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

Site 1
🚗 Location: ghost story. - Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories, Collected Ghost Stories
🎓 About: significant character or author named Jack.
🧸 Souvenir: Moscow, Copper, or Mug in the title. - The Secret History of Moscow

Site 2
🚗 Location: significant character aged 5 or younger.
🎓 About: genre of space opera - John Scalzi, Illuminae, Speaker for the Dead
🧸 Souvenir: 75% red in color. - The Book of Kells, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, China Rich Girlfriend, Ashes to Ashes, Bitten The Last Wish

Site 3
🚗 Location: character is a queen, or title contains queen. - The Lady of the Rivers, Wolf Hall
🎓 About: author whose initial of any name starts with V. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Jules Verne, others
🧸 Souvenir: set during freezing temperatures.

Site 4
🚗 Location: with snake(s) are on the cover
🎓 About: Garter, Aquatic, Butler, Highland, Giant, Plains, Ribbon in title.
🧸 Souvenir: at least one pair of boots on the cover.

Site 5
🚗 Location: set in Canada or by a Canadian author. - Margaret Atwood, Louise Penny, Michael Ondaatje
🎓 About: book that is one of 5 in a series.
🧸 Souvenir: Collect, Collector, or Collection in the title.

Site 6
🚗 Location: theme of immigrant experience. - lots A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
🎓 About: set in France or by a French author. - All the Light We Cannot See
🧸 Souvenir: red flowers on the cover. - The Travellers, About the Night

Site 7
🚗 Location: Caldwell in title, sub-titles, by an author's name Caldwell.
🎓 About: skeleton or skull on the cover. An Instance of the Fingerpost
🧸 Souvenir: weapon, tool, comb, or whistle in the title.

Site 8
🚗 Location: setting different than nationality of author. - lots
🎓 About: author's initials contain CH in any order. - Scrublands
🧸 Souvenir: theme of music.

Site 9
🚗 Location: significant character named John. - Mortal Causes
🎓 About: mythology as genre. - Circe, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold, Saga Land, Scourged
🧸 Souvenir: animal with (full) tail on the cover. Morality for Beautiful Girls

Site 10
🚗 Location: set on an island smaller than 200,000 km2. - lots
🎓 About: Inventor/Invention in title, or character is an inventor.
🧸 Souvenir: set in Switzerland, France, Poland or Italy. - My Brilliant Friend, Death in a Strange Country, all of Susanna's books, The Last Wish, The King of Warsaw

Site 11
🚗 Location: set in space. - John Scalzi, Leviathan Wakes, Starship Troopers, Hyperion
🎓 About: theme of Christmas.
🧸 Souvenir: cover is 75% white. - Beneath the Rising, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, A Fine Balance

Site 12
🚗 Location: Dutch in the title or from list. - The Dinner
🎓 About: set in the 1930's & 1940's. - Black Mamba Boy, HHhH, A Town Like Alice, The Remains of the Day, The King of Warsaw
🧸 Souvenir: a character is immortal. - Alif the Unseen

Site 13
🚗 Location: set in Hawaii.
🎓 About: MPG Mystery and is a police procedural. - all the things
🧸 Souvenir: number of flowers on the cover. - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories, Dandelion Wine, About the Night, The Travellers

Site 14
🚗 Location: about First Nations Peoples in the US or author.
🎓 About: Ice or Cave in the title. - The Route of Ice and Salt
🧸 Souvenir: in epistolary style.

Site 15
🚗 Location: set in Illinois. - Peace Talks, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Dandelion Wine
🎓 About: significant character is a sailor. - The North Water
🧸 Souvenir: cover is 75% green. - Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Fangirl, Norma, Vital Science, The Collapsing Empire all fit.

Site 16
🚗 Location: set in Massachusetts.
🎓 About: General Paranormal Romance
🧸 Souvenir: main character has a cat.

Site 17
🚗 Location: set in New York City. - My Sister's Keeper
🎓 About: headlights prominently on the cover.
🧸 Souvenir: Bone(s) in the title. - The Bone People

Site 18
🚗 Location: set in North Carolina.
🎓 About: set in the 1900's.
🧸 Souvenir: cover shows someone wearing a pair of socks.

