Bibliopoly - 2024

[Billie]

Update to message 59: 8/40 books read :)

Prompts
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros (February)
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London, by Garth Nix
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
Physik, by Angie Sage
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
Someone Else's Garden, by Dipika Rai
🚂 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 Bar Code Tattoo, by Suzanne Weyn
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
A Spindle Splintered, by Alix E. Harrow

[Julie]

updated message 106
6/20

[Kelly]

update mess. 48
9/36
9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.


17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.


22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.


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

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

10/40 completed

🚂 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.) Braiding Sweetgrass DONE

[Carmen]

Update to message #20

PROGRESS: 71/80 🎲
🐱 36-40: Grand Master

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 16/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 17/40

[Tammy]

Update to Message #91

Progress 6/20

🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name. - Sweep in Peace

[Lina]

Update for message #23:
🎲 Progress: 26/35 🎲 -
Edit Mar 03: Raising my goal to 35.

[AJ]

Update for #55

4/36-39

🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.:

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

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated!

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

7/25

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 6/16.

[Emily]

Update to message #42

6/13

Completed prompt 26

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 18/40

[Tammy]

Update to Message #91
Progress 8/20

🚂 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.) - One Fell Sweep

🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip. - Magical Midlife Awakening

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC, #40, posting 56/40, and I’m done! What great prompts; thank you for posting.
1.two+ continents- Haben, Haben, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
2.Two+ continents- Beyond That, The Sea, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
3.Two + continents- The one and Only Ruby, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
4. Two+ continents - Eric Liddell, Finish the Race- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
5. Garden tool- Mud, Muck and Dead Things https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
6. Garden, Grow all you can eat in 3 square feet, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
7. Group read- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
8. Translated- from French The Runaway Princess, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
9. Translated-from Swedish- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
10. Translated-from Spanish -The Linden Tree-https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
11. Money on cover- Paper Money, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
12. Celebrity book club- Read With Jenna-The Whalebone Theater, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
13. Celebrity book club-Good Morning America, River Sing Me Home, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
14. Hat on cover- Snow on Tulips, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
15. Hat on cover - Death of a Chimney Sweep, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
16. Hat on cover- Inspector Alan Grant, Daughter of Time,https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
17. High or low tbr- Murder and Mamon-https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
18. Diff sexual orientation- Hurricane Child, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
19. Blue on cover- 24 yr old- Hello Stranger, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
20. Blue on cover-Brother’s Keeper- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
21. Blue on cover, Crenshaw, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
22. Banned- 10,000 Dresses, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
23. Banned-Bless Me, Ultima, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
24. Dog on cover - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618
25. Dog on cover, Of Mutts and Men, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
26. Light source on cover- The Girl Who Chased the Moon, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
27. Light source on cover-moon-An Owl Too Many, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
28. Different Nationality-set in snow- Light on Snow, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
29. Different nationality- The Covenant of Water, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
30. Pink cover - XOXO, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
31. Pen name- Illuminations, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
32. Boat-Winter’s Bone, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
33. Ship or boat, Jacob have I loved , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
34. Read a thon-2/29-3/3-The Watsons Go To Birmingham - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..., Amari and the Night Visitors, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... Some Places More Than Others, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4..., The Girl With a Mind for Math, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3..., Black woman author, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... , woman author, Union Street Bakery, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..., Woman author- Agatha Christie , Third Girl, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..., TBR- Three Men in A boat-https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4921, TBR, woman author- Three Apples Fell From the Sky, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..., 2715 pages
35. Different spiritual beliefs- Blanche Among the Talented Tenth, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
36. Orange cover- Secrets of the Nile, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
37. Free choice- Amari and the Great Game, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
38. Car truck or bus on cover -Needle in a Haystack, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
39. Tbr-oldest or newest- Lone Wolf in Jerusalem, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
40. Different race- From the Darkness Cometh the Light, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
41. Different race-Grace, Gold, and Glory, Grace, Gold and Glory, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
42. Different race- How do you spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
43. Different race- So Many Beginnings, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
44. Red cover- Ten Lords A-Leaping, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
45. Red cover- Exit the Milkman, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
46. Title starts with B- Brother’s Keeper- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
47. Author or title B or O- The Black Cauldron, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
48. Boot or shoe-Rock Harbor Search and Rescue, #1, Lost and Found, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
49. Disability-The Sound of Silence: Growing up Hearing With Deaf Parents, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
50. Water on cover- Meditation on Murder- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
51. Water on cover-Mermaid of Black Conch, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
52. Water on cover- Phylogenesis, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
53. Crime fiction- quoth the raven , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
54. Crime fiction- Two for the Dough, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6427
55. Crime fiction-Bruno , Chief of Police, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
56. Sewing- A Single Thread- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

8/25

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

12/40 completed

💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover. She Who Became the Sun DONE


🟨 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. Seven Imperfect Rules Of Elvira Carr DONE

[Brittany]

updated post 43
16/31

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

9/25

[Kalyn]

Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 11/16

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 19/40

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 18/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 20/40

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 7/16

[AJ]

Update for #55

5/36-39

🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title:

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

10/25

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 22/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 21/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 23/40
A character whose race/ethnicity is different from my own: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After

Hat on cover: The Adventures of Sammy Jay

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 23/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 24/40

[Kalyn]

Update to msg # 36 please! Progress: 12/16

[Ashley]

update #51
13/40

[AJ]

Update for #55

6/36-39

🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.: Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance 144 pages long!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated to here!

Congratulations to Sheila and Ziggy for completing the challenge! 👏

[Chrissie]

Update message #44 - 4/5

[[deleted user]]

Update to msg 53 :
Hi i'd like to drop out of thia challenge pls! Thank you!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Irza wrote: "Update to msg 53 :
Hi i'd like to drop out of thia challenge pls! Thank you!"

Thank you, Irza, for letting me know. Happy reading! 😊

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 8/16

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #11 : 78/80

[Amy]

Updated message 58--25/40

[JennH, Cheerleader]

Update to message # 12

Increasing goal to 58 - to include all the houses + hotel

50/58

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 24/40

[Carmen]

Update to message #20

PROGRESS: 78/80 🎲
🐱 36-40: Grand Master

[Anna]

Update to message #50

10/20

Prompts
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents
No Crying in the Operating Room: My Life as an International Relief Doctor, from Haiti, to South Sudan, to the Syrian Civil War - North America, Africa and Asia
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation - translated from Vietnamese
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or headwear on the cover or in the title.
Death on the Nile - has a bowler hat on the cover!
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
The Color Purple - the characters are African American, I am White and European
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
🚂 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.)
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.
A Time to Kill
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 - both the author and Tolkien are male and I am female
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
The Archer
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
Profiles in Courage - Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 27/40

[Martha☀]

March update for message #40
16/35

11. banned The Picture of Dorian Gray
4⭐ My Review

13. light source Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart: An Adventure on the Pacific Crest Trail

36. >200 pages Childfree and Loving It!
4⭐ My Review

[Brittany]

updated post 43

25/31