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message 2: by Joy D (last edited Jun 08, 2023 08:36AM) (new)

Joy D | 10060 comments Engineer Round - Loop 1:
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message 3: by Joy D (last edited Mar 23, 2023 07:48AM) (new)

Joy D | 10060 comments Joy D's Log of Books Read for Engineer Round:
Special Rolls:
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Roll #1: 2 - 2/23/23
The Detour by Andromeda Romano-Lax - 2/24/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #2: 4 - 2/24/23
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster - 2/25/23 - 4* - My PBT Review
Tagged England 161 times:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Earned extra move - More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
3 participation points

Roll #3: 6 - 2/25/23
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich - 2/26/23 - 1* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #4: 6 - 2/26/23
The Ensemble by Aja Gabel - 2/27/23 - 3* -My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #5: 1 - 2/27/23
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley - 2/28/23 - 5* - My PBT Review
Tagged England x 50
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve... - extra move of 5 spaces
3 participation points

Roll #6: 1 - 2/28/23
Us by David Nicholls - 3/1/23 - 5* - My PBT Review
Tagged England x30
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Extra move of 2 spaces
3 participation points

Roll #7: 4 - 3/1/23
Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper - 3/2/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #8: 1 - 3/2/23
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym - 3/3/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #9: 3 - 3/3/23
Light Years by James Salter -3/4/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #10: 6 - 3/4/23
Shining Sea by Anne Korkeakivi - 3/5/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #11: 2 - 3/5/23
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber - 3/7/23 evening - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #12: 4-4-4-3-1 - 3/8/23
Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki - 3/9/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag Japan x818
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Earns extra roll of 2 dice
3 Participation Points

Roll #13: 5 - 3/9/23
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson - 3/10/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #14: 5 - 3/10/23
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill - 3/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #15: 5 - 3/11/23
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #16: 6 - 3/12/23
For the 5,6 roll, I read:
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar - 4* - My Review (from Pam's Clerk List #53)
Also read the one I landed on:
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - 3/13/23 - 4* - My Review

Roll #17: 4 - 3/13/23
If You Love Me: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction by Maureen Cavanagh - 3/14/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #18: 5 - 3/14/23
North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson - 3/15/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #19: 3 - 3/15/23
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson - 3/16/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - tagged "Japan" x6:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve... - qualifies for move forward 1 space
3 Participation Points

Roll #20: 5 - 3/16/23
Swimming Back to Trout River by Linda Rui Feng - 3/17/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #21: 1 - 3/17/23
The Blue Guitar by John Banville - 3/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #22: 1 - 3/18/23
The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon by Christopher Paolini - 3/19/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #23: 2 - 3/19/23
Ordinary Hazards by Nikki Grimes - 3/20/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #24: 2 - 3/20/23
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #25: 1 - 3/21/23
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell - 3/22/23 - 3* - My PBT Review

Roll #26: 2 - 3/22/23
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe - 3/23/23 - 3* - My PBT Review

Participation Points carried over from Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer round: 15
Total: 27


message 4: by Hannah (last edited Apr 08, 2023 10:25AM) (new)

Hannah | 3276 comments Hannah's Subdue the Shelf gameboard (Engineer Level - Round 1)

1. The Lost Apothecary
2. Amsterdam
3. Cider with Rosie - Roll 1 - Finished 26/2/23 - Matches England tag x50
4. The Go-Between
5. A Perilous Undertaking
6. A Passage to India
7. The Dictionary of Lost Words
8. Secrets of a Charmed Life - Roll 2 - Finished 27/2/23 - Matches England tag x70
9. The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
10. Brick Lane
11. Small Island
12. Agincourt
13. Harvest - Roll 3 - Finished 28/2/23 - Matches England tag x41
14. How It All Began
15. Lady Clementine - Roll 4 - Finished 1/3/23 - Matches England tag x30
16. Sister
17. The Sealed Letter
18. Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
19. Just Like You
20. Murder at Archly Manor
21. Norwegian Wood
22. Convenience Store Woman
23. Snow Country
24. After Dark
25. The Housekeeper and the Professor
26. Sputnik Sweetheart
27. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
28. South of the Border, West of the Sun
29. The Devotion of Suspect X
30. Hiroshima
31. The Sound of Waves
32. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
33. Malice
34. The Samurai's Garden
35. The Old Capital
36. Salvation of a Saint
37. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
38. Hotel Iris
39. My Year of Meats
40. The Teahouse Fire
41. The Salaryman's Wife
42. How to Be an American Housewife
43. The Garden of Evening Mists
44. Rainbirds
45. Burnt Shadows
46. Snow Falling on Cedars
47. The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
48. At the End of the Matinee
49. The Doctor's Wife
50. The Printmaker's Daughter
51. Blossoms and Shadows
52. Less - Moved back here by special roll - Finshed 7/3/23
53. The Gift of Rain
54. The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
55. Edge of Eternity - Moved here by special roll - Finished 6/3/23 - 1024 pages
56. The Kindly Ones
57. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
58. 11/22/63
59. The Evening and the Morning
60. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
61. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
62. Human Traces
63. Testament of Youth
64. Fallen Skies
65. Funeral in Berlin
66. The Long View
67. A Fool's Alphabet
68. The Things We Cherished
69. Something In Disguise
70. After Julius
71. The Beautiful Visit
72. Getting It Right
73. The Sea Change
74. Stars and Bars
75. Odd Girl Out
76. Jackdaws
77. Our Game
78. The Well of Loneliness
79. Mrs England
80. Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
81. Headlong - Roll 5 - SWAP to The Salaryman's Wife - Finished 9/3/23 - Matches Japan tag x100
82. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
83. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War - Roll 6 - Finished 10/3/23
84. Any Human Heart - Roll 7 - Finished 11/3/23 - 512 Pages
85. Judas 62
86. Daughters of War
87. Band of Sisters
88. The Patriots
89. The Rainbow
90. The House by the River
91. Return to the Enchanted Island - Roll 8 - Finished 12/3/23
92. The Disappeared - Roll 9 - Finished 13/3/23
93. The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
94. The Seven Sisters
95. The German House
96. A General Theory of Oblivion
97. The Sandcastle Girls
98. March Violets - Roll 10 - SWAP to The Printmaker's Daughter - Finished 16/3/23 - Matches Japan tag x41
99. The Land of Green Plums
100. Tom Brown's Schooldays


message 5: by Hannah (last edited Apr 24, 2023 01:57PM) (new)

Hannah | 3276 comments Hannah's List of Books Read (Engineer Level) - Round 1
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message 6: by NancyJ (last edited Apr 08, 2023 05:38AM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments NancyJ's Third Subdue Gameboard - Engineer I
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Engineer I Board Completed 4/5/23


message 7: by NancyJ (last edited Apr 19, 2023 03:02PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments Nancy's Engineer I Log
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Board completed 4/5/23


message 8: by Olivermagnus (last edited Apr 26, 2023 07:26AM) (new)

 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Engineer I Level Gameboard

Completed 4/1/23

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message 9: by Olivermagnus (last edited Apr 20, 2023 07:18AM) (new)

 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Engineer I Rolls and Bonuses

🔸Clerk Bonus Points - 4
🔸Porter Participation Points - 15
🔸Engineer I Participation Points - 6

