Allison’s Comments (group member since Jan 02, 2015)

Allison’s comments from the The Reading Challenge Group group.

I finished level 1, finally!

Spring Cleaning Readathon



For the Spring Cleaning theme, I chose 3 books that I've been putting off for so long that they've become permanent fixtures on my tbr shelf.

For the King's Favor - 502 pgs
Skinwalker - 340 pgs
The Tea Rose - 30 pgs - at least I started it!

Total pages read: 872

Candy wrote: "This is so great! I will give it a try!"

Glad to have you join us, Candy!

I know, that bothers me, too! I suppose page numbers have always depended on font size, spacing, etc. Maybe they should go by word count instead. It'd be more accurate!

Allison's Books of Chance:

My designated shelf for this game is 2016 Books of Chance

Upper Half

✔ Ones - 4 - Vessel (Roll 5)
✔ Twos - 8 - Cursed Moon (Roll 8)
✔ Threes - 3 - The Winds of Khalakovo (Roll 10)
✔ Fours - 12 - The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence (Roll 7)
✔ Fives - 10 - XO: A Kathryn Dance Novel (Roll 2)
✔ Sixes - 18 - The King's Daughter (Roll 11)

Lower Half

✔ 3 of a Kind - 25 - The Clockwork Dagger (Roll 12)
✔ 4 of a Kind - 14 - A Breath of Frost (Roll 4)
✔ Full House - 25 pts - Lady Fortescue Steps Out (Roll 3)
✔ Small Straight - 30 pts - The Decoy Princess (Roll 1)
✔ Large Straight - 40 pts - Stormdancer (Roll 13)
✔ Yahtzee - 50 pts - An Officer and a Spy (Roll 6)
✔ Chance - 22 - Vicious (Roll 9)

Completed: 13/13

Allison's Bookopoly

My designated shelf for this game is 2016 - Books of Chance.

Round 1 - Complete

June 6th - Roll 1: 4
Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres (Minority Studies/LGBT, Western Europe, Classics) - The Tea Rose (LGBT)

June 13th - Roll 2: 11
Railroad - Travel Ahead: A book set in the future - Cress

July 18th - Roll 3: 7
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book - Grave Mercy

August 25th - Roll 4: 11
Partner Pick - Emperor Mage

September 4th - Roll 5: 6
Genre: Contemporary - The Travelers

Template:

My shelf for this game is: (link)

Upper Half

Ones -
Twos -
Threes -
Fours -
Fives -
Sixes -

Lower Half

3 of a Kind -
4 of a Kind -
Full House - 25 pts -
Small Straight - 30 pts -
Large Straight - 40 pts -
Yahtzee - 50 pts -
Chance -

Bookopoly

Track your Bookopoly game here. Designate your shelf, post your progress, and request books for Partner Pick spaces. Also ask for reading ideas if you're not sure what to read for a category, theme, or genre.

** See Bookopoly - How to Play for the full rules. **

➜ Click here for electronic dice

The Board:

GO - Free dice roll

Brown - Genre: Classic
Partner Pick - Read a book chosen from your shelf by another player
Brown - Genre: Non-Fiction
Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres
Railroad - Travel Along: A book about a journey
Light Blue - Theme: Friendship
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Light Blue - Theme: Love
Light Blue - Theme: Family

Book Ban - Read a book you've been putting off for a long time, or finish a book that you've previously abandoned

Pink - Category: A book published this year
Electric Co - In a setting that's new to you
Pink - Category: A book recommended to you by a friend or family member
Pink - Category: Part of a series
Railroad - Travel Ahead: A book set in the future
Orange - Genre: YA, Middle Grade, or Children's
Partner Pick - Read a book chosen from your shelf by another player
Orange - Genre: Mystery
Orange - Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Sale! - A book by a favorite author, or re-read a personal favorite

Red - Category: A book that has been made into a movie
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Red - Category: The book from your shelf with the highest average rating
Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf
Railroad - Travel Abroad: A book set in a different country
Yellow - Theme: Good vs. evil
Yellow - Theme: Social Issues
Water Works - By an author that's new to you
Yellow - Theme: Coming of age

Go to Book Ban!

Green - Category: The book most recently added to your shelf
Green - Category: The book you've had on your shelf the longest
Partner Pick - Read a book chosen from your shelf by another player.
Green - Category: The longest book on your shelf
Railroad - Travel Away: A book set in another world
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Blue - Genre: Fantasy / Sci Fi / Paranormal
Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres
Blue - Genre: Contemporary

Bookopoly: How to Play:

- This game will run from June-December, 2016.

- Click on the graphic of the board to see a larger version. Thanks to Holly for making it look amazing!

- A text version of the board is also available below, with explanations for each square.

- Roll 2 dice to move around the board. You can use regular or electronic dice. Click here for electronic dice.

- Read a book for the genre, category, or theme of the square you land on before rolling again.

- Designate a shelf that you will read from for the game. The books on this shelf should be fairly readily available to you. It can be any shelf, but it should have at least 20 books on it.

- Choose books for each turn from your designated shelf if you can.

- If you don't have a book on your shelf that fits the category, you can go outside the shelf. If you need ideas, ask in the game thread.

- If you land on a "Partner Pick" square, request in the game thread for someone to choose a book for you to read. You can request for up to 3 books to choose from. Also post the link to your shelf to make it easy to find.

- Announce your moves and track your game in the Bookopoly Game Thread.

- One round is complete when you pass GO. You can play as many times as you like.

I think you just go with your edition, Jenny.

Jenny wrote: "Quick question- for Water Song it fit in the cereal numbers challenge, as well as finishing level one. Should I take both those bonus points or just the ones for it being in the challenge?"

You take it for both - collect as many bonuses for each book as you can!

Glad to have you both join in!

Well done, guys!

By the way, if anyone wants to jump in on a game of Book Tag, anything you read for the Readathon gets extra points!

Congrats, everyone! Nice work/play!

I ended up reading about 860 pages in all.

The 3rd book I wanted to get to was The Tea Rose. I'm going to knock this one out, too, thanks to the readathon getting me started.

I just finished off my second book. Even though I only read two, I feel really good about getting them off my tbr shelf. I've been looking at them so long, and not sure why I never picked them up. I'm still going to start book three, even though there's no way I can read 720 pages in the next hour and a half. haha. At least I'm starting it.

I really liked the change of location for Firefight. And since the concepts were already introduced, I thought it was even better than Steelheart.

For the travel month, I looked at some GR lists to get ideas. Some I'm considering are Watership Down, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Or maybe it's time to re-read The Hobbit! I haven't read it since I was a kid.

Vero, I also just read Steelheart (and the rest of the series!). How did you like it?

Renee, that's an amazing list for each month!

Somehow my reading for Feb and March was just off enough that I only read those genres at the beginning of the next month. Oops!

2016 New Releases (Completed)



Level 2: Curiouser (3 books)

1. Lost Among the Living
2. The Travelers
3. Jane Steele