Vikki’s Comments (group member since Dec 01, 2021)

Vikki’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

On Herring Cove Road: Mr. Rosen and His 43Lb Anxiety
Off Herring Cove Road: The Problem Being Blue
Still On Herring Cove Road: Hickory, Dickory, Death

Our Homesick Songs

Flight Against Time

The Call of the Wild by Jack London (Classic, HF, Fiction)

White Fang by Jack London (Classic, Fiction)

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
(Contemporary, Fiction)

The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (HF)

A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny (Mystery) Book 2 - Three Pines, Quebec

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - Vancoover Island

The River by Peter Heller Adventure, Thriller

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood - Sci-Fi, Dystopian

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen - HF, Romance

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies Fiction, Literature

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay Fantasy, YA - (Author is Canadian)

- The Ellis Portal mystery series - Rosemary Aubert (1st book Free Reign.
- Ben Fortin (2 books) - Deryn Collier (1st book Confined Space
- Hunter Rayne books - R.E. Donald (1st book Slow Curve on the Coquihalla
- Benny Cooperman detective series - Howard Engel (1st book The Suicide Murders: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
- Silas Seaweed mystery series - Stanley Evans (1st book Seaweed on the Street
- Emile Cinq-Mars - John Farrow (1st book - City Of Ice
- Lara McClintoch archeological series (not all set in Canada) - Lyn Hamilton (1st book - The Xibalba Murders
- The Blood Books (Hor / Fantasy) - Tanya Huff (1st book Blood Price
- Katy Klein trilogy - Karen Irving (1st book Pluto Rising
- Margaret Millar (not all books set in Canada; try Wall Of Eyes
- Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1st book Anne of Green Gables
- The Temperance Brennan series (not all set in Canada) - Kathy Reichs (1st book Déjà Dead
- Miramichi trilogy - David Adams Richards (1st book Nights Below Station Street
- Staff Sgt Karl Alberg series - L.R. Wright (1st book The Suspect
- Guy Vanderhaeghe The Last Crossing
- Mordecai Richler (many)
- Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of a Lion
- Emily St. John Mandel - Last Night in Montreal

Enter, Night by Michael Rowe (Horror, paranormal, vampires)

Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt (Mystery) {Ontario} 1st in series

The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Mystery)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Dystopian, Fiction)

The Killing Circle by Andrew Pyper (Mystery, Thriller) Toronto, ON

Let's be optimistic and aim for 25 over 400.
And based on the changes that it should be books over 500 pages, I'm going to aim for a very optimistic 10 (it was 7 for 2021)

500 +
1. A Midwinter Promise 530
2. Police 628
3. Genesis 526
4. Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets 511
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 746
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400 +
1. A Midwinter Promise 530
2. The Lighthouse Witches 413
3. The Book of Lost Names 453
4. Police 628
5. Monster in the Closet 433
6. The Binding 438
7. Poppy's Recipe for Life 412
8. Before the Storm 432
9. The Mayfly 432
10. The Girl Behind the Wall 416
11. The Curator 418
12. The Fallout 440
13. Beach House Summer 416
14. The Little Flower Shop by the Sea 432
15. The Secret Seaside Escape 419
16. The Lost Boy 497
17. Genesis 526
18. Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets 511
19. A Taste of Home 419
20. Songbirds 400
21. The Queen: 1926–2022 432
22. Trust No One 428
23. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 746
24. The Darker Side 452
25. Dead Ground 448
26. Snapshot 464

Read 25/26 challenges.

1. A book you received as a gift. The Lighthouse Witches

2. A book that takes place in New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, New Hampshire. Bookplate Special (set in New Hampshire)

3. A book about: book clubs, book stores, libraries Book, Line and Sinker

4. A book from Moderator Recommends Trust No One

5. A new release. Outside

6. A lesser known book written by any author. Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

7. A book with a two word title. The Bothy

8. A book with a different culture than yours. The Little Teashop in Tokyo

9. A book about someone who is dead. The Queen (read after she passed away)

10. A book from a genre you don’t usually read. Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair (I don't usually read non-fiction)

11. Read two books by one author, name author.
Author: Michael Wood
- The Murder House
- Stolen Children

12. Book set in a fictional town. Shadow and Bone

13. A light hearted or fun book. Spring Flowers and April Showers

14. A book about betrayal. Monster in the Closet

15. A book written by an author who uses initials for his/her name. ie: J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