Rolls
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Bonus Options

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message 10: by Hannah (last edited Apr 24, 2023 01:52PM) (new)

Hannah | 3276 comments Hannah's Subdue the Shelf gameboard (Engineer Level - Round 2) - Completed 24/4/23
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message 11: by Hannah (last edited Apr 24, 2023 01:57PM) (new)

Hannah | 3276 comments Hannah's List of Books Read (Engineer Level - Round 2)
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message 12: by Joy D (last edited Apr 17, 2023 07:59AM) (new)

Joy D | 10060 comments Joy D's Engineer Loop 2 - round completed 4/16/23
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message 13: by Joy D (last edited Apr 16, 2023 07:55AM) (new)

Joy D | 10060 comments Joy's Special Moves Earned or Used:
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Participation Points carried over from Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Total: 39

Eng Loop 2:
Swap 1 - Swapped Fruiting Bodies Kathryn Harlan for 60 My Antonia Willa Cather due to unavailability
Swap 2 - not yet used


message 14: by Joy D (last edited Apr 17, 2023 07:59AM) (new)

Joy D | 10060 comments Joy's Rolls for Engineer Loop 2 - round completed 4/16/23
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message 15: by Olivermagnus (last edited Apr 24, 2023 01:00PM) (new)

 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Engineer II Level Gameboard

Completed 4/24/23


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 Olivermagnus (lynda11282) | 4758 comments Engineer II Rolls and Bonuses

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message 17: by NancyJ (last edited May 07, 2023 06:18AM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments Nancyj's Fourth Subdue Gameboard - Engineer II - Edited
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message 18: by NancyJ (last edited May 22, 2023 01:01PM) (new)

NancyJ (nancyjjj) | 11060 comments NancyJ Engineer II Tracking post

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🏵️🔹SUMMARY of Participation Points and Future Rewards from the Porter board, and Engineer boards:
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message 19: by KateNZ (last edited Aug 24, 2023 03:19AM) (new)

KateNZ | 4097 comments Katrine's Engineer Level game board Loop 1
Read 23 books
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Roll 1-3-6-2-6-1 = 19. Completes Engineer Loop 1.

Two swaps - one used.

Benefits to carry over: 1 move + 5 moves
6-4 special advantage - number of chapters in oldest e-book owned Twelve Years a Slave - 22 chapters = 22 spaces

2-3 gives extra swap
+1 for The Diamond Eye tagged adventure by 14 people.
6+4 - total of car rego digits = 11 places
6+4 - extra swap - book of any length including a picture book or short book (as long as reviewed as normal)



message 20: by Robin P (last edited Sep 19, 2023 06:29AM) (new)

Robin P | 5727 comments Engineer Round 1
2 swaps available - plus a bonus one - used 3, then got 2 new ones


1.Why They Marched
2. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
3. Brothers in Arms 5/18 Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
4. Lady Clementine - already read -reading book from space 2 The Bookish Life of Nina Hill 6/5 Review:: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2
5. The High King’s Golden Tongue - already read for another challenge
6. Red Pottage - already read for another challenge. 1st book going back I haven't read is #1. Why They Marched - Why They Marched 6/10
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
7. Madame Presidentess 5/31**After reading this, must go back 3 spaces because of Shake it up Sunday. However, I read that book (#4) for another challenge since I set up this thread. The previous book (#3) was my last STS read. So I need to read the book at #2, then move forward from #4.
8. The Darling Buds of May
9. Good Eggs
10. Beach Read 6/12 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5
11. The Forty Elephants
12. The Quiet Boy
13. The Family Chao
14. American Bloomsbury
15. Miss Chartley’s Guided Tour 6/16 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next move is to ride the Shinkansen! - It moved me to #40
16. After All These Years
17. The Lincoln Highway
18. A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia
19. The Strange Journey of Alice Pendlebury
20. The Darling Buds of May
21. The Sugared Game
22. The Weaver Takes a Wife
23. The Astonishing Life of August March
24. Roux the Bandit
25. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
26. Why They Marched
27. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
28. Brothers in Arms
29. Lady Clementine
30. The High King’s Golden Tongue
31. Red Pottage
32. Madame Presidentess
33. The Darling Buds of May
34. Good Eggs
35. Beach Read
36. The Forty Elephants
37. The Quiet Boy
38. The Family Chao
39. American Bloomsbury
40. Miss Chartley’s Guided Tour - moved here by Shinkansen but just read this as # 15, so reading #39. American Bloomsbury - 6/17 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 1
41. After All These Years - 6/28 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 3
42. The Lincoln Highway
43. A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia - reading this for space 57
44. The Strange Journey of Alice Pendlebury - 7/5 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - 3-2 gives me an extra swap
45. The Darling Buds of May
46. The Sugared Game - 7/9 My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5
47. The Weaver Takes a Wife
48. The Astonishing Life of August March
49. Roux the Bandit
50. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
51. Why They Marched - already read so I will read #50. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone - 7/12 - My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...--
Next roll 1
52. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill - already read so I have to go back to #47/ The Weaver Takes a Wife 7/13 - Review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5
53. Brothers in Arms
54. Lady Clementine
55. The High King’s Golden Tongue
56. Red Pottage
57. Madame Presidentess - already read so have to go back to #45 to find an unread book 45. The Darling Buds of May 7/14 - Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
Per Shake it up Sunday on 7/16, had to move back 4 to this space, this book and many before it are read, the next available book is #43 A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7/19 Added new books for rest of list 7/23
Next roll 5
58. Well Met
59. Maud’s Line
60. Your Perfect Year
61. The Forty Elephants 7/17 - Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Per Shake it up Sunday on Jul 16 - move back 4 after reading current book
62. Everything here is Beautiful - using a swap to read A Lady for a Duke 460 p vs 384 7/29 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
63. Two in the Bush
64. Time Shelter
65. Sails on the Horizon
66. Past Imperfect 8/7- My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
67. The Other Man
68. The Ionia Sanction
69. Stories from the Tenants Upstairs
70 Crusoe’s Daughter - using a swap to read Early Riser - 402 p vs 224 8/10 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 3
71. Moonglow
72. The Right Side
73 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep my last 2 rolls add up to 7, I will read the book after this one - 8/17 My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 1 - I just read that book, so I go back to #73, but I am on space 74
74. The Humans - 8/13 - My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - last 2 rolls were 1-2 so I have the option to use up to 3 participation points to move forward, will save it
75. Good Time Coming
76. What We Lose 8/17 My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5 - last 2 rolls add up to 7 so I can read a book before or after - I will use it to read #82
77. Escaping Dreamland
78. Now is not the Time to Panic
79. The Bright and Breaking Sea
80. Thank you for Listening
81. People of the Whale - using roll of 7 to read next book,
Next roll 5
82. The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon - 8/20 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
83. Yesterday is History
84. The Road to Bittersweet
85. Mirror Dance
86. Luck and Judgment - using last swap to read King, Ship, and Sword- 358 p vs. 327 8/24 My review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - adds up to 7 so I will read book 89
87. BrittMarie Was Here
88. Before Women Had Wings - reading book 89 per note above
Next roll 3 - Last 2 rolls were 2-3 so I get an extra swap
89. The Lowland - 8/30 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
90. Crooked in His Ways
91. The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen 9/2 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - last 2 rolls 3-2 gives an extra swap
92. Liza’s England
93. Real Life 9/6 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 6
94. Church of Marvels
95. The Glory Cloak
96. Miracle Creek
97. Three Lords for Lady Anne
98. Under the Net
99. Marmee - 9/9 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 5 - takes me off this board - Engineer Round 2 board is at the end of this thread **But 6-5 means I must read a book on someone else's board before my next roll - I will read Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions form Theresa's Clerk board.
100. Fourth Wing
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions 9/19 - My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


message 21: by Booknblues (last edited Dec 12, 2023 02:11PM) (new)

