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Ecuador Word Search
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Denise
Ed ~ Completed
Gretel
Jackie
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Vanessa
My SpotEcuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
45/45
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Attempted - Loc 3084 "He attempted a wink"
Breath - Love 452 "He took a deep breath"
Handicraft or Handiwork - Loc 781 "spotted her handiwork on every towel"
Market - Loc 789 "she attended the farmers market"
Middle - Loc 954 "left in the middle of the night"
Nickname - Loc 2134 "Is that your nickname?"
Painted - Loc 155 "beneath the painted wall"
Straddle - "waved as she straddled her bike"
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Bulk - Loc 1292 "plastic bags of bulk tea"
Chamber - Loc 454 "entering the nave only to hear chamber music"
Climate - Loc 1301 "suited to remote climates"
Evolution - Loc 78 "the city's evolution may not be perfectly insync"
Herb(s) - Loc 79 "to keep the herbs and spices safe from heat"
High Season - Loc 1064 "it's still high season"
Hustle and bustle - Loc 2221 "To the hustle and bustle of Monday morning"
Iguana - Loc 1029 "A double-header: Night of the Iguana"
Plaza - Loc 1909 "carried across the plaza"
Poor Man('s) - Loc 1716 "It's a poor man that can't see the beauty in the sun"
Research - Loc 1829 "put the kibosh on any lunchtime research"
Restaurant(s) - Loc 331 "special order for a restaurant customer"
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Fabric - Loc 1906 "the fabric of their clothes"
Gasp - Loc 1821 "she gasped and more cold air went into her lungs"
Lava - Loc 2505 "start another lava flow of snow"
Restriction - Loc 4313 "Restrictions on Dalton Highway traffic"
Saturday - Loc 1549 "That Saturday morning, they walked along"
Sunlight - Loc 2984 "thousands of bits of sunlight"
Thaw(ing) - Loc 3467 "had started to thaw"
Tortoise - Loc 834 "like a tortoise with our house on our back"
Woven - Loc 1658 "arguments woven into the darkness"
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Devil's - Loc 306 "The tips of the Devil's horns"
Norm - Loc 7235 "in ten years' time she'll be the norm"
Summit - Loc 4395 "the summit of the hill"
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Luxurious - Loc 537 "on the big luxurious rug"
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Amazon - Loc 2606 "from the collective screech from the Amazon reviews"
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Marine - Loc 1302 "a half finished jigsaw of marine life"
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Piranha(s) - Loc 2576 "They're like piranhas."
Train Tracks - Loc 544 "crisscrossed by train tracks"
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Shortness - Loc 6747 "the shortness of breath, the sagging shoulders"
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Hair-raising - Loc 3284 "in a few hair-raising seconds"
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Oil Field(s) - Loc 3674 "worked in the oil fields of Wymoning"
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Finch - Chap 42 (Audio) - "Miss Finch speaking,” said the voice"."
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Equator - Loc 4366 "Welcome to life on the equator"
Panama Hat - Loc 3431 "He has business selling Panama hats"
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Naturalist - Loc 4787 "a crunchy naturalist who preaches against the evils of iPhones"
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Riverfront - Loc 693 "they continued along the riverfront"
I felt your word vibes and came to check! and here it is!Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
43/45
Words
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Riverfront
Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson 6.1.23
Attempted - "Then she attempted to change the subject" p. 177
Breath - "There was scarcely a breath of wind" p. 2
Climate - "still unused to the northern climate" p. 84
Gasp - "Ari Thor heard Hendrin gasp as the young man appeared on the screen" p. 222
Market - "I put the house on the market" p, 145
middle - "It was positioned in the middle of an old-fashioned terrace" p. 1
nickname - "Would he ever be rid of that nickname?" p. 109
painted - "some of them newly painted" p. 81
poor man - "the poor man had a tough life" p. 68
research - "results of further research supported the theory that the disorder was genetic" p. 93
restriction - "they expected the town's quarantine restriction to be lifted that evening" p. 144
Saturday - "especially on such a chilly Saturday" p. 205
sunlight - "He savored the warmth the occasional beam of sunlight brought" p. 154
The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk 6.2.23
marine - "a former marine Intelligence officer" p. 29
woven - "He pushed aside the napkin caddy, the wove228n place mats..." p. 228
A Hero of France by Alan Furst 6.3.23
bulk - "first seen as a ghostly bulk" p. 161
fabric - "like a worker in the Manchester fabric mills" p. 5
restaurant - "Number 22 had a restaurant at street level" p. 53
straddle - "A middle aged couple who straddled two large suitcases" p. 232
thaw - "a weedy field bordered by partly thawed mounds of soot" p. 6
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths 6,6.23
Devil's - "had enough cash to pay the old devil's bar bill" p. 182
luxurious - "It was luxurious enough he supposed" p. 256
Through Streets Broad and Narrow by Gemma Jackson 6.8.23
chamber - "the horses don't use a chamber pot!" p. 120
handiwork - "the lace top was her own handiwork" p. 77
hustle and bustle - "Jem ignored the hustle and bustle all around him" p. 100
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 6.10.23
Evolution - "the battalion's evolutions on the night of June 30 were scarcely promising" p. 151
Hair-raising - "bizarre and hair-raising rumors were spread over the Continent" p. 356
Norm - "Blunden's is about soldiers in a bombarded wood as castaways from the human norm" p. 166
Summit - "a wooden cross erected at the summit by German soldiers" p. 77
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger 6.14.23
Lava - "like a lava flow spilling through the trees" p. 68
Thaw - "the rock had endured centuries of freeze and thaw" p. 318
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith 6.16.23
equator - "twelve degrees below the cranial equator" p. 302
finch - "a finch is God's choir" p. 166
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6.22.23
Panama hat - "Charles Steele with his Panama hat suspended his paintbrush" p. 11
Tortoise = "They displayed their tortoises." p. 109
Luck and Judgement by Peter Grainger 6.23.23
Amazon - "There was the usual Amazon and Ebay stuff..." p. 129
Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser 6.29.23
Herb(s) - ...the concoction of herbs down the sink" p. 144
Homecoming by Kate Morton 7.18.23
Naturalist - "he had been a naturalist, just as she was..." p. 246
Shell Game: The V. I. Warshawski Series by Sara Paretsky 7.24.23
Plaza - "to commemorate the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" p, 46
Straddle - "I grabbed the tree as I fell and managed to straddle it" p. 162
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver 8.29.23
Train Tracks - "The train tracks were fifty feet from the vic..." p. 16
The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld 9.5.23
shortness - "But its not the same sort of shortness." p. 143
Mercy Falls by Walter Kent Krueger 10.28.23
High Season (must be together) "hired staff from all over the world to help during the high season" p. 133
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths 11.16.23
Piranha - "Nelson often thinks is a piranha fish" p. 250
Also read - none of these words found -
Pall Bearers and Pepperoni by Patti Benning 6.11.23
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths 6.20.23
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York by Abraham Cahan 6.22.23
A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey 6.25.23
An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch 7.1.23
Whiteout by Ragnar Jonasson 7.2.13
When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong 7.9.23
Death Notes by Ruth Rendell 7.11.23
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 7.19.23
The Counterfeit Crank by Edward Marston 7.21.23
Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson 7.26.23
Desert Heat by J.A. Jance 7.29.23
The Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indridason 8.2.23
An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch 8.3.23
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger 8.7.23
Ghosts by Ed McBain 8.12.23
The Berlin Girl: A Novel of World War II by Mandy Robotham 8.14.23
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths 8.16.23
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 8.23.23
Laish Aharon Appelfeld 8.24.23
Ecuador Word SearchBegins: 01June23 / Ends: 31Aug23
45 / 45 words found
20 books read
Amazon - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 17 - "…rivers that nourished the Amazon."
Attempted - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 133 - "Oskar attempted to convert our…"
Breath - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 65 - "…almost like human breath."
Bulk - American Dirt ✔ – 18June23 - pg 305 - "...more space than the bulk of…"
Chamber - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 193 - "…with the chamber pot and…"
Climate - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 111 - "…as if into a climate, the…"
Devil's - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 3 - "The Devil's Highway is a name…"
Equator - The Ship of Brides ✔ – 28June23 - pg 145 - "…crossing the equator and…"
Evolution - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 44 - "…their evolution to who they…"
Fabric - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 138 - "…in the fabric of my dress."
Finch - The Case of the Missing Servant ✔ – 02July23 - pg 93 - "…finches gathered around a…"
Gasp - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 232 - "…let out a small distinct gasp."
Hair-raising - The Sandalwood Tree✔ – 24July23 - pg 359 - "…world's most hair-raising roads…"
Handicraft or Handiwork - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 105 - "…if he did handiwork."
