Play Book Tag discussion

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Olivermagnus: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Olivermagnus (Loop 2): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Conductor Board - Loop 1
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🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage used
🔸 = moved by another player or the randomizer

1 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
2 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
3 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry
4 Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland
5 White On White Aysegul Savas - Used last of special roll (5) of 3 dice roll (consisting of 3-4-5) on 5/23
6 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
7 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
8 The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich
9 A Parchment of Leaves Silas House
10 Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
11 Indian Horse Richard Wagamese - Roll #1 (6) - 5/24 - (note - the last roll of 5 was part of a special roll of 3 dice, so I do not need to read an additional book)
12 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
13 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry
14 Where the Dead Sit Talking Brandon Hobson - Roll #2 (3) - 5/25
15 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
16 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
17 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
18 French Exit Patrick deWitt
19 Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich - Roll #3 (5) - 5/26
20 South of the Border, West of the Sun Haruki Murakami - Roll #4 (1) - 5/27
21 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlman
22 Invisible Paul Auster
23 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
24 The Dakota Winters Tom Barbash - Roll #5 (4) - 5/28
25 Satin Island Tom McCarthy
26 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos
27 All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung
28 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Kai Bird - Roll #6 (4) - 5/29
29 This Passing World Michael Herzog
30 City of Dreams Tyler Anbinder
31 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
32 Above the Waterfall Ron Rash
33 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
34 Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Roll #7 (1+1+3+1=6) - 5/31
35 The Monk of Mokha Dave Eggers
36 The Road Home Rose Tremain
37 The Mere Wife Maria Dahvana Headley
38 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
39 The Cement Garden Ian McEwan
40 Seize the Day Saul Bellow - Roll #8 (6) - 6/1
41 In Our Mad and Furious City Guy Gunaratne
42 We Yevgeny Zamyatin
43 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
44 Andrew's Brain E.L. Doctorow
45 Under the Skin Michel Faber - Roll #9 (5) - 6/2
Last 2 rolls were 6,5 - will also read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson from Charlotte's Clerk Board #21
46 When the Moon Is Low Nadia Hashimi - Roll #10 (1) - 6/3 - 🐉 landed here
47 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
48 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
49 The Man in the Red Coat Julian Barnes
50 Searching for Sylvie Lee Jean Kwok
51 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor
52 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth (would have landed here but used a +1 since the library book was checked out)
🔹53 Love and Summer William Trevor - Roll #11 (6+1=7) the +1 is from 2/16 special advantage based on tags) - 6/4
54 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar
55 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
56 A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin
57 SPQR Mary Beard - Roll #12 (4) - 6/5 - 🐉 landed here
58 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
59 Double Vision Pat Barker
60 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
61 American Duchess Karen Harper
62 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
63 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez
64 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
65 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
66 Someone Alice McDermott
67 Excellent Women Barbara Pym
68 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
69 Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn
70 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen
71 Netherland Joseph O'Neill
72 Sight Jessie Greengrass
73 The Wife Meg Wolitzer
74 The Awakening Kate Chopin
75 The Body Artist Don DeLillo
76 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
77 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
78 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell
79 Where Angels Fear To Tread E.M. Forster
80 The Parade Dave Eggers
81 A Far Country Daniel Mason
82 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
83 Coal Black Horse Robert Olmstead
84 Open City Teju Cole
85 Solo Faces James Salter
86 Women Talking Miriam Toews
87 The Dragons, the Giant, the Women Wayetu Moore
88 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
89 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
90 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute
91 Honor Thrity Umrigar
92 Actress Anne Enright
93 Disoriental Negar Djavadi
94 Ice Anna Kavan
95 The Butcher's Blessing Ruth Gilligan
96 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Doestoyevsky
97 The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson
98 The Other Americans Laila Lalami
99 Irresistible Adam Alter
100 Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness Ingrid Fetell Lee (hide spoiler)]

Used special advantage to finish this loop on 6/7:
Joy, your special advantage is obtained by taking today's date, and multiplying it by the number of runs scored by your favorite baseball team tonight (if they don't play tonight then it will be tomorrow night - - but it will be 5x (a number to be determined). 10 runs x 5 = 50 - used 6/7 to finish Conductor loop 1 round

Benefits Carried Over:
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Rewards/Special Moves and Participation Points:

Joy's Special Moves Earned or Used:
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1/14: (2,3)
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

1/15 - Rolled 6,4 - You may read a book you have passed without moving backwards instead of the one you land on.

1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/2 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #5 - used 5/22/23 in SM Loop 2

2/3 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #6

🔹2/8 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #9 - used 4/24 in SM Loop 1

2/16 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #17 - used on 6/4 in Conductor Loop 1

2/24 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2

2/25 - Rolled 4,6 - You may move to the next non-fiction book in your list. You do not need to use this now if you don't want to. You can use it anytime.

2/27 - Extra move of 5 spaces earned w/ Engineer roll #5

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Eng roll #6

3/8 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

3/15 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 1: qualifies for move forward 1 space (6 tags)

3/19 - Roll #23 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

3/21 - Roll #25 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

3/22 - Roll #26 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

3/24 - Roll #1 Eng Loop 2
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

3/27 - Roll #4 Eng Loop 2: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/1 - Extra move of 1 space earned with compensatory move on 4/1/23

4/9 - Roll #15 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/12 - Roll #18 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/13 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 2
Last 2 rolls are 1, 2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/18: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

🔸 4/21 - Randomizer move to #88 Station Master Loop 1
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

🔸 4/22 - Moved back 3 spaces based on OM's 1,1 roll to #90 SM Loop 1
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

5/2 - Roll of 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - requirement satisfied on 5/4 - added points to total

5/16 Rolled 1,2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

5/16 - Station Master Loop 2
87 taggers
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space (saved)
3 participation points

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
3 participation points

5/22 -
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese tagged indigenous x146
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used 5/23
3 participation points

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice (saved)
3 participation points

5/25 - Where the Dead Sit Talking
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/26 - Future Home of the Living God
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

5/29
Last 2 rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - earned on 6/1

6/1
Earned the 4 participation points from 5/29

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/5 - Last 2 rolls were 6,4: Joy, your special advantage is obtained by taking today's date, and multiplying it by the number of runs scored by your favorite baseball team tonight (if they don't play tonight then it will be tomorrow night - - but it will be 5x (a number to be determined). 10 runs x 5 = 50 - used 6/7 to finish Conductor loop 1 round

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Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Total: 95

Conductor Loop 1:
Swap 1 - tbd
Swap 2 - tbd (hide spoiler)]

Detail of Rolls for Conductor Loop 1:
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Roll #0 (from last board): 5 - 5/23/23 (used last roll of the 3 dice, since the other two rolled me off the prior board) - landed on #5
White on White by Aysegül Savas - 5/24/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #1: 6 - 5/24
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese - 5/25/23 - 5* - My PBT Review - tagged indigenous x312 - https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve... - More than 100 taggers - roll two dice (note - the last roll of 5 was part of a special roll of 3 dice, so I do not need to read an additional book) - saved
3 participation points

Roll #2: 3 - 5/25
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson - 5/26/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - fits indigenous tag x63 - https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - saved
3 participation points

Roll #3: 5 - 5/26
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich - 5/27/23 - 3.5* - My PBT Review - fits indigenous tag x 96 - https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

Roll #4: 1 - 5/27
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami - 5/28/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #5: 4 - 5/28
The Dakota Winters by Tom Barbash - 5/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #6: 4 - 5/29
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin - 5/31/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
Last 2 rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review

Roll #7: 1+1+3+1=6 - 5/31
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - 6/1/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
Earned the 4 participation points from the previous move

Roll #8: 6 - 6/1
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow - 6/2/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #9: 5 - 6/2
Under the Skin by Michel Faber - 6/3/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
Last 2 rolls were 6,5, so also read: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 3* - My PBT Review from Charlotte's Clerk Board #21

Roll #10: 1 - 6/3
When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi - 6/4/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag immigration x10:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Roll #11: 6+1=7 - 6/4 (used +1 from 2/16 special advantage based on tags)
Love and Summer by William Trevor - 6/5/23 - 3.5* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #12: 4 - 6/5
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard - 6/7/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag (hide spoiler)]
Loop 1 finished 6/7 based on using special advantage

