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Theresa wrote: "AND I ROLL OFF THE BOARD! PORTER, HERE I COME! I just have to write and post my last Clerk review, review and post my new board and read all those new rules. Back in a couple of hours.
Tom and t..."
Félicitations, Theresa!
Tessa, can you come join me for a quick refreshing drink and an enlivening duet? I am sitting in seat 99 with the huge Atomic Anna on my lap, 15% through When Nietzche Wept. I am literally smelling the shampoo of the driver, who now that I think about it is kind of non-existent. Like I am truly watching this train careen into nothingness. I am going to consider it a Magic Train Like the Hogwarts Express, Just call me 99.
Theresa - Save some taco's for me - I'll be there in the Caboose soon. And need something more that the fou-fou stuff they're serving in the Royal Coach.But definitely staying here through the Coronation tomorrow - what better place to view this historic event than the Royal Coach?
I hear that we'll be getting cream tea and crumpets!
I'm sure you will all catch-up or stay ahead of me. I just happened to have a reading and work window, finally, to move forward quickly. It's closing soon and I will no doubt languish here and there - in Porter. Plus:
-OM moving me ahead 15 really pushed me forward
-Winning that special swap where I could switch remaining board spots with not read earlier spots really helped me stack the end of my board with fast light reading, which also fit my mood.
-I used both my swaps for easier to get and lighter reads, though not shorter
-I got lucky with rolls at the end.
-#13 has always been my lucky number - and I rolled off the board on my 13th Roll!
I know I'm getting fitted for a new Porter uniform but in the meantime, I need to pull out something that suits the Salsa Party in Caboose!
Welcome to the Porter Car, Theresa. I've been here for quite a while now and it's lovely. The more the merrier!!
Proves I have been living in a closet-LoL had no idea Chuckie was getting the crown tomorrow🙄
Theresa wrote: "AND I ROLL OFF THE BOARD! PORTER, HERE I COME! ..."Congrats to you! I still think I'll be lucky to finish my first board before the end of the year.
Sue wrote: "Theresa - Save some taco's for me - I'll be there in the Caboose soon. And need something more that the fou-fou stuff they're serving in the Royal Coach.But definitely staying here through the Co..."
Yes indeed, tea and crumpets and streaming the Coronation in the Royal Coach. Given it is so bloody early our time, no fancy dress required, but I will be sporting a tiara.
I am going to my friend's house to watch the coverage of the coronation. No, we're not getting up at o-dark-thirty ... she's taping it and we will have a civilized luncheon ... with tea, champagne, cucumber sandwiches, plum pudding (yes, with brandied cream sauce). Jeans acceptable but tiaras, and brooches required.And then tomorrow afternoon it's the Kentucky Derby!
Amy wrote: "Tessa, can you come join me for a quick refreshing drink and an enlivening duet? I am sitting in seat 99 with the huge Atomic Anna on my lap, 15% through When Nietzche Wept. I am literally smelling..."Don't know if I'm allowed to jump ahead like that ... only in first class car in seat 58 (once I get the book from the library ....) But perhaps we can meet briefly on the platform at the next stop? We can serenade our fellow travelers from there.
Book Concierge wrote: "I am going to my friend's house to watch the coverage of the coronation. No, we're not getting up at o-dark-thirty ... she's taping it and we will have a civilized luncheon ... with tea, champagne,..."I set the DVR to tape the BBC America coverage, and BritBox on Prime Video should have it to stream. I too will skip any ridiculous early AM viewing.
I have plenty of brooches ... excellent idea to compliment the tiara.
I am ready for my next roll, please! (1)
Roll requests for 5/6:Theresa (1)
Joy (1)
Hannah (1)
Olivermagnus (1)
Robin (1)
Nancy (1)
I would like my next roll (1), please. My last two rolls were 4, 6, which I think is a special roll.
Hannah wrote: "I would like my next roll (1), please. My last two rolls were 4, 6, which I think is a special roll."
Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your discretion.
I'm ready for another 🎲 dice roll (1). Thanks!
I would like another roll (1), thanks.
Rolls for 5/6:Theresa 3
Joy 3
Hannah 3
Olivermagnus 2
Robin 1
Nancy 5
My first Porter read is a memoir by Louise Brooks. She has inspired my new dress for the Caboose Salsa Party.
My last 2 rolls were 2-1, which means I can use up to 3 participation points to move forward up to 3 spaces. I will save it.
Theresa wrote: "My first Porter read is a memoir by Louise Brooks. She has inspired my new dress for the Caboose Salsa Party."
That is a VERY salsa dress!
Joy D wrote: "Anita, my last 2 rolls were 3,1"Thanks, Joy. You will be moving Nancy.
Anita, I will move Nancy to:28. Love Medicine
I recall she said she wanted to read that one for the monthly tag. (I have read it and enjoyed it very much.)
I'm almost done with my book so I'm requesting my next roll (2).
