US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail

[JoAnne]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks
Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks
Purists: 25+ tasks

Tasks
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. The trail is about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are rerouted or modified. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy describes the Appalachian Trail as the longest hiking-only trail in the world. More than 2 million people are said to take a hike on part of the trail at least once each year.
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.


The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan—called "An Appalachian Trail, A Project in Regional Planning"—shortly after the death of his wife in 1921. MacKaye's idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers along the Appalachian Mountains from the highest point in the North (Mt. Washington in New Hampshire) to the highest in the South (Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina). Hiking was an incidental focus of his plan. In 1922, at the suggestion of Major William A. Welch, director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, his idea was publicized by Raymond H. Torrey with a story in the New York Evening Post under a full-page banner headline reading "A Great Trail from Maine to Georgia!"
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.


On October 7, 1923, the first section of the trail, from Bear Mountain west through Harriman State Park to Arden, New York, was opened.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.


In 1936, a 121-day Maine to Georgia veteran's group funded and supported thru-hike was reported to have been completed, with all but three miles of the new trail cleared and blazed, by six Boy Scouts from New York City and their guides. The completed thru-hike was much later recorded and accepted by the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.


In 1938, the trail sustained major damage from a hurricane that went through the New England area. This happened right before the start of World War II and many of the people working on the trail were called to active duty.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.


In 1948, Earl Shaffer of York, Pennsylvania, brought a great deal of attention to the project by publicizing the first claimed thru-hike. The claim was later criticized for the hike's omission of significant portions due to short-cuts and car rides. Shaffer later claimed the first north-to-south thru-hike, the first to claim to do so in each direction. Chester Dziengielewski was later to be named the first south bound thru-hiker. In 1998, Shaffer, nearly 80 years old, hiked the trail, making him the oldest person to claim a completed thru-hike.

The first woman to walk the trail in a single season was Peace Pilgrim in 1952, while the first solo woman to complete the hike was 67-year old Emma Gatewood who completed the northbound trek in 1955, taking 146 days. She repeated the achievement two years later, and again in 1963, at age 75.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS

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[JoAnne]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read: 26

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Christmas in Silver Springs Brenda Novak 3/1/21
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
Under the Alaskan Ice Karen Harper 3/15/21
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Thick as Thieves Sandra Brown 2/10/21
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
281 ratings Like a Winter Snow Lindsay Harrel 2/11/21
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
The Lost Husband Katherine Center 3/29/21
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Lucy has an affair with an MP and it gets out and in every newspaper for quite some time. One Cornish Summer Liz Fenwick 3/10/21
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
A Peakview Christmas Jill Haymaker 2/17/21
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Fatal Invasion Marie Force 2/6/21
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
Write Me Home Crystal Walton 2/2/21
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Published October 26th 2010 Ghost Town Rachel Caine 4/3/21
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
The Last Sister Kendra Elliot 2/23/21 (Columbia River #1)
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
From New York to Chicago to Oregon First Thing I See Vi Keeland 2/1/21
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, female.
A Stranger in Town Kelley Armstrong 2/25/21
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Abe Atwell Fiona's Flame Rachael Herron 4/10/21
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1960s.
Music From Home Geraldine O'Neill 5/3/21

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
Slightly South of Simple Kristy Woodson Harvey 5/31/21
🥾 23. North Carolina
Lucky Kisses Addison Moore 2/18/21
🥾 24. Tennessee
Crossing The Line Kay Stockham 5/14/21
🥾 25. Virginia Knocked Up Again! Lilian Monroe 2/13/21
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland Nixon's Promise Riley Edwards 3/21/21
🥾 28. Pennsylvania Christmas in Smithville Kirsten Fullmer 2/16/21
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York Rockstar Baby Taryn Quinn 2/19/21
🥾 31. Connecticut The Shameless Hour Sarina Bowen 6/8/21
🥾 32. Massachusetts Forced to Love: Blackmailing the Billionaire Series Tasha Fawkes 4/3/21
🥾 33. Vermont Here Comes the Sun Marie Force 4/11/21
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine The Winter Lodge J.L. Jarvis 2/3/21

[Tari]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
65/books
Purists: 25+ tasks

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
loc 1332 “…the missing hiker on the Appalachian Trail.” Draw and Order Cheryl Hollon 6/23/21

🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Murder and Marshmallows Rosie A. Point 3/1/21

🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
at, the-Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop Darci Hannah 2/27/21

🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The Garden Plot Thickens Linnea West 2/2/21

🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.

🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
182 as of this posting-Murder Is the Pits J.A. Whiting and Amanda Diamond 2/4/21

🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.

🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
Edna's spouse-Irish Parade Murder Leslie Meier 2/6/21

🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
The murder of a guy behind the school-Who Murdered Mr. Malone? Hope Callaghan 2/5/21

🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Paris-Paris, Before You Die Mary Bowers 3/8/21

🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
The Queen of Cozy Mountain Pamela Grandstaff 3/23/21

🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Thea-Murder Paints a Picture Thea Cambert 2/6/21

🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
Cruel Candy Mildred Abbott 2/15/21

🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
October 2016-Nearly Dead in Iowa Wendy Byrne 2/10/21

🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
Pine Lake Inn series-Death in Room 7 K.J. Emrick 2/1/21

🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Sadie and crew went from NY to CA-Catalina, Crimes and Coconut Pies Kailin Gow 2/18/21

🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
Mars Winston-The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit Krista Davis 5/30/21

🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Apocalypse Meow Zara Keane 5/24/21

🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Ernestine-Bomb Pop Threat Christy Barritt 2/7/21

🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Sasha Silverman-Have Yourself a Beary Little Murder Meg Macy 2/8/21

🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
Murder by Page One Olivia Matthews 3/23/21
🥾 23. North Carolina
Ink and Shadows Ellery Adams 2/4/21
🥾 24. Tennessee
Dead in the Doorway Diane Kelly 2/10/21
🥾 25. Virginia
All Wands on Deck Mara Webb 3/11/21
🥾 26. West Virginia
Vicious Valentine Patti Benning 2/21/21
🥾 27. Maryland
The Clue of the Broken Locket Carolyn Keene 8/9/21
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
True Confections Ruth Hartzler 2/11/21
🥾 29. New JerseyA Glimmer of Death Valerie Wilson Wesley 2/9/21
🥾 30. New York
Long Island Iced Tina Ellen Byron 2/28/21
🥾 31. Connecticut
The Time for Murder Is Meow T.C. LoTempio 6/10/21
🥾 32. Massachusetts
Sweet Deceit J.A. Whiting 2/12/21
🥾 33. Vermont
Peril at Pumpkin Hill Thea Cambert 3/22/21
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine
Mixing Up Murder Emmie Lyn 2/17/21

Spell out (optional)
36. HIKE TRAIL done
Hayes Marilyn mc-Key Lime Die Summer Prescott 2/14/21
Isabel Addington mc-Gum Drop Dead Emily James 2/21/21
Kelly Diane-Murder with a View Diane Kelly 2/11/21
Emrick KJ Death Comes to Town K.J. Emrick 2/3/21
Tipperary Carriage Co series-The Legacy J.A. Whiting and Nell McCarthy 2/19/21
R Ropes, Riddles and Robberies Tonya Kappes 2/13/21
Alex Erickson-Death by Pumpkin Spice Alex Erickson 2/15/21
Isabel Addington mc Gum Drop Dead Emily James 2/21/21
Lizzie Josephson-Undercover on the Calypso Lizzie Josephson 2/21/21

40. WILDERNESS done
W Whiskers of Murder Patti Benning 2/25/21
Isabel Addington mc-A Sampling of Murder Emily James 2/24/21
Lizzie Josephson-Peril Through the Panama Lizzie Josephson 2/23/21
D Don't Taco 'Bout Murder Mona Marple 2/16/21
Emily Page-Dog Days, Murderous Nights Emily Page 2/18/21
Rothberg Candice mc-Cranberry Candies and Crime Patti Benning 2/16/21
N No Lathering Matter S.E.Babin 3/3/21
Enchanting Inquiries series-Unbaked Croakies Sam Cheever 2/13/21
S Sinister Sprinkles Jessica Beck 2/12/21
Swensen Hannah mc-Key Lime Pie Murder Joanne Fluke 2/17/21

39. CONSERVANCY
Country Girl in the Big City series-Murder in the City Susan Harper 2/23/21
O Once Upon a Crime Mona Marple 3/23/21
Nosey Parker series-Murder on the Menu Fiona Leitch 3/18/21
Shelton Paige Fruit of All Evil Paige Shelton 2/19/21
Emily Page-Maddie's Recipe of Mysteries Emily Page 2/22/21
R Risky Bisqueness Elizabeth Rain 3/3/21
V Vanilla & Vendettas Lisa Siefert 3/19/21
Amanda Flower-Farm to Trouble Amanda Flower 2/24/21
Nautical Seascape series-Seashore Magic Constance Barker and Corrinne Winters 3/24/21
Cambert Thea-Murder Makes a Toast Thea Cambert 2/26/21
Y AbbY Collette A Game of Cones Abby Collette 3/2/21

37. APPALACHIAN
Alice Evans mc-Murder Loves a Fair Thea Cambert 3/6/21
P Purrs for Murder Patti Benning 3/9/21
P A Peel of Murder Belinda J Evaline 3/14/21
AR Winters-Loaf or Death A.R. Winters 3/15/21
Lang Essie-A Deadly Chapter Essie Lang 3/9/21
Ainsley Holloway mc-Kiss 'N Tell Kathi Daley 3/15/21
Corrine Winters Momentary Paws Corrinne Winters 3/5/21
Hannah Swensen mc Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder Joanne Fluke 3/4/21
Iris Buckley mc-Thread and Dead Elizabeth Penney 3/14/21
A Artistic License to Kill Paula Darnell 3/16/21
Nova Powers mc-Pumpkin Pie or Die Eva Belle 4/11/21

38. MOUNTAIN
Muth RA The Squeaky Clean Skeleton R.A. Muth 3/5/21
O Open for Murder Mary Angela 5/15/21
U Under the Cover of Murder Lauren Elliott 4/6/21
Nell McCarthy-The Sea Witch J.A. Whiting and Nell McCarthy
Tiptree Jake mc-Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle Sarah Graves 3/6/21
Abby Crown mc-Murder at the Ranch Kathleen Suzette 3/25/21
Iris Buckley mc-Bodies and Bows Elizabeth Penney 3/31/21
Nancy Coco-A Matter of Hive and Death Nancy Coco 4/21/21

[Barb]

When I was in high school, my Girl Scout troop spent a week hiking part of the Appalachian Trail here in PA, so I'm not sure I can resist this challenge, and may be back to sign up for it :)

I just read online this morning that the AT Conservancy has asked hikers to "forgo" the Trail this year due to covid. When everyone started looking for things to do outdoors last year, a LOT more people than usual headed to the AT to hike. Since their shelters, etc. are not set up for social distancing -- and forget about frequent handwashing! -- they're asking people to stay away for now. Wonder how many will?

[Anne]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-Sept 31, 2021
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read: 35 -- COMPLETED!

