Bibliopoly - 2024

[Rachel]

Update: MSG #4

5/20

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 39/40

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

21/26

[AJ]

Update to #55

Progress: 17/36

🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.: Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice Willis-Fisher traveled extensively with her family to perform, and those occasion were some of the most chilling in her memoir.

🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.: Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Ariana wrote: "Update to #55
Progress: 17/36/39"

Please don't add stray numbers, Ariana. Just one number for books read, and one number for your goal. In the participant list, you'll see that I've been using 36 for your goal. You may request a change to any single value you wish, but not 36-39 or 36/39.

Progress: 17/36/39

Thank you.

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 41/40
Challenge complete but I am going to keep going

[AJ]

Update to #55

Progress: 18/36 (noted re: having one number)

❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.: Only This Beautiful Moment I added this for a book club that was held yesterday.

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 11/16

[Greg]

Update to message 13:

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

7/20

[AJ]

Update to #55

Progress: 20/36

🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.: Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl Smart-Grosvenor traveled extensively throughout the events of the cookbook, making it at least two continents (North America, Europe) and had friends sharing their travels on others (Africa).

🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.: Fight Club The primary characters in this book are cisgender men and it's definitely a commentary on masculinity.

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Creed wrote: "Update to message 369: 30/50

Book involving water travel: Dragons of the Valley"

Creed, you're making good progress! Please note that your original message number is 345. That doesn't change. Thanks!

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated to here!

Congratulations to Amy on reaching her goal! 👏

[Emily]

Update to message #42

9/13

Completed prompt 30

[Rachel]

Update:

MSG#4

6/20

[Greg]

Update to message 13:

23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions. Under Occupation

8/20

[Ciara]

Update to message #31: challenge complete! 80 of 80 books read! I would have finished sooner, but I missed the first readathon of the year & had to wait for the current one to complete that prompt. Oops! Details under the spoiler!

(view spoiler)[Purple Properties:
🟪 2. Purple: Read a book with a wheelbarrow, garden tool or plant on the cover or in the title.
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult - Michelle Dowd
🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue.
Beyond the Door of No Return - David Diop
House 1: The Birthday Party - Laurent Mauvignier
House 2: The Hundred-Year House - Rebecca Makkai
House 3: What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
House 4: Layers: A Memoir - Pénélope Bagieu
Hotel: Thirst - Marina Yuszczuk

Blue Properties:
🟦 7. Blue: Read a book with any type of hat or head wear on the cover or in the title.
Scorched Grace - Margot Douaihy
🟦 9. Blue: Read a book with an author or character whose sexual orientation is different from your own.
Brainwyrms - Allison Rumfitt
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet - Taylor Lorenz
House 1: Quietly Hostile: Essays - Samantha Irby
House 2: Big Swiss - Jen Beagin
House 3: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
House 4: Memory Piece - Lisa Ko
Hotel: Diavola - Jennifer Marie Thorne

Pink Properties:
🌸 12. Pink: Read a book with any type of dog on the cover or in the title.
Menewood - Nicola Griffith
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.
Eyeliner: A Cultural History - Zahra Hankir
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
House 1: The Fetishist - Katherine Min
House 2: The Fraud - Zadie Smith
House 3: White Cat, Black Dog: Stories - Kelly Link
House 4: Study for Obedience - Sarah Bernstein
Hotel: China Rich Girlfriend - Kevin Kwan

Orange Properties:
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
Cold People - Tom Rob Smith
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel - Shahnaz Habib
🟠 20. Orange: Read a book with any shade of orange on the cover or in the title.
The Rachel Incident - Caroline O'Donoghue
House 1: Poor Deer - Claire Oshetsky
House 2: Devil Makes Three - Ben Fountain
House 3: Piglet - Lottie Hazell
House 4: The Night of the Storm - Nishita Parekh
Hotel: Same Bed Different Dreams - Ed Park

