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Ed's Bookopoly Thread

Roll: 6
Square: P Woodstock's Home
Timestamp: 2016-11-26 11:39
Book: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Due Date: 2016-12-29
Completed 2016-12-2

Roll: 5
Square: P Pig Pen
Timestamp: 2016-11-26 11:40
Book: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Due Date: 2016-12-29
Completed 2016-12-3

Roll: 6
Square: Pitcher's Mound- Read a book where author's name (first OR last) ends with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U)
Timestamp: 2016-11-26 11:41
Book: The Cubs and Other Stories by Mario Vargas Llosa
Due Date: 2016-12-29
Completed 2016-12-4

Roll: 8 (6+2)
Square: Christmas
Timestamp: 2016-12-2 18:46
Task- 2. Author initials (first & last) found in POLICE OFFICERBook: A Death in the Sánchez Family by Oscar Lewis
Due Date: 2016-12-30
Completed 12-5-16

Move #5
Roll: 11 (5+6)
Square: Pychaitric Booth
Timestamp: 2016-12-3
Read a book where [first] publication year ends with an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 9)- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin- published 1791
Due Date: 2016-12-31
Completed 2016-12-6

Move #6
Roll: 2 (2+1)
Square: Snoopy
Book: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Timestamp: 2016-12-4
Due Date: 2017-1-3
Completed 2016-12-6

Move #7
Roll: 8 (4+4)
Square: Psychiatric Booth Rolled 5+3- Advance to Valentine's Day
5. Survival
Book: Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Timestamp: 2016-12-5
Due Date: 2017-1-4
completed 2017-12-8

Move #8
Roll: 8 (5+3)
Square: Psychiatric Booth (Roll dice=12)
Read a book where author's initial (first OR last) begins with a vowel (A, E, I, O, U)
Book: The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Timestamp: 2016-12-5
Due Date: 2017-1-4
Completed 2016-12-5

Move #9
Roll: 3 (1+2)
Square: Jail...just visiting
Read a book with word in title that is, at least, 3 syllables long
Book: The Hairdresser of Harare: A Novel by Tendai Huchu
Timestamp: 2016-12-6
Due Date: 2017-1-5
Completed 2016-12-9

Move #10
Roll: 8 (6+2)
Square: Psychiatric Booth Roll=5
Read a book you've added to your tbr in an odd year
Book: The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Timestamp: 2016-12-6
Due Date: 2017-1-5
Completed2016-12-10

Move #11
Roll: 8 (4+4)
Square: Thanksgiving Day - Opposites
5. dead-alive
Book: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Timestamp: 2016-12-8
Due Date: 2017-1-7
Completed 2016-12-12

Move #12
Roll: 12 (6+6)
Square: I keep landing on the Psychiatric Booth....is that a sign or what?
Roll= 5
Read a book you've added to your tbr in an odd year
Book: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Timestamp: 2016-12-9
Due Date: 2017-1-8
Completed 2016-12-15

Move #13
Roll: 12 (6+6)
Square: Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Book: Go Set a Watchman
Timestamp: 2016-12-11
Due Date: 2017-1-10
Completed: 2016-12-14

Move #14
start at Thanksgiving Day
Roll: 11 (5+6)
Square: Lucy & Linus
Book: Notes from Underground
Timestamp: 2016-12-12
Due Date: 2017-1- 11
Completed: 2017-1-3

Move #15
start Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Roll: 3
Square: Psychiatric Booth (AGAIN!!!!)
Roll: 3
Read a book where word in title includes either Q, V, Y, X, or Z
Book: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
Timestamp: 2016-12-14
Due Date: 2017-1- 13
Completed 2016-12-16

Move #16
Starting at Square: Psychiatric Booth
Roll: 8 (5+3)
Landed on Shelves: Roll 11 (6+5)
Book: A picture book- Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow
Timestamp: 2016-12-15
Due Date: 2017-1- 14
Completed 2016-12-21

Move #17
Starting at Square: Psychiatric Booth
Roll: 4 (2+2)
Landed on Lucy & Linus- Pat's space
Book: Zero K: A Novel by Don DeLillo
Timestamp: 2016-12- 16
Due Date: 2017-1- 15
Completed 2016-12-18

