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The planBadge 1: sites 3, 10, 14, 25, Cranbrook Charlie Ed the Elephant
Badge 2: 6 from sites 6, 9, 15, 21, 23, 26, 32, 36, 39
Level 1: Four stops, one side trip (15 books)Site 3, Spirit of the West, Regina, SK
✔️ 1. Location: Read a book with a character who is a queen, or the title contains queen Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
✔️ 2. About: Read a book written by an author whose initial of any name starts with V. The Strangers by Katherena Vermette
✔️ 3. Souvenir: Read a book set during freezing temperatures. The Winter Soldier
Site 10 World's Largest Hand-held Egg Beater, Prince Edward Island
✔️ 1. Location: Read a book set on an island. The island must be smaller than 200,000 km2. The Farming of Bones (Hispaniola, 79,192 km2),
✔️ 2. About: Read a book with Inventor/Invention in the title, or a significant character was an inventor. Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
✔️ 3. Souvenir: Read a book set in Switzerland, France, Poland or Italy. The Little Paris Bookshop
Site 14, Shoshone Indian Caves, Shoshone, Idaho
✔️ 1. Location: Read a book about First Nations Peoples in the US, or written by an American First Nations author. In the Night of Memory
✔️ 2. About: Read a book with Ice or Cave in the title. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
✔️ 3, Souvenir: Vintage Postcard - The Read a book that is in epistolary style. Fair and Tender Ladies
Site 25: The Big Prawn, Ballina, Australia
✔️ 1. Location: West Ballina, Australia
Read a book with a direction (north, east, south, west) in the title. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
✔️ 2. About: Bunnings Warehouse purchased the site in 2011 and refurbished the Prawn as part of the redevelopment.
Read a book originally published in 2011. Woman at 1,000 Degrees
✔️ 3. Souvenir: A barbeque - any time I think of shrimp and Australia, I think of Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dungee's "shrimp on the barbie" (Sorry to our Aussie members)
Read a book with a main character or author name of Paul. Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
Side Trip #1 Cranbrook, BC - Charlie Ed the Elephant
✔️ 1. Location: Cranbrook is located in the East Kootenay area of British Columbia. Environment Canada reports Cranbrook as having the most sunshine hours of any BC city at 2229 hours annually. Read a book with cover at least 75% yellow. Flights
✔️ 2. About: Charlie Ed was one of several circus elephants that escaped while performing with a carnival in Cranbrook in 1926. He survived six weeks on the run before being captured. He was retired from the circus in 1934, appeared in a film with Loretta Young, and was later moved to the San Francisco Zoo. He gored his keeper to death in 1936 and as a consequence, was killed by a firing squad at age 27.
Charlie Ed was named after Charles Edward Ballard. Read a book with significant character or author named Charles or Edward. A Calling for Charlie Barnes
✔️ 3. Souvenir: Replica circus token from 1926. Read a book with a wild animal not in its natural habitat. The Elephant Keeper
Level 2 planning Six sites, one side trip Site 9, Mermaids of St. Johns, St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
1. Location: Read a book with a significant character named John. Lila
2. Read a book with mythology as a main page genre. The Song of Achilles
3. Souvenir: Read a book with an animal with a tail on the cover. The full tail must be shown. My Year of Meats
Site 23 Kurri Kurri, NSW
1. Location: Read a book where the title starts with the letter K. It may be preceded by "a" or "the". Kafka on the Shore
2. About: Read a book with a large bird on the cover. There may only be one bird.
3. Souvenir: Read a book from Humour Genre - Use the Humour Genre Page. Explain how you determined your book from this page. Was it on the main page, or did you follow a link from the page? If so, what link?
Site 26
Location: Singleton, Australia
Read a book with a one word title (no articles).
2. About: At the time of its creation, it was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest sundial.
Read a book that won any category of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards from this site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sou... Boy Swallows Universe
3. Souvenir: Miniature Replica of this sun dial.
Read a book with large circles on it as a graphical design.
Site 36
1. Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Read a book with a proper woman's name in the title.
2. About: The rainbow colours of the snail remind me of the rainbow flag which is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender.
Read a book with the genre LGBT on the main book page.
3. Souvenir: Rubber Ducky - There is a yellow rubber ducky painted on the snail. A duck is a waterfowl. Other waterfowl are geese, swan, and loons.
Read a book with duck, goose, swan, loon in the title. Plurals are allowed, including geese.
Site 39
1. Location: Chaudfontaine, Belgium
Read a book set in Belgium.
