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message 1: by Anita (last edited Nov 26, 2023 11:34AM) (new)

Anita Pomerantz | 9280 comments If you have finished your original loop around the board, you are now a Clerk. The next challenge is to be promoted to Porter by finishing the next loop (on a newly created board in this thread).

Please post your new board here.

You may keep the original board, or use an edited version of your original board, or post a new board.

Please continue to use bold to mark where you are on your board.

If you received any special surprise moves that you are carrying over to this board, please note them at the very bottom of your board so we can keep track. If you used them already, there's no need to post them here.

Amy: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
BookConcierge: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
BooknBlues: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Cheryl:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Cora: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Daniel: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Diana: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Ellen: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Hannah: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Joanne: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jen K: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Joy: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
KateNZ: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
LibraryCin: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nancy: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Nicole: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Olivermagnus: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Olivermagnus (continued): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Pam: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Rachel: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Robin: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Sue: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Theresa: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tien: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 2: by Anita (last edited Jan 27, 2023 07:05AM) (new)

Anita Pomerantz | 9280 comments Rules and Special Rolls Recap

If you are working your way through your original game board, great! Keep going! You will be eligible for consolation prizes, and we will continue to track your progress on our Master Board.

Once you have completed your initial game board, you will have the option to continue and earn one of the following designations by year's end:

Conductor (Pro) - 8 or more loops
Station Master (Expert) - 6 or more loops
Engineer (Advanced) - 4 or more loops
Porter (Easygoing) - 2 or more loops
Clerk (Novice) - 1 loop

But after your first loop, there will be some rule changes. These are enumerated below. Again, these rules only apply for people who have completed their game board once.

1. There will be a separate tracking thread for each loop, so if you have finished as a Clerk, you must re-initiate your board on the Porter (Easygoing) tracking thread. You may copy over the exact same board, OR you may revise the board as much as you wish.

2. You may now only roll ONE die at a time.

3. You may only ask for a new roll of the die once you have completed your book and reviewed it.

4. You will start over with 2 swaps when you begin a new board. However you may carry over any other special prizes you received/earned to the new board.

5. You will still be eligible for special rolls, however a special roll will be designated by two adjacent rolls of the die. For example, if your first roll in round two is a 6 and your second roll in round two is a 4, then you will be eligible for the 6-4 special roll and the surprise advantage that goes with that. The special rolls are:

If you roll:

1-1: The current leader must move back 3 spaces on their game board and read the book where they have landed next.

Any combination totaling 7: You move 7 spaces and stay on that space, but you may read the book you land on OR one book forward or one book back - - your choice.

6-6: Don't like the book you will land on? You may roll again.

3-1: You get to take pick someone's next move on the board. The admins will use random.org to decide who will be moved. You get to decide which book they must move to next on their game board - - backward or forward -- within a 15 book radius. So you can move your opponent up to 15 spaces back or up to 15 spaces forward to the book of your choosing. Should you be reluctant to move another player ,or if you do not respond to an administrator's request to designate the move, random.org will move the player - odd rolls will move the player backward and even rolls will move the player forward.

2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

6-5: You must read a book that's on someone else's board and NOT on your own before you may roll again. (extra note here: you may read the book you land on first and then read the other person's book, or vice-versa. So two books must be completed before you re-roll).

4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review.

2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

6-4 Earn a surprise advantage to use anytime during the game
6. Special rolls may still impact people on the original board and vice-versa.


7. For those that are no longer on the original gameboard, some new benefits and challenges kick in.

a) If you read a book longer than 500 pages you get to roll an extra die for every incremental 100 pages. So a 500 page book let's you roll two dice on your next turn. A 600 page book let's you roll 3 dice, and so on.

b) If you land on a book that has the same tag as the monthly tag, you will get an extra move to use when you wish:
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
This award must be noted on your tracking thread at the time you land on the book that earns it. The book does not need to be completed/reviewed in the month with the tag . . .this bonus is triggered when you land on the book.

c) Every Sunday will be "Shake It Up Sunday". Everyone on a board above Clerk (Novice) will be entered into the randomizer. The person selected will roll the die, and move backward whatever number is rolled on their next turn. The book on that space must be read and reviewed before progressing forward again.

d) Ride the Shinkansen: In honor of PBT's 15th birthday, if you land on the 15th spot on your board, whether you move forward to that spot or backward to that spot, the randomizer will pick a number between 15 and 100, and you will transport to that spot on your board.


message 3: by Joy D (last edited Feb 23, 2023 04:24PM) (new)

Joy D | 10061 comments (view spoiler)
Finished 2/22/23


message 4: by Olivermagnus (last edited Mar 18, 2023 07:07PM) (new)

 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Olivermagnus Subdue the Shelf Porter Gameboard

Porter Level Complete 3/7/23

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Rolls and Bonus Options Move to Message 9


message 5: by NancyJ (last edited May 22, 2023 01:03PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments Nancy J's Subdue the Shelf - Round Two
Porter Gameboard

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Summary of Participation points and rewards:
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message 6: by KateNZ (last edited May 06, 2023 09:58PM) (new)

KateNZ | 4097 comments Katrine's Subdue the Shelf gameboard (Porter Level)
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message 7: by Hannah (last edited Feb 25, 2023 10:06AM) (new)

Hannah | 3276 comments Hannah's Subdue the Shelf gameboard (Porter Level)

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message 8: by Ellen (last edited Jul 07, 2023 02:54PM) (new)

Ellen | 3507 comments Ellen's Porter Level List
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message 9: by Olivermagnus (last edited Mar 18, 2023 07:13PM) (new)

 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Olivermagnus Subdue the Shelf Porter - Rolls and Bonuses
Part 2

Clerk Accrued Bonus Points - 4

Rolls
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Bonus Options
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message 10: by Robin P (last edited Jun 01, 2023 02:00PM) (new)

Robin P | 5727 comments Robin's Subdue the Shelf Gameboard (Porter Level)
No special rolls carried forward, 2 swaps available

Started 3/12 -1st roll 3
1.LaRose
2.Our Missing Hearts
3. My Anecdotal Life finished 3/13 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2
4.A Lady’s Guide to Mischief & Mayhem
5. The Caves of Steel finished 3/16 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5
6.Booked to Die
7.King, Ship and Sword
8.The Mitford Murders
9. A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia
10.The Moonsteel Crown finished 3/22 Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 3
11.Your Perfect Year
12.The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
13.You, Me and the Colors of Life finished 3/25 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 1
14.Dark Angels - finished 4/11 Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2-2
15.The Winds of Heaven
16.Singapore Sapphire
17.The Master Butchers Singing Club
18. Eternal Life Finished 4/15 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 6
19.The House Behind the Cedars
20.The Address Book
21.On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
22.The Darkness Outside Us
23.Kaikeyi
24.The Puzzler - Finished 4/20 - Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
25.Because Internet
26.Take a Hint, Dani Brown
27.Class Mom
28.The Family Chao - special roll - 6-4
This special roll allows me to jump to the next book that has at least 5 tags of the month - Friendship - I had to go all the way to #64!
29.Fidelity
30.Murder at Morrington Hall
31.The Bear and the Nightingale
32.Baker Towers
33.Good Time Coming
34.Marmee
35.Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
36.The Terraformers
37. To Shield the Queen
38.New Girl in Little Cove
39.Lord of Light
40.Pines - already read
41. Under the Net
42. Miss Iceland
43.My Mother’s Secret
44.The High King’s Golden Tongue
45. The Humans
46.Doing Time
47.Beach Read
48. The Pupil
49.Moonglow
50.The Time It Never Rained
51.Past Imperfect
52. In God We Trust
53.Gardens of Water
54.Most Secret
55.Luck and Judgment
56.Three Weeks with Lady X
57. Coromandel Sea Change - already read
58. Lives of the Monster Dogs
59.The Miniaturist
60.The Bright and Breaking Sea
61.How to Stop Time
62.For the Love of the Viscount
63.The Thoughts & Happenings of Wilfrid Price
64.Remarkably Bright Creatures This month's tag Friendship - 59 tags Review; https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll - 2
65.Thistlewood Manor
66.The Last Musketeer - using a swap, will read The Bingo Palace which is more pages This month's tag - Indigienous My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll - 2
67.Time Shelter
68.Stranger Than We Can Imagine My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 1 - last 2 were 2-1 so I can move up to 3 spaces by using points, I will save it
69.A Knight’s Duty My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 6
Using advantage from previous turn, will spend 3 participation points to move ahead from 1-3 spaces
70.Exiles
71.Murder at the Spring Ball
72.Red Pottage
73. The Quiet Boy
74.The Forty Elephants
75.Crusoe’s Daughter Using my 3 participation points from last turn to move ahead 3 spaces
76.Olde Robin Hood
77.The Lady and the Unicorn
78. Across the Endless River My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4 -surprise advantage
79.The Janus Stone
80. The Plover
81.The Willow Marsh Murder - already read
.Notorious Victoria advantage is that I can move to the space of the person directly ahead of me! after reading this book -
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
83.A Lady for a Duke
84.People of the Whale
85.Autumn Duchess
86.The Other Man
87.Well Met
88.The Bingo Palace - already read
89.How Lucky
90.The Man Who Lived Underground
91.A Tale of Two Murders
92.The Book of Form and Emptiness
93.One Thousand Chestnut Trees
94.The Windsor Knot
95.The Long View
96. The Sugared Game
97. Back to the Garden
98.The Plover
99.An Irish Country Doctor
100.Real Life

**this board completed 5/13** see note on #81


message 11: by Tien (last edited Oct 23, 2023 02:10AM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 1641 comments Tien's Subdue the Shelf Gameboard (Porter Level)
No special rolls carried forward, 2 swaps available