Booknblues | 12045 comments Engineer Round 1 - 2 swaps available

1. Passage West(immigrants)
2. Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Roll1=2
3. Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness
4. Golden Girl
5. Oona Out of Order
6. The Postmistress of Paris
7. North to Paradise (immigrants)
8. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees(immigration)
9. The Paris Bookseller
10. Swimming Back to Trout River (immigration--8 people=1 space )3rd roll
11. Open Water
12. The Swimmers
13. Honor(immigration)
14. Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (immigration)Roll 4=4(6/18)Immigration 8people -1 space
15. Circe
16. Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
17. The Anomaly
18. French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris
19. Chevalier
20. The Memory Police
21. Stray Trouble
22. Love Medicine-DTB Roll 7=2(7/15)
23. House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
24. How Lucky
25. The Deep Roll8=3(extra swap –8/2)
26. Force of Nature
27. Love After Love Roll 9=2(8.9) extra swap]
28. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals
29. Impossible Dream Roll 10=2(8/20)
30. State of Terror
31. Strawberry Fields-DTB
32. The Secret Life of the Seine – DTB
33. Zorrie
34. Careless
35. The Windup Girl -DTB
36. This Glittering World -DTB
37. Passage West (immigration)
38. The Attack- DTB
39. Perestroika in Paris
40. The Bookshop on the Corner 6(8/23)Roll 11=6 +used 5 spaces from book read 4/8/23
41. The Long Flight Home
42. The Kew Gardens Girls
43. Unsettled Ground Roll 12= 3(8/28)
44. The Five Wounds
45. Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France Roll 13=2(9/4) earns extra swap
46. Slammerkin-Emma Donoghue DTB- Roll 14=1(9/9)
47. Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
48. No Land to Light On(immigration)
49. The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move with 2, 1 rolls used 3 participation points to move to 49
50. State of Terror chose for a swap instead of What Is the What -DTB -Roll 15=1(9/15)1,1 Leader has to move back 3 spaces
51. 28 Summers
52. Distant Sunflower Fields
53. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
54. Blindness - DTB
55. My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
56. The River King _DTB
57. You, Me & the Sea
58. The Kew Gardens Girls Roll 16=6, 2(9/25) 2 dice roll for reading a book over 500pages
59. The Fountains of Silence
60. Mistress of the Ritz
61. You Shall Know Our Velocity! -DTB
62. Light Perpetual Roll 17=4(9/29)
63. Hello Beautiful swapped Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality – Roll 18=1(10/9)used a swap
64. Beneath a Marble Sky -DTB
65. Harlem Shuffle
66. The Hours – DTB
67. Alice I Have Been Roll 19=4(10/12)
68. Bella Tuscany
69. You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War- Vietnam, female journalist
70. This Tender Land
71. A Time of Gifts
72. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
73. The Last Hours used a swapFive Quarters of the Orange- DTBRoll 20=6(11/20)(4+6=10)
74. Assumption
75. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
76. Plainsong- DTB
77. The History of Bees
78. Weather
79. North to Paradise(immigration)
80. The Stone Diaries-DTB
81. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
82. Who is Ma Kemah??
83. Homeland
84. Atonement -dtb
85. Girl in Hyacinth Blue-dtb
86. Beartown
87. Above All Things
88. The Risk Pool-DTB -
89. Umbrella -DTb
90. Paradise of the Blind -DTB
91. How Beautiful We Were
92. The Girl with Braided Hair
93. Winter - Used special roll
94. Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
95. Indian Killer- DTB
96. Portrait in Sepia -DTB
97. The Patron Saint of Liars -DTBA
98. A Woman Is No Man
99. The Quilter's Apprentice -Roll 21 =4 +2 given by NancyJ
100.The Death of Vishnu- DTB

* 15th roll 6-4 (gives me a special roll of 28) & rolls me off the board(1st Clerk round)

* Roll 1- 55 tagged Friendship - 5 extra(Remarkably Bright Creatures) Porter Round
Roll 2 -63 tagged Friendship - 5 extra (The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat)Porter Round
Last Roll Porter round = 5
Roll 1=2
Roll 2=5
Roll 3=3(6/10)-immigration, 8 people-1 sp
Roll 4=4(6/18)Immigration 8people -1 space
Roll 5=5(6/23)
Roll 6=1(7/2)
Roll 7=2
Roll 8=3(8/2)extra swap somewhere in gameUsed 11/30 on #73.
Roll 9=2(8/9) extra swap]
Roll 10=2(8/20)
)Roll 11=6 +used 5 spaces from book read 4/8/23
Roll 12= 3(8/28)
Roll 13=2(9/4) Earns and extra swap -
Roll 14=1(9/9) 2,1 gives chance to move 3 spaces using participation points, will use it.with 2, 1 rolls used 3 participation points to move to 49
Roll 15=1(9/15)1,1 Leader has to move back 3 spaces
Used a swap 9/23/23 on #50
Roll 16=6, 2(9/25) 2 dice roll for reading a book over 500pages
Roll 17=4(9/29)
Roll 18=1(10/9)used a swap
Roll 19=4(10/12)
Roll 20=6(11/20)(4+6=10)Special roll- 20 spaces used 12/2/23
Roll 21 =4 +2 given by NancyJ


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Booknblues | 12045 comments Reserved for Booknblues


message 23: by Pam (last edited Oct 28, 2023 01:23PM) (new)

Pam | 498 comments Pam's Engineer 1 Board (25x4) -- Completed Oct. 28
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Pam | 498 comments Pam's Engineer 1 Rolls/Log -- Completed Oct. 28
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message 25: by Diana (last edited Dec 02, 2023 12:45PM) (new)