Hannah's Conductor Board - Round 1 - Completed 15/6/23

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1. The Beginning and End of Rape
2. Murder on the Red River
3. Winter Counts
4. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
5. Indian Horse
6. Our History is the Future - Roll 1 - 4 Stars - Finished 28/5/23
7. The Plague of Doves
8. The Beginning and End of Rape
9. Murder on the Red River
10. Winter Counts
11. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask - Roll 2 - 4 Stars - Finished 28/5/23
Extra book: Mustard Seed by Laila Ibrahim - 4 Stars - Finished 29/5/23 - Previous 2 rolls were 6, 5, so this is #16 on Cheryl's Clerk Shelf
12. Indian Horse - Roll 3 - 4 Stars - Finished 30/5/23
13. Our History is the Future
14. The Plague of Doves
15. The Beginning and End of Rape
16. Murder on the Red River - Roll 4 - Rolled 2, and used a previously earned move of 2 extra spaces forward - 4 Stars - Finished 31/5/23
17. Winter Counts
18. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
19. Indian Horse - Roll 5 - I landed on #19, but as I had already read this book and the book at #18 for previous rolls, I read #17 Winter Counts - 4 Stars - Finished 1/6/23
20. Our History is the Future
21. The Plague of Doves
22. The Beginning and End of Rape - Roll 6 (1+2) - 4 Stars - Finished 2/6/23
23. Murder on the Red River
24. Winter Counts
25. Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
26. Indian Horse
27. Our History is the Future
28. The Plague of Doves
29. Behold the Dreamer
30. American Dirt
31. Girl in Translation
32. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
33. A Woman Is No Man
34. The House of Broken Angels
35. The Warmth of Other Suns
36. Small Island
37. In the Midst of Winter
38. The Sun and Her Flowers - Roll 7 - 5 Stars - Finished 3/6/23
39. Peach Blossom Spring
40. Four Treasures of the Sky - Roll 8 - 4 Stars - Finished 4/6/23
41. Paper Wife
42. The Loneliest Americans
43. The Last Green Valley
44. Behold the Dreamer
45. American Dirt - Roll 9 - 4 Stars - Finished 5/6/23
46. Girl in Translation
47. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
48. A Woman Is No Man
49. The House of Broken Angels - Roll 10 - 3 Stars - Finished 6/6/23
50. The Warmth of Other Suns
51. Small Island
52. In the Midst of Winter
53. The Sun and Her Flowers - Roll 11 - I landed on #53, but as I have already read this book for a previous roll, I read #52 In The Midst Of Winter - 4 Stars - Finished 7/6/23
54. Peach Blossom Spring
55. Four Treasures of the Sky
56. Paper Wife
57. The Loneliest Americans Roll 12 -2+2- 3 Stars - Finished 8/6/23
58. The Last Green Valley
59. Behold the Dreamer
60. American Dirt
61. Girl in Translation
62. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Roll 13 - 4+1- 4 Stars - Finished 9/6/23
63. A Woman Is No Man
64. The House of Broken Angels
65. The Warmth of Other Suns
66. Small Island
67. In the Midst of Winter - Roll 14 - I landed on #67, but as I have already read this book for a previous roll, I read #66 Small Island - 4 Stars - Finished 10/6/23
68. The Sun and Her Flowers
69. Peach Blossom Spring
70. Four Treasures of the Sky
71. Paper Wife
72. The Loneliest Americans
73. The Last Green Valley
74. Infinite Country Roll 15 - 5+2 - 4 Stars - Finished 11/6/23
75. American Street
76. The Ungrateful Refugee
77. Infinite Country - I have already read this book for a previous roll, so I read book #76 The Ungrateful Refugee Roll 16 - 4 Stars - Finished 12/6/23
78. American Street
79. The Ungrateful Refugee
80. Behold the Dreamer
81. American Dirt
82. Girl in Translation
83. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - I have already read this book for a previous roll, so I read book #82 Girl in Translation Roll 17 - 4 Stars - Finished 13/6/23
84. A Woman Is No Man
85. The House of Broken Angels
86. The Warmth of Other Suns
87. Small Island
88. In the Midst of Winter
89. The Sun and Her Flowers - I have already read this book for a previous roll as well as #88 and #87, so I read book #86 The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration Roll 18 - 4 Stars - Finished 15/6/23
90. Peach Blossom Spring
91. Four Treasures of the Sky
92. Paper Wife
93. The Loneliest Americans
94. The Last Green Valley
95. Infinite Country
96. American Street
97. The Ungrateful Refugee
98. Infinite Country
99. American Street
100. The Ungrateful Refugee

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Conductor Board Round 1 - Roll Detail - Completed 15/6/23

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Participation points from Porter Level: 37
Participation points from Engineer Level - Round 1: 21
Participation points from Engineer Level - Round 2: 27
Participation points from Station Master - Round 1: 22
Participation points from Station Master - Round 2: 6
Participation points from Conductor Level 1 - Round 1: 51

Swap 1:
Swap 2:

Roll 1: 6 - Step 6
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes - 4 Stars - Finished 28/5/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Indigenous x82): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 2: 5 - Step 11
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer - 4 Stars - Finished 29/5/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Indigenous x34): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Extra book due to rolling 6, 5
Mustard Seed by Laila Ibrahim - 4 Stars - Finished 29/5/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 3: 1 - Step 12
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese - 4 Stars - Finished 30/5/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Indigenous x312): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 4: 2 + 2 - Step 16
Murder on the Red River by Marcie R. Rendon - 4 Stars - Finished 31/5/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Indigenous x56): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 5: 3 - Step 19
I landed on #19, but as I had already read this book and the book at #18 for previous rolls, I read #17 Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden - 4 Stars - Finished 1/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Indigenous x128): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 6 - 1+2 - Step 22
I'm also going to use a special advantage I earned on 1/3/23 to move forward an extra two spaces as I've already read the book I landed on in this round, so I'll be moving forward 3 spaces in total.
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer - 4 Stars - Finished 2/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Does not fit the tag (immigration)
Participation Points: 0

Roll 7 - 6, 6, 4 - Step 38
the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur - 5 Stars - Finished 3/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x15): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 8 - 2 - Step 40
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang - 4 Stars - Finished 4/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x10): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 9 - 5 - Step 45
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins - 4 Stars - Finished 5/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x116): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 10 - 4 - Step 49
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea - 3 Stars - Finished 6/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x35): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 11: 4 - Step 53
I landed on #53, but as I have already read this book for a previous roll, I will read #52 In The Midst Of Winter by Isabel Allende
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x19): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 12: 2+2 (earned 7/3/23) - Step 57
The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang - 3 Stars - Finished 8/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x7): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 13: 4+1 (earned 11/2/23) - Step 62
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez - 4 Stars - Finished 9/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x53): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 14: 5 - Step 67 - I had already read this, so I read the book in step #66
Small Island by Andrea Levy - 4 Stars - Finished 10/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x22): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 15: 5+2 (earned 25/4/23) - Step 74
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel - 4 Stars - Finished 11/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x64): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 16: 3 - Step 77 - I had already read this, so I read the book in step #76
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri - 4 Stars - Finished 12/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x45): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 17: 3 - Step 83 - I had already read this, so I read the book in step #82
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok - 4 Stars - Finished 13/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x58): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 18: 6 - Step 89 - I had already read this and the two previous books, so I read the book in step #86
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson - 4 Stars - Finished 15/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the Tag (Immigration x45): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3
Length: 640 pages - https://www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-S...

Roll 19: 2, 6, 4 - This rolls me off the board
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Remaining Accumulated Bonus Options - Completed 15/6/23

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I really like the layout Olivermagnus uses, so I have copied it as it looks like the easiest way to track my saved rewards.

Porter Board Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Rogue Heroes - USED 9/6/23

2. Roll 2
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Sylvia's Lovers

3. Roll 3
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for The Splendid and the Vile - USED 2/6/23


Engineer Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Cider with Rosie

2. Roll 2
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Secrets of a Charmed Life

3. Roll 3
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Harvest - USED 30/5/23

4. Roll 4
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Lady Clementine - USED 1/6/23

AND - Moved back 3 places
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Less - USED 7/6/23

Engineer Round 2 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 5
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for South of the Border, West of the Sun

2. Roll 6
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for The Sound of Waves

AND - moved back:
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Samurai’s Garden

3. Roll 12
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Gift of Rain

4. Roll 14
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for 11/22/63

Station Master Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Lost Apothecary - USED 7/6/23

2. Roll 2
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Dictionary of Lost Words

3. Roll 3
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for A Perilous Undertaking

4. Roll 4
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Amsterdam

5. Roll 5
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for A Passage to India

6. Roll 6
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sealed Letter

Roll 9 and 10 - From rolling 6, 4: - Saving for later

Hannah, your advantage is you can move ahead to the next title on your board that starts with the letter U. If you don't have a title remaining with the letter U, let me know, and I will continue to select random letters until one works.

