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

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Badge 1- Reporting “Bag End Hobbiton

Badge 1

Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth

Start - Bag End

✔️1 Bring Her Home (Home)
✔️2 The Scholar (Ireland)
✔️3. A Perfect Evil (Police Procedural or Crime Thriller)

Check Point 1: Bree

✔️4. Fire Born (First in Series)
✔️5. Blood Bound (Urban Fantasy)
✔️6. Book of the Dead (Same first name: Patricia)

Check Point 2: Rivendell

✔️7. Sanctuary (Sanctuary)
✔️8. Safe Haven (Synonym)
✔️9. The Kill Club: A Twisty Psychological Action Thriller (Window on cover)

Check Point 3: Moria

✔️10. Secret Legacy (75% Black)
✔️11. Family Secrets (Secret in title)
✔️12. An Unwanted Guest (House/Building in Moonlight on cover))

Check Point 4: Black Gate

✔️13 Iron Kissed (Iron in title)
✔️14. Moon Touched (tattoo)
✔️15. Cry Wolf (wolf on cover)

Finish - Mount Doom

✔️16. Point Blank (400-500 pp.)

Badge 2
PILGRIMAGES: Tour of Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia

Start - Zagreb

✔️1. Here To Stay (Character/author named Mark)
✔️2. The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror (First or last name is Edward
✔️3 . The Puller (Take place in Michigan)

Check Point 1: Ptujska gora

✔️4. House of Echoes (MPG “Gothic”
✔️5. Coast Road (Initials DB or BD)
✔️6. The Restaurant(Takes place on/near ocean))

Check Point 2: Postajna Caves

✔️7. Train Tracks: Family Stories for the Holidays (Train on cover)
✔️8. Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations (Short Stories)
✔️9. Manitou Canyon, William Kent Krueger (Author with three names on cover)

Check Point 3: Opatija

✔️10. The Lighthouse (Holiday at beach resort)
✔️11. Blood River (First in a series)
✔️12. Blood Kings (Blood in title)

Check Point 4: Medjugorje
✔️13 The Invited (Ghost story)
✔️14. The Mother-in-Law (Published 2019)
✔️15. Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen, (Goodread Choice Award Winner or Nominee)

Finish - Dubrovnik

✔️16. Carrie (Book into movie)

El Camino Trail

✔️17. The Iron King (King in title)
✔️18. Shadows in the Water (Fantasy genre)
✔️19. The Teacher (Dark, creepy cover)

Checkpoint 1: Palas de Rei

✔️20. Body Double (Body in title)
✔️21. Mary, Mary (Doubles os something on cover)
✔️22. Shiver (MPG ofSuspense)

Checkpoint 2: Melide

✔️23. And Then There Were Nun (nun)
✔️24. With Our Blessing (religious institution)
✔️25. Exit Point (male detective)

Checkpoint 3: Arzura

✔️26. Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead 75% yellow)
✔️27. Death of a Nurse (bird(s) on cover)
✔️28. Harmony Four: a Supernatural Horror Novel

Checkpoint 4: OPedrouzo

✔️29. Seven Bridges: A DCI Ryan Mystery (bridge)
✔️ 30. The Hermitage (next in series)
✔️31. The Ritual Bath (First in a series)

Finish: Santiago de Composteia

✔️32. The Zarrabian Incident, C.A. James (name James)

The Jesus Trail

Nazareth

✔️33.The Summer House (house)
✔️34. The Chester Killings (dwelling, other than house)
✔️35. The Llangollen Killings: A Snowdonia Murder Mystery (set in Wales)

Checkpoint 1: Cana

✔️36. Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point(wedding)
✔️37. All Hallows' Evil (Goofy smile)
✔️38. Lost Graves (spooky setting)

Checkpoint 2: Kibbutz Lavi

✔️39. The Wednesday Sisters (bench)
✔️40. Bloodstream (N.Y. Times Bestseller/ Author)
✔️41. The North Woods (Maine)

Checkpoint 3: Migdal

✔️42. Winter's Mourn (author Mary)
✔️43. The Long Cold Winter (winter/title)
✔️44. The Dead Chill (Pacific Northwest)

Checkpoint 4: Mount of Beatitudes

✔️45. An Abundance of Blessings (Blessing)
✔️46. Black Chokeberry (fewer than 500 ratings)
✔️47. Twice Removed (Minnesota- black choke origins))

Finish: Capernaum
✔️48. Insurrection (doctor)

Badge 1: Frodo and Sam

1. Bag End, Hobbiton
2. Badge 1: Task 1
3. Bring Her Home
4. Kindle, 317 pp.
5. Read a book with “home”, “homeward” or “homebound” in the title.
6. This book has the word “home” in the title.

