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Bookopoly 2016
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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
I'll try this one it looks fun.Clare's Bookopoly
My designated shelf for this game is - Game Shelf
June 6th - Roll 1: 3
Brown - Genre: Non-Fiction - Band-Aid for a Broken Leg 15/06
June 16th - Roll 2: 9
Electric Co - In a setting that's new to you - Ella Minnow Pea 20/06
June 21th - Roll 3: 8
Book Sale! - A book by a favorite author, or re-read a personal favorite - The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult 10/07
July 12th - Roll 4: 2
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book- Ketchup Clouds 21/07
July 23rd - Roll 5: 9
Green - Category: The book most recently added to your shelf - The Thirteenth Tale 05/08
August 16th - Roll 6: 6
Blue - Genre: Fantasy / Sci Fi / Paranormal - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 31/08
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I'm doing the same game in another group, but I'll jump in all the same since the board is very different, lol!Marina's Bookopoly
My designated shelf for this game is Bookopoly.
6 June - Roll 1: 5
Railroad - Travel Along: A book about a journey - And the Mountains Echoed (read 18 June)
19 June - Roll 2: 6
Category: A book published this year - A Scone To Die For (read 26 June)
26 June - Roll 3: 6
Partner pick - The cost of sugar (read 29 June)
29 June - Roll 4: 6
Category: Highest rating - The Name of the Wind (read 28 July)
28 July - Roll 5: 10
Partner pick - The Cuckoo's Calling (read 3 August)
4 August - Roll 6: 9
Partner pick - Fool (read 11 September)
11 September - Roll 7: 6
Theme: Love - The Well of Loneliness (read 2 October)
2 October - Roll 8: 6
Category: Part of a series - A Feast for Crows
Sounds like fun - I'm in!I'm going to use my TBR shelf on Bookcrossing and Goodreads to select books and books read will go on the Bookopoly shelf.
1st roll: 5
Travel Along - Firefly Cloak
Picking a shelf is the hard part! As my-to-read would just have too many. I'm going to start with 2016 Historical Fictionistas TBR Summer shelf. This is a random shelf of 50 books for a three month challenge, but it contains a variety of things. Hope we can change the shelf later if I decide I would like to change it up later.
June 6th, Roll 1: 5
Travel Along - A book about a journey
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
Started: 07/04/16
Completed: 07/10/16
Travel: Time Travel - journeys back in time
July 15th, Roll 2: 5
Book Ban - Read a book you've been putting off for a long time, or finish a book that you've previously abandoned
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
Started: 08/05/16
Completed: 08/08/16
Long Time: Longest on shelf, since Sep 13, 2012
August 8th, Roll 3:
Travel Ahead - A book set in the future
Paris in the Twentieth Century by Jules Verne
Started: 12/17/16
Completed: 12/17/16
Fit: Written in 1860's set in 1930's
(was not on shelf, none of books on shelf fit criteria)
December 17th, Roll 5:
Book Sale - A book by a favorite author, or re-read a personal favorite
Other finished from shelf:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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Bookworm (or do you prefer Plethora?), it's fine to change the shelf later if you want to. You can also add and remove books from your shelf between turns. The main idea is to narrow down the choices from everything in the world to books you've already identified to read.
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I go by whatever, BR, Bookworm, Plethora.....
This is ingenious! My shelf is (so original) 2016 - Bookopoly. I rolled June 7th - Roll 1
Theme - Friendship: "Bittersweet" by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
finished Aug. 4
August 5 - Roll 2, 10
YA, Middle Group or Children's: "The Bunker Diary" by Kevin Brooks
September 20 - Roll 3, 6
Chance - "Tigerlily's Orchids" by Ruth Rendell
October 1 - Roll 4, 9
landed on Category - book most recently added to shelf
"The Canterbury Sisters" by Kim Wright
October 27 - Roll 5, 6
landed on Genre: Fantasy/Sci Fi
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
November 10 - Roll 6, 9
landed on Theme: Friendship (again)
Alrighty, I'm signing up for this one with my entire to-read shelf, as there's a lot on there I really want to get through by the end of the year.June 9th - Roll 1
Travel Along: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Start Date:
End Date:
Rating:
Favorite Quote:
I would like to join in this game.I will probably also use my entire TBR shelf.
I rolled a 7, which I guess is chance. I will read The Solomon Curse by Clive Cussler for it.
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Just finished - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and thoroughly enjoyed it - though creepy in a sci-fi possibilities way. :)I just rolled a 4 - this brings me to Book Ban. For this square I'll be reading one my daughter keeps asking me to read that I've put off. She wants me to catch up on the series:
The Kill Order by James Dashner - can't put it off any longer!
Camille's BookpolyI will be using my Bookopoly shelf.