2. About: The piece was created for the Festival of Five Seasons and exemplifies Uysal’s style, which relies heavily on trick imagery and distorted perspectives.
Read a book with a twist. Psychological thriller and mystery must show as a main page genre.
3. Souvenir: Spring - the spring is an integral part of a clothespin.
Read a book with "spring" in the title.
Badge 1, book 1Site 3, Spirit of the West
Souvenir, Read a book set during freezing temperatures.
The Winter Soldier
323 pages
Much of the book is set in the Carpathian Mountains during the winter months; freezing temperatures are a significant factor in the story.
Badge 1, book 2Site 3, Spirit of the West
Location
Read a book with a character who is a queen, or the title contains queen
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
334 pages
This is a nonfiction book about Queen Victoria and her personal assistant, Abdul Karim.
How was Victoria & Abdul? Worth reading?
Cherie wrote: "How was Victoria & Abdul? Worth reading?"I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It had been on my shelf for awhile, and I'm glad this challenge nudged me to read it.
I thought the relationship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim was well presented. She was intent on learning about Indian culture and learning to speak Urdu. Karim became her trusted companion, but was he a loyal aide or a self-promoter, intent on getting whatever he could for himself and his family? Racism is overt throughout.
The book provides a lot of detail and tends to drag in spots, but overall I found it an informative read that did a good job of showing the character of both the queen and Abdul. I gave it four stars.
Badge 1, book 3Site 3
About: Read a book written by an author whose initial of any name starts with V
The Strangers by Katherena Vermette.
337 pages
Badge 1, book 4Site 25, The Big Prawn, Ballina, Australia
About, Read a book originally published in 2011.
Woman at 1,000 Degrees
First published in 2011.
416 pages
Badge 1, book 5Site 25, The Big Prawn, Ballina, Australia
Location, Read a book with a direction (north, east, south, west) in the title.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
397 pages
Badge 1, book 6Side Trip #1 - see message 3 above.
Location, Read a book with cover at least 75% yellow.
Flights
403 pages
Cover is 79% yellow.
Badge 1, book 7Site 10, World's Largest Hand-held Egg Beater, Prince Edward Island
3. Souvenir: Read a book set in Switzerland, France, Poland or Italy.
The Little Paris Bookshop
390 pages
This novel is set in France.
Badge 1, book 8Site 14, Shoshone Indian Caves, Shoshone, Idaho
About: Read a book with Ice or Cave in the title
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Audiobook; HC is 384 pages
Badge 1, book 9Side trip #1, see message #3 above.
Souvenir: Read a book with a wild animal not in its natural habitat.
The Elephant Keeper
298 pages
This is a novel, set in the 18th century, about two elephants brought to England; told from the perspective of the elephant keeper.
Badge 1, book 10Site 10 World's Largest Hand-held Egg Beater, Prince Edward Island
About: Read a book with Inventor/Invention in the title, or a significant character was an inventor.
Tesla: Inventor of the Modern
320 pages
This is a biography of visionary inventor, Nikola Tesla.
Badge 1, book 11Site 25: The Big Prawn, Ballina, Australia
Souvenir: Read a book with a main character or author name of Paul.
Run Me to Earth written by Paul Yoon.
272 pages
Badge 1, book 12Site 14, Shoshone Indian Caves, Shoshone, Idaho
Souvenir: Read a book that is in epistolary style.
Fair and Tender Ladies
370 pages
The book is in the format of a series of letters that the MC, Ivy Rowe, writes to various people in her life, from childhood to her death.
I love looking over the titles you have read. So many suck me in and get added to my TBR list!Thanks for the response on the Queen and Abdul story. Sorry that I didn’t get back sooner.
Badge 1 book 13Site 14, Shoshone Indian Caves, Shoshone, Idaho
1. Location: Read a book about First Nations Peoples in the US, or written by an American First Nations author.
In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover.
224 pages
The novel is set in Minnesota; main characters are Ojibwe. The writer is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
Badge 1, book 14Site 10, World's Largest Hand-held Egg Beater, Prince Edward Island
Location: Read a book set on an island. The island must be smaller than 200,000 km2.
The Farming of Bones
312 pages
Setting is Hispaniola, 79,192 km2 (Dominican Republic and Haiti).
Badge 1, book 15Side Trip #1 Cranbrook, BC - Charlie Ed the Elephant (See msg #3 above)
About: Read a book with significant character or author named Charles or Edward.
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
The MC is Charles "Charlie" Barnes.
Audiobook; hard cover is 352 pages
✔️Congrats on finishing the first badge. :)
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