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Profound Endurance Steeplechase - Olivermagnus and Domino1. Small Town
🎠 2.
3. Renaissance
4. Asia
5. Plot Twist
6. Quest
7. Aging
8. Arranged Marriage 🔹
🎠 9.
10. Technology
11. Tortoise and Hare Box Wood Hedge and Topiary
12. Aviation
13. Victorian
14. Race
15. Short Stories
16. Highly Recommend
🎠 17.
18. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
19. Debut
20. Feminism
21. Fav
22. Criminal
23. Ireland
🎠 24.
25. Animals
🎠 26.
27. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
28. Slice of Life
29. Translated
30. School Books 🔹
31. Urban Fantasy
32. Journey
🎠 33.
34. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
35. Space Opera
36. Gothic
🎠 37.
38. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle 🔹
39. Southern Fiction
40. Coming of Age
41. Multiple POV
42. Secrets
🎠 43.
44. Dark
45. Crime
46. Retellings
47. Detective
🎠 48.
49. Artificial Intelligence
50. Revenge
51. Police
52. Double Jump Fixed Barrier
53. Made-Me-Cry
🎠 54.
55. International
56. Black-Lives-Matter
57. Essays
58. Pirates
59. Fixed Barrier Swing Set Hurdle
🏇 60. Farm
Use 2 point bonus to move to 62
61. Linguistics
🎠 62.
63. Mermaids
🎠 64.
🎠 65.
66. Puddle Jumper
67. Time Travel
68. Hoopla
69. Abandoned
🎠 70.
71. Cities
72. Trophy Fixed Barrier
73. New Orleans
74. Strong Women
75. Sea
🎠 76.
77. Addiction
78. Fun
79. Disasters
80. SF-Masterworks
81. Hardenbergia Trellis
82. Comedy
83. Sisters
🎠 84.
85. Novella
86. Caribbean
87. Canada
88. Egypt
89. Ghosts
🎠 90.
91. Environment
🎠 92.
93. Geography
94. Historical Fiction
Grand Pardubice Steeplechase Points & Bonus
Roll 3 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose - Used on Roll 11 of Level 2
Roll 4 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 8 - Climbing Wall Barrier - 3 space move to use when you please
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 19 - Donnybrook Water Feature - Free pass to skip the next tag you wish to avoid and move to the one immediately after.
🎠 Roll 1 = 2 - Nonfiction - 211 tags
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked At The Edge Of The World - Joan Druett - 4 Stars - 1/23/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 2 = 7 - Did Not Finish - 7 tags
Alias Emma - Ava Glass - 4 Stars - 1/24/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 3 = 8 - Drama - 93 tags
Only Time Will Tell- Jeffrey Archer - 4 Stars - 1/25/24
Review
Historical Mystery - 6 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 4 = 7 - True Crime - 588 tags
Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? - Ann Rule - 5 Stars - 1/26/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 5 = 2 - Graphic Novels - 327 tags
Katie the Catsitter - Colleen A.F. Venable- 4 Stars - 1/27/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 6 = 7 - Mental Health - 97 tags
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver - 4 Stars - 1/28/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 7 = 4 - Music - 10 tags
An Optimist's Guide to Heartbreak - Jennifer Hartmann - 3 Stars - 1/29/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 8 = 6 - Western - 105 tags
The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman - 3 Stars - 1/30/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 9 = 5 - Women Writers - 30 tags
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn - 4 Stars - 1/31/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)
🎠 Roll 10 = 6 - Latinx - 30 tags
The Spanish Love Deception - Elena Armas - 1 Star - 2/1/24
Review
Authors of Color - 6
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 11 = Farm - Used a two point bonus - move to Hilarious - 31 tags
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie - 5 Stars - 2/2/24
Review
Authors of Color - 67 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 12 = - Spooky - 101 tags
The Hacienda - Isabel Cañas - 4 Stars - 2/3/24
Review
Authors of Color - 29
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 13 = Food - 160 tags
Arsenic and Adobo - Mia P. Manansala - 4 Stars - 2/4/24
Review
Authors of Color - 57
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 14 = 5 - Letters - 9 tags
Dear Martin - Nic Stone - 5 Stars - 2/5/24
Review
Authors of Color - 70
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 15 = 6 - Life Changing - 6 tags
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston - 4 Stars - 2/6/24
Review
Authors of Color - 129 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
🎠 Roll 16 = Literary Fiction - 73 tags
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Lisa See - 4.5 Stars - 2/7/24
Review
Authors of Color - 23 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
Roll 17 = Whodunnit - 6 tags
Salvation of a Saint - Keigo Higashino - 4 Stars - 2/8/24
Review
Authors of Color - 6 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (monthly tag) = 6
Roll 18 = 2 - Medical - 14 tags
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation - Linda Villarosa - 4 Stars - 2/9/24
Review
Authors of Color - 6 tags
Roll 19 = 3 - Roll off the Board
Total Points = 76
Round 1 Points = 52
Round 2 Points = 76
Cumulative Points - 128
Level 2 Bonuses:
Roll 10 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 11 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 12 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 13 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 14 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 16 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 17 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Added:
🔹Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle to your board
🔹Arranged Marriage
🔹School Books
Tags Removed:
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Hurdles Removed:
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☄️Profound Endurance Steeplechase - Tien and Solgaleo:☄️1. Small town
2. nonfiction,
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
7. adventure ✌️
8. Time
9. Did not finish
11. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
13. school books ✌️
14. Race
15. Asian Literature (Patty)
17. Quirky
18. Drama
19. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle ✌️
20. Debut
21. Feminism
22. Scandinavia (Hilde)
24. Fav
25. Criminal
26. True Crime
27. Animals
29. Short (can be less than 150 pp)
30. slice of life
31. Translated
32. Fairytale
33. urban fantasy
34. Journey
36. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
37. Space Opera (Sue)
39. The Climbing Wall barrier
40. Southern Fiction (Holly)
41. Coming of age
42. Multiple POV (Diana)
43. secrets
44. western
46. nature
47. Detective
48. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
49. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
50. revenge
52. Double Jump fixed barrier
53. Book to screen
54. LatinX (BookConcierge)
55. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
56. Pirates
57. Hollywood
58. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
61. linguistics
62. Mermaids
63. spooky
64. mafia
65. Food (Joanne)
66. Puddle Jumper
67. Time Travel
68. Hoopla
69. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
71. letters
72. Cities (Robin P)
73. Trophy Fixed Barrier
74. New Orleans
75. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
76. Strong women
77. Sea (Lyn)
79. addiction
80. marriage
81. Disasters
82. sf-masterworks
83. Hardenbergia Trellis
84. Comedy
85. Sisters
87. Dystopia
88. Novella
89. Caribbean (Cora)
90. Canada (Library Cin)
91. Egypt
92. Ghosts (Amy)
93. Whodunit 12x Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1) by Mia P. Manansala
94. Environment
95. Medical
96. Geography (Ellen)
Spin 1: 4 + 2 #6. Quest 7x - Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim + 29x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 2/2
