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ah mistakenly thought i'd added the books... so...
🌍 Park Avenue Summer (2019) - Renée Rosen 343pp 14/8/24 5🏅
Thursday 15 August 2024
🌍 11/22/63 (2011) - Stephen King
273-/273-1121 = 848pp 5🏅
Daily Page Total: 848
Page Total to Date: 6421
Friday 16 August 2024
🌍 The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Journey Into Space with 1950s Radio, TV, Films, Comics and Books (2019) - John Wade
0-240/240 = 240pp 5🏅
Daily Page Total: 240
Page Total to Date: 6661
Saturday 17 August 2024
🌍 The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx (1960) - Groucho Marx 320pp 5🏅
🌍 That Was Then, This is Now (1971) - S.E. Hinton 154pp 5🏅
Sunday 18 August 2024
🌍 Young Frankenstein: The Story of the Making of the Film (2016) - Mel Brooks 200pp 5🏅
Just finished reading
. Will be starting the Harry Potter series next
BOOK NEEDEDHey Team...
We landed on Fifth Ave and have to pay rent. I looked on the SS, but did not see anything off hand that would fit one of the tasks. Here is the criteria:
** Must be 430 pages or more
And fit one of the below tasks
** Read a book with "5", "Five" or "Fifth" in the title or text
or
** Read a book set in Manhattan
or
** Read a book where a designer brand is mentioned
The closest book on our spreadsheet was Mark my words E.L.Koslo Has fifth in text Chap 11 p121 "technically the fourth, or was it the fifth?"
Jazzy & Jessica's books have been entered through here
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂Previous Space/Direction of Travel: - Florida Ave/Counterclockwise
Rolled: 7
Landed on: Fifth Ave.
Plan - Find Book, Pay rent to WWW, Collect Rent from BBB for landing on St. Charles
Starting Bank Balance: $1,603
Money Paid: $60 - Rent to WWW
Money Earned: $150 (rent from BB )
Ending Bank Balance: $1,693
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Read a book with "5", "Five" or "Fifth" in the title or text
Reader: Ariel
Book/Author: Mark My Words/E.L Koslo
Date Read: 8/18/24
How it Fits: pg 121 - or was it the fifth time?
TURN COMPLETE ✔️
I finished another buddy read if someone can add it to spreadsheet for me please.
The Bee Sting by Paul MurrayRating: 1 star
Date read: 19/08/2024
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Jessica and Anastasia's books have been added to here.
Michelle wrote: "Jessica and Anastasia's books have been added to here."Thanks. Did you add Anastasia's to the Formal Buddy Read Bonus Log as well so we can extra points when we use that book?
Bernadette wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Jessica and Anastasia's books have been added to here."Thanks. Did you add Anastasia's to the Formal Buddy Read Bonus Log as well so we can extra points when we use that book?"
No I didn't. I missed that it was a buddy read..crap, sorry about that.
Michelle wrote: "Bernadette wrote: "Michelle wrote: "Jessica and Anastasia's books have been added to here."Thanks. Did you add Anastasia's to the Formal Buddy Read Bonus Log as well so we can extra points when w..."
I can take care of it tonight when I get home. I've done the others.
Monday 19 August 2024🌍 Away with the Penguins (2020) - Hazel Prior 416pp 5🏅
Tuesday 20 August 2024
🌍 The Lions of Fifth Avenue (2020) - Fiona Davis 368pp 5🏅
mr bo
Keli wrote: "Do we still need a specific book?"No , we had one. Thanks for checking though😉
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂Previous Space/Direction of Travel: - Fifth Ave/Counterclockwise
Rolled: 7
Landed on: Community Chest
Plan - Collect Salary, Spin CC wheel; do task
Starting Bank Balance: $1,693
Money Paid: $-0-
Money Earned: $968 ($336 Community Chest, $632 Salary)
Ending Bank Balance: $2,661
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: You have won 2nd Prize in a Book Contest! Read a book where a character WINS something!
Reader: Jazzy
Book/Author: 11/22/63/Stephen King
Date Read: 8/15/24
How it Fits: Jake Epping needs money so he makes sports bets and wins because he already knows the winners
TURN COMPLETE ✔️
Wednesday 21 August 2024🌍 A : Find Me (2019) - André Aciman
0-272/272 = 272pp 5🏅
🌍 Antkind (2020) - Charlie Kaufman
0-720/720 = 720pp 5🏅
Team RRRStarting Bank Balance: $2726
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Community Chest/Counter clockwise
Rolled: 5
Landed on: Reverse Direction Next Turn
Plan: Reverse direction on next turn - Will be moving CLOCKWISE on our next turn
Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $2726
Money Paid: $0
Money Earned: $0
Ending Bank Balance: $2726
Book(s) n/a
Task: None for this space
Reader: n/a
Book/Author: n/a
Date Read: n/a
How it Fits: n/a
TURN COMPLETE
Team, we landed on Community Chest. Our task is "Income Tax Refund! Read a book where a character is owed something"Please look at your books read and let me know if any fit.
Thanks!
