Sunday check-in: Where are you? 2021

[Roz]

I'm hiding from Germans on a fishing vessel around Venice.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm in Moose Factory, Ontario where my uncle is in a coma. I've been talking to him everyday in hopes that he will hear me.

I'm also in Daevabad where there is much unrest amongst the different factions that make up the city.

[Margo]

I'm between worlds. I'm off to sample life in 16th Acapolco but I'm not committing yet!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I am going to be finishing up my adventure in New York today. My day is almost over. I hope it ends well!

[Cherie]

I am back in Botswana. I am following a young woman in a new Mercedes-Benz automobile in Mma Ramotswe’s little white van.

[Renee]

I am in Paris. I think I will be here for a very long time. Victor Hugo sure writes a lot

[Katrisa]

Jackie wrote: "I'm at Kings Cross station getting ready to board the Hogwarts Express."

I am so excited for you!

[Peggy]

I plan to visit a mental hospital in Ireland today. Not sure what I'll find there.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I've spent the day running around Ankh-Morpork chasing a dragon with the Night Watch. It's had... mixed... results.

[Margo]

I'm in a fantasy world in the village of End of The World waiting to be attacked by an army of deadly creatures. Not a good day :(

[Kristie, Moderator]

I don't actually know where I am, but I'm ten years old and my mum is gone and I've been on my own for weeks with just my dog. My neighbor is getting nosy.

I'm also at Bletchley Park in England working on breaking German code during WWII (1940) and in an asylum (1947) trying to figure out who the traitor was who set me up. Alternately, I'm concocting a plan to get my ex-friend out of the asylum.

[Jayme, Moderator]

I am all over the world (but it seems mainly in the tropics) discovering all the weird, wicked and dangerous insects that are bothersome to humankind.

[Marnie]

I’m roasting some beetles in 18th century London. Going to grind those suckers up to make a poisonous elixir.

Also in present day London at a retirement village solving a murder.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I'm with Jayme and Esther, putting bombardier beetles in our mouths.

And later yesterday I started following the Blackwell sisters in their journey to become doctors. Elizabeth was the first female doctor in the US. The first part of the trip includes Bristol, New York, and Cincinnati.

[Sharon]

I am in Paris visiting my family. My godfather has been intentionally hit by a car and my wife and I are investigating.

[Janice, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "I've spent the day running around Ankh-Morpork chasing a dragon with the Night Watch. It's had... mixed... results."

Just watch that the dragon doesn't turn and start chasing you.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm in Cameroon Africa. My friends and I have just started a bike tour. They sure are touchy about you taking pictures.

I'm also in the High Lonesome, a ghost town in New Mexico. A relic hunter was caught digging up a body. Now I have to figure out if there was a murder.

[Vicki]

I'm a hundred years in the past, in the midst of another pandemic.

[Cherie]

My ears have been in Dublin investigating the murder of a young girl.

My eyes are currently in London at the home of my best friend. We are just leaving to drive to Cambridge to meet with my tutor.

[Katrisa]

Rusalka wrote: "I've spent the day running around Ankh-Morpork chasing a dragon with the Night Watch. It's had... mixed... results."

I've been meaning to get back to Ankh-Morpork

[Marnie]

I’m traveling to Norfolk, England by horseback on a secret mission for Lady Elizabeth.

[Peggy]

I'm in the Netherlands. It's 1933 and I'm separated from my husband (not yet divorced) and he doesn't want our children near me. I also started a relationship with a black man who's 17 years younger, and am pregnant with his child. This is enough for nobody wanting anything to do with us. On top of that, we hardly have any money.

[Cherie]

In real life, I am sitting in my living room chair watching the sky in the east getting ready to light up.

In the fictional world I am reading, I am a 12yo boy, listening to my father tell of his father and their 150 acre farm in Montour County - just north of the Susquehanna, when he was a 12yo boy. It is 1936 or 1939, I’m not sure. The images the author paints with words fill me with joy and awe.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm on a planet that we are colonizing. We were tricked into coming here.

I'm also in London where someone is murdering the uppercrust of society. I'm afraid that Queen Victoria is the ultimate target.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I’m in exactly the same two places I was last Sunday. 😒

[Esther]

My eyes have just seen myself coming out of a coffee shop. What the /$?/ is going on?

