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CassieV
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Apr 25, 2016 11:50AM
No, I was on the computer and the shelf cut off at 100 pages. It's not a big deal. If I get time, I'll go ask (I've been lazy), if I don't finish a book that works for it soon.
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CassieV wrote: "No, I was on the computer and the shelf cut off at 100 pages. It's not a big deal. If I get time, I'll go ask (I've been lazy), if I don't finish a book that works for it soon."I've learned from Bookshelf Bingo that it's easier to check a book that you're interested and you think might have been given that tag. It's much easier! If anybody gave it that tag, then the book is on the shelf. I vote your book works! :)
ETA - I see what you mean. I thought you said it cut off after 100 books. I still vote your book works!
Oh yes, I didn't go through all one hundred pages! I checked the book, but when I went to verify on the shelf, that's when I found that it cut off at 50 tags, when my book only had 35. I'll get off my lazy butt and go to the computer so I can ask...
Adding that I will read (top secret, next Carnie book) for my space. And I don't think my current read would work anyway, if the shelf cuts off at 100 pages.
I got cleared! Completion Post
Connecticut Avenue
Date Read: 4/23/16
Rating: 3 Stars
Review: I liked this book, but didn't love it. I feel like the queens had very modern thoughts and ideals, which was tough to reconcile with the era, but it was still a good read. I read another book about these queens in 2013 (Four Sisters, All Queens), so this book seemed eerily familiar. I gave both 3 stars, they were both good, but not mind-blowing, and I would say read one or the other, but not necessarily both.
P.S. Shelved 9 times as books-I-own...not sure where I got 35 from!
Roll 2: 3 + 1 = 4Current Space: Connecticut Avenue
New Space: States Avenue
Reading from "Maybe Shelf": https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
*looks around*Just me so far?
lol, Nancy, since you were first in, do you mind adding Amanda's sheet to your post there?
(ETA: moved my name to the new spot!)
damn it, I'm only halfway through mine, struggling with it to be honest urgh, bad narrator = bad book!!
I haven't finished my 1st book yet, short book, but hard work. I'll come back to it after Carny.
Completion Post2nd roll was 3 + 1 = 4 (message 93)
I landed on St Charles Street - eBooks Shelf - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
No-one owned it so read one book:
Book read:
Tumbler by Brand GamblinHow it fits: Is shelved as eBook
Date finished: 27/04/16
Rating: 2★’s
Review: just not my cup,of tea - only finished as I needed it for my challenge. I loved Robert A. Heinlein books and have read them all - I really thought I was getting a modern version of his works. Didn't come close for me..
I now own St Charles Street
Think I might go crack open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate becoming a property tycoon!
Laura wrote: "Oh, man. You beat me. :)":)
Completion PostPlayer: LaurLa
Roll 2: 3 + 5 ==> 8
Space Landed: Tennessee Avenue
Task: 2012 Shelf - Read one book to own
Book: Trail of the Spellmans - Lisa Lutz
How it fits: tagged 120 times as 2012; pg 13 on Popular 2012 Books
Read: 04.28
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
It's been a couple of years since I read the previous book in this series, so there was some context I had forgotten. But the author does a nice job of pulling in what I needed to know for this one. I enjoy the MC, Izzy, who is irreverent and relunctant grown-up. And as snarky and humorous she can be, she feels some sadness that she doesn't want what most women want and therefore feels on the outside. But she grows up quite a bit in this book and finds an acceptance in who she is. There is an optimistic tone in her at the end that I like. One more to go - I hope she gets her HEA because she deserves it.
Completion PostRoll #2 - 2 + 3 = 5
Space Landed on: St. Charles Place
Task: Ebooks Shelf
Book: 11/22/63
How it works: Tagged 132 times
Date Read: 4/29
Rating: 5 stars
Review: I don't really know what to say about this book. It was incredible. And it sucked. I know that not every story has a (view spoiler) It was bittersweet.
The historical information about Kennedy and the late 50s/early 60s time period was so good. I think I really have a feel for the time period now.
This was my first Stephen King novel. It probably won't be my last, although I'll steer clear of anything horror-related.
When I landed on this space it was unowned, so I only need to read one book, but I don't own it now.
LaurLa wrote: "Completion PostPlayer: LaurLa
Roll 2: 3 + 5 ==> 8
Space Landed: Tennessee Avenue
Task: 2012 Shelf - Read one book to own
Book: [book:Trail of the Spell..."
LaurLa, we're supposed to do a brief review, as well.
CassieV wrote: "(ETA: moved my name to the new spot!)"But you forgot to mark that you now own Connecticut! :)
Laura wrote: "LaurLa, we're supposed to do a brief review, as well. ..."Added it.
Completion PostStates Avenue
5/1/16
4 Stars
Fits: Shelved 9 times as "Maybe"
Review: It took me a while to get into this one, even though I love Jane Austen. Fanny is definitely a hard to like character, but I identified with her quite a bit, as I used to be that shy, nervous type. I think that helped me feel for her, where most reviewers just find her annoying. By the end, though, she began to grow a bit and I enjoyed it enough to add to my Austen collection :).
Only one needed and no other players on space, so it's MINE ;)
Completion postRoll #2
5+2=7
Landed on Virgina Ave
Read from Bookclub Shelf=https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Anna Karenina
2 stars
4/29/16
°Tag on 5th page
...finally!
Abbie's Roll #2-Rolled #9
-landed on Indiana Ave.
Indiana Avenue - 5 Stars -
I should be finished mine by tomorrow horray !!