Move #18
Starting at Square: Lucy & Linus
Roll: 5 (4+1)
Landed on Poor Charley Brown- Catherine's space
Book: A Writer's House in Wales
Timestamp: 2016-12-18
Due Date: 2017-1- 17
Completed 2016-12-19

Move #19
Starting at Square: Poor Charley Brown
Roll: 7 (4+3)
Landed on Shelves
Roll dice 4+5
Mystery:Suspense
Book: Vera or the Nihilists by Oscar Wilde
Timestamp: 2016-12-19
Due Date: 2017-1- 18
Completed 2016-12-20

Move #20
Starting at Square: Shelves
Roll: 10 (4+6)
Landed on Woodstock on Ice
Book: Respected Sir by Naguib Mahfouz
Timestamp: 2016-12-20
Due Date: 2017-1- 19
Completed: 2017-1-7

Move #21
Starting at Square: Shelves
Roll: 6
Landed on Jail just Visiting
task- Read a book with word in title that is, at least, 3 syllables long. Please choose your book from your Bookopoly Shelf if you can. If not, then from your general tbr.
Book: Sultan of Oman
Timestamp: 2016-12-212
Due Date: 2017-1- 21
Completed 2016-12-22 oops..just realized I misread the task...not at three syllables in the title..but three in one of the words.

Move #22
Starting at Jail just Visiting
Roll: 9
Landed on Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Book- The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Timestamp: 2016-12-23
Due Date: 2017-1- 22
Completed- 2016-25-16

Move #23
Starting at Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Roll: 5
Landed on Sally & Charlie Brown - Marie's
Book- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Timestamp: 2016-12-26
Due Date: 2017-1- 25
Completed- 2017-1-14

Move #24
Starting at Sally & Charlie Brown
Roll: 9
Landed on: Pitcher's Mound
Roll: 8 (3+5)
Sort your shelf by average ratings and read a book with highest avg rating (you may choose out of your top 5).
Book: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Timestamp: 2017-1-3
Due Date: 2017-1-5
Completed: 2017-1-9

Move #25
Starting at Woodstock on Ice
Roll: 5
Landed on Franklin
Book: Roxana by Daniel Defoe
Timestamp: 2017-1-7
Due Date: 2017-2-6
Completed: 2017-1-20

Move #26
Starting at Pitcher's Mound
Roll: 5
Landed on: Psychiatric Booth
Roll=8
8. Deliver a Valentine's Smooch, Advance to Valentine's Day-
Moderate Level- 2. Main character suffers from a disease.
Book- The Woman Who Wouldn't
Timestamp: 2017-1-9
Due Date: 2017-2-10
Completed: 2017-1-24

Move #27
Starting at Sally & Charlie Brown
Roll: 11
Landed on - Halloween
Task-4. Book set outside of your birth/residence country (100%)
Book= August Is A Wicked Month by Edna O'Brien
Timestamp: 2017-1-14
Due Date: 2017- 2-13
Completed- 2017-1-28
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Move #28
Starting at Franklin
Roll: 9
Landed on Psychiatric Booth
Roll Dice= 9
task - Sort your shelf by random and read one of the first 5 books on the top of the list.
Book: Unlikely Friendships : 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom
Timestamp: 2017-1-20
Due Date: 2017-2- 19
Completed: 2017-2-1

Move #29
Starting at Psychiatric Booth
Roll: 12
Landed on: P: Best Friends Marina's
Book- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Timestamp: 2017-1-25
Due Date: 2017-2-24
Completed: 2017-1-25

Move #30
Starting at Best Friends
Roll: 8
Landed on: Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Book- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
Timestamp: 2017-1-26
Due Date: 2017-2-25
Completed: 2017-2-3

Move #31
Starting at Halloween
Roll: 8
Landed on - Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Book= Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
Timestamp: 2017-1-28
Due Date: 2017- 2-27
Completed- 2017-2-7

Move #32
Starting at Psychiatric Booth
Roll: 9
Landed on Poor Charlie Brown
Book- When the Tree Sings by Stratis Haviaras
Timestamp-2017-3-1
Due Date: 2017-3-31
Completed: 2017-3-16