Diana Hryniuk | 837 comments Diana's Engineer Board, Loop 1

1. And the Mountains Echoed
2. Black Cake
3. Cutting for Stone
4. Exodus - read 06/26
5. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
6. Little Fires Everywhere
7. Next Year in Havana
8. Ragtime
9. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
10. The Four Winds
11. The Grapes of Wrath
12. The History of Love
13. The Namesake
14. The Long Earth
15. Three Wishes
16. A Little Princess
17. The Gadfly
18. Project Hail Mary - read 07/08
19. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
20. blueeyedboy
21. Master Class
22. Sophie's Choice
23. The Art of Racing in the Rain
24. Angels & Demons - read 07/24
25. If I Stay
26. Still Alice
27. Never Have I Ever
28. The Man Who Fell to Earth
29. The Humans - read 07/31
30. The Caves of Steel/
31. The Doll Factory
32. The Hypnotist's Love Story
33. A Painted House
34. Payment in Blood
35. Pushing the Limits
36. Blood Ties
37. Wool Omnibus - read 08/15
38. Walk Two Moons
39. Foundation
40. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
41. Point of Retreat
42. Night Music
43. Hopeless
44. The Testament
45. Dark Matter
46. Anna and the French Kiss
47. Sheltering Rain
48. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
49. The Girl on the Train
50. Before I Go to Sleep
51. The Stranger
52. Sense and Sensibility - read 08/24
53. This Tender Land - read 09/16
54. We
55. Small Great Things
56. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - read 09/22
57. Wheels - read 09/06
58. The Catcher in the Rye
59. Triptych
60. Overload
61. Five Feet Apart
62. The Last Anniversary
63. Seveneves
64. Hotel
65. I'll Take Manhattan
66. Invisible Monsters
67. Up the Down Staircase
68. The Unhoneymooners
69. Dragonfly in Amber
70. The Horse Dancer
71. The Summer I Turned Pretty
72. Silver Bay
73. One Plus One
74. Foreign Fruit
75. Wonder - read 09/30
76. The Turn of the Key
77. The Problem with Forever
78. Pandemonium
79. One of Us Is Next
80. The Inverted World
81. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
82. Station Eleven
83. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
84. Normal People
85. I've Got Your Number
86. One Step to You
87. The Last Juror
88. The Cave
89. The Collector
90. Our Mutual Friend - read 10/27
91. Panic
92. Why We Took the Car
93. Timeline
94. Theatre
95. The Peacock Emporium
96. The Three-Body Problem
97. One Deadly Summer
98. Shutter Island
99. Atonement
100. One Day

BONUSES carried from the previous board:
Apr 13 - BONUS move forward 5 spaces at any time I wish - used 07/09
Apr 22 - BONUS move forward 5 spaces at any time I wish - used 08/16

Participation points:
Clerk level - 7 points
Porter level - 6 points

June 14, roll 4 - book 4 - Exodus - 06/26/23 - my review
▪ tagged "immigration" 6 times - BONUS move forward 1 space at any time I wish - used 06/26
🔸3 participation points
▪ 608 pages (https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Novel-I...) - BONUS roll two extra dice on my next turn - used 06/26

June 26, roll 6-5-2 + bonus from 06/14 - move 1 space forward - book 18 - Project Hail Mary - 07/08/23 - my review
▪ tagged "adventure" 454 times
🔸3 participation points

July 9, roll 1 + bonus from Apr 13 - move 5 spaces forward - book 24 - Angels & Demons - 07/24/23 - my review
▪ tagged "adventure" 1 242 times
🔸3 participation points
▪ 572 pages (https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Demons-...) - BONUS roll one extra die on my next turn - used 08/01

July 23, Joy moved me - book #29 - The Humans - 07/31/23 - my review
▪ tagged "adventure" 10 times - BONUS move forward 1 space at any time I wish
🔸3 participation points

Aug 01, roll 2-6 - book #37 - Wool Omnibus - 08/15/23 - my review
▪ 592 pages (https://www.amazon.com/Wool-Hugh-Howe...) - BONUS roll one extra die on my next turn - used 08/16

Aug 16, roll 6-4 + 5 - book #52 - Sense and Sensibility - 08/24/23 - my review
6-4 BONUS - You have a special roll! When you land on the next book, see how many chapters it has. You may move forward 16 spaces. This may be saved to use when you wish. - Sheltering Rain - 16 chapters - used 09/24

Aug 25, roll 5 - book #57 - Wheels - 09/06/23 - my review - doesn't fit the tag

Aug 28, Make It Up Monday, move back 4 spaces - book #53 - This Tender Land - 09/16/23 - my review
🔸3 participation points - fits the tag "literary fiction"

Sep 18, roll 4 - space #57 - will read book #56 instead - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry - 09/22/23 - my review
▪ tagged "literary fiction" 370 times - BONUS roll two dice - used 10/01
🔸3 participation points

Sep 24, roll 4 + bonus from 08/16 - move 16 spaces forward - book #75 - Wonder - 09/30/23 - my review
▪ tagged "literary fiction" 49 times - BONUS - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/01
🔸3 participation points

Oct 1, roll 3-6-4 + bonus from 09/24 - move forward 2 spaces - book #90 - Our Mutual Friend - 10/27/23 - my review
▪ 1088 pages (https://www.amazon.com/Our-Mutual-Fri...) - BONUS roll 6 extra dice on my next turn - used 10/31

Oct 31, roll 6-2-6-1 - rolled off the board


message 26: by Ellen (last edited Nov 25, 2023 01:48PM) (new)

Ellen | 3507 comments Ellen's Engineer Board, Loop #1

1. Aftershock #
2. All Grown Up #
✔ 3. All He Has Left
4. Good Eggs #
✔ 5. Always Watching
6. Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show #
7. City of Women !
8. The Confession Club #
9. Desert Star #
✔ 10. Devil’s Delight
11. The Dollhouse #
12. Drowning With Others *
13. Long Black Veil #
14. A Flicker in the Dark #
15. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea *
✔ 16. Find Me
17. Miller's Valley #
✔ 18. The It Girl
✔ 19. The Gifted School
✔ 20. Before the Ever After
✔ 21. Violent Crimes
✔ 22. Mad Honey
✔ 23. Pretty Guilty Women
24. The Witch of Tin Mountain *
✔ 25. Her Hidden Genius
26. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History *
✔ 27. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
✔ 28. The Secrets She Keeps
29. Back of Beyond *
30. Chaser *
✔ 31. The Gray House
✔ 32. Your Perfect Year
✔ 33. A Prayer For Owen Meaney
already read this book so I will move back to #31
✔ 34. Wish You Were Here
35. What Happened to Lori
✔ 36. The Murmur of Bees *
37. In the Dark *
✔ 38. Daisy Darker
39. The Seven Day Switch *
40. Red Leaves #
✔ 41. Local Woman Missing
42. Watchlist: Part I: The Chopin Manuscript #
✔ 43. The Winners
44. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road #
45. The Distant Dead #
46. Second Glance #
47. Thief River Falls *
✔ 48. A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall
✔ 49. New Boy
50. We Were Mothers *
51. Tell No Lies #
52. Sleep Toward Heaven #
✔ 53. Chronicles of a Radical Hag
✔ 54. Vicious Circle
✔ 55. The Price of Paradise
✔ 56. Another Brooklyn
✔ 57. Upgrade I have already read this book so I will drop back to #54
58. Watching You #
✔ 59. Nettle & Bone
✔ 60. Sleeping Murder
✔ 61. The Last Mrs. Parrish
✔ 62. Enemy Women
63. The Other Man *
✔ 64. The Son and Heir: A Memoir
65. A Cold and Broken Hallelujah *
✔ 66. Funerals Are Fatal
✔ 67. Between the World and Me
✔ 68. Love Lies Beneath
✔ 69. Open House
✔ 70. The Girl in the Tree
71. The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way*
✔ 72. End Of Her #
✔ 73. The Lying Game
✔ 74. Beach Read *Setback Sunday of -5 places me here but I have already read this one so I will read #72
✔ 75. Millicent Glenn's Last Wish
76. The Last Suppers
77. Paradise Valley !
✔ 78. Lockout
✔ 79. The Last Time They Met I have already read this one so I will have to go back to #77
80. Blind Justice *
81. This Magnificent Dappled Sea *
82. Hum If You Don't Know the Words #
83. False Step *
84. Deadly Justice *
85. An Eye for an Eye *
86. Fade Away *
87. Family Money *
88. Good as Dead *
89. Hard Rain *
90. Her Perfect Family *
91. Here To Stay *
92. If You Must Know *
93. The Sweet Hereafter #
94. Amora: Stories *
95. No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir *
96. The Light of the Fireflies *
97. Victim Six #
98. The Intangible *
99. The Last Chance Lawyer *
100. Mr. Mercedes *