Spin 2: 4 #10. Technology 9x - Crash by J.G. Ballard -Completed 2/3
Spin 3: 2 #12. Aviation 5x - Nothing But Sky by Amy Trueblood -Completed 02/04
Spin 4: 4 #16. Highly Recommend (KT) 5x The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh + 26x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/05
Spin 5: 7 #23. Norway 5x The Twisted Tree by Rachel Burge -Completed 02/07
Spin 6: 3 + 2 (advantage) #28. Graphic Novels 330x The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel by Diana Gabaldon -Completed 02/08
Spin 7: 7 #35. Mental Health (Nancy J) 106x Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura + 7x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/10
Spin 8: 3 #38. Music >> swap from grabbag #68. royalty 15x A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea #1) by Judy I. Lin + 21x Feb tag (AOC) but point not applicable due to grabbag swap -Completed 02/11
Spin 9: 5 + 2 (advantage) #45. Crime 18x Hunted (The Profiler #1) by Elizabeth Heiter -Completed 02/12
Spin 10: 4 + 2 (advantage) #51. Police 9x The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino + 10x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/13
Spin 11: 8 #59. Beach Reads 13x P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #2) by Jenny Han + 51x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/14
Spin 12: 1 #60. Farm >> swap from grabbag #70. science fantasy 5x The Girl and the Moon (Book of the Ice #3) by Mark Lawrence -Completed 02/16
Spin 13: 8 + 2 (advantage) #70. abandoned 10x A Venom Dark and Sweet (The Book of Tea #2) by Judy I. Lin -Completed 02/18
Spin 14: 7 + 1 (advantage) #78. Life changing 7x The Green Mile by Stephen King -Completed 02/20
Spin 15: 6 + 2 (advantage) #86. Literary fiction 13x The Complete Persepolis (Persepolis #1-4) by Marjane Satrapi + 18x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/23
Spin 16: 7 #93. Whodunit 12x Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery #1) by Mia P. Manansala + 58x Feb tag (AOC) -Completed 02/24
Spin 17: 5 Aaaannnddd we're OFF to Grand Marathon!
*ADVANTAGES (for future use)
From Level 1:
⏭️ Spin 10: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 11: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Monumental Monday: can move 3 spaces (2 spaces + 1 space -together or separate) (used +1 move for Spin 14)
⏭️ Spin 15: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 16: can move 2 spaces with a spin
GAME POINTS
Total books/tags read: 16 x 2 points = 32
Extras:
Spin 1: 4 points
Spin 4: 4 points
Spin 7: 4 points
Spin 10: 4 points
Spin 11: 4 points
Spin 15: 4 points
Spin 16: 4 points
Monumental Monday: 6 points
Level 2: 66
Level 1: 58
Overall Total points: 124
SWAPS
Start of game: 6
Used:
1 in Level 1
2 in Level 2
As of 2/15: 3 swaps left
Tags read from grabbag
1. adventure (added to Level 2 - #7)
29. favorites
68. royalty
70. science fantasy
81. suspense
Level 1 Racetrack
Profound Endurance Steeplechase - Ellen and Purrito1. Small town
2. nonfiction,
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
8. Time
10. Technology
11. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
12. Aviation
13. Victorian
15. Short Stories
16. Asian Literature (Patty)
17. Highly Recommend (KT)
19. School Books
20. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
21. Debut
22. Feminism
23. Scandinavia (Hilde)
24. Norway
26. Criminal
27. Ireland
28. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle
29. Animals
30. Graphic Novels
31. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
33. Translated
34. Fairytale
35. urban fantasy
37. Mental Health (Nancy J)
38. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
39. Space Opera (Sue)
40. Gothic
42. Southern Fiction (Holly)
43. Coming of age
44. Multiple POV (Diana)
45. secrets
46. western
47. dark
49. retellings
51. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
52. revenge
54. Double Jump fixed barrier
55. made-me-cry
56. book to screen
57. international
59. Essays
62. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
63. Beach Reads
65. hilarious
66. Mermaids
67. mafia
68. Food (Joanne)
70. Time Travel
72. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
73. abandoned,
74. letters
75. Cities (Robin P)
77. New Orleans
78. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
80. Sea (Lyn).
81. addiction
82. marriage
83. Fun
84. Disasters
85. sf-masterworks
86. Hardenbergia Trellis
87. Sisters
88. Literary fiction
89. Dystopia
90. Caribbean (Cora)
91.Donnybrook water feature
92.Canada (Library Cin)
93.Egypt
95.Whodunit
96.Environment
97. Medical
98.Geography (Ellen)
Total Points from 1st round = 46
18 books x 2= 36
3 hurdles x 3 = 9
12 matched monthly tag x4 = 48
round 2 = 93 points
Spin #1 = 7 - Aging
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 20 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthy tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #2 = 2 Suspense
Off the Grid - C. J. Box
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 37 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Spin #3 =5 Race
Dear Martin - Nic Stone
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 275 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #4 = Quirky
The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 20 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #5 =7 Fav
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 241 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #6 = Slice of life
Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World - Benjamin Alire Saenz
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 6 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #7 = 4 Journey
13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 9 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #8 = 6 Climbing Wall Barrier
+3 spaces
Spin #9 = 7 Crime
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets -Nancy Springer
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 34 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #10 =2 Detective
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 11 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #11 = 3 Police
Drowning - T.J. Newman
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 17 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Spin #12 = 5 Black lives matter
Concrete Rose - Angie Thomas
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 36 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #13 = 2 Pirates
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 356 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Spin #14 = Hollywood
Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
tagged 28 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches the monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #15 = 3 Farm
Moo - Sharon Creech
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 19 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches the monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
Spin #16 = 5 Puddle Jumper Barrier
+2 Hoopla
The Lonely Hearts Book Club - Lucy Gilmore
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 49 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Spin #17 = 5 Trophy Fixed Barrier
Book is from Good Reads Best of 2003
Maame - Jessica George
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Matches the monthly tag for +2 and 4 points.
Spin #18 = Strong Women
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
tagged 29 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Ghosts (moved to this tag by Joy)
The Broken Girls - Simone St. James
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 218 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Carrying 139 points to round 3
ROBIN AND RAMBO THE RAMBOUILLET RAM RACETRACKRound 2
Book should be completed and reviewed.
Spinner will have numbers 1-8.