Move #33
Starting at Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Roll: 6
Landed on: Woodstock on Ice
Book- A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Timestamp: 2017-2-3
Due Date: 2017-3- 5
Completed: 2017-2-13

Move #34
Starting at Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Roll: 3
Landed on - Woodstock's Home (my own property)
Book= Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List by Weldon Thornton
Timestamp: 2017-3-1
Due Date: 2017- 3-31
Completed- 2017-3-3

Move #35
Starting at Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Roll: 6
Landed on: The Beagle Scouts- awaiting choices
Book- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Timestamp: 2017-3-1
Due Date: 2017-3- 31
Completed: 2017-3-6

Move #36
Starting at Woodstock's Home (my own property)
Roll: 6
Landed on - Bus Stop- Shelves
Roll: 7 (5+2)= memoir
Book= A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Timestamp: 2017-3-3
Due Date: 2017- 4-2
Completed- 2017-3-8

Move #37
Starting at The Beagle Scouts
Roll: 8
Landed on Pitcher's Mound
Roll: 10 (5+5)
Read a book you've added to your tbr in an even year
Book- The Book of Evidence
Timestamp: 2017-3-6
Due Date: 2017- 4-5
Completed: 2017-3-12

Move #38
Starting at Bus Stop- Shelves
Roll: 5
Landed on - Pitcher's Mound
Roll:4
Read a book where [first] publication year ends with an even number (0, 2, 4, 6, 8)
Book= Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon
Timestamp: 2017-3-8
Due Date: 2017- 4-7
Completed- 2017-3-8

Move #39
Starting at Pitcher's Mound
Roll: 7
Landed on - Sally and charlie brown
Book= The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
Timestamp: 2017-3-13
Due Date: 2017- 4-12
Completed- 2017-3-14

Move #40
Starting at Pitcher's Mound
Roll: 4
Landed on Sledding
Book- The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly by Luis Sepúlveda
Timestamp: 2017-3-12
Due Date: 2017- 4-11
Completed: 2017-3-17

Move #41
Starting at Sally and charlie brown
Roll: 8
Landed on - Suppertime-
Book= The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo
Timestamp: 2017-3-14
Due Date: 2017- 4-13
Completed- 2017- 3-25

Move #42
Starting at Poor Charlie Brown
Roll: 7
Landed on No ValentineBook- Shelves
Roll=10 (4+6)-Suspense
Book= The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Timestamp-2017-3-16
Due Date: 2017-4-15
Completed: 2017-3-18

Move #43
Starting at Sledding
Roll: 9
Landed on Go To Jail
Book- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Timestamp: 2017-3- 17
Due Date: 2017- 4- 16
Completed: 2017-3-22

Move #44
Starting at No Valentine -Book- Shelves
Roll: 7
Landed on Valentine's Day - Caregiving
Moderate level:
1. Character who cares for another person (parent-child, caregiver-sick relative, etc.)
Book= Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
Timestamp-2017-3- 18
Due Date: 2017-4- 17
Completed: 2017- 4-3

Move #45
Starting at Go To Jail
Roll: 7
Landed on PSYCHIATRIC BOOTH
Roll-7 (3+4)
Sort your shelf by date added and read a book most recently added (you may choose out of your latest 5)
Book: The Graphic Canon, Vol. 2: From Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Russ Kick
Timestamp: 2017-3- 23
Due Date: 2017- 4- 22
Completed: 2017-3-30

Move #46
Starting at Suppertime
Roll: 7
Landed on - Snoopy
Book= Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon
Timestamp: 2017-3-25
Due Date: 2017- 4-24
Completed- 2017-4-7

Move #47
Starting at PSYCHIATRIC BOOTH
Roll: 6
Landed on Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Timestamp: 2017-3- 30
Due Date: 2017- 4- 29
Completed: 2017- 4-1

Move #48
Starting at Peppermint Patty & Marcie
Roll: 11
Landed on Schroeder
Book: The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Timestamp: 2017-4-1
Due Date: 2017- 5-1
Completed: 2017- 4-5

Move #49
Starting at Valentine's Day
Roll: 4
Landed on The Beagle Scouts
Book= The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Timestamp-2017-4-3
Due Date: 2017-5-2
Completed: 2017- 4-9
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