OR, you can save this advantage for the future (but not the letter), and request a letter when you are ready to use it

Roll 11 and 12 - From rolling 4, 6: - Saving for later
Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your discretion.

Roll 13 and 14 - From rolling 3, 2: - An additional swap to use when I want.

Roll 19 and 20 - 4 extra participation points - Added to Station Master Board 1 total

Station Master Round 2 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Terra Nullius

2. Roll 2
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Girl Gone Missing

Conductor Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Our History Is The Future

2. Roll 2
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

3. Roll 3
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Indian Horse

Roll 3 and 4 - From rolling 1, 2: - You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - Earned 31/5/23

4. Roll 4
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Murder on the Red River

5. Roll 5
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Winter Counts

Roll 4 and 5 - From rolling 2, 3: - An additional swap to use when I want.

6. Roll 7
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sun and her Flowers

7. Roll 8
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Four Treasures of the Sky

8. Roll 9
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for American Dirt

9. Roll 10
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The House of Broken Angels

10. Roll 11
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for In The Midst of Winter

11. Roll 12
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Loneliest Americans

12. Roll 13
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

13. Roll 14
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Small Island

14. Roll 15
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Infinite Country

15. Roll 16
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Ungrateful Refugee

16. Roll 17
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Girl in Translation

17. Roll 18
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Warmth of Other Suns

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Summary by bonus - Includes the date they are used

Move 1 Space Forward - 13
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Rogue Heroes, earned 11/2/23 - USED 9/6/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Sylvia's Lovers, earned 12/2/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Samurai's Garden, earned 7/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Gift of Rain, earned 13/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for 11/22/63, earned 16/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Amsterdam, earned 28/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for A Passage to India, earned 29/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Sealed Letter, earned 30/4/23
5-25 Taggers - move forward 1 space for Girl Gone Missing, earned 24/5/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sun and her Flowers, earned 3/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Four Treasures of the Sky, landed here 3/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for In The Midst of Winter, landed here 6/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Loneliest Americans, landed here 7/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Small Island, landed here 9/6/23

Move 2 Spaces Forward - 6
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Harvest, earned 28/2/23 - USED 30/5/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Lady Clementine, earned 1/3/23 - USED 1/6/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Less, earned 7/3/23 - USED 7/6/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for The Lost Apothecary, earned 25/4/23 - USED 7/6/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for The Dictionary of Lost Words, earned 26/4/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for A Perilous Undertaking, earned 27/4/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Terra Nullius, earned 23/5/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, earned 28/5/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The House of Broken Angels, landed here 5/6/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Ungrateful Refugee, landed here 11/6/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Warmth of Other Suns, landed here 13/6/23

Move 5 Spaces Forward - 7
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Cider with Rosie, earned 26/2/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Secrets of a Charmed Life, earned 27/2/23
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Our History Is The Future, earned 28/5/23
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Murder on the Red River, earned 31/5/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, earned 8/6/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Infinite Country, earned 10/6/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Girl in Translation, earned 12/6/23

Roll 2 extra dice - 5
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for The Splendid and the Vile, earned 14/2/23 - USED 2/6/23
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for South of the Border, West of the Sun, earned 26/3/23
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for The Sound of Waves, earned 27/3/23
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for Indian Horse, earned 30/5/23
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Winter Counts, landed on this 31/5/23
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for American Dirt, landed on this 4/6/23

Get an Extra Swap (2, 3) - 2
Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game
- Station Master 1 Roll 13 and 14
- Conductor Round 1 Roll 4 and 5

Use Participation Points (1, 2) - 1
You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.
- Conductor Round 1 Roll 3 and 4

Special Advantages - 4

- Station Master Round 1, Roll 9 (6) and Roll 10 (4):

Your advantage is you can move ahead to the next title on your board that starts with the letter U. If you don't have a title remaining with the letter U, let me know, and I will continue to select random letters until one works.

OR, you can save this advantage for the future (but not the letter), and request a letter when you are ready to use it

- Station Master Round 1, Roll 11 (4) and Roll 12 (6):

Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your discretion.

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Olivermagnus Conducter - Loop 1

Completed 6/2/23

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1. Stolen
2. Firekeeper's Daughter
3. The Blessing Way
4. Moon of the Crusted Snow
🎲 5. Weekend Warriors - Fern Michaels - 3.5 Stars - 5/29/23
6. That Deadman Dance
7. Stolen
8. Firekeeper's Daughter
9. The Blessing Way
10. Moon of the Crusted Snow
🎲 11. In Cold Blood _- Truman Capote - 4 Stars - 5/31/23
🚧 King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
Derailment - Last two rolls were 5-6 (#20 on Nicole's Porter board)
🎲 12. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 5 Stars - 6/2/23
13. The Executioner's Song
14. In Cold Blood
15. Gone with the Wind
16. The Executioner's Song
17. In Cold Blood
18. Gone with the Wind
19. The Executioner's Song
20. Front Desk
21. The Gods of Gotham
22. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
23. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
24. Amnesty
25. Three Keys
26. The Sun Is Also a Star
27. The Stationery Shop
28. The Book of Unknown Americans
29. Adrift
30. The Hunger Games
31. Alone
32. Crossfire
33. Murder at Wedgefield Manor
34. Stray Trouble
35. Sulfur Springs
36. False Witness
37. Freefall
38. Gator Bait
39. Inside Out & Back Again
40. Front Desk
41. The Gods of Gotham
42. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
43. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
44. Amnesty
45. Three Keys
46. The Sun Is Also a Star
47. The Stationery Shop
48. The Book of Unknown Americans
49. Striking Range
50. Hidden Fire
51. Hide
52. Sulfur Springs
53. Identity
54. In the Dark
55. In the Pines
56. Judgment Call
57. Legends & Lattes
58. Murder at Wedgefield Manor
59. Murder on Trinity Place
60. Inside Out & Back Again
61. Front Desk
62. The Gods of Gotham
63. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
64. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
65. Amnesty
66. Three Keys
67. The Sun Is Also a Star
68. The Stationery Shop
69. The Book of Unknown Americans
70. Northern Lights
71. Open Carry
72. Overkill
73. The Hunger Games
74. Shelter Mountain
75. Storm Watch
76. Suddenly One Summer
77. Sulfur Springs
78. The Drowned Girls
79. The Hunger Games
80. The Invitation
81. The Man Who Died Twice
82. The Night Swim
83. Treasure State
84. Vanishing Edge
85. Watch Her Disappear
86. Winter's End
87. Separation of Power
88. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
89. Falling
90. Drowning
91. The Gods of Gotham
92. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
93. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
94. Amnesty
95. Three Keys
96. The Sun Is Also a Star
97. The Stationery Shop
98. The Book of Unknown Americans
99. Adrift
100. The Hunger Games

🎲 Roll 4 = 3-5-3-4-3-6-6 (x3)
🃏 Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it - Used 6/2/23
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Roll Detail
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🔸Clerk Bonus Points - 4
🔸Porter Participation Points - 15
🔸Engineer I Participation Points - 6
🔸Engineer II Participation Points - 16
🔸Station Master I Participation Points - 18
🔸Station Master II Participation Points - 6
🔸Conductor I Participation Points - 0

🔸Swap 1
🔸Swap 2

🎲 Roll 1 = 5
🔺5. Weekend Warriors - Fern Michaels - 3.5 Stars - 5/29/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit tag

🎲 Roll 2 = 6
11. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 4 Stars - 5/31/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🚧 King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard - 4 Stars - 5/30/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🎲 Roll 3 = 1
🔺12. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 5 Stars - 6/2/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/068483... - 1048 pages

🎲 Roll 4 = 3-5-3-4-3-6-6 (x3)
🃏 Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it - Used 6/2/23
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Accumulated Bonus Options

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Porter Board Accrued Bonus - Detail
1. Roll 6
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women
2. Roll 7 - Roll 6 = 2, Roll 7 = 3 - 2-3
🃏 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
3. Roll 8
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Killers of a Certain Age
4. Roll 9
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales

5. Roll 12
🃏 Roll 11 & 12 - Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon
Roll 19
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve
Roll 22
🃏Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. Roll 21&22

Engineer I Accrued Bonus - Detail
Roll 2 & Roll 3
🃏 You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

Engineer II Accrued Bonus - Detail
Roll 9
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for In the Land of the Long White Cloud
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Resistance Women

