Bibliopoly - 2024

[Ashley]

update 51
2/40

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated through here!

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 6/40

[Julie]

I'm in for 20

17/20

Prompts
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title.
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own. The Road to Enchantment
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title. There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.

🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! Seeking the Spiritual Path: A Collection from Lifeline
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own. The Berry Pickers
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title. Oh My Stars
🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.) The Girl Who Drank the Moon (author Barnhill)
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition. It Was Me All Along
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.16 Lighthouse Road
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book. If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own. The Taking
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.

🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)The Graveyard Book The Newberry

[Bryan]

Update Msg #26

5/40

Roll (3) 🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. Lady of the Lake - Andrzej Sapkowski (Polish)
Roll (9) 💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover. A Christmas Carol
Roll (9) 🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed
Roll (6) 🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Roll (7) 🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) Yellowface - R.F. Kuang (Goodreads 2023 Best Fiction Award)

[Penelope]

Update Msg #9
Roll 1 - Read a book set on two or more continents - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese - India, Ethiopa and USA.

[Brittany]

updated post 43
3/31

[Laura]

Update to message 16: 1/40

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

3/40 completed

🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own. The Tattooist of Auschwitz DONE

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 7/40

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

2/24

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

4/40 completed

🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?) Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (January buddy read) DONE

[Caraina]

Update to message #62: 15/40 books read!

[Kalyn]

Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 4/16

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

3/24

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 8/40

[Julie]

updated message 106
2/20

[Caraina]

Update to message #62: 20/40 books read!

[Allie]

Update to Message #25
Progress 7/40

🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.


🚂 26. B&O Railroad: Read a book with an author or title beginning with B or O. (Author’s first or last name; title’s first main word. Omit the, and, of, etc.)
Blue Moon

🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment, an emotional or mental disorder, or a neurodivergent condition. American Mermaid

[Kalyn]

Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 5/16

[Tammy]

Update to Message #91
Progress 2/20

🟨 28. Yellow: Read a book with an author or character who has a physical disability or impairment - Iron Flame

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 2/16

[AJ]

Update (55)

1/36-39

🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.

[Kelly]

Update mess. 48
5/36
38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
The Tiger Mom's Tale

Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?)
Jan Buddy Read
Yellowface

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #11 : 17/40

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updates posted through here!

Please check your entry on the participant list and let me know if I've missed anything.

We've already read 100+ books together! 🎲📚💙

[Marcia]

Looks like fun - I'm going to aim for 20 books.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Marcia wrote: "Looks like fun - I'm going to aim for 20 books."

Welcome, Marcia! Enjoy. 😊

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 11/40

[Allie]

Update to Message #25
Progress 9/40

🟥 🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

❓ ❓37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating. House of Sky and Breath

[Lisa Marie]

Update to Message #37

GOAL - 3/40

#21: FREE PARKING - Read a book of your choice. Anything Goes!!: Heaven Scent by Kristi Copeland

#20: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

[Janine]

Update to message 71, 9/20.

🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title. - The Sword of Summer (tree on the cover).


🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or head wear on the cover or in the title. - A Tempest of Tea


🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title. - Floating Hotel


🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own. - Fourteen Days

🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title. - The Poisons We Drink


🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title. - That Self-Same Metal


🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title. - The Fragile Threads of Power


❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions. - The Eternal Ones (added Dec 21st 2023)

❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating. - Heartstopper: Volume Five (rating of 4.57)

[Martha☀]

Message 40
January update ~ 8/35
Thanks!

🗺️ 1. set on two or more continents
~ ✅️All the Broken Places
🟪 4. translated book
~ ✅️Alone
🟠 17. boat on the cover or involving water travel
~ ✅️What Is Left the Daughter
🟠 19. different religion or spiritual belief
~ ✅️ The Vaster Wilds
🟥 22. car, truck or bus on cover or involving a road trip
~ ✅️Coffee First, Then the World
🚿 29. water on the cover
~ ✅️How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
🟨 30. yellow on cover or title
~ ✅️A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
🧿 40. award winner
~ ✅️The Nix

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 4/40

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

7/40 completed

🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title. Once There Were Wolves DONE



🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long. Binti DONE


🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title. The Cat I Never Named : A True Story of Love, War, and Survival DONE

[Kalyn]

Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 6/16

[Brittany]

updated post 43

10/31

[Michelle]

update to message 75: 7/15

🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.

💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.

🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.

🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.

🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) 2010 Goodreads for Fiction, plus other awards

[Kristina]

Update for message 46 - 6/40 prompts completed.

[Sarah]

Message 32 Updated
8/45

[Emily]

Update to message #42

3/13

Completed prompt 25

[JennH, Cheerleader]

Update to message #12

12/40

[Tammy]

Update to Message #91

Progress 3/20

🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?) - House of Sky and Breath- Goodreads Choice Award - Best Fantasy 2022"

[Carmen]

Update to message #20

PROGRESS: 40/80 🎲
🐱 36-40: Grand Master

[Laura]

Update to message 16: Progress 5/40

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #10 - 11/40 books read!

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 12/40

[Julie]

updated message 106
3/20

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Carri Carey wrote: "Update to message #10 - 11/40 books read!"

I updated your progress, Carri, but your original messaged is post #5. 😊

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated to here!

Congrats to Carmen for already reaching the rank of Grand Master! 😮👏👏

And, congrats to all the active players for collectively reading 215 books already. That's over 10% of what we pledged. Yay, us!

For those wanting to complete prompt #18, be sure to watch the Readathon folder. There's an individual (solo) readathon coming up soon.
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)

I'll be back mid-month with another update. Happy reading!