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown 4/19/2021
Billie Flanagan goes hiking, never to be seen again.
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
There's A Murder Afoot by Vicki Delany 3/29/2021
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinley 4/23/2021
darK cHocolatE demIse
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
The Silence of the Library by Miranda James <5/11/2021
2709 ratings
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
As Gouda as Dead by Avery Aames 3/4/2021
Ray's wife Dottie is a victim of murder!
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Curses, Boiled Again! by Shari Randall 4/28/2021
Lobster Roll cookoff on the YUM! channel
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Summer in Andalucía by Lucy Coleman 4/15/2021
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane by Dee MacDonald 2/11/2021
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
Leave No Stone Unturned by Jeanne Glidewell 5/25/2021
Emily's body is found by a cabin in the mountains.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
Cherry Pies & Deadly Lies by Darci Hannah 2/18/2021
Very Cherry Mysteries
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
The Lieutenant's Nurse by Sara Ackerman 4/20/20201
Ava moves from Ohio to Hawaii.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Sisters: The Sea Glass Sisters / The Tidewater Sisters / The Sandcastle Sister by Lisa Wingate 2/4/2021
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Out of Circulation by Miranda James 2/16/2021
The Ducote sisters are older
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
The Words I Never Wrote by Jane Thynne 3/17/2020 WWII

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
The Sweet Taste of Muscadines by Pamela Terry 5/4/2021
🥾 23. North Carolina
Under the Southern Sky by Kristy Woodson 7/18/2021
🥾 24. Tennessee
Rubbed Out by Riley Adams 5/17/2021
🥾 25. Virginia
Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown 2/24/2021
🥾 26. West Virginia
Designed to Death by Christina Freeburn8/8/2021
🥾 27. Maryland
After I'm Gone by Laura Lippmann 8/30/20201
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
Moment of Truth by Lisa Scottoline 9/10/2021
🥾 29. New Jersey
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun by Lois Winston 9/13/2021
🥾 30. New York
Piece of My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark 5/17/2021
🥾 31. Connecticut
Find You First by Linwood Barclay 6/22/2021
🥾 32. Massachusetts
The Big Hustle: A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction and Redemption by Jim Wahlberg 2/16/2021
🥾 33. Vermont
Wine and Punishment by Sarah Fox 9/21/2021
🥾 34. New Hampshire
Who's Dead, Doc? by J M Griffin 7/3/2021
🥾 35. Maine
A Bat in the Belfry by Sarah Graves 3/7/2021

Spell out (optional)
🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W Waking Up in Charleston by Sherryl Woods 2/11/2021
I The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman 3/20/2021
L Lisa Scottoline Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline 4/26/2021
D Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle 3/12/2021
E Emma Donaghue Akin by Emma Donahue 5/28/2021
R Reay, Kathryn book:The Austen Escape|34460584] by Kathryn Reay 4/1/2021
N Nancy Coco To Fudge or Not to Fudge by Nancy Coco 5/31/2021
E Embroidery Mysteries The Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee 6/7/2021
S The Seventh Station by Ralph McInerny 3/19/2021
S A Stab in the Dark by Lawrence Block 2/23/2021

[Emeli]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read:

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY

[JoAnne]

Barb wrote: "When I was in high school, my Girl Scout troop spent a week hiking part of the Appalachian Trail here in PA, so I'm not sure I can resist this challenge, and may be back to sign up for it :)

I jus..."

You can enter the trail not too far from me. We drove over the mountain a few weeks ago and saw the sign and thought CHALLENGE! Ticks are real bad in this area. Another good reason to stay out of the woods.

[Kendra]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: Feb. 1st, 2021 - Jan. 31st, 2022

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks
Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks
Purists: 25+ tasks

25/25

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
A Stranger in Town by Kelley Armstrong - Feb. 16th
"Guided hike along the Appalachian Trail" @ 5%
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs - Feb. 6th
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson - Apr. 30th
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture edited by Stephen H. Segal - Apr. 21st
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
Tangled Webs by Anne Bishop - Mar. 28th
12 010 ratings
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch by Nicola Tallis - Feb. 11th
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
The Martian by Andy Weir - Feb. 17th
The entire mission, the fact that Mark didn't die....
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Out of Old Saskatchewan Kitchens by Amy Ehman - Mar. 7th
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai - Feb. 13th
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 17th
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Isabella: The Warrior Queen by Kirstin Downey - Apr. 13th
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
The Dirty Streets of Heaven by Tad Williams - Feb. 14th
Bobby Dollar #1
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Feb. 25th
MC moves from Connecticut to Texas
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 4th
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 2nd
Elizaveta
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin & Lacey Lamar - Feb. 6th
Lacey Lamar
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys - Mar. 12th
1940's

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston - Apr. 18th
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera - Feb. 20th
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
Cursed Luck by Kelley Armstrong - May 23rd
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
Half Half-Off Ragnarok by Seanan McGuire - May 18th
InCryptid (Series) Magic for Nothing by Seanan McGuire - June 2nd
Kolker Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker - June 3rd
Erika Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Erika Owen - May 25th
Thuy VI by Kim Thúy - May 30th
Rogue Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells - May 19th
Alex Price (MC) Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire - May 22nd
InCryptid (Series) Chaos Choreography by Seanan McGuire - May 25th
Love Love for Beginners by Jill Shalvis - June 11th
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
Animal Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis - Mar. 5th
Patricia Storm Cursed by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 6th
Patricia Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs - Mar. 11th
Animal Animal Attraction by Jill Shalvis - Mar. 13th
Linda Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie - Mar. 21st
Anne Queen of the Darkness by Anne Bishop - Mar. 23rd
Cathryn Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by Cathryn J. Prince - Apr. 5th
Heir Heir to the Shadows by Anne Bishop - Mar. 21st
Invisible The Invisible Ring by Anne Bishop - Mar. 25th
Anne Daughter of the Blood by Anne Bishop - Mar. 19th
Naoko Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 4 by Naoko Takeuchi - Mar. 6th
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
Martha Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells - Apr. 30th
Old Guard (Series) Force Multiplied by Greg Rucka - May 22nd
Uzma Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin - May 13th
Nora de Jong (MC) The Tulip Eaters by Antoinette van Heugten - May 19th
Tim Generations by Tim Lebbon - Apr. 28th
All All Systems Red by Martha Wells - May 2nd
InCryptid (Series) Midnight Blue-Light Special by Seanan McGuire - May 11th
Nine Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter - May 5th
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
Calculated - Calculated Risks by Seanan McGuire - Feb. 27th
O'Farrell - Hamnet and Judith by Maggie O'Farrell - Mar. 10th
Naoko - Sailor Moon Eternal Edition 3 by Naoko Takeuchi - Feb. 13th
Shalvis Nobody But You by Jill Shalvis - Feb. 19th
El-Mohtar This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - Mar. 25th
Remender Deadly Class, Volume 7: Love Like Blood by Rick Remender - Feb. 18th
Very A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost - Apr. 23rd
Austenland Austenland by Shannon Hale - Feb. 22nd
Naoko - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Short Stories, Vol. 2 by Naoko Takeuchi - Feb. 4th
Cameron Blood in the Water: A True Story of Revenge in the Maritimes by Silver Donald Cameron - Mar. 15th
Yes - Yes Please by Amy Poehler - Feb. 2nd
🥾 40. WILDERNESS
Waters To Love and to Loathe by Martha Waters - Apr. 16th
I I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider - Apr. 9th
Life's Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez - Apr. 7th
Dreams Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop - Mar. 26th
Erica She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar - Apr. 28th
Rumor Rumor Has It by Jill Shalvis - May 15th
Nnedi Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - Apr. 1st
Elinor Dashwood (MC) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - Apr. 26th
Shadow The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop - Mar. 29th
Shalador's Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop - Mar. 29th

[JoAnne]

Welcome Tari, Anne and Emeli!

[Frankie]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Level
Purists: 25+ tasks

26/26 Tasks Completed. Finished

Tasks
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
01.Deep Woods-Helena Newbury 7/10/21

🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
02.Now and Then and Always-Melissa Tagg 5/04/21

🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
03.In Her Pumpkin Patch-Alina Jacobs 1/11/22

🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
04.The Name of the Rose-Umberto Eco 9/20/21

🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
(210)
05.False Front-Debbie Baldwin 3/05/21

🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
06.9 Letters-Blake Austin 3/22/21

🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
07.Tennessee Truths-Ashley Munoz 1/28/22

🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
08.Ryan Michele-Bound by Consequences 4/08/21

🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
09.One in a Million-Jill Shalvis 8/27/21

🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
(Evidence Series)
10.Concrete Evidence-Rachel Grant 7/30/21

🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
11.Going Twice-Sharon Sala 3/25/21

🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
(Mick McFarland)
12.A Killer's Alibi-William L. Myers Jr. 8/22/21

🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
(1990s)
13.Sex in the Title: A Comedy about Dating, Sex, and Romance in NYC-Zack Love 5/05/21


Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
14.Vindicated-Sharon C. Cooper 3/12/21

🥾 23. North Carolina
15.Carolina Breeze-Denise Hunter 3/16/21

🥾 24. Tennessee
16.Never Look Back-Mary Burton 7/01/21

🥾 26. West Virginia
17.Moonshine Kiss-Lucy Score 5/22/21

🥾 28. Pennsylvania
18.A Criminal Defense-William L. Myers Jr. 3/26/21

🥾 29. New Jersey
19.Niro-Jessica Gadziala 4/19/21

🥾 30. New York
20.Between the Lines-T. Gephart 2/12/21

🥾 31. Connecticut
21.Love on the Highlight Reel-Christina C. Jones 5/14/21

🥾 32. Massachusetts
22.Hard Love-Meredith Wild 9/27/21

🥾 33. Vermont
23.Every Little Thing-Marie Force 7/10/21

🥾 34. New Hampshire
24.Nineteen Minutes-Jodi Picoult 5/25/21

🥾 35. Maine
25.Lies & Lullabies-Sarina Bowen 8/12/21


Spell out (optional)
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
26.
M:Meant for Love-Marie Force 5/29/21
O:On Her Father's Grave-Kendra Elliot 5/21/21
U:Un-Shattering Lucy-Terri Anne Browning 4/23/21
N:Never Enough-Kelly Elliott 5/01/21
T:Tigers Like It Hot-Tianna Xander 2/03/21
A:Amaryllis-Jayne Castle 4/05/21
I:Illicit Intent-Debbie Baldwin 4/09/21
N:No Vacancy-Stephanie Rose 3/17/21

[Helen]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Level
Purist: 25+ tasks

25 out of 25+ FINISHED

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
How the Penguins Saved Veronica Hazel Prior 2-2-21 (They all hiked out to where the penguins lived.)

🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
Now and Then and Always-Melissa Tagg
The Boy Who Loved All Living Things: The Imaginary Childhood Journal of Albert Schweitzer Sheila Hamanaka 2-3-21 (The boy who loved All living things)

🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The Last Kids on Earth Max Brallier 2-14-21 (HIKE= tHe last KIds on Earth)
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 2-28-21 (The Princess Diaries #1 is #1238)
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
Sacred Leaf Deborah Ellis 2-2-21 (256 ratings)
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.

🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
In from the Cold Deborah Ellis 2-21-21
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Christmas Unwrapped: A Kid's Winter Wonderland of Holiday Trivia Amy Shields 2-3-21 (Thomas Nast's cartoon of Santa Claus was publicized.)
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Dog Heaven Cynthia Rylant 2-18-21 (Heaven)
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.

🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Newborn Puppies: Dogs in Their First Three Weeks Traer Scott 2-3-21 (Traer starts with T)

🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
The Willoughbys Lois Lowry 4-7-21 (Part of the book set in the Swiss Alps.)
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Marley: Snow Dog Marley John Grogan 2-24-21 (Published October 12, 2010)
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis 2-6-21 (The Breadwinner #1)
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.
Parvana's Journey Deborah Ellis 2-11-21 (Parvana travels west in Afghanistan)

🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in ThailandMatt Gutman 3-20-21 (John Vollanthen)
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.

🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Don't Lie to Me: And Stop Trying to Steal Our Freedom Jeanine Pirro 2-12-21 (President Trump, President Biden, Bernie Sanders)
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Hamstersaurus Rex Tom O'Donnell 3-25-21 (Dylan D'Amato)
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
Reaching to Heaven James Van Praagh 3-3-21 (His readings were done in the 1990's)

Bound by Consequences (Ravage MC Bound, #7) by Ryan Michele Now and Then and Always (Maple Valley, #1) by Melissa Tagg

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
Cruel Miracles Orson Scott Card 3-12-21 (Eden, NC)
🥾 24. Tennessee
What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal Eldon Yellowhorn 3-7-21 (Trail of Tears)
🥾 25. Virginia
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries: 101 Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work Amy Newmark 2-11-21 (Charlottesville, VA)
🥾 26. West Virginia
Project Princess Meg Cabot 3-13-21
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Mary L. Trump 2-22-21
🥾 31. Connecticut
Black Moonlight Amy Patricia Meade 3-9-21 (Ridgebury, CT)
🥾 32. Massachusetts
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine
Elevation Stephen King 3-25-21

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL FINISHED
++H (D. Hopkinson) Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig Deborah Hopkinson 3-13-21 (author)
++I The Institute Stephen King 4-20-21 (title)
++K (I. Kendi) How to Be an Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 3-7-21 (author)
++E (D. Ellis) My Name Is Parvana Deborah Ellis 2-12-21 (author)

++T Those Terrible Toy-Breakers David McPhail 3-14-21 (title)
++R (J. Rich) Everything Organize Your Home Jason R. Rich 4-7-21 (author)
++A (Allison K.) The Eternal Soldier: The True Story of How a Dog Became a Civil War Hero Allison Crotzer Kimmel 4-24-21 (author)
++I It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff Peter Walsh 5-29-21 (title)
++L (Lupita N.) Sulwe Lupita Nyong'o 3-5-21 (author)

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
++A (Alfred R.) The Restless Atom: The Awakening of Nuclear Physics Alfred Romer 2-24-21 (author)
++P Princess in the Spotlight Meg Cabot 3-3-21 (title)
++P Princess in Love Meg Cabot 3-5-21 (title)
++A (Ann M.) Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, And Unexpectedly True Friends Ann M. Martin 3-13-21 (author)
++L Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope Kwame Alexander 3-2-21 (title)
++A (Alyssa C) My First Karate Class: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1 Alyssa Satin Capucilli 5-17-21 (author)
++C (Carolyn K.) A Star Witness Carolyn Keene 2-24-21 (author)
++H Hamsters on the Go Kass Reich 3-10-21 (title)
++I Indian No More Charlene Willing McManis 6-26-21 (title)
++A (Anderson C.) The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss Anderson Cooper 5-14-21 (author)
++N (Natalie L.) Comfort Dogs Natalie Lunis 6-20-21 (author)
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN FINISHED
++M (Mike B.) Bad Dog Mike Boldt 2-22-21 (author)
++O Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance Nick Estes 3-7-21 (title)
++U (L. Ukrainka) The Forest Song Lesia Ukrainka 5-19-21 (author)
++N (B. Nice) Rescue Tails: Portraits of Dogs and Their Celebrities Brian Nice 6-4-21
++T Twelve Days of Christmas Island Teresa Lagrange 3-12-21 (title)
++A "A" is for Aloha: A Hawai'i Alphabet U'ilani Goldsberry 2-6-21 (title)
++I I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood Dave Barry 5-14-21 (title)
++N Nacho and Lolita Pam Muñoz Ryan 4-26-21 (title)
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY FINISHED
++C (D. Coverly) Dogs Are People, Too: A Collection of Cartoons to Make Your Tail Wag Dave Coverly 2-14-21 (author)
++O One Smile Cindy McKinley 2-14-21 (title)
++N (C. Neuschwander) Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning Cindy Neuschwander 4-24-21 (author)
++S Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Tyson Yunkaporta 2-21-21 (title)
++E (D. Ellis) Mud City Deborah Ellis 2-11-21 (author)
++R The Red House Mystery A.A. Milne 3-28-21 (title)
++V Valentine Princess Meg Cabot 5-13-21 (title)
++A "A" is for Abraham: A Jewish Family Alphabet Richard Michelson 2-6-21 (title)
++N (Nathan S.) The Sacred Banana Leaf Nathan Kumar Scott 2-25-21 (author)
++C C Is for Coyote: A Southwest Alphabet Book Andrea Helman 2-6-21 (title)
++Y (L. Yates) Dog Loves Drawing Louise Yates 3-13-21 (author)
🥾 40. WILDERNESS FINISHED
++W (J. WHeeler) Pam Munoz Ryan Jill C. Wheeler 4-14-21 (author)
++I (F. Ingram) The Poppy Project: How Fiji's Most Famous Dog Got Saved! Fiona Ingram 5-1-21 (author)
++L (Lisa P.) Madeline Finn and the Library Dog Lisa Papp 3-2-21 (author)
++D Dog Loves Books Louise Yates 2-25-21 (title)
++E (K. English) Dog Days Karen English 2-11-21 (author)
++R (Rob S.) Splat the Cat: I Scream for Ice Cream Rob Scotton 3-13-21 (author)
++N Nocturne: Creatures of the Night Traer Scott 2-6-21 (title)
++E (Elissa G.) C Is for Ciao: An Italy Alphabet Elissa D. Grodin 2-6-21 (author)
++S The Superior Cat: I.Q. Tests for Cats and Their Two-Legged Companions Melissa Miller 2-14-21 (title)
++S (Sheila H.) The Boy Who Loved All Living Things: The Imaginary Childhood Journal of Albert Schweitzer Sheila Hamanaka 2-3-21 (author)

[Kellene]

Barb wrote: "When I was in high school, my Girl Scout troop spent a week hiking part of the Appalachian Trail here in PA, so I'm not sure I can resist this challenge, and may be back to sign up for it :)

I jus..."

Hot Springs, NC is a popular stopping point on the trail. Several weeks ago, the entire town (which is really small, but even so) was closed down to tourists and hikers until the COVID numbers came under control. Things like that will impede the long hikers...

[Kellene]

In honor of my daughter-in-law, Jasmyn, who dreams of hiking the length of the trail (she's already done the width and has the shirt to prove it), I'm in!

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Purists: 25+
tasks29/25

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#. Ellie's Long Walk: The True Story of Two Friends on the Appalachian Trail Pam Flowers 3/4/21 On the Appalachian Trail, they would both carry packs on their backs. p.6
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. One Potato, Two Potato, Dead Lynn Cahoon. 3/14/21. Angie Turner p.46
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. Sweet Tea and Secrets Joy Avon. 4/24/21
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Killing Thyme Leslie Budewitz 2/18/21
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Bianco. 4/14/21 #118
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. Deadly Editions. Paige Shelton. 5/16/21. 320 as of date read
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
Mardi Gras Murder Ellen Byron 2/7/21. Constance Damboise's husband Gerard is killed
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Design For Murder Jessica Fletcher 2/4/21. the campaign for the New Face of New Cosmetics
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Manhattans & Murder Jessica Fletcher 2/13/21
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Christmas Cow Bells Mollie Cox Bryan 2/14/21
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. My Fair Latte. Vickie Fee. 5/22/21. set in the Ozarks
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Close-up on Murder Jessica Fletcher 2/18/21. Oct. 1, 2013
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. The Plot Is Murder V.M. Burns. 3/17/21. Mystery Bookshop
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. The Queen's Jewels Jessica Fletcher. 3/6/21. Jessica travels from England to New York aboard the Queen Mary 2
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who. Stiffs and Swine J.B. Stanley. 4/20/21. Bennett (p.132)
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs. Widow's Tears Susan Wittig Albert. 4/17/21
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Gin & Daggers Jessica Fletcher. 2/3/21. Marjorie Ainsworth
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Lord of the Pies Nell Hampton 2/10/21. Carrie Ann Cole
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
Ammie, Come Home Barbara Michaels 2/21/21. written in the 1960's and set in that time

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia. Lemon Pies and Little White Lies Ellery Adams 3/31/21
🥾 23. North Carolina Killer Characters Ellery Adams. 3/1/21
🥾 24. Tennessee. Eggs in Purgatory. Laura Childs 6/20/21
🥾 25. Virginia. Apples and Alibis Gayle Leeson 3/12/21
🥾 26. West Virginia. Apple Cider Slaying Julie Anne Lindsey 2/28/21
🥾 27. Maryland Crab Outta Luck Ellis Quinn 7/10/21
🥾 28. Pennsylvania. True Confections Ruth Hartzler. 6/10/21
🥾 29. New Jersey. Hounded David Rosenfelt. 5/12/21
🥾 30. New York. Death of an English Muffin Victoria Hamilton. 5/21/21
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts. Mrs. Morris and the Witch Traci Wilton. 3/31/21
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine Murder in Season Jessica Fletcher 4/12/21

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS

[Grace]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read: 25

Tasks
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking- What Girls Are Made Of-Elana K. Arnold 2/5
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T- Dragon Ball, Vol. 5: The Red Ribbon Army-Akira Toriyama 2/28
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title- Take Me with You-Andrea Gibson 3/9
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings- Dragon Ball, Vol. 4: Strongest Under the Heavens-Akira Toriyama 2/24
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what- 다이아몬드 더스트 2-강형규 2/20 (MC is publicized- she's a famous pianist)
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title- The Baby Shift: Arizona-Becca Fanning 3/19
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T- All My Friends Are Still Dead-Avery Monsen 2/28
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains- Across the Green Grass Fields-Seanan McGuire 3/4
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year- In This Corner of the World Vol. 1-Fumiyo Kouno 2/26
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Mark Twain 2/5 (Adventures of Tom and Huck)
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female- Dragon Ball, Vol. 3: The Training of Kame-Sen'nin-Akira Toriyama 2/4 (male)
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name- Technically, You Started It-Lana Wood Johnson 2/19 (Haley Hancock)

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia- Dear Martin-Nic Stone 4/3
🥾 25. Virginia- Wonder Woman, Vol 3: Loveless-G. Willow Wilson 2/27
🥾 26. West Virginia- The Baby Shift: West Virginia-Becca Fanning 12/5
🥾 28. Pennsylvania- It Came From the Sky-Chelsea Sedoti 1/3/21
🥾 29. New Jersey- The Baby Shift: New Jersey-Becca Fanning 1/1/22
🥾 30. New York- Fly on The Wall-E. Lockhart 7/27
🥾 31. Connecticut- The Baby Shift: Connecticut-Becca Fanning 11/26
🥾 32. Massachusetts- I Hate Everyone But You-Gaby Dunn 1/22/22

Spell out (optional)
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN:
M- Magica Quartet-Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Vol. 2 3/4
O- Atsushi Ohkubo-Soul Eater: The Perfect Edition 02 2/27
U- Ukyo Kodachi-Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 13 2/16
N- Yoshiki Nakamura-Skip Beat!, Vol. 44 3/11
T- Togo Goto-仄見える少年 1 Hono Mieru Shounen 1 2/17
A- 亜人 17-Gamon Sakurai 2/22
I- Takehiko Inoue-Vagabond, Vol. 4 2/24
N- Natsuki Kizu-Given, Vol. 1 2/22

🥾 39. CONSERVANCY:
C- Caroline Kaufman-Light Filters In: Poems 2/28
O- Atsushi Ohkubo-Soul Eater: The Perfect Edition 1 2/22
N- Marieke Nijkamp-Before I Let Go 2/5
S- Snailogy-Snailords 2/4
E- Elana K. Arnold-A Boy Called Bat 2/6
R- Remote Control-Nnedi Okorafor 3/3
V- Vagabond, Vol. 5-Takehiko Inoue 3/9
A- Amanda Lovelace-Shine your Icy Crown 2/11
N- Ryo Nakama-高校生家族 1 Koukousei Kazoku 1 3/9
C- Caroline Kaufman-When the World Didn't End 3/4
Y- You Are Here-Dawn Lanuza 2/15

🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H- How to Train Your Dragon-Cressida Cowell 11/16
I- I Wrote This for You: Please Listen-Iain S. Thomas 11/13
K- Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 1-Tomohito Oda 11/19
E- ExtraOrdinary-V.E. Schwab 11/18
T- Michael Layne Turner-Fathom: Killian's Tide 11/16
R- Rick Remender-Black Science, Vol. 5: True Atonement 11/14
A- Anh Do-Flight of the Griffin 11/19
I- Into the Pit-Scott Cawthon 10/2
L- The Last to Die-Kelly Garrett9/29

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A- Anh Do-Mighty Minotaur 11/14
P- Sarah Pinborough-Mayhem 11/15
P- Phil Stamper-The Gravity of Us 11/16
A- Jason Aaron-Sea of Stars, Vol. 2: The People of the Broken Moon 11/13
L- Lore Olympus: Volume Two-Rachel Smythe 11/11
A- Anh Do-Ride the Wind: Skydragon 3 11/7
C- A Certain Scientific Railgun, Vol. 10-Kazuma Kamachi 11/10
H- Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour #1-Tee Franklin 12/8
I- Iain S. Thomas-The Truth of You: Poetry About Love, Life, Joy, and Sadness 9/17
A- Across the Sea: Wolf Girl 5-Anh Do 9/9
N- Nikita Gill-Your Heart is the Sea 9/17

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W- World Trigger, Vol. 19-Daisuke Ashihara 11/13
I- I Would Leave Me If I Could: A Collection of Poetry-Halsey 8/28
L- Lana Del Rey-Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass 8/28
D- Anh Do-Golden Unicorn 9/8
E- Enter the Jungle: E-Boy 3-Anh Do 8/30
R- redacted -Trista Mateer 9/10
N- Natsumi Matsumoto-Yumeiro Patissiere Vol. 7 8/23
E- Even Weirder!-Anh Do 11/7
S- She Fits Inside These Words-R.H. Sin 11/5
S- You Someya-Pleasure & Corruption, Volume 2 11/1

[JoAnne]

Welcome Frankie, Helen, Kellene and Grace!