Bernadette wrote: "Team, we landed on Community Chest. Our task is "Income Tax Refund! Read a book where a character is owed something"Please look at your books read and let me know if any fit.
Thanks!"
Not sure if this fits or not. In Throne of Glass Caelaena owes her life to Nehemia after she saves her from dying. p 319 "The truth was the least she owed her friend."
Bernadette wrote: "Team, we landed on Community Chest. Our task is "Income Tax Refund! Read a book where a character is owed something"Please look at your books read and let me know if any fit.
Thanks!"
The Unkindest Tide
"When the Luidaeg—October "Toby" Daye's oldest and most dangerous ally—tells her the time has come for the Selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that Toby must be a part of the process, Toby can't refuse. Literally. The Selkies aren't the only ones in debt to the Luidaeg, and Toby has to pay what she owes like anyone else. They will travel to the fabled Duchy of Ships and call a convocation of the Selkies, telling them to come and meet the Luidaeg's price...or face the consequences."
Thursday 22 August 2024🌍 Marie : an episode in the life of the late Allan Quatermain / by H. Rider Haggard. 1912 Leather Bound (1912) - H. Rider Haggard
396pp 5🏅Friday 23 August 2024
🌍 You Don't Know Nana (2022) - Alyssa Belfiglio 480pp 4🏅
Saturday 24 August 2024
🌍 Timbuktu (1999) - Paul Auster 186pp 5🏅
Sunday 25 August 2024
🌍 1984 (1949) - George Orwell 368pp 5🏅
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂Previous Space/Direction of Travel: - Reverse Direction/Clockwise
Rolled: 5
Landed on: Community Chest
Plan - Spin CC wheel; do task
Starting Bank Balance: $2,726
Money Paid: $-0-
Money Earned: $110
Ending Bank Balance: $2,836
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Income Tax Refund! Read a book where a character is owed something.
Reader: Michelle
Book/Author: The Unkindest Tide/Seanan McGuire
Date Read: 7/10/24
How it Fits: Selkies are in debt to the Luidaeg
TURN COMPLETE ✔️
I have 2 books that I need added to spreadsheet. Columbine by Dave Cullen read 8/22, 630 pages
and
Misadventures with a Speed Demon by Chelle Bliss read 8/23, 196 pages
Thanks
ALL OF JESSICA AND JAZZY'S BOOKS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO HERE
Post 1Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $ $2,836
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Community Chest/Clockwise
Rolled: 9
Landed on: Stock Exchange
Plan: Collect salary for passing by purple square and read for Stock Exchange
Post 2
Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $2386
Money Paid: $0
Money Earned: $ 733 ($216 for Stock Exchange & $517 for Salary)
Ending Bank Balance: $3569
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: JP Morgan Chase is headquartered in New York City
Reader: Jazzy
Book/Author: Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
Date Read: 8/21/24
How it Fits: Set in New York like the company
TURN COMPLETE
Finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone today. Gonna start reading
Hoping it's as good as the first book in the series!
Post 1Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $ 3569
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Stock Exchange/Clockwise
Rolled: 9
Landed on: Transit Station/Shortline
Plan: Pay rent to BB and find book
Post 2
Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $3569
Money Paid: $100
Money Earned: $0
Ending Bank Balance: $3469
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Read a book with the word “SHORT” or “LINE” in the title
Reader: Bernadette
Book/Author: Life's Too Short: A Memoir by Darius Rucker
Date Read: 7/30/24
How it Fits: Short in the title
TURN COMPLETE
Post 1Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $3469
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: SHort Line RR/Clockwise
Rolled: 8
Landed on: Ventnor Ave
Plan: Collect Salary
Post 2
Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $3469
Money Paid: $0
Money Earned: $445
Ending Bank Balance: $3914
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: None - We own Ventnor
Reader: n/a
Book/Author: n/a
Date Read: n/a
How it Fits: n/a
We are now traveling counter-clockwise
TURN COMPLETE
Shannon wrote: "Finished Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone today. Gonna start reading Hoping it's as good as the first book in the series!"
I'll be interested to know what you think when you finish. I read the book that wouldn't burn not earlier this month. And though I enjoyed it i did love it. But i would totally read the next one. I just wonder how it compares.
Team - RRRStarting Bank Balance: $ 3914
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Ventnor/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 3
Landed on: Yellow Cab Company
Plan: Collect Rent from WWW & BB for landing on Oriental (6)
Team RRRStarting Bank Balance: $3914
Money Paid: $ 0
Money Earned: $12 ($6 from www and $6 from BB
Ending Bank Balance: $3926
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: None - We own Yellow Cab Company
Reader: n/a
Book/Author: n/a
Date Read: n/a
How it Fits n/a
We are traveling counter-clockwise
Monday 26 August 2024 August Bank Holiday🌍 Eyrie (2013) - Tim Winton 424pp 5🏅
Tuesday 27 August 2024
🌍 The Other Valley (2024) - Scott Alexander Howard 304pp 4🏅
Wednesday 28 August 2024
🌍 Eating for England (2007) - Nigel Slater 320pp 5🏅
Thursday 29 August 2024
🌍 The Cruelty Men (2018) - Emer Martin 457pp 5🏅
🌍 The Bride Wore Black 288pp 5🏅
Friday 30 August 2024
🌍 Into Thin Eire: Another John Pickett Mystery (2019) - Sheri Cobb South 399pp 5🏅
🌍 The Snow Leopard (1978) - Peter Matthiessen 367pp 5🏅
🌍 Offstage in Nuala (2017) - Harriet Steel 294pp 5🏅
Whomever read 
Please put your name on SS. You forgot to include it.
