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[♞ Pat]

3 Longtitude with The Collected Regrets of Clover
published 2023, 320 pages

Finished ~ 6.7.23

Claiming Longtitude 9 with The Mango Season ~ 229 pages

[Meg, Contributor]

Longtitude 1 is done with Murder at the Brightwell 06/16

[Andrea]

Finished Fields of Bounty, 6/9/23.

[Andrea]

If Longitude 0 is still available, I'll take it with The Tapestry of Grace by Kim Vogel Sawyer, 320 pages The Painter's Daughter: by Julie Klassen, 460 pages.


Sorry for switching. I need Painter's for an urgent challenge/team game.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thank you Pat, Meg & Andrea! You should all be updated.

[Andrea]

Jan, thanks! I just switched my book while you were doing updates. Still works for 0.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks for the update Andrea! I'll make the change ;)

[Andrea]

Thanks!

[Barb]

Finished longitude 6

Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire #6), by Craig Johnson, finished 6/9 ★★★★

[Barb]

I can take longitude 8 with Killing Grounds, which is #8 in the series.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Barb!!

[Andrea]

Finished Painter’s Daughter, 6/12/23.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Andrea!

[Andrea]

I'll take that last 1 with An Amish Garden by Beth Wiseman, Kathleen Fuller, Tricia Goyer, and Vannetta Chapman, 418 pages.

[Barb]

Finished longitude 8

Killing Grounds (Kate Shugak #8), by Dana Stabenow, finished 6/11 ★★★★

[Barb]

I can take longitude 6, with the series #6 book I just started, Many a Twist, by Sheila Connolly.

[Jan, Moderator]

Great Andrea & Barb! You're both updated!

[Andrea]

Thanks, Jan!

[Jennifer]

I finished Latitude 2 - A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet, Book 2 in the Max Tudor Series

I can take Latitude 9 - Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee, 391 pages

[Jan, Moderator]

Appreciate the update Jennifer!

[Karen ♐]

Karen ♐ wrote: "I'll take Latitude 4 with - 464 pgs"

Finished 6/14/23 - 5 stars

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Karen!

[Karen ♐]

I'll take Longitude 4 with - 246 pgs

[Barb]

Finished longitude 6 and am sad that I only have two more books to read from this series

Many a Twist (County Cork #6), by Sheila Connolly, finished 6/14 ★★★★

[Barb]

I've just started Death Dines Out, published in 1997, so I can take what appears to be the last number at longitude 7.

[Barb]

And I finished longitude 7

Death Dines Out (Hemlock Falls #5), by Claudia Bishop, finished 6/16/23 ★★★.5

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks for the updates Karen & Barb. Sorry for the delay!

[Jennifer]

I finished Latitude 9 - Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee, 391 pages

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Jennifer!

[Andrea]

Finished An Amish Garden, 6/20/23.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Andrea!

[♞ Pat]

Sorry to be late responding to this one.

The Mango Season

Completed 6.12.23
It was ok, not fantastic, but not awful.

I'm off to find a new book!

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks for the update Pat!

[Karen ♐]

Karen ♐ wrote: "I'll take Longitude 4 with - 246 pgs"

Finished 6/21/23 - 4 stars

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Karen!

[Jan, Moderator]

It's been a crazy month for me and I just figured out that I missed someone's update, so this hunt is finished!!

Here's what we found:

Treasure #28
Latitude: 30.267442231481926
Longitude: -97.74269618567031

Roman Bust
Found at Goodwill Store in Austin Texas

What’s special about this treasure isn’t so much what it is, but where it was found. There are plenty of Roman portrait sculptures in the world, but have you ever found one while browsing a thrift shop? One savvy antique dealer from Austin, Texas, was in a local Goodwill shop when she found a 2,000-year-old Roman bust that once belonged to King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

According to The New York Times, Laura Young noticed a worn-looking sculpture on the floor, under a table. Something about it struck her eye, so she purchased the 52-pound marble statue for $34.99. Her instincts turned out to be right. Sotheby’s confirmed that the sculpture was a marble Julio-Claudian-era Roman bust, dating back to the late first century BC. Through more intensive research they discovered that it was acquired by King Ludwig I of Germany and displayed in the courtyard of his Pompeiianum - a replica of a Pompeii Villa he had built in Aschaffenburg. After it was found in 2018, the bust spent a year on exhibit at the San Antonio Museum, and was then returned to the Bavarian government. It has now joined the Ludwig I collection at the Glyptothek Museum in Munich.

So how exactly did this Roman statue wind up across the Atlantic in a Goodwill store in Texas? It's presumed that during the destruction of WWII, it was picked up by a US service member and brought to the states, where it resided in an unknown location for decades. Eventually someone donated it to the Goodwill, where it ended up in one of their thrift shops. The important lesson here - keep your eyes peeled next time you are shopping in a second-hand store. You never know what treasure you will find.

[Jan, Moderator]

Our next coordinates have been posted!!

[Karen ♐]

Can't believe that was found in a goodwill store!

[Karen ♐]

I'll take Latitude 0 with - 480 pgs

[Andrea]

I'll take a Latitude 2 with The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner, 320 pages.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Karen & Andrea!

[Barb]

I'll take a latitude 9 for the 269 pages in An Edible History of Humanity, by Tom Standage

[Meg, Contributor]

I'll take latitude 6 with Norway to Hide, #6 in series.

[Laila Jane]

I can take Latitude 2 with Neanderthal Seeks (Extra) Yarns - 238 pgs

[Jennifer]

That's nuts that it was found at Goodwill!

I can take Latitude 4 with A Place of Confinement by Anna Dean, Book 4 in the Dido Kent Series

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Barb, Meg, Laila Jane & Jennifer! You are all updated.

[Barb]

Finished latitude 9

An Edible History of Humanity, by Tom Standage, finished 7/4/23 ★★★.5

[Barb]

I can take another 9 with Manna from Hades, published in 2009

[Meg, Contributor]

Latitude 6 - Norway to Hide #6 done on 07/04.

I'll take a latitude 9 with Death by Puffin, #9 in series.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks for the update Barb & Meg!