Roll requests for 5/7:Rachel N. (2)
Joy (1)
Hannah (1)
Nicole (2)
Robin (1)
Sue (2)
I am ready for another roll, please! (1)
Anita wrote: "Hannah wrote: "I would like my next roll (1), please. My last two rolls were 4, 6, which I think is a special roll."
Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your ..."
Thank you!
I would like my next roll (1), please.
Roll request please, Clerk Level (2 dice) - thank you! :)
I would like another roll (1), please
Rolls for 5/7:Rachel N. 2-3
Joy 6
Hannah 2
Nicole 3-3
Robin 6
Sue 4-5
Sue wrote: "That is a VERY salsa dress!"At first (before scrolling down to see the heels), I thought it was an ice dance/figure skating dress, but they do tend to take their costumes from the ballroom!
Shake It Up SundayI almost forgot!! I'm so sorry, but BooknBlues, you've been chosen.
You will be moving back 3 after your current read it complete.
Truth be told, I did forget, and it is thanks to Joanne that I remembered!
So this roll takes me off the the Clerk train! Do I need to finish my current book before requesting my first Porter roll? I'm close but not quite done with my final Clerk book yet.
I will answer as Anita is busy tonight-yes Sue you must finish and post your review before moving on to the new board
After my roll of 6, I chose to use my special role from a previous turn of 2-1 to move ahead 3 spaces by giving up 3 participation points. So those points need to be subtracted from my total. I am now on #78 of the Porter board.
Anita wrote: "Shake It Up SundayI almost forgot!! I'm so sorry, but BooknBlues, you've been chosen.
You will be moving back 3 after your current read it complete.
Truth be told, I did forget, and it is thank..."
So, I had rolled to 16, but had a special roll in which I moved 2 spaces to 18, so that would put me back to 15. Is that correct?
It is not bad because I will land on Hamnet which I wanted to read for a while.
That is correct Fran, you go back to 15 once finished with 18
Robin P wrote: "After my roll of 6, I chose to use my special role from a previous turn of 2-1 to move ahead 3 spaces by giving up 3 participation points. So those points need to be subtracted from my total. I am ..."Got it, thank you
Joanne wrote: "I will answer as Anita is busy tonight-yes Sue you must finish and post your review before moving on to the new board"Thanks Joanne!
Joanne wrote: "That is correct Fran, you go back to 15 once finished with 18"When I finish 15 does my next roll continue from 18? That is my assumption.
Booknblues wrote: "Anita wrote: "Shake It Up SundayI almost forgot!! I'm so sorry, but BooknBlues, you've been chosen.
You will be moving back 3 after your current read it complete.
Truth be told, I did forget, a..."
If you have to go backward, you have landed on a good one, Fran! In fact I picked it from your board when I rolled 11 on Clerk!
Theresa wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Anita wrote: "Shake It Up SundayI almost forgot!! I'm so sorry, but BooknBlues, you've been chosen.
You will be moving back 3 after your current read it complete.
Truth be to..."
I've been wanting to read it.
I'd like to request my next roll - 2 dice. Thanks!
Yay! I finished and reviewed my final Clerk level book.Ready for my first Porter Roll - 1 die
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Here's my review of the final Clerk read which I posted, got the usual error but posted message, and of course can't find page to read it.
My One and Only Duke by Grace Burrowes - 3 stars
Once again Grace Burrowes gives us a regency romance not in the normal way of the genre. Quinn, a wealthy banker who started life as an abused guttersnipe, is in Newgate, awaiting execution by hanging for the murder of another. Although, in truth, something doesn't add up about all of this given his care of some fellow inmates, a mouser and some birds visiting his barred window, or given that no matter how much of his wealth he were to use for bribes, his sentence would not be commuted to something other than death. Someone wants him dead and disgraced. It's pretty far into the plot before the full story is known but not too long. Because of course, this is a regency romance and that romance needs to develop.
Enter Jane, a widowed and pregnant vicar's daughter, who finds herself in his cell a few days before his hanging, waiting for her hypocritically pious vicar father who is sermonizing to the condemned in the Common Ward. Eventually a deal is struck between Jane and Quinn wherein she marries him just before he is to die and he leaves money in trust for her to giver her independence and her child a chance. How could this possibly go wrong?
Quite a lot it seems, as we have been following in a separate plot thread, seems Quinn is the heir to a debt ridden dukedom...and all are rushing to get a royal pardon before he's hung. Then there's Quinn's unusal family -- who will feature in the rest of the series. Of course, who's looking to disgrace and murder him also has to be revealed and punished, and love has to triumph.
This was just the fun, cleverly plotted regency romance I needed right now.
Bonus: there was a Christmas novella Once Upon a Christmas Eve by Elizabeth Hoyt tucked in as well which I also enjoyed - also rating it 3 stars. It was far smuttier than My One and Only Duke, just the right amount, and I'm a sucker for rakes falling in love at Christmas, especially when a carriage accident during a blizzard strands one and his elderly grandmother in the home of a spinster who thinks she hates rakes. It's made me rethink reading Hoyt who I had dropped after I found her Maiden Lane series unpleasant reading around the third or fourth.