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message 2: by Esther (last edited Aug 06, 2021 05:48AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments badge 1
1st Museum: Museum 11
1. Location, The City in the Middle of the Night
2. About: The Year of the Witching
3. Collection, The Tropic of Serpents
4. Interactive, The Constant Rabbit

2st Museum: Museum 8
5. Location, The Girl in the Train
6. About, Fool's Assassin
7. Collection, Fugitive Telemetry
8. Interactive, The Glass Hotel

3rd Museum: Museum 12
9. Location, A Master of Djinn
10. About, Péril sur le fleuve
11. Collection, The Empire of Gold
12. Interactive, The Pull of the Stars

4th Museum: Museum 1
13. Location. Les Trois Femmes du consul -M77
14. About, Aurora Rising -M140
15. Collection, The Last Secret -M189
16. Interactive, Force of Nature


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1st Museum: Museum 4
1. Location: La République du bonheur
2. About, Arm of the Sphinx
3. Collection, The Survivors
4. Interactive, Les Fiancés de l'Hiver

2nd Museum: Museum 18
5. Location, Arsenic and Adobo
6. About, Raiponce
7. Collection, Abattre la bête
8. Interactive, The Prey of Gods

3rd Museum: Museum 24
9. Location: Little Girl Lost
10. About, Vision in Silver
11. Collection, Troubled Blood
12. Interactive, Le mort du chemin des Arsène

4th Museum: Museum 9
13. Location, The Woman in the Window
14, About, The City of Brass -M89
15. Collection, The Raven Tower
16. Interactive, Foundryside -M134

5th Museum: Museum 30
17. Location, The Serpent and the Pearl
18. About, Flots -M149
19. Collection,The Chain -M41
20. Interactive,La bête à sa mère -M80

6th Museum: Museum 10
21. Location, Une maison sur l'eau
22. About, 1637: The Polish Maelstrom -M124
23. Collection, Closely Harbored Secrets -m151
24. Interactive, Pachinko -M36


message 4: by Esther (last edited Nov 30, 2021 09:09AM) (new)

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1st Museum: Museum 29
1. Location, Humeur noire à Venise
2. About, The Evening and the Morning
3. Collection, The Shadow of What Was Lost
4. interactive, The God of Small Things

2nd Museum: Museum 3
5. Location, The Jasmine Throne
6. About, The Last Camel Died at Noon
7. Collection, Trouble in Nuala
8. Interactive, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

3rd Museum: Museum 25
9. Location. Gone with the Wind
10. About, The Swan Thieves
11.Collection, Dying to Read
12. Interactive, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

4th Museum: Museum 15
13. Location, 20th Victiml
14. About, DreadfulWaterl
15. Collection, Julia Child: A Life
16. Interactive, Assassin's Fate

5th Museum: Museum 13
17. Location, Le Mur invisible
18. About, Leaders Eat Last
19. Collection, Etched in Bone
20. Interactive, Blood Song

6th Museum: Museum 7
21. Location, Kukum
22. About, Cold Killing
23. Collection, Une bourgeoise d’exception: La femme derrière les Jardins de Métis
24. Interactive, Deux balles, un sourire

7th Museum: Museum 19
25. Location,The Foxhole Court
26. About, Fool's Quest
27. Collection, The Monogram Murders
28. Interactive, Les cicatrices de la Nuit

8th Museum: Museum 39
29. location, The Ghost Brigades
30. About, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
31. Collection, Danser
32. Interactive, A Question of Betrayal


message 5: by Esther (last edited Dec 21, 2021 08:50PM) (new)

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1st Museum: Museum 6
1. Location, The Gauguin Connection
2. About, La Bête et sa cage
3. Collection, A Knife in the Fog
4. Interactive, Scythe

2nd Museum: Museum 32
5. About, Ready Player Two
6. Location, Death in Focus
7. Collection, Mistress of Rome
8. interactive, Burden of Poof

3rd Museum: Museum 5
9. Location, Creatures of Passage
10. About, The City We Became
11. Collection,The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
12 Interactive, Apple Cider Slaying

4th Museum: Museum 26
13. Location, 1793
14. About, The Last Kingdom
15. Collection, The Lion and the Rose
16. Interactive,The Girl from Rawblood

5th Museum: Museum 17
17. Location, Tuez qui vous voulez
18. About, Le train pour Tallinn. La première enquête de Marko Kurismaa
19. Collection, Nous étions le sel de la mer
20. Interactive, Leviathan Falls

6th Museum: Museum 37
21. Location, Lady in the Lake
22. About, Reliquary
23. Collection, Bakhita
24. Interactive, The Original -M100

