Margo just Tripping on the Trail

[Margo]

(view spoiler)[RULES
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

CHALLENGE
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

CATAGORY 1: PILGAMAGES
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pilgrimage 1, 2 possible

CATAGORY 2: Adventure Hikes
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hike 3 is possible

CATAGORY 3: City Walks
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
walk 3 is an outside possibility

CATAGORY 4: Inspired by Literature
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
1

HELP
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

PLANNING
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

TINEYE
https://labs.tineye.com/color/
(hide spoiler)]

[Margo]

BADGE 1: 16 BOOKS COMPLETE
(view spoiler)[
Start
1 The Road Home (home in title)
2 The Home Scar (home in title, Irish author)
3 The Year that Changed Everything (irish authors)

Checkpoint 1
4 Skyward (1st Skyward novel)
5 Starsight (2nd Skyward novel)
6 Cytonic (3rd Skyward novel)

Checkpoint 2
7 The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals sanctuary in title, (MPG fiction and contemporary)
8 Night Waking, MPG fiction and contemporary
9 Our Missing Hearts MPG fiction and contemporary

Checkpoint 3 - Moria
10. Ninth House 76.1% black, (MPG fantasy)
11. Defiant MPG fantasy, author (Brandon Sanderson initials B and S)
12. The Split Author Sharon J. Bolton, initials B and S

Checkpoint 4
13. Men of Iron IRON in title (MPG tag Historical Fiction)
14. Cleopatra & Julius MPG tag Historical Fiction
15. Disobedient MPG tag Historical Fiction

Finish - Mount Doom
16. How to Sell a Haunted House ,448pg
(hide spoiler)]

[Margo]

BADGE 2 BOOKS 1 to 16
ACTIVITY 2: COMPLETE

LITERARY HIKE, The Realm of the Elderlings calls you.
(view spoiler)[
1. Start - Bearns The Confession by Charlotte Bigland,
2. The Betrayals by Bridget Collins, shares initials B and C (Historical Fiction on MGP)
3. Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen Historical Fiction on MGP

Checkpoint 1: Buck
Read a book from Nautical Tales List (40)
4. The Mad Ship: The Liveship Traders, Book 2 MPG fantasy
5. God Touched MPG Fantasy (Vampires in story)
6. Blackwood Farm Vampires in story

Checkpoint 2: Rippon
Read a book with a significant character is Grace, or is the name of the author.
7. Finding Grace (female name in title)
8. The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde female name in title (female name in title)
9. Mary I: Queen of Sorrows female name in title

Checkpoint 3: Shoaks
Read a book with "green" in the title or subtitle, or the author is named Green.
10. The Green Man's Heir
11. The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley MPG fantasy
12. Kiss Me First number in title

Checkpoint 4: Tilth
Read a book with wine in a glass or grapes are on the cover.
13. A Good Day for Chardonnay (female police officer)
14. Penance female police officer (irish author)
15. Cruel Acts Irish author

Finish - Farr
Read a book with a characteristic in the title and is also the name of one of the farseers.
16. Slayers
List of Farseers: https://robinhobbelderlings.fandom.co...
(hide spoiler)]

[Margo]

BADGE 2 17 TO 32
ACTIVITY1; PILGRAMIGE 2 COMLETE

(view spoiler)[El Camino Trail

Start - Sarria
Task: Read a book that has "King" in the title, or the author is named King. Euphoria
1.
2. Good Material (published 2024)
3. The List of Suspicious Things Published 2024

Checkpoint 1 - Palas de Rei
Task: Read a book with "Body" in the title.
4. The Body: A Guide for Occupants
5. The Family Game narrated by author
6. The Blurred Lands house on cover

Checkpoint 2 - Melide
Task: Read a book where a nun is a significant character.
7. Mercy House (set in NYC)
8. Lock Every Door Set in NYC (Mystery MPG)
9. Penance Mystery MPG

Checkpoint 3 - Arzua
Task: Read a book where the cover is 75% yellow,
10. Yellowface (MPG Contemporary)
11. My Favourite Mistake MPG Contemporary (Irish author)
12 The Lock-Up Irish author

Checkpoint 4 - O Pedrouzo
Task: Read a book with a bridge prominently on the cover.
13. Fruit of the Lemon (historical fiction)
14. Jezebel historical fiction (set in Israel)
15. The Liars' Gospel Set in Israel

Finish - Santiago de Compostela
Task: Read a book with a significant character or author named "James" (Jim, or other derivatives are not allowed.
16. The Lost Girls by Wendy James
(hide spoiler)]