Participants will add the tag School books and choose a tag from the grab list of tags. The participant will place them on their board as they choose. - added Science Fiction
Add the Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle to your
Extra spaces carried over - 4
From Monumental Monday - 12
From Leap Day - 4x1 -
From Mammoth March - 6 points, 6 spaces
Total spaces available - 26
Extra spaces earned - 8 = 34
April extra - 5 points, 4 spaces
Total spaces - 38
Extra spaces used - 17
Spaces available - 21
Points from Level 1 - 59
Points from Level 2 - 38 as of 4/22
1st spin 8
1. Small town
2. nonfiction
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
7. Time
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... **earns 2 extra spaces for matching tag** - 2/25 - 4 pts
Next spin 7
9. Technology
10. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11. Aviation
12. Race
13. Short Stories
14. Asian Literature (Patty)
15. Highly Recommend (KT)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 2/27 2 pts
Next spin 4
17. Drama
18. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
19. Debut
Next spin 3, added 6 from previous bonuses
21. Norway
22. Fav
23. Criminal
In Praise of the Bees - Kristin Gleeson
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 3/15 - done as part of March Madness - 2 pts
25. True Crime
26. Animals
27. Graphic Novels
28. slice of life
Next spin 7
30. Fairytale
31. Urban fantasy
32. Journey
33. colonialism
34. Mental Health (Nancy J)
35. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
Next spin 4
37.. The Climbing Wall barrier
38. Southern Fiction (Holly)
39. Coming of age
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 3/17
**2 extra spaces & 4 pts for matching tag** - 4 pts
Next spin 6
41. secrets
42. western
43. dark
44. nature
45. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 3/23 - earns 4 points & 2 spaces for matching tag
Next spin 7, adding 2 earned on last turn - 4 pts
47. revenge
48. Police
49. Double Jump fixed barrier
50. made-me-cry
51. Book to screen
52. International (Olivermagnus)
53. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
54. Essays
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 3/28 - 2 pts
Next spin 4, adding 4 spaces from accumulated bonuses
56. Hollywood
57. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
58. Beach Reads
59. Farm
60. linguistics
61. Mermaids
62. spooky
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/1 - 2 pts
Next space 6
64. Puddle Jumper - move forward 2
65. Time Travel
66. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
67. abandoned,
68. Cities (Robin P)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/1 - 2 pts
Next spin 3, adding 1 from Leap Day
70. Trophy Fixed Barrier
71. New Orleans
72. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/10
**2 extra spaces & 4 pts for matching tag** - 4 pts
Next spin 1 - using 4 accumulated spaces
74. Sea (Lyn)
75. Life changing
76. addiction
77. marriage
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/17 - 2 pts
Next spin 5
79. sf-masterworks
80. Hardenbergia Trellis
81. Comedy
82. Sisters
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/19 - 2 pts
Next spin 8
84. Novella
85. Caribbean (Cora)
86.Donnybrook water feature
87.Egypt
88. Ghosts (Amy)
90. Whodunit
91.Environment
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 4/22
Next spin 7 - takes me off the board!
93. School books
94. Meditating in a Zen Garden
95. Medical
96.Geography (Ellen)
97. Historical fiction
Sue and Mija Level 2 Profound EnduranceRound 1 Game points: 42
Round 2 Game Points: 94
Total after Round 2: 134
Special moves carried forward
Add two carried over from Round 1:
Used one "move ahead 2" on 3/24/24
Used 6 of the carried over extra spins from Round 1 on 7/2/24
Used 1 Round 2 extra spin on 7/2/24
Special moves for hurdles:
Donnybrook Water Feature: Free pass to skip the next tag you wish to avoid and move to the one immediately after.
Special Moves Round 2
- Add two for Circling the Sun
- Add two for Nettle & Bone
- Add two for This is How You Lose the Time War
- Add two for The Awakening
- Add two for That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
- Add two for Miss Benson's Beetle
- Add two for The Death of Vivek Oji
- Add two for Revenge
- Add two for Carrie
- Add two for The Virgin Suicides
- Add two for The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
- Add two for Carved in Bone
- Add two for Catering to Nobody
- Add two for Rivers of London
- Add two for Visitation
- Add two for There There
- Add two for Under the Udala Trees
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1. nonfiction
2. Renaissance (Theresa)
3. Asia
4. Plot twist
5. Quest
6. Aging
7. Time
9. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11. Victorian
13. Asian Literature (Patty)
14. Highly Recommend (KT)
16. Drama
17. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
18. Debut
19. Feminism
20. Scandinavia (Hilde)
22. Criminal
24. Fav
25. Animals
26. Graphic Novels
28. slice of life
29. Translated
30. Fairytale
31. urban fantasy
33. Mental Health (Nancy J)
34. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
35. Space Opera (Sue)
36. Gothic
37. Music
38. The Climbing Wall barrier
39. Coming of age
41. secrets
42. western
43. dark
45. nature
46. Detective
47. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
48. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
50. Police
51. Double Jump fixed barrier
52. made-me-cry
54. International (Olivermagnus)
55. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
57. Hollywood
58. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
59. Beach Reads
61. linguistics
62. hilarious
63. spooky
64. mafia
66. Time Travel
67. Hoopla
68. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
69. abandoned,
70. letters
72. medieval
73. Trophy Fixed Barrier
74. New Orleans
76. Sea (Lyn)
77. Life changing
79. marriage
80. Fun
81. Disasters
82. sf-masterworks
83. Hardenbergia Trellis
85. Literary fiction
86. Dystopia
87. Novella
88. Caribbean (Cora)
89. Egypt
90. Ghosts (Amy)
91 Whodunit
92. Environment
93. Medical
94. Geography (Ellen)
95. Historical fiction
96. Meditating in the Zen Garden
97. School Books
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For Level 2: Added Meditating in the Zen Garden, School Books and Nigeria
Level 2: Profound Endurance- Jen and Maple(view spoiler)
Spin 17: 5 -Rolled off of Level 2!!! July 9, 2024
Rachel’s Rebel Rouser Racetrack Profound Endurance Level 2Points total: 127
Bonus spaces: 3
Grab bag 2/6
(view spoiler)
1. Small town
2. School books
3. Renaissance
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
✅7. Aging: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten* (Sweden) 17 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 1st spin: 7. Points: 2->Total: 72. Bonus spaces: 0->Total: 4.