Station Master Loop 1 Accrued Bonus
Roll 2
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Sharks in the Time of Saviors
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Station Master Loop 1
Roll 14 = 4, Roll 15 = 6 - Triggers Special Advantage
🃏 Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it

Station Master Loop 2
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for To the Bright Edge of the World

🃏 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces
(Roll 8 = 1 and Roll 9 = 2)
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Summary by bonus - This details the bonus moves and the day they are used

Move 1 Space Forward - (5)
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Killers of a Certain Age
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for In the Land of the Long White Cloud
🔹 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🔹 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Heartbeat Braves
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for To the Bright Edge of the World


Move 2 Spaces Forward - (4)
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Move 5 Spaces Forward - (3)
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog

Use Participation Points - (2)
🔹You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - Engineer I Roll 2 & Roll 3
🔹2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces - Station Master Roll 8 & Roll 9

Get an Extra Swap - (3)
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - Porter Roll 6&7
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - Porter Roll 11&12
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game -Porter Roll 21&22

Special Avantages - (1)
🔹Roll 14 = 4, Roll 15 = 6 - Triggers Special Advantage
🃏 Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it - Used 6/2/23

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Olivermagnus Conducter - Loop 2

Complete 6/14/23

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1. Front Desk
2. The Gods of Gotham
3. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
4. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
5. Amnesty
🎲 6. Three Keys - Kelly Yang - 5 Stars - 6/3/23
7. The Sun Is Also a Star
8. The Stationery Shop
9. The Book of Unknown Americans
🎲 10. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - 5 Stars - 6/5/23
11. Alone
12. Crossfire
13. Front Desk
14. The Gods of Gotham
15. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
🎲 16. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna - Juliet Grames - 4 Stars - 6/6/23
17. Amnesty
18. Three Keys
19. The Sun Is Also a Star
20. The Stationery Shop
21. The Book of Unknown Americans
🎲 22. Adrift
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women - Used on 6/7/23
That will move me to #27
23. Lulu in Hollywood
🚧 24. Hidden - Laura Griffin - 4 Stars - 6/7/23
Derailment - Move back for Nancy's 1-1 roll.
25. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me
🎲 26. Payback
I am using the following accumulated special roll
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon - Used on 6/8/23
That will move me to #31
🚂 27. Hail to the Chef - Julie Hyzy - 3 Stars - 6/7/23
28. Devour
29. Don't Look Now
30. The Hunger Games
🚂 31. Alone - Kendra Elliot - 4 Stars - 6/8/23
32. Crossfire
33. Murder at Wedgefield Manor
34. Stray Trouble
35. Sulfur Springs
36. False Witness
🎲 37. Freefall
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog - used 6/9/23
That will move me to #42
38. Gator Bait
39. Inside Out & Back Again
40. Front Desk
41. The Gods of Gotham
🚂 42. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal - 4.5 Stars - 6/9/23
43. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
44. Amnesty
45. Three Keys
46. The Sun Is Also a Star
47. The Stationery Shop
🎲 48. The Book of Unknown Americans
I am using the following Special Advantage
🃏 Your advantage is based on the U.S. state where you currently live. Look up the year the state entered the union and sum the numbers in the year to calculate your move.
Arizona = 1912 - 13
This will move me to # 61
49. Striking Range
50. Hidden Fire
51. Hide
52. Sulfur Springs
53. Identity
54. In the Dark
55. In the Pines
56. Judgment Call
57. Legends & Lattes
58. Murder at Wedgefield Manor
59. The Five-Star Weekend
60. Inside Out & Back Again
🚂 61. Front Desk - Kelly Yang - 4.5 Stars - 6/10/23
62. The Gods of Gotham
63. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
64. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
65. Amnesty
66. Three Keys
67. The Sun Is Also a Star
68. The Stationery Shop
69. The Book of Unknown Americans
70. Northern Lights
71. Open Carry
72. Overkill
73. The Hunger Games
74. Shelter Mountain
75. Storm Watch
🎲 76. Suddenly One Summer
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love - Used 6/11/23
This will move me to # 78
77. Sulfur Springs
🚂 78. The Drowned Girls - Loreth Anne White - 5 Stars - 6/11/23
79. Northern Lights
80. The Invitation
81. The Man Who Died Twice
82. The Night Swim
83. Treasure State
84. Vanishing Edge
85. Watch Her Disappear
86. Winter's End
🎲 87. Separation of Power - Vince Flynn - 4 Stars - 6/12/23
88. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
89. Falling
🎲 90. Drowning
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales - Used 6/12/23
This will move me to #92
91. The Five-Star Weekend
🚂 92. Stray Trouble - D.L. Keur - 5 Stars - 6/13/23
93. Sulfur Springs
94. Winter's End
95. Separation of Power
96. Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt
🎲 97. Falling
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve- used 6/13/23
This will move me to #99
98. Drowning
🚂 99. Adrift - Lisa Brideau - 4 Stars - 6/14/23
100. The Hunger Games

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Roll Detail

🔸Clerk Bonus Points - 4
🔸Porter Participation Points - 15
🔸Engineer I Participation Points - 6
🔸Engineer II Participation Points - 16
🔸Station Master I Participation Points - 18
🔸Station Master II Participation Points - 6
🔸Conductor I Participation Points - 0
🔸Conductor II Participation Points - 12

Total Participation Points - 77

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🎲 Roll 1 = 6
🔺6. Three Keys - Kelly Yang - 5 Stars - 6/3/23
Link to Review
Tagged Immigration - 47 Readers
🔸Participation Points - 3
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

🎲 Roll 2 = 4
10. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins - 5 Stars - 6/5/23
Link to Review
Roll 1 = 6, Roll 2 = 4
🃏 Your advantage is based on the U.S. state where you currently live. Look up the year the state entered the union and sum the numbers in the year to calculate your move.
Arizona = 1912 - 13

🎲 Roll 3 = 6
16. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna - Juliet Grames - 4 Stars - 6/6/23
Link to Review
Immigration - 11 Readers
🔸Participation Points - 3
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
Roll 2 = 4, Roll 3 = 6
For this advantage, you will need to wait a little bit. On the first day of voting (on June 15th), you will get the chance to move ahead based on the number of people who cast the same vote as you do during the first 48 hours of voting. So if you pick Tag A on the vote and 7 other people also select Tag A, you will be able to move ahead 7 spaces. Please help me remember to convey this number to you when the time comes.

Roll 4 = 6
22. Adrift
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women - Used on 6/7/23
That will move me to #27
🔺27. Hail to the Chef - Julie Hyzy - 3 Stars - 6/7/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🚧 Derailment - Move back 3 spaces for Nancy's 1-1 roll
🔺24. Hidden - Laura Griffin - 4 Stars - 6/7/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🎲 Roll 5 = 2
26. Payback
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon - Used on 6/8/23
That will move me to
🔺31. Alone - Kendra Elliot - 4 Stars - 6/8/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🎲 Roll 6 = 6
37. Freefall
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog - used 6/9/23
That will move me to
🔺42. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal - 4.5 Stars - 6/9/23
Link to Review
Tagged Immigration - 28 Readers
🔸Participation Points - 3

Roll 7 = 6
48. The Book of Unknown Americans
I am using the following Special Advantage
🃏 Your advantage is based on the U.S. state where you currently live. Look up the year the state entered the union and sum the numbers in the year to calculate your move.
Arizona = 1912 - 13
This will move me to
🔺61. Front Desk - Kelly Yang - 4.5 Stars - 6/10/23
Link to Review
Immigration - 146 Readers
🔸Participation Points - 3

🎲 Roll 8 = 4-6-5 (15)
76. Suddenly One Summer
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love
This will move me to
🔺78. The Drowned Girls - Loreth Anne White - 5 Stars - 6/11/23
523 pages = 2 dice
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

Roll 9 = 3-6 = (9)
🔺87. Separation of Power - Vince Flynn - 4 Stars - 6/12/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

Roll 10 = 3
90. Drowning
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales - Used 6/12/23
This will move me to
🔺92. Stray Trouble - D.L. Keur - 5 Stars - 6/13/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

🎲 Roll 11 = 5
97. Falling
I am using the following accumulated special roll
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve- used 6/13/23- used 6/13/23
This will move me to
99. Adrift - Lisa Beau - 4 Stars - 6/14/23
Link to Review - Doesn't fit Tag

Roll 12 = 6

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This roll takes me off the board
Complete 6/14/23