Herb(s) - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 37 - "…measuring herbs she'd dried…"
High Season - The Haunting Season ✔ – 31Oct23 - pg 279 - "If this were high season…"
Hustle and bustle - Royal Flush ✔ – 15July23 - pg 224 - "…away from the hustle and bustle…"
Iguana - Solito ✔ – 12June23 - pg 44 - "…barley fields, volcano, iguana hatcheries…"
Lava - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 171 - "…after a lava flow runs..."
Luxurious - Time Was Soft There ✔ – 20June23 - pg 257 - "…replaced the luxurious toilet…"
Marine - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 184 - "…were arriving on Marine and…"
Market - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 32 - "…open-air market she …"
Middle - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 128 - "In the middle of the night…"
Naturalist - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 6 - "…southern Arizona, naturalists report,…"
Nickname - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 53 - "…obtained a nickname that…"
Norm - The Ship of Brides ✔ – 28June23 - pg 187 - "…not the norm for a…"
Oil Field(s) - Sex and Vanity ✔ – 27Feb24 - pg 159 - "…gushed in the oil fields of Texas…"
Painted - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 140 - "…past brightly painted, shingled…"
Piranha(s) - A Natural History of Dragons ✔ – 03Nov23 - pg 45 - "…and piranhas; cuckoos, camels and…"
Plaza - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 171 - "Across the plaza, a young…"
Panama Hat - The Perfume Thief ✔ – 09Aug23 - pg 224 - "…under parasols and Panama hats."
Poor Man('s) - The Dictionary of Lost Words ✔ – 21June23 - pg 178 - "Poor man, he so wanted to…"
Research - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 52 - "While doing research, I …"
Restaurant(s) - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 6 - "…beside the restaurant smoking…"
Restriction - You Sound Like a White Girl ✔ – 29June23 - pg 82 - "…no restrictions existed to…"
Riverfront - Old Bones ✔ – 17Aug23 - pg 2 - "…to the riverfront promenade."
Saturday - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 58 - "…on Saturday and wake…"
Shortness - The Case of the Missing Servant ✔ – 02July23 - pg 23 - "…the shortness of his left leg."
Straddle - Weather Girl ✔ – 17Sep23 - pg 261 - "I straddle him, my knees…"
Summit - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 134 - "…they were topping the summit, a…"
Sunlight - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 8 - "…angle of sunlight, indicating…"
Thaw(ing) - American Dirt ✔ – 18June23 - pg 267 - "…of thawing the part of her that…"
Tortoise - Solito ✔ – 12June23 - pg 33 - "Coyotes take their time, like tortoises."
Train Tracks - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 237 - "…along the train tracks."
Woven - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 167 - "Most were finely woven of some…"
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Thanks for joining me Denise & BC!! Denise wrote: "I felt your word vibes and came to check! and here it is!..."
Glad the vibes came through ;)
I'm going to call this one done. I didn't find HIGH SEASON.Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
Words
Amazon .. dedicated to Amazon rain forest restoration .. Free Fire pg 19
Attempted (must be past tense) .. I have attempted to persuade .. Every Rising Sun loc 522
Breath (no variations) .. A woman’s satisfied breath .. Every Rising Sun loc 117
Bulk .. The bulk of our army .. Every Rising Sun loc 1804
Chamber .. darted into the black chamber .. Every Rising Sun loc 1869
Climate .. not the climate change .. Tin City pg 95
Devil's (must be possessive) .. crooning the devil’s waswasa .. Every Rising Sun loc 4958
Equator .. reveal themselves is near the equator .. Shanghaied loc 457
Evolution .. process of this book’s evolution .. Cities of Women loc 3609
Fabric .. dinars of fabric and labor .. Every Rising Sun loc 823
Finch .. Robin and chaffinch; sparrow and dunnock .. A Moonlit Path of Madness loc 3409
Gasp .. initial gasp of pain and surprise .. Every Rising Sun loc 822
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) .. a hair-raising tale from his youth .. The Longmire Defense pg 9
Handicraft or Handiwork .. and examines his handiwork .. Every Rising Sun loc 1703
Herb(s) .. vegetable and herb stew .. Every Rising Sun loc 1429
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and) .. the hustle and bustle of a big city .. Her Little Flowers loc 1438
Iguana .. endangered Anegada rock iguana .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 26
Lava .. but a flood. Like lava .. Born in Death pg 108
Luxurious (no variations) .. luxurious lapis kaftan .. Every Rising Sun loc 2307
Marine .. the US Marines assaulting Iwo Jima .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 107
Market .. shining on a market stall .. Every Rising Sun loc 269
Middle .. in the middle of a story .. Every Rising Sun loc 1051
Naturalist (novariations) .. what the famous naturalist has to say .. A Moonlit Path of Madness loc 3381
Nickname .. earned them a second nickname .. The Bitter Past loc 163
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) .. according to his assistant, isn’t the norm .. Born in Death pg 35
Oil Field(s) (must be together) .. the oil fields in Romania .. A Son Of The Circus 8/2/23 pg 735
Painted (no variations) .. the hand-painted cards .. Every Rising Sun loc 420
Piranha(s) .. watch out for that piranha .. Born in Death pg 94
Plaza .. backhand you across the plaza! .. Every Rising Sun loc 1296
Panama Hat .. and a white Panama hat .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 122
Poor Man('s) (must be together) .. I gaze down at the poor man .. The Bitter Past loc 467
Research .. It’s years of work, right? Research. .. The Bitter Past loc 568
Restaurant(s) .. customer at the hotel restaurant .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 8
Restriction .. concerned by the restrictions placed .. Her Little Flowers loc 3147
Riverfront .. Shaman walked down to the riverfront .. Shaman pg 325
Saturday .. “Today is Saturday.” .. The Bitter Past loc 419
Shortness .. echoing the shortness of those five lives .. Her Little Flowers loc 4319
Straddle .. their horses straddle the road .. Every Rising Sun loc 2646
Summit .. are the summits of ancient .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 12
Sunlight .. turned sunlight into shadow .. Every Rising Sun loc 1166
Thaw(ing) .. the first thaw of the spring .. The Glass Forest pg 215
Tortoise .. case of polished tortoise shell .. Shaman pg 291
Train Tracks (must be together) .. Near the train tracks and the Hudson River .. The Glass Forest pg 97
Woven .. richly woven persimmon kaftan .. Every Rising Sun loc 1016
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*****COMPLETED 12/1/24*****Last word= "shortness"
Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
45/45
Words
✔ Amazon-p.14-Colonel Sun-"...his lush depiction of the Amazon to the brutal climax..." 8/26/23
✔ Attempted (must be past tense)-p.323-The Prisoner-"...as a kind of attempted excuse..." 12/1/23
✔ Breath (no variations)-p.217-In September, the Light Changes-"...as I felt his breath against my earlobe..." 6/4/23
✔ Bulk-p.25-Queen of the Flowers-"...for someone of her age and bulk." 11/27/23
✔ Chamber-p.322-Babbitt: The 1922 Sinclair Lewis Classic Satire Novel-"...done as much as I have on Chamber of Commerce committees..." 8/18/23
✔ Climate-p.405-The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World- "...to speak on climate change at the IUCN Congress." 10/1/24
✔ Devil's (must be possessive)-p.88-The Donkey Inside-"y...it depicts the Devil's holiday." 7/18/23
✔ Equator-p.55-Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World-"...a small town just south of the equator..." 12/11/23
✔ Evolution-p.366-Leaves of Grass-"To be thy natal stars my country, Ensemble, Evolution, FREEDOM..." 6/14/23
✔ Fabric-p151-If This World Were Mine-"...Tricia had come in to select fabrics." 6/2/23
✔ Finch-p.6- Death by Water-"A flock of Darwin's finches..." 12/31/23
✔ Gasp=p.305-Triggerfish Twist by Dorsey, Tim. (HarperTorch,2003) Mass Market Paperback -"'Fuck celebrities.' (Audience gasp)" 7/22/23
✔ Hair-raising (with or without hyphen)-p.55-Tea in Tripoli-"There followed a hair-raising drive..." 1/23/24
✔ Handicraft or Handiwork-p.158-In September, the Light Changes-"Even roaches are God's handiwork." 6/2/23
✔ Herb(s)-p.11-The Forgotten Village - John Steinbeck-"...she merchandised in herbs and amulets..." 7/22/23
✔ High Season (must be together)-p.115-Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World-"...during the high season when Isa runs a branch..."-12/14/23
✔ Hustle and bustle (with or without and)- p.123-The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World-"...you'll find the same hustle and bustle of the vast majority..." 12/14/23
✔ Iguana-p.25-The Know-It-All-"...pictures to a dead hamster or a dead iguana- yes..." 8/7/23
✔ Lava-p.63-King Solomon's Mines-"...by some volcanic eruption of molten lava." 6/16/23
✔ Luxurious (no variations)-p.30-The Sicilian-"...luxurious for a Sicilian home in this small town." 7/2/23
✔ Marine=p.6-Octopussy and The Living Daylights-"Major Dexter Smythe, OBE, Royal Marines..." 7/23/23
✔ Market-p.52-The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World-"As a lover of markets, I could not..." 7/5/23
✔ Middle-p.156-In September, the Light Changes-"...he got out of bed in the middle of the night..." 6/2/23
✔ Naturalist (no variations)-p.185-In September, the Light Changes-"...the clarinetist from Cleveland, the naturalist from Oregon..." 6/2/23
✔ Nickname-p.138-In September, the Light Changes-"...reference to a nickname Katherine Hepburn had used..." 6/1/23
✔ Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either)-p.227-Selfish and Perverse-"...people with passions out of the norm..." 10/21/23
✔ Oil Field(s) (must be together)-p.39- The Colonel's Mistake-"Near the Balaxani oil fields - a purgatorial wasteland..." 1/16/24
✔ Painted (no variations)-p.189-Leaves of Grass-"Painters have painted their swarming groups and..." 6/4/23
✔ Piranha(s)-p.101-Wiener Dog Art-"...his efforts to crossbreed flying fish and piranhas." 7/14/23
✔ Plaza-p.214- In September, the Light Changes-"...going about their business down there on the brick plazas..." 6/4/23
✔ Panama Hat-p.209-The Grapes of Wrath-"...pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats..." 6/25/23
✔ Poor Man('s) (must be together)-p.105-The Chimes-"But you are the Poor Man's Friend..." 10/13/23
✔ Research-p.14-The Meltdown-"...time to go down to the library for research..." 7/2/23
✔ Restaurant(s)-p.140-In September, the Light Changes-"...from 6/1/23 the gym he went to a restaurant..."