1. Bag End, Hobbiton
2. Badge 1: Task 2
3. The Scholar
4. Audible, 10 hrs, 19 min.
5. Read a book that connects to Task 1. Read a book that takes place in Ireland.
6. Bring Her Home takes place in Ireland. This book also takes place in Ireland.

Wow! You're not just hiking this trail, you're plowing it.

Janice wrote: "Wow! You're not just hiking this trail, you're plowing it."

🤣 Thanks! Covid plus cold days plus no energy gives me a chance to crack them out!

Oh dear! Feel better soon.

Thanks, Janice! Things are looking up!

1. Bag End, Hobbiton
2. Badge 1: Task 3
3. A Perfect Evil
4. Kindle, 483 pp.
5. Read a book that connects to Task 2. Read a book that is a crime thriller or police procedural.
6. A Perfect Evil is a crime thriller (police procedural) like The Scholar.

Badge 1: Bree

1. Bag End, Hobbiton
2. Badge 1: Task 4
3. Fire Born
4. Kindle, 332 pp.
5. Read a book that that is the first book in a series of 4.
6. This book is the first in a series of 4 in the Elm CitySeries.

Badge 1: Bree

1. Bag End, Hobbiton
2. Badge 1: Task 5
3. Blood Bound
4. Audible, 10 hrs, 2 min.
5. Read a book that relates to Task 4. Read a book that has an MPG of Urban Fantasy like Fire Born.
6. This book has an MPG of Urban Fantasy.

Badge 1 Bree

1. Bree
2. Badge 1: Task 6
3. Book of the Dead, Patricia Cornwell
4. Kindle, 527 pp.
5. Read a book with an author or MC that has the name Patricia. (Author of previous book has first name of Patricia.)
6. The author, Patricia Cornwell, has the first name of Patricia.

1. Rivendell
2. Badge 1: Task 7
3. Sanctuary
4. Kindle 456 pp.
5. Read a book with “sanctuary” or “valley” in the or subtitle.
6. This book has the title “Sanctuary”.

1. Rivendell
2. Badge 1: Task 8
3. Safe Haven
4. Kindle, 285 pp.
5. Read a book that has a title that means “sanctuary”.
6. Safe and haven are synonyms for sanctuary.

Rivendell
2. Badge 1: Task 9
3. The Kill Club: A Gripping Thriller with a Killer Twist
4. Kindle, 381 pp.
5. Read a book that has a window on the cover. (Safe Haven has a window on the cover.)
6. This book has a window on the cover.

Moria
Badge 2: Task 10
Secret Legacy
Read a book that has a black cover. (75%)
This book’s cover is 85.9% black according to TinEye.

Moria
Badge 2: Task 11
Family Secrets, Shawn McGuire
Read a book that has the word “secret” in the title.
This book has the word “secret” in the title.

Moira
Badge 2: Task 12
An Unwanted Guest
Kindle, 352 pp.
Read a book that shows a house/building in moonlight on the cover.
This book has an inn in moonlight on the cover.
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Black Gate
Badge 2: Task 13
Iron Kissed
Audible: 9 hrs, 11 min.
Read a book with the word “iron” in the title.
This book has the word “iron” in the title.

Black Gate
Badge 2: Task 14
Moon Touched, Elizabeth Briggs
Kindle, 321
Read a book with someone who has a tattoo.
There is a man with tattoos on the cover.
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You'll be finished in no time.

Janice wrote: "You'll be finished in no time."

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Black Gate

Badge 1: Task 15
Cry Wolf, Patricia Briggs
Kindle, 321 pp.
Read a book with a wold on the cover.
This book has a woldf on the cover.
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Mount Doom
Badge 1: Task 16
Point Blank
HC 420 pp.
Read a book that is between 400 and 500 pp.
This book is 420 pages.

Congrats on finishing the first badge.

Janice wrote: "Congrats on finishing the first badge."

Thanks!

BADGE 2

Pilgrimages: Tour of Slovania, Croatia, and Bosnia

Zagreb
Badge 2: Task 1
Here To Stay
Kindle, 370
Read a book with a character or author that has the name Mark.
The author’s name s MARK Edwards.

Zagreb
Badge 2: Task 2
The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror
Kindle, 360 pp.
Read a book with the author’s first or last name is Edward.
The author’s first name is EDWARD.

Zagreb

Badge 2: Task 3
The Puller, Michael Hodges
Kindle, 275 pp.
Read a book that takes place in Michigan.
This book takes place in the UP of Michigan.