[JoAnne]

Kellene wrote: "Barb wrote: "When I was in high school, my Girl Scout troop spent a week hiking part of the Appalachian Trail here in PA, so I'm not sure I can resist this challenge, and may be back to sign up for..."

We only went up to the mountains once - Blowing Rock - while we lived in Concord. Here in PA the mountains are just a few miles away.

[Kellene]

JoAnne wrote: "Kellene wrote: "Barb wrote: "When I was in high school, my Girl Scout troop spent a week hiking part of the Appalachian Trail here in PA, so I'm not sure I can resist this challenge, and may be bac..."

We lived in Boone while my folks went to App and then I got both my Bachelor's and Masters' degrees there, so I know that area well. I'm actually in the foothills now, so I can be in the mountains in an hour. I've visited some of the PA mountains as well, and they are beautiful.

[[deleted user]]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail COMPLETED
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read: 26

Tasks
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Don’t stop believin’ Olivia newton-john 20.03.21Don't Stop Believin'
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
The secret midwife – life, death and the truth about birth Katy weitz 20.02.21The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The kill room Jeffrey Denver 27.02.21The Kill Room
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
#316 Pippi longstocking- Astrid lindgren 09.04.21Pippi Longstocking
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
The perfect wife Jp Delaney 12.02.21 – rating: 23487The Perfect Wife
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
Eve of man - Giovanna fletcher & tom fletcher 05.02.21Eve of Man
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
The last illusion - Rhys bowen 12.04.21 – the magic show is publicisedThe Last Illusion
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
The dover café at war - Ginny bell 26.02.21The Dover Cafe at War
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Knowing the score: my family and our tennis story Judy murray 18.02.21Knowing the Score: My Family and Our Tennis Story
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. The owl service Alan Garner 22.04.21The Owl Service
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
This is me - Mrs hinch - 09.03.21 – PUB 01.10.20This Is Me: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller 2020
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.Mondays Are Murder
Monday’s are Murder … zombies? Spooks? Or just plain murder
#1 poppy fields mystery Tanya Landman - 13.03.21
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket John boyne27.03.21The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Squirm - Carl Hiaasen - 21.04.21Squirm
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character.
Elizabeth is missing Emma Healey 25.03.21Elizabeth is Missing
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.Three Hours
Matthew mare in Three hours Rosamund lupton 03.02.21
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.Where the Crawdads Sing
Set in 50s - Where the crawdads sing Delia owens 07.02.21

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 25. Virginia - Divine justice
David Baldacci
20.04.21 Divine Justice
🥾 26. West Virginia – one good deed – David Baldacci – 12.05.21 One Good Deed
🥾 30. New York - Saint X -Alexis schaitkin - 05.03.21Saint X
🥾 32. Massachusetts - It’s not summer without you Jenny han 05.03.21 ratings: 114252It's Not Summer Without You
🥾 34. New Hampshire - The talisman- Stephen King and Peter Staub 26.04.21
The Talisman
Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H The curious incident of the dog in the niGHT- Mark haddon 17.03.21
I Under my hat – tales from the cauldron - #1.5 innkeeper’s world Jonathan strahan 29.03.21
K Knock three times - Cressida cowell 16.02.21
E The pear affair Judith eagle 07.02.21
T The perfect wife Jp Delaney 12.02.21
R When we got lost in dreamland Ross welford 29.03.21
A The sentence is death - Anthony horowitz 06.02.21
I I owe you one Sophie Kinsella 15.04.21
L Love frankie Jacqueline Wilson 11.02.21
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeUnder My Hat: Tales from the CauldronKnock Three TimesThe Pear AffairThe Perfect WifeWhen We Got Lost in DreamlandThe Sentence is DeathI Owe You OneLove Frankie
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A CopyCat Alex Lake 23.05.21
P Beagle Diana porter 07.03.21
P The babysitter Phoebe morgan 20.03.21
A The apprentice - Tess gerristen 25.03.21
L The husbands secret - Liane moriarty 15.02.21
A An anonymous girl Greer Hendricks and sarah pekkanen 16.02.21
C The bane chronicles - Cassandra clare Et al 11.02.21
H Blood orange Harriet tyce 07.03.21
I I am pilgrim Terry Hayes 20.04.21
A Soldier dog Sam angus 29.03.21
N Northanger abbey Jane Austen 27.04.21
CopycatThe BeagleThe BabysitterThe ApprenticeThe Husband's SecretAn Anonymous GirlThe Bane ChroniclesBlood OrangeI Am PilgrimSoldier DogNorthanger Abbey

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M Wolf! Geoffrey Malone 13.03.21
O The other woman Sandie jones 13.04.21
UUnheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Malorie blackman 02.04.21
N Nice work (if you can get it) #2 Nice Celia Imrie 02.05.21
T The family upstairs Lisa jewell 06.03.21
A The shape of water Andrea camilleri 25.03.21
I In like Flynn - Rhys Bowen 22.04.21
N Into that forest Louis nowra 23.05.21
Wolf!The Other WomanUnheard Voices: An Anthology of Stories and Poems to Commemorate the Bicentenary Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave TradeNice WorkThe Family UpstairsThe Shape of WaterIn Like FlynnInto That Forest

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W We all ride bikes now - Joanna ward & Philip Crompton 20.02.21
I Indigo - #2 water tales Alice Hoffman 07.05.21
L Poison pen - Tanya landman 16.03.21
D Forgetting foster Dianne touchell 05.02.21
E Earthdark
#2 crisis on conshelf ten Monica hughes 02.04.21
R Best day ever - Kaira rouda 23.03.21
N Mystery of the midnight rider - #3 Nancy drew diaries Carolyn keene 26.03.21
E The enigma game - Elizabeth wein 12.04.21
S Short and scary! Louise cooper 27.03.21
S Loser Jerry Spinelli 04.04.21
We Are All Made of MoleculesIndigoPoison PenForgetting FosterEarthdarkBest Day EverMystery of the Midnight RiderThe Enigma GameShort and Scary!Loser

[JoAnne]

Welcome Den!

[Carolyn]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
Read: 35/35

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#. Ink and Shadows by Ellery Adams read 7/11/21 Loc 736 "Jed prattled on until their local trail joined the Appalachian Trail. They'd hike the AT for several miles before veering onto another side trail to end up at Nora's favorite lookout"
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. The Wish and the Waterfall by K.B. Bachelder read 2/24/21 Will hikes to the Spirit Falls
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. Look Alive Twenty-Five by Janet Evanovich read 2/4/21
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George read 2/9/21
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. The Stranger by Albert Camus read 2/8/21 #28 on list
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich read 2/2/21 63,329 ratings
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books. Southbound by Lucy Letcher and Susan Letcher read 12/26/21 Book 6 on the list
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich read 2/4/21 Jimmy and Grandma Mazer were married for an hour when he died of a heart attack
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what. Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich read 2/3/21 Lula and Briggs create a video for Naked and Afraid and submit it to a publized request for ideas
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum read 2/11/21
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title. Gray Mountain by John Grisham read 11/17/21
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas read 2/15/21
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley read 2/9/21 set in Rio De Janeiro and the foothills of the mountain where the Christ statue is.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. This Cruel Design by Emily Suvada read 2/1/21 pub 10/30/2018
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea read 2/6/21 The Hummingbird's Daughter #1
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain by Allan Massie read 2/6/21 Prince Charles is in Italy and goes to France and then England for the '45 rebellion
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson read 3/9/21 Page 394 …him Anthony. He was thirteen, a Boy Scout…
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov read 3/30/21 Page 313 …then the storm turned into a hurricane.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich read 2/2/21 Grandma Mazer is in her 70's
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name. Watchmen: The Annotated Edition by Alan Moore read 2/3/21 Dan Dreiberg
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah read 2/26/21 starts late in 1939, but most of the action is in the 1940's

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia The Boy in the Barn by Ciana Stone read 2/7/21 set in rural Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks read 2/19/21 set in the outer banks of North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee Eggs in Purgatory by Laura Childs read 4/5/2021 set in Kindred, Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia The Girl in Cabin 13 by A.J. Rivers read 10/9/21 set in Feathered Nest, Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia Zero Day by David Baldacci read 4/10/2021 set in Drake, West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland Blue Smoke by Nora Roberts read 1/5/2022 set in Baltimore, Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner read 3/4/21 set in Philly, PA
🥾 29. New Jersey Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich read 2/1/21 Trenton, NJ
🥾 30. New York Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison read 3/1/21 set in New York City, NY
🥾 31. Connecticut Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney read 5/21/21
🥾 32. Massachusetts The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X read 3/7/21 set in Boston, MA
🥾 33. Vermont Bed and Breakfast and Murder by Patti Larsen read 6/30/21 set in Reading Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult read 9/27/21 set in Sterling, New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout read 2/16/21 set in Crosby, Maine

[Carolyn]

Spell out (optional)
49/49
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H Hardcore Twenty-Four by Janet Evanovich read 2/3/21
I So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo read 2/11/21
K The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler read 3/20/21
E Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich read 2/2/21
T To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn read 3/8/21
R Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory read 2/11/21
A Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery read 2/20/21
I The Iron Hand of Mars by Lindsey Davis read 2/19/21
L Gossamer by Lois Lowry read 2/12/21

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A An Axe to Rind by Ally Roberts read 2/25/21
P Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George read 2/15/21
P Still Life by Louise Penny read 3/12/21
A In Grate Danger by Ally Roberts read 2/26/21
L The Royal Secret by Lucinda Riley read 2/28/21
A How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe read 3/13/21
C The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna by C.W. Gortner read 2/12/21
H Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad read 2/15/21
I I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles read 2/21/21
A The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai read 3/14/21
N The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny read 4/19/21

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M The Meryl Streep Movie Club by Mia March read 3/3/21
O An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn read 3/5/21
U Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver read 2/18/21
N The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner read 4/29/21
T Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra by Peter Kurth read 4/2/2021
A The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith read 3/15/21
I Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud read 3/16/21
N Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman read 5/5/21

🥾 39. CONSERVANCY

C The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye read 2/23/21
O On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn read 3/25/21
N All Fudged Up by Nancy CoCo read 5/7/21
S The Library Book by Susan Orlean read 2/17/21
E Tricky Twenty-Two by Janet Evanovich read 2/3/21
R Death & the Gravedigger's Angel by Loretta Ross read 2/13/21
V The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn read 3/4/21
A And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer read 3/24/21
N Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny read 5/14/21
C The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile by C.W. Gortner read 2/25/21
Y The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey read 4/12/21

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner read 2/17/21
I It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn read 3/24/21
L The Lost World by Michael Crichton read 3/11/21
D The Duke and I by Julia Quinn read 2/12/21
E A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George read 2/10/21
R Royal by Danielle Steel read 3/2/21
N To Fudge or Not to Fudge by Nancy CoCo read 5/16/21
E Empress by Shan Sa read 3/10/21
S The Jungle by Upton Sinclair read 2/22/21
S Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia read 3/2/21

[Kimberly]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
The Dog Sitter by Zara Stoneley the MC goes on several hikes around the Lake District. She even loses a dog on a strenuous trail. (2.9.21)
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han (2.22.21)
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Take a Hint, Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert (1/26/22)
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
Heart and Seoul - Jen Frederick - 2,357 ratings - (1/22/22)
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert T (8.7.21)
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
Home for Christmas - Camilla Isley Park City (12/31/22)
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
The Quiche and the Dead by Kirsten Weiss pub. 10/31/17 (2.14.21)
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
Scythe by Neal Shusterman Arc of Scythe #1 (2.28.21)
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
A Wedding in Tuscany - Sandy Barker - Australia to Italy (7/19/22)
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1930s, 1940s
The Last Bookshop in London - Madeline Martin (5/25/22)