Red Properties:
🟥 22. Red: Read a book with a car, truck or bus on the cover, or involving a road trip.
Mobility - Lydia Kiesling
🟥 24. Red: Read a book with an author or character whose race or ethnicity is different from your own.
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant - Curtis Chin
🟥 25. Red: Read a book with any shade of red on the cover or in the title.
The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
House 1: Time's Mouth - Edan Lepucki
House 2: The Book of Love - Kelly Link
House 3: Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash
House 4: This Other Eden - Paul Harding
Hotel: Worry - Alexandra Tanner

Yellow Properties:
🟨 27. Yellow: Read a book with a boot or shoe on the cover, or involving foot travel.
People Collide - Isle McElroy
🟨 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.
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title.
I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art - Emily C. Bloom
House 1: Death of a Bookseller - Alice Slater
House 2: Three Rooms - Jo Hamya
House 3: Grief Is for People - Sloane Crosley
House 4: Ascension - Nicholas Binge
Hotel: Wish You Were Here - Rita Mae Brown

Green Properties:
🟩 32. Green: Read a book with a thimble, sewing or craft implement on the cover or in the title.
Blue Ruin - Hari Kunzru
🟩 33. Green: Read a book with an author or character whose gender is different from your own.
The New Naturals - Gabriel Bump
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect - Benjamin Stevenson
House 1: Come and Get It - Kiley Reid
House 2: Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange
House 3: The Knockout Queen - Rufi Thorpe
House 4: Monica - Daniel Clowes
Hotel: Piercing - Ryu Murakami

Dark Blue Properties:
🧿 38. Dark Blue: Read a book with any type of cat on the cover or in the title.
North Woods - Daniel Mason
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
Bad Cree - Jessica Johns (ALA 2024 Youth Media Award, MacEwan Book of the Year)
House 1: There There - Tommy Orange (PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, James Fenimore Cooper Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize)
House 2: Blackouts - Justin Torres
House 3: Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials - Marion Gibson
House 4: Starter Villain - John Scalzi
Hotel: The Future - Naomi Alderman (2023 Goodreads Choice nominee)

Community Chest & Chance:
🎁 3. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Group Reads. (Which month and book?)
11/22/63 - Stephen King (June)
❓ 8. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest number of ratings.
Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino
🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.)
The God of the Woods - Liz Moore (I-Spy readathon)
❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions.
The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb
🎁 34. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Buddy Reads or TBR Twins. (Which activity? What book did you and your twin/buddies read?) Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix (buddy read, April)
❓ 37. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf within the ten highest or lowest average star rating.
The Librarianist - Patrick deWitt

Utilities:
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
Boys Weekend - Mattie Lubchansky
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.
Dayswork - Jennifer Habel & Chris Bachelder

Railroads:
🚂 6. Reading Railroad: Read a book from a celebrity book club list, such as Oprah, Reese Witherspoon, etc.
Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
🚂 16. Pennsylvania Railroad: Read a book published under an author’s pen name.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg
🚂 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.)
Rabbit Hole - Kate Brody
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
The Auburn Conference - Tom Piazza

Misc. Squares:
🗺️ 1. Go: Read a book set on two or more continents.
Monstrilio - Gerardo Samano Cordova
💲 5. Tax: Read a book with money on the cover or in the title.
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall - Zeke Faux
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
🚘 21. Free Parking: Read a book of your choice. Anything goes! Julia - Sandra Newman
👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.
America Fantastica - Tim O'Brien
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.
Hild - Nicola Griffith (hide spoiler)]

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Ciara wrote: "Update to message #31: challenge complete! 80 of 80 books read! I would have finished sooner, but I missed the first readathon of the year & had to wait for the current one to complete that prompt...."

Congratulations! And have fun in the readathon. I am. 😊

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35:

25/40 completed

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


🟪 4. Purple: Read a translated book originally written in a language other than your native tongue. The Three Musketeers DONE


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



🟨 30. Yellow: Read a book with any shade of yellow on the cover or in the title. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales DONE

[Martha☀]

July Update for message #40
23/35

Thank you!

