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message 102: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 13, 2021 01:29PM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments BADGE 3 JFMI question in on card 18

Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
1. Location - Task: Read a book set in South Africa or written by a South African Author Waiting for the Barbarians March 6th

2. About - Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% yellow.The Summer Seekers by Sarah Morgan (NG)

3. Collection -Task: Read a book with "knife" or "knives" in the title.
Knife (BBR)

4. Interactive Item - based on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.
https://zeitzmocaa.museum/artists/bla...
Read a book with coffee in title Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café


Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
1. Location -Task: Read a book set in Canada or written by a Canadian author. Anne of Windy Poplars (K)

2. About - Task: Read a book that is in a series with 5 primary works. In the Dark

3. Collection - Task: Read a book with a horse or horses on the cover. Dick Francis's Damage

4. Interactive Item -
https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib...
from a series with at least 40 in the series / #40 in series
Salvation in Death


Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei
1. Location -Task: Read a book with the word "night" or "market" is in the title.
The Night Tiger Feb 18th

2. About - Task: Read a book set in a fictional or fantasy city.
Girls of Paper and Fire


3. Collection - Task: Read a book with dragons in it.
The Lost Plot (LR)

4. - Interactive item -
https://theme.npm.edu.tw/selection/Ar...
Word of more than 4 letters in the title only made from the letters of CLOISONNE DUCK
Where Madness Lies


Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
1. Location - Task: Read a book set in Egypt.
Easy Go

2. About - Task: Read a book in which a river plays a significant role.
The Fishermen

3. Collection -Task: Read a book with "gold" as a root word in the title.
The Field of the Cloth of Gold BB

4. Interactive item -
https://egymonuments.gov.eg/en/collec...
"The term “Kashkoul” is a utensil for Sufis just like a hand bag he can use during his trips. It has several uses, however, it has a symbolic significance means the survival ship, transferring him safety to the hereafter.

Read a book MPG survival / adventure word from root survive in title The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes


Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
1. Location -Task: Read a book set in Austria or written by an Austrian author.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... (scribd)
Old Masters

2. About - Read a book that has a geometric shape of circle, square, triangle, or rectangle on it. This task excludes moons or planet shapes as circles.
Chimera

3. Collection - Task: Read a book that has a main page genre of romance. Creation in Death

4. Interactive item -
https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail... Young Man on A turtle - The average life span of many adult turtles is 50 - 100 years,
Read a book whose MC is a young male and which was published between 50 and 100 years ago
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)


Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
1. Location - Task: Read a book about a climate disaster.
Odds Against Tomorrow (scribd)

2. About - The museum was inaugurated in 2000.
Task: Read a book that was published in 2000.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

3. Collection -Task: Read a book that has the word "Daughter" in the title. Plurals are allowed.
The Dream Daughter (LR)

4. Interactive item -https://www.mapr.org/en/art/artwork/w...

Both the artist and the painting have JB in their initials read a book by an author with JB or BJ as Initials middle initials can be ignored
Death Stalks Kettle Street


Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1. Location - Task: Read a book set in California.
Lily and the Octopus

2. About - Task: Read a book in which a significant character is a photographer, or there is depiction of a photograph on the cover.
Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams

3. Collection - Task: Read a memoir/biography of a celebrity who was popular in the 1960's.
Memories, Dreams and Reflections (BB)

4. Interactive item -
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2019.130/ Einstein won a nobel prize in 1921 read a book by or about a nobel prize winner
The Golden Notebook


Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
1. Location - Task: Read a book set in the UK. London

2. About -Task: Read a book that is in a series of seven published works.
Dissolution


3. Collection - Task: Read a book that is a mystery, solved by a man & woman duo. The Secret Adversary

4. Interactive item -
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa... water on cover OR set around a Lake
Murder on Mustique



message 103: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 16, 2021 11:59AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments BADGE 3 REPORTING

1 of 8 - Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
1. Waiting for the Barbarians
2. The Summer Seekers: from the Sunday Times best seller of One More for Christmas comes her latest brand new romantic feel good novel of 2021
3. Knife
4. Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café

2 of 8 Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
1. Location - Anne of Windy Poplars
2. About - In the Dark
3. Collection Dick Francis's Damage
4. Interactive Salvation in Death

3 of 8 Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei
1. Location - The Night Tiger Feb 18th
2. About - Girls of Paper and Fire
3. Collection - The Lost Plot
4. Interactive Where Madness Lies

4 of 8 Museum 12 - The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
1. Location - Easy Go
2. About - The Fishermen
3. Collection - The Field of the Cloth of Gold
4. Interactive - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

5 of 8 - Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
1. Location - Old Masters
2. About - Chimera
3. Collection - Creation in Death
4. Interactive - The Catcher in the Rye