Site 19
🚗 Location: set in Texas AND has a horse on the cover or story.
🎓 About: bee on the cover or in the title. - From A to Bee: My First Year as a Beginner Beekeeper, The Murmur of Bees
🧸 Souvenir: Honey, Sugar, or Sweet in the title.

Site 20
🚗 Location: set in Virginia. - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
🎓 About: retelling of an original story. - Uprooted
🧸 Souvenir: set in prehistoric times (may be a time travel)

Site 21
🚗 Location: set in Australia or by Australian author. - all the things After Australia
🎓 About: author's initials are B A. - Whispers Underground, Hive, Servant of the Underworld, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
🧸 Souvenir: large eye(s) on the cover. - Sold

Site 22
🚗 Location: Harbour (Harbor) in the title. - Broken Harbour
🎓 About: first in a series. - so many things
🧸 Souvenir: Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry in the title.

Site 23
🚗 Location: title starts with K. - The Keeper of Lost Causes, The Killing Moon, Kin, King Rat, The King of Warsaw
🎓 About: large bird on the cover. - See What I Have Done, Beijing Coma, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Death and the Penguin
🧸 Souvenir: Humour Genre (page in thread) - The Rosie Project

Site 24
🚗 Location: character is a miner or book about mining.
🎓 About: dystopian dealing with pandemics.
🧸 Souvenir: animal teeth that could leave a nasty bite.

Site 25
🚗 Location: compass direction (north, east, south, west) in the title. - The North Water, South of the Border, West of the Sun
🎓 About: originally published in 2011. - The Wild Beasts of Wuhan, The African Equation, Swamplandia!, A Discovery of Witches, The Tiger's Wife, etc. I have a page of this.
🧸 Souvenir: main character or author name of Paul. - London Falling

Site 26
🚗 Location: one word title. - Delirium, Fatherland, Embassytown, Sunshine, Out, Voices, Stiletto, Feed, Quicksilver, Leviathan, Darwinia, Mislaid
🎓 About: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards winner - The Yield, The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster, The Hate Race, Boy Swallows Universe, Questions of Travel, Dark Emu, Shanghai Dancing
🧸 Souvenir: large circles on it.

Site 27
🚗 Location: about Australian indigenous people. - Dark Emu, The Yield, Living with the Locals, Early Europeans' experience of Indigenous Life, Terra Nullius
🎓 About: in a series with 12 or more books.
🧸 Souvenir: hunting implement on the cover (no guns or swords)

Site 28
🚗 Location: train on the cover.
🎓 About: originally published between 2002 - 2010. - everything
🧸 Souvenir: alcoholic drink on the cover.

Site 29
🚗 Location: character or author named Alice or Stuart. - Cold Granite
🎓 About: originally published in 2018. - long list
🧸 Souvenir: book mentioned in another book.

Site 30
🚗 Location: less than 572 ratings. - so many things, need to check at the time
🎓 About: amethyst, aquamarine, diamond, emerald, jade, peridot, ruby, sapphire in the title.
🧸 Souvenir: ring in the title or a large ring on the cover. - Brown Girl in the Ring

Site 31
🚗 Location: set in Scotland or by a Scottish author. - Ian Rankin, Stuart McBride, Ann Cleeves
🎓 About: characters that are shapeshifters. - River Marked,
🧸 Souvenir: title or author's name starts with U. - Unnatural Fire, Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Un Lun Dun, Uprooted, Utopia

Site 32
🚗 Location: set in Wales or by Welsh author.
🎓 About: originally published in 1990. - The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, The Buddha of Suburbia, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, The Beauty Myth, Susanna's books
🧸 Souvenir: Bell in the title or on the cover.