1. Warrior of the Wild - Shake It Up Sunday (04/30) -Completed 06/01
2. A Curse of Salt
3. Genesis (Project Nemesis, #2) - Roll 1: 3 -Completed 04/04
4. The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars, #1) - Roll 4: 1 -Completed 06/21
5. Vox
6. Rebel (Legend, #4) - Roll 2: 3 -Completed 05/03
7. Caliban's War - Roll 5: 3 -Completed 06/26
8. Duels & Deception
9. The Silence of Bones
10. Hand Me Down World
11. Baptism of Fire
12. Fortune
13. Devour (Olivia Wolfe #1)
14. The Midnight Watch
15. Something in Between (432p) - Roll 6: 2-1-5 DNF; REPLACED with 36 Streets (448p) -Completed 07/07
16. A Room at the Manor
17. Ascension (Phobos, #1)
18. Some Kind of Wonderful
19. Fled
20. Defy the Fates (Constellation #3)
21. Worldwired (Jenny Casey, #3)
22. Worth Fighting For
23. Artemis - Shinkansen -Completed 07/10
24. Eleanor's Secret
25. Death Fugue
26. The Wreck
27. My Life as a Hashtag (288p) - Roll 7: 4 DNF; REPLACED with Real Differences (288p)
28. The Girl and the Mountain (Bock of the Ice #2) - Roll 8: 1 -Completed 07/24
29. Forgetting Foster
30. The Greatest Gift
31. Munich
32. Past the Shallows - Roll 9: 4 -Completed 08/02
33. Who Put This Song On? - Roll 10: 1 -Completed 08/15
34. White Night
35. Battle Magic (Circle Reforged, #3) - Make It Up Monday (09/04) -Completed 09/10
36. Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance -Completed 09/05
37. Convergence (Kindred Ties, #1)
38. Stargazer (Evernight #2)
39. Gallipoli Street
40. Shadows on the Moon (The Moonlit Lands, #1) - Roll 12: 5 Completed 09/14
41. Seed
42. Froi of the Exiles
43. The Hawkweed Prophecy
44. Bright Young Things (Bright Young Things, #1)
45. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn #1)
46. Silhouette (258p) - Roll 13: 6 DNF; REPLACED with The Bluffs (432p) -Completed 09/21 + from Elle's list: Nettle and Bone -Completed 09/22
47. The Bedlam Stacks
48. The Love That I Have
49. The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark #2)
50. The Wizards of Once
51. The Midsummer Garden
52. Revenge, Murder in Three Parts - Roll 14: 5 + advantage to move 1 forward -Completed 09/24 + from Cora's list: The Reader (The Reader Trilogy #1) -Completed 09/25
53. The Naturalist's Daughter
54. Lenin's Kisses
55. Seventeen
56. No Country Woman - Roll 15: 4 -Completed 09/26
57. Quicksand
58. The Girl On The Page
59. Taking a Chance
60. The Bridled Tongue
61. Aurora Burning
62. Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1) - Roll 16: 6 -Completed 10/03
63. The Deathless Girls
64. Holding Up the Universe
65. Give Me Your Hand
66. Everless (Untitled #1)
67. Black Ice - Roll 17: 5 -Completed 10/06 + from Joy's list: Men Without Women -Completed 10/08
68. Leaving Ocean Road
69. The Time of the Dark (Darwath, #1)
70. Why Mummy Swears
71. The City of Dusk
72. Hunted - Roll 18: 4 + advantage to move 1 forward -Completed 10/14
73. Competence (The Custard Protocol #3)
74. A Heart Divided
75. No Small Shame
76. The Dangers of Truffle Hunting
77. The Dying Beach
78. The Deceptions
79. Blackbringer (Dreamdark, #1) (Faeries of Dreamdark)
80. Summerlandish: Do As I Say, Not As I Did
81. The Devotion of Suspect X
82. Treasure & Dirt
83. The Hidden Beach
84. The Winter Ghosts
85. Bring Me Back
86. The Minnow
87. Starlight
88. At the Wolf's Table
89. Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
90. The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)
91. The Bluffs
92. We Are Here, Stories of Home, Place and Belonging
93. Threader
94. Inbetween Days
95. Knightley & Son (Knightley & Son #1)
96. Harland's Half Acre
97. The Special Ones
98. The Bombs That Brought Us Together
99. Vigil (Verity Fassbinder #1) - Roll 19: 2 + surprise advantage to move 25 forward -Completed 10/22
100. Eyrie

Roll 1: 3 #3. Genesis (Project Nemesis #2) by Brendan Reichs -Read & Reviewed 04/04

Roll 2: 3
#6. Rebel (Legend #4) by Marie Lu -Read & Reviewed 05/03

Shake It Up Sunday (04/30): Move back 5 spaces
#1. Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller -Read & Reviewed 06/01

Roll 3: 2
this will move me to #3 but as I've read this book and books in #1 and #2, will go back to previous board in Clerk & read book #100 Eyrie by Tim Winton -Read & Reviewed 06/05

#1 adjacent rolls: 3-2 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

Roll 4: 1 #4. The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars #1) by John Birmingham -Read & Reviewed 06/21

🥠 #2 adjacent rolls: 2-1 You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

Roll 5: 3 #7. Caliban's War (The Expanse #2) by James S.A. Corey -Read & Reviewed 06/26

624 pages (3 dice roll) - https://www.amazon.com/Calibans-War-E...

#3 adjacent rolls: 1-3 Moved Theresa forward 11 spaces

Roll 6: 2-1-5 #15. Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz DNF; REPLACED with 36 Streets by T.R. Napper (448p) -Read & Reviewed 07/07

#4 Ride on Shinkansen

Shinkansen Ride --> #23. Artemis by Andy Weir -Read & Reviewed 07/10

Roll 7: 4 #27. My Life as a Hashtag by Gabrielle Williams DNF; REPLACED withReal Differences by S.L. Lim -Read & Reviewed 07/17

Roll 8: 1 #28. The Girl and the Mountain (Bock of the Ice #2) by Mark Lawrence -Read & Reviewed 07/24

#5 10x adventure (July's tag): Move forward 1 space + 3 participation points

Roll 9: 4 #32. Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett -Read & Reviewed 08/02

Roll 10: 1
#33. Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker -Read & Reviewed 08/15

Roll 11: 3
#36. Dangerous Alliance: An Austentacious Romance by Jennieke Cohen -Read & Reviewed 09/05

Make It Up Monday (09/04): Move back 1 space
#35. Battle Magic (The Circle Reforged #3) by Tamora Pierce -Read & Reviewed 09/10

Roll 12: 5
#40. Shadows on the Moon (The Moonlit Lands #1) by Zoë Marriott -Read & Reviewed 09/14

Roll 13: 6
#46. Silhouette by Thalia Kalkipsakis DNF; REPLACED with The Bluffs by The Bluffs -Read & Reviewed 09/21

#6 adjacent roll: 5-6 - from Ellen's Porter List (post 8 above): Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher -Read & Reviewed 09/22

Roll 14: 5
#51 BUT using advantage #5 above to move forward 1 space (July's tag) to #52. Revenge, Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim -Read & Reviewed 09/24

#7 adjacent roll: 6-5 - from Cora's Porter List (post 29 below): The Reader (The Reader Trilogy #1) by Traci Chee -Read & Reviewed 09/25

Roll 15: 4
#56. No Country Woman by Zoya Patel -Read & Reviewed 09/26

Roll 16: 6
#62. Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns, #1) by Kendare Blake -Read & Reviewed 10/03

#8 adjacent roll: 4-6 (9/27) - it's National Crush a Can Day. I'm drinking a diet Coke, and the serial number is 49000 06105. So you are going to move forward the sum of those numbers (25). To be used at your discretion.

Roll 17: 5 67. Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick -Read & Reviewed 10/06

#9 8x winter (October's tag): Move forward 1 space + 3 participation points

#10 adjacent roll: 6-5 - from Joy's Engineer Loop 1:
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami -Read & Reviewed 10/08

Roll 18: 4
#71 BUT using advantage #9 above to move forward 1 space (October's tag) to #72. Hunted by Meagan Spooner -Read & Reviewed 10/14

🥠 #11 28x winter (October's tag): Move forward 2 spaces + 3 participation points

Roll 19: 2 #74 BUT using advantage #8 above to move forward 25 spaces to #99.
Vigil (Verity Fassbinder #1) by Angela Slatter -Read & Reviewed 10/22

Roll 20: 4 ---> Engineer Board


🥠 - advantages available

Swaps:
2 to start with
plus 1 from #1 adjacent roll
Used 1 on Roll 6 + 2nd one on Roll 7 + 3rd one on Roll 13
NIL left

*Participation Points
[Clerk Level - Roll 5] - 4 points
[Engineer Level - Roll 8] - 3 points
[Engineer Level - Roll 17] - 3 points
[Engineer Level - Roll 18] - 3 points


message 12: by Pam (last edited Jun 15, 2023 09:38AM) (new)

Pam | 498 comments Pam's Porter board (50x2) — Completed June 6
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message 13: by Jen K (last edited Sep 03, 2023 06:34AM) (new)

Jen K | 3143 comments Jen K's Porter Level Gameboard

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Participation Points: 6 -2 (used 7/28) = 4


message 14: by Booknblues (last edited May 30, 2023 02:54PM) (new)

Booknblues | 12045 comments Booknblues Porter Level Subdue
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LibraryCin | 11663 comments Booknblues wrote: "
Booknblues Porter Level Subdue..."


Look at you go! I see between the two admins you are winning... easily! LOL!


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Booknblues | 12045 comments LibraryCin wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "
Booknblues Porter Level Subdue..."

Look at you go! I see between the two admins you are winning... easily! LOL!"


It has taken almost 4 months.


message 17: by LibraryCin (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments Booknblues wrote: "It has taken almost 4 months."

