JoAnne Plays Harder and Follows the Compass

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✅1. . A book where the title contains all the vowels (A, E, I, O, U) (BooknBlues) The House in the Cerulean Sea
✅2. A book written by an Indigenous author - To Shape a Dragon's Breath
✅3. Cooking book with Recipe-Sweetie-licious Pies: Eat Pie, Love Life
✅4. A book set in New York City-Miss Morgan's Book Brigade -Read April 28, 2025
✅5. Read a book related to a culture other than your own. The Invisible Bridge - Main character is a Hungarian Jewish man. - Read February 6, 2025
✅6. Draw a random tarot card and read a book with a title that has to do with the card. Could either be literal i.e. if you drew The Magician, read The Magicians by Lev Grossman; OR pick any imagery from the card to find in a book title, i.e. if you drew the 3 of Swords you could read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad because the 3 of Swords features a heart. If people don't own any tarot decks there are a number of free random generators like this one: https://www.dailytarotdraw.com/cards#... Drew the Death Card. The cover art of the book shows a woman dying in Pensric's arm Read February 15, 2024
✅7. A book that involves the mind, brain, or neuroscience
✅8. A book with a wild animal in the content, title or cover Wolves of Winter
✅9. Find your most-read author. Read a new book by them. If you have read everything by that author, use your next most read author.-Raymond E. Feist -Wrath of a Mad God
✅10. Read a book from NPR's 2024 Best Books of the year list-[[book:Real Americans|62929342]
✅11. Read a book that is Historical fiction- Here Be Dragons
✅12. A book with less than 3,000 ratings on Goodreads You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War 1,262 ratings. Read January 15, 2024 Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

LIST 2

1. Read a book set primarily in a hospital
2. Read a police procedural mystery or thriller
3. Read a book that features a shady or secretive company or organization. An Inside Job - Read August 2025
4. A memoir by a chef or a food writer
5. A book with a unit of measure in the title
6. Read a book you've been avoiding or keep putting off Katherine Read 8/23/2025
7. Read a book that includes a penguin
8. A book that you think honors Martin Luther King's Birthday
9. Read a cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking
10. A book set in a country you would like to visit but never have Sharpe's Sword
11. A book set in desert The City of Brass
12. Read a book where one of the main characters is in the military

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When requesting a spin, please post your review in Tag of the month or other books. Please do not add Compass Spin to title.
For the spin request link the review, post points, & mileage if you are tracking that and your departure point with validation.



COMPASS

Goal: Goal: To read books I do not have on my TBR, if my list does not have a book to move me in the direction I am given. For me, this is a big deal. Also, I want to visit places I have never been to before

Starting Locale : Clarkston Michigan

First Spin: Southwest

Book You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
Locale: Vietnam
Distance traveled: 8,722 miles
Monthly Tag Match: No
Location Tag: Yes

Second Spin-Southwest to Madagascar
Return to the Enchanted Island
Travel Distance: 4825.18 miles
Monthly Tag Match: No
Location Tag: Yes

Third Spin-NW from Madagascar to New Jersey
Now or Never
Travel distance: 8685.69 miles
Location Tag: Yes tagged 5 time NJ
Monthly Tag: No
"AI Overview
Yes, New Jersey is northwest of Madagascar; New Jersey is located in the northeastern United States, while Madagascar is an island off the southeast coast of Africa, placing New Jersey significantly to the northwest on the globe.

Fourth Spin NE : Trenton NJ, to London. England
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Travel distance: 3513.63
Location Tag: Yes tagged London times
Monthly Tag: Yes-Tagged Science 38 times
Matches monthly tag 38 times
AI Overview: Yes, the initial flight path from New Jersey to London is northeast (NE). Explanation: The initial bearing from New Jersey to London is 50.90° NE.


Fifth Spin: N-London, England to Glasgow, Scotland
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Travel distance: 345.53 miles
Location Tag: Yes, tagged 39 times

Sixth Spin: SE- Glasgow to Beijing, China. used a free pass to change direction.
The Beijing Betrayal
Travel Distance: 4947.70

Seventh Spin: W (used free directions) Beijing to New York, New York
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Travel Distance: 6808.67
No tag matches

Eighth Spin: SW
New York, New York to Galveston, Texas
Oleander City
Travel Distance: 1,415.93
No Matching Tags

Ninth Spin-SE-
Galveston, Texas to New York
Where the Light Enters
Travel Distance: 1,415.93
Matches New York Tag 20 times

Tenth Spin-East
New York to Badajoz, Portugal
Sharpe's Company
Distance: 3461.42
No matching tags

Eleventh Spin-West
Badajoz, Portugal to Butcher's Crossing, Kansas
Butcher's Crossing
Distance: 4,690.11 miles
No tags

12th Spin-NE
Butcher's Crossing, Kansas to Lincolnshire, England
Katherine
Distance: 4,455.81 miles
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

54,199.39



Total Mileage: 49,743.58


Mileage Calculator: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...



3 1 free tickets to choose the direction of their choice

Points

1 point - per book or location-

2 points - tag for location-

3 points - matching tag of the month.


Personal Notes:

Book 1-You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War 3 points
Book 2 - Return to the Enchanted Island 3 points
Book 3-Now or Never 3 points
Book 4- To Say Nothing of the Dog Total Points 6
Book 5 - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Total book points 3
Book 6 The Beijing Betrayal 1 point for book.
Book 7 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade 1 point for book
Book 8 Oleander City 1 point for book
Book 9 Where the Light Enters 1 point for book, 2 for location tag.
Book 10-Sharpe's Company 1 point
Book 11 Butcher's Crossing 1 point
Book 12 Katherine 1 Point Book, 2 Points Location

Total points 29

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