✔ Restriction-p.24-The Prisoner-"...under the restrictions constituted by our tastes..." 7/3/23
✔ Riverfront-p.244-100 Cities, 5,000 Ideas: Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do-"The Riverfront offers a similar mix..." 9/21/24
✔ Saturday-p.135-In September, the Light Changes-"...back to the city on a Saturday afternoon..." 6/1/23
✔ Shortness-p.218-Can You Forgive Her? Volume II-"The shortness of the date at which..." 12/1/24
✔ Straddle-p.87- The Sicilian-"The Via Bella was straddled at each corner..." 12/18/23
✔ Summit-p.20-The Know-It-All-"...one twenty-sixth of my way to the summit." 7/23/23
✔ Sunlight-p.295-In September, the Light Changes-"...and the sunlight fell gently, ever so gently..." 6/6/23
✔ Thaw(ing)-p.7-The Cricket on the Hearth-"...and thaw upon the track..." 12/3/23
✔ Tortoise-p.292-She: A History of Adventure-"...from side to side as does a tortoise." 11/12/23
✔ Train Tracks (must be together)-p.58-The Stingray Shuffle-"He began laying train tracks like...' 10/10/23
✔ Woven-p.9- Octopussy and The Living Daylights-"...a drooling fantasy woven around the birds..." 7/23/23
Wanderlust ChallengesSeasonal Adventures > Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 to August 31, 2023
Completed 0/45
Words
Amazon
Attempted (must be past tense)
Breath (no variations)
Bulk
Chamber
Climate
Devil's (must be possessive)
Equator
Evolution
Fabric
Finch
Gasp
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen)
Handicraft or Handiwork
Herb(s)
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Lava
Luxurious (no variations)
Marine
Market
Middle
Naturalist (novariations)
Nickname
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either)
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Painted (no variations)
Piranha(s)
Plaza
Panama Hat
Poor Man('s) (must be together)
Research
Restaurant(s)
Restriction
Riverfront
Saturday
Shortness
Straddle
Summit
Sunlight
Thaw(ing)
Tortoise
Train Tracks (must be together)
Woven
We're glad you're jumping in Jackie!
Ecuador Word SearchJune 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
45 of 45 Complete
Words
Fields of Fire - Ryan Steck - 8/21/23 - (1)
🔹Shortness - page 178 - "He came in a couple of times to the ER because of shortness of breath."
Wife by Wednesday - Catherine Bybee - 7/19/23 - (1)
🔹Restriction - page 185 - "The estate would relinquish his inheritance and lift any further legal restrictions."
Total Power - Kyle Mills - 8/17/23 - (1)
🔹Piranha(s) - page 255 - "Right now Rapp was torn between the battery acid and piranhas."
Catch Me When I Fall - A.L. Jackson - 7/18/23 - (1)
🔹Devil's (must be possessive) - page 179 - "He had a dimple in his cheek....the devil's dimple."
The Survivor - Kyle Mills - 7/22/23 - (3)
🔹High Season (must be together) - page 282 - "In the high season high of as many as six permanent men/"
🔹Luxurious (no variations) - page 278 - "His clientele were probably accustomed to safer and more luxurious travel methods."
🔹Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) - page 162 - "Infighting was the norm."
Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn - 6/22/23 - (2)
🔹Bulk - page 110 - "The bulk of the training was handled by Special Forces instructors."
🔹Summit - Page 144 - "I'm your Mount Everest and you want summit me."
Bear Bait - Pamela Beason - 6/27/23 - (1)
🔹Equator - page 288 - "She wasn't quite prepared for the contrast between the pacific northwest and the equator."
Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley - 6/1/23 - (1)
🔹Riverfront - page 59 - "The Superior Shores Casino and Resort spans across a massive amount of riverfront."
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 6/2/23 - (8)
🔹Panama Hat - loc 4870 - "He lifted his wide Panama hat. Goodbye."
🔹Poor Man('s) (must be together) - loc - 10596 - "The Yankees thought President Davis had it but when they captured the poor man he hardly had a cent".
🔹Restaurant(s) - loc 18791 - "Gone to sleep in his arms in theaters and restaurants."
🔹Saturday - loc 10678 - "Miss Fanny Elsing is getting married this Saturday".
🔹Straddle - loc 18813 - "Mammy began to grumble about the impropriety of a girl child riding a straddle in front of her pa."
🔹Sunlight - loc 6841 - "Pin points of sunlight came in through minute holes in the shades."
🔹Train Tracks (must be together) - loc 7248 - "You can't follow the train tracks."
🔹Woven - loc 8699 - "There on the floor were the rag rugs Ellen had dyed and woven herself."
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton - 7/5/23 - (1)
🔹Hustle and bustle (with or without and) - page 346 - "I'm not used to the hustle and bustle of polite society."
The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand - 7/6/23 - (2)
🔹Amazon - page 170 - "She orders from Amazon because it's cheaper and easier."
🔹Breath (no variations) - page 12 - "She closes her eyes and takes a sustaining breath."
All That Is Mine I Carry with Me - William Landay - 7/10/23 - (1)
🔹Evolution - page 151 - "The Dan Larkin of 1973 was a natural evolution of the boy I had met at Brooklyn High."
Shipped - Angie Hockman - 7/11/23 - (6)
🔹Finch - page 40 - Who hers spotted a Darwin's finch?"
🔹Handicraft or Handiwork - page 114 - "He examines my handiwork with knit eyebrows."
🔹Iguana - page 98 - "They are the only species of iguana on earth that feeds underwater."
🔹Lava - page 150 - "They paddle together past dozens of bright red crabs skittering across a jumble of black lava rocks."
🔹Naturalist (no variations) - page 55 - "A middle aged naturalist helps me climb in, and a minute later we are zooming through sea spray."
🔹Tortoise - page 168 - "It features a giant tortoise on the front."
Farm Fresh Murder - Paige Shelton - 7/13/23 - (3)
🔹Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) - page 274 - "And then he broke out in terrible hair raising screams."
🔹Herb(s) - page 17 - "Herb and his business and life partner, Don, grew perfect herbs."
🔹Thaw(ing) - page 185 - "I pulled the berries out of the freezer to thaw while I readied everything else."
Adrift - Lisa Brideau - 6/14/23 - (10)
🔹Chamber - page 232 - "Hito disarmed Casey, ejected the clip from the gun, and emptied the chamber."
🔹Climate - page 106 - "The government created new immigration pathways for people displaced by the climate crisis."
🔹Fabric - page 18 - "Tugging on dry clothes, crying out as fabric scraped over her welts, she smeared sunscreen on her face and buckled her life jacket."
🔹Gasp - page 16 - "With an involuntary gasp, she went under."
🔹Marine - page 77 - "There is a good marine supply shop ahead if you need equipment."
🔹Market - page 223 - "What's this new market?"
🔹Middle - page 102 - "She walked away in the middle of our busy season."
🔹Nickname - page 108 - "Im's a nickname."
🔹Plaza - page 93 - "The public library was a big brick building with a small plaza in front."
🔹Research - page 180 - I focused my life on my work and my research."
Memorial Day - Vince Flynn - 6/17/23 - (3)
🔹Attempted (must be past tense) - page 136 - "She would have attempted to reply if it worked for the fact that there was no longer in here left in her lungs."