Accumulated Bonus Options

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Porter Board Accrued Bonus - Detail
1. Roll 6
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women - Used on 6/7/23
2. Roll 7 - Roll 6 = 2, Roll 7 = 3 - 2-3
🃏 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
3. Roll 8
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love - Used 6/11/23
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Killers of a Certain Age
4. Roll 9
🃏25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales - Used 6/12/23

5. Roll 12
🃏 Roll 11 & 12 - Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon - Used on 6/8/23
Roll 19
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve- used 6/13/23
Roll 22
🃏Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. Roll 21&22

Engineer I Accrued Bonus - Detail
Roll 2 & Roll 3
🃏 You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

Engineer II Accrued Bonus - Detail
Roll 9
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for In the Land of the Long White Cloud
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Resistance Women

Station Master Loop 1 Accrued Bonus
Roll 2
🃏 50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Sharks in the Time of Saviors
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Station Master Loop 1 Special Advantage
Roll 14 = 4, Roll 15 = 6 - Triggers Special Advantage
🃏Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it - Used 6/3/23

Station Master Loop 2
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for To the Bright Edge of the World

🃏 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces
(Roll 8 = 1 and Roll 9 = 2)

Conductor Loop 2
🃏 25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Front Desk
🃏 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
🃏 Your advantage is based on the U.S. state where you currently live. Look up the year the state entered the union and sum the numbers in the year to calculate your move.
Arizona = 1912 - 13
🃏 For this advantage, you will need to wait a little bit. On the first day of voting (on June 15th), you will get the chance to move ahead based on the number of people who cast the same vote as you do during the first 48 hours of voting. So if you pick Tag A on the vote and 7 other people also select Tag A, you will be able to move ahead 7 spaces. Please help me remember to convey this number to you when the time comes.
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Summary by bonus - This details the bonus moves and the day they are used

Move 1 Space Forward - (6)
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Killers of a Certain Age
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for In the Land of the Long White Cloud
🔹 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Vera Wang's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
🔹 5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Heartbeat Braves
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for To the Bright Edge of the World
🔹5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Move 2 Spaces Forward - (5)
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Whitney My Love - Used 6/11/23
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Telling Tales - Used 6/12/23
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Anna of Kleve
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Sharks in the Time of Saviors
🔹25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for Front Desk

Move 5 Spaces Forward - (3)
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Study in Scarlet Women - Used 6/7/23
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Katherine of Aragon - Used 6/8/23
🔹50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces for Elegance of the Hedgehog - Used 6/9/23

Use Participation Points - (2)
🔹You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - Engineer I Roll 2 & Roll 3
🔹2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces - Station Master Roll 8 & Roll 9

Get an Extra Swap - (3)
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - Porter Roll 6&7
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - Porter Roll 11&12
🔹Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game -Porter Roll 21&22

Special Avantages - (1)
🔹Roll 14 = 4, Roll 15 = 6 - Triggers Special Advantage
🃏 Your advantage is you may triple any roll you receive, immediately after you receive it. You decide when to use it - Used 6/2/23
🃏 Your advantage is based on the U.S. state where you currently live. Look up the year the state entered the union and sum the numbers in the year to calculate your move.
Arizona = 1912 - 13 - Used 6/10/23

For this advantage, you will need to wait a little bit. On the first day of voting (on June 15th), you will get the chance to move ahead based on the number of people who cast the same vote as you do during the first 48 hours of voting. So if you pick Tag A on the vote and 7 other people also select Tag A, you will be able to move ahead 7 spaces. Please help me remember to convey this number to you when the time comes.

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Conductor Board - Loop 2
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🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage used
🔸 = moved by another player or the randomizer

1 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
2 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
3 City of Dreams Tyler Anbinder
4 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
5 Irresistible Adam Alter
6 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry
7 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
8 Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland - Roll #1 (3+4+1=8) - 6/7
9 Dangling Man Saul Bellow
10 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell
11 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
12 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
13 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
14 A Parchment of Leaves Silas House - Roll #2 (6) - 6/8
15 Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher
16 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
17 Lila Marilynne Robinson
18 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
19 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
20 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
21 French Exit Patrick deWitt
22 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells
23 Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon
24 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlman
25 Invisible Paul Auster
26 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
27 The Winter of Frankie Machine Don Winslow
28 Satin Island Tom McCarthy
29 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos
30 All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung - Roll #3 (16) - 6/9
31 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
32 Anathem Neal Stephenson
33 This Passing World Michael Herzog
34 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
35 Above the Waterfall Ron Rash - Roll #4 (5) - 6/10
36 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
37 Trail of Broken Wings Sejal Badani
38 The Monk of Mokha Dave Eggers
39 The Road Home Rose Tremain - used swap - read Smiley's People by John le Carre' - Roll #5 (4) - 6/11
40 The Mere Wife Maria Dahvana Headley - Roll #6 (1) - 6/12
41 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
42 The Cement Garden Ian McEwan - Roll #7 (2) - 6/13
43 Strange Flowers Donal Ryan
44 In Our Mad and Furious City Guy Gunaratne - Roll #8 (2) - 6/14
45 We Yevgeny Zamyatin
46 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
47 Andrew's Brain E.L. Doctorow - Roll #9 (3) - 6/15
48 River of Teeth (Hippo #1) Sarah Gailey - Roll #10 (1) - 6/16
49 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
50 Enduring Love Ian McEwan - Roll #11 (2) - landed here with this roll, but used a +1 earned on 3/15 to move ahead 1 space
51 Into the Beautiful North Luis Alberto Urrea after using the "move ahead 1" - 6/17
52 Searching for Sylvie Lee Jean Kwok
53 Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor - Roll #12 (2) - 6/18
54 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
55 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann
56 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar
57 The Other Americans Laila Lalami
58 A Soldier of the Great War Mark Helprin - Roll #13 (5) - 6/19
59 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
60 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen
61 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien
62 Double Vision Pat Barker
63 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
64 American Duchess Karen Harper
65 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
66 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez
67 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
68 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
69 Someone Alice McDermott
70 Excellent Women Barbara Pym
71 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
72 Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn
73 Netherland Joseph O'Neill
74 Sight Jessie Greengrass
75 The Wife Meg Wolitzer
76 The Awakening Kate Chopin - Roll #14 (18) - 5 dice total - 6/21
77 The Body Artist Don DeLillo
78 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
79 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons - Roll #15 (3) - 6/22
80 Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
81 Where Angels Fear To Tread E.M. Forster
82 Disoriental Negar Djavadi - Roll #16 (3) - 6/23
83 The Parade Dave Eggers
84 A Far Country Daniel Mason - Roll #17 (2) - 6/24
85 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
86 Coal Black Horse Robert Olmstead - Roll #18 (2) - 6/25 - initially landed here but used special benefit to move ahead 3 by using 3 participation points - earned on 3/19
87 Open City Teju Cole
88 Solo Faces James Salter
89 Women Talking Miriam Toews - 6/25 - used special benefit to move ahead 3 spaces (from 86 to 89) by using 3 participation points - earned on 3/19
90 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
91 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute
92 Honor Thrity Umrigar
93 The Water Cure Sophie Mackintosh - Roll #19 (4) - 6/26
94 Ice Anna Kavan
95 The Butcher's Blessing Ruth Gilligan
96 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Doestoyevsky
97 The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson
🔸98 The Dragons, the Giant, the Women Wayetu Moore - 1,1 roll moved me back here - 🐉 landed here 6/29
99 North to Paradise Ousman Umar - Roll #20 (6) - 6/27
100 Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness (368 pages) Ingrid Fetell Lee - Roll #21 (1) - 6/28
Used swap #2: A Man of Iron by Troy Senik (384 pages)

Loop Completed 6/29/23 then sent back by a 1,1 roll to #98
Completed for a second time on 6/30/23 (hide spoiler)]

Benefits Carried Over:

Rewards/Special Moves and Participation Points:

Joy's Special Moves Earned or Used:
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1/14: (2,3)
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

1/15 - Rolled 6,4 - You may read a book you have passed without moving backwards instead of the one you land on.