Round 1
June 10 - Roll 1: 9
Family - An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. Read 10/06.
June 10 - Roll 2: 5
Part of a series - The Road from Roxbury by Melissa Wiley. Finished 24/06.
June 24 - Roll 3: 7
Movie Adaptation - Les Malheurs de Sophie by Comtesse de Ségur. Finished 25/06.
June 25 - Roll 4: 5
Good vs Evil - Swan Boy by Nikki Sheehan. Finished 27/06.
June 27 - Roll 5: 7
Partner Pick - Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery. Finished 05/07.
July 5 - Roll 6: 6
Contemporary - The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey. Finished 26/07.
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Round 2
July 27 - Roll 1: 9
Love - Toxic In-Laws: Loving Strategies for Protecting Your Marriage. Finished 09/08.
August 9 - Roll: 2
Book Ban - What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in 19th-Century England. Finished 04/09.
September 8 - Roll: 9
Historical Fiction - Southern Ruby. Finished 27/09.
September 27 - Roll: 3
Chance - Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music. Finished 17/11.
November 17 - Roll: 9
Most recently added - It’s a Wonderful Life: The Christmas bestseller is back with an unforgettable holiday romance
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Glad you're joining us, Camille!
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Rolled a 9. Theme- Family
Book-Angel Falls
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I finished The Kill Order by James Dashner.Next I rolled a 9 - for Historical Fiction. I'm reading:
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
June 16th - Roll 2: 9Electric Co - In a setting that's new to you
Maybe reading Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable
Would you class a fictional island as a new setting?
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OK Ella Minnow Pea it is then.@Marina I'm looking forward to it. I'm intrigued about how this is going to work.
I finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - such a great book! I now rolled a 7 - which brings me to Yellow: Social Issues
I am reading Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction by David Sheff - about a son who is addicted to meth.
I finished Ella Minnow Pea yesterday and loved it.June 21th - Roll 3: 8
Book Sale! - A book by a favorite author, or re-read a personal favorite -
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
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I'm going to give this a try. I love the concept, Allison!
My Bookopoly shelf is called "Bookopoly"... https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
June 21- Rolled a 4. Library Fine - Read a book from the current month's genres (Minority Studies/LGBT, Western Europe, Classics) -
I'm going with a continuation of the series I've been reading...The Kindly Ones (Western Europe/Classic)
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Rolled a 6- BOOK BAN!
Deciding between...
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Gone with the Wind
Crime and Punishment
All of which have been on my "Taking a Break" shelf for awhile. All very good, but very long.
**EDIT... I'm going with Crime & Punishment. It's the one I've been dithering with the longest. Also, I already have an Audible copy.
Oh man I am so in on this! But it will have to wait until I am home tomorrow.
Bookopoly Roll 1: 5
Railroad - Travel Along: Read a book about a journey
Walk Two Moons
26 June
Roll 2: 5
Book Ban: Read a book you have started but never finished
A Game of Thrones
4 July
Roll 3: 5
Railroad -Travel Ahead: Read a book set in the future
Into the Still Blue
14 July
Roll 4: 9
Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf
The Little Prince
15 July
Finished:1st roll: Firefly Cloak
2nd roll: Before I Die
3rd roll: 8 Landed on shortest book - will read Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions (this is shortest one on TBR list that I possess - others are more reminders for books to buy or borrow from library)
I got "movie adaptation" for my third roll, need to think about this one!
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Wow, you have some chunksters there, Renee. Though I loved Crime and Punishment so it didn't take much time for me to read it.
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Allison wrote: "Is this a re-read of a favorite, or one you haven't read yet? (I'm secretly hoping to land on this space!)"It's one of only two Jodi Picoult books that I haven't got around to reading yet.
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Renee, good luck! At least this is a great way to get to some unfinished business. Crime & Punishment is a book that I stayed up really late to finish, and I still remember parts of it even though that was 20 years ago. I think it'll grab you at some point.
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Do you need any help with ideas for this one, Camille?
Allison wrote: "Camille wrote: "I got "movie adaptation" for my third roll, need to think about this one!"Do you need any help with ideas for this one, Camille?"
I looked in my ereader and found Les Malheurs de Sophie, which I used to watch as a cartoon as a child. Thank you, though :-)
My next roll is good vs evil, I'm going for Swan Boy as it deals with the theme of bullying, it kind of fits.
On my third roll I landed on Partner Pick, could someone please choose something for me? Here's my dedicated shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...I don't know if this is allowed, but if it is, I would prefer to have 3 picks for me to choose from. If not, just the one is fine :-)
Marina wrote: "On my third roll I landed on Partner Pick, could someone please choose something for me? Here's my dedicated shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...I don't know..."
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Cost of Sugar
On Chesil Beach (loved this one!)
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