🔹Oil Field(s) (must be together) - page 343 - "The oil fields will remain unscathed and the crown prince knows this."
🔹Painted (no variations) - page 72 - "Corrigan painted the man's head, dropped him in with a single shot, and then ducked behind the house."
Ecuador Word SearchJune - August 2023
39/45 found/finished
Bullet Park by John Cheever - 6/4 ★★★★
Attempted - page 246: "confessed to attempted homicide"
Breath - page 104: "objected to one another's bad breath"
Bulk - page 168: "the bulk of their text is advertising"
Chamber - page 217: "by some chamber in my nature"
Climate - page 3: "this is a climate of harsh winters"
Finch - page 193: "Then I went to Finch for a year."
Market - page 109 "put the pill on the market"
Middle - page 44: "in the middle of the rug"
Norm - page 45: "for moral and spiritual norms"
Painted - page 11: "my husband painted it"
Plaza - page 212: "take me to the Plaza for lunch"
Restaurant(s) - page 14: "Thursday evening at Harvey's restaurant"
Saturday - page 89: "It was an autumn afternoon. Saturday."
Summit - page 18: "at the summit of their perfection"
Thaw(ing) - page 15: "St. Mathias meant a thaw."
Tortoise - page 122: "raised itself up like a sea tortoise"
Woven - page 156: "woven into a rope or cord of air"
The Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward - 6/7 ★★★★
Amazon - page 83: "Amazon ants are specialists"
Equator - page 352: "crossing the equator twice"
Evolution - page 8: "evolution of the intelligence"
Fabric - page 77: "a kind of living waterproof fabric"
Gasp - page 192: "gasp at its sheer hideousness"
Marine - page 17: "large marine predators"
Naturalist - page 71: "the American naturalist"
Piranha(s) - page 124: "the red-bellied piranha"
Research - page 12: "scientific research"
Restriction - page 46: "the restriction of breeding rights"
Sunlight - page 92: "lit by dappled sunlight"
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis - 6/8 ★★★
Devil's - page 148: "the Devil's Pincushion"
Handicraft or Handiwork - page 137: "handiwork of Chicago Man"
Herb(s) - page 47: "taken from a vine or herb"
Luxurious - page 75: "a luxurious rest home"
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris - 6/13 ★★★★
Poor Man('s) - page 266: "the effect of a poor man's aurora"
Train Tracks - page 214: "train tracks and entrance ramps"
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke - 6/14 ★★★★
Nickname - page 217: "the popular nickname"
Straddle - page 318: "it straddles the equator"
Cultish by Amanda Montell - 6/21 ★★★★
Hair-raising - page 67: "weren't hair-raising enough"
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis - 6/30 ★★★★★
Oil Field(s) - page 100: "as if it were an oil field to be drilled"
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson - 7/4 ★★★
Lava - page 114: "put me in mind of flowing lava"
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Panama Hat
Riverfront
Shortness
Haven't done one of these in a while. We'll see how many I find.Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
42/45
Words
Amazon "all the waty to Boa Vista in the far northern Amaon." What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman 7/14
Attempted (must be past tense) "The vessel slowed as it attempted to land on a surface that pitched like the deck of a ship..." Chap 23 pg25
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Breath (no variations) "Now that I've caught my breath." pg 10
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Bulk "Mattrick hauled his bulk into the carrigae..." Chap 28 pg 30
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Chamber "The double doors to the chamber burst open..." Chap 11 pg 6
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5 "leaving behind him the perfect climate for the confessional." pg 142
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Climate "At the time the climate in East Africa was becoming cooler and drier..." Chap 1, pg 51
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Devil's (must be possessive) "And perhaps you'll tell me what the devil's been going on here?"
When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare 6/4
Equator "Some say his rope was exactly as long as the equator..." CH 1 American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne 8/15
Evolution "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Ch 1 pg 4
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Fabric "without the risk of damage to the shole fabric."
When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare 6/4 pg 94
Finch "Just look at that splendid bullfinch!" pg 106
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Gasp "Mrs. Pollifaax could only gasp and stare." pg 58
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) "Alf had been in the Fire Service, and both had experienced hair-raising episodes." pg 187
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Handicraft or Handiwork "This is his handiwork, Cousin Hesero." CH 25
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison 7/25
Herb(s) "Using some sort of powdered herb he'd found in one of Shadows bags..." Chap 39 pg7
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
High Season (must be together) "Although it's early June and not the high season yet in Africa." pg 14
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Lava "while another floundered helplessly in foot-deep lave." Chap 50 pg13
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Luxurious (no variations) "while Matrick snatched a pair of luxurious boots off a nearby table." Chap 25pg 13
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Marine ""to board a British Mercantile Marine vessel in a British harbor, then they were welcome to try." pg 111
The Golden Rendezvous by Alistair MacLean 6/24
Market "She got in a fight at the market." Chap 18 pg 28
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Middle "Mrs. Pollifax was standing in the middle of her living room practicing the karate onguard stance." pg 15
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Naturalist (no variations) "Naturalist Earnest Thomas Seton called these owls 'winged tiger'." What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman 7/14
Nickname "a nickname he'd earned thanks to his propensity for getting hit first..." Chap 4 pg18
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) "Comparative study of millenials' grip and lateral strength with the norms." Ch 8 pg 22
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Oil Field(s) (must be together) "it led him to an oil field at the edge of an ocean." Section 21 Murdle: Volume 1 by G.T Karber 8/28
Painted (no variations) "...showing an elegant white painted hall and staircase." pg 14
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Piranha(s)
Plaza "Blocks of stone rained down on the plaza," Chap 47 pg 15
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Panama Hat "To go with this, I who was anything but an outdoor girl, had added a Panama sports hat with a band around the crown..." pg 6
Our Hearts Were Young And Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner 8/23
Poor Man('s) (must be together) "a flying drop-kick to the poor man's face." Chap 11 pg 1
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Research "What about your research?" Chap 9 pg 15
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Restaurant(s) "as they walked out of the restaurant into the lobby of the hotel." pg 211
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Restriction "and a great many dietary restrictions (no raw flesh) ..." ebook pg 389
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher 6/16
Riverfront "If Zoe planned to spend much more time on the riverfront, she would need to invest in her own tent." CH 8
Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn 7/24
Saturday "On Saturday Mrs. Pollifax left early..." pg 26
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Shortness "His neck was thick and his hair was cut to military shortness" ebook pg 884
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher 6/16
Straddle "He moved suddenly, rising to straddle her hips..." CH 22
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton 7/24
Summit "as it did when they reached the summit and saw the world span gold and geen beyond it." Chap 3 pg 1
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Sunlight "The glimmer of sunlight through the sway of green leaves." Chap 31 pg 21
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5 "Seems to be thawing out now." pg 106
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Thaw(ing) "'Well,' she said, thawing a bit, 'it's been a pretty long week for both of us.'" Chapter 25 pg 724
The Golden Rendezvous
Tortoise "Tortoises emerge, shaky and slower than ever, from their hibernation ..." pg 113
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Train Tracks (must be together)
Woven "a bright thread woven through the midst of a vile tapestry." Chap 53 pg 7
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Thanks for joining Lynda, Beth & Teri! Good luck :)
Ecuador Word SearchJune 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
FOUND 34/45
The Kensington Kidnap by Katie Gayle 6/5/23
Amazon - pg 112 "…what's happening to the Amazon"
Attempted - pg 17 "…rode right over her attempted interjection."
Breath - pg 17 "She took a deep breath."
Chamber - pg 175 "…relieved to see no sign of a chamber pot."
Gasp - pg 202 "Then he let out a gasp."
Hair-raising - pg 225 "It was a little hair-raising, but it ended well."
Herb(s) - pg 205 "…the natural herbs for the massages."
Marine - pg 183 "Marine biology perhaps?"
Market - pg 115 "…an important target market for"
Middle - pg 59 "Ben stared into the middle distance"
Research - pg 22 "I help out with research when they need me"
Restaurant(s) - pg 48 "…a few blocks further on were trendy restaurants"
Saturday - pg 119 "It was a nice Saturday afternoon."
Sunlight - pg 33 "It was as if actual sunlight was coming out of her pores."
The Museum Murder by Katie Gayle 6/7/23
Fabric - pg 86 "…with fabric from the right era."
Nickname - pg 45 "… a nickname Pip and Flis used"
Painted - pg 63 "…now it's freshly painted."
Tortoise - pg 247 "…like a tortoise with its shell"
The Silence by Don DeLillo 6/17/23
Handicraft or Handiwork - pg 14 "It seemed the handiwork of a fraudulent second self."
The Collective by Alison Gaylin 6/29/23
Climate - pg 112 "…some climate conference somewhere"
Thaw(ing) - pg 128 "To thaw you out a little."
Gin & Daggers by Donald Bain Jessica Fletcher 7/2/2023
Woven - pg 33 "...sweater, and a loosely woven brown tie."