1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/2 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #5 - used 5/22/23 in SM Loop 2

2/3 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #6

🔹2/8 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #9 - used 4/24 in SM Loop 1

2/16 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #17 - used on 6/4 in Conductor Loop 1

2/24 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2

2/25 - Rolled 4,6 - You may move to the next non-fiction book in your list. You do not need to use this now if you don't want to. You can use it anytime. On 6/8, agreed with Anita to swap this out for "you may roll 4 extra dice." There was no way to know at the time this was awarded that there would be so many Boards. - used on 6/9

2/27 - Extra move of 5 spaces earned w/ Engineer roll #5

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Eng roll #6

3/8 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

3/15 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 1: qualifies for move forward 1 space (6 tags) - used on 6/17

3/19 - Roll #23 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 6/25 to move from 86 to 89 for conductor loop 2

3/21 - Roll #25 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

3/22 - Roll #26 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

3/24 - Roll #1 Eng Loop 2
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

3/27 - Roll #4 Eng Loop 2: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/1 - Extra move of 1 space earned with compensatory move on 4/1/23

4/9 - Roll #15 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/12 - Roll #18 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/13 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 2
Last 2 rolls are 1, 2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/18: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

🔸 4/21 - Randomizer move to #88 Station Master Loop 1
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

🔸 4/22 - Moved back 3 spaces based on OM's 1,1 roll to #90 SM Loop 1
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

5/2 - Roll of 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - requirement satisfied on 5/4 - added points to total

5/16 Rolled 1,2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

5/16 - Station Master Loop 2
87 taggers
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space (saved)
3 participation points

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
3 participation points

5/22 -
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese tagged indigenous x146
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used 5/23
3 participation points

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice (saved)
3 participation points

5/25 - Where the Dead Sit Talking
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/26 - Future Home of the Living God
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

5/29
Last 2 rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - earned on 6/1

6/1
Earned the 4 participation points from 5/29

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/5 - Last 2 rolls were 6,4: Joy, your special advantage is obtained by taking today's date, and multiplying it by the number of runs scored by your favorite baseball team tonight (if they don't play tonight then it will be tomorrow night - - but it will be 5x (a number to be determined). 10 runs x 5 = 50 - used 6/7 to finish Conductor loop 1 round

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/13 -
Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. (saved)

6/17 -
Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. (saved)

6/17
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Roll #20: 6 - 6/27
North to Paradise by Ousman Umar - tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 15 - 3 = 12
Total: 110 - 3 = 107

Conductor Loop 2:
Swap 1 - Smiley's People by John le Carre' 462 pages for The Road Home (checked out at library) 432 pages
Swap 2 - A Man of Iron by Troy Senik 384 pages for Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee (which was not available at the library) 368 pages
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Detail of Rolls for Conductor Loop 2:
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Roll #1: 3-4-1 (8) - 6/7 (3 dice - last book was 606 pages)
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - 6/8/23 - 1* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #2: 6 - 6/8
A Parchment of Leaves by Silas House - 6/9/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #3: 3-2-4-1-6 (16) (5 dice) - 6/9 - used special advantage from 2/25
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung - 4* - My PBT Review
Tagged immigration x8:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Roll #4: 5 - 6/10
Above the Waterfall by Ron Rash - 6/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #5: 4 - 6/11
The Road Home by Rose Tremain (432 pages) (it was checked out at the library so I used a swap) - Smiley's People by John le Carré - 6/12/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (462 pages) - does not fit tag

Roll #6: 1 - 6/12
The Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley - 6/13/23 - 4* - My PBT Review- does not fit tag

Roll #7: 2 - 6/13
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan - 6/14/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
My last 2 rolls were 2-1: "You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

Roll #8: 2 - 6/14
In Our Mad and Furious City by Guy Gunaratne - 6/15/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits tag but does not have enough tags to qualify for a special advantage

Roll #9: 3 - 6/15
Andrew's Brain by E.L. Doctorow- 6/16/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #10: 1 - 6/16
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey - 6/17/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #11: 2 +1 = 3 - 6/17
Rolled 2 and used special advantage earned on 3/15 to move ahead 1 space for a total of 3
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - 6/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits immigration tag x28:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points
My last 2 rolls were 2-1: "You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

Roll #12: 2 - 6/18
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor - 6/19/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #13: 5 - 6/19
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin - 6/21/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (800+ pages) - does not fit tag

Roll #14: 18 (5,6,3,1,3) - 6/21 (5 dice that total 18)
The Awakening: A Solitary Story by Kate Chopin - 6/22/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #15: 3 - 6/22
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - 6/23/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #16: 3 - 6/23
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi - 6/24/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged "immigration" x11:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space (saved)
3 participation points

Roll #17: 2 - 6/24
A Far Country by Daniel Mason - 6/25/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #18: 2 - 6/25
Initially landed on Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead, which was not currently available, so used benefit earned on 3/19 to move ahead 3 spaces by using 3 participation points, & landed on:
Women Talking by Miriam Toews - 6/26/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #19: 4 - 6/26
The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh - 6/27/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #20: 6 - 6/27
North to Paradise by Ousman Umar - 6/28/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged immigration x8:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Roll #21: 1 - 6/28
Landed on a book that is not available currently at my library: Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness (368 pages) Ingrid Fetell Lee

So, used Swap #2: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik - 6/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (384 pages) - does not fit tag

Roll #22: whatever it is I will roll off the board
Round completed 6/29/23

1,1 roll put me back to space #98
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore - 6/30/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged immigration x11:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points (hide spoiler)]

Hannah's Conductor Board - Round 2 - AKA The Last Round - Finished 8/7/23

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1. Behold the Dreamer
2. The Ecliptic
3. The Last Green Valley
4. The Plague of Doves - Roll 1 - 4 Stars - Finished 17/6/23
5. The Evening and the Morning
6. Just Like You - Roll 2 - 3 Stars - Finished 18/6/23
7. Murder at Archly Manor
8. Mrs England
9. Band of Sisters - Roll 3 - 3 Stars - Finished 19/6/23
10. The Dark Clue
11. The Garden of Evening Mists
12. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
13. The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessy
14. Peach Blossom Spring
15. The Satanic Verses
16. Agincourt
17. Tom Brown’s Schooldays
18. Burnt Shadows
19. Paper Wife - Roll 4 - 4 Stars - Finished 20/6/23
20. American Street
21. The Bronze Horseman
22. A General Theory of Oblivion
23. Judas 62
24. White Rose, Black Forest
25. Embers on the Wind
26. Behold the Dreamer
27. The Ecliptic
28. The Last Green Valley
29. The Plague of Doves
30. The Evening and the Morning
31. Just Like You
32. Murder at Archly Manor
33. Mrs England
34. Band of Sisters
35. The Dark Clue
36. The Garden of Evening Mists
37. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
38. The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessy - Moved here by a special advantage - 3 Stars - Finished 21/6/23
39. Peach Blossom Spring
40. The Satanic Verses
41. Agincourt
42. Tom Brown’s Schooldays
43. Burnt Shadows
44. Paper Wife
45. American Street - Roll 5 +1 extra space - 4 Stars - Finished 22/6/23
46. The Bronze Horseman
47. A General Theory of Oblivion
48. Judas 62
49. White Rose, Black Forest
50. Embers on the Wind - Roll 6 - 4 Stars - Finished 23/6/23
50a. Hiroshima - 4 Stars - Finished 24/6/23 - #58 on Nicole's Porter Board
51. Behold the Dreamer
52. The Ecliptic
53. The Last Green Valley
54. The Plague of Doves
55. The Evening and the Morning
56. Just Like You - Roll 7 - I had already read this book for a previous roll, so I read #55 - The Evening and the Morning instead - Roll 7 - 3 Stars - Finished 25/6/23
56a. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers - 4 Stars - Finished 26/6/23 - #30 on OMs Station Master Round 1 Board
57. Murder at Archly Manor
58. Mrs England
59. Band of Sisters
60. The Dark Clue
61. The Garden of Evening Mists
62. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
63. The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessy
64. Peach Blossom Spring
65. The Satanic Verses
66. Agincourt
67. Tom Brown’s Schooldays
68. Burnt Shadows
69. Paper Wife
70. American Street
71. The Bronze Horseman
72. A General Theory of Oblivion
73. Judas 62
74. White Rose, Black Forest
75. Embers on the Wind
76. Behold the Dreamer
77. The Ecliptic
78. The Last Green Valley
79. The Plague of Doves
80. The Evening and the Morning
81. Just Like You
82. Murder at Archly Manor - Roll 8 - 4 Stars - Finished 28/6/23
83. Mrs England
84. Band of Sisters - Roll 9 - I had already read this book in this round, so I read #83 Mrs England - 4 Stars - Finished 39/6/23
85. The Dark Clue
86. The Garden of Evening Mists - Roll 10 - 4 Stars - Finished 1/7/23
87. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
88. The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessy
89. Peach Blossom Spring
90. The Satanic Verses - Moved back here by the randomiser - 2 Stars - Finished 7/7/23
91. Agincourt
92. Tom Brown’s Schooldays - Roll 11 - 3 Stars - Finished 3/7/23
93. Burnt Shadows
94. Paper Wife
95. American Street
96. The Bronze Horseman - Roll 12 - 2 Stars - Finished 6/7/23
97. A General Theory of Oblivion
98. Judas 62
99. White Rose, Black Forest
100. Embers on the Wind

Roll 13 rolls my off the board.

