WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE WE TRAVELED WITH OUR BOOKS IN OCTOBER 2021?

Every book we read takes us on an adventure to somewhere in the world. Lets see where we can go.

As of September 30th 11 people visited 29 states 72 times. 11 people visited 12 other countries of the world 40 times. Those Strange & Unusual Places have been visited by 8 people 6 times. This gives us a grand total of 719 places visited. Let's see where October will take us. Bon Voyage!

Most Visited State: - California - 17 visits
Runners Up: - New York & New Jersey - 9 visits each
Most Visit Other Country: England - 20 visits
Runners Up: France - 4 visits
Visits to Strange & Unusual Places: The Atlantic Ocean; The northern countries of Thedas; A hostile world transformed by the absence of men. The middle ages messing around with the Black Death; Hanging out with Cyborgs; & hanging out with some other really strange Creatures.

U.S. States
1-Alabama
Lynda - Ransom - Laramie Briscoe

2-Alaska
Lynda - Wrong Alibi - Christina Dodd
Sergei - Lightning of Gold - Max Brand

3-Arizona
Tessa - Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
Lynda - The Touch of Fire - Linda Howard
Carol - The Devil's Highway - Luis Albert Urrea

11-California
Hope - The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave
Cindy -The Husband - Dean Koontz
Tessa -America for Beginners - Leah Franqui
Carol -House of Furies - Madeleine Roux
Carol -Out of Character - Annabeth Albert
Lynda -Every Vow You Break - Peter Swanson
Julie -Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood - Danny Trejo
Heather -They Thirst - Robert McCammon
Carol -Séance On A Summer's Night - Josh Lanyon
Julie - Goldwyn - A. Scott Berg
Carol - Red-Headed Stepchild - Jaye Wells - 2★

2-Colorado
Carol - The Witch's Familiar - T.J. Nichols
Heather - The Inquiry Into Love and Death - Simone St. James

1-Connecticut
Hope - Books Can Be Deceiving by Jenn McKinlay

1-Florida
Lynda - The Wreck - Landon Beach

2-Georgia
Lynda - Dead To Her - Sarah Pinborough
Lynda - If You've Got It, Haunt It - Rose Pressey

4-Illinois
Julie - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Kate Moore
Carol -Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth
Hope - Murder of a Stacked Librarian - Denise Swanson
Lynda - About That Night - Julie James

1-Louisiana
Heather - Hotel - Arthur Hailey

1-Maine
Lynda- Every Vow You Break - Peter Swanson

1-Maryland
Carol - The Dead Girls Club - Damien Angelica Walters

2-Massachusetts
Tessa - Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Carol - Survivor Song - Paul Tremblay

2- Michigan
Carol- The Remaking of Corbin Wale - Roan Parrish
Mary - We Live Next Door - Laura Wolfe

1-Minnesota
Tessa - Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray

1-Missouri
Carol - Pretty Pretty Boys - Gregory Ashe

1-Montana
Lynda - One Red Rose - Julie Garwood

2-New Jersey
Julie - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Kate Moore
Sergei - Win - Harlan Coben

1-New Mexico
Sergei - The Shape Shifter - Tony Hillerman

14-New York
Tessa - Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
Carol - The Deck of Omens - Christine Lynn Herman
Julie - The Chosen - Chaim Potok
Carol - Absolution - Henry Hack
Lynda - Forgotten In Death - J.D. Robb
Carol - Cassidy's Corner - Henry Hack
Tessa - Pride – Ibi Zoboi
Lynda - Mastermind - Andrew Mayne
Heather - Mister Slaughter - Robert R. McCammon
Carol -Dead To Me - Annie Anderson
Lynda - Murder On Pleasant Avenue - Victoria Thompson
Heather - The Providence Rider -Robert McCammon
Bluebird - Gods of Gotham - Lindsay Faye
Sergei - Double Play - Robert B. Parker

2-North Carolina
Sergei - The Secret, Book, and Scone Society -Ellery Adams
Cindy - Shine - Lauren Myracle

1-Ohio
Lynda - Survive The Night - Riley Sager

1-Oregon
Heather - Dark Water - Katherine Arden

2-Pennsylvania
Carol - Before There Were Three - L.A. Witt
Carol - Spells, Salt & Steel - Gail Z. Martin

3-South Carolina
Tessa -Dancing in the Lowcountry by James Villas
Carol - Badlands - Morgan Brice
Carol - Deadly Curiosities - Gail Z. Martin

1-Tennessee
Julie - Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson

3-Texas
Sergei - Texas Outlaw - James Patterson
Gayle -The Devil Went Down to Austin - Rick Riordan
Lynda - Valentine - Elizabeth Wetmore

1-Vermont
Heather - Dead Voices - Katherine Arden

1-Utah
Cindy - When Men Become Gods: Mormon Polygamist Warren Jeffs, His Cult of Fear- Stephen Singular

3-Virginia
Carol - Goodnight Moo - Molly Cox Bryan
Carol - The Remaking - Clay Chapman
Cindy -The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption - Jim Gorant

4-Washington
Carol - before There Were Three - L. A. Witt
Carol - The Pint of No Return - Ellie Alexander
Tessa - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie
Lynda - River Marked - Patricia Briggs