Three Men Out by Rex Stout 7/4/23
Bulk - pg 100 "…he lowered his bulk to Cramer's left"
Plaza - pg 133 "…and headed for the parking plaza."
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore 7/5/23
High Season - pg 278 "The prospect of the high season did…"
Lava - pg 40 "…convulsed by the molten lava he'd just drunk."
Panama Hat - pg 119 "…perfectly reasonable man's panama hat at him."
Poor Man('s) - pg 206 "…if we had proof of the poor man's murder?"
Fishing for Murder by Patti Benning 7/10/23
Hustle and bustle - pg 7 "and the hustle and bustle of the street outside"
Don't Read This or You Might Die by Wendy Dalrymple 7/11/23
Luxurious - pg 66 "The apartment was far too luxurious for…"
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 7/16/23
Evolution - pg 27 "...it is simply an inevitable evolution of sensationalism
Iguana - pg 148 "You know…a dog, a cat, an iguana…”
Restriction - pg 330 "...recently entered Sydney, in spite of restrictions."
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie 7/23/23
Devil's - pg 205 "Eh—what—what the devil’s this?”
Equator
Finch
Naturalist (novariations)
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either)
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Piranha(s)
Riverfront
Shortness
Straddle
Summit
Train Tracks (must be together)
I found "bullfinch". Would that work for "finch"?
Yes - I'll take that Teri!
Question: Naturalist (novariations)Will you take the plural "naturalists"?
Teri-K wrote: "I found "bullfinch". Would that work for "finch"?"Awesome. Thanks. :)
I'm reading about a lot of piazzas- public squares - will you accept that for plaza - a public square?
No Denise - I'm sticking with needing plaza. We still have 6 weeks to go. Good luck!
Jan wrote: "No Denise - I'm sticking with needing plaza. We still have 6 weeks to go. Good luck!"OK thank you!
I found "panama sports hat". Would that work?
I'm going to close this one out early because my habits have changed and I'm not reading as much right now. Not a bad finish anyway!Ecuador Word Search
June - August 2023
39/45 found/finished
Bullet Park by John Cheever - 6/4 ★★★★
Attempted - page 246: "confessed to attempted homicide"
Breath - page 104: "objected to one another's bad breath"
Bulk - page 168: "the bulk of their text is advertising"
Chamber - page 217: "by some chamber in my nature"
Climate - page 3: "this is a climate of harsh winters"
Finch - page 193: "Then I went to Finch for a year."
Market - page 109 "put the pill on the market"
Middle - page 44: "in the middle of the rug"
Norm - page 45: "for moral and spiritual norms"
Painted - page 11: "my husband painted it"
Plaza - page 212: "take me to the Plaza for lunch"
Restaurant(s) - page 14: "Thursday evening at Harvey's restaurant"
Saturday - page 89: "It was an autumn afternoon. Saturday."
Summit - page 18: "at the summit of their perfection"
Thaw(ing) - page 15: "St. Mathias meant a thaw."
Tortoise - page 122: "raised itself up like a sea tortoise"
Woven - page 156: "woven into a rope or cord of air"
The Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward - 6/7 ★★★★
Amazon - page 83: "Amazon ants are specialists"
Equator - page 352: "crossing the equator twice"
Evolution - page 8: "evolution of the intelligence"
Fabric - page 77: "a kind of living waterproof fabric"
Gasp - page 192: "gasp at its sheer hideousness"
Marine - page 17: "large marine predators"
Naturalist - page 71: "the American naturalist"
Piranha(s) - page 124: "the red-bellied piranha"
Research - page 12: "scientific research"
Restriction - page 46: "the restriction of breeding rights"
Sunlight - page 92: "lit by dappled sunlight"
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis - 6/8 ★★★
Devil's - page 148: "the Devil's Pincushion"
Handicraft or Handiwork - page 137: "handiwork of Chicago Man"
Herb(s) - page 47: "taken from a vine or herb"
Luxurious - page 75: "a luxurious rest home"
The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris - 6/13 ★★★★
Poor Man('s) - page 266: "the effect of a poor man's aurora"
Train Tracks - page 214: "train tracks and entrance ramps"
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke - 6/14 ★★★★
Nickname - page 217: "the popular nickname"
Straddle - page 318: "it straddles the equator"
Cultish by Amanda Montell - 6/21 ★★★★
Hair-raising - page 67: "weren't hair-raising enough"
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis - 6/30 ★★★★★
Oil Field(s) - page 100: "as if it were an oil field to be drilled"
Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson - 7/4 ★★★
Lava - page 114: "put me in mind of flowing lava"
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Panama Hat
Riverfront
Shortness
I finally found Shortness!~~~ Complete ~~~
Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
45 of 45 Complete
Words
Fields of Fire - Ryan Steck - 8/21/23 - (1)
🔹Shortness - page 178 - "He came in a couple of times to the ER because of shortness of breath."
Wife by Wednesday - Catherine Bybee - 7/19/23 - (1)
🔹Restriction - page 185 - "The estate would relinquish his inheritance and lift any further legal restrictions."
Total Power - Kyle Mills - 8/17/23 - (1)
🔹Piranha(s) - page 255 - "Right now Rapp was torn between the battery acid and piranhas."
Catch Me When I Fall - A.L. Jackson - 7/18/23 - (1)
🔹Devil's (must be possessive) - page 179 - "He had a dimple in his cheek....the devil's dimple."
The Survivor - Kyle Mills - 7/22/23 - (3)
🔹High Season (must be together) - page 282 - "In the high season high of as many as six permanent men/"
🔹Luxurious (no variations) - page 278 - "His clientele were probably accustomed to safer and more luxurious travel methods."
🔹Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) - page 162 - "Infighting was the norm."
Consent to Kill - Vince Flynn - 6/22/23 - (2)
🔹Bulk - page 110 - "The bulk of the training was handled by Special Forces instructors."
🔹Summit - Page 144 - "I'm your Mount Everest and you want summit me."
Bear Bait - Pamela Beason - 6/27/23 - (1)
🔹Equator - page 288 - "She wasn't quite prepared for the contrast between the pacific northwest and the equator."
Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley - 6/1/23 - (1)
🔹Riverfront - page 59 - "The Superior Shores Casino and Resort spans across a massive amount of riverfront."
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 6/2/23 - (8)
🔹Panama Hat - loc 4870 - "He lifted his wide Panama hat. Goodbye."
🔹Poor Man('s) (must be together) - loc - 10596 - "The Yankees thought President Davis had it but when they captured the poor man he hardly had a cent".
🔹Restaurant(s) - loc 18791 - "Gone to sleep in his arms in theaters and restaurants."
🔹Saturday - loc 10678 - "Miss Fanny Elsing is getting married this Saturday".
🔹Straddle - loc 18813 - "Mammy began to grumble about the impropriety of a girl child riding a straddle in front of her pa."
🔹Sunlight - loc 6841 - "Pin points of sunlight came in through minute holes in the shades."
🔹Train Tracks (must be together) - loc 7248 - "You can't follow the train tracks."
🔹Woven - loc 8699 - "There on the floor were the rag rugs Ellen had dyed and woven herself."
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton - 7/5/23 - (1)
🔹Hustle and bustle (with or without and) - page 346 - "I'm not used to the hustle and bustle of polite society."
The Five-Star Weekend - Elin Hilderbrand - 7/6/23 - (2)
🔹Amazon - page 170 - "She orders from Amazon because it's cheaper and easier."
🔹Breath (no variations) - page 12 - "She closes her eyes and takes a sustaining breath."
All That Is Mine I Carry with Me - William Landay - 7/10/23 - (1)
🔹Evolution - page 151 - "The Dan Larkin of 1973 was a natural evolution of the boy I had met at Brooklyn High."
Shipped - Angie Hockman - 7/11/23 - (6)
🔹Finch - page 40 - Who hers spotted a Darwin's finch?"
🔹Handicraft or Handiwork - page 114 - "He examines my handiwork with knit eyebrows."
🔹Iguana - page 98 - "They are the only species of iguana on earth that feeds underwater."
🔹Lava - page 150 - "They paddle together past dozens of bright red crabs skittering across a jumble of black lava rocks."
🔹Naturalist (no variations) - page 55 - "A middle aged naturalist helps me climb in, and a minute later we are zooming through sea spray."
🔹Tortoise - page 168 - "It features a giant tortoise on the front."
Farm Fresh Murder - Paige Shelton - 7/13/23 - (3)
🔹Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) - page 274 - "And then he broke out in terrible hair raising screams."
🔹Herb(s) - page 17 - "Herb and his business and life partner, Don, grew perfect herbs."
🔹Thaw(ing) - page 185 - "I pulled the berries out of the freezer to thaw while I readied everything else."
Adrift - Lisa Brideau - 6/14/23 - (10)
🔹Chamber - page 232 - "Hito disarmed Casey, ejected the clip from the gun, and emptied the chamber."