8. Time
✅9. Did not finish: The Red Palace by June Hur* (Korea) 20 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review. 2nd spin: 2. Points: 2 + 4 PBT tag->Total: 78. Bonus Spaces: 2->Total: 6
10. Technology: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
11. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle
12. Aviation
13. Victorian
14. Race
15. Short Stories: How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
✅16. World Literature: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón* (Spain) 25 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 3rd spin: 4 + used 3 bonus spaces. Points: 2 + 4 points PBT tag->Total: 84. Bonus spaces: 2->Total: 5
17. Highly Recommend:This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar (also fantasy romance/ time/ drama) or Circe by Madeline Miller
18. Quirky:
19. Drama: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
20. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
21. Debut: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton or The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
22. Feminism
✅23. Scandinavia. Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurdardottir* (Iceland) 26 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 4th spin: 7. Points: 2->Total 86. Bonus points: 0->Total: 5
24. Fav
25. Criminal
26. Ireland
27. True Crime
28. Animals
29. Graphic Novels
30. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
✅31. Slice of life: If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha* (South Korea) 27 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 5th spin: 8. Points: 2-> Total 88. Bonus spaces: 0-> Total: 5
32. Fairytale
33. Urban fantasy
34. Colonialism
✅35. Mental Health The Sentence by Louise Erdrich 28 Apr 2024⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 6th spin: 1 + used 3 bonus spaces. Points: 2->Total: 90. Bonus spaces: 0->Total: 2
36. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
✅37. Space Opera->Grab bag: Girl Power: Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez* (Argentina) 30 Apr 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 7th spin: 2. Points: 2->Total 92. Bonus spaces 0->Total: 2.
✅38. Gothic: The Familiars by Stacey Halls 5 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 8th spin: 1. Points: 2->Total 94. Bonus spaces: 0->Total: 2
39. Music
40. The Climbing Wall barrier
41. Southern Fiction
42. Coming of age
43. Secrets
44. Western
✅45. Dark: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo 9 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 9th spin: 7. Point: 2 + 4 for PBT tag crime->Total: 100. Bonus points: 2->Total: 4
46. Nature: Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
47. Retellings: Circe by Madeline Miller or Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin (Canada)
48. Detective: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
49. Women Writers
50. Artificial intelligence
51. Revenge
52. Police
✅53. Made-me-cry: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo 10 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 10th spin: 8. Points: 2->Total: 102. Bonus points: 0->Total:4
54. Book to screen:
55. LatinX
56. Black-lives-matter
✅57. Essays->Grabbag Lit: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata* (Japan) 11 May 2024⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 11th spin: 4. Points: 2->Total : 104. Bonus points: 0->Total: 4
58. Pirates
59. Hollywood
60. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
61. Farm
✅62. Linguistics->Grabbag: Environmental. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy (Antarctica) 18 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 12th spin: 5. Points: 2->Total: 106. Bonus rolls: 0-> Total: 4
63. Hilarious
64. Mermaids
65. Spooky
66. Mafia
67. Food
✅68. Puddle Jumper: 13th spin: 2 + 4 bonus spaces. Points: 3-> Total: 109. Spaces-> move on 2 spaces
69. Time Travel
✅70. Hoopla: The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco 21 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐ my review. Points: 2->Total 111. Bonus spaces: 0->Total: 0
71. STEM
72. Letters: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (Senegal)
73. Cities:
✅74. Medieval: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell 27 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 14th spin: 4. Points: 2 + 4 for PBT tag Crime->Total 117. Bonus spaces: 2->Total: 2
75. Trophy Fixed Barrier
76. New Orleans
✅77. Outdoors: Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe by Dean Nicholson 29 May 2024 ⭐⭐⭐ my review 15th spin: 2. Points: 2->Total: 119. Bonus spaces: 0->Total 2
78. Strong women
79. Sea
80. Life changing
81. Marriage
82. Fun: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
83. Disasters
84. Hardenbergia Trellis
✅85. Comedy: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review 16th spin: 8. Points: 2 + 4 for PBT tag Crime->Total 125. Bonus spaces: 2->Total 4
86. Sisters: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (Scotland) or Searching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok (Netherlands) or The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal (India) or Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (India)
87. Literary fiction:
88. Dystopia: Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden or Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
89. Novella
90. Caribbean
91. Donnybrook water feature
92. Canada
93. Egypt
94. Whodunit
95. Environment: Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes
96. Medical
97. Geography
✅98. Historical fiction: The Women by Kristin Hannah ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (Vietnam) 1 June 2024 my review 17th spin: 2 + 10 spaces from Joy + used 1 space. Points: 2->Total 127. Bonus points: 0->Total 3
Theresa and Bessie the Flower Crowned Cow on Ocean of Fire Steeplechse!Carryover - 6 swaps
**Added
1. Small town
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
7. Aging
8. School Book**
9. Did not finish
10. Technology
11. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
12. Aviation
13. Victorian
14. Race
15. Wishlist
16. Asian Literature (Patty)
18. Drama
19. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
20. Debut
21. Feminism
22. Scandinavia (Hilde)
23. Norway
24. Fav
25. Ireland
26. True Crime
27. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle **
28. Graphic Novels
30. Translated
31. Fairytale
32. urban fantasy
33. Journey
34. colonialism
35. Mental Health (Nancy J)
36. Space Opera (Sue)
37. Gothic
38. Music
39. The Climbing Wall barrier
40. Multiple POV (Diana)
41. western
42. dark
43. Crime
44. nature
45. Detective
47. revenge
48. Police
49. Double Jump fixed barrier
50. made-me-cry
51. Book to screen
52. LatinX (BookConcierge)
53. International (Olivermagnus)
54. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
55. Essays
57. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
58. Beach Reads
59. Farm
60. linguistics
61. hilarious
62. Mermaids
63. spooky
64. mafia
65. Food (Joanne)
66. Time Travel
67. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
68. abandoned,
69. letters
71. Trophy Fixed Barrier
73. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
74. Sea (Lyn)
75. Life changing
76. addiction
77. marriage
78. Fun
79. Disasters
80. sf-masterworks
81. Hardenbergia Trellis
83. Regency**
84. Literary fiction
85. Dystopia
86. Novella
87. Caribbean (Cora)
88. Donnybrook water feature
89. Canada (Library Cin)
90. Egypt
91. Ghosts (Amy)
92. Whodunit
93. Environment
94. Medical
Level 2 Tracking
1st +2 = #2 Nonfiction - - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper -3,433x - finished 5/25 +2 points - matched Crime tag 454x add +4 points +2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
2nd - moved by JoyD and Dr. Hippo - +15 = #17 Highly Recommend - The Forgotten Garden - 6x - finished 5/29 +2 points - 552 pages +2 points +2 spaces must use now - matched Crime tag 11x add +4 points +2 spaces Total 8 points 2 spaces use now 2 spaces anytime - Used all 4 spaces 5/29 on 3rd roll
3rd +8 + 4 (earned 5/29) = 12 - #29- slice of life - The Reading List - 11x - finished 6/7 +2 points - matched Europe tag 17x add +4 points + 2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
4th +3 +14 (earned in April) = 17 - #46 - Women Writers - The Tiger's Wife - 25x - finished 6/12 +2 points - matched Europe tag 102x add +4 points + 2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
5th +8 +2 (earned 1/14) = 10 - #56 - Hollywood - 46x - finished 6/15 +2 points Total 2 points
6th +2 +12 (earned 4/24 Earth Day) = 14 - #70 medieval - 53x - finished 6/19 + 2 points matched Europe tag 10x add +4 points + 2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
7th +2 - #72 - New Orleans - 5x - finished 6/21 + 2 points matched Europe tag 6x add +4 points + 2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
8th +8 +2 (earned 1/18) = 10 - #82 - comedy - 79x - finished 6/23 + 2 points matched Europe tag 22x add +4 points + 2 spaces Total 6 points 2 spaces
9th + 3 + 4 (earned 4/30 Earth Day) + 4 (earned 3/18 Monumental March) + 2 (earned 1/20) = 13 - #95 - Geography - 5x - finished 7/4 + 2 points Total: 2 points
END OF TRACK
Theresa and Bessie the Flower Crowned CowGRAND PARDUBICE STEEPLECHASE LEVEL 1 - saved points and spaces
(view spoiler)
OCEAN OF FIRE STEEPLECHASE LEVEL 2 - saved points and spaces
5/25 - 1st - #2 - + 6 points + 2 spaces
5/29 - 2nd - #17 - + 8 points +6 +
6/7 - 3rd - #29 - + 6 points + 2 spaces
6/12 - 4th - #46 - +6 points + 2 spaces
6/15 - 5th - #56 - + 2 points
6/19 - 6th - #70 - + 6 points + 2 spaces
6/21 - 7th - #72 - + 6 points + 2 spaces
6/23 - 8th - #82 - + 6 points + 2 spaces
7/4 - 9th - #95 - + 2 points
Added:
Hurdle : Zen Garden
Tags: School Book and from Grab Bag Regency
Swaps Used: 0
Grab Bag Tags added: Regency
Totals Level 2 finished 7/3
Spaces earned to use, 2 at time, anytime with spin - 12
Game Points earned - 48
Hurdles Removed Level 2 as of 7/3
None
Tags Used Level 2 as of 7/3
Nonfiction, highly recommend, slice of life, Women Writers, Hollywood, Medieval, New Orleans, comedy, Geography
Theresa and Bessie the Flower Crowned CowOcean of Fire - Level 2 Rules/Reward Guide
Added Rules:
Book should be completed and reviewed.