Ta, Michelle! 🌍 G : Searching for Robert Johnson (1989) - Peter Guralnick 104pp PDF version. 31/8/24 5🏅
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Yellow Cab Company/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 6
Landed on: Start Here
Plan: Collect Salary; buy houses
Starting Bank Balance: $3,926
Money Paid: $ 300 (purchase houses)
Money Earned: $596 ($150 from BB for St. Charles, $446 Salary)
Ending Bank Balance: $4,222
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: N/A
TURN COMPLETE✔️
Post 1Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $4,222
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Purple Start Here Space/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 7
Landed on: Chance
Plan - Spun wheel and landed on Your building loan matures. Read a book with the word "building" in the text. Look for a book with that word in the text
Post 2
Team RRR
Starting Bank Balance: $4222
Money Paid: $0
Money Earned: $192
Ending Bank Balance: $4414
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Read a book with the word "building" in the text
Reader: Anastasia
Book/Author: A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Date Read: 9/1/24
How it Fits: Pg. 41 - "Whatever had been building beneath my skin went still and cold."
TRAVELING COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
TURN COMPLEte
Another 3 added. I am going to try to knock out loads before the end of the month.
I'm posting info for the 2 two rolls....🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Chance/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 10
Landed on: Cable Company
Plan: Pay rent to BB
Starting Bank Balance: $4,414
Money Paid: $ 30
Money Earned: $-0-
Ending Bank Balance: $4,384
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Read a book with a Series title that starts with C
Reader: Anastasia
Book/Author: Paddlers, Promises & Poison/Tonya Kappes
Date Read: 7/25/24
How it Fits: Series - Campers & Criminals
TURN COMPLETE✔️
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂
Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Cable Company/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 10
Landed on: Lake Street
Plan: Pay rent to BB
Starting Bank Balance: $4,384
Money Paid: $ 1
Money Earned: $19 (Mod added money for FBR)
Ending Bank Balance: $4,402
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: Read a book by an author whose first name starts with L
Reader: Karen
Book/Author: Night Angel/Lisa Kessler
Date Read: 7/9/24
How it Fits: AFN starts w/L
TURN COMPLETE✔️
Keli wrote: "Another 3 added. I am going to try to knock out loads before the end of the month."🥳🥳🥳
I have another book I need added to the spreadsheetJust Add Water: My Swimming Life by Katie Ledecky 255 pages. Read 9/5
Thanks.
Monday 2 September 2024🕺💃 The Driver's Seat (1970) - Muriel Spark 128pp 5🎵
🕺💃 Redcap Runs Away (1952) - Rhoda Power 304pp
Tuesday 3 September 2024
🕺💃 The Return of the King (1955) - J.R.R. Tolkien 432pp 5🎵
🕺💃 The Hobbit (1937) - J.R.R. Tolkien 353pp 5🎵
Wednesday 4 September 2024
🕺💃 Baba Yaga Laid an Egg (2007) - Dubravka Ugrešić 337pp 5🎵
🕺💃 The Two Towers (1954) - J.R.R. Tolkien 448pp 5🎵
Thursday 5 September 2024
🕺💃 Krampus (2012) - Brom 496pp 5🎵
🕺💃 The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) - J.R.R. Tolkien 480pp 5🎵
🕺💃 The Kraken Wakes (1953) - John Wyndham 271pp 5🎵
🕺💃 The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings (1999) - Brad Steiger 430pp 5🎵
🚂Team - Railroad Reading Raiders🚂Previous Space/Direction of Travel: Lake Street/Counter-clockwise
Rolled: 8
Landed on: Mechanic Shop
Plan: We own
Starting Bank Balance: $4,402
Money Paid: $ -0-
Money Earned: $-0-
Ending Bank Balance: $4,402
Book(s) read to complete your turn...
Task: N/A
Reader: N/A
Book/Author: N/A
Date Read: N/A
How it Fits: N/A
TURN COMPLETE✔️
So, how are we doing? I have no clue. 🫤🤣
Me either, Keli! i just read books ahahaFriday 6 September 2024
🕺💃 The Algernon Blackwood Collection (2015) - Algernon Blackwood CBE, (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951)
3829pp 🎵
Saturday 7 September 2024
🕺💃 Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy (2002) - Jane Leavy
502pp 🎵
🕺💃 The Arabian Nights (800) - Anonymous
1049pp 🎵
Here is where we stand now. I should have been posting this more often. Sadly, no one has been landing on our properties very often.
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