[Margo]

BADGE 2 33 TO 48 BOOK
ACTIVITY 3:

LITERARTY WALK 1
Chasing Dracula

Start - London
Task: Read a book with a group of people on the cover.
1. The Calculating Stars (author has three names)
2. The Gift of Rain author has three names (published 2007)
3. The Alchemyst published 2007 10 hrs and 2 mins

Checkpoint 1 - Paris
Task: Read a book with Halloween as a theme.
4. Something Wicked This Way Comes 9 hrs and 5 mins (horror)
5. The Only One Left 11 hrs and 53 mins Horror (GR Awared Nominee 2023)
6. Lady Tan’s Circle of WomenGR Awared Nominee 2023

Checkpoint 2: Munich
Task: Read a book with a character or author named Susanna or Susan.
7. Best Seller (fantasy listed as MPG)
8. Tress of the Emerald Sea fantasy listed as MPG
9. The Change fantasy listed as MPG

Checkpoint 3: Budapest
Task: Read a book with a meal on the cover.
10. Hungry food on cover (set in UK)
11. Blood Harvest Set in UK (HARVEST in title)
12. Harvest HARVEST in title

Checkpoint 4: Bran Castle
Task: Read a book with a wolf on the cover, in the title, or about wolves. They may be shapeshifters.
13. The Wolf Border WOLF in title (WOLF on cover)
14. Camelot WOLF on cover (Historical fiction)
15. Cecily Historical fiction

Finish: Bucharest
Task: Read a book tagged as "Crime" on the main book page.
16. The Cutting Place

[Margo]

BADGE 3
ACTIVITY 1:

LITERARY WALK 3

(view spoiler)[Start - Bosnia
Read a book with an orphan or orphans in it.
link 1:
link 2:


Checkpoint 1: Budva, Montenegro
Read a book that is tagged as Mythology.
link 1:
link 2:

Checkpoint 2: Shkoder, Albania
Read a book that has 430 - 438 pages based on the first print edition listed on the "editions" list on the main book page.
link 1:
link 2:

Checkpoint 3: Athens, Greece
Read a book about Ancient Greece, or Rome.
link 1:
link 2:

Checkpoint 4: Santorini, Greece
Read a book from Best Adult Female Friendship Books List
link 1:
link 2:

Finish: Bucharest
Read a book where a serious illness changes a person's ability to maintain normal activities.
(hide spoiler)]

[Margo]

BADGE 3
ACTIVITY 2:

[Margo]

BADGE 3
ACTIVITY 3:

[Margo]

I know I can do badge 1 and 2. hope to start badge 3.

[Margo]

1. Badge 1, Book 1
2. Start - Bag End
3. Read a book with home, homeward, or homebound in the title.
4. The Road Home ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Link: Home in the title
6. Audio, 14h 47m

[Janice, Moderator]

Keep the dust down because I'm about 1-1/2 hours behind you. :)

[Margo]

Go Janice! I'll try to tread carefully ;-)

[Margo]

1. Badge 1, Book 2
2. Start - Bag End
3. Link 1
4. The Home Scar ⭐⭐⭐
5. Link: Home in the title
6. Audio, 10h 56m

[Kabrada]

Wow, you've really got into the hiking mood! I still need to finish my current (audio) book before putting on my boots.

[Margo]

Yep, I'm on my way! I took about 6 months out of challenge mode last year so I was chomping at the bit ;-)

[Janice, Moderator]

First one done! Woohoo. I caught up. I got my first one done as well.

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 3
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings
◾The Year that Changed Everything ⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 13 hrs and 49 mins
◾Task - Home, Homeward, or Homebound is in the title
◾Connecting factor - previous book also written by Irish author

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 4
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 1 Riverdell
◾Skyward ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 15 hrs and 14 mins
◾Task - Read a book that is the 1st book of a series of 4
◾Connecting factor - this is first book in a series of 4

[Jayme, Moderator]

Hey Margo - I think your book in message 18 should be book #4.

And I wish I would have read Skyward for my 1st in series of 4, but I did add it to my TBR. :)

[Janice, Moderator]

I have Skyward, and haven't tackled that task yet. Hmmm... I'm eating your dust, Margo.

[Margo]

Thanks Jayme, glad someone's counting lol

Janice, I know the feeling - I'm eating Jaymes dust!

I think you both bump tis series up your TBRs. I've owned it for for ages but for some reason not been keen to read it. After I'd finished it, I went straight to audible and bought the other 3!

