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[Book Concierge]

I'll take Latitude 8 and read The Masterpiece - 368 pages

[Teri-K]

I can take a Longitude #7 with Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean at 272 pages.

I've been really looking forward to reading this, as I'm a big fan of his father's work, especially A River Runs Through It.

[Jan, Moderator]

I think I have everyone updated!!

[Barb]

I can take the first 7, for the 272 pages in The Dark Place, by Aaron Elkins, which I'm hoping to start tomorrow :)

[Barb]

Jan wrote: "I'm taking Longitude 1 with: Open Season Series #1"
Meg wrote: "I'll take Longtitude 2 with Pulp Friction"

Hope you two like these books as much as I did :)

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Barb!! I'm about a third into Open Season and I'm enjoying it.

[Meg, Contributor]

Finished Pulp Friction, #2 longtitude. Enjoyed it a lot, Barb. 😊

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Meg!

[Laila Jane]

I can take one of the 7s with Seventh Grave and No Body - Book #7 in the series

[Jan, Moderator]

You got it Laila Jane!

[Patrizia, Contributor]

I can take latitude 5 with Ritorno a Virgin River: 235 pages

[Jan, Moderator]

Great Patrizia!

[Book Concierge]

Book Concierge wrote: "I'll take Latitude 8 and read The Masterpiece - 368 pages"

FINISHED ✔ - 12Mar22

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks BC!

[Book Concierge]

I'll take LONGITUDE 4 - with series # 4 - Alexis and the Perfect Recipe

[Jan, Moderator]

Great BC!

[Patrizia, Contributor]

I finished my book for latitude 5.

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Patrizia!

[Barb]

Finished my book for latitude 7. I liked the overall story, but could have done without the nearly insta-love romance part of it. Here's hoping the next book gets back to bones and mystery :)

The Dark Place (Gideon Oliver #2), by Aaron Elkins, finished 3/13/22 ★★★.5

[Barb]

Oooh, I'm just starting Bury Your Dead, which has 371 pages, so I can take the longitude 7 that's still hanging around :)

[Jan, Moderator]

Great Barb! Enjoy your book - it's a good one!!

[Jan, Moderator]

I finished my book too. Going to take the last number:
0 - Jan: The Soul Killer Pub 2020

[Book Concierge]

Book Concierge wrote: "I'll take LONGITUDE 4 - with series # 4 - Alexis and the Perfect Recipe"

FINISHED ✔ - 13Mar22 - 3***

[Jennifer]

I finished Latitude 5 with Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood, 156 pages, finished 3/12/2022

[Jan, Moderator]

Appreciate the update BC & Jennifer!

[Teri-K]

I finished Longitude #7 with Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River by John N. Maclean.

[Karen ♐]

Karen ♐ wrote: "I'll take Latitude 3 with Bayou Baby - 319 pgs"

Finished 3/14 - 4 stars

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Teri & Karen!

[Barb]

Finished latitude 7, and wow, what a story! I listened to the audiobook and had such a hard time hitting pause so I could do boring things like sleep and cook dinner. But I have questions too, and all my reading friends are caught up with the series and can't remember back to book #6, ugh...

371 pages : Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #6), by Louise Penny, finished 3/15/22 ★★★★

[Andrea]

Barb wrote: "I listened to the audiobook and had such a hard time hitting pause so I could do boring things like sleep and cook dinner."

I love it and hate it when that happens. :D Good sign of a great book!

I once had to stop reading a really good page-turner book with one page left in order to tutor for over five hours straight during one of my busiest tutoring years. There was never a moment in that time when I could squeeze in that last page. Man, was that a tough wait! It was a great tutoring day with lots of progress made with all my students, but I so wanted to just read that page already. I totally savored it directly afterward, before I put the kids' files back in order for the next session.

[Jan, Moderator]

Barb - that's what makes Penny's books so good! Her understanding of human emotions is stellar! I'm several books ahead of you (getting ready to read #12 soon). You may need to read the next book sooner than later. Though if I recall correctly her plot lines do move from book to book and I'm not sure you will get answers immediately.

I'm always sad when people read the first book in this series and stop. It really doesn't give the whole series justice. They really start amping up at about #4.

[Meg, Contributor]

I just finished listening to Glass Houses (#13) last week and am still very enamored of this series. IMO, she is a truly gifted writer.

[Barb]

Andrea wrote: "Barb wrote: "I listened to the audiobook and had such a hard time hitting pause so I could do boring things like sleep and cook dinner."

I love it and hate it when that happens. :D Good sign of a great book!"

