Cheryl’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2017)

Cheryl’s comments from the Challenges from Exploding Steamboats group.

Death of a Country-Fried Redneck is set completely in Bar Harbor Maine, although only the passing references to lobster fishermen has any real Maine flavor to it.

I just read a horrible mystery for this one Death of a Country-Fried Redneck.

Found one -- I knew there had to be one on my shelf. The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry.

Just finished Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, which is set almost entirely in Utah, particularly the red rock desert near Moab.

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey went on my Goodreads list the day I set up the account. Crossed it off yesterday. I feel like I accomplished something.

The author is Karin Fossum. Apparently this is book #6 in the series, but this is the first one that I have come across.

I crossed this one off with Black Seconds. Not nearly as gruesome as the Dragon Tattoo series, but definitely Nordic and dark in feel.

I finally finished Beauty is a Verb, an anthology of disability poetry. Not an easy or quick read, but enlightening.

Book 7 -- All My Patients Are Under the Bed

I read The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. It was very nostalgic for me, since I went to law school in Spokane.

I crossed this one off the list with The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry.

I was panicking about being behind on this challenge (it's the only personal goal thing I am actually working on these days). Tried to figure out what I had an hadn't read, which categories were crossed off. Found this and immediately thought, "Score! I have to have read at least one animal book this year already!"

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a crazy cat lady (both my cats and I are crazy). So I will count The Cat Who Went to Paris by Peter Gethers.

I crossed this one off the list with Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Emma's Secret takes place in Cincinnati, Ohio

Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered is also set in California

that makes 4 so far

Another New York book -- The Last Olympian (#5 in the Percy Jackson series)

6 books in New York so far

I forgot about the States Challenge for a while. Aunt Dimity Goes West was set in Colorado.

Finished off the Percy Jackson series with The Last Olympian

I am crossing this one off with Brave New World.

Aunt Dimity Goes West featured a summer vacation with hiking and fishing and trail rides and campfires.