Site 33
🚗 Location: set in an English city, population under 1, 000,000. (anywhere besides London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds/Bradford, & Glasgow).
🎓 About: Wind or Sound in the title. - Ill Wind
🧸 Souvenir: set in Greece or written by a Greek author. - Circe, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold

Site 34
🚗 Location: set in Finland or by Finnish author. - Nights of Awe
🎓 About: dark stormy waves on the cover. - Red Seas Under Red Skies
🧸 Souvenir: from The Atmospheric List (in thread) - The Night Circus, Mexican Gothic, Uprooted, Where the Crawdads Sing

Site 35
🚗 Location: set in the Netherlands or by Dutch author. - The Dinner
🎓 About: from Best Feminist Fiction list (in thread) - Beloved, Cat's EyeParable of the Sower, Circe, The House on Mango Street, Prodigal Summer
🧸 Souvenir: mystery dealing with crime against women.

Site 36
🚗 Location: proper woman's name in the title. - Alex
🎓 About: genre LGBT on the main book page. - The Line of Beauty
🧸 Souvenir: duck, goose, swan, loon

Site 37
🚗 Location: Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Andorra, and Gibraltar.
🎓 About: book that is in a series of 4.
🧸 Souvenir: house on the cover.

Site 38
🚗 Location: set in Lithuania, Poland, or Russia. - The King of Warsaw, Metro 2033, The Last Wish, The Master and Margarita, The Secret History of Moscow,The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
🎓 About: theme of pilgrimage, or life changing journey.
🧸 Souvenir: cross or beads on the cover.

Site 39
🚗 Location: set in Belgium. - Under the Wide and Starry Sky
🎓 About: Psychological thriller and mystery - The Girl on the Train, Sharp Objects
🧸 Souvenir: spring in the title.

Site 40
🚗 Location: set in Switzerland or by Swiss author.
🎓 About: letter Z in the title or author's name. - Mislaid, The Route of Ice and SaltBridge of Clay, The Ladies' Paradise - It Would Be Night in Caracas
🧸 Souvenir: food as a theme.

Side Trips!

Trip 1: The Big Merino - Goulburn, NSW, Aus



🚗 Location - Goulburn NSW was the first inland town recognised by Britain, with Queen Victoria herself referring to it in letters: Read a book set in the Victorian reign (1837-1901). - The Yard

🎓 About - From it's website "Standing 15.2 meters high, 18 meters long and weighing 97 tones at the time of construction he is an impressive life-like model of Rambo, a stud Ram from a local property, “Bullamallita”." He is one impressive sheep: Read a book from the country with the highest amount of sheep per capita - New Zealand. - Cemetery Lake

🧸 Souvenir - Macarthur Ram plushie: Read a book that has a farmer as a character. - The Lost Man

Badge 1 - DONE

Site 6
🚗 Location: theme of immigrant experience. - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
🎓 About: set in France or by a French author. - All the Light We Cannot See
🧸 Souvenir: red flowers on the cover. - The Travellers

Site 9
🚗 Location: significant character named John. - Mortal Causes
🎓 About: mythology as genre. - Scourged
🧸 Souvenir: animal with (full) tail on the cover. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Site 15
🚗 Location: set in Illinois. - Battle Ground
🎓 About: significant character is a sailor. - Burning Bright
🧸 Souvenir: cover is 75% green. - The Collapsing Empire

Site 23
🚗 Location: title starts with K. - Critical Role: Vox Machina—Kith & Kin
🎓 About: large bird on the cover. - Death and the Penguin
🧸 Souvenir: Humour Genre (page in thread) - The Rosie Project

Side Trip - The Big Merino
🚗 Location: Read a book set in the Victorian reign (1837-1901) - The Yard
🎓 About: Read a book from New Zealand - Cemetery Lake
🧸 Souvenir: Read a book that has a farmer as a character. - The Lost Man

Badge 2

Site 10
🚗 Location: set on an island smaller than 200,000 km2. - Ashes to Dust
🎓 About: Inventor/Invention in title, or character is an inventor.
🧸 Souvenir: set in Switzerland, France, Poland or Italy.