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia:
War and Peach by Susan Furlong (3.17.21)
🥾 23. North Carolina
The Whispered Word - Ellery Adams (6/30/22)
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia:
The Calamity Café by Gayle Leeson (3.27.21)
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York:
Opposites Attract by Camilla Isley (3.8.21)
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts:
Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala (6.26.21)
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
Familiar Motives - Delia James (10/23/22)
🥾 35. Maine

[Kimberly]

Spell out (optional)


🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H: How Sweet It Is by Dylan Newton (7.13.21)
I: If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy (8.3.21)
K: Kernel of Truth by Kristi Abbott (4.6.21)
E: Emmeline Duncan - Fresh Brewed Murder (3.6.21)
T: Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman (4.19.21)
R: The Rocky Road to Ruin by Meri Allen (7.20.21)
A: Angela M. Sanders - Seven-Year Witch - (8/31/21)
I: It Takes Heart - Tif Marcelo - (8/24/21)
L: License to Dill by Mary Ellen Hughes (2.26.21)

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A: Andy Weir - The Martian -(9/7/21)
P: A Pairing to Die for by Kate Lansing (2.6.21)
P: Put Out to Pasture - Amanda Flower (11/21/21)
A: Allyson K. Abbott - In the Drink (2/12/22)
L: Lemon Drop Dead by Amanda Flower (4.26.21)
A: Addressed to Kill - Jean Flowers (2/19/22)
C: Classified as Murder by Miranda James (8.15.21)
H: How to Book a Murder - Cynthia Kuhn (10/11/21)
I: In the Company of Witches - Auralee Wallace - (11/3/21)
A: Alexene Farol Follmuth - My Mechanical Romance (4/3/22)
N: Nicola Marsh - The Man Ban (7.27.21)

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M: Murder in a Scottish Garden by Traci Hall (5/22/21)
O: One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (5/13/21)
U: Up to No Gouda - Linda Reilly (1/9/22)
N:
T: To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne (6.21.21)
A: And Then There Were Crumbs - Eve Calder (4/18/22)
I: Isabella Alan - Murder, Plainly Read (3/19/22)
N:

🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
C: The Cider Shop Rules by Julie Anne Lindsey (8.2.21)
O: Olivia Dade - Spoiler Alert (6.30.21)
N:
S: Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali (3.31.21)
E: Esme Addison - A Spell for Trouble (5/6/21)
R: Rick Riordan - The Sword of Summer (7/2/22)
V: Vicki Delany - Hark the Herald Angels Slay (12/19/21)
A: Alison Cochrun - The Charm Offensive (6/26/22)
N:
C: Cinder - Marissa Meyer (9/18/21)
Y: Yesterday Is History by Kosoko Jackson (4.20.21)

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W: Where the Road Leads Us by Robin Reul (3.22.21)
I:
L: Lovelight Farms - B.K. Borison (12/30/21)
D: Death in Bloom by Jess Dylan (5/29/21)
E: Evie Dunmore - Bringing Down the Duke - (9/8/21)
R: Rick Riordan - The Hammer of Thor (7/13/22)
N:
E: Ellery Adams - The Secret, Book & Scone Society (3/4/22)
S: The Secret Bridesmaid by Katy Birchall (4.14.21)
S: Sabina Khan - Zara Hossain Is Here (4.30.21)

[Lex]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Purists: 25+ tasks

Completed: 25/25

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned. Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#. - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling - Completed: 4/11/2021, pg. 163 "Shouldn't you be hiking the Appalachian Trail right now or something?"
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. - Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch Urioste - Completed: 2/25/2021
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Completed: 2/12/2021
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title. - What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller - Completed: 2/16/2021
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - Completed: 3/27/2021
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. - Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 2/26/2021 (32,340 ratings)
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. - Murder Simply Brewed by Vannetta Chapman - Completed: 2/11/2021
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what. - From This Moment by Kim Vogel Sawyer - Completed: 2/7/2021 (Kenzie publicizes the found ring)
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title. - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - Completed: 2/28/2021
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title. - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - Completed: 3/7/2021
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. - Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour - Completed: 3/15/2021
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. - The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse - Completed: 3/14/2021
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. - The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory - Completed: 2/8/2021 (Pub. Oct. 30, 2018)
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke - Completed: 2/9/2021 (Hannah Swensen series)
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. - A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy - Completed: 3/9/2021 (Travels from India to England)
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs. - Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake by Sarah Graves - Completed: 3/23/2021
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Completed: 2/16/2021
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name. - Divided in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 4/2/2021 (Blair Bissel)
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s. - The Stranger by Albert Camus - Completed: 2/27/2021 (1940s)

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - Completed: 3/29/2021
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York - Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters - Completed: 2/8/2021
🥾 31. Connecticut - Death Overdue by Allison Brook - Completed: 3/22/2021
🥾 32. Massachusetts - Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner - Completed: 2/9/2021
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire - Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett - Completed: 4/9/2021
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones - Completed: 2/22/2021
I - If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier - Completed: 3/10/2021
K - Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan - Completed: 4/7/2021
E - Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho - Completed: 4/2/2021
T - This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens - Completed: 3/20/2021
R - Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 3/7/2021
A - All That Really Matters by Nicole Deese - Completed: 4/14/2021
I - Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 3/30/2021
L - Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter by Hal Urban - Completed: 3/24/2021

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS

[Ferenc]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Goal: 25/40
Purists: 25+ tasks

Tasks:
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.

🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Unorthodox Union - Lilah E. Noir - 03/11/21 - Thomas and Lina

🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
The Queen's Assassin - Melissa de la Cruz - 05/18/21

🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There - Tara Schuster - 05/27/21

🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
Az alkimista - Paulo Coelho - 03/12/21 - #42

🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
The Names of the Dead - Kevin Wignall - 02/01/21 - 11.662 ratings on 02/28/2021.

🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.

🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
The Other People - C.J. Tudor - 05/30/21

🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
The Rose Code - Kate Quinn - 07/22/21 - The Bletchley Bletherings

🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek - Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal - 03/21/21

🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.

🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Perfect Grave - Rick Mofina - 02/07/21

🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
An Unexpected Mail Order Bride - Blythe Carver - 11/07/21 - Shady Forks, Wyoming

🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Killer Cupcakes - Leighann Dobbs - 03/02/21 - Published October 31st 2012

🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
The Unburied Dead - Douglas Lindsay - 02/03/21 - Thomas Hutton #1

🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Éjszaka Lisszabonban - Erich Maria Remarque - 07/30/21 - Josef Schwartz from Germany to Portugal

🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
A Secret for a Secret - Helena Hunting - 09/11/21 - Kingston was a Boy Scout, and acts like one.

🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Kalyana - Rajni Mala Khelawan - 12/21/21

🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
The Whispers of War - Julia Kelly - 02/11/21 - Lady Moreton

🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Uncanny X-Men: Wolverine and Cyclops, Vol. 1 - Matthew Rosenberg - 02/26/21 - Scott Summers

🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
Édes Anna - Dezső Kosztolányi - 23/03/21 - 1920s

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
Teen Titans: Beast Boy - Kami Garcia - 11/17/21

🥾 23. North Carolina
Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales - 06/23/21

🥾 24. Tennessee
Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven - Kami Garcia - 11/17/21

🥾 25. Virginia
The Riesling Retribution - Ellen Crosby - 06/27/21

🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey

🥾 30. New York - You Are Not Alone - Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen - 02/15/21

🥾 31. Connecticut

🥾 32. Massachusetts
28 Summers - Elin Hilderbrand - 06/14/21

🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire

🥾 35. Maine - Az intézet - Stephen King - 02/26/21

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS

[JoAnne]

Welcome Carolyn, Kimberly, Lex and Ferenc!

[Chelsea]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Purists: 25+ tasks
24/25+

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#. The King of Nightmare - A. Rogers 6/8/21 {loc 48 "...grown up near the Appalachian Trail."}
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. The Haunting of Cabin Green - April A. Taylor 4/27/21
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. Arsenic in the Azaleas - Dale Mayer 3/12/21
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 2/2/21
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. Llama Llama Red Pajama - Anna Dewdney 3/14/21 {42,419}
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail - David Miller 5/18/21
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. The Beast of Aros Castle - Heather McCollum 2/26/21
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what. {Japanese Surrender} Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan - Bill O'Reilly 2/25/21
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title. Welcome to Night Vale - Joseph Fink 4/21/21
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. Admission - Travis Thrasher 2/8/21
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. Alaskan Dawn - Edie Claire 7/13/21
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo 4/2/21 {10/8/19}
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. Her Husband's Harlot - Grace Callaway 2/10/21 {Mayhem in Mayfield #1}
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. Chasing Spirits: The Building of the "Ghost Adventures" Crew - Nick Groff 3/6/21
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. Edge of Shadows - Cege Smith 2/17/21
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Murder in the Evening - Blythe Baker 3/13/21 {Sherborne Sharp}
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s. Due Justice - Diane Capri 7/6/21

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia Runaway Radical: A Young Man's Reckless Journey to Save the World - Amy Hollingsworth 3/10/21
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland Fates and Traitors - Jennifer Chiaverini 4/10/21
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York Red Means Run - Brad Smith 6/28/21
🥾 31. Connecticut Scorched Earth - Justin Bell 6/18/21
🥾 32. Massachusetts Zero Hour - Justin Bell 6/1/21
🥾 33. Vermont She Wore Mourning - P.D. Workman 2/15/21
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL (view spoiler)[
H Hutchinson, Ty - A Book of Truths 3/22/21
I I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Shooter - Dr. Harper 4/3/21
K Kerri Maniscalco - Becoming the Dark Prince 3/12/21
E EDIT - Rick Chesler 4/8/21
T The Tempest - A.J. Scudiere 4/14/21
R Road Back Home from Here, The - Janice Broyles 3/14/21
A Anna Dewdney - Llama Llama Mad at Mama 4/8/21
I Iain Rob Wright - Sam 5/7/21
L Llama Llama Time to Share - Anna Dewdney 3/14/21 (hide spoiler)]

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN (view spoiler)[
A Amelia - Miss Spelled - Morgana Best 7/22/21
P Pongratz, Jonathan - Reaper: Aftermath 7/28/21
P Perfect Wife, The - Blake Pierce 8/10/21
A Aron Lewes - School For Spirits 8/4/21
L Louisiana Longshot - Jana Deleon 6/30/21
A Aged for Murder - Fiona Grace 8/12/21
C Clarice Starling - Red Dragon - Thomas Harris 7/9/21
H Haag, Melissa - Morik Origins 5/27/21
I Ilka Jensen - The Daughter - Sara Blaedel 7/16/21
A Amy Saunders - Cliffhanger 8/5/21
N (hide spoiler)]

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN (view spoiler)[
M Melissa Haag - Dealing with Demons 5/27/21
O
U
N Nova Lee Maier - Close to the Cradle 7/30/21
T Teddy Jacobs - Sword Bearer 7/9/21
A Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls - R.L. Stine 4/23/21
I If I Dream - K.M. Scott 7/2/21
N Nasser, A.I. - This is Gonna Hurt 7/13/21
(hide spoiler)]
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY (view spoiler)[
C Clayton-Goldner, Susan - Redemption Lake 5/24/21
O
N
S Stine, R.L. - The Haunted Mask 5/21/21
E
R Raven, Dean - Dark Farm 5/5/21
V
A Aloof - Tony Kriz 5/5/21
N
C Cooper's Charm - Lori Foster 6/4/21
Y (hide spoiler)]

🥾 40. WILDERNESS (view spoiler)[
W Weight of the Badge - T.R. Cupak 2/13/21
I Iain Rob Wright - The Picture Frame 5/30/21
L Leighann Dobbs - Killer Cupcakes 3/22/21
D Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie 3/3/21
E Eleventh Hour, The - Anina Collins 7/15/21
R Red Dragon - Thomas Harris 3/20/21
N No Place for a Lady - Jade Lee 4/24/21
E
S Spirit Hollows, The - P.R. Brewer 3/27/21
S Sanctuary 12 - T.W. Malpass 6/12/21 (hide spoiler)]