Spinner will have numbers 1-8.
Participants will add the tag School books and choose a tag from the grab list of tags. The participant will place them on their board as they choose.
Add the Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle to your
Award Use Guide
2 spaces - from hurdle, tag match - use any time with spin - announce with spin request or after.
2 spaces - from page count - must use on next spin
Points for The Steeplechase
Game points (not participation points) are allocated as follows with participants tracking their points - game points cumulative:
2 points per tag.
3 points per hurdle
4 points when book matches PBT tag of the month
2 points for reading a book over 500 pages.
3 points for reading a book over 600 pages.
4 points for reading a book over 700 pages.
Amy and Sparkle Ocean of Fire Steeplechase~ Added Paris, School Books, and Meditating in a Zen Garden. Plus from earlier hurdle advantage, replaced Dystopia with Books about Books.
1. Small Town
2. Nonfiction
3. Renaissance
4. Asia
5. Plot Twist
6. Quest
7. Time
9. Technology
10. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11. Aviation
12. Victorian
13. Race
14. Asian Literature (Patty)
16. Quirky
17. Drama
18. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
19. Feminism
20. Scandinavia (Hilde)
21. Norway
23. Criminal
24. Meditating in a Zen Garden
25. True Crime
26. Animals
27. Graphic Novels
29. slice of life
30. Translated
31. Fairytale
32. urban fantasy
33. colonialism
35. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
36. Space Opera (Sue)
37. Gothic
38. Music
40. Southern Fiction (Holly)
41. Coming of Age
43. Western
44. Crime
45. Nature
46. Detective
47. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
49. Artificial intelligence (Joy D)
50. Revenge
51. Police
52. Double Jump fixed barrier
53. Book to screen
54. LatinX (BookConcierge)
56. Paris
57. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
58. Essays
59. Pirates
60. Hollywood
61. Beach Reads
62. Farm
63. linguistics
64. hilarious
65. Mermaids
66. mafia
68. Puddle Jumper
69. Time Travel
70. Hoopla
71. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
72. abandoned,
73. letters
74. Cities (Robin P)
76. Trophy Fixed Barrier
77. New Orleans
78. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
79. Sea (Lyn)
80. Life changing
82. marriage
83. Disasters
84. sf-masterworks
85. Hardenbergia Trellis
86. Comedy
87. Sisters
88. Literary fiction
90. Novella
91. Caribbean (Cora)
92 Donnybrook water feature
93. Canada (Library Cin)
94 .Ghosts (Amy)
95 .Whodunit
96 Environment
97. Medical
98 Geography (Ellen)
99. Historical fiction
13 points and 9 spaces; an extra 2+ for Crime tag (104-Egypt). Three 2+ and Three 1's
Roll One for Level 2 = 5 (+2 for matching tag with level one Egypt book) = 7 (plus using one of my three extra single ones = 8; Did Not Finish.).
Did Not Finish - The River We Remember by William Kent Kruegger
36 Tags for Did Not Finish
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Also Matches Crime with an extra +2
13 points and 10 spaces; (minus 1, plus 2). Four 2+, and 2 1's.
Roll Two - 5 (using a plus 2) to make 7; landing me on Highly Recommend
The Women, with 8 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
13 points and 10 spaces; Four 2+, and 2 1's.
Roll Three - 6 (add one for 7) to land on Fav
Love Theoretically, with 44 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
13 Points and 9 Spaces - Four 2+ and One 1
Roll Four - 6 - Short
The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain
Matches Europe Tag with 25 matches
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
13 points and 11 spaces - Five 2+ and 1 +1
Roll 5 - 6 - Mental Health
Listen for the Lie - matches with 8 tags for Mental Health
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Roll 6 - 5 (Climbing Wall Barrier) Plus 3 = 8 = Secrets
The Love of My Life - 7 tags for Secrets
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Roll 7 - 6 (School Books) Replaced with Jazz (2nd Grabbag)
Wild Women and the Blues
Matches Tag with 7 tags, but doesn't count due to grabbag
Review: Letter B for the Spell of Debut
Wild Women and the Blues by Denny Bryce
Matches Tag with 7 tags
Review Here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Roll 8 - 7 = International
The Pearl That Broke its Shell
Matches International With 24 Tags
Matches Debut with 12 Tags (+2)
Got sent 12 spaces by Linda C to #67 Food
The Golden Spoon
Matches Food with 72 tags
Matches Debut with 9 tags (+2)
New Spaces and Points are:
13 points and 17 spaces (Eight 2+ and One 1+)
Roll Number Nine = 8 (Medieval #75)
The Serpent and the Pearl
Matches Medieval Tag with 8 Tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Summer Celebration Points - another 4 1's
One Book with Company Party (x2) Event
Book Two with a Wedding
New Spaces and Points are:
13 points and 21 spaces (Eight 2+ and Five 1+)
Roll #10 - 4 (use a +2 to to get to 6 - 81 Addictions)
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Matches Addiction with 5 tags, Matches 5-stars with 50 (+2)
13 points and 21 spaces (Eight 2+ and Five 1+)
Roll 11 = 8 - #89 Books About Books
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
Matches Books About Books with 115 Tags
Matches 5-stars with 26 tags (2+)
Review: Extra S - The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Matches Tag with 14 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
+2 for Tag Match
Summer Celebration - 4 spaces
Summer Olympics Challenge 7 points and 7 spaces
20 points and 34 spaces (Eight 2+ and Eighteen 1+)
3 points per hurdle - I had two of them in Level one
26 points and 34 spaces (Eight 2+ and Eighteen 1+)
Roll 12 + 4 (+6) = 10 space move to #99; Historical Fiction
The Last Tiara by MJ Rose - 154 tags for Historical Fiction.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And so Ends Level Two for me with 26 points and 28 spaces....