Site 12
🚗 Location: Dutch in the title or from list.
🎓 About: set in the 1930's & 1940's.
🧸 Souvenir: a character is immortal. - Alif the Unseen

Site 21
🚗 Location: set in Australia or by Australian author. After Australia
🎓 About: author's initials are B A. - Whispers Under Ground
🧸 Souvenir: large eye(s) on the cover. - Sold

Site 25
🚗 Location: compass direction (north, east, south, west) in the title.
🎓 About: originally published in 2011. The African Equation
🧸 Souvenir: main character or author name of Paul.

Site 38
🚗 Location: set in Lithuania, Poland, or Russia.
🎓 About: theme of pilgrimage, or life changing journey.
🧸 Souvenir: cross or beads on the cover.

Site 40
🚗 Location: set in Switzerland or by Swiss author.
🎓 About: letter Z in the title or author's name. - It Would Be Night in Caracas
🧸 Souvenir: food as a theme.

Trip 2: The Big Trout - Adaminaby, NSW, Aus
🚗 Location: Read a book with country, high, snowy, mountains in the title.
🎓 About: Read a book with an ugly cover. - Eleanor & Park
🧸 Souvenir: Read a book with a feather on the cover

Side Trips!

Trip 2: The Big Trout - Adaminaby, NSW, Aus


🚗 Location - is a small town near the Snowy Mountains. Adaminaby is one of the highest towns in Australia. The area is also known sometimes as the High Country: Read a book with country, high, snowy, mountains in the title.

🎓 About - The Big Trout is a 10-metre-high fibreglass model in Adaminaby, a popular fishing spot for trout. In 2012 the work was repainted to celebrate the centenary of the Snowy River Shire. This is what it used to look like, when I used to visit it regularly on the way to the snow as a teenager:

I hate the new paint job (and fence), linked at the beginning of this post. It's super ugly: Read a book with an ugly cover. - Eleanor & Park

🧸 Souvenir - People go to Abaminaby and the surrounds to fly fish for trout. Fly fishing lure: Read a book with a feather on the cover

Holy alliterations! Really ridiculously rad, Rusalka!

I am seriously running out of R words. I started something in 2014 and didn't think it through!!

I would greatly appreciate your consideration for the 2023 Challenge lol

I always try with the "J" words, but they aren't as plentiful.

Yeah, C words are not as accommodating either.

As they are both my real life initials, you can see why I went with the R for Rusalka theme lol

Rusalka wrote: "As they are both my real life initials, you can see why I went with the R for Rusalka theme lol"

LOL!

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Site 6, 🎓 About
3. All the Light We Cannot See
4. 530pp
5. Set in France or by a French author.
6. The majority of the book is set in Paris and Saint-Malo, Brittany.

Finally had a chance to do some tidying and reporting!

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Site 6, 🧸 Souvenir
3. The Travellers
4. 327pp
5. Has red flowers on the cover.
6. My copy of the book has red flowers, poppies, on the cover:

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Site 9, 🧸 Souvenir
3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4. 193pp
5. Animal with (full) tail on the cover.
6. There are multiple owls on the cover, one of which has a full tail:

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1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Site 9, 🎓 About
3. Scourged
4. 266pp
5. Mythology as genre
6. Mythology is listed as a MPG on 14/4/22

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I am planning on reading All the Light We Cannot See for Site 34, Souvenir because it is listed on The Atmospheric List that Janice specified. Was it, atmospheric, I mean?

I am not sure it would be my first choice of words for describing it. But thinking on it now you mention it, I guess it is in a way. His sense of place is really well done, and I guess that would mean atmospheric as you really feel like your in the places he's talking about. I kinda had mixed up atmospheric and spooky in my head, and had to extract them from each other as a concept.

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Side Trip 1: The Big Merino, 🚗 Location - Goulburn NSW
3. The Yard
4. 583pp
5. Read a book set in the Victorian reign (1837-1901).
6. This book is set during the Victorian reign in the British Empire, in 1889.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Site 15, 🧸 Souvenir
3. The Collapsing Empire
4. 333pp
5. Cover is 75% green.
6. Tineye says the cover is 81% green

Sorry Janice, in advance. I wasn't supposed to report 3 books at once, but completely looks like I forgot to report one the other day. So I don't forget and do the same thing later, reporting all now.