[SANDYE]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022
Date Started: February 1, 2021
Date Completed: July 28, 2021

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks

Tasks = 17

🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. - The Salty Dog by Debbie White - 2/27/21 - 290 Ratings
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. - The Poison in the Pie (Bakers and Bulldogs 4) by Rosie Sams - 3/12/21 - (view spoiler)[Jillian's husband is poisoned at a contest he's judging (hide spoiler)]
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. - Vanilla Vengeance (Cupcake Crimes 1) by Molly Maple - 3/7/21
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. - Red Velvet, Dead Velvet (Sky High Pies 3) by Mary Maxwell - 3/15/21 - set in Crescent Creek, CO amongst Rocky Mountains
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. - Brides and Blades (Bakers and Bulldogs 2) by Rosie Sams - 2/8/21 - Published October 14, 2019
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. - You Killed Me? (Light Life 1) by Adam Hythe - 2/3/21
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. - True Confections (Amish Cupcake 1) by Ruth Hartzler - 2/15/21 - Eleanor and Matilda Birtwistle are sisters in their 80s
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.- A Cop and a Coop (Clucks and Clues 1) by Hillary Avis - 7/8/21 - Leona Landers
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1990s. The Mystery of the Blue Dolphins (Dog Detective 1) by Sandra Baublitz - 4/10/21 - set in 1991

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia - Peanut Butter Fudge & Murder (Sweet Treats 2) by Lori Woods - 6/22/21
🥾 23. North Carolina - A Bad Egg (Classic Diner 5) by Jessica Beck - 6/28/21
🥾 27. Maryland - Letters in Time57820006] (Letters 1) by Susan Reiss- 4/23/21 - set in Chesapeake Bay, MD
🥾 30. New York - No Boys Allowed by Marilyn Levinson - 5/12/21
🥾 33. Vermont - A Knead to Kill (Apple Orchard 1.5) by Chelsea Thomas - 6/12/21
🥾 35. Maine - An Axe to Rind (Cheese Shop 1) by Ally Roberts - 6/25/21

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H - Hattie Jenkins - Game of Bones (A Witch and Her Cats 8.5) by Pearl Goodfellow - 4/11/21
I - Ivy Culpepper - Kneaded to Death (Bread Shop 1) by Winnie Archer - 6/19/21
K - Fluffy and her love for chocolate (Adventures of Fluffy (Adventures of Fluffy) by Kat Malecka - 3/28/21
E - Emmy Oak - A Sip Before Dying (Wine & Dine 1) by Gemma Halliday - 7/28/21
T - Thai Coconut Murder (Darling Deli 6) by Patti Benning - 6/15/21
R - The Hawaiian Burger Murder (Burger Bar 0.5) by Rosie A. Point - 6/16/21
A - An Accident from Heaven by Emma Maas - 5/11/21
I - In Grate Danger (Cheese Shop 2) by Ally Roberts - 6/27/21
L - Love Sings FREE AUDIO BOOK INSIDE: Clean and Wholesome Country Romance by Margery Watkins - 6/2/21

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M - Lost Keys; a Short Story (Mommy Mysteries 1) by D.K. Greene - 3/7/21
O - Once Upon A Rose by Lorri Moulton - 3/23/21
U - Under the Honey Moon (Honey Haven 1) by Jessica R. Patch - 7/4/21
N - Norbert (Norbert the Horse 1) by James Sutherland - 2/23/21
T - Truly - Fashion Friends (Fashion 2) by Jamie Campbell - 3/12/21
A - Amanda - Board to Death (Amanda Blakemore 2) by Amy Phipps - 3/21/21
I - Itsy-Bitsy Murder (Chocolate Cozy Mysteries 2) by Wendy Meadows - 4/27/21
N - Deadly Ashes (Skegness Seaside 3) by N.C. Lewis - 5/29/21

[JoAnne]

Welcome Chelsea and SANDYE!

[Elle]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Level: Purists: 25+ tasks
Completed: 25/25

COMPLETE!!

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.

🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Forget Me Always | Sara Wolf - Feb 7

🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
The Address Book: | Deirdre Mask - Apr 14

🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The Little Humpbacked Horse | Elizabeth Winthrop - Mar 1

🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov - Mar 6

🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
Fugitive Telemetry | Martha Wells - May 21 (9,271 ratings)

🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.

🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
Quiet in Her Bones | Nalini Singh - Apr 22

🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized.
Kulti | Mariana Zapata - Apr 30 (articles about H/h relationship)

🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Before Jamaica Lane | Samantha Young - Apr 5

🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.

🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
You Need More Sleep | Francesco Marciuliano - Feb 20

🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.

🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Nine Goblins | T. Kingfisher - May 24 (pub. October 2013)

🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
The Inheritance Games | Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Feb 23 (The Inheritance Games #1)

🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Black Sun | Rebecca Roanhorse - Feb 14 (Cuecola to Tova - fictional land, but west)

🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.

🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Namesake | Adrienne Young - Mar 30

🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Remember Me Forever | Sara Wolf - Feb 8

🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
Fair Game | Patricia Briggs - May 9 (Charles Cornick)

🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie - Feb 25

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia - Blood Heir | Ilona Andrews - Feb 9
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee - Dear Ava | Ilsa Madden-Mills - Apr 6
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York - Passing | Nella Larsen - Jun 7
🥾 31. Connecticut - A Good Girl's Guide to Murder | Holly Jackson - Mar 19
🥾 32. Massachusetts - Flat-Out Love | Jessica Park - Mar 14
🥾 33. Vermont - Understood Betsy | Dorothy Canfield Fisher - Apr 11
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine - 180 Seconds | Jessica Park - Mar 15

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H: Hench | Natalie Zina Walschots - May 4
I: Isis Blake in Love Me Never | Sara Wolf - Feb 5
K: Katherine Applegate | The One and Only Ivan - Apr 28
E: Hailey Edwards | Shadow of Doubt - Feb 23

T: Ti-Jeanne in Brown Girl in the Ring | Nalo Hopkinson - Apr 8
R: Remote Control | Nnedi Okorafor - Feb 6
A: Adrienne Young | Fable - Mar 13
I: The Insiders | Tijan - May 11
L: Lucy Parker | Making Up - Feb 19

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W: Lindsay Ward | This Book Is Gray - Feb 21
I: I'll Fly Away | Rudy Francisco - Mar 21
L: Lisa Edmonds | Heart of Malice - Apr 2
D: Drink Deep | Chloe Neill - Apr 26
E: Ethan Sullivan in Hard Bitten | Chloe Neill - Mar 10
R: Raven Black in Afterlife | Dannika Dark - May 18
N: Namina Forna | The Gilded Ones - Mar 25
E: Emma Bellamy in Brimstone Bound | Helen Harper - May 13
S: Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar - Mar 9
S: Snapshot | Brandon Sanderson - Apr 18

[JoAnne]

Welcome Elle!

[Shash]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
February 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks
Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks
Purists: 25+ tasks

26/25+ Tasks Completed

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
The Bet by Taylor Hart (2/18/21)
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
Goldie and the Billionaire Bear by Catelyn Meadows (4/18/21)
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The Boardwalk Antiques Shop by Julie Wright, et.al. (2/6/21)
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (4/25/21) - #45
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
The Little Selkie by K.M. Shea (2/23/21) - 2,546 ratings
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
An Agent for Elizabeth by Julia Ridgmont (2/10/21)
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Dark of Knight by Elizabeth Johns (2/9/21) - an engagement
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
The Sheriffs of Savage Wells by Sarah M. Eden (2/25/21)
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
Kissing the Mountain Man by Jeanette Lewis (4/6/21)
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
The Princess Spy by Melanie Dickerson (2/20/21)
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
The Spark of a Kiss by Sarah Gay (2/28/21)
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Beguiled by Jody Hedlund (3/7/21) - 10/20/2020
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
Beholden by Jody Hedlund (3/6/21) - The Fairest Maidens
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Sacrifice by K.M. Shea (3/15/21)
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Waves of Deceit by Donna K. Weaver (7/22/21)
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Rumpelstiltskin by K.M. Shea (3/17/21)
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
What Happened to Romance? by Franky A. Brown (2/9/21) - Mallory McKay
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
Just a Kiss in the Moonlight by Cindy Roland Anderson (7/25/21)
🥾 23. North Carolina
The Exiled Patriot by Jennifer Youngblood (2/27/21)
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
My American Angel by Brooke St. James (5/25/21)
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
Son of War, Daughter of Chaos by Janette Rallison (3/30/21)
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H - Heart of Ice by K.M. Shea (3/14/21)
I - Isaia, Sleeping Beauty by K.M. Shea (3/12/21)
K - Kartek, The Green-Eyed Prince by Brittany Fichter (4/5/21)
E - Etta, The Marquise and Her Cat by Shari L. Tapscott (4/24/21)
*
T - Timeless Fairy Tales, Snow White by K.M. Shea (3/26/21)
R - Rakel, Snowflakes by K.M. Shea (3/16/21)
A - Aurora, Besotted by Jody Hedlund (3/9/21)
I - Identity by Camille Peters (4/21/21)
L - Layton Jonquil, Drops of Gold by Sarah M. Eden (3/7/21)

🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A - Alexsei, Swan Lake by K.M. Shea (3/23/21)
P - Pathways by Camille Peters (4/2/21)
P - Puss in Boots by K.M. Shea (3/2/21)
A - Azerly (James), A Lady Unrivaled by Roseanna M. White (4/16/21)
L - Lea Doué, The Midsummer Captives (4/28/21)
A - Autumn Lane, The Better Man by Taylor Hart (4/19/21)
C - The Classical Kingdoms, Girl in the Red Hood by Brittany Fichter (3/28/21)
H - His to Save by Julia Keanini (4/11/21)
I - An Inconvenient Princess by Melanie Cellier (4/22/21)
A - Andrews (Charlie), Engaging the Competition by Melissa Jagears (2/2/21)
N - Neylan, The Moonflower Dance by Lea Doué (4/30/21)

🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M - Magical Misperception by Suzanne G. Rogers (4/2/21)
O - Ozark Mountain Romance, Her Dearly Unintended by Regina Jennings (2/1/21)
U - Undercover Princess by Lenora Worth (2/11/21)
N - North (John), The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Colleen Coble (2/13/21)
T - Tessa Lochridge, Chisholm by Jo Jones (4/10/21)
A - Aizel, Pearl of Magic by Emily Deady (2/17/21)
I - Isabel Bielsa, Thorn of Rose by Emily Deady (2/15/21)
N - Nelson, Quest for the Beast by Sarah Holman (2/28/21)

🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
C - Cinderella and the Colonel by K.M. Shea (3/22/21)
O - Onric, Shard of Glass by Emily Deady (2/14/21)
N - Neeley Valentine, A Messed-Up Match by Jessica R. Patch (3/27/21)
S - Spelled by Camille Peters (4/4/21)
E - Elise, The Wild Swans by K.M. Shea (3/4/21)
R - Janette Rallison, A Longtime -and at one point illegal- Crush (3/30/21)
V - Vanda, Red Orchid by Lea Doué (4/28/21)
A - Ariane, The Frog Prince by K.M. Shea (3/20/21)
N - Nevin (Claire), The Love Knot by Karen Witemeyer (5/10/21)
C - The Captive Maiden by Melanie Dickerson (2/21/21)
Y - Jennifer Youngblood, One Tiny Lie (6/4/21)

🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W - Westin Farr, Rough Stock by Heather B. Moore (4/9/21)
I - Isabel Reed, Her Unexpected Courtship by Megan Walker (6/30/21)
L - Lea Doué, The Firethorn Crown (4/26/21)
D - Declan Woods, Swooning over the Football Billionaire by Ellie Hall (4/12/21)
E - Elle, Beauty and the Beast by K.M. Shea (3/19/21)
R - Royal Secrets, Forgetting the Prince by Laura D. Bastian (4/13/21)
N - Nichole Bastian, Too Many Secrets by Marie Higgins (5/24/21)
E - Emerys, The Twelve Dancing Princesses by K.M. Shea (3/24/21)
S - Shannen Crane Camp, Parrish (4/7/21)
S - Sandra Schwab, The Bride Prize (4/23/21)

[Shan ~A~]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks
Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks
Purists: 25+ tasks

0/25+ Tasks Completed

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 30. New York
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS

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SPELL OUT RULES
For this challenge you may use:
1. Book titles (first letter - disregard A, An, and The)
2. Author's first or last initial
3. Series names (first letter)
4. Main character first or last names -You could use Harry Potter but not Fred Weasley.