Book #3
All He Has Left by Chad Zunker
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #5
Always Watching by Chevy Stevens
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #10
Devil’s Delight by M. C. Beaton
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #16
Find Me by Anne Frasier
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Extra book from 5 + 6 roll
(#13 from Cora's Clerk Board)
You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #18
The It Girl - Ruth Ware
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #19
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #21
Violent Crimes by Philip Margolin
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #23
Pretty Guilty Women by Gina LaManna
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #25
Her Hidden Genius by Marie Benedict
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #28
The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #32
Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #31 (I had already read #33)
The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan
1 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #48
A Beginner's Guide to Free Fall by Andy Abramowitz
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #49
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #55
The Price of Paradise by Susana Lopez Rubio
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #54 (read in place of book #57 already read)
Vicious Circle by C. J. Box
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #62
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #64
The Son and Heir: A Memoir by Alexander Munninghoff
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #69
Open House by Katie Sise
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #70
The Girl in the Tree by Sebnem Isiguzel
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit...

Book #73
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #79
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #72
The End of Her by Shari Lapena
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #75
Millicent Glenn's Last Wish by Tori Whitaker
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Book #78
Lockout by John Nance
4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 27: by Sue (last edited Sep 29, 2023 08:35PM) (new)

Sue | 2709 comments Sue's Engineer Board - Loop 1
Board Completed on 9/26
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Sue | 2709 comments Board Completed on 9/26
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message 29: by Sue (last edited Dec 19, 2023 08:28AM) (new)

Sue | 2709 comments Sue's Engineer Loop 2

1. Lucy by the Sea
2. Yellowface Rolled "2" on 9/27. My Review
3. Hello Beautiful Rolled "1" on 9/30. My Review
4. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
5. News of the World
6. Violeta
7. The Vanishing Half
8. A Thousand Acres
9. This Time Tomorrow
10. Tender is the Flesh
11. Swimming in the Dark
12. I Have Some Questions for You
13. The Paper Palace
14. The Snow Child
15. The Winter People
16. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
17. The Secret History Rolled "4-6-4" on 10/7. My Review
18. Winterwood
19. An Unwanted Guest
20. The Golem and the Jinni
21. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
22. Interview with the Vampire
23. The Witch's Heart
24. Tom Lake
25. The Queen's Gambit
26. Euphoria
27. A Woman Is No Man
28. All My Puny Sorrows
29. Acts of Desperation
30. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
31. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Sent back two places for Shake it Up Sunday. My Review
32. This Is How It Always Is
33. Such a Fun Age Rolled "1-3-2-6-4" on 10/16. My Review
34. Stay with Me
35. The Stationery Shop
36. Forty-Ninth Rolled "3" on 10/22. My Review
37. The Island of Missing Trees
38. Infinite Country
39. Migrations
40. When We Cease to Understand the World
41. Happiness, Like Water
42. Firekeeper's Daughter Rolled "6" on 11/2. My Review
43. Clap When You Land Rolled "1" on 11/5.
44. A Canticle for Leibowitz
45. Winter Counts
46. What We Fed to the Manticore
47. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man
48. Just So Stories
49. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Rolled "6" on 11/0/23. My Review
50. A Thousand Ships
51. One True Loves
52. Machines like Me
53. When All Is Said
54. River Sing Me Home
55. Fight Night Rolled "5" on 11/18, adding 1 space for a tag-related benefit. Will read once I finish a book from another player's board. Done My Review
First I'm reading The Forty Rules of Love #93 on Nancy's original Porter List My Review
56. Dinosaurs
57. Hurricane Season
58. Sabrina & Corina
59. The Reading List
60. Absolute Trust
61. The Argonauts: A Memoir My Review
62. Crying in H Mart
63. The Passion
64. Revenge
65. Off the Leash
66. Good Citizens Need Not Fear: Stories
67. What Are You Going Through
68. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rolled "2" on 11/28 + used a tag related benefit to add 5 spaces to my move. My Review
69. Snow White Learns Witchcraft
70. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story Rolled "2" on 12/2/23. My Review
MY FINAL BOOK. 71. The Queen of the Cicadas Rolled "1" on 12/5. I'm using a roll-related bonus swap to read this book instead: Cowboy's Holiday Housesitter: Trinity Falls Sweet Romance - Book 8 232 pages. (Original book has 224 pages.) My Review
72. Ring
73. The Faraway World: Stories
74. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
75. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
76. No Two Persons
77. The Other Americans
78. The Naked Sun
79. And Then She Vanished
80. Sugar
81. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
82. I Must Betray You
83. Untamed
84. The Sweetness of Water
85. The Silence of the Girls
86. Speak No Evil
87. Home Fire
88. The Roanoke Girls
89. The Music Shop
90. Operation K-9 Brothers
91. Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
92. Peace Like a River
93. The Night in Question
94. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
95. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
96. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
97. The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story, A Memoir
98. The Trees
99. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
100. A Place Called Home


message 30: by Sue (last edited Dec 05, 2023 05:58PM) (new)

Sue | 2709 comments Sue's Engineer Board Loop 2: Rolls and Special Advantages

Running Extra Participation Points (including all prior boards): 13

Running Rolls to keep track of special events: 2, 1, "4-6-4", "1-3-2-6-4", Shake it up Sunday - read a book two spaces back, "3", "6", "1", "6", "5", "6", "2", "2", "1"

Accrued Bonus Details

Swaps
- Standard Swap 1
- Standard Swap 2
Bonus Swap (carried over from Porter Level) "3" rolled on 5/18 and "2" rolled on 5/25 Used on 12/5.

Move Forward 1 Space
5-25 Taggers: Move forward 1 space - Gypsy Blood earned 7/16/23 (carried over from Porter Level) Used on 11/18/23

Move Forward 5 Spaces
50-100 Taggers: Move forward 5 spaces - The Secret History tagged Winter 86 times. Used on 11/28/23

Roll 2 Extra Dice
Over 100 Taggers: Roll 2 Extra Dice - Yellowface tagged Literary Fiction 551 times. Used on 10/7/23
Over 100 Taggers: Roll 2 Extra Dice - Hello Beautiful tagged Literary Fiction 201 times. Used on 10/15/23
Book Over 600 pages: Roll 2 Extra Dice - The Secret History 640 pages: https://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-His... Used on 10/15/23


message 31: by KateNZ (last edited Dec 10, 2023 11:10AM) (new)