I think I'm still at #32 on my board. :-)

Now, I finally started it, so I hope to finish it in the next few days and move a bit further forward, but...


message 18: by Diana (last edited Jun 16, 2023 03:08AM) (new)

Diana Hryniuk | 837 comments Diana's Porter Level Gameboard

1. Along for the Ride - read 04/22/23
2. The Storyteller
3. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
4. All the Light We Cannot See - read 05/03/23
5. Panic
6. The Nightingale
7. The Problem with Forever
8. Normal People
9. This Tender Land
10. Lonesome Dove
11. A Little Princess
12. One Day
13. Five Feet Apart
14. The Three Musketeers
15. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - read 05/11/23
16. Walk Two Moons
17. Anna and the French Kiss
18. Wonder
19. Station Eleven
20. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
21. Why We Took the Car
22. The Summer I Turned Pretty
23. Timeline
24. Project Hail Mary
25. If I Stay
26. One of Us Is Next
27. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
28. The Peacock Emporium
29. The Black Tulip
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls
31. Overload
32. Hotel
33. Hopeless
34. Sense and Sensibility
35. The Unhoneymooners
36. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
37. The Inverted World
38. The Long Earth
39. The Sisters Brothers
40. News of the World
41. Three Wishes
42. The Collector
43. We
44. The Man Who Fell to Earth
45. Angels & Demons
46. After You
47. Theatre
48. Seveneves
49. Small Great Things
50. Our Mutual Friend
51. Silver Bay
52. The Doll Factory
53. The Last Anniversary
54. The Hypnotist's Love Story
55. Foreign Fruit
56. The Humans
57. Queen Margot
58. The Horse Dancer
59. I've Got Your Number
60. Point of Retreat
61. The Testament
62. Payment in Blood
63. The Turn of the Key
64. Shutter Island
65. Valley of the Dolls
66. Sheltering Rain
67. Devil's Bride
68. Foundation
69. The Caves of Steel
70. The Ship of Brides
71. One Deadly Summer
72. The Three-Body Problem
73. One Step to You
74. Wheels
75. The Stranger
76. Wool Omnibus
77. Never Have I Ever
78. blueeyedboy
79. Pushing the Limits
80. One Plus One
81. The Girl on the Train
82. And the Mountains Echoed
83. Dark Matter
84. Before I Go to Sleep
85. The Scarlet Pimpernel
86. The Cave
87. The Woman in the Window - read 05/20
88. Master Class
89. Joseph Balsamo - read 06/14
90. In the Lake of the Woods
91. Night Music
92. The Gadfly
93. The Catcher in the Rye
94. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
95. Pandemonium
96. Blood Ties
97. Sophie's Choice
98. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
99. I'll Take Manhattan
100. Dragonfly in Amber

Apr 13, roll 1 - book 1 - Along for the Ride - 04/22/23 - my review
▪tagged "friendship" 74 times - BONUS move forward 5 spaces at any time I wish
🔸3 participation points

Apr 22, roll 3 - book 4 - All the Light We Cannot See - 05/03/23 - my review
▪tagged "friendship" 67 times - BONUS move forward 5 spaces at any time I wish
🔸3 participation points
▪531 pages (https://www.amazon.com/All-Light-We-C...) -BONUS - roll two dice on my next turn - used 05/21

Apr 29, moved by Hannah - book 15 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - 05/11/23 - my review
▪tagged "friendship" 175 times - BONUS roll 2 dice - used 06/14

May 13, moved by randomizer - book 87 - The Woman in the Window - 05/20/23 - my review

May 21, roll 1-1 - book 89 - Joseph Balsamo - 06/14/23 - my review
▪612 pages - BONUS - roll three dice on my next turn - used 06/14

June 14, roll 3-3-1-6 - rolled off the board


message 19: by Sue (last edited Aug 01, 2023 01:29PM) (new)

Sue | 2709 comments Sue's Porter Level Game Board

Running Participation Points (including all prior boards): 12

Running Rolls to keep track of special events: 1, 3, 2, 4, (6-5-6), 3, 6, 1, (5-6-2-2-1), 5, 6, 3, 3, (6-6-4-5-5-5-4)

Accrued Bonus Details

Swaps
- Standard Swap 1 USED on 7/2/23
- Standard Swap 2 USED on 7/26/23
- Bonus Swap "3" rolled on 5/18 and "2" rolled on 5/25

Move Forward 1 Space
5-25 Taggers: Move forward 1 space - Gods of Jade and Shadow earned 5/8/23. USED 6/19/23
5-25 Taggers: Move forward 1 space - The Exiles earned 5/25/23. USED 7/17/23
5-25 Taggers: Move forward 1 space - Gypsy Blood earned 7/16/23

Roll 2 Extra Dice
+100 Taggers: Roll 2 extra dice - Indian Horse earned 5/28/23 USED 6/25/23
+100 Taggers: Roll 2 extra dice - Caliban's War earned 7/2/23 USED 7/8/23

Roll Extra Dice For Books Over 500 Pages
+600 Pages: Roll 2 extra dice Caliban's War earned 7/7/23 USED 7/8/23


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1. Gods of Jade and Shadow Rolled 1 on 5/8/23 My Review 5/17/23
Matched monthly tag Indigenous, tagged 22 times. I can use this to move 1 space.
2. The House in the Pines
3. Self-Portrait with Nothing
4. The School for Good Mothers Rolled 3 on 5/18/23 My Review 5/25/23
5. Tough Justice
6. The Exiles Rolled 2 on 5/25/23 My Review 5/28/23
Matched monthly tag Indigenous, tagged 11 times. I can use this to move 1 space.
7. Forty-Ninth
8. A Fatal Thaw
9. What Have We Done
10. Indian Horse Rolled 4 on 5/28/23. My Review 6/4/23
Matched monthly tag Indigenous Tagged 312 times allowing me to roll 2 dice
11. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
12. The Toughest Indian in the World
13. The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
14. Avenging Adam
15. Hello Beautiful
16. Ethan
17. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
19. Hippie Woman Wild: A Memoir of Life & Love on an Oregon Commune
20. All the Dark Places
21. The Look-Alike
22. The Queen of the Cicadas
23. The Book of Cold Cases
24. Natural History
25. Where the Wild Ladies Are
26. A Thousand Acres
27. A Good Neighborhood Rolled 6:5:6 on 6/5/23. My Review 6/16/23
Used my two dice special advantage from landing on a book tagged Indigenous 312 times
28. Troublemaker
29. To Be Honest: A Memoir
30. Such a Pretty Girl
31. A Woman Is No Man
32. Why We Swim
33. Something Wicked This Way Comes Rolled 6 on 6/16/23. My Review 6/18/23
34. Migrations
35. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
36. River Sing Me Home
37. Three Apples Fell from the Sky. Rolled 3 on 6/19, also used my "move one space" advantage earned on 5/8/23. My Review 6/24/23
38. Under the Whispering Door
39. Spells for Forgetting
40. The Darkest Thread
41. When All Is Said
42. We All Want Impossible Things
43. Our Best Intentions: A Novel. Rolled 6 on 6/25/23. My Review 7/2/23
44. Caliban's War Rolled 1 on 7/2/23 and also used a swap on 7/4/23 to swap #44 Lucy by the Sea (291 pages) with #91 Caliban's War (624 pages). Tagged Adventure by 117 people.
My Review 7/7/23
45. How to Sell a Haunted House
46. Eve's Hollywood
47. The Bandit Queens
48. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
49. A House with Good Bones
50. Off the Leash
51. One True Loves
52. This Is How It Always Is
53. An Unrestored Woman
54. Swimming in the Dark
55. Spirits Abroad
56. Speak No Evil
57. Shunned: How I Lost My Religion and Found Myself
58. Saving Ruby King
59. The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
60. Burnout Rolled 5,6,2,2,1 on 7/8/23. My Review 7/13/23
61. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
62. Dirty Magic
63. A People's History of Heaven
64. The Beautiful Ones
65. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea Rolled "5" on 7/14. My Review 7/16/23
66. Ordinary Grace
67. North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
68. Little Secrets
69. The Last Flight
70. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
71. In the Time of Our History
72. Gypsy Blood Rolled "6" on 7/17/23, plus used a "move forward one space" previously earned. My Review 7/21/23
Also reading Striking Range from OM's Conductor Loop 1 list. My Review 7/23/23
73. Fracture
74. Force of Nature
75. Lone Wolf Rolled "3" on 7/24/23. My Review 7/25/23
76. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
77. 142 Ostriches
78. Fall of Giants . Used a swap to read Fall of Giants (1008 pages) instead of Euphoria (256 pages). My Review 7/31/23
79. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
80. Ghost Summer
81. Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
82. Blacktop Wasteland
83. Before She Knew Him
84. Ambush or Adore
85. The Rock Eaters: Stories
86. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
87. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
88. Optic Nerve
89. The Colony
90. Lock 'N' Load
91. Used a swap on 7/4/23 to swap #44 Lucy by the Sea (291 pages) with #91 Caliban's War (624 pages) Lucy by the Sea
92. Academy of Assassins
93. Activities of Daily Living
94. All My Puny Sorrows
95. Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
96. And Then She Vanished
97. The Half Moon
98. Yellowface
99. Chain-Gang All-Stars
100. With My Little Eye



Roll 1: "1" on 5/8/23 Gods of Jade and Shadow My Review 5/17/23
Fits monthly tag Indigenous Tagged 22 times

Roll 2: "3" on 5/18/23 The School for Good Mothers

Roll 3: "2" on 5/25/23 The Exiles
Fits monthly tag Indigenous Tagged 11 times -

Roll 4: "4" on 5/28/23 Indian Horse
Fits monthly tag Indigenous Tagged 312 times

Roll 5: "5:6:5" on 6/5/23 A Good Neighborhood

Roll 6: "6" on 6/16/23 Something Wicked This Way Comes

Roll 7: "3" on 6/19/23, Plus used a "move one space" advantage, Three Apples Fell from the Sky

Roll 8: "6" on 6/25/23 Our Best Intentions

Roll 9: "1" on 7/2/23 Caliban's War
Used a swap to switch #44 Lucy by the Sea (291 pages) with #91 Caliban's War (624 pages) Lucy by the Sea
Fits monthly tag Adventure Tagged 117 times
624 pages: https://www.amazon.com/Calibans-War-E...

Roll 10: "5,6,2,2,1" Burnout

Roll 11: "5" Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

Roll 12: "6" The Snow Gypsy Also reading Striking Range from OM's Conductor Loop 1 list.