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Conductor Board Round 2 - Roll Detail

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Participation points from Porter Level: 37
Participation points from Engineer Level - Round 1: 21
Participation points from Engineer Level - Round 2: 27
Participation points from Station Master - Round 1: 22
Participation points from Station Master - Round 2: 6
Participation points from Conductor Level - Round 1: 51
Participation points from Conductor Level - Round 2: 9

Swap 1:
Swap 2:

Roll 1: 4 - Step 4 - Finished 17/6/23
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 2: 2 - Step 6 - Finished 18/6/23
Just Like You by Nick Hornby - 3 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 3: 3 - Step 9 - Finished 19/6/23
Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig - 3 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Length - 528 pages: https://www.amazon.com/Band-Sisters-N...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 4: 6, 4 - Step 19 - Finished 20/6/23
Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Link to Tag (Immigration x8): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Moved by Special Advantage - Step 38 - Finished 21/6/23
The Love Story of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce - 3 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 5: 6 (+1) - Step 45 - Finished 22/6/23
American Street by Ibi Zoboi - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Link to Tag (Immigration x101): https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Participation Points: 3

Roll 6: 5 - Step 50 - Finished 23/6/23
Embers on the Wind by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

My last two rolls were 6, 5, so I also read #58 from Nicole's Porter Board
Hiroshima by John Hersey - 4 Stars - Finished 24/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 7: 6 - Step 56 - Finished 25/6/23
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett - 3 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Length: 928 pages - https://www.amazon.com/Evening-Mornin...
Participation Points: 0

My last two rolls were 5, 6, so I also read #30 from OM's Station Master Round 1 Board
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto - 4 Stars - Finished 26/6/23
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll 8: 2, 3, 6, 6, 5, 4 - Step 82 - Finished 28/6/23
Murder at Archly Manor by Sara Rosett - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 9: 2 - Step 84 - I had already ready this book for a previous roll in this round, so I read my book at Step 83 - Finished 29/6/23
Mrs England by Stacey Halls - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 10: 2 - Step 86 - Finished 1/7/23
The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng - 4 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 11: 6 - Step 92 - Finished 3/7/23
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes - 3 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 12: 4 - Step 96 - Finished 6/7/23
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons - 2 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Length: 656 pages: https://www.amazon.com/Bronze-Horsema...
Participation Points: 3 - Tagged Adventure x12: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Moved back 6 steps by the randomiser:
Step 90 - Finished 7/7/23
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - 2 Stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Length: 560 pages: https://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Verses...
Participation Points: 0

Roll 13: 4, 5, 5, 6, 4 - This rolls me off the board, and ends my game. (hide spoiler)]

Remaining Accumulated Bonus Options

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Porter Board Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 2
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Sylvia's Lovers - USED 21/6/23


Engineer Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Cider with Rosie

2. Roll 2
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Secrets of a Charmed Life


Engineer Round 2 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 5
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for South of the Border, West of the Sun

2. Roll 6
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for The Sound of Waves

AND - moved back:
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Samurai’s Garden

3. Roll 12
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Gift of Rain

4. Roll 14
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for 11/22/63

Station Master Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 2
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Dictionary of Lost Words

2. Roll 3
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for A Perilous Undertaking

3. Roll 4
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Amsterdam

4. Roll 5
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for A Passage to India

5. Roll 6
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sealed Letter

Roll 9 and 10 - From rolling 6, 4: - Saving for later

Hannah, your advantage is you can move ahead to the next title on your board that starts with the letter U. If you don't have a title remaining with the letter U, let me know, and I will continue to select random letters until one works.

OR, you can save this advantage for the future (but not the letter), and request a letter when you are ready to use it

Roll 11 and 12 - From rolling 4, 6: - Saving for later
Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your discretion.

Roll 13 and 14 - From rolling 3, 2: - An additional swap to use when I want.

Roll 19 and 20 - 4 extra participation points - Added to Station Master Board 1 total

Station Master Round 2 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Terra Nullius

2. Roll 2
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Girl Gone Missing

Conductor Round 1 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 1
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Our History Is The Future

2. Roll 2
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

3. Roll 3
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Indian Horse

Roll 3 and 4 - From rolling 1, 2: - You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - Earned 31/5/23

4. Roll 4
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Murder on the Red River

5. Roll 5
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Winter Counts

Roll 4 and 5 - From rolling 2, 3: - An additional swap to use when I want.

6. Roll 7
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sun and her Flowers

7. Roll 8
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Four Treasures of the Sky

8. Roll 9
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for American Dirt

9. Roll 10
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The House of Broken Angels

10. Roll 11
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for In The Midst of Winter

11. Roll 12
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Loneliest Americans

12. Roll 13
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

13. Roll 14
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Small Island

14. Roll 15
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Infinite Country

15. Roll 16
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Ungrateful Refugee

16. Roll 17
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Girl in Translation

17. Roll 18
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Warmth of Other Suns


Conductor Round 2 Accrued Bonus - Detail

1. Roll 4
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Paper Wife
AND
Rolled 6, 4:
@Hannah,

Your advantage is determined by finding the most recent Footnotes post on which you made a comment. Look at the total number of comments, and you will move that far. The move may be made when you wish, but you need to determine the number now (so the Footnote needs to be one that originated before 6/19). USED 20/6/23

2. Roll 12
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Bronze Horseman

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Summary by bonus - Includes the date they are used

Move 1 Space Forward - 13

5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Sylvia's Lovers, earned 12/2/23 - USED 21/6/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Samurai's Garden, earned 7/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Gift of Rain, earned 13/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for 11/22/63, earned 16/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for Amsterdam, earned 28/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for A Passage to India, earned 29/4/23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space for The Sealed Letter, earned 30/4/23
5-25 Taggers - move forward 1 space for Girl Gone Missing, earned 24/5/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Sun and her Flowers, earned 3/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Four Treasures of the Sky, landed here 3/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for In The Midst of Winter, landed here 6/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Loneliest Americans, landed here 7/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Small Island, landed here 9/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for Paper Wife, landed here 19/6/23
5-25 Taggers - Move forward 1 space for The Bronze Horseman, landed here 4/7/23

Move 2 Spaces Forward - 7

25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for The Dictionary of Lost Words, earned 26/4/23
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces for A Perilous Undertaking, earned 27/4/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Terra Nullius, earned 23/5/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, earned 28/5/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The House of Broken Angels, landed here 5/6/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Ungrateful Refugee, landed here 11/6/23
25-50 Taggers - Move forward 2 spaces for The Warmth of Other Suns, landed here 13/6/23

Move 5 Spaces Forward - 7
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Cider with Rosie, earned 26/2/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Secrets of a Charmed Life, earned 27/2/23
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Our History Is The Future, earned 28/5/23
50-100 Taggers - Move forward 5 spaces for Murder on the Red River, earned 31/5/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, earned 8/6/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Infinite Country, earned 10/6/23
50-100 taggers - move forward 5 spaces for Girl in Translation, earned 12/6/23

Roll 2 extra dice - 5

100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for South of the Border, West of the Sun, earned 26/3/23
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for The Sound of Waves, earned 27/3/23
100+ taggers - roll 2 dice for Indian Horse, earned 30/5/23
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for Winter Counts, landed on this 31/5/23
100+ Taggers - Roll 2 extra dice for American Dirt, landed on this 4/6/23

Get an Extra Swap (2, 3) - 2
Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game
- Station Master 1 Roll 13 and 14
- Conductor Round 1 Roll 4 and 5

Use Participation Points (1, 2) - 1
You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.
- Conductor Round 1 Roll 3 and 4

Special Advantages - 4

- Station Master Round 1, Roll 9 (6) and Roll 10 (4):

Your advantage is you can move ahead to the next title on your board that starts with the letter U. If you don't have a title remaining with the letter U, let me know, and I will continue to select random letters until one works.

OR, you can save this advantage for the future (but not the letter), and request a letter when you are ready to use it

- Station Master Round 1, Roll 11 (4) and Roll 12 (6):

Your special advantage is you may roll an extra two dice. To be used at your discretion.

