**Kim E's Overreaching ATW Challenge** comments ok

[Kim. E.]

I planned this in LOBA, but then have terribly neglected posting updates ever since. I won't be doing them right now, but hopefully I can catch it up in January.

Been lucky to travel, but with a whole world of possibilities reading is the only way to experience all that exists. This is going to be a long, long haul, especially with all the additional aspects I include. I want to not only read a book set in each country, but many countries, such as Canada, the United States, Australia have areas within areas and I'd like to attempt to read books from as any of those areas as possible.

All genres are open.

I'm dividing this into continents or areas instead of alphabetically.

Areas Read:
North America - 1
North America (The United States) - 14/51
The Caribbean -
Central America -
South America - 1
Northern Europe - 2
Western Europe - 1
Eastern Europe -
Southern Europe - 1
North Africa -
West Africa -
Central Africa -
East Africa -
Southern Africa -
Asia - 2
The Middle East -
Australia/Oceania - 1
Regions of France - 1
Regions of Germany -
Regions of United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland - 1
Regions of China -
Regions of Australia - 1

[Kim. E.]

North America

Canada
-Alberta
-British Columbia - The Glass Hotel 2/12/21
-Manitoba
-New Brunswick
-Newfoundland and Labrador
-Nova Scotia
-Ontario
-Prince Edward Island
-Quebec
-Saskatchewan
-Northwest Territories
-Nunavut
-Yukon


Greenland

Mexico

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North America - The United States

Status: 14/50

1. Alabama - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 1/19/21
2. Alaska -
3. Arizona - Sprinkle with Murder 1/29/21
4. Arkansas -
5. California - Neighbors 1/27/21
6. Colorado -
7. Connecticut -
8. Delaware -
9. Florida -
10. Georgia -
11. Hawaii - Moloka'i 1/24/21
12. Idaho -
13. Illinois - Divergent 2/7/21
14. Indiana - Come and Get Me 2/24/21
15. Iowa -
16. Kansas -
17. Kentucky - The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History 1/13/21
18. Louisiana - A Streetcar Named Desire 1/25/21
19. Maine -
20. Maryland - Sea Swept 1/30/21
21. Massachusetts - Every Note Played 3/6/21
22 Michigan -
23. Minnesota -
24. Mississippi -
25. Missouri -
26. Montana -
27. Nebraska -
28. Nevada -
29. New Hampshire -
30. New Jersey -
31. New Mexico -
32. New York - Ritual in Death 1/21/21
33. North Carolina -
34. North Dakota -
35. Ohio -
36. Oklahoma -
37. Oregon - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1/17/21
38. Pennsylvania - One True Thing 1/26/21
39. Rhode Island -
40. South Carolina -
41. South Dakota -
42. Tennessee -
43. Texas - Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance 2/15/21
44. Utah -
45. Vermont -
46. Virginia -
47. Washington -
48. West Virginia -
49. Wisconsin -
50. Wyoming -

Washington DC -

[Kim. E.]

The Caribbean

Anguilla
Antiqua and Barbados
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curacao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Jamaica
Martinique
Montserrat
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago
US Virgin Islands

[Kim. E.]

Central America

Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua
Panama

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South America

Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Columbia Love in the Time of Cholera 2/28/21
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela

[Kim. E.]

Northern Europe

Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
Greenland
Iceland
Ireland
Latvia
Lithuania
Northern Ireland
Norway - The Woman in Cabin 10 2/16/17
Scotland
Sweden - A Man Called Ove 2/28/17
United Kingdom

Wales

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Western Europe

Austria
Belgium - On Black Sisters Street 7/30/17
France
Germany
Lichtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland

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Eastern Europe

Belarus
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Moldova
Poland
Romania
Russian Federation
Slovakia
Ukraine

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Southern Europe

Albania
Andorra
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Croatia
Cyprus
Gibraltar
Greece
Italy - Blood Water Paint 6/8/20
Kosovo
North Macedonia
Malta
Monaco
Montenegro
Portugal
San Marino
Serbia
Slovenia
Spain
Turkey
Vatican City

[Kim. E.]

North Africa

Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
Western Sahara

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West Africa

Benin
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea - Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Saint Helena
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo

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East Africa

Burundi
Comoros
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Reunion
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Southern Africa

Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland

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Asia

Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China - listed separately
India
Indonesia
Japan
Laos
Malaysia
Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
North Korea
Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Timor Leste
Vietnam

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The Middle East

Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Cyprus
Egypt
Georgia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Yemen

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Australia/Oceania

America Samoa
Australia
Cook Islands
Easter Island
Fiji
French Polynesia - Something in the Water 6/2/19
Guam
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
New Caledonia
Niue
Northern Mariana Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn
Solomon Islands
Samoa
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

[Kim. E.]

Regions of France

*For various regions learning more about regions of France and Germany is important to me. I don't know if I'll read for each, but putting here for reference and "in case."