Ptujska Gora

1. Badge 2: Task 4
2. House of Echoes
3. Kindle, 402 pp.
4. read a book that has “gothic” on the MPG
5. This book has “gothic” listed as an MPG.

Ptujska Gora

1. Badge 2: Task 5
2. Coast Road
3. 447 pp. Kindle
4. Read a book where the author’s initials are BD or DB after the previous author’s name. (task 4)
5. The author’s initials are BD.

Ptujska Gora

1. Badge 2: Task 6
2. The Restaurant
3. Kindle, 282 pp.
4. Read a book that takes place on or near a beach.
5. This book takes place on the island of Nantucket.

Postojna Caves

1. Badge 2: Task 7
2. Train Tracks: Family Stories for the Holidays
3. Kindle, 385 pp.
4. Read a book with a train on the cover.
5. This book has a train on the cover.

Postojna Caves

1. Badge 2: Task 8
2. Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
3. PB 200 pp.
4. Read a book of short stories.
5. This is a book of romantic short stories.

1. Badge 2: Task 9
2Manitou Canyon
3. Audible: 11 hrs, 35 min.
4. Read a book with an author that has three names listed on the cover.( Alexander McCall Smith Like in Book 8)
5. The author of this book is William Kent Kruger (William Kent Krueger) and has three names listed on the cover of his book.

Opatija

1. Badge 2: Task 10
2. The Lighthouse
3. Kindle, 404 pp.
4. Read a book where a character goes on holiday to a beach resort.
5. In this book, five best friends reunite on the island (one of the smaller islands around Nantucket) to attend a friend’s funeral and to revisit old haunts and good times at the beach.

Opatija

1. Badge 2: Task 11
2. Blood River
3. Kindle, 319 pp.
4. Read a book that is about a vacation spot in the forest, mountains, or lake.
5. This book takes place in Minnesota around the northern lake areas at fishing camps used for holidays. (Forest, lake)

Opatija

1. Badge 2: Task 12
2. Blood Kings, Shade Owens
3. Kindle, 349 pp.
4. Read a book with the word “blood” in the title.
5. This book has the word “blood” in the title.

Medjugorje

1. Badge 2: Task 13
2. The Invited
3. 368 pp. Kindle
4. Read a book that is a ghost story.
5. This book is a ghost story. Hattie Blankenship is the main ghost but so is Olive’s mom.

Medjugorje

1. Badge 2: Task 14
2. The Mother-in-Law
3. PB 368 pp.
4. Read a book that was published in 2019. (The Invited was published 4/30/19.)
5. This book was published 4/29/2019.

Medjugorje

1. Badge 2: Task 15
2. Lost Lake
3. Kindle, 303 pp.
4. Read a book that is a Goodreads Choice Winner or Nominee.
5. This book is a Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction 2014.

Dubrovnik

1. Badge 2: Task 16
2. Carrie
3 kindle, 322 pp.
4. Read a book that was made into a movie.
5. This book was made into a movie in 1976.

El Camino Trail

1. Badge 2: Task 17
2. The Iron King
3. Kindle: 420 pp.
4. Read a book with the word “King” in the title.
5. This book has the word “King” in the title.

El Camino Trail

1. Badge 2: Task 18
2. Shadows in the Water
3. Kindle, 370 pp.
4. Read a book that has an MPG of Fantasy.
5. This book has an MPG of Fantasy.

Checkpoint 1: Palas de Rei

1. Badge 2: Book 19
2. The Teacher
3. Kindle, 402 pp.
4. RAB with a creepy, dark cover.
5. This book has a creepy “dark” cover. The story is creepy too!

Palas de Rel

1. Badge 2:Task 20
2. Body Double,Tess Gerritsen
3. HC 339 pp.
4. Read a book with “Body” in the title.
5. This book has the word “BODY” in the title.

Palas de Rel

1. Badge 2: Task 21
2. Mary, Mary, James Patterson
3. HC, 392 pp.
4. Read a book with a cover that show “doubles” of something.
5. This book has a picture of double women.

Palas de Rel

1. Badge 2: Task 22
2. Shiver
3. PB 592 pp.
4. Read a book with an MPG of SUSPENSE
5. This book has an MPG of SUSPENSE

Melide

1. Badge 2: Task 23
2. And Then There Were Nun
3. HC 231 pp.
4. Read a book where there is a nun who is a significant character.
5. This book is about a group of six nuns who are sent to look over an inherited property that is quite isolated. Sister LaNora and Sister Victoria are the most prominent but I would say that Sister LaNora is the MC.

Melide

Badge 2: Task 24
With Our Blessing
368 pp. K.
Read a book that takes place in a convent or other religious institution.
This book mainly takes place in a convent and also a priest’s quarters.