6 of 8 - Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
1. Location - Odds Against Tomorrow
2. About - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
3. Collection - The Dream Daughter
4. Interactive - Death Stalks Kettle Street

7 of 8 - Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1. Location - Lily and the Octopus
2. About - Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
3. Collection - Memories, Dreams and Reflections
4. Interactive - The Golden Notebook

8 of 8 Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
1. Location - London
2. About - Dissolution
3. Collection - The Secret Adversary
4. Interactive - Murder On Mustique


message 104: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 4
2. Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
3. Location -
4. Easy Go
5. 276 pages
6. Read a book set in Egypt.
7. Set in Cairo predominantly


message 105: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 5
2. Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
3. About -
4. The Fishermen
5. 304 pages
6. Read a book in which a river plays a significant role.
7. GR data identifies that this is set around a river "In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers take advantage of their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. "


message 106: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️

We were posting at the same time, and I almost missed your book 2 & 3. I saw book 4 and had to look back because I'd only tracked book 1.


message 107: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 6
2. Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
3. Interactive
4. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
5. 517 pages
6. https://egymonuments.gov.eg/en/collec...
"The term “Kashkoul” is a utensil for Sufis just like a hand bag he can use during his trips. It has several uses, however, it has a symbolic significance means the survival ship, transferring him safety to the hereafter.
7. Read a book with MPG Adventure or Survival MPG = Adventure


message 108: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️

I've got all 6 of your badge 3 now. I almost missed 5 because we were posting at the same time.


message 109: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "✔️

I've got all 6 of your badge 3 now. I almost missed 5 because we were posting at the same time."


thanks So much Janice you work really hard at this


message 110: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments :) It keeps me out of trouble..... or maybe it keeps me in trouble. LOL!


message 111: by Marie (UK) (last edited Mar 21, 2021 02:36AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: ":) It keeps me out of trouble..... or maybe it keeps me in trouble. LOL!"

Ha Ha I am going to post some more when any self respecting other side of the ponder should be safely asleep and we wont overlap.

1. Badge 3 Book 7
2. Museum 6 -Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
3. Interactive Item -
4.Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café
5. 192 pages
6. https://zeitzmocaa.museum/artists/bla... Name of art piece is Black Coffee
7. Read a book with coffee in title


message 112: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 8
2. Museum 11. The National Palace Museum in Taipei
3. Interactive
4. Where Madness Lies
5. 344 pages
6. https://theme.npm.edu.tw/selection/Ar... Title of Piece is CLOISONNE DUCK
7. Read a book with a Word of more than 4 letters in the title only made from the letters of CLOISONNE DUCK - LIES is word used


message 113: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 9
2. Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. About -
4. Chimera
5. 496
6. Read a book that has a geometric shape of circle, square, triangle, or rectangle on it.
7. Chimera (Parasitology, #3) by Mira Grant


message 114: by Marie (UK) (last edited Mar 21, 2021 06:02AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 10
2. Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. Collection
4. Creation in Death
5. 364 pages
6. Read a book that has a main page genre of romance.
7. MPG Romance


message 115: by Marie (UK) (last edited Mar 21, 2021 06:03AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 11
2. Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
3.Interactive item
4. Death Stalks Kettle Street
5. 376 pages
6. https://www.mapr.org/en/art/artwork/w...
Both the artist and the painting have JB as their initials read a book by an author with JB as Initials middle initials can be ignored
7. Author is John Bowen


message 116: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 117: by Marie (UK) (last edited Mar 22, 2021 03:12AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 12
2. Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
3. Location - Task: Read a book set in California.
4. Lily and the Octopus
5. 320 pages
6. Task: Read a book set in California.
7. Setting is LA California


message 118: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 13
2. Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
3. About
4. Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
5. 314 pages
6. Task: Read a book in which a significant character is a photographer, or there is depiction of a photograph on the cover.
7. Last Chance to See In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams by Mark Carwardine Photo on cover


message 119: by Marie (UK) (last edited Mar 22, 2021 03:22AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 14
2. Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
3. Location -
4. London
5. 1,302 pages
6. Task: Read a book set in the UK.
7. Set in London


message 120: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 15
2. Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
3. Interactive
4. Murder On Mustique
5. 352
6. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/pa...
7. Task water on cover Murder On Mustique by Lady Anne Glenconnor


message 121: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 122: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 16
2. Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
3. Interactive
4. Salvation in Death
5. 353 pages
6. https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhib...
7. Read a book from a series with at least 40 books - 53 in series so far


message 123: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 124: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 17
2. Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
3. Collection
4. Dick Francis's Damage
5. 448 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a horse or horses on the cover.
7. Dick Francis's Damage by Felix Francis


message 125: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 126: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 18
2. Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
3. About -
4. In the Dark
5. 384
6. Task: Read a book that is in a series with 5 primary works.
7 # 2 of 5 series page here https://www.goodreads.com/series/2211...