Alsace: Capital - Strasbourg
Aquitaine: Capital - Bourdeaux
Auvergne: Capital - Clermont-Ferrand
Brittany (Bretagne): Capital - Rennes
Burgundy (Bourgogne): Capital - Dijon
Centre: Capital - Orléans
Champagne-Ardenne: Capital - Châlons-en-Champagne
Franche-Comté: Capital - Besançon
Île-de-France: Capital - Paris Anna and the French Kiss 2/13/21
Languedoc-Roussillon: Capital - Montpellier
Limousin: Capital - Limoges
Lorraine: Capital - Metz
Lower Normandy (Basse-Normandie): Capital - Caen
Midi-Pyrénées: Capital - Toulouse
Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Capital - Lille
Pays de la Loire: Capital - Nantes
Picardy (Picardie): Capital - Amiens
Poitou-Charentes: Capital - Poitiers
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Capital - Marseilles
Rhône-Alpes: Capital - Lyon
Upper Normandy (Haute-Normandie): Capital - Rouen

[Kim. E.]

Regions of Germany

1. Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart, Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Mannheim, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe)
2. Bavaria (Munich, Nuremburg, Augsburg)
3. Berlin (Berlin)
4. Brandenburg (Potsdam)
5. Bremen (Bremen, Bremerhaven)
6. Hamburg (Hamburg)
7. Hesse (Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Offenbach)
8. Lower Saxony (Hanover, Braunschweig)
9. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Stralsund, Greifswald)
10. North Rhine-Westphalia (Düsseldorf, Cologne, Essen)
11. Rhineland-Palatinate (Mainz, Koblenz, Trier, Speyer)
12. Saarland (Saarbrücken)
13. Saxony (Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz)
14. Saxony-Anhalt (Magdeburg, Halle)
15. Schleswig-Holstein (Kiel, Lübeck, Flensburg Neumünster.)
16. Thuringia (Erfurt, Weimar, Jena)

[Kim. E.]

Regions of United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland

Much of this area I don't know. This is a good time to learn more. Further research needed to define these.


The traditional counties of the Republic of Ireland:

1. Carlow
2. Cavan
3. Clare
4. Cork
5. Donegal (Lifford, Letterkenny)
6. Dublin
7. Galway
8. Kerry (Tralee)
9. Kildare (Naas, Newbridge)
10. Kilkenny
11. Laois (Portlaoise)
12. Leitrim (Carrick-on-Shannon)
13. Limerick
14. Longford
15. Louth (Dundalk, Drogheda)
16. Mayo (Castlecar)
17. Meath (Navan)
18. Monaghan
19. Offaly (Tullamore/Philipstown)
20. Roscommon
21. Sligo
22. Tipperary (Cashel, Conmel)
23. Waterford (Dungarvan)
24. Westmeath (Mullingar, Athlone)
25. Wexford
26. Wicklow (Bray)

The Regions of the United Kingdom

North West England
North East England
Yorkshire
West Midlands
East Midlands
Eastern England
South East England
South West England

The Family Upstairs 2/26/21 Chelsea, considered west London

[Kim. E.]

Regions in China

Provinces (23)

Anhui (Capital: Hefei)
Fujian (Capital: Fuzhou)
Gansu (Capital: Lanzhou)
Guangdong (Capital: Guangzhou)
Guizhou (Capital: Guiyang)
Hainan (Capital: Haikou)
Hebei (Capital: Shijiazhuang)
Heilongjiang (Capital: Harbin)
Henan (Capital: Zhengzhou)
Hubei (Capital: Wuhan)
Hunan (Capital: Changsha)
Jiangsu (Capital: Nanjing)
Jiangxi (Capital: Nanchang)
Jilin (Capital: Changchun)
Liaoning (Capital: Shenyang)
Qinghai (Capital: Xining)
Shaanxi (Capital: Xi'an
Shandong (Capital: Jinan)
Shanxi (Capital: Taiyuan)
Sichuan (Capital: Chengdu)
Taiwan* (Capital: Taipei)
Yunnan (Capital: Kunming)
Zhejiang (Capital: Hangzhou)

* (although mainland China claims Taiwan as one of its provinces, Taiwan regards itself as an independent country)

Autonomous Regions (5)

Guangxi (Capital: Nanning)
Inner Mongolia (Capital: Hohhot)
Ningxia Hui (Capital: Yinchuan)
Tibet (Capital: Lhasa)
Xianjiang Uyghur (Capital: Ürümqi)

Municipalities (4)

Beijing (Capital: Beijing)
Chongqing (Capital: Chongqing)
Shanghai (Capital: Shanghai)
Tianjin (Capital: Tianjin)

Special Administrative Regions (2)
Hong Kong (Capital: Hong Kong)
Macao/Macau (Capital: Macau)

[Kim. E.]

Regions of Australia

Australian Capital Territory: (Canberra)
New South Wales: (Sydney)
Northern Territory: (Darwin)
Queensland: (Brisbane)
South Australia: (Adelaide)
Tasmania: (Hobart)
Victoria: (Melbourne) - The Dry 2/28/21
Western Australia: (Perth)

[Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator]

How's your challenge going Kim?? It's never too late to update.

[Kim. E.]

Test

[Kim. E.]

Hi! I hope to eventually. Many life events including losing my mother have affected my time and abilities. My computer died and trying to maneuver GR on my phone has been too much, but for some reason opened today. I do think of everyone often

[Alondra, Moderator Schmoderator]

I just saw this. For some reason, it was not showing a new comment.

So sorry for the loss of your mom. That is hard. Lost my mom last year and it was disconcerting and odd not having her, even though she had dementia. It was just a space that she did not fill anymore, ya know?

Deal with the grief the best way you know how. The books and the group will still be here. Give yourself grace.