7th Museum: Museum 20
25. Location, She Who Became the Sun
26. About, The Hod King
27. Collection, Open Season
28 Interactive, The Last Watch

8th Museum: Museum 14
29. Location, Dry
30. About, The Kill Artist
31. Collection, The Bone Shard Daughter
32. Interactive, Babylon's Ashes

9th Museum: Museum 2
33. About, Tower Lord
34, Location, A Quiet Flame
35. Collection, Malorie
36. Interactive,The Scorpion's Tail

10th Museum: Museum 38
37. Location, L'Etoile Immobile
38. About, Butterfly Yellow
39. Collection, Marked in Flesh
40. Interactive, Quand j'étais Théodore Seaborn


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message 7: by Esther (last edited Jun 27, 2021 06:21PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments interactive task:
museum 1: Museum of Black Civilizations
item " La foret africaine" (african forest)
Task: Read a book in which most of the story takes place in a forest.

museum 2: Museum of the Royal Tombs of Sipán
item El Viejo Señor de Sipán According to his wiki, the Señor de Sipán was discovered by a team of peruvian archaeologist in 1987.
Task: Read a book in which a main character is an archeologist

museum 3: Bangkok National Museum
item: Makara A mythical sea creature.
Task: Read a book with "sea" in the title (plural allowed)

museum 4: The National Art Center
item: The Village of Nieuwkoop in Winter
Task: Read a book with "winter" in the title.

museum 5: National Museum of African American History and Culture
item: Black apron with "This Sista Can Cook"
Task: Read a book where the main character has a profession related to food (baker, restaurant owner, cook, etc)

museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
item: Utopia Planatia
Task: Read a book shelved at least 10 times as Utopia. Use this list.

museum 7: National Gallery of Canada
item: Québec, vu de la pointe Lévis (The listing in the museum is here.) This is taken from the street called "la cote du passage" in Lévis, a hill I had to climb on my bike (too often) in my youth to get to my parents place from the ferry.
Task: Read a book by a local writer.

museum 8: Tate Modern
item: L'Hôtel, Chambre 28
Task: Read a book with a story taking place mostly in a Hotel or an inn. or hotel/inn are inthe title

museum 9: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
item: window
Task: Read a book with a window on the cover.

museum 10: Mauritshuis
item: The Wedding of Kloris and Roosje
Task: Read a book in which there is a wedding.


message 8: by Esther (last edited Dec 08, 2020 03:26PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments museum 11: The National Palace Museum
item: snuff bottle with rabbits
Task: Read a book with rabbit on the cover/title.

museum 12: The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
item: The Meidum Geese
Task: Read a book with a bird on the cover

museum 13: Kunsthistorisches Museum
item: Prunkdegen
Task: Read a book with sword on the cover

museum 14: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
item: Colecticleta La Habanera There are 6 bicycles in the montage.
Task: Read the sixth book in a series.

museum 15: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
item: Triple Elvis
Task: Read a book with multiple point of view.

museum 16: Museo Nacional de Antropología
item: Joven Flecha This piece is about a dream or vision the artist had.
Task: Read a book where dreams/visions play an important part.

museum 17: Musée D'Orsay
item: La Nuit étoilée
Task: Read a book set in space

museum 18: The Art Institute of Chicago
item: Jour de pluie à Paris
Task: Read a book with an umbrella on the cover

museum 19: Museo Larco
item: Botella de cerámica This depicts a ritual of human sacrifice.
Task: Read a book in which there is a murder.

museum 20: The Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horse
item: High-Ranking Officer
Task: Read a book with a main page genre "military"


message 9: by Esther (last edited Feb 15, 2021 02:54PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments museum 21: The Musée du Louvre
item: Louis XIV Louis XIV was know as the "roi-soleil"
Task: Read a book with king or sun in the title.

museum 22: State Hermitage Museum
item: Folding Fan Depicting the Legend of Romulus and Remus
Task: Read a book a the genres historical fantasy

museum 23: Museo Nacional Del Prado
item: Abuela y nietos
Task: Read a book with a story within the story. I believe it's called frame or embedded narrative.

museum 24: The National Gallery
item: Faa Iheihe In 1891 Gauguin travelled to the South Pacific islands, where he stayed for nearly the rest of his life, mostly on the island of Tahiti.
Task: Read a book set on an island

museum 25: Rijksmuseum
item: Children of the Sea
Task: Read a book with a main page genre Young adult

museum 26: The Vasa Museum
item: blobfish Psychrolutes marcidus (also called blobfish) was voted the ugliest animal in the world (Worlds Ugliest Animal) and was adopted as a mascot by the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.
Task: Read a book of the horror genre

museum 27: The Acropolis Museum
item: Votive stele of Silon
Task: Read a book with a snake on the cover

museum 28: The British Museum
item: gun; model
Task: Read a book wth a gun on the cover

museum 29: The Van Gogh Museum
item: Sunflowers
Task: Read a book with flower(s) on the cover

museum 30:Galleria dell'Accademia
item: David
Task: Read a book for which the author/MC is named David.