message 127: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 128: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 19
2. Museum 24. The National Gallery in London
3. . About
4. Dissolution
5. 463 pages
6. Task: Read a book that is in a series of seven published works.
7. #1 in series of 7 series page here https://www.goodreads.com/series/4959...


message 129: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 130: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 20
2. Museum 7: National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa
3. Location -
4. Anne of Windy Poplars
5. 258 pages
6. Read a book set in Canada or written by a Canadian author.
7. Fits both setting and Author


message 131: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 21
2. Museum 12. The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo
3. collection
4. The Field of the Cloth of Gold
5. 216 pages
6. Gold as a root word in title
7. Gold in title


message 132: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 133: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 22
2. Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
3. Collection
4. Memories, Dreams and Reflections
5. 320 pages
6. Read a memoir/biography of a celebrity who was popular in the 1960's
7. Marianne Faithfull - from Wikipaedia "is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States."


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Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments ✔️


message 135: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 23
2. Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
3. About -
4. The Summer Seekers: from the Sunday Times best seller of One More for Christmas comes her latest brand new romantic feel good novel of 2021
5. 432 pages
6. Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% yellow.
7. The Summer Seekers from the Sunday Times best seller of One More for Christmas comes her latest brand new romantic feel good novel of 2021 by Sarah Morgan
76.6 %#fcc507 Yellow
4.9 %#ebe7d6 Grey
4.4 %#e9c54f Yellow
4.4 %#e0231b Red
2.6 %#ec8316 Orange
2.5 %#e25518 Orange
1.4 %#f8e5a0 Yellow
1.3 %#d33e31 Red
0.9 %#d77872 Pink
0.8 %#3f3e3b Grey


message 136: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 24
2. Museum 15. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
3. Interactive
4. The Golden Notebook
5. 640 pages
6. https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2019.130/ Model for Einstein tomb.
7. Einstein won a nobel prize in 1921 read a book by or about a nobel prize winner Doris Lessing won a NOBEL prize (but I question the sanity of that judging committee)


message 137: by Marie (UK) (last edited Apr 02, 2021 08:47AM) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 25
2. Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. Interactive
4. The Catcher in the Rye
5. 234 pages
6. 4. Interactive item -
https://www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail... Young Man on A turtle - The average life span of many adult turtles is 50 - 100 years,
7. Read a book whose MC is a young Male and was published between 50 and 100 years old
Holden Caulfield is 17 and book first published in 1951


message 138: by Rusalka, Moderator (new)

Rusalka (rusalkii) | 19228 comments ✔️

Your comment about the Nobel Prize committee made me snort. Judging panels... /sigh
I appreciated the Catcher in the Rye criteria too.


message 139: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Rusalka wrote: "✔️

Your comment about the Nobel Prize committee made me snort. Judging panels... /sigh
I appreciated the Catcher in the Rye criteria too."


I had The Catcher in the Rye from the library when i was thinking what to do it was just too good to miss


message 140: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 26
2. Museum 6: Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape
3. Collection
4. Knife
5. 640 pages
6. Read a book with "knife" or "knives" in the title.
7 Title is "Knife"


message 141: by Peggy (new)

Peggy (pebbles84) | 15868 comments ✔️


message 142: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 27
2. Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
3. Collection -Task:
4. The Dream Daughter
5. 371 pages
6. Read a book that has the word "Daughter" in the title. Plurals are allowed.
7. Daughter in title


message 143: by Peggy (new)

Peggy (pebbles84) | 15868 comments ✔️


message 144: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 28
2. Museum 14. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
3. About -
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
5. 639 pages
6. : Read a book that was published in 2000.
7. First Published September 2000


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Sarah | 18550 comments ✔️


message 146: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. Badge 3 Book 29
2. Museum 24 The National Gallery in London
3. Collection
4. The Secret Adversary
5. 324 pages
6. Read a book that is a mystery, solved by a man & woman duo.
7. MPG Mystery Tommy and Tuppence Male female duo


message 147: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Is Janice OK?


message 148: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 60157 comments Marie (UK) wrote: "Is Janice OK?"

Yes, I'm okay. Just taking my time recovering from my stroke. While I do so, the other mods are filling in for me.


message 149: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments Janice wrote: "Marie (UK) wrote: "Is Janice OK?"

Yes, I'm okay. Just taking my time recovering from my stroke. While I do so, the other mods are filling in for me."


I am glad to hear that Janice Was just a little worried about you, take care


message 150: by Marie (UK) (new)

Marie (UK) (mazza1) | 2316 comments 1. badge 3 Book 30
2. Museum 13. Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
3. Location -
4. Old Masters
5. 256 pages
6. Task: Read a book set in Austria or written by an Austrian author.
7. Set in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna


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