Level 2 Steeplechase - Diana and Tortila1. Small town
2. School books
4. Asia
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
7. Aging
9. Did not finish
10. Technology
11. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
13. Victorian
14. Race
15. Short Stories
16. Asian Literature (Patty)
17. Highly Recommend (KT)
18. Drama
19. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
21. Feminism
22. Norway
23. Fav
24. Criminal
26. True Crime
27. Animals
28. Graphic Novels
29. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
30. Translated
31. Fairytale
32. urban fantasy
34. Mental Health (Nancy J)
35. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
36. Space Opera (Sue)
37. Gothic
38. Music
39. The Climbing Wall barrier
40. Southern Fiction (Holly)
41. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle
42. Multiple POV (Diana)
43. secrets
44. western
45. dark
46. Crime
47. nature
49. Detective
50. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
51. Police
52. Book to screen
53. LatinX (BookConcierge)
54. International (Olivermagnus)
55. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
56. Essays
57. Pirates
58. Hollywood
59. Beach Reads
61. linguistics
62. hilarious
63. romance
64. spooky
65. mafia
66. Food (Joanne)
67. Puddle Jumper
68. Time Travel
70. abandoned
71. letters
72. Cities (Robin P)
74. Trophy Fixed Barrier
75. New Orleans
76. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
77. Sea (Lyn)
78. Life changing
79. marriage
81. Disasters
82. sf-masterworks
84. Comedy
85. Sisters
86. Dystopia
87. Novella
88. Caribbean (Cora)
89. Donnybrook water feature
90. Canada (Library Cin)
91. Egypt
92. Ghosts (Amy)
93. Whodunit - The Westing Game
94. Medical
95. Geography (Ellen)
96. Historical fiction
🌟BONUSES LEFT FROM THE PREVIOUS LEVEL TRACK
03/03 -
03/09 -
03/14 -
04/30 -
05/07 -
🌟POINTS FROM THE PREVIOUS LEVEL: 78
May 30 spin: 3 - 3 - Renaissance - Hamnet - 06/16 - tagged 26x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "Europe" 69x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 84
June 18 spin: 3 + 2 - 8 - adventure - Requiem - 06/26/24 - tagged 139x - review
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
Points so far: 86
June 26 spin: 4 - 12 - aviation - Dear Edward - 07/05/24 - tagged 8x - review
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
Points so far: 88
July 08: moved by Nancy - 20 - debut - Between Shades of Gray - 07/13/24 - tagged 20x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "DEBUT" 20x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 94
July 14 spin: 5 - 25 - Ireland - Beautiful World, Where Are You - 07/26/24 - tagged 368x - review
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
Points so far: 96
July 30 spin: 8 - 33 - journey - Station Eleven - 08/13/24 - tagged 17x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "5-STARS" 246x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 102
Aug 13: moved by Joy - 48 - retellings - Dating Dr. Dil - 08/28/24- tagged 86x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "5-STARS" 25x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 108
Aug 28 spin: 8 + 2 + 2 - 60 - farm - The Grapes of Wrath - 09/11/24 - tagged 11x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "SAD" 30x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 114
Sep 14 spin: 5 + 2 + 2 - 69 - STEM - The Spanish Love Deception - 09/25/24 - tagged 10x - 6x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 120
Sep 29 spin: 4 - 73 - medieval - Timeline - 10/13/24 - tagged 89x - review
🔸fits the monthly tag "TRAVEL" 57x - BONUS move 2 spaces when you want
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
🔹fits the monthly tag - 4 points
Points so far: 126
Oct 13 spin: 7 - 80 - fun - Double Whammy - 11/10/24 - tagged 7x - review
🔹fits the tag - 2 points
Points so far: 128
Nov 10 spin: 3 - 83 - Hardenbergia Trellis (Read an extra book that fits the tag you read last and if your book mentions a plant, please give us a quote and page number to receive an additional 2 spaces to the spin of your choice. - All the Dangerous Things - 11/21/24 - tagged 6x - review
🔸quote -
🔹hurdle - 3 points
Points so far: 131
Nov 22 spin: 8+2 - 93 - whodunit - The Westing Game - in progress - tagged 23x
STEEPLECHASE TAGS ROUND 2 JoAnne and Ennaoj 1. Small town
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4 Time
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
7 Historical Fiction
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... - tagged 201 times
9. Did not finish
10. Technology
11 Meditating in a Zen Garden
12. Aviation
13. Victorian
The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War-tagged 6 times
15. Short Stories
16 Strong women
17. Highly Recommend (KT)
18. Quirky
19. Drama
20 Sea (Lyn)
22. Feminism
23. Scandinavia (Hilde)
24. Norway
25. Fav
26 Life changing
28. True Crime
29. Animals
30. Graphic Novels
32. slice of life
33. Translated
35. urban fantasy
36. Journey
37. colonialism
38. Mental Health (Nancy J)
9-25-2024 Read 3 Grimm Brothers Stories tagged Fairytale 169 times.
40. Space Opera (Sue)
41. Gothic
42. Music
43 Marriage
44. Southern Fiction (Holly)
45. Coming of age
46. Multiple POV (Diana)
47 Fun
48. Western Rocky Mountain Heat -tagged Western 110 times
49. dark
50. Crime
51. nature
52. retellings
53. Detective
54. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays) I am here The Familiar tagged 5 times
55. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
56. revenge
57. Police
58 Hardenbergia Trellis
59. made-me-cry
60. Book to screen
61. LatinX (BookConcierge)
62. International (Olivermagnus)
63. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
64. Essays
65. Pirates
66. Hollywood
67. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
68. Beach Reads
69. Farm
70. linguistics
71. hilarious
72. Mermaids
73. spooky
74. mafia
75 sf-masterworks
76. Puddle Jumper
77. Time Travel
78. Hoopla
79. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
80. abandoned,
81. letters
82. Cities (Robin P)
83. medieval
84. Trophy Fixed Barrier
85 Sisters
"86 Disasters "
87 Cozy-Fantasy
88 Novella
89 Donnybrook water feature
90 Egypt
91 Caribbean
92 Enviromental
93 Literary Fiction
94 Whodunit
95 Geography
96 Dystopia
97 Ghosts
98 Medical
99 Aging
Bonuses
January 23-#16-713
February 8
February 16-
May-Book # 85 matches Crime tag +2 to use anytime.