🔹Climate - page 106 - "The government created new immigration pathways for people displaced by the climate crisis."
🔹Fabric - page 18 - "Tugging on dry clothes, crying out as fabric scraped over her welts, she smeared sunscreen on her face and buckled her life jacket."
🔹Gasp - page 16 - "With an involuntary gasp, she went under."
🔹Marine - page 77 - "There is a good marine supply shop ahead if you need equipment."
🔹Market - page 223 - "What's this new market?"
🔹Middle - page 102 - "She walked away in the middle of our busy season."
🔹Nickname - page 108 - "Im's a nickname."
🔹Plaza - page 93 - "The public library was a big brick building with a small plaza in front."
🔹Research - page 180 - I focused my life on my work and my research."
Memorial Day - Vince Flynn - 6/17/23 - (3)
🔹Attempted (must be past tense) - page 136 - "She would have attempted to reply if it worked for the fact that there was no longer in here left in her lungs."
🔹Oil Field(s) (must be together) - page 343 - "The oil fields will remain unscathed and the crown prince knows this."
🔹Painted (no variations) - page 72 - "Corrigan painted the man's head, dropped him in with a single shot, and then ducked behind the house."
Olivermagnus wrote: "I finally found Shortness!."That was a tricky one Lynda! Fantastic finish!!!
Times almost up, and there aren't any more words in the books I will finish this month. I can't believe I couldn't find "train tracks" in any of the British mysteries I read! I thought that one would be easy! Still, I came pretty close.Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
42/45
Words
Amazon "all the waty to Boa Vista in the far northern Amaon." What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman 7/14
Attempted (must be past tense) "The vessel slowed as it attempted to land on a surface that pitched like the deck of a ship..." Chap 23 pg25
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Breath (no variations) "Now that I've caught my breath." pg 10
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Bulk "Mattrick hauled his bulk into the carrigae..." Chap 28 pg 30
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Chamber "The double doors to the chamber burst open..." Chap 11 pg 6
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5 "leaving behind him the perfect climate for the confessional." pg 142
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Climate "At the time the climate in East Africa was becoming cooler and drier..." Chap 1, pg 51
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Devil's (must be possessive) "And perhaps you'll tell me what the devil's been going on here?"
When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare 6/4
Equator "Some say his rope was exactly as long as the equator..." CH 1 American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne 8/15
Evolution "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Ch 1 pg 4
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Fabric "without the risk of damage to the shole fabric."
When the Wind Blows by Cyril Hare 6/4 pg 94
Finch "Just look at that splendid bullfinch!" pg 106
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Gasp "Mrs. Pollifaax could only gasp and stare." pg 58
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) "Alf had been in the Fire Service, and both had experienced hair-raising episodes." pg 187
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Handicraft or Handiwork "This is his handiwork, Cousin Hesero." CH 25
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison 7/25
Herb(s) "Using some sort of powdered herb he'd found in one of Shadows bags..." Chap 39 pg7
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
High Season (must be together) "Although it's early June and not the high season yet in Africa." pg 14
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Lava "while another floundered helplessly in foot-deep lave." Chap 50 pg13
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Luxurious (no variations) "while Matrick snatched a pair of luxurious boots off a nearby table." Chap 25pg 13
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Marine ""to board a British Mercantile Marine vessel in a British harbor, then they were welcome to try." pg 111
The Golden Rendezvous by Alistair MacLean 6/24
Market "She got in a fight at the market." Chap 18 pg 28
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Middle "Mrs. Pollifax was standing in the middle of her living room practicing the karate onguard stance." pg 15
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Naturalist (no variations) "Naturalist Earnest Thomas Seton called these owls 'winged tiger'." What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman 7/14
Nickname "a nickname he'd earned thanks to his propensity for getting hit first..." Chap 4 pg18
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) "Comparative study of millenials' grip and lateral strength with the norms." Ch 8 pg 22
Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free by Caroline Williams 7/2
Oil Field(s) (must be together) "it led him to an oil field at the edge of an ocean." Section 21 Murdle: Volume 1 by G.T Karber 8/28
Painted (no variations) "...showing an elegant white painted hall and staircase." pg 14
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Piranha(s)
Plaza "Blocks of stone rained down on the plaza," Chap 47 pg 15
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Panama Hat "To go with this, I who was anything but an outdoor girl, had added a Panama sports hat with a band around the crown..." pg 6
Our Hearts Were Young And Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s by Cornelia Otis Skinner 8/23
Poor Man('s) (must be together) "a flying drop-kick to the poor man's face." Chap 11 pg 1
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Research "What about your research?" Chap 9 pg 15
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Restaurant(s) "as they walked out of the restaurant into the lobby of the hotel." pg 211
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Restriction "and a great many dietary restrictions (no raw flesh) ..." ebook pg 389
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher 6/16
Riverfront "If Zoe planned to spend much more time on the riverfront, she would need to invest in her own tent." CH 8
Troubled Waters by Sharon Shinn 7/24
Saturday "On Saturday Mrs. Pollifax left early..." pg 26
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Shortness "His neck was thick and his hair was cut to military shortness" ebook pg 884
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher 6/16
Straddle "He moved suddenly, rising to straddle her hips..." CH 22
The Secret Service of Tea and Treason by India Holton 7/24
Summit "as it did when they reached the summit and saw the world span gold and geen beyond it." Chap 3 pg 1
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
Sunlight "The glimmer of sunlight through the sway of green leaves." Chap 31 pg 21
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5 "Seems to be thawing out now." pg 106
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman 6/17
Thaw(ing) "'Well,' she said, thawing a bit, 'it's been a pretty long week for both of us.'" Chapter 25 pg 724
The Golden Rendezvous
Tortoise "Tortoises emerge, shaky and slower than ever, from their hibernation ..." pg 113
Over the Gate by Miss Read 6/9
Train Tracks (must be together)
Woven "a bright thread woven through the midst of a vile tapestry." Chap 53 pg 7
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames 6/5
FinishedEcuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
40/45
Words
High Season (must be together)
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Piranha(s)
Riverfront
Shortness
Rupture by Ragnar Jónasson 6.1.23
Attempted - "Then she attempted to change the subject" p. 177
Breath - "There was scarcely a breath of wind" p. 2
Climate - "still unused to the northern climate" p. 84
Gasp - "Ari Thor heard Hendrin gasp as the young man appeared on the screen" p. 222
Market - "I put the house on the market" p, 145
middle - "It was positioned in the middle of an old-fashioned terrace" p. 1
nickname - "Would he ever be rid of that nickname?" p. 109
painted - "some of them newly painted" p. 81
poor man - "the poor man had a tough life" p. 68
research - "results of further research supported the theory that the disorder was genetic" p. 93
restriction - "they expected the town's quarantine restriction to be lifted that evening" p. 144
Saturday - "especially on such a chilly Saturday" p. 205
sunlight - "He savored the warmth the occasional beam of sunlight brought" p. 154
The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk 6.2.23
marine - "a former marine Intelligence officer" p. 29
woven - "He pushed aside the napkin caddy, the wove228n place mats..." p. 228
A Hero of France by Alan Furst 6.3.23
bulk - "first seen as a ghostly bulk" p. 161
fabric - "like a worker in the Manchester fabric mills" p. 5
restaurant - "Number 22 had a restaurant at street level" p. 53
straddle - "A middle aged couple who straddled two large suitcases" p. 232
thaw - "a weedy field bordered by partly thawed mounds of soot" p. 6
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths 6,6.23
Devil's - "had enough cash to pay the old devil's bar bill" p. 182
luxurious - "It was luxurious enough he supposed" p. 256
Through Streets Broad and Narrow by Gemma Jackson 6.8.23
chamber - "the horses don't use a chamber pot!" p. 120
handiwork - "the lace top was her own handiwork" p. 77
hustle and bustle - "Jem ignored the hustle and bustle all around him" p. 100
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell 6.10.23
Evolution - "the battalion's evolutions on the night of June 30 were scarcely promising" p. 151
Hair-raising - "bizarre and hair-raising rumors were spread over the Continent" p. 356
Norm - "Blunden's is about soldiers in a bombarded wood as castaways from the human norm" p. 166
Summit - "a wooden cross erected at the summit by German soldiers" p. 77
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger 6.14.23
Lava - "like a lava flow spilling through the trees" p. 68
Thaw - "the rock had endured centuries of freeze and thaw" p. 318
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith 6.16.23
equator - "twelve degrees below the cranial equator" p. 302
finch - "a finch is God's choir" p. 166
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf 6.22.23
Panama hat - "Charles Steele with his Panama hat suspended his paintbrush" p. 11
Tortoise = "They displayed their tortoises." p. 109
Luck and Judgement by Peter Grainger 6.23.23
Amazon - "There was the usual Amazon and Ebay stuff..." p. 129
Woman with Birthmark by Hakan Nesser 6.29.23
Herb(s) - ...the concoction of herbs down the sink" p. 144
Homecoming by Kate Morton 7.18.23
Naturalist - "he had been a naturalist, just as she was..." p. 246
Shell Game: The V. I. Warshawski Series by Sara Paretsky 7.24.23
Plaza - "to commemorate the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" p, 46
Straddle - "I grabbed the tree as I fell and managed to straddle it" p. 162
The Bone Collector by Jeffrey Deaver 8.29.23
Train Tracks - "The train tracks were fifty feet from the vic..." p. 16
Also read - none of these words found -
Pall Bearers and Pepperoni by Patti Benning 6.11.23
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths 6.20.23
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York by Abraham Cahan 6.22.23
A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey 6.25.23
An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch 7.1.23
Whiteout by Ragnar Jonasson 7.2.13
When Red Is Black by Qiu Xiaolong 7.9.23
Death Notes by Ruth Rendell 7.11.23
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion 7.19.23
The Counterfeit Crank by Edward Marston 7.21.23
Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson 7.26.23
Desert Heat by J.A. Jance 7.29.23
The Girl by the Bridge by Arnaldur Indridason 8.2.23
An Extravagant Death by Charles Finch 8.3.23
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger 8.7.23
Ghosts by Ed McBain 8.12.23
The Berlin Girl: A Novel of World War II by Mandy Robotham 8.14.23
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths 8.16.23
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 8.23.23
Laish Aharon Appelfeld 8.24.23
Great job Denise! Good luck finding the leftovers!