Roll 13: "3" Lone Wolf

Roll 14: "3" Fall of Giants

Roll 15: "6-6-4-5-5-5-4" Takes me off the end of the board


message 20: by Theresa (last edited Dec 19, 2023 11:43PM) (new)

Theresa | 15493 comments Theresa's Porter Gameboard - 5/5/23
🧩= spot landed
💰 = advantage earned
🚂= moved/advantage used
🎢 = Shake it up
💃 = read if already read where landed
📚 = read from another board

1. Girl Waits with Gun
💃2. Bluebird, Bluebird -5/28 Shake it up read - finished 6/17/23
🎢🧩3. Lulu in Hollywood - finished 5/21/23 🚂1st Shake it up 3 places - read #2 - finished 6/17/23
6/4/23 - 🎢 2nd Shake it Up - move back 6 spaces - to #97 Clerk Board

4. The Girl Who Played with Fire
5. Spoiler Alert
🧩6. Where the Crawdads Sing finished 6/6/23
7. China Trade
🚂🧩8. Miss Flibbertigibbet and the Barbarian - finished 7/4/23
9. The Lion in the Lei Shop
10. The Bluest Eye
11. Liberty Tavern
12. A Free Man of Color
💰🧩13. Lolita - tag match landed 7/5/23 - finished 8/27/23
14. How the Penguins Saved Veronica
💃🏻15. The Guest List read at #19📚
16. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
17. Eleven Pipers Piping
18. Murder is Easy
🧩19. Mastering the Art of French Eating: - finished 9/5/23 - no tag match but 📚 The Guest List #76 AJ Clerk Board - finished 9/9/23
💰🚂🧩20. The Stationery Shop- tag match 120x landed 9/9/23- advantage - read one before or one after - staying with this one - finished 9/30/23
21. The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
22. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
23. The Winter Bride
🎢24. Apart at the Seams - used swap 352 pages When Gods Die - 10/8 shake it up read - finished 10/16
🚂🧩25. Lady Derring Takes a Lover - finished 10/9 - Shake it up 10/8 - back 1 spot
26. The Hawthorne Legacy
27. The Lady Travelers Guide to Larceny with a Dashing Stranger
28. Braking Points
29. A Conspiracy in Belgravia
🧩30. Water for Elephants 352 pages - swap for Haven Creek - 448 pages - finished 12/10 📚 Girl in Hyacinth Blue - #82 BnB Engineer 1 - finished 12/13
31. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
32. Killing Trail
33. Sorrow and Bliss
34.Starr Sign: The Candace Starr Series
35. Horrorstör
36. The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet
37. The Matchmaker of Périgord
38. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
39. The Rise of Kyoshi
🚂🧩40. The Paris Diversion - finished 12/17/23
41. All the Birds in the Sky
42. Enemies at Home
43. The Very Picture of You
44. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
45. A Memory Called Empire
46. Tremaine's True Love
47. City of the Lost
48. When the Moon is Low
49. My Pride: Mastering Life's Daily Performance
50. Island Affair
51. The White Mirror
52. Tough Justice
53. Her Royal Spyness
54. Murder in Belgravia
55 Five Decembers
56. Lone Wolf
🚂🧩57. Secrets of a Summer Night finished 12/20 - end of challenge!
58. The Sunday Potluck Club
59. A Trace of Deceit
60. Knit One, Kill Two
61. A Death of No Importance
62. Bellfield Hall
63. Dark Night
64. The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra
65. The Secret of Santa Vittoria
66. Nothing Daunted:
67. Turning Angel
68. Poison Study
69. Betting on a Duke’s Heart
70. The Darkest Thread
71. Mercury Pictures Presents
72. A Talent for Trickery
73. The Cottage at Firefly Lake
74. The Chase
75. The Red Threads of Fortune
76. No One Will Miss Her
77. This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
78. Buttons and Foes
79. A Vintage Wedding
80. Miss Benson's Beetle
81. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
82. India Black and the Widow of Windsor
83. Thereby Hangs a Tail
84. Neanderthal Marries Human
85. A Wedding in Provence
86. The Library of Lost and Found
87. Pearls and Peril
88. Harrowing Hats
89. The Irish Castle: Keeping Elizabeth
90. The Janissary Tree
91. Naked in Death
92. The Book Charmer
93. The Cold Dish
94. Finally Home
95. North Star Conspiracy
96. A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves
97. Murder in Greenwich Village
98. Return to the Beach House
99. Crime and Poetry
100. Vintage


message 21: by Theresa (last edited Dec 19, 2023 11:45PM) (new)

Theresa | 15493 comments Theresa's Porter Reporting - Rolls, Reviews


R1 🎲 5/6 = 3 @#3 - Review 5/21/23

R2 🎲 5/22 =3 @#6 - Review 6/6/23

🎢1st Shake it up 5/28 - moves back 3 to #3 which was my first Porter read. Read 💃#2 Bluebird, Bluebird while staying and ultimately moving forward from #3 again. Review 6/18/23

🎢2nd Shake it up 6/4 - moves back 6 to Clerk Board #97. Once read/review Clerk #97, request roll for 2 dice and pray roll back off to Porter Board again. - finished 6/24/23 - Review 6/25/23

🚂 moved by Tien on a 3-1 - 11 spaces - 6/22 - forward/back to Porter #8. Review 7/4/23

R3 🎲 7/5 = 5 @#13 - tag match adventure 11x - Review 8/27/23

R4 🎲 8/27 = 6 @#19 - Review 9/5/23
5:6 = read from someone's board #76 - AJ Clerk - The Guest List by Lucy Foley - Review 9/9/23

R5 🎲 9/9/23 =1 @#20 -💰🚂 -- special roll combined with 6 in R4 = 7 - literary fiction tag match 120x - can read that book or one before or after. Sticking with The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali - Review 9/30/23

R6 🎲 9/30 = 6 @ #25 🚂 - no tag match - special roll combined with 1 in R5 = 7 read book before or after - sticking with Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne Long - Review 10/9

🎢 Shake it up 10/8 - move back 1 to #24 - used swap - replaced with 352 page When Gods Die - Review 10/16 Pages confirmation: Apart at the Seams which had 336 pages (https://www.amazon.com/Apart-Seams-Co... with longer When Gods Die that has 352 pages in hardcover - https://www.amazon.com/When-Gods-Die-...

R7 🎲 10/16 - 5 @#30 - used swap read Haven Creek - 448 pages - Review 12/10/23 - pages confirm - neither has a hardcover - Water for Elephants - 352 pages - the original edition paperback I own -https://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephant... - Haven Creek - 448 pages https://www.amazon.com/Haven-Creek-Ca...
Special Roll 6:5 = read from someone's board - Girl in Hyacinth Blue from BnB's Eng 1 #82 - Review 12/12/23

R8 🎲12/14/23 -🚂 used 9/9 advantage of +2 dice - 3 dice rolled - 3+5+2 = 10 - No Special Advantage as the 5+2 is in a 3 dice roll. Review 12/17/23

Conductor Gift - 2 die roll 3+5. Plus 5 spaces. Total of 13

R9 🎲12/17/23 - 1 dice rolled - 3 -🚂 used Conducter Gift +13 and added only remaining advantage from 7/5 +1 space = 3+13+1 = 17 @#57 - final book. No tag match, no advantage earned. < a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... Review 12/20

Journey's end - my ride on the Subdue Express is over.


message 22: by Theresa (last edited Dec 17, 2023 01:16PM) (new)

Theresa | 15493 comments Theresa Porter - Advantages and Points

What's Next Instructions

Roll Combos

Swaps: 2- used one #24 used 1 at # 30 - 0 left
Tag match - extra space moves - aggregate +1 used 0 Left: 1 - Used on R9
Tag match - extra dice - 9/9 - 2 dice - used 12/14
Additional rolls/over 500 pages - aggregate 0 used 0 Left: 0
Aggregate earned points - 12 through 5/5/23
Participation Points spent - 3 through 5/5/23 (rolled 1+2=3 at Clerk #87)

Special Advantages: no carryover from Clerk.

R1 - none
R2 - none
Shake it up - 5/28 - 3 back to #3 but read #2
Shake it up - 6/4 - 6 back to #97 Clerk Board
Moved by Tien - 6/22 - 11 forward to #8 Porter Board
R3 - 7/5 tag match adventure 11x - +1 space
R4 - 5+6 - read from someone else's board. 🤬
R5 - 6+1=7 - read that book or one before or after, stay put. Literary fiction tag match 120x = roll 2 extra dice!
R6 - 1+6=7 - read that book or one before or after, stay put.
Shake it up - 10/8 - 1 back to #24 - used swap - no tag match
R7 - 6+5 - read from someone else's board. 🙄
R8 - 3 dice - used 2 dice from 9/9 advantage - 3+5+2 = 10. Note: no Special Advantage - 5+2= 7 - read book before or after - as part of a 3 dice roll.
Conducter Gift - 2 dice roll - 3+5. Plus 5 spaces = 13 Add to R9.
R9 - 3. Add 13 Conductor Gift. Add 1 spot from advantages earned -- landed on #57


message 23: by Nicole (last edited Nov 09, 2023 04:35PM) (new)

Nicole | 681 comments 1. Melmoth
2. The Rose Code
3. The Plotters
4. Warlight
5. Invisible Child
6. The Fifth Mountain
7. Autumn
8. Artemis
9. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
10. Foe
11. The Heart's Invisible Furies
12. Double Sin
13. Cuba
14. No Impact Man
15. Faceless Killers
16. Klara and the Sun
17. Sway
18. Girls Burn Brighter
19. The Deep
20. King Solomon's Mines
21. The Book Thief
22. In Five Years
23. Endless Night
24. Every Heart a Doorway
25. The Boy in the Suitcase
26. Frankenstein
27. The Netanyahus
28. Olive Kitteridge
29. Keeping the Moon
30. Death in the Clouds
31. Caste
32. The Secret Adversary
33. The Moving Finger
34. The Only Plane in the Sky
35. Remote Control
36. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
37. The Winter People
38. The Alchemist
39. After the Funeral
40. This Tender Land
41. The Mystery of the Blue Train
42. The Great Alone
43. Towards Zero
44. Lord Edgware Dies
45. The Secret of Platform 13
46. Which Witch?
47. Bewilderment
48. Island of the Aunts
49. Sleeping Murder
50. Drive Your Plow Ove the Bones of the Dead
51. Say Nothing
52. Their Eyes Were Watching God
53. Looking for Alaska
54. The Road
55. There There
56. Empire of Pain
57. A Murder is Announced
58. Hiroshima
59. The Ocean at the End of the Lane
60. Wilmington's Lie
61. Bittersweet
62. Disappearing Earth
63. All Quiet on the Western Front
64. The Midnight Library
65. The Bell Jar
66. The Tale of Despereaux
67. Into the Planet
68. Lanny
69. The Wild Robot
70. The Botany of Desire
71. A Night to Remember
72. Becoming
73. The Green Mile
74. Shards of Honour
75. Cradle to Cradle
76. Stuff Matters
77. Norse Mythology
78. Under a White Sky
79. Braiding Sweetgrass
80. A Long Way Gone
81. Moon Called
82. Everything Everything
83. Migrations
84. Where the Crawdads Sing
85. White Fragility
86. Crisis in the Red Zone
87. Hummingbird
88. Murder on the Orient Express
89. Never Cry Wolf
90. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
91. Stories of Your Life and More
92. City of Thieves
93. Remarkably Bright Creatures
94. And Then There Were None
95. Half the Sky
96. A Sand County Almanac
97. Anne of Green Gables
98. Notes of a Native Sons
99. The New Jim Crow
100. Chasing Me to My Grave