August 29-Remarkably Bright Creatures - tagged 5-stars +2 move anytime + 4games points- used 1 move 10/20 to move to Women writers
September 25-Earned 2 spaces to used anytime with Raven's Roost
Game Points Earned (updated 9-25-2024 Completions of Round 1 )
Points per Tag -(as at 10-12-2024)
Books Read =- points = 57
34+ 2 for tag match 36(Note: book 10 fits tag, gets 4 points) 8-18-2024 +2 + 4 (tag match) = 40
I extra tag read (Ireland) +2 =42
Women's History +2=44
8-29-2024 + 2. Is a tag match for month +4 +2 =52 points at 8/29
9-9-2024 +2 =56
9-24-2024 +2 = 58
10-12-2024+ 2+60
Hurdles met -
#11+ 3 point
#20 +3 points
#43 +3 points
#58 +3 Points
Track # 2
#39 +3 points
Total game points @ 9-24-2024= 75 (FRAN-I am sure this wrong-LoL I just don't know where I screwed up)
Grab Bag 5 of 6 used 1 remaining
Linda C's and Giselle's Racetrack - Level 2 Oceans of Fire Steeplechase1. Small town
2. nonfiction,
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
5. School books
6. Quest
7. Aging
8. Time
9. Technology
10. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11. Victorian
13. Short Stories
14. Asian Literature (Patty)
15. Highly Recommend (KT)
16. Quirky
17. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
18. Debut
19. Feminism
21. Criminal
22. Ireland
23. True Crime
25. Graphic Novels
26. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
27. Translated
28. Fairytale
29. urban fantasy
30. Journey
31. colonialism
32. Mental Health (Nancy J)
33. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
34. Fantasy
35. Gothic
36. Music
37. The Climbing Wall barrier
38. Coming of age
40. secrets
41. western
42. Crime
43. nature
44. Detective
45. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
46. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
47. revenge
48. Police
49. Double Jump fixed barrier
51. Book to screen
52. LatinX (BookConcierge)
53. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
54. Essays
55. Pirates
57. Beach Reads
58. Farm
59. linguistics
60. hilarious
61. Mermaids
62. mafia
63. Food (Joanne)
64. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle
65. Time Travel
66. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
68. letters
69. Cities (Robin P)
70. medieval
71. Trophy Fixed Barrier
72. New Orleans
73. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
74. Strong women
75. Sea (Lyn)
76. Life changing
77. addiction
78. marriage
79. Disasters
80. sf-masterworks
81. Hardenbergia Trellis
82. Comedy
83. Sisters
84. Literary fiction
86. Caribbean (Cora)
87. Donnybrook water feature
88. Canada (Library Cin)
89. Egypt
90. Ghosts (Amy)
91. Whodunit
92. Medical
93. Geography (Ellen)
Adjustments for Level 2: (view spoiler)
Tags removed - 18 (view spoiler)
Hurdle removed - 1 (view spoiler)
Accumulated Game Points - Level 1 = 82
Rewards Earned & Used - Level 1: (view spoiler)
Stats for end of Level 2 - 9/5/24
Accumulated Game Points - Level 1&2 = 154
Rewards Earned (carried over+new ones) & Used - Level 2
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Spins #1-#9 (view spoiler)
Shelly and Snow White the Princess of GravelSteeplechase Level 2
(added school books #1, wishlist from grab bag #57 and meditating in a zen garden hurdle #62)
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1. School books
2. nonfiction,
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. Asia
🚴🏼5.
6. Quest
7. Aging
8. Time
9. Technology
10. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11. Aviation
12. Victorian
13. Race
14. Short Stories
15. Quirky
16. Drama
17. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
🚴🏼18.
19. Feminism
20. Scandinavia (Hilde)
21. Fav
22. Criminal
23. Ireland
24. True Crime
25. Animals
26. Graphic Novels
🚴🏼27.
28. slice of life
29. Translated
30. Fairytale
31. urban fantasy
32. colonialism
33. Mental Health (Nancy J)
🚴🏼34.
35. Space Opera (Sue)
36. Gothic
37. Music
38. The Climbing Wall barrier
🚴🏼39.
40. secrets
41. western
42. dark
43. Crime
🚴🏼44.
45. retellings
46. Detective
47. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
🚴🏼48.
49. Police
50. Double Jump fixed barrier
51. made-me-cry
🚴🏼52.
53. LatinX (BookConcierge)
54. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
55. Essays
56. Pirates
57. Wishlist
58. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
🚴🏼59.
60. Farm
61. linguistics
62. Meditating Zen Garden Hurdle
63. Mermaids
64. mafia
65. Food (Joanne)
66. Puddle Jumper
🚴🏼67.
68. Hoopla
69. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
70. abandoned,
71. letters
72. Cities (Robin P)
🚴🏼73.
74. Trophy Fixed Barrier
75. New Orleans
76. Strong women
77. Sea (Lyn)
78. Life changing
79. addiction
80. marriage
🚴🏼81.