KateNZ | 4097 comments KateNZ - Engineer Loop 2

1. Clytemnestra
2. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
3. Roll 3 If I Survive You
Then Shake it up - move back 6 to old board - takes me to 97 Demon Copperhead
4. Old God's Time
5. Horse
6. Ithaca
7. Birnam Wood
8. Prodigal Summer
9. Autumn
10. Lessons in Chemistry
11. Demon Copperhead
12. Between the Assassinations
13. A God in Ruins
14. One Good Turn
15. The Lace Reader
16. Birds Without Wings
17. Exodus
18. The Naming of Eliza Quinn
19. The Library of Shadows
20. Did I Ever Tell You This?
21. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
22.The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
23. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
24. The Kiwi Pair
25. A Traveller At The Gates of Wisdom
26. A History of Loneliness
27. White Chrysanthemum
28. A Short History of Nearly Everything
29. Shotgun Lovesongs
30. The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What We Can Learn about Ourselves from Our Machines
31. The History of Bees
32. The Natural Disorder of Things
33. The Yiddish Policeman's Union
34. The Quilter's Apprentice
35. The Purveyor of Enchantment
36. Miss Ambar Regrets
37. Billy Connolly's Route 66: The Big Yin on the Ultimate American Road Trip
38. The Prince of Tides
39. The Archivist
40. Strange Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo, and Pygmies
41. Specimen Days
42. The Mathematics of Love
43. The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
44. King Hereafter
45. Christine Falls
46. The Scottish Prisoner
47. The Man in the Wooden Hat
48. The Cellist of Sarajevo
49. Blindsight
50. Every Note Played
51. The Beekeeper's Pupil
52. The Hungry Tide
53. The Sonnet Lover
54. The Anatomy of Deception
55. Tu: A Novel
56. The Other Bennet Sister
57. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
58. The Dead Fathers Club
59. Across the Nightingale Floor
60. Slow Horses
61. Daughters of Sparta
62. Someone Knows My Name
63. Ship of Magic
64. The History of Danish Dreams
65. The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels
66. The Almond Picker
67. Digging to America
68. The Bookbinder of Jericho
69. Babel: An Arcane History
70. The Whale Rider
71. An American Marriage
72. Love in the Land of Midas
73. The Complete Midshipman Bolitho
74. The Poison Throne
75. Animal Dreams
76. Billie's Kiss
77. The History of Love
78. The Wall
79. Small Island
80. Two Caravans
81. Swallowing Grandma
82. Lost Children Archive
83. Apeirogon
84. The Scrivener's Tale
85. That Part Was True
86. Dunedin
87. Auē
88. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
89. Wild Grapes
90. Son of the Shadows
91. Daughters of Jerusalem
92. Pure
93. The Clockmaker's Daughter
94. What Alice Forgot
95. Season of the Witch
96. An Evening of Long Goodbyes
97. The Jukebox Queen of Malta
98. The Lincoln Highway
99. The Black House
100. Tamar

Earned Advantages

Swaps
+ 2 (for new board)
+ 1 (for 2-3 roll)

Extra moves
+ 1 (from Porter)
+ 1 for the Diamond Eye tagged adventure by 14 people

6-4 special advantages
+ 22 (number of chapters in oldest e-book owned Twelve Years a Slave - 22 chapters)
+ 11 (total of car rego digits: 6+5)
+ extra swap - book of any length including a picture book or short book (as long as reviewed as normal)


message 32: by Jen K (last edited Dec 11, 2023 12:22PM) (new)

Jen K | 3143 comments Jen K- Engineer Loop 1

1 The Trees - Roll 1
2 The Nix - Roll 2
3 Demon Copperhead
4 The Other Americans
5 City of Thieves
6 The Last Chairlift
7 If I Survive You
8 Less is Lost
9 Ordinary Grace
10 A Good Neighborhood
11 Great Circle - Roll 3 *swap*
12 The Luminaries
13 Dept of Speculation
14 Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
15 The Secret History
16 Saint Death's Daughter
17 The Empire of Gold
18 The Shadow of the Wind
19 The Leavers- Roll 4
20 Faithful Place
21 Wanderers
22 Countdown City
23 The Name of All Things
24 The Rage of Dragons
25 Winter Pasture Shake It Up Sunday
26 The Overstory
27 Notes on a Silencing
28 Devil House
29 Pod - Roll 5 and Roll 6: Using Swap
30 A Mystery of Mysteries
31 A Very Nice Girl
32 Tress of the Emerald Sea
33 A Children's Bible
34 Vita Nostra
35 Heartless
36 A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire
37 The Confession Club
38 The Parking Lot Attendant
39 Like a River Glorious
40 World of Wonders
41 The Mummy Case- Roll 7
42 Talk Bookish to Me
43 Red, White and Royal Blue
44 Our Lady of the Nile
45 It Happened One Summer
46 Love in the Big City
47 The Door
48 The Disappearance of Ember Crow
49 Rapture in Death
50 The Humans
51 Ethan of Athos
52 Cantoras- Roll 8
53 Mad Honey
54 Love Medicine
55 The Paid Bridesmaid
56 The Blacktongue Thief
57 Lady Renegades
58 Honey & Blood
59 A Monstrous Regiment of Women
60 Five Little Indians
61 Ship of Magic
62 Our Share of Night
63 Snow-Storm in August
64 Sea of Poppies
65 The Library of Mount Char
66 The Wild Silence
67 God Spare the Girls
68 Daughter of Smoke and Bone
69 Foul Lady Fortune
70 The Rabbit Hutch
71 The Odyssey of Phyllis Wheatley
72 The Starless Crown
73 G-Man
74 Misteltoe and Mr. Right
75 Odin's Game
76 The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds
77 We Run the Tides
78 The Book of Not
79 The Five Wounds
80 Love in the Big City
81 Temporary
82 Adulthood Rites
83 Cassandra Speaks
84 A Conjuring of Light
85 Travels with My Aunt
86 Open Water
87 In Defense of Witches
88 Beasts of a Little Land
89 The Book of Etta
90 The Girl in the Tree
91 Seeing Ghosts
92 The Light Pirate
93 Flat Broke with Two Goats
94 The True Queen
95 Waiting for Tom Hanks
96 Conspiracy of Ravens
97 Ancillary Justice
98 The Liar's Key
99 The Checklist
100 Labyrinth Lost


message 33: by Jen K (last edited Dec 11, 2023 12:22PM) (new)

Jen K | 3143 comments Jen K- Engineer Loop 1 Log

Earned Advantages

Swaps:
+ 1 (carried over from Porter)
1 swap used September 23
1 swap used October 31

Extra moves:
+5 moves for The Trees- Sept 3
Roll 2 dice for The Nix- Sept 10 Used for Roll 7 on November 7
Roll 2 dice for The Leavers- Sept 29 -Used for Roll 5 on October8

6-4 special advantages:
+Roll 4 dice at any time of choosing (carried over) used Nov 13

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

Roll Log:
Roll 1: 1-->1: Sept 3
The Trees by Percival Everett
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged Literary Fiction by 98 people-- Qualifies for Move 5 Forward

Roll 2: 1-->2: Sept 10
The Nix by Nathan Hill
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged Literary Fiction by 211 people-- Qualifies for More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

Roll 3: 5-2-2 --> 11, Sept 23
Landed on Great Circle, 608 pages. Using a Swap to read A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab, 624 pages.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 4: 3-3-2 --> 19, Sept 29
The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Tagged Literary Fiction by 201 people-- Qualifies for More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 5: 5-4-1 -->29, Oct 9 (+2 dice advantage earned 9/29)
Pod by Laline Paull
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Shake It Up Sunday: Move back 4 --> 25, Oct 15
Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders by Li Juan
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 6: 4-->29, Oct 31
Using a swap, The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 7: 5-4-3-->41, Nov 7
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 8: 1-4-1-5-->52, Nov 13 (used Special Advantage)
Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 9: 5 --> 57
Lady Renegades by Rachel Hawkins
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 10: 5 --> 62
Our Share of Night (read in October)


message 34: by Robin P (last edited Dec 11, 2023 09:57AM) (new)