Roll 1: 6 --> The Fifth Mountain; Completed 6/14/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Moved --> Girls Burn Brighter; Completed 6/21/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Moved --> The Heart's Invisible Furies; Completed 8/31/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Shake Up --> Artemis; Completed 9/12/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Moved --> Endless Night; Completed 9/17/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Roll 2: 4 --> The Netanyahus; Completed 10/5/2023
Review (tagged Literary Fiction 39x >> move forward 2 spaces - banked)
6-4 Combination* --> A Murder is Announced; Completed 10/15/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Roll 3: 6 --> All Quiet on the Western Front; Completed 10/27/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
4-6 Combination** --> The Botany of Desire; Completed 11/1/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Roll 4: 6 --> Stuff Matters; Completed 11/6/2023
Review (does not fit tag)
Roll 5: 3 --> Braiding Sweetgrass


*Move Forward 30 Spaces (49'ers Game Score 9/21/2023)
**Move Forward 7 Spaces (Year of First Adult Job, 2014)


message 24: by Joanne (last edited Nov 29, 2023 05:27AM) (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) | 12562 comments Joanne-Porter

1. Of Women and Salt
2. Thirty Names of Night
3.Throne of The Crescent Moon
4. A Good American already read
5 Light Over London on=Roll # 1 5-21-23
6 Saints for All Occasions
7. Cold Mountain
8 Housekeeping
9 The Winds of War
10 A Curious Beginning
11 Girl in Hyacinth Completed 6/3/23
12 The Things They Carried
13. Red Notice no loinger available
14 Nazare
15 Stone Blind
16 Call of The Wild Swapping out for book # 17
17. The Abbot's Tale-,read this instead

18 The Confidence Men
19 The Thousand Eyes
20 The Mercies
21 Dog Days
22 A Hero Born(Switched to Genghis: Lords of the Bow )
23. Legends and Lattes already read
24. The Serpent's Tooth
25 Forever
26 And The Rest is History
27. The Falcon of Sparta This book was already read
28 The Foundling
29. Lincoln's Last Trial
30. Light over London already read-reading 29 instead
31. Call The Midwife Reading this in place of #40
32 Black Cloud Rising Tagged LF 8 times-1 extra move awarded.
33. Trouble The Water
34 The Black Tides of Heaven
35. The Wrath and The Dawn
36. The Confidence Men
Already read Landed here, reading # 33 in place of it
37. The Winemakers Wife already read
38. Sons and Soldiers I Am Here-rolled a 7 so I can read this or the one before or after-reading # 32
39. The Mercies not available
40. Dog Days already read Landed Here, reading # 31
41 And The Rest is History
40 Lincoln's Last Trial already read
43. The Far land
44. Trouble The Water already read
45 . Call The Midwife- just read this, I read #43 in place of it
46 Things Past Telling
47. Essex Dogs
48 Tales of The City
49 Woman of Intelligence
50 The Wintering Place
51. Black Cloud Rising
52. All Quiet on The Western Front
53. Things Past Telling
54. The Invisible Woman already read
55. The Witness for the Dead I am here
56 Legends and Lattes already read
57 Blood and Treasure
58. A Thousand Ships
59 The Serpent's Tooth
60 . On a Night of a Thousand Stars
61. A Hero Born already read
62. Yonder
63. The Bohemians I am Here
64 The Winemakers Wife
65 The Foundling
66 As Bright as Heaven
67. Tales of The City
68. D-Day Girls
69 Essex Dogs
70. Last Hope Island
71.Throne of The Crescent Moon
72. A Curious Beginning
73. On a Night of a Thousand Stars
74. The Foundling
75. Blood & Ink
76. Wise Gals
77 Things Past Telling
78. Blood And Treasure
79. As Bright as Heaven
80. Unsouled
81. The Thousand Eyes
82. The Woman Who smashed the Codes
83 The Finish
84. A Curious Beginning
85. Blood & Ink already read
86. Lincoln's Last Trial
87. Deacon King Kong
88. Trouble The Water
89 The Abbot's Tale already read
90 A Thousand Ships
91, Beyond the Ruby Veil
92. The Mercies not available
93. The Seekers
94 All Quiet on The Western Front
96 The Wrath and The Dawn already read
97 The Hello Girls
98. Forever
99 The Lost
100 Mussolini's Daughter


message 25: by Joanne (last edited Nov 29, 2023 05:08AM) (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) | 12562 comments Joanne Porter Advantages earned and Used

Two Available Swaps
Participation points - 4 earned( Roll # 1 review posted 6/3/23)

Roll #1 5 includes 4 points for review
Move # 2 special by Joy


Two Available Swaps-used one swap 6-3-2023-Using swap # 2 7-15-2023

Roll # 11 fits tag-Extra move award for fitting monthly tag

5-17-2023 Rolled a 4-4, which gives me 4 participation points with next book and review.

6-3 rolled 5

6-19 rolled 4

7-15 rolled 1

7-25-2023 Rolled 5

8-10-2023 Rolled 3

8-20-2023 - Rolled 4

8-30-2023 Rolled 2

9-12-2023 Rolled 5

9-22?=2-23- Rolled 2 (5+2 =7)-Reading # 32- 1 Extra move award for fitting monthly tag

10-3-Rolled a two

010-16 rolled five Rolled 2+5 = 7

11-6- Moved 10 spaces by Nancy

11-19 Rolled a 1-Used advantage to move one more space.

11-28 Rolled 6-Last move was a 1 6+1 = 7 choice of reading the one before or after


message 26: by Amy (last edited Dec 18, 2023 10:30AM) (new)

Amy | 12907 comments Amy's New Porter Gameboard

18 Books Read for the Clerk Level
3 Participation points carried over from the one time I matched the tag

First Roll - 3

1. The Lies I tell
2. Black Jews
3. Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart (roll 6)
5. The Yellow Bird Sings
6. The Silver Music Box
7. Everything Beautiful in its Time
8. Haunting Paris
9. The Fortunes of Jaded Women (roll 2)
10. Hannah’s Journey
11. Marylin in Manhattan (roll 2)
12. Falling Pomegranate
13. The Bad Girl (Roll 3)
14. The Vibrant Years
15. The Sleepwalker
16. Lioness of Judah (Roll 5)
17. Dressmaker’s Gift
18. The Things We Cherished
19. The Stranger in the Lifeboat
20. Jackie’s Paris
21. People Love Dead Jews Roll 2
22. The Spy’s Gamble
23. Mermaid’s Sister Swap One of 3 WITL Roll 1, PP3
24. If You Could Be Mine move to space 27, read 25-27, Roll 3
25. The Fortunes of Jaded Women
26. People Love Dead Jews
27. Lioness of Judah
28. Judah’s Sceptor
29. Thorns for Raisel
30. Every Last Secret Roll 2
31. Looking for Clara
32. Stronger than BPD; swap with Invisible Hour (6)
33. Why Religion
34. The Reverends Other Son
35. Chester Wheeler
36. Jewish Women
37. The Red Notebook
38. Midnight Train (Roll 4)
39. Of Bitter Herbs
40. The Invisible Hour (read)
41. The Rain Heron
42. Crimson Thread
43. Homesick
44. Abide With Me
45. The Egypt Game
46. The Watchmaker of Dachau
47. Charlatan
48. The Rabbi Who Played with Fire
49. Come Back for Me
50. The Vibrant Years
51. The Stranger in the Lifeboat (read)
52. Crimson Thread (read)
53. The Boatman’s Wife
54. Meyersons of Meryton
55. Astrid and Veronika
56. Wrapped in the Stars
57. The Baker’s Daughter
58. In Such Good Company
59. And the Bridge is love
60. The Invisible Hour (read)
61. Gods in Alabama
62. The Lies I tell
63. This Time Together
64. The Stranger in the Lifeboat (read)
65. Goodbye Paris
66. Faith and Power
67. The Woman in the Library (read)
68. A Little Bit Wicked
69. Hope of Israel
70. The Changeling
71. Hotel on Shadow Lake
72. Return of the Magi
73. Coronation of Glory
74. Soul of a Woman (read)
75. Visible City
76. Looking for Clara
77. Deborah’s Story
78. Mermaid’s Sister (read)
79. The Vibrant Years
80. Astrid and Veronika
81. Betrayal
82. The Invisible Hour (read)
83. Dressmaker’s Gift
84. Once We Were Home
85. Everything Beautiful in its Time
86. Witch Hunt (read)
87. The Woman in the Library (read)
88. Mermaid’s Sister (read)
89. The Dollhouse
90. Waking the Spirit
91. The Egypt Game (read)
92. Attribution
93. Tiger Lily
94. Of Bitter Herbs (read)
95. Three Muses
96. Just kids
97. Soul of a Woman (read)
98. The Family Secret
99. Ruth
100. The Changeling

My First Porter Post! I rolled (Cindy rolled) a 3, and I landed on:

Book 19/Porter 1: Ten Things To Do When Your Life Falls Apart

The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart: An Emotional and Spiritual Handbook
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 20/Porter 2: The Fortunes of Jaded Women

The Fortunes of Jaded Women
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
*3 participation points for matching the tag of Immigration for a total of 6 points across my personal challenge threads.

Book 21/Porter 3
Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 24/Porter 4
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 25/Porter 5
Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Book 26/Porter 6
Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 27/Porter 7
Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 28/Porter 8
Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
*matches tag-moral dilemmas; 3 participation points, total of 3

Book 29/Porter 9
Review Here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
total participation points = 3

Book 30/Porter 10
*Rolled a 3-2; earned an extra swap. Swapped Stronger than BPD for The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman (number 40). 2 swaps remain. Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
*Matches tag for literary fiction, 3 participation points added.

Participation Points: I had three to start with at the end of the clerk level. I gained three more for a book that matched Immigration, three more for a book that matched moral dilemmas, and three more just now for matching literary fiction. That would be a total of 12. But I used three points to move three spaces between 24 and 27. Which I believe brings me to 9. Participation points total - 9

Book 31/Porter Book 11
Review Here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Book 32/ Porter Book 12
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

*** Special advantage gained for a 6-4 roll, move 42 spaces when used.

Using with my roll of one, from #42, three participation points to move two spaces to the Egypt Game at #45. Ursula moved me back on 10/1, which puts me back on #42 The Crimson Thread, which I just read. I am therefore reading #41, the Rain Heron, but my technical new number is back at 42.

Current participation points = 6; Having used 3 of the remaining 9 to move the two spaces from 43 to 45.

