SeparatedByAPond

Bishop's Wife | Mette Ivie Harrison

The other day @suzie.reads posted her #ReadUSA map which led me to see how many states I‘ve read this year. I‘m pretty impressed 😁So now I‘m attempting the challenge ❣️This is for #Utah / it‘s really interesting so far. Are you hosting this one too @Librarybelle ????

Cathythoughts This does sound good ! I‘ll be looking out for your review 👍🏻 5y

Verity Oh this is really cool. I wonder how many I‘ve done so far this year. 5y

Megabooks Did Barbara and Jess do the USA last year? There is a group doing a relaxed multi-year read, but I haven‘t seen any posts in awhile. @BarbaraBB (edited) 5y

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erzascarletbookgasm You‘re adding another challenge?! I‘m not even halfway in my existing ones! 😆 But, you go, girl! 💪 5y

Cinfhen Hahaha, thanks @erzascarletbookgasm !!! I figure there‘s still half a year left @Verity @Megabooks I think @squirrelbrain is loosely participating 🐿💕 5y

Cinfhen I‘ll let you know @Cathythoughts 👍🏽 5y

Librarybelle @Cinfhen @Megabooks I am not hosting it this year, but I love the spirit of it is continuing! I think the Litten who started it, after asking me if they could do so, is not active anymore. 5y

Cinfhen Thanks @Librarybelle ♥️ 5y

BarbaraBB That is impressive. I participated in this challenge last year and loved it. @squirrelbrain finished it last year too. 5y

BarbaraBB If you want suggestions I‘ll tag you in my overview of the books I read for #ReadingUSA2019. (edited) 5y

squirrelbrain Yes, @BarbaraBB is right - I completed all of the states last year. Let me know if you want to see my list! 😁👍 5y

TheAromaofBooks I know both @Andrew65 and I are doing this challenge, and it's also part of our larger, multi-year challenge to read the #SeparatedbyaPondTour (every state/territory/province/county in the US, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, & Ireland... the countries traditionally considered separated by the Pond haha). You've already had quite the traveling year!!! 5y

Cinfhen Wow!!! That‘s super ambitious @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 🙌🏻❤️ 5y

Cinfhen I‘d love to see your lists @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain ❣️❣️❣️ 5y

KarenUK Wow! You‘ve read so many already! 💕 5y

Cinfhen It was hard to remember where some were set @KarenUK I needed help from Google to refresh my memory 😉 5y

BarbaraBB I tagged you! 5y

Cinfhen Thanks so much @BarbaraBB I see a few books I own for states I‘m missing ❤️ 5y

Cinfhen Too bad we aren‘t reading this one....I think I need Kansas

The Topeka School: A Novel

suzie.reads You are doing well. I need inspiration off everyone please 🤣 5y

Andrew65 @Cinfhen I never do things by half 🤣 So far as at end of April these are my totals for the #SeperatedByaPondTour
US : 19
Canada : 0
England : 18
Scotland : 6
Wales : 0
Ireland : 2
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Andrew65 @Cinfhen @TheAromaofBooks If that‘s not enough also doing #ReadingEurope2020 😳. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB (edited) 5y

Cinfhen I‘m about halfway through #ReadingEurope2020 @Andrew65 and it‘s A LOT!! Can‘t believe @TheAromaofBooks is doing #SeparatedByAPond and #ReadingEurope 😳 5y

Cinfhen Great stats on your challenge @Andrew65 !!! I don‘t even know what all the territories are 🤪 5y

Cinfhen Let me know what states are stomping you @suzie.reads and I‘ll share my book titles with you!!! 5y

Andrew65 @Cinfhen That took a lot of research! http://www.librarything.com/topic/314898 5y

Cinfhen Woohoo @Andrew65 I read the Murakami and I don‘t know why I was thinking Boston but it works for Hawaii!!! Yay!!!!

What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir

Cinfhen And I need a Rhode Island book so that was super helpful too @Andrew65 🙌🏻 5y

suzie.reads I have the next 5 states planned my brain hurt looking at all the states 🤣 5y

Cinfhen I think I want to try to get Vermont and New Hampshire next, I‘m in middle of Utah & Oregon @suzie.reads plus I‘m still working on #Belgium 🤪🤪🤪 5y

Cinfhen That list was incredible @squirrelbrain THANK YOU!!!! My bookclub is reading Stoner in June so I was excited to see that on your list #Missouri