1- Washington D.C.
Carol - Defining Moments - Ben Burgess

1-Wyoming
Lynda - Wolf Pack- C.J. Box

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Other Countries of The World
4 -Africa
Tessa - (South Africa) - Devil's Peak - Deon Meyer
Threadsong -(Cape Town) - Empire of Ivory - Naomi Novik
Tessa - (Kenya) - Out Of Africa) – Isak Dinesen
Tessa - (various African Countries) - Say You’re One of Them – Uwem Akpan

2-Arctic
Cindy - The Terror - Dan Simmons
Lynda - The Arctic Fury - Greer Macallister

1-Austria
Tess W. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

2-Australia
Carol - Shelter - Catherine Jinks
Tessa - The Best of Adam Sharp - Graeme Simsion

1-Brazil
Lynda - The Seven Sisters - Lucinda Riley

10- Canada
Dusty - A Prairie Boy's Summer - William Kurelek
Tessa- Rainbow Valley - L. M. Montgomery
Tessa -The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny
Carol - The Carrow Haunt - Darcy Coates
Carol - In The Dark - Loreth Anne White
Carol - The Saturday Night Ghost Club - Craig Davidson
Carol - The Haunting of Leigh Harker - Darcy Coates
Lynda -Teed Off - Nicola Furlong
Lynda - All My Puny Sorrows - Miriam Toews
Cindy - Hench - Natalie Zina Watschots

1-Chili
Tessa - My Invented Country – Isabel Allende

15-England
Hope - The Governess - Tessa Dare
Sergei - Saint Peter's Fair - Ellis Peters
Sergei - A Great Deliverance - Elizabeth George
Dusty - An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson
Carol - Perron Manor - Lee Mountford
Hope - The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
Tessa - Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor - Joanne Landers Henry
Dusty - The Snow Goose - Paul Gallico
Tessa - A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow - Laura Taylor
Sergei - Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George
Sergei - Elegy for Eddie - Jacqueline Winspear
Tessa - The Body at the Tower - Y. S. Lee
Heather -The Adventure of Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie
Hope - Bombshell - Sarah MacLean
Mary - The Killer in the Snow - Alex Pine

1-France
Cindy - Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly

2-Germany
Cindy - Lilac Girls- Martha Hall Kelly
Mary - Lightning Down by Tom Clavin

1- Greece
Sergei - Under A Greek Moon - Carol Kirkwood

2- India
Carol - Before There Were Three - L.A. Witt
Carol - The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey

1-Ireland
Carol - All the Dead Voices - Declan Hughes

1-Maylasia
Lynda- Mastermind - Andrew Mayne

4-Mexico
Tessa Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Lynda - Twenty Centavos - John Scherber
Carol - The Devil's Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
Heather- Master of the House of Darts - Aliette de Bodard

1-Netherlands
Gayle - The Devil and the Dark Water - Stuart Turt5-10/11

1-Poland
Cindy - Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly

1-Russia
Cindy - The Last Days of The Romanovs - Helen Rapport

2-Scotland
Sergei - The Bookshop of Second Chances - Jackie Frasier
Heather -The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales - Donald Smith

1- Singapore
Lynda - Mastermind - Andrew Mayne

1-Sweden
Carol - An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed - Helene Tursten - 3★

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10-Those Strange & Unusual Places
Cindy - Visiting Neanderthals and Cave Bears -The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel
Dusty - Gods and Goddesses - The Opener of the Way - Robert Bloch
Threadsong -The Middle Ages - The Tragedy of the Templars - Michael Haag
Dusty -Eating green eggs & ham Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss
Dusty - With A big brown Bear Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?- Bill Martin
Heather - In A Video Game - Mass Effect: Revelation - Drew Karpyshyn
Lynda - Outer space - Network Effect - Martha Wells
Carol - outer space with Xelan Alien Captive - Tina Moss
Dusty - On A Hellbound Train
In A Deserted House

10-10/29



WE HAVE VISITED THESE PLACES
U.S. States
Alabama
Alaska +1
Arizona +2
California +10
Colorado +1
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia +1
Illinois +3
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts +1
Michigan +1
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey +1
New Mexico
New York +13
North Carolina +1
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania +1
South Carolina +2
Tennessee
Texas +1
Utah
Vermont
Virginia +2
Washington +2
Washington D.C.
Wyoming

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Other Countries
Africa +3
Arctic +1
Austria
Australia +1
Brazil
Canada +9
Chili
England+14
France
Germany +1
Greece
India +1
Ireland
Malaysia
Mexico +3
Netherlands
Poland
Russia
Scotland +1
Singapore
Sweden

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10-Strange & Unusual Places
Neanderthals & Cave Bears
God's & Goddesses
The Middle Ages
On A Hellbound Train
In A Deserted House
eating green eggs & ham
with a big brown bear
In A Video Game
Outer Space
Outer space with Xelan

10-10/29

October literary travels:

USA:
Minnesota Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
South Carolina Dancing in the Lowcountry by James Villas

AFRICA:
South Africa: Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer

EUROPE:
England: Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor by Joanne Landers Henry