Found my last word - I'm done! Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
45/45
Book Used:
Attempted - Loc 3084 "He attempted a wink"
Breath - Love 452 "He took a deep breath"
Handicraft or Handiwork - Loc 781 "spotted her handiwork on every towel"
Market - Loc 789 "she attended the farmers market"
Middle - Loc 954 "left in the middle of the night"
Nickname - Loc 2134 "Is that your nickname?"
Painted - Loc 155 "beneath the painted wall"
Straddle - "waved as she straddled her bike"
Book Used:
Bulk - Loc 1292 "plastic bags of bulk tea"
Chamber - Loc 454 "entering the nave only to hear chamber music"
Climate - Loc 1301 "suited to remote climates"
Evolution - Loc 78 "the city's evolution may not be perfectly insync"
Herb(s) - Loc 79 "to keep the herbs and spices safe from heat"
High Season - Loc 1064 "it's still high season"
Hustle and bustle - Loc 2221 "To the hustle and bustle of Monday morning"
Iguana - Loc 1029 "A double-header: Night of the Iguana"
Plaza - Loc 1909 "carried across the plaza"
Poor Man('s) - Loc 1716 "It's a poor man that can't see the beauty in the sun"
Research - Loc 1829 "put the kibosh on any lunchtime research"
Restaurant(s) - Loc 331 "special order for a restaurant customer"
Book Used:
Fabric - Loc 1906 "the fabric of their clothes"
Gasp - Loc 1821 "she gasped and more cold air went into her lungs"
Lava - Loc 2505 "start another lava flow of snow"
Restriction - Loc 4313 "Restrictions on Dalton Highway traffic"
Saturday - Loc 1549 "That Saturday morning, they walked along"
Sunlight - Loc 2984 "thousands of bits of sunlight"
Thaw(ing) - Loc 3467 "had started to thaw"
Tortoise - Loc 834 "like a tortoise with our house on our back"
Woven - Loc 1658 "arguments woven into the darkness"
Book Used:
Devil's - Loc 306 "The tips of the Devil's horns"
Norm - Loc 7235 "in ten years' time she'll be the norm"
Summit - Loc 4395 "the summit of the hill"
Book Used:
Luxurious - Loc 537 "on the big luxurious rug"
Book Used:
Amazon - Loc 2606 "from the collective screech from the Amazon reviews"
Book Used:
Marine - Loc 1302 "a half finished jigsaw of marine life"
Book Used:
Piranha(s) - Loc 2576 "They're like piranhas."
Train Tracks - Loc 544 "crisscrossed by train tracks"
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Shortness - Loc 6747 "the shortness of breath, the sagging shoulders"
Book Used:
Hair-raising - Loc 3284 "in a few hair-raising seconds"
Book Used:
Oil Field(s) - Loc 3674 "worked in the oil fields of Wymoning"
Book Used:
Finch - Chap 42 (Audio) - "Miss Finch speaking,” said the voice"."
Book Used:
Equator - Loc 4366 "Welcome to life on the equator"
Panama Hat - Loc 3431 "He has business selling Panama hats"
Book Used:
Naturalist - Loc 4787 "a crunchy naturalist who preaches against the evils of iPhones"
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Riverfront - Loc 693 "they continued along the riverfront"
FINISHED - FOUND 34/45The Kensington Kidnap by Katie Gayle 6/5/23
Amazon - pg 112 "…what's happening to the Amazon"
Attempted - pg 17 "…rode right over her attempted interjection."
Breath - pg 17 "She took a deep breath."
Chamber - pg 175 "…relieved to see no sign of a chamber pot."
Gasp - pg 202 "Then he let out a gasp."
Hair-raising - pg 225 "It was a little hair-raising, but it ended well."
Herb(s) - pg 205 "…the natural herbs for the massages."
Marine - pg 183 "Marine biology perhaps?"
Market - pg 115 "…an important target market for"
Middle - pg 59 "Ben stared into the middle distance"
Research - pg 22 "I help out with research when they need me"
Restaurant(s) - pg 48 "…a few blocks further on were trendy restaurants"
Saturday - pg 119 "It was a nice Saturday afternoon."
Sunlight - pg 33 "It was as if actual sunlight was coming out of her pores."
The Museum Murder by Katie Gayle 6/7/23
Fabric - pg 86 "…with fabric from the right era."
Nickname - pg 45 "… a nickname Pip and Flis used"
Painted - pg 63 "…now it's freshly painted."
Tortoise - pg 247 "…like a tortoise with its shell"
The Silence by Don DeLillo 6/17/23
Handicraft or Handiwork - pg 14 "It seemed the handiwork of a fraudulent second self."
The Collective by Alison Gaylin 6/29/23
Climate - pg 112 "…some climate conference somewhere"
Thaw(ing) - pg 128 "To thaw you out a little."
Gin & Daggers by Donald Bain Jessica Fletcher 7/2/2023
Woven - pg 33 "...sweater, and a loosely woven brown tie."
Three Men Out by Rex Stout 7/4/23
Bulk - pg 100 "…he lowered his bulk to Cramer's left"
Plaza - pg 133 "…and headed for the parking plaza."
Death and Croissants by Ian Moore 7/5/23
High Season - pg 278 "The prospect of the high season did…"
Lava - pg 40 "…convulsed by the molten lava he'd just drunk."
Panama Hat - pg 119 "…perfectly reasonable man's panama hat at him."
Poor Man('s) - pg 206 "…if we had proof of the poor man's murder?"
Fishing for Murder by Patti Benning 7/10/23
Hustle and bustle - pg 7 "and the hustle and bustle of the street outside"
Don't Read This or You Might Die by Wendy Dalrymple 7/11/23
Luxurious - pg 66 "The apartment was far too luxurious for…"
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 7/16/23
Evolution - pg 27 "...it is simply an inevitable evolution of sensationalism
Iguana - pg 148 "You know…a dog, a cat, an iguana…”
Restriction - pg 330 "...recently entered Sydney, in spite of restrictions."
A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie 7/23/23
Devil's - pg 205 "Eh—what—what the devil’s this?”
DNF
Equator
Finch
Naturalist (novariations)
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either)
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Piranha(s)
Riverfront
Shortness
Straddle
Summit
Train Tracks (must be together)
Thanks for your update Vanessa! You are welcome to keep looking for the DNF words and keep us posted on your progress.
Oh great! Thanks, Jan! I nearly drove off the road listening to my audiobook yesterday when I heard FINCH! 😂
Vanessa wrote: "Oh great! Thanks, Jan! I nearly drove off the road listening to my audiobook yesterday when I heard FINCH! 😂"LOL!!! Yes, finding those elusive words can be exciting.
Vanessa wrote: "Oh great! Thanks, Jan! I nearly drove off the road listening to my audiobook yesterday when I heard FINCH! 😂"So glad that was "nearly" drove off the road, Vanessa! It would be a little hard to explain what happened to anyone who doesn't do these challenges, wouldn't it?