Book #33 - Porter Book #13 - The Egypt Game at #45
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now On Space #42 (again) as Ursula has moved me back. I have already read #42 but will stay on the space and read #41, the Rain Heron.

Book #34 - Porter Book #14 - The Rain Heron (#41 for Space #42)
Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

*Will use special advantage instead of a roll, to Move 42 spaces from 42 to 84, which lands me on Once We Were Home, by Jennifer Rosner.

Book 35/Porter Book 15 - Once We Were Home in Space 84.
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
*Current participation points = 6 in case I need them, as we are nearing the end of the year/challenge. I will finish this Porter Board! My last roll was a 2.

Book 36/Porter Book 16 - The Dollhouse in Space 89.
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 37/Porter Book 17 - Three Muses in Space 95
Roll of 6 + 5 equals Wicked Ursula 11!
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book 38/Porter Book 18 - The Sleepwalker
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
For Wicked 11, This is Book #44 on Book Concierge's Board


message 27: by Joanne (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) | 12562 comments Amy wrote: " Amy's New Porter Gameboard

18 Books Read for the Clerk Level
3 Participation points carried over from the one time I matched the tag

First Roll - 3

1. The Lies I tell
2. Black Jews
3. Ten Th..."



message 28: by Cheryl (last edited Oct 25, 2023 04:40PM) (new)

Cheryl Coppens | 598 comments Cheryl"s Porter gameboard

1) Neanderthal Seeks Human
2) What's Left of Me
3) The Seven Day Switch (shake it up Sunday) finished 10/4
4) The keeper of Happy Endings
5) Palm Trees in the Snow
6) The Storytellers Secret
7) Where the Desert Meets the Sea
8) Mustard Seed
9) The Golem and the Jinni moved by Joy finished 9/21/23
10) Only Time Will Tell
11) Sycamore Row
12) Every Note Played
13) The Good Mothers
14) Raking Light From the Ashes
15) Parable of the Sower
16) Origin
17) The Garment Maker's Daughter
18) Maude
19) Well Behaved Wives
20) The Quarry Girls

21) I'm Fine and Neither Are You
22) Embers in the Wind
23) The Last Bathing Beauty
24) West with Giraffes
25) Pretty Evil New England
26) Mexico
27) The Keepers
28) If you Tell
29) The House We Grew Up In
30) The Scarlett Carnation
31) Prophet's Prey
32) Valencia and Valentine
33) Mad Honey
34) The Lobotomist's Wife
35) The Secret
36) The Forgotten Hours
37) Mercer Girls
38) Golden Poppies
39) The Last Lincolns
40) Honeysuckle Season

41) Heartless
42) The Fire Blossom
43) Bird in Hand
44) A Splendid Ruin
45) The Indifferent Stars
46) Where City Lights Fade
47) The Brighter the Light
48) Trespassing
49) Lost Hills
50) Flowers in the Snow
51) Strangers We Know
52) For Time & Eternity
53) The Litigators
54) The Secret
55) The Long Way Home
56) The Dress Maker's Gift
57) A Light to the Hills
58) In an Instant
59) The Virgin Cure
60) Opium and Absinthe

61) Tears of Amber
62) Beneath the Surface
63) Bound for Gold
64) Feather on the Water
65) In Between
66) The House of Closed Doors
67) Dwelling Place
68) The Lighthouse
69) A light in the Windows
70) Hollywood Park
71) What You Did
72) The Last of the Stanfields
73) What Passes as Love
74) Spinning Forward
75) Lusia's Long Journey Home
76) Riders of the Purple Sage
77) Two Rivers
78) Candle in the Darkness
79) Left Neglected
80) A Fire Sparkling

81) Towards the Midnight Sun
82) Out on a Limb
83) Sweetwater
84) Freshwater Road
85) The Girls in the Attic
86) Meg Generation
87) Arctic Homestead
88) The Resurrectionist
89) Bottomless Cups
90) Davenport House
91) Dracula read 10/24/23
92) The Eye of the World
93) The First Mrs, Rothschild
94) The Last Librarian
95) Like Me
96) The Maid's Diary
97) Moon Dance
98) Rock Needs River
99) The Strongman and the Mermaid
100) Under a Gilded Moon

first book moved by Joy
#9 The Golem and the Jinni
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

book#3 The Seven Day Switchhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 29: by Cora (last edited Dec 12, 2023 02:11PM) (new)

Cora (corareading) | 1921 comments Cora's Subdue the Shelf Game Board (Porter Level)

1. Rebel of the Sands - Hamilton, Alwyn *** tagged adventure 318 times (336 pages) - Completed 10/9/2023, sent back to Clerk Board #97 for Sunday Shakeup
2. An Ember in the Ashes - Tahir, Sabaa
3. On Java Road - Osborne, Lawrence
4. The Agathas - Glasgow, Kathleen
5. The Verifiers - Pek, Jane
6. Grave Reservations - Priest, Cherie
7. Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 - Roberts, Cokie
8. Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change - Lewis, John
9. Take a Hint, Dani Brown - Hibbert, Talia
10. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Lorde, Audre
11. Hallowe'en Party - Christie, Agatha: I AM HERE
12. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Braithwaite, Oyinkan
13. Island Queen - Riley, Vanessa
14. Salt Houses - Alyan, Hala
15. Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo - Anthony, Lawrence
16. Armada - Cline, Ernest
17. Soothsayer - Sipe, Allison
18. The Bromance Book Club - Adams, Lyssa Kay
19. Night of the Living Rez - Talty, Morgan
20. Knight's Gambit - Faulkner, William
21. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance - Abdurraqib, Hanif
22. The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter - Goss, Theodora
23. The Sisters Brothers - deWitt, Patrick
24. Walden ; or Life in the Woods - Thoreau, Henry David
25. Furia - Méndez, Yamile Saied
26. Something Bad Wrong - Pruitt, Eryk
27. Ace of Spades - Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah
28. A Shadow in Summer - Abraham, Daniel
29. Friday Black - Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
30. In the Time of the Butterflies - Alvarez, Julia
31. Bless Me, Ultima - Anaya, Rudolfo
32. Mickey7 - Ashton, Edward
33. The Naturals - Barnes, Jennifer Lynn
34. American Elsewhere - Bennett, Robert Jackson
35. An Inheritance of Ashes - Bobet, Leah
36. Wake of Vultures - Bowen, Lila
37. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Bradley, Alan
38. Death in the Sunshine - Broadribb, Steph
39. Five Midnights - Cardinal, Ann Dávila
40. The Alienist - Carr, Caleb
41. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Chabon, Michael
42. The Star-Touched Queen - Chokshi, Roshani
43. The Night Tiger - Choo, Yangsze
44. Made to Kill - Christopher, Adam
45. Piranesi - Clarke, Susanna
46. Wit'ch Fire - Clemens, James
47. The Lighthouse Witches - Cooke, C.J.
48. Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A.
49. The Naming - Croggon, Alison
50. The Devourers - Das, Indra
51. The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - DeFede, Jim
52. The Monster Baru Cormorant - Dickinson, Seth
53. Amberlough - Donnelly, Lara Elena
54. The Prey of Gods - Drayden, Nicky
55. Geek Love - Dunn, Katherine
56. Acacia: The War with the Mein - Durham, David Anthony
57. Vessel - Durst, Sarah Beth
58. Cold Magic - Elliott, Kate
59. Gardens of the Moon - Erikson, Steven
60. Tears of the Trufflepig - Flores, Fernando A.
61. Parasite - Grant, Mira
62. Gone Girl - Flynn, Gillian
63. Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - Foer, Joshua
64. The Hunting Party - Foley, Lucy
65. The Deep, Deep Snow - Freeman, Brian
66. In the Woods - French, Tana
67. I Killed Zoe Spanos - Frick, Kit
68. Black Sun Rising - Friedman, C.S.
69. Class Mom - Gelman, Laurie
70. Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting - Genova, Lisa
71. The Bullet that Missed - Osman, Richard
72. The Ballad of Perilous Graves - Jennings, Alex
73. The Karma Map - Sharma, Nisha
74. The Disinvited Guest - Goodman, Carol
75. Frightmares - Gibson, Eva V.
76. Pretty Dead Queens - Donne, Alexa
77. Gangland - Hogan, Chuck
78. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Sanderson, Brandon
79. The Monsters We Defy - Penelope, Leslye
80. The Cartographers - Shepherd, Peng
81. Devil House - Darnielle, John
82. The World We Make - Jemisin, N.K.
83. Notes on an Execution - Kukafka, Danya
84. The Maid - Prose, Nita
85. The Murder Rule - McTiernan, Dervla
86. The Last Policeman - Winters, Ben H.
87. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Yu, Charles
88. Cleopatra's Dagger - Lawrence, Carole
89. Chapter and Curse - Penney, Elizabeth
90. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Cain, Susan
91. A Man Called Ove - Backman, Frederik
92. Remarkably Bright Creatures - Van Pelt, Shelby
93. West With Giraffes - Rutledge, Lynda
94. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Rice, Waubgeshig
95. The Things They Carried - O'Brien, Tim
96. Miss Benson's Beetle - Joyce, Rachel
97. All the Stars and Teeth - Grace, Adalyn
98. Spin the Dawn - Lim, Elizabeth
99. The Last Adventure of Constance Verity - Martinez, A. Lee
100. The Reader - Chee, Traci

Total Participation Points Earned on Clerk Level: 3

Swaps Remaining: Swap #1 (used after being sent back to Clerk Board), Swap #2

*Earned 2 extra die for Rebel of Sand matching adventure tag (318 taggers)
* Earned move forward 2 spaces bonus for Hallowe'en Party matching holiday tag (49 taggers)

First Roll/Starting Spot: 1 (7/15/23)
Shake it Up Sunday sent me back 4 spaces to #97 on Clerk Board. Moved there after finishing Rebel of the Sands on 10/9/23.
Next Roll (after returning from Clerk Board): Rolled 5 (12/3/23) Plus two dice bonus gift from Nancy and the Conductors (4-2) puts me on #11


message 30: by Rachel N. (last edited Oct 28, 2023 07:05AM) (new)

