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message 101: by Esther (last edited Aug 14, 2023 05:03AM) (new)


message 102: by Esther (last edited Aug 02, 2023 05:56AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments Recap puzzle 8

Task 1: Arizona Tom
Task 2: 22 Seconds
Task 3: The Flight Attendant
Task 4: A World of Curiosities
Task 5: The Reversal
Task 6: Murder by the Book
Task 7: Le silence des pélicans:
Task 8: Girls of Paper and Fire
Task 9: Enclave
Task 10: badge 1


message 103: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 13
2. Puzzle 3, Task 9
3. Out of the Black Land
4. ebook (Paperback, 459 pages)
5. Read a book set in ancient Egypt
6. Set in the Eighteenth Dynasty, in Ancient Egypt


message 104: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 105: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 14
2. Puzzle 11, Task 7
3. The Apprentice
4. ebook (Mass Market Paperback, 376 pages)
5. Read a book set in Boston
6. Set in Boston


message 106: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 107: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 15
2. Puzzle 3, Task 7
3. L'héritage des Cathares
4. 432 pages, Paperback
5. Read a book where the main character sets forth on a major journey.
6. Gondemar is brought back from the dead to go a a quest. He need to travel South to find and defend the Truth and maybe redeem himself.


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message 109: by Esther (last edited Jun 30, 2023 06:25AM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 16
2. Puzzle 3, Task 2
3. Et soudain le chasseur sortit du bois
4. ebook (496 pages, Paperback)
5. Read a book set in Russia
6. Set in Leningrad in 1930's


message 110: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 111: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 17
2. Puzzle 3, Task 10
3. L’internat
4. ebook (Paperback, 320 pages)
5. Read a book with a large door on the cover.
6. L’internat by Serhiy Zhadan


message 112: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments This ends puzzle #3


message 113: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆

Not quite done. You should book #17, and I track 17. It looks like the play is missing. (Puzzle 11, Task 6)


message 114: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 3, Book 18
2. Puzzle 11, Task 6
3. Littoral
4. ebook (189 pages, Paperback)
5. Read a book that is tagged as "play".
6. It is tagged as plays and theatre


message 115: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments This ends puzzle #11


message 116: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments And badge 3 is done.



message 117: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 1
2. Puzzle 1, Task 4
3. La Princesse au petit moi
4. ebook (Paperback, 400 pages)
5. Read a book that is included in a series of 5 primary works series.
6. 4th in the "Les énigmes d'Aurel le Consul" series which currently comprises 5 books.


message 118: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆

Now, you've got it! Congrats. :)


message 119: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 2
2. Puzzle 8, Task 8
3. Girls of Paper and Fire
4. ebook (Hardcover, 385 pages)
5. Read a book where the author's last name starts with an n, and whom you've never read before.
6. The author is Natasha Ngan, new author to me.


message 120: by Esther (last edited Jul 09, 2023 03:50PM) (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 3
2. Puzzle 8, Task 2
3. 22 Seconds
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 384 pages)
5. Read a book with a measure of time in the title
6. Seconds


message 121: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 122: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 4
2. Puzzle 8, Task 4
3. A World of Curiosities
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 390 pages)
5. Read a book where a letter has a significant role
6. A letter from the 19th century that was forwarded to the descendant of its author is the starting point of the story.


message 123: by Janice, Moderator (new)

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message 124: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 4
2. Puzzle 8, Task 3
3. The Flight Attendant
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 354 pages)
5. Read a book where a flight attendant is a character
6. MC is a flight attendant.


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message 126: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 6
2. Puzzle 1, Task 7
3. The Surgeon's Daughter
4. audiobook (Paperback, 384 pages)
5. Read a book set in Italy.
6. Most of the story is set in Bologna


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message 128: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 7
2. Puzzle 1, Task 5
3. Cimetière d'étoiles
4. ebook (Pocket Book, 496 pages)
5. Read a book set in Texas
6. Set in texas


message 129: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 8
2. Puzzle 8, Task 6
3. Murder by the Book
4. ebook (Mass Market Paperback, 286 pages)
5. Read a book with a store front on the cover.
6. Murder by the Book (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #1) by Lauren Elliott


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message 131: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 9
2. Puzzle 1, Task 1
3. Notre otage à Acapulco
4. ebook (384 pages, Paperback)
5. Read a book set in Mexico
6, Set in Acapulco, Mexico


message 132: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 10
2. Puzzle 1, Task 8
3. All the Pretty Horses
4. audiobook (Paperback, 302 pages)
5. Read a book with a significant character that is a cowboy
6, MC is a cowboy


message 133: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 11
2. Puzzle 8, Task 5
3. The Reversal
4. audiobook ( Paperback, 432 pages)
5. Read a book that it is a legal thriller
6, Legal thriller is in the MBP


message 134: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 135: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 12
2. Puzzle 8, Task 7
3. Le silence des pélicans: Une enquête de Bonneau et Lamouche
4. ebook (346 pages, Paperback)
5. Read a book set in a city that beings with the letter M.
6, Set in Montreal


message 136: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 13
2. Puzzle 1, Task 9
3. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
4. ebook (Hardcover, 483 pages)
5. Read a book with a boat of any kind on the cover
6, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty


message 137: by Janice, Moderator (new)

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message 138: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 14
2. Puzzle 8, Task 1
3. Arizona Tom
4. 262 pages, Paperback
5. Read a book with mpg of Western.
6, Western in MPG


message 139: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 140: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 15
2. Puzzle 8, Task 9
3. Enclave
4. audiobook (Paperback, 320 pages)
5. Read a book with genre dystopia and tagged zombies. Both words must be on the MBP
6. Both Zombie and dystopia are there


message 141: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments this completes puzzle 8


message 142: by Janice, Moderator (new)

Janice (jamasc) | 59973 comments 🔆


message 143: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 15
2. Puzzle 1, Task 3
3. A Deadly Education
4. audiobook (Hardcover, 336 pages)
5. Read a book that is set at a university or boarding school.
6. Set in a really strange boarding school.


message 144: by Janice, Moderator (new)

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message 145: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 17
2. Puzzle 1, Task 10
3. Murder on the Spanish Seas
4. ebook (Hardcover, 280 pages)
5. Read a book with "sea" in the title.
6. Murder on the Spanish Seas


message 146: by Janice, Moderator (new)

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message 147: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 4, Book 18
2. Puzzle 1, Task 6
3. Opération Iskra
4. 367 pages, Paperback
5. Read a book with a photograph on the cover
6. Opération Iskra by Lionel Noël


message 148: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments tis completes puzzle 1.


message 149: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments And badge 4 is done.



message 150: by Esther (new)

Esther (nyctale) | 5195 comments 1. Badge 5, Book 1
2. Puzzle 4, Task 10
3. The Good Sister
4. Hardcover, 309 pages
5. Read a book with a wreath of flowers or a hedge of flowers on it
6. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

note: approved on post #2of the help thread.


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