Stoner

suzie.reads I've done New Hampshire but none of your other three. I'm just starting Arkansas and Minnesota 5y

squirrelbrain I‘ll send you my list from last year @suzie.reads - it includes quite a lot of suggestions from web pages that @Librarybelle highlighted at the time. 5y

squirrelbrain You‘re welcome Cindy. I really liked Stoner, and it will be good for book club discussions. 5y

suzie.reads @squirrelbrain that would be fantastic, thank you 🙂 5y

Andrew65 @Cinfhen I‘ve really enjoyed the Hazel Gaynor books. 5y

marleed Oh good for you. I‘m doing ReadTheUSA2020 and to date I‘ve read 48 states and DC. I have Mississippi and North Dakota left, and my priority was to read from my shelf of a state was there - that‘s been a fun self imposed additional challenge. I think I should read Guam and Puerto Rico, as well, to represent US governors. 5y

BarbaraBB I want to read The Topeka school too but no one nominated it 🤷🏻‍♀️😘 5y

TheAromaofBooks I'm theoretically also doing #ReadingEurope2020 but am kind of failing at that one, so I'm embracing #ReadtheUSA2020 and #SeparatedbyaPondTour 😂 I have 19 states checked off so far!!! 5y

Hooked_on_books I did this challenge last year and it made me curious enough to track where my books are set this year, though just for fun. I have a chalkboard placemat of the states on my wall and make a mark in a state each time I read a book set there. I‘m running out of room in NY! 5y

Cinfhen That‘s a cool idea @Hooked_on_books maybe I‘ll incorporate that in my reading log for 2021😊and WOWZA @marleed 48 all from your TBR 🙌🏻♥️thats awesomeness 5y

marleed @Cinfhen I didn‘t quite hit all the states from my TBR, I‘ll have to count but I‘m estimating 40 or more from my shelves. I had to be creative in counting Playing for Pizza for Ohio but it was where the story for the MC began. And I‘d already read Little Fires Everywhere in 2019 - dang! 5y

Cinfhen That‘s still amazing @marleed I‘m sure as the year draws nearer to December I may need to get creative too😉 5y

JaclynW I can't believe how many challenges people are doing. 😱 I WANT to do all of them! But. It's harder to fit in than I thought! I'm super impressed at those that are managing all of these. How are people doing this!?? @Andrew65 @Cinfhen @TheAromaofBooks 5y

Cinfhen I like the challenges as it gives me a sort of reading guide but they are definitely not for everyone @JaclynW 5y

Suet624 @JaclynW I feel like such a slacker when I see how many challenges people are doing. 5y

Suet624 If you‘re looking for a Vermont book, there are quite a few. But this one I really enjoyed:

On Kingdom Mountain: A Novel

TheAromaofBooks @JaclynW - I have to say that, for the most part, I do challenges backwards. I read books that I want to read, and then see if they fit any of the challenges! That's totally how I'm doing #ReadtheUSA2020 and #SeparatedbyaPondTour. Maybe when I get down to just the last few I'll have to actually do some research, but for now... I just read along and hope for the best! 😂 5y

Cinfhen Going to search for that book @Suet624 although I think I own a book already for Vermont

Broken Girls

JaclynW @TheAromaofBooks That has been what I have resorted to as well. It is a fairly decent method. Bit I'm not always completing challenges. I would love to check those boxes and complete them all! 😄👍 5y

JaclynW @Cinfhen I love the challenges to be used as a reading guide too. I also love that it gets me to read new things I may have not originally picked up. They are fun! 5y

JaclynW @Suet624 You aren't a slacker! Reading is a very individual sport. ? I am amazed at how "sporty" some readers are though! ?? 5y

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Andrew65

Evil Games | Angela Marsons

About to dig into the Group Read on Librarything of Evil Games, Book 2 in the excellent DI Kim Stone Series. This should take me to West Midlands for the #SeparatedByAPond Tour.

EadieB, TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo! I just got Ontario checked off today!! 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks 👏👏👏👏 I haven‘t got into Canada at all yet on the tour! 5y

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Andrew65

The Last Runaway | Tracy Chevalier

Sleep wouldn‘t come overnight so started listening to The Last Runaway. This book will cover #Ohio for my #SeparatedbyaPondTour. A book I‘ve wanted to read for a while.

ljuliel I like the name of your challenge. You started with my state 👍🏼 5y

Andrew65 @ljuliel Tried to be creative with the title. 😊 Where in Ohio do you live? (edited) 5y

ljuliel I line in northeast Ohio , about 50 miles south of Cleveland. 5y

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Andrew65 @ljuliel Whoops, That should have said live! 😔 In the book I‘m based around Wellington at the moment. 5y

ljuliel Oh, I didn‘t know that‘s where the book was set ! We used to go camping a lot up there at a state park. It‘s a pretty little town . (edited) 5y