Rachel N. | 2234 comments Rachel N's Porter Board

1 The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
2 Disappearing Earth-finished 9-22,
3. Light from Other Stars
4. Grace Under Pressure
5. The Hanged Man
6. Ban This Book
7. The Chalk Man
8. Cold Wind
9. Trophy Hunt
10. Whisper Network
11. Chilling Effect
12 Dying in the Wool
13 Ask Me No Questions
14 The Bookshop on the Shore
15 The Restorer
16 Buried Secrets
17 Dead Ex
18 Boundary Waters
19 Murder on the Mauretania
20 Kilt Dead
21 88 Names
22 The Mermaids Singing
23 Wicked Saints
24 Stillhouse Lake
25 The Family Upstairs
26 Disney in Shadow
27 A Whole New World
28 Her Last Breath
29 White Nights
30 Well Met
31 A Minute to Midnight
32 Magic Burns
33 Necessary People
34 Death of a Red Heroine
35 Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
36 The Guest List
37 Al Capone Does My Homework
38 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
39 Thirteen Hours
40 Homicide in Hardcover
41 For the Wolf
42 The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
43 Brownies and Broomsticks
44 Christmas Cow Bells
45 Bed of Roses
46 The Purity of Vengeance
47 Verity
48 Never Have I Ever
49 Heat Stroke
50 All Together Dead
51 Hattie Big Sky
52 Miss Benson's Beetle
53 A Distance Too Grand
54 The Llama of Death
55 In a Holidaze
56 One of Us Is Lying
57 Such a Quiet Place
58 Leave the World Behind
59 Trace of Evil
60 Book Scavenger
61 A Deadly Cliché
62 The Turn of the Key
63 Injustice for All
64 Murder at the Lakeside Library
65 Every Last Fear
66 Every Vow You Break
67 Murder in Old Bombay
68 The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
69 The Stranger in the Mirror
70 When the Stars Go Dark
71 Jack of Spies
72 Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel
73 The Thursday Murder Club
74 The Scorpion's Tail
75 The Case of the Missing Marquess
76 Borderlines
77 The Seven Day Switch
78 A Death of No Importance
79 The Escape Room
80 Revenge of the Spellmans
81 Little Bee
82 Murder on a Girls' Night Out
83 The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
84 Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
85 Eleven on Top
86 The Kiss Quotient
87 The Murder List
88 A Spy in the House
89 The Quiet Boy
90 The Seven Day Switch
91 Into the Drowning Deep
92 Ash and Quill 10-6-23 (bullet train ride)
93 The Search
94 Second Street Station
95 Questland-current location (3) 10-16-23
96 Murder's No Votive Confidence
97 Dial A for Aunties
98 Mimi Lee Gets a Clue
99 Murder in Westminster
100 Whack A Mole read 10-28-23(5)

special rolls carrying over:
may 7: 2-3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
July 8: 6-4: You receive a ticket for the Shinkansen. The numbers drawn will be between your current position and the end of the board you are on. To be used anytime.-used 9-26

New benefits: Disappearing Earth tagged literary fiction 219 times, can roll 2 dice in future

Disappearing Earth-Julia Phillips 9-22-23
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ash and Quill-Rachel Caine 10-6-23
https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Questland-Carrie Vaughn 10-16-23
https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Whack A Mole-Chris Grabenstein 10-28-23
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 31: by LibraryCin (last edited Sep 29, 2023 10:40AM) (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments Anita wrote: "If you have finished your original loop around the board, you are now a Clerk. The next challenge is to be promoted to Porter by finishing the next loop..."

Can I clarify. Once I have a new (2nd) board made up, this (Porter) is NOT the 2nd time through my board? I thought "Clerk" was the first time through the board. I wasn't sure what was next, but this statement is confusing me a bit. Thank you!

ETA: As I read message 2, it does sound like this (Porter) is for my 2nd time through my board. Am still going to wait on confirmation. Thanks, again.


message 32: by Booknblues (new)

Booknblues | 12045 comments LibraryCin wrote: "Anita wrote: "If you have finished your original loop around the board, you are now a Clerk. The next challenge is to be promoted to Porter by finishing the next loop..."

Can I clarify. Once I hav..."

After Porter you move to Engineer.


message 33: by Joanne (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) | 12562 comments Cindy, you just left Clerk-now you set up your Porter board and do 1 loop there. When you have the board set up, alert Anita that you are ready for your first roll on Porter (1 die only).


message 34: by LibraryCin (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments Joanne wrote: "Cindy, you just left Clerk-now you set up your Porter board and do 1 loop there. When you have the board set up, alert Anita that you are ready for your first roll on Porter (1 die only)."

Thank you!

Note to Anita: this sentence is very confusing!: "If you have finished your original loop around the board, you are now a Clerk. The next challenge is to be promoted to Porter by finishing the next loop"


message 35: by LibraryCin (last edited Dec 21, 2023 06:49PM) (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments Ok, here is my Porter Board:

1. Sea of Slaughter / Farley Mowat
2. Still Life / Joy Fielding
3. Finding Frankie / Maeve Binchy
4. A Time for Mercy / John Grisham (Oct 1 roll: 4). Finished Nov 1. 4.5 stars
5. Everything She Ever Wanted / Ann Rule
6. Bet Me / Jennifer Crusie
7. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox / Maggie O’Farrell
8. Deliverance From Evil / Frances Hill
9. No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood / Henriette Mantel
10. The Hunter and the Wild Girl / Pauline Holdstock. (Nov 4 roll: 6). Finished Dec 5. 2.5 stars
11. The Lost Girls of Paris / Pam Jenoff
12. Born Bad / Heather Burnside
13. The Taster / V. S. Alexander
14. We Bought a Zoo / Benjamin Mee
15. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter / Hazel Gaynor
16. Garment of Shadows / Laurie R. King
17. A Newfoundlander in Canada / Alan Doyle
18. Seal Wars / Paul Watson
19. On This Day / Nathaniel Bellows
20. Arbella / Sarah Gristwood
21. Anne Neville: Queen to Richard III / Michael Hicks
22. Cry Rape / Bill Lueders (openlib)
23. Calligraphy of the Witch / Alicia Gaspar de Alba
24. Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids / Lynne van Luven
25. Fostering Sustainable Behavior / Doug McKenzie-Mohr
26. The Autobiography of an Execution / David R. Dow
27. Anne of Cleves / Elizabeth Norton (openlib)
28. The Tudor Rose / Margaret Campbell Barnes (openlib)
29. Keeping Our Cool / Andrew Weaver
30. Murder Express / Robert Scott
31. The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek / Sid Marty
32. Julia Child / Laura Shapiro
33. Favorite Wife: Escape from Polygamy / Susan Schmidt
34. Dangerous World / Marq deVilliers
35. Stupid to the Last Drop / William Marsden
36. The Almost Archer Sisters / Lisa Gabriele
37. The Fires Beneath the Sea / Lydia Millet (openlib)
38. Cat Calls: Wonderful Stories / Jeane Adlon (openlib)
39. The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary / Andrew Westall
40. Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada / Pam Chamberlin. (Nov 4 Special Adv: Lawyer Appreciation Day +30). Finished Dec 21. 3 stars
41. Only in Spain / Nellie Bennett (openlib)
42. The Answer to the Riddle Is Me / David Stuart MacLean
43. The Boleyn Deceit / Laura Andersen
44. The Word Exchange / Alena Graedon
45. Addition / Toni Jordan
46. I Love You More / Jennifer Murphy
47. Suspicion / Joseph Finder
48. The Mountaintop School For Dogs And Other Second Chances / Ellen Cooney
49. Animal Madness / Laurel Braitman
50. The Lost Island / Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
51. Saving Simon / Jon Katz
52. The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly / Matt McCarthy (openlib)
53. What Stands in A Storm / Kim Cross
54. The Unexpected Waltz / Kim Wright
55. The Bullet / Mary Louise Kelly
56. The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs / Matthew Dicks
57. Last Man Off / Matt Lewis
58. This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! / Jonathan Evison
59. Rescue Road / Peter Zheutlin
60. Why Does the Other Line Always Move Faster? / David Andrews
61. Stars Between the Sun and Moon / Lucia Jang
62. Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder / Claudia Kalb
63. The Good Liar / Nicholas Searle
64. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? / Frans de Waal
65. Leave Me / Gayle Forman
66. Valley of the Moon / Melanie Gideon
67. You May Also Like / Tom Vanderbilt
68. Two Days Gone / Randall Silvis
69. Year of No Clutter / Eve Schaub
70. Behold the Dreamers / Imbolo Mbue
71. The Ballroom / Anna Hope
72. Under the stars / Dan White
73. Alfred Hitchcock / Peter Ackroyd
74. The Way I See It / Melissa Anderson
75. Thousand Words / Jennifer Brown
76. Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter / Brooke Allen
77. A Beautiful Truth / Colin McAdam
78. Not a Drop to Drink / Mindy McGinnis
79. No Way Down / Graham Bowley (openlib)
80. City of Bones / Cassandra Clair
81. The Collector / Nora Roberts
82. Victoria / Daisy Goodwin
83. The Plots Against Hitler / Danny Orbach
84. Get Well Soon / Jennifer Wright
85. Secret Service Dogs / Maria Goodavage
86. Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling / Cannell, Michael T.
87. Racing the Devil / Charles Todd
88. Eyes Wide Open / Isaac Lidsky
89. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
90. A Dangerous Inheritance / Alison Weir
91. The Fourth Archangel / Sharon Butala
92. Secrets of the Crown / Adam Jay Epstein
93. The Magician King / Lev Grossman
94. Let Him Go / Larry Watson
95. Blood Orange / Drusilla Campbell
96. Requiem / Francis Itani


message 36: by Anita (last edited Oct 01, 2023 02:51PM) (new)

Anita Pomerantz | 9280 comments LibraryCin wrote: "If you have finished your original loop around the board, you are now a Clerk. The next challenge is to be promoted to Porter by finishing the next loop."

No one else has mentioned this being confusing. You start as nothing. You finish your first board - - you are a Clerk. You finish the next board, you are officially a Porter.

I'm not sure at 10 months in that it needs too much more clarification, but bottom line, you finished your initial board, and now you are here, working on your Porter board.

I made a small edit to try to make it more clear.


message 37: by LibraryCin (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments Thanks, Anita. No, at this point in the year, it probably didn't need the clarification, as it seems I was the only one confused. I do think this phrase helps: " (on a newly created board in this thread)."

What was confusing to me was meshing what you've said here with how the threads are labelled. I felt like the thread labelled "Clerk" meant I was a clerk working my way through that board, and this thread labelled "Porter" would mean I am a porter, working my way through this board.

