The Compass Spins and Requests

[Amy]

Finished my book at 5:30 AM - definitely get me on the Compass Spin list for today!!!!

[Booknblues]

Spins for April 16
Holly - NE
Rachel N - W
Olivermagnus - SW
Joy D - NW
Ellen - SW
Nancy J - N
Amy - SE
Jason - E

[Jason]

I am ready for a spin.

Thank you

[Booknblues]

Jason wrote: "I am ready for a spin.

Thank you"
East

[Sue]

I'm ready for a spin on Wednesday.

[Jen]

A new boarding pass, please?

[Booknblues]

Spins for April 23
Sue
Jen M
Olivermagnus
Ellen
Joy D
Jen K
Nancy J
Theresa

[Booknblues]

Sue wrote: "I'm ready for a spin on Wednesday."
Was this for you Indonesia book?

Nevermind. I just saw your post.

[Olivermagnus]

My review is posted and I'm ready for a new direction next Wednesday. Thanks.

[Ellen]

May I have my next spin, please. Thanks!

[Joy D]

I am ready for a spin on Wednesday, please!

[Jen K]

I'm ready for a new direction please.

[NancyJ]

I’m ready for my next spin please. I read Feral Creatures thanks to your review Fran!

[Theresa]

Ready for my next spin!


My review for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest set in Stockholm, is up.

[Booknblues]

Spins for April 23
Sue - E
Jen M - NW
Olivermagnus - SW
Ellen - SW
Joy D - NE
Jen K - SE
Nancy J - N
Theresa - SE

[Theresa]

Wow! I just squeaked in! Good thing it has been a pretty quiet, emergency free work day so far!

Now off to see where SE of Stockholm can take me given the books already lined up for me to read. I'm thinking a short hop likely.

[Jen]

Yessssssssssss that was one of the two I was hoping for. Thank you to the spinner gods.

[Joanne]

Fran, I am going to use another free direction and go West.

[Ellen]

Fran, I am going to use a free pass to go Northeast.

[Booknblues]

Ellen wrote: "Fran, I am going to use a free pass to go Northeast."

I wondered if you would ever get to the East Coast.

[Booknblues]

May's Prompt for a Free Ticket

I took a look at May and found so much happening! May Day, Cinco de Mayo, Mother's Day, Memorial Day!

Even May in history has much to offer: U2 shot down, Machiavelli's birthday, Columbus "discovered" Jamaica, Karl Marx's birthday and that is just up to May 5.

As far as Month's go it is AAPI Heritage, Jewish Heritage,Mental Health Awareness.

And Days- World Turtle Day, Geek Pride Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Parrot Day.

As you can see it is wide open, so I am leaving it wide open. From what you can find out about May choose one book by cover, title, tag or author which represents something in May, but just be sure that you let me know what it is.

Maybe we will all learn something about May.

[Amy]

Well, that is both broad and fun!!! Lots of free tickets ahead! I haven’t even used one yet. So my prompt for the play harder challenge is to have a book with the month in the title in the month that I read it. I’ve got two books with May in the title. Since we are being so broad about things to do with me, would that count?

[Booknblues]

Amy wrote: "Well, that is both broad and fun!!! Lots of free tickets ahead! I haven’t even used one yet. So my prompt for the play harder challenge is to have a book with the month in the title in the month th..."

What is more May than May?

[Theresa]

But it still has to be a book that you read for The Compass spin, right?

I've only managed one mini read but that's fine as I really don't need to stock up on passes. In fact the one I just earned replaced the one I just used so I am still at 3. I am only managing an average of 2 reads for The Compass a month and that likely will slow.

[Olivermagnus]

My review is posted and I'm ready for a new direction next Wednesday, April 30. Thanks.

[NancyJ]

I’m ready for my next spin please - Wednesday 4/30.

I’ve been in the Pacific Northwest for three weeks now, so fingers crossed it won’t be north.

[Booknblues]

Spins for April 30
Olivermagnus
Nancy J
Joy D
Amy
Holly
Jen K
Ellen
Joanne

[Joy D]

I am ready for a spin on Wed, April 30th, thanks!

[Amy]

Amy is ready for another spin on Wednesday....

[Holly R W]

My current direction (NE) is not working for me. I'd like a new spin, please. Thanks!

[Jen K]

I'm ready for a new spin please.

[Ellen]

I am ready for my next spin, please. Thanks!

[Joanne]

I am ready for a spin tomorrow, my review is up https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Booknblues]

Spins for April 30
Olivermagnus - SW
Nancy J - SW
Joy D - E
Amy - E
Holly - W
Jen K - N
Ellen - NE
Joanne - SW

[Joanne]

That darn randomizer is going to keep being insistent that I go SE or SW!!!

[Olivermagnus]

Grrrrrrrr....this is my 8th SW. Since I'm currently in Arizona, my crime choices are limited. I'm going to use a free ticket. I'm not sure where I'm going yet, but it probably should be located in a city that gives me some choices for my next SW direction.