Robin P | 5727 comments Robin P - Engineer Loop 2 - 2 swaps +1 - 1 used 9/28

1st roll 3
1. The Plover
2. For Love of the Viscount
3. The Penguin Pool Murder 9/20 My review - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - last 2 rolls were 3-2, which gives me an extra swap
4. People of the Whale
5. One Thousand Chestnut Trees 9/24 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2
6. The House at Sea’s End
7. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake 9/28 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2
8. A Case of Murder in Mayfair
9. Vanishing Fleece - already read this between the time I made the list and now, forgot to check before reading! so I would read the book before. However #8 is audio and I am in the middle of a very long audiobook, so I will use a swap in The Female Detective - 316 p vs 248 - 10/1 = My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 2 - again!
10. The Ionia Sanction
11. Fourth Wing 10/15 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
**523 pages gets me 2 dice for next roll**
Rolled 8
12. How to Suppress Women’s Writing
13. Maud’s Line
14. Well Met
15. The Existential Worries of Mags Munro
16. The Guncle
17. The Road to Lichfield
18. Birnam Wood
19. In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash 10/23 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 4
20. Slow Horses
21. Moonrise Over New Jessup
22. The Colonial Post-Captain
23. Time Shelter 10/26 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next roll 6
24. The Death of Vivek Oji
25. Now Is Not the Time to Panic
26. Exiles
27. A Year of Marvellous Ways
28. Murder at the Spring Ball
29. Back to the Garden 10/30 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
**rolled 4-6 & special advantage is to move ahead 2736 spaces any time after reading this book, AND after being moved to space 37 by JoyD and reading that book**
30. Under the Net
31. The Magic Kingdom
32. Two in the Bush
33. Crusoe’s Daughter
34. Olde Robin Hood
35. The Glory Cloak
36. My Mother’s Secret
37. Shrines of Gaiety 12/11 My review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Using advantage above to go ahead 36 spaces
38. To Shield the Queen
39. The House Behind the Cedars
40. Autumn Duchess
41. A Tale of Two Murders
42. A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem
43. Murder at Morrington Hall
44. Fidelity
45. The Pupil
46. Good Time Coming
47. The Long View
48. Booked to Die
49. Everything Here is Beautiful
50. The Party Upstairs
51. The Good House
52. Before Women Had Wings
53. P. S. from Paris
54. The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Wheeler
55. The Incredulity of Father Brown
56. Liza’s England
57. The Winds of Heaven
58. The Colour
59. Miss Icleand
60. Crossings
61. The Right Sort of Man
62. Miracle Creek
63. The Widows of Malabar Hill
64. The Master Butchers Singing Club
65. Rock Island Line
66. Church of Marvels
67. The Unknown Shore
68. What I Did for Love
69. A Conspiracy of Paper
70. The Lieutenant
71. Escaping Dreamland
72. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
73. Old Filth
74. The Address Book - already read so I will read #73
75. The Rogue Retrieval
76. Le Premier Jardin
77. Luck and Judgement
78. Good King Harry
79. A Borrowed Life
80. The Emerald Storm
81. The Arctic Fury
82. Faye Faraway
83. Hilda Lessways
84. Human Croquet
85. Juggling
86. On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service
87. Carnegie’s Maid
88. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
89. Yesterday is History
90. Something Fabulous
91. No Highway
92. The Peacock Spring
93. Baker Towers
94. Moonglow
95. Nora Goes Off Script
96. Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein
97. Heretics Anonymous
98. Under the Dragon’s Tail
99. The Road to Bittersweet
100. Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man


message 35: by Tien (last edited Dec 11, 2023 12:59PM) (new)

Tien (tiensblurb) | 1641 comments Tien's Subdue the Shelf Gameboard (Engineer Round 1)

1. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night
2. Namesake
3. Taking a Chance
4. Heart of the Sun Warrior
5. Vox
6. Hidden (Avena #1) - Roll 1: 6 -Completed 10/29
7. Scarlet
8. Duels & Deception
9. The Silence of Bones - Roll 2: 3 -Completed 11/05
10. The Robbers - Shake It Up Sunday (11/12) - DNF; replaced with Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom #1) -Completed 11/28
11. The Tower of the Swallow
12. Fortune
13. Devour (Olivia Wolfe #1)
14. The Midnight Watch - Roll 3: 5 -Completed 11/16
15. Station Eternity - Roll 4: 5 -Completed 12/11
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) - Roll 5: 6
22. Worth Fighting For
23. The Kingdom of Copper
24. Eleanor's Secret
25. Death Fugue
26. The Wreck
27. Supernova
28. The Girl and the Moon (Bock of the Ice #3)
29. Forgetting Foster
30. The Greatest Gift
31. Munich
32. The Gilded Cage
33. Absolution Creek
34. White Night
35. A Darker Shade of Magic
36. Scarlet
37. Convergence (Kindred Ties, #1)
38. Stargazer (Evernight #2)
39. Gallipoli Street
40. Death by Bubble Tea
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. Troll Mountain
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. The Speaker
53. The Naturalist's Daughter
54. Lenin's Kisses
55. Seventeen
56. The Last of the Bonegilla Girls
57. Quicksand
58. The Girl On The Page
59. The Edge of Everything
60. The Bridled Tongue
61. Aurora Burning
62. The Art of Prophecy
63. The Deathless Girls
64. Holding Up the Universe
65. Give Me Your Hand
66. Everless (Untitled #1)
67. He Who Drowned the World
68. Leaving Ocean Road
69. The Time of the Dark (Darwath, #1)
70. Why Mummy Swears
71. The City of Dusk
72. Up to the Challenge
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 Only One in the world
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. The Spider and Her Demons
100. Fire with Fire

Roll 1: 6 #6. Hidden (Avena #1) by Marianne Curley -Read & Reviewed 10/29

Roll 2: 3
#9. The Silence of Bones by June Hur -Read & Reviewed 11/05

Roll 3: 5
#14. The Midnight Watch by David Dyer -Read & Reviewed 11/6

Shake It Up Sunday (11/12): Move back 4 spaces to
#10. The Robbers by Paul Anderson (408p) DNF & replaced with Song of Silver, Flame Like Night (Song of the Last Kingdom #1) by Amélie Wen Zhao (480p) -Read & Reviewed 11/28

Roll 4: 5
#15. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders #1) by Mur Lafferty -Read & Reviewed 12/11

Roll 5: 6
#21. Worldwired (Jenny Casey #3)

🥠 - advantages available
Brought over from Porter:
🥠 #2 adjacent rolls: 2-1 You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.
🥠 #11 28x winter (October's tag): Move forward 2 spaces + 3 participation points

Swaps:
2 to start with
Used 1 for Shake It Up Sunday (11/12)

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


message 36: by Pam (last edited Dec 16, 2023 01:31PM) (new)

Pam | 498 comments Pam's Engineer 2 Board (50x2) -- Completed Dec. 16
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message 37: by Pam (last edited Dec 16, 2023 01:32PM) (new)