82. sf-masterworks
83. Hardenbergia Trellis
84. Comedy
85. Sisters
86. Literary fiction
87. Dystopia
88. Novella
89. Caribbean (Cora)
90.Canada (Library Cin)
91.Egypt
92.Ghosts (Amy)
93.Whodunit
94.Environment
95. Medical
96.Geography (Ellen)
Points from Level 1=52 (view spoiler)
Advantages from Level 1
Add 2 spaces to spin x 4
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Spins
7/18 Spin #1 - 3 (+2 spaces) to 5. Plot twist Illuminae
Tagged Plot-Twist 25x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag 5-stars 455x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
7/23 Moved 13 spaces by Olivermagnus to 18. Debut
There There
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged debut 53x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag "5-stars" 37x
Summer Olympics Challenge tagged USA 88x
8/7 Spin #2 7 (+2 spaces) to 27. Short Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged "short" 20x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
8/11 Spin #3 -- 7 to 34. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
The Lottery
Tagged short story 658x
Tagged "short" 105xhttps://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
8/11 Spin #4 --- 3 (+2) to 39. Coming of Age
The Nix
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged Coming of Age 32x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
9/7 Spin #5-- 3 (+2) to 44. Nature The Overstory
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged nature 976x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
10/3 Spin #6 -- 4 to 48. revenge
Use grabbag (1st pick) and replace with adventure The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged advenure 1,840x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag of travel 65x
10/19 Spin #7 -- 4 to 52. Book to screen The Giver
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged book-to-screen 39x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
10/22 Spin #8 -- 7 to 59. Beach reads Cinder
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged Beach reads 7xhttps://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches monthly tag steampunk 595x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
11/16 Spin #9 6 (+2) to 67. Time travel
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged steampunk 21x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Tagged time travel 1,251x https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
11/20 Spin #10 6 to 73. Medieval
Use grabbag and replace with bildungsroman
Review https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged bildungsroman 24x
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
11/24 Spin #11 6 (+2) to 81. Disasters
Game Points
11 Tags completed x 2= 22
Extra Points- Matches monthly tag
Spin #1 +4 (also >500 pages +2) =6 points
Spin #2 +4 (also +3 for Olympics Challenge) =7 points
Spin #4 +2 (>500 pages)
Spin #5 +2 (>500 pages)
Spin #6 +4
Spin #8 +4
Spin #9 +4
Spin #10 +4
Total 41 bonus points
Total level 2 22+ 41 = 63
Total Steeplechase points 52 + 63 = 115
Total books read for Steeplechase 27
Advantages
Spin #2 Add 3 spaces to spin (Olympics Challenge)
Spin #3 Add 2 spaces to spin (Ravens Roost Hedge Hurdle) 8/10
Spin #9 Add 2 spaces to spin (monthly tag)
Spin #10 Add 2 spaces to spin (monthly tag)
Lyn and Buck - we made it to Oceans of Fire!!!!1. Small town
2. nonfiction
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
5. Plot twist
6. Quest
7. Aging
8. Time
10. Bio Memoir*
11. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
12. Aviation
14. Race
15. Short Stories
16. Asian Literature (Patty)
17. Highly Recommend (KT)
19. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
20. Debut
21. Feminism
22. Scandinavia (Hilde)
23. Norway
24. Fav
25. Ireland
26. True Crime
27. Animals
28. Graphic Novels
29. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
31. Fairytale
32. urban fantasy
33. Journey
34. colonialism
36. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
37. Gothic
38. The Climbing Wall barrier
39. Coming of age
40. Multiple POV (Diana)
41. western
42. dark - landed here. used 2 spaces to move to nature
43. Crime
45. retellings
46. Detective
47. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays)
48. artificial intelligence (Joy D) landed here. Used 2 spaces to move to school books
49. revenge
51. Double Jump fixed barrier
52. Book to screen
53. LatinX (BookConcierge)
55. Essays
56. Pirates
57. Hollywood
59. Beach Reads
60. linguistics
61. hilarious
62. Mermaids
63. spooky
64. mafia
66. Meditating in a Zen Garden*
67. Time Travel
68. abandoned,
70. letters
71. Cities (Robin P)
72. medieval
73. Trophy Fixed Barrier
74. New Orleans
75. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
76. Strong women
77. Sea (Lyn)
78. Life changing
79. addiction
80. marriage
81. Disasters
82. sf-masterworks
83. Comedy
84. Literary fiction
85. Dystopia
86. Novella
87. Caribbean (Cora)
88.Donnybrook water feature
89.Canada (Library Cin)
90.Egypt
91.Ghosts (Amy)
92.Whodunit
93.Environment
94. Medical
95.Geography (Ellen)
37 points
2 spaces
Carry over from Level 1
52 points
8 spaces
Olympics
1 book matching country tag 3 points, 3 spaces
Fixed Barrier hurdle - can replace any upcoming tag with tag of my choice
Steeplechase Level 2Added #11 Childhood Favorites; #26 School Books; #47 Meditating in a Zen Garden
1. Small town -
2. Renaissance (Theresa) -
3. Asia -
4. Plot twist -
5. quest -
6. Aging -
7. Time -
8.
Link to review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
9. Technology -
10. Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
11.
Link to Review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
12. Victorian -
13. Race -
14. Short Stories -
15. Asian Literature (Patty) -
16. Highly Recommend (KT) -
17. Quirky -
18. Drama -
19.
Read & review a book that's totally out of your wheelhouse. I chose the Horror Suspense tag
The Graveyard Book--by Neil Gaiman--tagged Horror Suspense 17 times--https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
Link to review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
20. Debut -
21. Feminism -
22. Scandinavia (Hilde) -
23. Norway -
24. Fav -
25. Criminal -
26. School Books-
27. True Crime -
28. Animals -
29.
Link to review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
30. Short (can be less than 150 pp.) -
31. slice of life -
32. Translated -
33. Fairytale -
34. urban fantasy -
35.
Link to review-https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
36. Mental Health (Nancy J) -
37. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
38. Space Opera (Sue) -
39. Gothic -
40. The Climbing Wall Barrier
41.
link to review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
42. Multiple POV (Diana) -
43. secrets -
44. western -
45. dark -
46. Crime -
47. Meditating in a Zen Garden
48.
Link to review-https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
49. Detective -
50. Women Writers (Jennifer Mays) -
51. artificial intelligence (Joy D) -
52. revenge -
53. Police -
54. Double Jump Fixed Barrier
55.
Link to review--https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
56. LatinX (BookConcierge) -
57. International (Olivermagnus) -
58. black-lives-matter (Shelly) -
59. Essays -
60. Pirates -
61. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle
62. Beach Reads -
63. Farm -
64. linguistics -
65. hilarious -
66. Mermaids -
67. spooky -
68. mafia -
69. Puddle Jumper
70. Time Travel -
71. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C) -
72. abandoned -
73. letters -
74. medieval -
75. Trophy Fixed Barrier
76. New Orleans -
77. Strong women -
78. Sea (Lyn) -
79. addiction -
80. marriage -
81. Fun -
82. Disasters -
83. sf-masterworks -
84. Hardenbergia Trellis
85. Sisters -
86. Literary fiction -
87. Dystopia -
88.Novella (can be less than 150 pp.) -
89. Caribbean (Cora) -
90. Donnybrook water feature
91. Canada (Library Cin) -
92. Egypt -
93. Whodunit -
94. Environment -
95. medical -
96. Geography (Ellen) -
97. Historical fiction -
Carried over from level 1
*
*
*earned 2 spaces on a spin of my choice for monthly tag
44 points?
Spin 1- 8 = Did not finish True
* earned 2 spaces on a spin of my choice for matching monthly tag
Spin 2- 3 = Childhood Favorites
Spin 3- 8= The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
Spin 4- 8=True Crime
Used a move 2 spaces on a spin of my choice for matching monthly tag= Graphic Novels
Spin 5- 6= Journey
* earned 2 spaces on a spin of my choice for matching monthly tag
Spin 6- 4 = Gothic
Used a move 2 spaces on a spin of my choice
tag= coming of age
Spin 7- 7=retellings
*earned 2 spaces on a spin for matching monthly
Spin 8- 7= made-me-cry
Ended challenge here on 11/28/24
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