[Joanne]

Sounds like we are traveling together Lynda-wanna meet me in the bar?

[Amy]

And all I ever get is east or north with one south east. I have traveled the globe that way. Never once used a free ticket. Only this time I wanted either east or west. I’ve got the perfect book waiting.

[Theresa]

Olivermagnus wrote: "Grrrrrrrr....this is my 8th SW. Since I'm currently in Arizona, my crime choices are limited. I'm going to use a free ticket. I'm not sure where I'm going yet, but it probably should be located in ..."

Since I am also doing crime fiction in this challenge, I've saved some research links to some websites with recommendations for some tricky locations. They start here in my personal tracking. Starts with Iceland latest was Falklands and Tierra del Fuego I think. I am currently in Sri Lanka.

Please feel free to check out the links since you have the same theme.

[Amy]

Amy is using her first free ticket! And yet she will get a free ticket to replace it. Amy is traveling (SW) from New York City to Hollywood.

Plans to read In Good Company; Tales of Laughter and MAYhem. Carol Burnett, someone who I love and continue to re-watch every single night is a Strong Woman who made her way in Comedy before women comedians were really a thing. Madeline Kahn, Lucille Ball, Lily Tomlin, Nanette Fabray, she was in that class and they were all regulars on her show.

Play Harder needs a Prompt for May, as does the Compass May Challenge. I think this has got to be the one! She's up next.

[Amy]

Can anyone connect anything Paris or French Queen to May? That would have been my east prompt book. The Queen's Fortune by Alison Pataki. But I was really hoping for was the Secret Midwife. (Mothers and Strong Women and a PH prompt), but turns out Poland is Northeast.

[Olivermagnus]

Theresa wrote: "Since I am also doing crime fiction in this challenge, I've saved some research links to some websites with recommendations for some tricky locations. They start here in my personal tracking. Starts with Iceland latest was Falklands..."

Thanks Theresa. You're so thoughtful. I'll take a look and see what I can find.

[Olivermagnus]

Joanne wrote: "Sounds like we are traveling together Lynda-wanna meet me in the bar?"

I have just ordered a pineapple martini. I'm the girl with the glasses and Kindle....lol.

[Booknblues]

Amy wrote: "Can anyone connect anything Paris or French Queen to May? That would have been my east prompt book. The Queen's Fortune by Alison Pataki. But I was really hoping for was the Secret Midwife. (Mother..."

There are three French Holidays in May:
https://www.parisdiscoveryguide.com/p...

Also<" The French Queen in May refers to several instances. Marie Antoinette, as Queen consort of France, was officially crowned on May 10, 1774. Additionally, Mary Tudor, as Queen consort of France, was married to King Louis XII in May 1520

And
On 18 May, 1804, after much political horse trading, the French Senate proclaimed Bonaparte Emperor Napoleon I
And
Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5, 1821, at Longwood, on the island of St. Helena. He was exiled there by the British after his defeat at Waterloo. The cause of his death was stomach cancer

[NancyJ]

I was hoping for SE, but SW works for a Japanese book with Fun tags. I’m almost done, so I’ll squeeze it in by midnight.

[Amy]

So I could use that for East and Save my Free Trip....

[Booknblues]

Amy wrote: "So I could use that for East and Save my Free Trip...."

Yes, I think there is enough there to earn you a free ticket.

[Amy]

I'd like to try and see if I never have to use them. I have already circled the globe once with only my east and norths....

[Theresa]

Amy wrote: "I'd like to try and see if I never have to use them. I have already circled the globe once with only my east and norths...."

Amy - I just used one of mine -- I was just too far south to find easily another crime fiction read, but I also immediately replaced it with my NE detour to Sweden, LOL.

On France, there are a wealth of books both F and NF covering what BnB provided relating to important dates and celebrations in May in France.

One of my favorite, discovered when I was a student in Paris, was May 1 - their Labor Day. It's a holiday, and everything back then was closed, except the boulangerie was open for a couple hours to sell baguettes to the locals. On every street corner, there were vendors with buckets of muguets - lilies of the valley - in little bouquets which you purchased in honor of the day.

Here's a link about those muguets and why they are still prevalent today on 1er Maie.

https://www.afrenchcollection.com/may...

https://www.clefrance.co.uk/18-blog/l...

[Robin P]

May 1 was traditionally a day for men to give the "muguets" to women - sort of like Valentine's Day and Mother's Day combined. That may have changed in modern times.

My favorite French singer, Charles Aznavour, has a song from the 1950's about all the ways a character is a terrible husband. He leaves cigarette ashes around, he doesn't call when he's coming home late, and on May 1st, he doesn't remember even a the smallest hint of muguet. (This being the '50's, he concludes that she is an angel and loves him enough to forgive everything.)