16. A book you own but haven’t read yet. The Snow Killer

17. A book from the bottom of your tbr list. Shopaholic to the Rescue:

18. A highly anticipated book. The Soul Breaker

19. A book you picked up at the library.

20. A book you bought/borrowed with out reading the inside blurb. Girls Who Lie

21. A book that starts with the letter W, X,Y, or Z* William at 40: The Making of a Modern Monarch


22. A book from a series. Police (Harry Hole series)

23. A book with a number in the title. The Queen: 70 years of Majestic Style

24. Read a book set in a state with a direction in its name: North, South, East, or West. (N.C, N.D, S.C, S.D, W.V) Gunpowder Green - set in South Carolina

25. A book written by someone from The U.K. (N. Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales) Driftnet - author Lin Anderson is Scottish

26. A book with an Orange cover. The Little Vintage Carousel by the Sea

Andorra:
Death Has a Thousand Doors

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo by Paula McLain

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

Authors:
Alexandre Dumas
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Marcel Proust
Victor Hugo
Gustave Flaubert
Jules Verne
Jean-Patrick Manchette

Series:
Aimee Leduc series by Cara Black - first in series is Murder in the Marais
The Paris homicide series by Frédérique Molay - first in series is The 7th Woman
Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin Walker - first in series is Bruno, Chief of Police
Commissaire Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas - first in series The Chalk Circle Man
Nicholas le Floch series by Jean-François Parot - first in series The Chatelet Apprentice
Winemaker series by Jean-Pierre Alaux - first in series is Treachery in Bordeaux
Brittany series by Jean-Luc Bannalec - first in series is Death in Brittany
Inspector Truchaud by R.M. Cartmel - first in series is The Richebourg Affair
Gilles Sebag series by Philippe Georget - first in series Summertime All the Cats Are Bored
Camille Verhoeven series by Pierre Lemaitre - first in series Irène
Enzo MacLeod by Peter May starting with Extraordinary People
Dimitri Boizot by Patrick Philippart starting with Mortal Ambitions

Books:
All the Light We Cannot See
A Very Long Engagement
The Phantom of the Opera
Code Name Verity
The Black Terrorist
The Beauty and the Beast
To My Daughter In France
Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion
For Love of a Rose
Perfume from Provence
The Panda Theory
The Dark Angel
The Day of the Jackal

Publishers Le French book https://www.lefrenchbook.com/ has a number of books to choose from

The Paris Secret by Karen Swan
The Paris Secret by Lily Graham
One Summer in Paris by Sarah Morgan
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - partially set in France
The Night Gate (The Enzo Files, #7). by Peter May

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Classic, Literature)

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Classic, Literature)

The Night Has Teeth by Kat Kruger (YA, Paranormal, werewolves)

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (YA, Fantasy) 1st in series

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (Mystery) 1st in series

Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez (Mystery, Thriller)

Irène by Pierre Lemaitre (Mystery)

Codex by Adrian Dawson (Thriller)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (Mystery) - Paris, Fecamp

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
France, including the towns of Tostes, Yonville, and Rouen

Pascal Garnier wrote a series of novellas that Stephen King fans might especially appreciate

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Mystery) - Saint-Louis

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber (Science Fiction)

The Silent Patient historical fiction
The Secret Keeper historical fiction

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller) - 1137 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Gwytherin, Wales.

The Fog

The Book of Negroes

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

There is a whole series of Maisie Dobbs books. All but two are in England

The Enemy by Charlie Higson (Horror)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Fantasy)

The Inspector and Mrs Jeffries by Emily Brightwell (Mystery)

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell Fantasy

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Classic, Paranormal)

Soulless by Gail Carriger (Sci-Fi, Fantasy)

The Witches by Roald Dahl

A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows (Mystery) - Norfolk County (Saltmarsh)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Historical Fiction) - London

The Girl Without Skin by Mads Peder Nordbo (Mystery, Thriller) 1st in series

The Tenant by Katrine Engberg (Mystery) - Copenhagen

The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl (Mystery, Thriller)

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (Mystery, Thriller) Fjällbacka, Sweden

The Exception by Christian Jungersen (Mystery, Thriller) - Copenhagen

The Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen. First book The Keeper of Lost Causes

Denmark
The Chestnut Man