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 42/40

[Carri Carey, TBR Twins]

Update to message #5 - 33/40 books read!

[Greg]

Update to message 13:

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

9/20

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

26/40 completed

🎁 18. Community Chest: Participate in one of our Readathons. (Which readathon? List one book you read for it.) The Girl Who Drank the Moon DONE

[Lisa Marie]

Update to Message #37

GOAL: 29/40

[Lisa Marie]

Update to Message #37 ~

GOAL: 30/40

[AJ]

Update to #55

Progress: 21/36

🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?): Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature This is a 2022 PROSE Award winner!

[Meg]

update msg 18 -31/40 completed

[Greg]

Update to message 13:

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

10/20

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 44/40

[Julie]

updated message 106
13/20

[AJ]

Update to #55

22/36

👮‍♂️ 31. Go to Jail: Read a crime fiction or true crime book.: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI A true crime book about the devastating terrorizing and murder of Osage Nation folks in the name of money and white supremacy.

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

28/40 completed

🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier DONE


💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title. The Gold Letter DONE

[Denise]

update to msg. #271:


36/40

[Brianna]

Updated #54

2/26

[Kalyn]

Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 16/16 FINISHED! 🎉

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Kalyn wrote: "Update to msg #36 please! Progress: 16/16 FINISHED! 🎉"

Congratulations, Kalyn! 👏

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Updated to here!

Congrats to Ciara and Kayln on reaching their goals! 👏

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 46/40

[Lina]

Final Update for message # 23:
🎲 Progress: 40/35 🎲 - COMPLETED 🐱
Thanks TerryJane! :)

[Anna]

Update to message #50

20/30

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!
🟦 10. Blue: Read a book with any shade of blue on the cover or in the title.
Amazing Gems: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Most Dazzling Costume Jewelry
🔒 11. In Jail: Read a banned or challenged book.
To Kill a Mockingbird
💡 13. Electric Company: Read a book with a light source on the cover.
The Unexpected Guest - car headlamps
🌸 14. Pink: Read a book with an author or character whose nationality or birth country is different from your own.
The Bitter Side of Sweet - characters are Malian and Ivorian
🌸 15. Pink: Read a book with any shade of pink on the cover or in the title.
The Mystery of the Blue Train - mine has train travelling through pink sunset on the cover
🟠 17. Orange: Read a book with a ship or boat on the cover, or involving water travel.
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
🟠 19. Orange: Read a book with an author or character whose religious or spiritual beliefs are different from your own.
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri who is Hindu, as are most characters in the book
🟥 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
🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.
Five Little Pigs (mine has the view of the water on the cover)
👮‍♂️ 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
🟩 35. Green: Read a book with any shade of green on the cover or in the title.
The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature
🚂 36. Shortline Railroad: Read a book under 200 pages long.
The Archer
💍 39. Luxury Tax: Read a book with a gemstone or precious metal on the cover or in the title.
Celebrating Jewellery
🧿 40. Dark Blue: Read a book that won an award. (Which one?)
Profiles in Courage - Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957

[Denise]

update to msg. #271:

37/40

[Jennifer]

Updating message #35

29/40 completed

❓ 23. Chance: Read a book from your TBR shelf among the ten oldest or newest additions. Weyward DONE

[Julie]

Updated message 106
14/20

[Julie]

updated message 106
15/20

[Chalmation]

Updated message #34

22/26

[AJ]

Update to #55

23/36

🚿 29. Water Works: Read a book with any form of water on the cover.:

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Month-end update posted!

Congrats, Lina! 👏

[Theresa, Readathons]

Updated message 89. Progress: 13/16

[Laura]

Update for message 16: Progress 32/40

[Amy]

Updated message 58-- 47/40