Indeed, these books are very very good, and I agree that the series doesn't really pick up until a few books in. My F2F book group read book #5 before I started the series, and I was hooked right then and there, so I went back and started at book #1.

I think part of my problem with the book I just finished is that I skipped #5 (since I'd already read it, although it was years ago) and went from #4 to #6. I'm trying to figure out if I don't remember something that happened in #5 or if the story is told only through the 'flashbacks' in #6.


"I once had to stop reading a really good page-turner book with one page left in order to tutor for over five hours straight"

Oh my, I don't think I would have been able to do that, not with just one page left to read lol

[Jan, Moderator]

Barb Wrote: I think part of my problem with the book I just finished is that I skipped #5 (since I'd already read it, although it was years ago) and went from #4 to #6. I'm trying to figure out if I don't remember something that happened in #5 or if the story is told only through the 'flashbacks' in #6.

Oh that could have added to some confusion. I probably would have re-read #5. It's been too long since I read them so I can't help clarify.

[Jillian]

Jan wrote: "Barb - that's what makes Penny's books so good! Her understanding of human emotions is stellar! I'm several books ahead of you (getting ready to read #12 soon). You may need to read the next book s..."

I read the 1st book and did not care for it. I’ve been so confused why it is a popular series. It is good to know it is one that improves.

[Laila Jane]

Finished Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones (03/17/22)

[Jan, Moderator]

Thanks Laila Jane!

[Barb]

Jan wrote: "Barb Wrote: I think part of my problem with the book I just finished is that I skipped #5 (since I'd already read it, although it was years ago) and went from #4 to #6. I'm trying to figure out if I don't remember something that happened in #5 or if the story is told only through the 'flashbacks' in #6."

Oh that could have added to some confusion. I probably would have re-read #5"

Yeah, I think that's what I should have done, but now that I know how things work out in #6, it would be hard to go back to #5. Lesson learned, I guess lol

[Andrea]

Finished 50 People on 3/16/22. Busy with work this week, so I couldn’t post until now.

[Jillian]

I finished 7- Surprises In Little Leaf Creek by Cindy Bell 3/18/2022

[Jan, Moderator]

Appreciate the updates Andrea & Jillian! Looks like we have finished another hunt. The treasure will be posted shortly!

[Jan, Moderator]

We have uncovered another treasure!! Here's what we found:

Treasure Hunt #6
Topiaries Of Tulcán Cemetery in Ecuador
Latitude: 0.855370
Longitude: -77.721740

I've included this treasure because it struck me as being quite unusual. We have all
seen beautiful topiary gardens but the remarkable topiaries in the Tulcán Cemetery
defy the imagination. This unique cemetery features more than 300 mythological and traditional sculptures that include animals, angelic forms, and other creatures inspired by Incan, pre-Columbian, and Arabic totems.

It all began in 1936, when the cemetery's gardener and caretaker, José María Franco Guerrero, recognized that the soil was high in calcium carbonate which is prime soil for Cypress trees, making them grow like crazy. So he began planting hundreds of them and as they grew, they morphed into a wonderland of breathtaking artwork.

Guerrero died in 1985 and was put to rest among the masterpieces he had created. His headstone's epitaph contains the apropos inscription: "In Tulcán, a cemetery so beautiful that it invites one to die!" Guerrero did recognize to keep his mission alive he must train his five sons to take over the gardens. After his death, each of them assisted in the cemetery's upkeep in their father's honor.

Ecuador's Institute of Cultural Heritage recognized Guerrero's work in 1984. They declared his topiary garden a "Cultural Heritage of the State." Later that same year,
the Ministry of Tourism proclaimed the garden a site of national interest. This garden treasure is now considered one of the most extreme examples of topiary work in the Americas.

You can view a gallery of photos of the garden at this website: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tulca...

[Jan, Moderator]

Coordinates for Treasure Hunt #7 have been posted.

I've claimed Latitude 7 with The Body in the Dales Published 2017

[Barb]

I can take latitude 3 with A Fatal Fiction, which is the third book in the series.

[Jillian]

I can take a longitude 3 Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton 314 pages

[Andrea]

I can take 1 in Latitude with A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse, 169 pages.

[Meg, Contributor]

I can take longtitude #7 with Murder in an Irish Bookshop, 7th in the series.

[Book Concierge]

I'll take Latitude 2 - Series book # 2 - Evan Help Us by Rhys Bowen

[Jan, Moderator]

Everyone is updated...thank you!!

[Barb]

Finished latitude #3 and liked the book enough to continue the series :)

A Fatal Fiction (Deadly Edits #3), by Kaitlyn Dunnett, finished 3/20 ★★★.5