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You had finished Week 45! You read a story happening in/near your hometown.

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Which book did you read?

Did you enjoy it?

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city?

Did you have lots of choices for this topic?

Which book did you read? The Diva Runs Out of Thyme

Did you enjoy it? It was OK. A very light read. What I call a "potato chip" book. Tasty but not much substance.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? My birth city. Alexandria, Virginia.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? Not as many as I thought. Alexandria is a suburb of Washington DC and there are TONS of stories set there. But I wanted one set specifically in Alexandria. So this one filled the bill.

Which book did you read? Antipodes: Stories

Did you enjoy it? World of nope.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? My birth city - Brisbane, Australia

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? Not really, but that's not surprising as it's not a particularly interesting place.

Which book did you read? Blameless

Did you enjoy it? Yes, a pleasant book in the series.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? I totally cheated as there's nothing near my cities apart books from unknown authors (and I won't pay $15 for these kind of books). So, I read a book with a part happening in my country (which was interesting as the author is not from my country).

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? No. It's the worst topic in the challenge for me.

Which book did you read? A Colder Kind of Death by Gail Bowen

Did you enjoy it? I really did! I have gone on to read books 1, 2 and 3 of the series so far.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? My hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? Nope not unless I wanted to read non-fiction books about the Prairies.

Which book did you read? The Art Forger

Did you enjoy it? Very much.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? Boston MA is near both my birth and current town.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? Tons of choices. I ultimately picked this book for the topic - the art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.

Which book did you read?The Book of Negroes

Did you enjoy it? I loved it.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? Birth city. Some of the book was set in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? Probably. There are lots of local authors, but I didn't look too long before I found this.

Which book did you read? Firefly Lane.

Did you enjoy it? I really liked the first part and the hometown stuff was really a journey through my past. As the book progressed I found some of the issues annoying and the end was really drawn out.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? Near my current city Redmond, WA books set primary in Seattle.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? I knew of two that were on my two read list and just choose the one that I had wanted to read more.

Which book did you read? The Piano Tuner

Did you enjoy it? I wasn't excited to read it, but I ended up liking it a lot more than I had expected.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? It was set all over my birth country(Burma), including the city I was born in.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? No.

Which book did you read?
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder by Jo Nesbø

Did you enjoy it?Yes! It was really funny.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? Current city (Oslo) ... or at least a very near city (because I don't exactly live in Oslo).

Did you have lots of choices for this topic?Yes, there are a couple of norwegian authors who have set their books in Oslo.

ou had finished Week 45! You read a story happening in/near your hometown.

This discussion thread is solely for your progress. (Book discussions go in individual threads.)

Which book did you read?

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

Did you enjoy it?

Yes.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city?

Current city--Denver, Colorado

Did you have lots of choices for this topic?

I had a few ideas but this was a quick and easy read.

Which book did you read?
A HISTORY OF LONELINESS by John Boyne (he wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)

Did you enjoy it? I THOUGHT IT WAS FANTASTIC

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? MY BIRTH CITY - DUBLIN

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? PLENTY - A FAVOURITE SETTING FOR IRISH WRITERS

Which book did you read? Mother Road

Did you enjoy it? It was okay.

Did you choose a book set in/near your current city or your birth city? It was as close to the town where I grew up as I could find. It did mention the town I was born in.

Did you have lots of choices for this topic? No. I had a terrible time finding a book.