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

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Badge 1: 16 books, read in order

Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth:

COMPLETED

Start - Bag End Hobbiton.
Task: Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.
✓1- Wish Me Home
✓2- The Expectant Detectives (link: dog on cover and significant in story)
✓3- The Old Ducks' Club (link: Fiction, humor, contemporary, adult, & audiobook MPGs)

Checkpoint 1 - Bree
Task - Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4.
✓4- Stalking Jack the Ripper
✓5- The K Team (also 1st in a series of 4)
✓6- Dead Center (same author)

Checkpoint 2 - Rivendell
Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.
✓7- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
✓8- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (nonfiction w subtitle)
✓9- Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond (nonfiction w subtitle)

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.
✓10- Run (77.3%)
✓11- Thor (One word title)
✓12- Eruption (One word title)

Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
Task: Read a book with "Iron" in the title.
✓13- Iron Flame
✓14- Pumpkin Everything (Top genre: Romance)
✓15- Funny Story (Top genre: Romance)

Finish - Mount Doom
Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.
✓16- Just for the Summer

Badge 1 Reporting:

Frodo & Sam's route through Middle Earth:

Bag End Hobbiton
1- Wish Me Home, 299 pages, home in title
2- The Expectant Detectives, 384 pages, link: dog on cover and significant in story
3- The Old Ducks' Club, 322 pages, link: MPGs: Fiction, humor, contemporary, adult, & audiobook

Bree
4- Stalking Jack the Ripper, 336 pages, 1st book of a series of 4
5- The K Team, 304 pages, link: 1st book of a series of 4
6- Dead Center, 352 pages, link: same author

Rivendell
7- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, 377 pages, valley in title
8- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, 368 pages, link: nonfiction with subtitles
9- Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond, 246 pages, link: nonfiction with subtitles

Moria
10- Run, 284 pages, black cover
11- Thor, 327 pages, link: one word title
12- Eruption, 432 pages, link: one word title

Black Gate
13- Iron Flame, 640 pages, iron in the title
14- Pumpkin Everything, 192 pages, romance top genre
15- Funny Story, 400 pages, romance top genre

Mount Doom
16- Just for the Summer, 432 pages, between 400 and 450 pages

Book reporting:

1. Badge #, Book #
2. Where are you?, task #
3. Link to book
4. Page count
5. Task / Link
6. How book fits task / link

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1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Middle Earth, task #1
3. Wish Me Home
4. 299 pages (9 hrs 9 mins)
5. Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.
6. Has "home" in the title.

Was this a toppler read for you? I couldn't fit any of my hike challenge books into the toppler. I'll have to find a new book to replace one of them if I get that far into the challenge.

It was. I read it for city: dog on the cover / in the story. I actually planned to read something else for the challenge, but never found time to get to it so switched to this one.

I'm actually reading another book for the same task right now and linking it that way (dog on the cover / in the story) for the second book in my challenge.

I fitted two of my toppler books into the challenge, not with the planned links though.

Exactly, Margo. I think we need to be a little flexible with this challenge.

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Middle Earth, Bag End Hobbiton
3. The Expectant Detectives
4. 384 pages
5. Link to book #1.
6. link: both books have a dog on cover and significant in the story


1. Badge 1, Book 3
2. Middle Earth, Bag End Hobbiton
3. The Old Ducks' Club
4. 322 pages (9 hrs 32 mins)
5. Link to book #2.
6. link: Both books have fiction, humor, contemporary, adult, & audiobook as main page genres.

1. Badge 1, Book 4
2. Middle Earth, Bree
3. Stalking Jack the Ripper
4. 336 pages (9 hrs 26 mins)
5. Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4.
6. The book is 1st book of a series of 4.

Did you enjoy it Kristie? I've had the audiobook for a few years now, waiting to be read.

I mostly enjoyed it, but the MC frustrated me at times. She's a bit hot and cold. I don't think the characters were very consistent.

1. Badge 1, Book 5
2. Middle Earth, Bree
3. The K Team
4. 304 pages (6 hrs 18 mins)
5. Task: Link to Stalking Jack the Ripper
6. Link: This book is also 1st book of a series of 4.

1. Badge 1, Book 6
2. Middle Earth, Bree
3. Dead Center
4. 352 pages (7 hrs 20 mins)
5. Task: Link to The K Team
6. Link: Same author - David Rosenfelt

1. Badge 1, Book 7
2. Middle Earth, Rivendell
3. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
4. 377 pages (13 hrs 8 mins)
5. Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.
6. Title includes "Valley."

1. Badge 1, Book 8
2. Middle Earth, Rivendell
3. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
4. 368 pages (13 hrs 52 mins)
5. Link to Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
6. Link: Both are nonfiction with subtitles.

1. Badge 1, Book 9
2. Middle Earth, Rivendell
3. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond
4. 246 pages (9 hrs 22 mins)
5. Link to Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
6. Link: Both are nonfiction with subtitles.

1. Badge 1, Book 10
2. Middle Earth, Moria
3. Run
4. 284 pages (8 hrs 21 mins)
5. Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.
6. Book is 77.3% black per Tineye.

1. Badge 1, Book 11
2. Middle Earth, Moria
3. Thor
4. 327 pages
5. Link to Run
6. Link: Both books have a one word title.

1. Badge 1, Book 12
2. Middle Earth, Moria
3. Eruption
4. 432 pages
5. Link to Thor
6. Link: Both books have a one word title.

1. Badge 1, Book 13
2. Middle Earth, Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
3. Iron Flame
4. 640 pages
5. Task: Read a book with "Iron" in the title.
6. Book has "iron" in the title

1. Badge 1, Book 14
2. Middle Earth, Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
3. Pumpkin Everything
4. 192 pages
5. Task: Link to Iron Flame
6. Link: Both books have a top genre of romance.

These last two books are okay for the connecting genre.

Thanks, Janice.

1. Badge 1, Book 15
2. Middle Earth, Checkpoint 4 - Black Gate
3. Funny Story
4. 400 pages
5. Task: Link to Pumpkin Everything
6. Link: Both books have a top genre of romance.

Just one left to go!!

Woot! Almost there. :)

1. Badge 1, Book 16
2. Middle Earth, Mount Doom
3. Just for the Summer
4. 432 pages
5. Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.
6. Book is 432 pages.

Finished!!!

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing, Kristie.

Thanks, Janice!