message 10: by Esther (last edited Feb 27, 2021 08:04AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments interactive tasks:
museum 31-40

museum 31: The National WWII Museum
item: Thunderbird Division
Task: Read a book that has a Native American theme

museum 32: Pergamon Museum
item: Walking lion from the Processional Way
Task: Read a book with a felidae on the cover/story.

museum 33: The Getty Center
item: Les Astronomes,
Task: Read a book with sky or star in the title

museum 34: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
item: Sukhoi Su-26m
Task: Read a book with a flying craft (plane, helicopter, balloon, etc) on the cover

museum 35: Instituto Ricardo Brennand
item: Guerrilha
Task: Read a book set in a war time, or war is in the title

museum 36: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial
item: witness statement
Task: Read a non fiction book

museum 37: National Gallery of Art
item: The Forum at Pompeii this was adquired by the museum in 2020
Task: Read a book published in 2020

museum 38: Inhotim in Brumadinho
item: red decor and objets
Task: Read a book with a red cover

museum 39: Museo de Arte Latinoamericano
item: Jol This painting explore urban scenery..
Task: Read a book with a cover that represent a city landscape. Could be a city street, an overview. But it should be clearly a city and not a village.

museum 40:Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
item: painting
Task: Read a book with water on the cover


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Janice (jamasc) | 61914 comments I never thought of searching Instagram! Awesome.


message 12: by Peggy (new)

Peggy (pebbles84) | 15795 comments I agree, that's a great idea!


message 13: by Esther (last edited Nov 29, 2020 10:54AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Janice wrote: "I never thought of searching Instagram! Awesome."

Well Ì went to the museum website and the iG link was right there at the bottom. I guess French helped. i was probably paying more attention,


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Peggy (pebbles84) | 15795 comments I like your interactive tasks Esther :)


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Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Peggy wrote: "I like your interactive tasks Esther :)"

Thanks. I am having way too much fun. Nothing else is getting done.


message 16: by Esther (last edited Jan 07, 2021 05:21PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge X, Book X
2. Museum 16, interactive
3. Link – Murder of Crows
4. Ebook (Hardcover, 354 pages)
5. Read a book where dreams/visions play an important part.
6. The MC has visions.

Interactive selection`: item: Joven Flecha This piece is about a dream or vision the artist had.


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Janice (jamasc) | 61914 comments ✔️

Great start!


message 18: by Esther (last edited Jan 08, 2021 04:17AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge X, Book X
2. Museum 14, interactive
3. Link – Babylon's Ashes
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 538 pages)
5. Read the sixth book in a series.
6. Book 6 of the Expanse series

item: Colecticleta La Habanera There are 6 bicycles in the montage.


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message 20: by Esther (last edited Dec 19, 2021 03:48PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 20
2. Museum 20, collection
3. Link – Open Season
4. audiobook (Paperback, 320 pages)
5. Read a book that has "archer" in the title or author's name. Or, a significant character is an archer.
6. Author is Archer Mayor


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message 22: by Esther (last edited Dec 16, 2021 06:26PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 17
2. Museum 17, location
3. Link – Tuez qui vous voulez
4. ebook (Paperback, 379 pages)
5. Read a book set in Paris
6. Set in Paris


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message 24: by Esther (last edited Apr 09, 2021 02:39PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Museum 11, interactive
3. Link – The Constant Rabbit
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 307 pages)
5. Read a book with rabbit on the cover/title.
6. The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde

item: snuff bottle with rabbits


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Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Badge 1
0 of 4 museum

Limbo
1. Museum 11, interactive, The Constant Rabbit -M24
2. Museum 14, interactive, Babylon's Ashes - M18
3. Museum 16, interactive, Murder of Crows -M16
4. Museum 17, location, Tuez qui vous voulez -M22
5. Museum 20, collection, Open Season -M20


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message 27: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21509 comments Aghhh - I own The Constant Rabbit, but I have not found a picture of something to go with it yet.
You used "rabbit on the cover/title". Good job!

Oh, and how was it???


message 28: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Cherie wrote: "Aghhh - I own The Constant Rabbit, but I have not found a picture of something to go with it yet.
You used "rabbit on the cover/title". Good job!