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Site 23, 🎓 About
3. Death and the Penguin
4. 228pp
5. Large bird on the cover.
6. There is a large penguin on the cover

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Side Trip - The Big Merino, 🎓 About
3. Cemetery Lake
4. 406pp
5. Read a book from New Zealand.
6. The book is set in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the author lives and was born in New Zealand.

✔️

Rusalka wrote: "Sorry Janice, in advance. I wasn't supposed to report 3 books at once, but completely looks like I forgot to report one the other day. So I don't forget and do the same thing later, reporting all now."

It's all good! :)

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Site 23, 🧸
3. The Rosie Project
4. 329pp
5. Read a book from Humour Genre - Use the Humour Genre Page.
6. The book is listed on the first page if you click the Humour Books list at the bottom of the genre page. Still the case today at the time of reporting.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Side Trip - The Big Merino, 🧸 Souvenir
3. The Lost Man
4. 362pp
5. Read a book that has a farmer as a character.
6. The family in this book own and run a remote Queensland cattle station.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Site 9, 🚗 Location
3. Mortal Causes
4. 320pp
5. Significant character is named John
6. The main character in this series is called Detective Inspector John Rebus.

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Site 15, 🎓 About
3. Burning Bright
4. 324pp - I read the ebook but this is the first paperback page amount.
5. Significant character is a sailor.
6. A significant character is Captain Ramsay, but there are multiple members of the Royal Navy who are major characters in this book.

1. Badge 1, Book 13
2. Site 23, 🚗 Location
3. Critical Role: Vox Machina—Kith & Kin
4. 355pp
5. Title starts with K
6. The copy I have is obviously called "Kith and Kin". While it is in the Critical Role, and Vox Machina universes, it's secondary in reality.

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. Site 6, 🚗 Location
3. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
4. 354pp
5. Theme of immigrant experience
6. Z is a Chinese student who has moved to London in order to learn English

✔️

1. Badge 1, Book 15
2. Site 15, 🚗 Location
3. Battle Ground
4. 418pp - I listened to the audiobook, so the first listing
5. Set in Illinois
6. Set in Chicago, which Harry is trying to save once again from monsters.

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Woohoo! Badge one is done! Congrats

I did not finish another badge, but I'm recording this for me so I know what I have read.
No need to track, Janice. Also getting me back into some habits that I have neglected this year :)

1. Badge 2, Book 1
2. Site 12, 🧸 Souvenir
3. Alif the Unseen
4. 427pp
5. A character is immortal
6. A major character in the book is a Djinn, which for all intents and purposes are usually and normally immortal.

Gotcha!

Janice wrote: "Gotcha!"
Heh figured you'd appreciate that ;)

1. Badge 2, Book 2
2. Side Trip 2: The Big Trout - Adaminaby, NSW, Aus, 🎓 About
3. Eleanor & Park
4. 324pp
5. Read a book with an ugly cover.
6. I know ugliness is subjective, but I find this cover really ugly. Not in a grotesque, overt, gratuitous way. But just someone was paid to suggest this was a good idea.

Also. It is just not representative of the two characters. It's like they got a synopsis of the book and threw it out in order to make their ugly cover. And some executive was like, it has a boy and a girl, tick!
FFS.

1. Badge 2, Book 3
2. Site 40, 🎓 About
3. It Would Be Night in Caracas
4. 229pp
5. Letter Z in the title or author's name
6. Karina Sainz Borgo has a Z in it.

Just for record keeping:

Badge 2, Book 4
Site 25
🎓 About: originally published in 2011.
The African Equation

Badge 2, Book 5
Site 21
🧸 Souvenir: large eye(s) on the cover.
Sold

Badge 2, Book 6
Site 10
🚗 Location: set on an island smaller than 200,000 km2.
Ashes to Dust - Iceland

Badge 2, Book 7
Site 21
🎓 About: author's initials are B A.
Whispers Under Ground

Badge 2, Book 8
Site 21
🚗 Location: set in Australia or by Australian author.
After Australia