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Challenge Rules
*Each book may only be used for one task or letter
* Where more than one option is given for a task, please state which option your book relates to.
*If the task relates to the cover of your book, please post the cover AND the book link.
*All genres and formats are fine.
*Re-reads are allowed.
*No page minimum.

[JoAnne]

Welcome Shash and Shan!

[Barbara ★]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021 - January 31, 2022
Level: Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks

READ: 38/40

✔️🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
X Marks the Scot - Kaitlyn Dunnett 9/11
(he's walking the Appalachian Trail), p123
✔️🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
Alone in the Wild - Kelley Armstrong (MCs) 10/12
✔️🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
An Apple for the Creature - Charlaine Harris 3/12
✔️🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
The Princess Knight - G.A. Aiken 3/10
✔️🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea - Gary Kinder (#4604) 8/10
✔️🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
BoneMan's Daughters - Ted Dekker (12,352 ratings) 5/22
✔️🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
I Am Your Judge - Nele Neuhaus 4/15
✔️🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
Shadow Zone - Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen 2/26
(entire secret military operation is publicized on Discovery TV)
✔️🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
One of Those Malibu Nights - Elizabeth Adler 9/15
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
✔️🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
Southern Fried - Tonya Kappes 3/13
✔️🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
This Fallen Prey - Kelley Armstrong 9/22
✔️🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth (pub Oct 2020) 3/13
✔️🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
Guys & Dogs - Elaine Fox (Guys & Dogs #1) 3/19
✔️🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Immortal Protector - Ursula Bauer (NY to Ohio and London to US) 3/24
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
✔️🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
Mischief in Mudbug - Jana Deleon 4/14
✔️🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
Poison in Paddington - Samantha Silver (Mrs Michaels 80s) 2/14
✔️🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
The Snowman - Jo Nesbø (Harry Hole) 4/17
✔️🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.
Tiffany Blues - M.J. Rose (set in 1924) 2/10

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
✔️🥾 22. Georgia - Bound By Sin - Jenna Maclaine 4/18
✔️🥾 23. North Carolina - Buried in a Book - Lucy Arlington 3/6
✔️🥾 24. Tennessee - The Darkest Hour - Maya Banks 10/10
✔️🥾 25. Virginia - Only Pleasure - Lora Leigh 2/4
✔️🥾 26. West Virginia - Onyx - Jennifer L. Armentrout 10/14
✔️🥾 27. Maryland - Hard to Come By - Laura Kaye 3/17
✔️🥾 28. Pennsylvania - The Requiem Red - Brynn Chapman 2/13
✔️🥾 29. New Jersey - Sticks - Joan Bauer 4/4
✔️🥾 30. New York - Deadly Kisses - Brenda Joyce 2/6
✔️🥾 31. Connecticut - All Is Not Forgotten - Wendy Walker 12/31
✔️🥾 32. Massachusetts - Jinn - Matthew B.J. Delaney 2/13
✔️🥾 33. Vermont - Bittersweet - Sarina Bowen 2/11
✔️🥾 34. New Hampshire - Fix Her Up - Carey Heywood 6/24
✔️🥾 35. Maine - Gray Ghost - William G. Tapply 5/31

[Barbara ★]

Spell out (title/author/MC/series)

✔️🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H: Wraith - Helen Harper 2/8
I: Ink, Iron, and Glass - Gwendolyn Clare 2/12
K: A Darkness Absolute - Kelley Armstrong 2/20
E: Entwined - Elisabeth Naughton 2/1

T: Town in a Wild Moose Chase - B.B. Haywood 3/2
R: Rebel Spring - Morgan Rhodes & Michelle Rowen 3/4
A: Buried in a Book - Lucy Arlington 3/6
I: Blood Heir - Ilona Andrews 3/20
L: Limitations - Scott Turow 3/15

✔️🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
A: The Princess Knight - G.A. Aiken 3/10
P: Plover Island Breakdown - Joel Brown 3/16
P: Pixi Poison - Lee Dignam & Katerina Martinez 4/24
A: To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo 3/19
L: Hard to Hold on To - Laura Kaye 3/10
A: Stolen Soul - Alex Rivers 3/31
C: Call of the Colossus - K.C. May 3/5
H: Hard as You Can - Laura Kaye 3/5
I: Immortal Champion - Lisa Hendrix 3/30
A: The Ghost and the Dead Deb - Alice Kimberly 3/8
N: Shifters and Vampires and Demigods, OH MY! - Nancy Corrigan 4/6

✔️🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
M: The Dirty Secrets Club - Meg Gardiner 2/4
O: Lost Without You - Molly O'Keefe 2/21
U: Immortal Protector - Ursula Bauer 3/24
N: Notorious - Diana Palmer 7/31
T: Tart of Darkness - Denise Swanson 3/7
A: All the Tides of Fate - Adalyn Grace 5/7
I: The Immortal Rules - Julie Kagawa 4/22
N: A Nameless Witch - A. Lee Martinez 7/31

✔️🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
C: Celtic Moon - Jan DeLima 2/7
O: Out of the Blue - S.L. Rottman 3/1
N: Night Child - Jes Battis 8/26
S: Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart 2/9
E: Caged - Ellison Cooper 3/6
R: Wednesday's Child - Peter Robinson 3/20
V: A Glimpse of Evil - Victoria Laurie 4/19
A: Angel of Darkness - Cynthia Eden 5/16
N: Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman 10/7
C: A Cold Day in Hell - Stella Cameron 2/25
Y: The Shimmering Road - Hester Young 2/27

✔️🥾 40. WILDERNESS
W: The Wicked Will Rise - Danielle Paige 2/5
I: Shadow Zone - Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen 2/26
L: Best Wishes Always - Lucy Finn 2/26
D: Wrong Alibi - Christina Dodd 2/22
E: The Lantern Men - Elly Griffiths 4/8
R: WWW: Wake - Robert J. Sawyer 2/28
N: Just Fine with Caroline - Annie England Noblin 2/26
E: The Unexpected Bride - Elizabeth Rolls 4/23
S: The Gates of Hell - Susan Sizemore 3/15
S: Siren's Secret - Debbie Herbert 3/22

[JoAnne]

Welcome Barbara!

[Agnieszka]

Despite knowing better I'm in - what's one more challenge *grins*

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: 2/1/21 - 1/31/22
Level: Purists (25+ tasks)
Completed: 29/25+ - last updated: 9/14/21
Books Read: 73
no page minimum, re-reads are ok, 50+% read after 1/31/21, re-post when finished


The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. The trail is about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are rerouted or modified. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy describes the Appalachian Trail as the longest hiking-only trail in the world. More than 2 million people are said to take a hike on part of the trail at least once each year.
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned. Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
✔ 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. Stickeen: Story of a Dog book 3 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir 5* 6/15 - the author & a dog
✔ 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. Travels in Alaska book 1 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by John Muir 5* 6/21
✔ 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb 5* 3/5 - naKEd In deatH
✔ 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. Raport pelikana=The Pelican Brief by John Grisham 4* 6/7
✔ 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. Fortune Furlough by Jana Deleon 5* 2/7 - 4,228 (as of 2/20/21)
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.


The trail was conceived by Benton MacKaye, a forester who wrote his original plan—called "An Appalachian Trail, A Project in Regional Planning"—shortly after the death of his wife in 1921. MacKaye's idea detailed a grand trail that would connect a series of farms and wilderness work/study camps for city-dwellers along the Appalachian Mountains from the highest point in the North (Mt. Washington in New Hampshire) to the highest in the South (Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina). Hiking was an incidental focus of his plan. In 1922, at the suggestion of Major William A. Welch, director of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, his idea was publicized by Raymond H. Torrey with a story in the New York Evening Post under a full-page banner headline reading "A Great Trail from Maine to Georgia!"
✔ 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb 4* 2/6 - MC has to inform the first victims husband of her death
✔ 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Divorced, Desperate And Dating by Christie Craig 3* 5/9 - books (mystery & science fiction novels)
✔ 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title. Gasoline, Texas by Joseph Flynn 4* 5/17
📌 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title. Summer on the Mountain by Rosemarie Naramore ?* 9/?
✔ 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. At Wick's End by Tim Myers 3* 3/31
✔ 13. Read a book set in the mountains. On His Watch by Katie Ruggle 5* 4/28 - set in the Rocky Mountains


On October 7, 1923, the first section of the trail, from Bear Mountain west through Harriman State Park to Arden, New York, was opened.
✔ 14. Read a book published in October of any year. Swamp Spook by Jana Deleon 4* 2/5 - published 10/7/18
✔ 15. Read a Series #1. Healing the Hurts of Your Past: A Guide to Overcoming the Pain of Shame by F. Remy Diederich 3* 2/16 - The Overcoming Series #1
✔ 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. Dying for a Daiquiri book 3 in Laurel McKay Mysteries Boxed Set by Cindy Sample 2.5* 3/3 - from California to Hawaii


In 1936, a 121-day Maine to Georgia veteran's group funded and supported thru-hike was reported to have been completed, with all but three miles of the new trail cleared and blazed, by six Boy Scouts from New York City and their guides. The completed thru-hike was much later recorded and accepted by the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.


In 1938, the trail sustained major damage from a hurricane that went through the New England area. This happened right before the start of World War II and many of the people working on the trail were called to active duty.
✔ 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs. Saving Shadows by Kathleen Brooks 5* 3/7


In 1948, Earl Shaffer of York, Pennsylvania, brought a great deal of attention to the project by publicizing the first claimed thru-hike. The claim was later criticized for the hike's omission of significant portions due to short-cuts and car rides. Shaffer later claimed the first north-to-south thru-hike, the first to claim to do so in each direction. Chester Dziengielewski was later to be named the first south bound thru-hiker. In 1998, Shaffer, nearly 80 years old, hiked the trail, making him the oldest person to claim a completed thru-hike.
The first woman to walk the trail in a single season was Peace Pilgrim in 1952, while the first solo woman to complete the hike was 67-year old Emma Gatewood who completed the northbound trek in 1955, taking 146 days. She repeated the achievement two years later, and again in 1963, at age 75.
✔ 19. Read a book with an elderly character. Gators and Garters by Jana Deleon 4* 2/14 - Ida Belle, Gertie & Walter are at least in their eighties
✔ 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Sunken Shadows by Kathleen Brooks 3* 3/9 - Darcy Delmar (female MC)
📌 21. Read a book set in the 1920s The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 5*? 9/?
50s: Zeit im Wind


Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
✔ 22. Georgia Turtle Soup by Danielle Thorne 2* 5/22 - Atlanta
✔ 23. North Carolina Hot Ghost by Carolyn Crane=Annika Martin 4* 4/5 - Clancyville, North Carolina
📌 24. Tennessee A New Prospect by Wayne Zurl ?* ?/?
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
✔ 27. Maryland After Hours by Anina Collins 3* 7/22 - Sunset Ridge
✔ 28. Pennsylvania No Such Thing As A Good Blind Date by Shelly Fredman 3* 6/20 - Philadelphia
✔ 29. New Jersey To the Nines by Janet Evanovich 3* 5/11 - Trenton
✔ 30. New York Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb 4* 2/19 - NYC
📌 31. Connecticut Officer Jones by Derek Ciccone ?* 9/?
✔📌 32. Massachusetts Granny Undercover by Harper Lin 4* 8/14 - Cheerville, New England (most likely Massachussetts - she mentions she has to always transport her gun in a case, according to web search that's the only state in the US with this ruling)
alt. books:
Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom ?* 9/?
Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse by Harper Lin ?* 9/?
Station Alpha by Aislinn Kearns ?* 9/?
Death In Paradise by Robert B. Parker ?* 10/?
✔ 33. Vermont Unbelievable by Cindy Blackburn 3* 6/23 - Lake Elizabeth & Montpelier
🥾 34. New Hampshire
✔ 35. Maine Kittyzen's Arrest by Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom 3* 2/19 - Cider Cove, Maine
*