Oh, and how was it???"

it was meh... I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it. But it is the only FForde I really did not really enjoyed


message 29: by Esther (last edited Apr 09, 2021 02:40PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Museum 11, collection
3. Link – The Tropic of Serpents
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 331 pages)
5. Read a book with dragons in it.
6. the MC is a naturalist who studies dragon in their habitat.


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message 31: by Cherie (new)

Cherie (crobins0) | 21509 comments Funny - I ‘m going to read the first Lady Trent book for the dragon task.


message 32: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Funny. I was not planning to read it. I had something else planned. But the audio was available and decided to go for it.


message 33: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge X, Book X
2. Museum 34, about
3. Link – Persepolis Rising
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 560 pages)
5. Read a book with a main page genre of Space Opera.
6. Space Opera is in the MBP


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Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 5
2. Museum 32, about
3. Link – Ready Player Two
4. ebook (Hardcover, 370 pages)
5. Read a book that is set in the future.
6. Take place in the future


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message 36: by Esther (last edited Oct 01, 2021 05:10AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 24
2. Museum 10, interactive
3. Link –Pachinko
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 489 pages)
5. Read a book in which there is a wedding.
6. This is a family saga of a korean family. It start with the wedding of of pregnant girl to a korean minister that emigrate to Japan.

item: (https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore... The Wedding of Kloris and Roosje


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message 38: by Esther (last edited Dec 17, 2021 08:49AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 22
2. Museum 37, about
3. Link – Reliquary
4. ebook (Mass Market Paperback, 464 pages)
5. Read a book set in the 1990's.
6. Set at the end of the 1990's


message 39: by Esther (last edited Jan 30, 2021 05:19PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Badge 1
0 of 4 museum

Limbo
1. Museum 10, interactive, Pachinko -M36
2. Museum 11, interactive, The Constant Rabbit -M24
3. Museum 11, collection, The Tropic of Serpents -M29
4. Museum 14, interactive, Babylon's Ashes - M18
5. Museum 16, interactive, Murder of Crows -M16
6. Museum 17, location, Tuez qui vous voulez -M22
7. Museum 20, collection, Open Season -M20
8. Museum 32, about, Ready Player Two -M34
9.Museum 34, about, Persepolis Rising -M33
10. Museum 37, about, Reliquary - M38


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message 41: by Esther (last edited Sep 26, 2021 08:19AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 19
2. Museum 30, collection
3. Link – The Chain
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 357 pages)
5. Read a book with a main page genre of Mystery that involves kidnapping.
6. Mystery on the MCP and there is a series of kidnapping.


message 42: by Esther (last edited Mar 21, 2021 01:13PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge X, Book X
2. Museum 22, collection
3. Link – The City of Brass
4. ebook (Hardcover, 533 pages )
5. Read a book with filigree on the cover.
6. Filigree approved in the help thread (post 24)



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message 44: by Esther (last edited May 08, 2021 01:41PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge X, Book X
2. Museum 19, about
3. Link – Fool's Assassin
4. ebook/audiobook (Hardcover, 688 pages )
5. Read a book whose author's first and last initials are any combination of R L H.
6. Author is Robin Hobb



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message 46: by Esther (last edited Aug 22, 2021 05:47PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 2, Book 6
2. Museum 18, about
3. Link – Raiponce
4. audiobook (Paperback, 192 pages)
5. Read a book with fire on the cover
6. Raiponce by L.P. Sicard


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message 48: by Esther (last edited Nov 29, 2021 04:39PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 31
2. Museum 39, collection
3. Link – Danser
4. ebook (Paperback, 184 pages )
5. Read a book where the main character is a ballet dancer. The book may be fiction or non-fiction (memoir, biography).
6. Story told by 3 dancers, studying at the ballet academie in Paris.


message 49: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5233 comments Badge 1
0 of 4 museum

Limbo
1. Museum 10, interactive, Pachinko -M36

2. Museum 11, interactive, The Constant Rabbit -M24
3. Museum 11, collection, The Tropic of Serpents -M29

4. Museum 14, interactive, Babylon's Ashes - M18

5. Museum 16, interactive, Murder of Crows -M16

6. Museum 17, location, Tuez qui vous voulez -M22

7. Museum 18, about, Raiponce -M46

8. Museum 19, about, Fool's Assassin -M44

9. Museum 20, collection, Open Season -M20

10. Museum 22, collection, The City of Brass -M42

11. Museum 30, collection,The Chain -M41

12. Museum 32, about, Ready Player Two -M34

13.Museum 34, about, Persepolis Rising -M33

14. Museum 37, about, Reliquary - M38

15. Museum 39, collection, Danser -M48


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