TheAromaofBooks I'm an Ohioan as well - haven't been in Wellington, but there is a state park near there that we have visited. Much flatter up there than where we live (SE Ohio) I think I may have missed the info for #SeparatedbyaPondTour - I assume it's a reading challenge? What is it all about? 5y

ljuliel @TheAromaofBooks Findlay , right ? A large group of my family might live in your neck of the woods. Beverly , Waterford ? Have you heard of it ? 5y

TheAromaofBooks @ljuliel - not that far east, although we have been through that area a lot!! We're where Perry, Hocking, & Fairfield Counties all come together, east of Lancaster. Nearby Bremen claims to be the Gateway to the Hocking Hills, although that's a bit of a stretch. 😆 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks #SeparatedbyaPond is a challenge I set up on Librarything to read books set in all the countries referred to as the other side of the pond. For this we are aiming to visit each state in the US, each province in Canada and each county /region in England, Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is the link to the group. http://www.librarything.com/topic/314751 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks No reason why we couldn‘t bring this to Litsy if you were interested. Last year we aimed to Read a book published each year over the last 100 years. (edited) 5y

ljuliel Hocking Hills area is beautiful. I don‘t know if I‘ve been in the exact location where you are , but close. @TheAromaofBooks 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks I think it was @ljuliel who helped germinate this thought in my head when she posted about her US states challenge. 5y

Andrew65 Great to bring Ohioans together. 😁 @ljuliel @TheAromaofBooks 5y

ljuliel Thanks @Andrew65 We live quite a distance apart ( maybe 3 hours ? ) . I didn‘t know she lived here too. @TheAromaofBooks 5y

TheAromaofBooks So are you working together as a team to accomplish this goal, or is everyone trying to do it on their own? Honestly, just seeing the list of counties/regions/etc was intriguing. I need a better map of Great Britain et al. Whenever I'm reading stories and they're dashing from Cheshire to Dorset, I have literally no concept of what that means! 5y

TheAromaofBooks @ljuliel - yes, it's about 3hrs from here to Cleveland. We've made the drive a few times to watch sad Browns games. 😁 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks A bit of both, we do it collectively but some of us (like me) also do it as an individual. It does help improve geography knowledge. Google come into its own. 😂 5y

Andrew65 @ljuliel 3 hours away from each other, that must be near neighbours in a country as large as the US. @TheAromaofBooks (edited) 5y

megnews @ljuliel @TheAromaofBooks @Andrew65 Hello fellow Ohioans! I‘m right down the road from Wellington, in Oberlin, another setting for the book. I believe Tracy Chevalier went to Oberlin college. I‘ve read a few by her. Really good. She has another good one set in Ohio,

At the Edge of the Orchard

Crazeedi @Andrew65 Ineed to look into yourLT group! I love the 100 year idea 5y

ljuliel @megnews Hello to another Buckeye. 😊. Oberlin is a beautiful town. We‘ve driven through there before. I wondered about the setting for this , but that explains it. The only one of hers I‘ve read was set in the UK, I think. I can‘t remember the exact area but it had a beach and cliff rocks along the edge. @TheAromaofBooks (edited) 5y

Andrew65 @Crazeedi Just about managed the 100 years, finished the last book on 31st December! 5y

Andrew65 @megnews Yes, they‘ve just been to Oberlin! The book you read @ljuliel must have been Remarkable Creatures about Mary Annin a famous fossil collector. That was a good book. She did go to Oberlin College @megnews where she was taught by Ray Bradbury and Rose Tremain - amazing what you can learn when you can‘t sleep! @TheAromaofBooks

Remarkable Creatures

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Andrew65 @Crazeedi Have sent you invites. :) 5y

TheAromaofBooks I think I probably will slowly work my way through your #SeparatedbyaPondTour just because that's the kind of thing I enjoy. I'll probably mostly do it backwards, though - read a book and then see where it fits!! So where on the other side of the pond are you? 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks I usually do it that way too until knocked a fair few off. We‘re in Yorkshire (northern England) although London born and bred. 5y

TheAromaofBooks Yorkshire always makes me think of James Herriot. And now we've exhausted my Yorkshire knowledge. 😁 5y

Andrew65 @TheAromaofBooks In English terms Yorkshire is one of the biggest counties. The area James Herriot lived in (Thirsk) is about an hours drive away. 5y

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