[Agnieszka]

Part 2 (5 words - 49 letters)

Spell out (view spoiler)[First letter:
book or series title (disregard articles for book titles), author's or MC's first or last name (hide spoiler)]
✔ 36. HIKE TRAIL
H: The Heist: How Grace Robs Us of Our Shame by Chris Durso 4* 5/12
I: Isabelle Mayfair: An Encounter at Pemberley: A Pride And Prejudice Variation 3* 7/28
K: Kathleen Brooks: Framed Shadows 5* 5/8
E: Eason, Lynette: Chasing Secrets 4* 4/13
T: THR3E by Twyla Turner 4* 4/16
R: Rock Chick Rescue by Kristen Ashley 3* 4/21
A: Andrzej Szczypiorski: Początek=The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman 4* 5/31
I: In Death #6: Anioł śmierci=Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb 4* 4/23
L: Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks 4* 3/9

✔ 37. APPALACHIAN
A: Apple Pie and Arsenic by C.A. Phipps 3* 6/29
P: Puzzle House by Lillian Duncan 4* 9/13
P: Persuasion: with original illustrations by C.E. Brock by Jane Austen & Charles Edmund Brock (illustrations) 5* 6/17
A: Anderson, Toni: Her Sanctuary book 1 in Her Box Set 4* 6/25
L: Love Irresistibly by Julie James 4* 9/6
A: Amanda Tero: Debt of Mercy 4* 3/31
C: Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon 5* 2/9
H: Hayton, Katherine: The Buzz Kill 5* 7/31
I: Sebastian Ives: His Bride for the Taking by Tessa Dare 4* 4/19
A: Aus der Notrufzentrale #2: 110 - Ein Bulle bleibt dran: Neues aus der Notrufzentrale by Cid Jonas Gutenrath 5* 3/6 lit. transl: 110 - A Copper (or rather Pig - the author uses this expression on purpose - as explained in book 1) Keeps At It: New (Stories) From The Emergency Call Center (book title); From The Emergency Call Center (series title)
N: Nikki Haverstock: Death from Abroad 4* 4/10

✔ 38. MOUNTAIN
M: Meg's Best Man by Cynthia Bruner 5* 2/20
O: One Plus One Equals Trouble by Sondra Kraak 3* 7/5
U: Undeceived: Pride and Prejudice in the Spy Game by Karen M. Cox 4* 5/18
N: Naramore, Rosemarie: Loving Miss Libby 4* 4/24
T: There's No One Like Jesus by Blake Western 5* 7/5
A: Alaska Days with John Muir book 4 in Alaska Days with John Muir: 4 Books in One Volume: Illustrated: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen and Alaska Days by Samuel Hall Young 5* 7/13
I: In Death #4: Rapture in Death by J.D. Robb 4* 5/14
N: Nora Roberts: Carolina Moon 4* 8/4

✔ 39. CONSERVANCY
C: Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon 5* 2/2
O: One Lit Step: Devotions for your journey by Lisa Buffaloe 4* 8/25
N: Never Gonna Happen by Cynthia Eden 4* 6/10
S: The Shell Game by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg 5* 5/10
E: Eason, Lynette: Moving Target 4* 4/6
R: Fortune Redding: Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon 5* 2/12
V: Vanilla Bean Vengeance by Agatha Frost 4* 3/29
A: Andrew Christie: Left Luggage 4* 7/16
N: New Corpse In Town by Lucy Quinn 4* 3/30
C: Change of Fortune by Jana Deleon 5* 7/18 - yes I've read it twice in that year (at least *grins*)
Y: Your Inner Child of the Past by W. Hugh Missildine 3* 5/14

✔ 40. WILDERNESS
W: Without Warning by Lynette Eason 4* 4/3
I: In Two Weeks by Jen Talty 3* 4/22
L: Louisiana Longshot by Jana Deleon 5* 6/11
D: Delirious: My Journey with the Band, a Growing Family, and an Army of Historymakers by Martin Smith 5* 5/29
E: Evans, Tony: Kingdom Prayer: Touching Heaven to Change Earth 4* 3/27
R: Reel of Fortune by Jana Deleon 4* 2/4
N: Nora Roberts: Come Sundown 5* 2/26
E: The Eleventh Hour by Anina Collins 4* 7/19
S: Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon 5* 2/10
S: Swamp Team 3 by Jana Deleon 5* 3/4
*

[JoAnne]

Welcome Agnieszka!

[batkat]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Levels
Section-hikers: 6-12 tasks
Thru-hikers: 13-24 tasks
Purists: 25+ tasks

3/25

✅ Completed Task
❌ Skipped Task


Tasks

🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned.
Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#.
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking.
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century.
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
✅ 8. Read a book where a spouse dies.
21-02-08 The End of Her by Shari Lapena
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what.
✅ 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
21-02-07 The Summer House by James Patterson
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title.
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains.
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year.
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name.
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west.
Ex. They go from New York to Ohio or from Italy to England.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs.
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female.
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name.
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s.


Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 27. Maryland
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
✅ 30. New York
21-02-04 Don't Blink by James Patterson
🥾 31. Connecticut
🥾 32. Massachusetts
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 34. New Hampshire
🥾 35. Maine


Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY

[JoAnne]

Welcome C0NTENTH0MEB0DY!

[batkat]

JoAnne wrote: "Welcome C0NTENTH0MEB0DY!"
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[Lex]

Finished!

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Purists: 25+ tasks

Completed: 25/25

Tasks
🥾 1. Read a book where the Appalachian Trail is mentioned. Give us a partial sentence and page/loc#. - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling - Completed: 4/11/2021, pg. 163 "Shouldn't you be hiking the Appalachian Trail right now or something?"
🥾 2. Read a book where a character goes hiking. - Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch Urioste - Completed: 2/25/2021
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T. - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Completed: 2/12/2021
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title. - What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller - Completed: 2/16/2021
🥾 5. Read a book from Best Books of the 20th Century. - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - Completed: 3/27/2021
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings. - Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 2/26/2021 (32,340 ratings)
🥾 8. Read a book where a spouse dies. - Murder Simply Brewed by Vannetta Chapman - Completed: 2/11/2021
🥾 9. Read a book where something is publicized. Tell us what. - From This Moment by Kim Vogel Sawyer - Completed: 2/7/2021 (Kenzie publicizes the found ring)
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title. - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - Completed: 2/28/2021
🥾 11. Read a book with the word MOUNTAIN in the title. - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - Completed: 3/7/2021
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T. - Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour - Completed: 3/15/2021
🥾 13. Read a book set in the mountains. - The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse - Completed: 3/14/2021
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. - The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory - Completed: 2/8/2021 (Pub. Oct. 30, 2018)
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. - Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke - Completed: 2/9/2021 (Hannah Swensen series)
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. - A Tapestry of Light by Kimberly Duffy - Completed: 3/9/2021 (Travels from India to England)
🥾 18. Read a book where a hurricane occurs. - Death by Chocolate Cherry Cheesecake by Sarah Graves - Completed: 3/23/2021
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende - Completed: 2/16/2021
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name. - Divided in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 4/2/2021 (Blair Bissel)
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s or 1990s. - The Stranger by Albert Camus - Completed: 2/27/2021 (1940s)

Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 27. Maryland - Kindred by Octavia E. Butler - Completed: 3/29/2021
🥾 30. New York - Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters - Completed: 2/8/2021
🥾 31. Connecticut - Death Overdue by Allison Brook - Completed: 3/22/2021
🥾 32. Massachusetts - Before She Disappeared by Lisa Gardner - Completed: 2/9/2021
🥾 34. New Hampshire - Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett - Completed: 4/9/2021

Spell out (optional)
🥾 36. HIKE TRAIL
H - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones - Completed: 2/22/2021
I - If I Disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier - Completed: 3/10/2021
K - Kalyana by Rajni Mala Khelawan - Completed: 4/7/2021
E - Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho - Completed: 4/2/2021
T - This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens - Completed: 3/20/2021
R - Reunion in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 3/7/2021
A - All That Really Matters by Nicole Deese - Completed: 4/14/2021
I - Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb - Completed: 3/30/2021
L - Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter by Hal Urban - Completed: 3/24/2021

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🥾 7. Read a book from Best Appalachian Trail Books.
🥾 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout. Tell us who.
🥾 22. Georgia
🥾 23. North Carolina
🥾 24. Tennessee
🥾 25. Virginia
🥾 26. West Virginia
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
🥾 29. New Jersey
🥾 33. Vermont
🥾 35. Maine
🥾 37. APPALACHIAN
🥾 38. MOUNTAIN
🥾 39. CONSERVANCY
🥾 40. WILDERNESS (hide spoiler)]

[JoAnne]

WOOHOO Lex!

[Kellene]

For task 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout- Will an adult character who was a Boy Scout and earned his Eagle award be acceptable?

[JoAnne]

Kellene wrote: "For task 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout- Will an adult character who was a Boy Scout and earned his Eagle award be acceptable?"

Sure! :)

[Kellene]

JoAnne wrote: "Kellene wrote: "For task 17. Read a book where a character is a Boy Scout- Will an adult character who was a Boy Scout and earned his Eagle award be acceptable?"

Sure! :)"

Thank you

[Genevieve]

US Road Trips: Appalachian Trail
Duration: February 1, 2021-January 31, 2022

Levels
Purists: 25+ tasks
25/25
Tasks
🥾 3. Read a book whose title has words that begin with A and T.
Scandal at the Salty Dog by Josh Lanyon 11/22/2021
🥾 4. Read a book with the letters HIKE (in any order) in the title.
Murder Takes the High Road by Josh Lanyon 7/29/2021
🥾 6. Read a book with a 2 in the number of ratings.
Secrets and Pies by Jenny Kales 2/26/2021 RATINGS 302
🥾 10. Read a book with the name of a place or state in the title.
Colorado Wild by Sara York 12/10/2021
🥾 12. Read a book by an author whose first or last name begins with M or T.
I Heard Him Exclaim by Z.A. Maxfield 2/25/2021
🥾 14. Read a book published in October of any year. Published October 18th 2016
Fatal Frost by Karen MacInerney 3/6/2021
🥾 15. Read a Series #1. Tell us the series name. (A Mystery A-la-Mode)
I Scream, You Scream by Wendy Lyn Watson 3/18/2021
🥾 16. Read a book where a person travels to the west. Finland to Norway.
Norway to Hide by Maddy Hunter 10/18/2021
🥾 19. Read a book with an elderly character, male or female. MC Nana
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich 7/7/2021
🥾 20. Read a book where a character has the same first and last initial. Tell us their name. Carrie Ann Cole
Kale to the Queen by Nell Hampton 4/9/2021
🥾 21. Read a book set in the 1920s.
The Dark Farewell by Josh Lanyon 3/27/2021
Read a book set in each of the fourteen states along the Appalachian Trail:
🥾 22. Georgia
A Vintage Affair by Josh Lanyon 3/1/2021
🥾 23. North Carolina
Closely Harbored Secrets by Bree Baker 5/31/2021
🥾 24. Tennessee
Delicious and Suspicious by Riley Adams 3/29/2021
🥾 25. Virginia
A Murder for the Books by Victoria Gilbert 5/31/2021
🥾 26. West Virginia
Moon Signs by Helen Haught Fanick 4/13/2021
🥾 27. Maryland
Behind Chocolate Bars by Kathy Aarons 4/30/2021
🥾 28. Pennsylvania
The Christmas Proposition by K.A. Mitchell 6/30/2021
🥾 29. New Jersey
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich 4/23/2021
🥾 30. New York
Lights. Camera. Murder. by C.S. Poe 3/16/2021
🥾 31. Connecticut
The Little Red Schoolhouse by Eric Sloane 8/19/2021
🥾 32. Massachusetts
Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand 8/8/2021
🥾 33. Vermont
Mistletoe at Midnight by L.B. Gregg 2/19/2021
🥾 34. New Hampshire
BlackBuried Pie by Lyndsey Cole 3/12/2021
🥾 35. Maine
Lovers and Other Strangers by Josh Lanyon 3/23/2021