[Annerlee]

Admitting to theft.. have also stolen your idea for Skyward. The premise sounds really good - with some great reviews from people I trust 😜 !

[Margo]

Steel away! Hope you enjoy as much as I did 😊

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 5
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 1 Riverdell
◾Starsight⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 14 hrs and 20 mins
◾Connecting factor - next in series

[Jayme, Moderator]

Margo - you have pulled ahead of me. I had to stop reading for the challenge and read for my local book club. We are reading Demon Copperhead thankfully it is really good, but I can't make a connection to the annual challenge.

[Margo]

I'm still waiting for bookclub book to arrive to the library and I don't even know what it is yet. I'm also waiting for a lot of library holds to come in that aren't challenge related so I'm sure I'll eating your dust again soon lol

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 6
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 1 Riverdell
◾ Cytonic ⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 14h 28m
◾Connecting factor, next in series

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 7
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Moria
◾Task: Read a book with "Sanctuary" or "Valley" in the title, or subtitle.
◾ The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 9 hrs and 55 mins

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 8
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 2 Moria
◾ Night Waking⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 13 hrs and 6 mins
◾Connecting factor, MPG Fiction and Contemporary same as The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals

[Jayme, Moderator]

You are still ahead of me on the trail, Margo. But watch out. I am traveling on Thursday on a long plane ride and am loaded down with books! Night Waking looks good, but it's the only one of her books not available at my library. 🤔 I am going to tbr some of her other books!

[Margo]

Do! My favourite so far is Ghost Wall.

I need to get my skates as some of my library reserves have come in ahead of time. My library wants me to read more lol

The only positive about long, confined journeys is that you gets lots of time with a book. Enjoy your trip ;-)

[Janice, Moderator]

You've both left me in the dust. I'm still on book 4.

[Margo]

Not like you Janice! But there's no extra points for rushing - or is there? LOL

[Janice, Moderator]

I knew this would be a little slower for me - reading one book at a time.

[Margo]

I thought having to read in order would be a problem for me but it's actually making me read faster. Some of my library reservations are coming in a lot faster than their system predicted so I'm playing catch-up! It's a novelty at the moment but I hope I don't burn out too soon.

It's great for my tbr. I'm only scouring the library for prompts that I can't fill from my shelf, the link books are all from my shelf. Marvellous!!!

[Margo]

MPG fiction and contemporary

◾Badge 1, Book 9
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 2 Moria
◾ Our Missing Hearts⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 9 hrs and 51 mins
◾Connecting factor, MPG Fiction and Contemporary same as The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 10
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 3 - Moria
◾ Ninth House⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 16 hrs and 21 mins
◾Task: Read a book with a cover that is 75% black.
◾How it fits: cover 76.1% black according to TINEYE

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 11
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 3 - Moria
◾ Defiant⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 15 hrs and 24 mins
◾Connection: MPG Fantasy

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 12
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 3 - Moria
◾ The Split ⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 10 hrs and 49 mins
◾Connection: author Sharon J. Bolton shares initials S and B with Brandon Sanderson, writer of previous book.

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 13
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 4
◾ Men of Iron ⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 6 hrs and 8 mins
◾ Read a book with IRON in the titl3
◾Iron in in the title

[Janice, Moderator]

Just motoring along.... and leaving me woefully behind. *sniff*

[Jayme, Moderator]

You are flying down your trail, Margo. Leaving me in your dust!

[Janice, Moderator]

We'll keep each other company Jayme.

[Margo]

This toppler could help us all!

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 14
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 4
◾ Atalanta ⭐⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 11 hrs and 9 mins
◾Connection: both this book and Men of Iron have a MPG of Historical Fiction

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 15
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Checkpoint 4
◾ The TrialAtalanta ⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 10 hrs and 12 mins
◾Connection: Like Atalanta, this book was published in 2023

[Janice, Moderator]

Margo wrote: "This toppler could help us all!"

I couldn't fit any of my books into the toppler prompts.

[Margo]

I've just commented on Kristies thread about this! I managed to 2 by coming up with new links. I'd originally planned a different historic fiction for the both links. I wouldn't describe a mythology story as historical but lots of GR readers did thankfully! I was already listening to The Trial when I noticed the release date link. Serendipity 😊😂

[Janice, Moderator]

That worked out well for you. :)

[Margo]

◾Badge 1, Book 16
◾Hike: Lord of the Rings, Finish - Mount Doom
◾ How to Sell a Haunted House ⭐⭐⭐
◾Audiobook - 12 hrs and 59 mins
◾Task: Read a book that is between 400 and 450 pages.
◾How it fits: 448pg