself a breather?

Margo wrote: "Wow, only 2 books away from your first badge! Go Almeta 🕺"

I've already asked for my first badge. I made it my reading priority for January.

Margo wrote: "Are you to try to keep the chain going between hikes or will you give yourself a breather?"

i am making connections between hikes but not between categories. It is a fun challenge!

Agreed. I think it's her best yet. We can decide ourselves how complicated to make to make - me, I'm going for the lazy option!

Haven't seen any posts from you in a while. Is everything okay?