Abbie, are you rolling because you're behind? I think I'm caught up, so I wait for tomorrow, right? Lol, help! I'm confused!
Yes I am behind, tommorow should be our third roll. I am only at 2If everyone labels which roll they are on, it might be easier to keep track better...maybe...
Whew, okay! I don't need another book roll at the moment anyway. Back to my Carnie book!
Yes, you get to.wait until tomorrow
Ok - it's Monday here so rolling again.Rolled 5 and 3 = 8
Moving from my property of St Charles Street to New York Avenue - Must read Shelf - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
No-one owns it so reading one book:
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
Didn't anybody tell her?Didn't anybody see?
Sunday's on the phone to Monday,
Book Completion PostRoll #1=Oriental Avenue
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Date Read: 01/05/16
Rating: 3☆
How It Fits: 437tags
Review:
I know that most people love this classic novel, I am not one of them. I found the rambling style too distracting for my taste, which I know was a style that was supposed to highlight the PTSD that Billy suffered from. I am glad I have read this classic, but I am unlikely to be picking up more of this Author's work.
Roll #2 = 1 + 5 = 6Starting at Oriental Avenue landed on Electric Company
Read a book where the characters have electric chemistry.
At last !!!Roll #1
Oriental Avenue
Date Read: 5/2
Rating: 3.5 stars
Review:
This has taken me sooo long to read, not that it wasn't any good but to me it seemed really slow.
The story was good, basically Andy (a lawyer) has a son called Jacob, who is your usual moody teenager, except he isn't, he's a murderer........or is he??
The whole book pretty much is in a courtroom and takes you step by step through the case with the clues and what happened.
Andy believes his sons innocence throughout, but Jacobs mother starts to have 2nd thoughts...
Roll #24+3=7
Landing me on spot 13 - States Avenue - Maybe Shelf - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Urgh ....Owned by Cassie, 2 books it is then lol.
I have a feeling this is going to be happening a lot in this game
The last 3 sets are read 4 and 5 books!This game could last for months!!
Roll 3 - Selection PostPlayer: LaurLa
Roll 3: 4 + 6 ==> 10
Space Landed: Water Works
Task: Read a book that makes you cry.
Book: TBD
I will have to return with my book...
Oh my god, I am the only person who hasn't read their first book! Let me go back and see if anything else I have read might fit otherwise I'm going to be languishing on my space like a loser while you all lap me...
After trawling through 70 pages of that damned list, I finally found a book on it which I started after I rolled. I deserve points for perseverance (idiot points more likely...)Anyway
Roll #1 Completion Post
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Read: 21.4.16
Rating: ★★★★★
How it fits: tagged wishlist 49 times - page 70 of the list.
Review: I defy anyone to read this book and not feel shame. This is a devastating history of the Native American Indians and the genocide meted upon them by the white settlers in the 19th century. No moral human being could fail to be moved to tears by this book. It was heartbreaking.
I own Vermont Avenue! (do I? Or has someone lapped me?)
Eeeek, that spreadsheet is terrifying! I've added the link to my post at the top of the thread so it should be easier to find now.Roll #2
2 + 1 = 3
St. Charles Place - Ebooks Shelf - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
*sigh* - that will be 2 books then...
- shelved 48 times, on p. 20and I don't know. I'll probably wait to see what my SOS Bingo call is this week to decide.
Haha welcome to the naughty step NancyHelen
Roll 3: 3 + 5 = 8Current Space: States Avenue
New Space: Kentucky Avenue (Need 1 book to own)
Reading from "2011 Shelf": https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Roll #3 - 2 + 3 = 5Current Space: St. Charles Place
New Space: St. James' Place (Need 1 book to own)
Reading from "Reviewed" shelf
has been tagged Reviewed by 49 people. I'll be reading that. :)
NancyHelen wrote: "I own Vermont Avenue! (do I? Or has someone lapped me?)."It's all yours! I put you in the owner spot for that one. And I moved you to St. Charles.
Abbie wrote: "Abbie's Roll #2-Rolled #9
-landed on Community Chest
--rolled #4
----4. Yes Sir! - Read a book with a bossy character"
Abbie, from Virginia Ave, I think a 9 would put you on Indiana Ave, not Chance.
Laura wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Abbie's Roll #2-Rolled #9
-landed on Community Chest
--rolled #4
----4. Yes Sir! - Read a book with a bossy character"
Abbie, from Virginia Ave, I think a 9 would put you on Indiana..."
...ummm...you might be right...I think I counted from the wrong space, good thing I hadnt actually started my book yet.
Looks like I counted from Vermont instead of Virginia....Darn blury game book.
Let me edit my last stop.
Abbie wrote: "Looks like I counted from Vermont instead of Virginia....Darn blury game book.
Let me edit my last stop."
I find it easier to count on the spreadsheet. Although the fact that there is a row for Jail and a row for Just Visiting almost messed me up last week.
I wish we had vitual pieces...just so I could find myself..
Sally906 wrote: "Ok - it's Monday here so rolling again.Rolled 5 and 3 = 8
Moving from my property of St Charles Street to New York Avenue - Must read Shelf - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the pr..."
Completion Post
Book read:
Little Black Lies by Sharon BoltonHow it fits: Must read
Date finished: 03/05/16
Rating: 1★’s
What a horrible book - I don't know why it was recommended as a must read - I am discussing it in an upcoming book club, seeing as there are lots of 4 & 5 star reads I am hoping I am not the only one who hated it!!!
Now own New York Avenue
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