Pam | 498 comments Pam's Engineer 2 Rolls/Log

Roll 1 (Oct. 29): 4 = 4. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell + (combined with previous roll) 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review. (Completed Oct. 31/Fits tag: Winter, 3 points -- review)

Roll 2 (Oct. 31): 3-1-5 (previous read was 656 pages) = 13. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo Using "move forward 5 spaces" tag bonus to move to 18. These Old Lies by Larrie Barton (Completed Nov. 4/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 3 (Nov. 4): 3 = 21. The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott (Completed Nov. 5/Does not fit tag -- review)

+Shake It Up Sunday (Nov. 5): -5 = 16. A Wizard of Earthsea (Completed Nov. 7/Fits tag: Dragons, 3 points -- review)

Roll 4 (Nov. 7): 3-5-3 = 27. Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney (Completed Nov. 7/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 5 (Nov. 8): 4 = 31. VenCo by Cherie Dimaline Using "move forward 1 space" tag bonus to move to 32. Light by Nathan Burgoine (Completed Nov. 20/Does not fit tag -- review)

Moved by Joy to: 46. The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord Using "move forward 1 space" tag bonus to move to 47. Do You Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi Oh (Completed Nov. 24/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 6 (Nov. 24): 6-6 (previous read was 529 pages) = 59. The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn (Completed Nov. 26/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 7 (Nov. 26): 4 = 63. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers SWAPPING for Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames (Completed Nov. 28/Fits tag: Dragons, 3 points -- review)

Roll 8 (Nov. 29): 1-2 = 66. Way Station by Clifford D. Simak Special Roll (2-1): You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. I'm going to use 2 of my participation points to move ahead 2 spaces to: 68. Lovesick by Marina Ford (Completed Dec. 1/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 9 (Dec. 2): 6 = 74. The Element of Fire by Martha Wells Using "move forward 2 spaces" tag bonus to move to: 76. Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh (Completed Dec. 9/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 10 (Dec. 9): 2 = 78. Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (Completed Dec. 10/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 11 (Dec. 11): 2 = 80. Snowball in Hell by Josh Lanyon (Completed Dec. 11/Fits tag: Holiday, 3 points -- review)

Roll 12 (Dec. 12): 1 = 81. Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi Special Roll (2-1, with previous roll): You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. I'm going to use 3 of my participation points to move ahead 3 spaces to: 84. The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (Completed Dec. 13/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 13 (Dec. 13): 1 = 85. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa Using "move forward 1 space" tag bonus to move to: 86. Small Wonders by Courtney Lux (Completed Dec. 13/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 14 (Dec. 14): 2 = 88. Names for the Dawn by C.L. Beaumont Special Roll (2-1, with previous roll): You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. I'm going to use 3 of my participation points to move ahead 3 spaces to: 91. Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold (Completed Dec. 16/Does not fit tag -- review)

Roll 15 (Dec. 16): 5 = 96. Stray by Ash Penn Using "move forward 5 spaces" tag bonus gifted from the Conductors to roll myself right off the board!!! DONE







Available bonuses:
>5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (From Porter Roll 4)
>5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (From Porter Roll 6)
>50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces (From Engineer1 Roll 3) Used after Roll 2
>More than 100 taggers - roll two dice (From 11/5 SIUS roll backwards) Used with Roll 4
>5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (From Engineer2 Roll 1) Used with Roll 5
>5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (From Engineer1 Roll 10) Used with Move from Joy between rolls 5 and 6
>25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces (From Engineer2 Roll 2) Used with Roll 9
>5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (From Engineer1 Roll 9) Used with Roll 13


Total books read for Clerk board: 10
Total books read for Porter board: 18
Total books read for Engineer 1 board: 16
Total books read for Engineer 2 board: 16
Total books read through all four loops: 60

Participation points through Engineer 1 round: 33
Total points all levels: 41 (Subtracted 2 points for 2-1 Special Roll on Roll 8; subtracted another 3 for same reason on Roll 12; and another 3 for same reason on Roll 14)


message 38: by Diana (last edited Dec 16, 2023 01:45AM) (new)

Diana Hryniuk | 837 comments Diana's Engineer Board, Loop 2

1. Normal People
2. Us Against You
3. The Bell Jar
4. Smilla's Sense of Snow
5. The Goldfinch
6. The Magic Mountain
7. Villette
8. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
9. The Maid
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
11. If I Stay
12. The Secret History - read 11/22
13. The Catcher in the Rye
14. The Ice Princess
15. A Little Princess
16. Station Eleven
17. A Fatal Grace
18. The Great Gatsby
19. The Sittaford Mystery
20. Sharp Objects
21. The Stranger
22. The Grapes of Wrath
23. Timeline
24. One Deadly Summer
25. Payment in Blood
26. Shift
27. Shutter Island - read 12/01
28. Hopeless
29. Foundation
30. Cutting for Stone
31. Invisible Monsters
32. The Turn of the Key
33. The Three-Body Problem
34. Up the Down Staircase
35. Panic
36. Little Fires Everywhere
37. Before I Go to Sleep
38. After You
39. The Gadfly
40. Pushing the Limits
41. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
42. One of Us Is Next
43. Devil's Bride
44. Walk Two Moons - read 12/08
45. Blood Ties
46. Five Feet Apart - read 12/16
47. Anna and the French Kiss
48. White Bird
49. The Inverted World
50. Point of Retreat
51. The Peacock Emporium
52. We
53. The Hypnotist's Love Story
54. The Horse Dancer
55. The Unhoneymooners
56. I'll Take Manhattan
57. Atonement
58. The War That Saved My Life
59. Why We Took the Car
60. The Namesake
61. The Art of Racing in the Rain
62. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
63. The Man Who Fell to Earth
64. Seveneves
65. Bewilderment
66. One Step to You
67. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
68. The Cave
69. Silver Bay
70. The Caves of Steel/
71. The Last Anniversary
72. The Collector
73. Small Great Things
74. Sheltering Rain
75. The Doll Factory
76. Master Class
77. Valley of the Dolls
78. The Martian
79. The Summer I Turned Pretty
80. Three Wishes
81. Night Music
82. Matilda
83. Still Alice
84. I've Got Your Number
85. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
86. The Long Earth
87. One Plus One
88. Foreign Fruit
89. The Girl on the Train
90. Dragonfly in Amber
91. blueeyedboy
92. Sophie's Choice
93. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
94. Dark Matter
95. Pandemonium
96. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
97. One Day
98. Where the Dead Sit Talking
99. Theatre
100. The Problem with Forever

BONUSES carried from the previous board:
July 23 - BONUS move forward 1 space at any time I wish - used 12/02

Participation points:
Clerk level - 7 points
Porter level - 6 points

Oct 31, roll 6-5-1 - book #12 - The Secret History - 11/22/23 - my review - doesn't fit the tag
▪ 640 pages (https://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-His...) - BONUS roll two extra dice on my next turn - used 12/02

Nov 19, moved by Linda 15 spaces forward - book #27 - Shutter Island - 12/01/23 - my review - doesn't fit the tag

Dec 02, 6-6-4 + BONUS (July 23) move forward 1 space - book #44 - Walk Two Moons - 12/08/23 - my review - doesn't fit the tag

Dec 11, 2 - book #46 - Five Feet Apart - 12/16/23 - my review - doesn't fit the tag


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