That's why it was confusing to me. But at this late date in the year, yeah. No one else was confused, so... I guess it's on me.


message 38: by Book Concierge (last edited Dec 31, 2023 07:05PM) (new)

Book Concierge (tessabookconcierge) | 8411 comments Here is my PORTER board:

1 Thousand Moons, A by BARRY, Sebastian
2 Park Avenue Summer by ROSEN, Renee
3 Lady In the Lake by LIPPMAN, Laura
4 The Starlite Drive-In – Marjorie Reynolds – ✔ - 31Dec23 My review
5 Daisy Children, The by GRANT, Sofia
6 The Letter Writer by Dan Fesperman ✔ - 04Dec23 My review
7 Death By Hollywood by BOCHCO, Steven
8 Elvis and the Dearly Departed by WEBB, Peggy
9 Lonely Hearts Hotel, The by O'NEILL, Heather
10 Sisters of Mokama (NF) y THOTTAM, Jyoti
11 Viola In the Spotlight by TRIGIANI, Adriana
12 Calling, The by WOLFE, Inger Ash
13 Red, White and Royal Blue by McQUISTON, Casey
14 Driving Miss Norma by BAUERSCHMIDT, Tim
15 No One is Here Except All of Us by AUSUBEL, Ramona
16 Mirror, The by MILLHISER, Marlys
17 Flying Solo by HOLMES, Linda
18 Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by MALDONADO, Crystal - NEXT up after(if) I finish Starlite Drive In ... courtesy of Nancy J

19 Unforgettable: A son, A Mother and… by SCOTT, Simon
20 Heroines of Mercy Street by TOLER, Pamela D
21 On the Wrong Track by HOCKENSMITH, Steven
22 Give the Boys a Great Big Hand by McBAIN, Ed
23 Jacqueline in Paris by MAH, Ann
24 Fortunes of Jaded Women, The by HUYNH, Carolyn
25 Riding Rockets by MULLANE, Mike
26 Deacon King Kong by McBRIDE, James
27 Time to Murder and Create by BLOCK, Lawrence
28 Uncommon Knowledge by LEWIS, Judy
29 Good Behavior by WESTLAKE, Donald
30 Veins Of the Ocean, The by ENGEL, Patricia
31 Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, The by ORNER, Peter
32 Raymie Nightingale by DiCAMILLO, Kate
33 Country Girls, The (only book 1) by O'BRIEN, Edna
34 Song I Knew by Heart by LOTT, Brett
35 Blood Done Sign My Name by TYSON, Timothy
36 Inconvenient Wife, An by CHANCE, Megan
37 Circque du Freak / Living Nightmare by SHAN, Darren
38 Yours Cheerfully by PEARCE, A J
39 Paradise Sky by LANSLADE, Joe R
40 Joy For Beginners by BAUERMEISTER, Erica
41 Venetian Affair, A by DiROBILANT, Andrea
42 Girls In Navy Blue by RICKLOFF, Alix
43 See What I Have Done by SCHMIDT, Sarah
44 Sleepwalker, The by BOHJALIAN, Chris
45 Mountain Between Us, The by MARTIN, Charles
46 Last Days of Dogtown by DIAMANT, Anita
47 Case of the Missing Servant, The by HALL, Tarquinn
48 Gesture Life by LEE, Chang-Rae
49 Luck, Love and Lemon Pie by REICHERT, Amy E
50 Good Riddance by LIPPMAN, Elinor
51 Tell No One by COBEN, Harlan
52 Slow Fire Burning, A by HAWKINS, Paula
53 Turk and My Mother, The by STEFANIAK, Mary Helen
54 Wench by PERKINS-VALDEZ, Dolen
55 Train to Crystal City by RUSSELL, Jan Jarboe
56 Rooftops of Tehran by SERAJI, Mahbod
57 Dead Simple by JAMES, Peter
58 Whiskers of the Lion by GAUS, P L
59 Mamur Zapt & Return of the Carpet by PEARCE, Michael
60 Little Hope, A by JOELLA, Ethan
61 Jayber Crow by BERRY, Wendell
62 West End Girls by COLGAN, Jenny
63 The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by BARTLETT, Allison Hoover
64 Frangipani by VAITE, Celestine Hitiura
65 Nineteen Minutes by PICOULT, Jodi
66 Vintage Affair by WOLFF, Isabel
67 Kept: A Comedy of Sex & Manners by HONG, Y. Euny
68 I'll Never Get Out Of this World Alive by EARLE, Steve
69 Field of Blood by MINA, Denise
70 Queen of Dreams by DIVAKARUNI, Chitra
71 River of Heaven by MARTIN, Lee
72 Winter Queen, The by AKUNIN, Boris
73 Indifferent Stars Above, The by BROWN, Daniel James
74 Walk Across the Sun, A by ADDISON, Corban
75 F Is for Fugitive by GRAFTON, Sue
76 Above the Waterfall by RASH, Ron
77 Sanibel Flats by WHITE, Randy Wayne
78 Very Simple Crime, A by JERKINS, Grant
79 Cup of Friendship, A by RODRIGUEZ, Deborah
80 Egg and I, The by MacDONALD, Betty
81 Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by KENNEDY, Wiilliam
82 Love, Anthony by GENOVA, Lisa
83 Light a Penny Candle by BINCHY, Maeve
84 Oracle of Stamboul, The by LUKAS, Michael David
85 Spy in the House (Agency #1) by LEE, Y.S.
86 Fatal Thaw (Kate Shugack # 2) by STABENOW, Dana
87 Half A Yellow Sun by ADICHIE, Chimanda Ngozi
88 You Know Me Well by LaCOUR, Nina
89 Killer Librarian by KIRWIN, Mary Lou
90 Second Chance Grill by NOLFI, Christine
91 Palisades Park by BRENNERT, Alan
92 Heartsick by CAIN, Chelsea
93 Paperbark Shoe, The by GOLDBLOOM, Goldie
94 This Adventure Ends by MILLS, Emma
95 City of Girls by GILBERT, Elizabeth
96 Liberty Falling by BARR, Nevada
97 Tender Bar, The by MOEHRINGER, J R
98 Night Birds by MALTMAN, Thomas
99 Paris Apartment, The by FOLEY, Lucy
100 Putting Lipstick on a Pig by BOWEN, Michael


Roll # 1 - 6 - Spot 6 - ✔ - 04Dec23
Shake-Up Sunday moved back to Spot 4 - ✔ - 31Dec23

Advance notice - Nancy moved me ahead to Spot 18 - (assuming I finish # 4 before the game ends)




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message 39: by NancyJ (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments LibraryCin wrote: "Thanks, Anita. No, at this point in the year, it probably didn't need the clarification, as it seems I was the only one confused. I do think this phrase helps: " (on a newly created board in this t..."

Don’t worry Cindy, you’re not alone. I completely forgot that distinction too. I’m sure I’m not the only one who said “clerk” when referring to someone on the clerk board, and Porters for those on the Porter board. It’s quicker. ( On my iPad I use one finger to type so I take lots of short cuts.)

You can think of yourself as a Porter if you want, if it helps remember which board you’re on. After all, Theresa called herself train management when she wasn’t even a clerk!


message 40: by LibraryCin (new)

LibraryCin | 11663 comments NancyJ wrote: "You can think of yourself as a Porter if you want, if it helps remember which board you’re on. After all, Theresa called herself train management when she wasn’t even a clerk! ..."

LOL! Thanks, Nancy.


message 41: by Daniel (last edited Dec 22, 2023 05:43AM) (new)

Daniel Jones | 23 comments 1. Explosive Christmas Showdown
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6. A Texas Christmas Reunion Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
7. Cowboy Christmas Guardian
8. The Rancher's Christmas Song
9. Western Christmas Brides
10. Shielding His Christmas Witness Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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13. The Baby Who Saved Christmas
14. A Family This Christmas
15. A Sprinkling of Christmas Magic
16. Once Upon a Christmas
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20. The CEO's Christmas Proposition
21. Christmas Heat
22. The Christmas Date
23. Secret Santa
24. Epiphany Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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27. The Cowboy's Christmas Baby
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29. A Christmas Blessing
30. Silhouette Christmas Stories 1993
31. Silhouette Christmas Stories 1992
32. Christmas Knight
33. Silhouette Christmas Stories 1991
34. Harlequin Historical Christmas Stories 1990
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36. Christmas Captive
37. An Amish Wife for Christmas
38. Dangerous Christmas Memories
39. Covert Christmas Twin
40. Covert Amish Christmas
41. Captured at Christmas
42. Wyoming Christmas Peril
43. An Amish Proposal for Christmas
44. The Baby's Christmas Blessing
45. The Christmas Switch
46. An Alaskan Christmas Promise
47. A Christmas Bargain
48. Her Christmas Redemption
49. Silent Night Sanctuary
50. Yuletide Cold Case Cover-Up
51. Wyoming Christmas Stalker
52. The King's Christmas Heir
53. Conard County: Christmas Bodyguard
54. Alaskan Christmas Escape
55. Rogue Christmas Operation
56. Deadly Days of Christmas
57. Ransom at Christmas
58. Montana Christmas
59. Christmas Amnesia
60. The Cowboy's Christmas Proposition
61. Christmas Conspiracy
62. Deadly Christmas Secrets
63. A Savannah Christmas Wish
64. Christmas Justice
65. Her Montana Christmas
66. A Cold Creek Christmas Surprise
67. Holiday Havoc
68. Jesse: Merry Christmas, Cowboy
69. Christmas at Bravo Ridge
70. Bluegrass Christmas
71. Her Christmas Wish
72. The Christmas Cowboy
73. The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle
74. The Christmas Clue
75. A Rogue for Christmas
76. Familiar Christmas
77. The Man Who Loved Christmas
78. A Montana Mavericks Christmas
79. Christmas Wedding
80. Killer Colton Christmas
81. Amish Christmas Memories
82. The Amish Christmas Secret
83. Amish Christmas Escape
84. Christmas Vendetta
85. Christmas K-9 Protectors
86. A Texan's Christmas Baby
87. Her Christmas Baby Confession
88, Christmas Crime Cover-Up
89. Christmas on His Doorstep
90. Challenging the Brooding Earl
91. Lone Star Christmas Witness
92. Unwrapping the Rancher's Secret
93. A NASCAR Holiday 3
94. Wrapped in Red
95. High-Stakes Holiday Reunion
96. The Holiday Triplets
97. The Deputy's Holiday Family
98. Holiday Suspect Pursuit
99. Hiding His Holiday Suspect
100. Texan for the Holidays


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