My ears are in prison, working hard at being a good boy so I can get out of there.

[Sharon]

I am taking a break from museum scouting and have joined a game warden in Wyoming, an old friend. He is taking an obnoxious, famous guy elk hunting and I’m along for the ride, but something just doesn’t seem right.

[Margo]

I'm in the States after my European tour. I really fancy my assistant who is GORGEOUS 😍

[Margo]

Esther wrote: "My eyes have just seen myself coming out of a coffee shop. What the /$?/ is going on?

My ears are in prison, working hard at being a good boy so I can get out of there."

I'm trying to figure out what book you're reading - hope it's not Michelle Obama 🤭

[Roz]

I'm in Egypt today.

[Sandra, Moderator]

My journey in Macondo lasted less than I thought, and I am waiting until Thursday to land in Barcelona, so not sure where to go in the mid time. I might go with Pip to London. I've had him abandoned for a while.

[Esther]

Margo wrote: "Esther wrote: "My eyes have just seen myself coming out of a coffee shop. What the /$?/ is going on?

My ears are in prison, working hard at being a good boy so I can get out of there."

I'm trying..."

LOL. I am indeed reading Becoming for my workplace bookclub. But here, I was referring to my fiction reading. A book and an audio, both from Quebec authors.

[Katrisa]

I am in a magical school that is constantly trying to kill us all. I made my first first friend - it feels weird.

[Renee]

I was in Fantine sick room. I seem to have taken a side trip to Waterloo. I have no idea what this battle has to do with Fantine. I hate when stories take really long side trips.

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm in an asylum in England. My friends had better hurry to get me out of here before I undergo a lobotomy.

I've been rescued from earth by strange creatures that are humanoid but have no face or ears. They are covered with sensory tentacles.

[Sharon]

I’m in a small town battling wormholes of evil. They are making my hometown crazy and are wrecking havoc at my school.

I am in New York City investigating a suicide on the subway. No one else seems to think it is anything other than a suicide, but...

[Katrisa]

I am in London - I recently learned that magic is real and I am trying to broker some peace between two river gods of the Thames

[Peggy]

I have just arrived in the fictional city of Rochelle. It's not a friendly place.

[Marnie]

I, like Janice, am at an asylum in England.

[Roz]

I'm freezing (everyone on Earth is) and I'm getting ready to go back into space to try to deal with the problem.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I'm revisiting Norfolk and Barcelona. Old friends, a few new faces, and always good stories.

[Kristie, Moderator]

I'm with Janice at the asylum. My friends better get a move on.

I'm also just finding out that my best friend who I've been secretly in love with for years is getting married in 9 months and not to me. (Maybe I should have spoken up sooner...) He wants me to be his best woman ...and I've agreed.

[Margo]

I'm all over the US but I think I'm headed to Kansas to fight the good fight - if survive that long!

I'm also finding out that Homeopathy and big Pharma have in common, and it's not good :-O

[Janice, Moderator]

Marnie wrote: "I, like Janice, am at an asylum in England."

You, Kristie and I must be split personalities of each other.

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "I'm with Janice at the asylum. My friends better get a move on.

I'm also just finding out that my best friend who I've been secretly in love with for years is getting married in 9 months and not ..."

I'm getting nervous!

The second story makes me think of a Julia Roberts movie.

[Kristie, Moderator]

It does, Janice! lol

I'm working on finishing up my visit to the asylum today. 😬

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "It does, Janice! lol

I'm working on finishing up my visit to the asylum today. 😬"

I haven't read it in 2 days. I must finish it in the next few days.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice wrote: "Kristie wrote: "It does, Janice! lol

I'm working on finishing up my visit to the asylum today. 😬"

I haven't read it in 2 days. I must finish it in the next few days."

I ended up reading the best friend wedding book instead today. I needed something lighter. I've been craving some light, humorous, women's fiction, etc type of reads lately. So, I went with it today.

[Peggy]

It's 1890 and I've just been brought to a mental asylum because people think I murdered two of my children. I'm afraid of what's to come.

[Marnie]

I spend so much time in London I should probably start paying taxes. Time to solve another mystery.

Also think I’ll visit Three Pines today. It’s cold there or as I like to say “Gone to the dogs.”