I'm going to call this one done. I didn't find HIGH SEASON.Ecuador Word Search
June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
Words
Amazon .. dedicated to Amazon rain forest restoration .. Free Fire pg 19
Attempted (must be past tense) .. I have attempted to persuade .. Every Rising Sun loc 522
Breath (no variations) .. A woman’s satisfied breath .. Every Rising Sun loc 117
Bulk .. The bulk of our army .. Every Rising Sun loc 1804
Chamber .. darted into the black chamber .. Every Rising Sun loc 1869
Climate .. not the climate change .. Tin City pg 95
Devil's (must be possessive) .. crooning the devil’s waswasa .. Every Rising Sun loc 4958
Equator .. reveal themselves is near the equator .. Shanghaied loc 457
Evolution .. process of this book’s evolution .. Cities of Women loc 3609
Fabric .. dinars of fabric and labor .. Every Rising Sun loc 823
Finch .. Robin and chaffinch; sparrow and dunnock .. A Moonlit Path of Madness loc 3409
Gasp .. initial gasp of pain and surprise .. Every Rising Sun loc 822
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen) .. a hair-raising tale from his youth .. The Longmire Defense pg 9
Handicraft or Handiwork .. and examines his handiwork .. Every Rising Sun loc 1703
Herb(s) .. vegetable and herb stew .. Every Rising Sun loc 1429
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and) .. the hustle and bustle of a big city .. Her Little Flowers loc 1438
Iguana .. endangered Anegada rock iguana .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 26
Lava .. but a flood. Like lava .. Born in Death pg 108
Luxurious (no variations) .. luxurious lapis kaftan .. Every Rising Sun loc 2307
Marine .. the US Marines assaulting Iwo Jima .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 107
Market .. shining on a market stall .. Every Rising Sun loc 269
Middle .. in the middle of a story .. Every Rising Sun loc 1051
Naturalist (novariations) .. what the famous naturalist has to say .. A Moonlit Path of Madness loc 3381
Nickname .. earned them a second nickname .. The Bitter Past loc 163
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either) .. according to his assistant, isn’t the norm .. Born in Death pg 35
Oil Field(s) (must be together) .. the oil fields in Romania .. A Son Of The Circus 8/2/23 pg 735
Painted (no variations) .. the hand-painted cards .. Every Rising Sun loc 420
Piranha(s) .. watch out for that piranha .. Born in Death pg 94
Plaza .. backhand you across the plaza! .. Every Rising Sun loc 1296
Panama Hat .. and a white Panama hat .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 122
Poor Man('s) (must be together) .. I gaze down at the poor man .. The Bitter Past loc 467
Research .. It’s years of work, right? Research. .. The Bitter Past loc 568
Restaurant(s) .. customer at the hotel restaurant .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 8
Restriction .. concerned by the restrictions placed .. Her Little Flowers loc 3147
Riverfront .. Shaman walked down to the riverfront .. Shaman pg 325
Saturday .. “Today is Saturday.” .. The Bitter Past loc 419
Shortness .. echoing the shortness of those five lives .. Her Little Flowers loc 4319
Straddle .. their horses straddle the road .. Every Rising Sun loc 2646
Summit .. are the summits of ancient .. Sun, Sand, Murder pg 12
Sunlight .. turned sunlight into shadow .. Every Rising Sun loc 1166
Thaw(ing) .. the first thaw of the spring .. The Glass Forest pg 215
Tortoise .. case of polished tortoise shell .. Shaman pg 291
Train Tracks (must be together) .. Near the train tracks and the Hudson River .. The Glass Forest pg 97
Woven .. richly woven persimmon kaftan .. Every Rising Sun loc 1016
6/2/23 2.75☆
6/6/23 3.5☆
6/8/23 3.25☆
6/10/23 3.25☆
6/12/23 4☆
6/16/23 3☆
6/19/23 3.75☆
6/22/23 4☆
6/24/23 4☆
7/4/23 3.75☆
7/19/23 2.75☆
8/2/23 2☆
9/9/23 4☆
11/2/23 3.75☆
Well done Gretel!! Now that you've posted this, I'm sure high season will show up soon for you. Come back and let us know if you find it.
OOPS forgot to Update message # 5 - Challenge completed - ✔ - 27Feb24Ecuador Word Search
Begins: 01June23 / Ends: 31Aug23
45 / 45 words found
20 books read
Amazon - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 17 - "…rivers that nourished the Amazon."
Attempted - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 133 - "Oskar attempted to convert our…"
Breath - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 65 - "…almost like human breath."
Bulk - American Dirt ✔ – 18June23 - pg 305 - "...more space than the bulk of…"
Chamber - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 193 - "…with the chamber pot and…"
Climate - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 111 - "…as if into a climate, the…"
Devil's - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 3 - "The Devil's Highway is a name…"
Equator - The Ship of Brides ✔ – 28June23 - pg 145 - "…crossing the equator and…"
Evolution - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 44 - "…their evolution to who they…"
Fabric - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 138 - "…in the fabric of my dress."
Finch - The Case of the Missing Servant ✔ – 02July23 - pg 93 - "…finches gathered around a…"
Gasp - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 232 - "…let out a small distinct gasp."
Hair-raising - The Sandalwood Tree✔ – 24July23 - pg 359 - "…world's most hair-raising roads…"
Handicraft or Handiwork - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 105 - "…if he did handiwork."
Herb(s) - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 37 - "…measuring herbs she'd dried…"
High Season - The Haunting Season ✔ – 31Oct23 - pg 279 - "If this were high season…"
Hustle and bustle - Royal Flush ✔ – 15July23 - pg 224 - "…away from the hustle and bustle…"
Iguana - Solito ✔ – 12June23 - pg 44 - "…barley fields, volcano, iguana hatcheries…"
Lava - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 171 - "…after a lava flow runs..."
Luxurious - Time Was Soft There ✔ – 20June23 - pg 257 - "…replaced the luxurious toilet…"
Marine - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 184 - "…were arriving on Marine and…"
Market - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 32 - "…open-air market she …"
Middle - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 128 - "In the middle of the night…"
Naturalist - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 6 - "…southern Arizona, naturalists report,…"
Nickname - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 53 - "…obtained a nickname that…"
Norm - The Ship of Brides ✔ – 28June23 - pg 187 - "…not the norm for a…"
Oil Field(s) - Sex and Vanity ✔ – 27Feb24 - pg 159 - "…gushed in the oil fields of Texas…"
Painted - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 140 - "…past brightly painted, shingled…"
Piranha(s) - A Natural History of Dragons ✔ – 03Nov23 - pg 45 - "…and piranhas; cuckoos, camels and…"
Plaza - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 171 - "Across the plaza, a young…"
Panama Hat - The Perfume Thief ✔ – 09Aug23 - pg 224 - "…under parasols and Panama hats."
Poor Man('s) - The Dictionary of Lost Words ✔ – 21June23 - pg 178 - "Poor man, he so wanted to…"
Research - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 52 - "While doing research, I …"
Restaurant(s) - Infinite Country ✔ – 08June23 - pg 6 - "…beside the restaurant smoking…"
Restriction - You Sound Like a White Girl ✔ – 29June23 - pg 82 - "…no restrictions existed to…"
Riverfront - Old Bones ✔ – 17Aug23 - pg 2 - "…to the riverfront promenade."
Saturday - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 58 - "…on Saturday and wake…"
Shortness - The Case of the Missing Servant ✔ – 02July23 - pg 23 - "…the shortness of his left leg."
Straddle - Weather Girl ✔ – 17Sep23 - pg 261 - "I straddle him, my knees…"
Summit - The Devil's Highway ✔ – 10June23 - pg 134 - "…they were topping the summit, a…"
Sunlight - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 8 - "…angle of sunlight, indicating…"
Thaw(ing) - American Dirt ✔ – 18June23 - pg 267 - "…of thawing the part of her that…"
Tortoise - Solito ✔ – 12June23 - pg 33 - "Coyotes take their time, like tortoises."
Train Tracks - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous ✔ – 06June23 - pg 237 - "…along the train tracks."
Woven - The Edge of the Earth ✔ – 06June23 - pg 167 - "Most were finely woven of some…"
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June 1, 2023 - August 31, 2023
The words for this search are taken from our Ecuador Seasonal Challenge. You do not need to participate in both to play.
Below is the list of 45 words for you to find. They can only be found within the text of the book - no covers, titles or authors, please. For each word you find, please provide the book title, page or location, and the sentence or phrase containing the word.
Happy Hunting!!
Words
Amazon
Attempted (must be past tense)
Breath (no variations)
Bulk
Chamber
Climate
Devil's (must be possessive)
Equator
Evolution
Fabric
Finch
Gasp
Hair-raising (with or without hyphen)
Handicraft or Handiwork
Herb(s)
High Season (must be together)
Hustle and bustle (with or without and)
Iguana
Lava
Luxurious (no variations)
Marine
Market
Middle
Naturalist (novariations)
Nickname
Norm (not used as a name/normal won't work either)
Oil Field(s) (must be together)
Painted (no variations)
Piranha(s)
Plaza
Panama Hat
Poor Man('s) (must be together)
Research
Restaurant(s)
Restriction
Riverfront
Saturday
Shortness
Straddle
Summit
Sunlight
Thaw(ing)
Tortoise
Train Tracks (must be together)
Woven