Conductor Board Round 2

Roll 4 - 6, 4

@Hannah,

Your advantage is determined by finding the most recent Footnotes post on which you made a comment. Look at the total number of comments, and you will move that far. The move may be made when you wish, but you need to determine the number now (so the Footnote needs to be one that originated before 6/19) USED 20/6/23

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NancyJ 7th board Conductor #1
June 26, 2023
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1. A Map is only one Story
2. A hope more powerful than the sea
3. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
4. Front Desk by Kelly Yang
5. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
6. All my Rage
✅🎲7. My Ántonia by Willa Cather 6/27/23
8. A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming
9. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
✅🎲🔹10. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat. (Roll 2 + 1 reward) 6/29/23
11. We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey
✅🎲12. Front Desk by Kelly Yang 6/30/23
13. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
14. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
15. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
17. Front Desk by Kelly Yang
✅🎲🔹18. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. 4 (roll)+ 2(reward). 7/3/23
19. Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
20. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
21. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
22. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
✅🎲23. Doc by Mary Doria Russell - SWAP- Behold the Dreamers 7/7/23
24. xMy Antonia
✅🎲🔹25. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
26. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
27. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
28. We're Not from Here by Geoff Rodkey
29. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
30. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal - Swap = ✅🎲Forty Rules of Love 7/17/23
🎲31. xFourth wing - already read
32. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
33. The Puma Years by Laura Coleman
34. Where the lost wander
35. Hollow hills
36. Grapes of Wrath
✅🎲🔹37. Exit strategy 7/19/23
38. The Outsiders
39. Good omens
40. Left Hand of Darkness
41. Fifth season
✅🎲42. Wild trees bonus swap Violin Conspiracy 7/21/23
43. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
44. Throne of Jade
45. A River in Darkness
46. River of Doubt
✅🎲47.Captains Courageous7/22/23
✅🎲48. West with giraffes 7/24/23
49. Six of crows
✅🎲50. Wizard of earthsea 7/25/23
51. Princess Bride
52. Tombs of Atuan
53. Endurance
54. Into thin air
✅🎲55. Unexpected Mrs Pollifax 7/26/23
✅🎲56. The Alice Network 7/28/23
57. Wundersmith🎈
58. X If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
59. Throne of Jade🎈
60. A River in Darkness
61. River of Doubt
62. xCaptains Courageous
63. The Puma YEARS
64. Where the lost wander
✅🎲65. Hollow hills 7/30/23
66. Grapes of Wrath 🎈
67. X Exit strategy
68. The Outsiders🎈
✅🎲69. Good omens 8/3/23
70. Left Hand of Darkness
71. Fifth season
72. Wild trees
73. Underland
74. Float Plan
🎲75. Odyssey
76. Scarlet
✅🔹77.Hench 8/8/23
78. X West with giraffes
79. Six of crows 🎈
80. xWizard of earthsea
✅🎲81. Princess Bride
82. Tombs of Atuan
83. Endurance
84. Into thin air 🎈
85. xUnexpected Mrs Pollifax
86. xThe Alice Network
✅87. Wundersmith 8/20/23
88. xIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
89. Throne of Jade
90. A River in Darkness
91. River of Doubt
92. xCaptains Courageous
93. Underland
94. Float Plan
95. Odyssey
96. Scarlet
97. Days without End
98. Hench
99. Doc
100.X Wide Sargasso Sea

87 + 1 + 15 =103 Roll off the board.
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Nancyj tracking log - Conductor 1

1 free swap
Special advantages 🏵️🏵️🏵️
1..June 8 : Your advantage is:
At a time of your choosing (this may be between rolls or accompanying a roll), you may opt to have the randomizer select a playing card for you from a deck of 52 (I'll do the drawing). A face card equals its face value. Jacks, Queens, and Kings are 15, and an Ace is 20. You may move forward that number of spaces, but that move must be taken at the time of the drawing. SAVED
🔷USED November 30 to move off the Conductor 3 board

2. July 18: add numbers of your Phone number including area code = 42 - SAVED

3. Aug 4 roll = 6. Special move (4-6) 8/8: = 21 for chocolate chip cookie day 8/4 - SAVED

4. Aug 8 roll = 4 Special advantage (6-4) 8/11"Please go to your "to read" bookshelf on Goodreads, sort it by date (direction doesn't matter). Then note the rating of the 6th book and the rating of the 4th book. Then repeat for your "read" list. Add all four ratings together and that's the move you may take whenever you wish." 4+4+4+3 = 15 (as of 8/11) SAVED - 🔷USED 8/26/23 to move OFF the Conductor 1 board.

5. Aug 15 roll = 6. Special advantage (4-6) Given 8/26. Special Advantage = 18 moves for # fetches Remy did. SAVED
🔷Used 10/23/23 to move off the Conductor 2 board
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June 26 roll = 6-5-2. 6 took me off board #6, 7 is my first spot on board #7.
✅ 6/27/23 - 7. My Ántonia, by Willa Cather.
Fits June tag, 30 immigration tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 spaces. https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

June 28 roll = 2, 🔹plus 1 reward space from 4/19
✅ 6/29/23- 10. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Fits June tag, 13 immigration tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 1 space
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

June 29 roll = 2
✅ 6/30/23 - 12. Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Fits June tag, 147 immigration tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

June 30 roll = 4. 🔹Plus I’m using a 2 space reward from 4/30
✅7/3/23 - 18. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Does not fit June Tag. 528 pages, one extra roll
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Wing-Em...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 3 roll = 4-1, Swap #1
✅23. Doc Doc’s narrator put me to sleep every time, so I switched to Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue.
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Roll=1, plus a 1 space award from 4/21
✅25. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Fits tag, 5 adventure tags, 🎗️3 part pts (no rewards)
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 10 roll = 6. To space 31. This is a special roll (1+6), I could read the book behind or ahead. I didn’t use it.
I already read #31, and I used a Swap rather than read The Shergill Sisters. I chose a book 40 pages longer.
✅ 7/19/23- book:The Forty Rules of Love|6642715] by Elif Shafak.
Fits tag, 9 adventure tags, 🎗️3 part pts (no rewards)
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

🏵️Special roll 6-4. Add all 10 digits of your phone number, Saved
July 18 roll = 4, plus 2
✅ 7/19/23- 37. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Fits July tag, 162 adventure tags, 🎗️part pts, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 19 roll = 5
✅7/21/23- 42. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb. (Extra Swap)
Does not fit tag
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 21 roll = 5
✅ 7/22/23- 47. Captains Couragous by Rudyard Kipling
Fits July tag, 221 adventure tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 22 roll = 1
✅7/24/23 -48. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
Fits July tag, 85 adventure tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 5 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 24 roll = 2
✅ 7/25/23- 50. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fits July tag, 451 adventure tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 25 roll = 5
✅ 7/26/23- 55. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Fits July tag, 114 adventure tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 26 roll= 1
✅56. The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
Amazon 560 pages. Bonus Roll
https://www.amazon.com/Network-Turtle...
Fits July tag, 66 Adventure Tag, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 5 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 28 rolls = 4+5
✅ 7/30/23 - 65. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart
Fits July tag, 35 Adventure Tag, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

July 30 roll = 4
✅8/4/24 - 69. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Pratchett and Gaiman.
Fits July Tag. 260 Adventure Tags. 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

August 4 roll = 6 (Special roll) [8/8 = Move 21 for choc chip cookie day x SAVED]
6+2 =8. Used 2 reward spaces from 4/14
✅ 8/8/23 - 77. [[book:Hench|49867430] by Natalie Zina Walschots
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

August 8 roll = 4. Special roll (6-4) "Please go to your "to read" bookshelf on Goodreads, sort it by date (direction doesn't matter). Then note the rating of the 6th book and the rating of the 4th book. Then repeat for your "read" list. Add all four ratings together and that's the move you may take whenever you wish."
4+4+4+3 = 15 (as of 8/11)
✅ 8/9/23- 81. The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

August 15 roll = 6 Special Advantage (6/4) 18 moves for # fetches Remy did. Saved
✅8/26/23 - 87. Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

August 26 roll = 1
USED Special advantage #4 = ADDED 15 Spaces to roll off the board.

CONDUCTOR 1 is completed.
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Nancyj - reserved space for accumulated rewards earned and spent.
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Nancyj

Participation points and rewards
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Special advantages saved as of 10/23/23 - see message 21 above
2 extra swaps
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Participation Points Summary
Porter = 36
Engineer1= 15
Engineer 2= 39
Station Master 1= 42-2= 40
Station Master 2= 45-4= 41
Conductor 1 = 13*3=39
Conductor 2 = 14*3=42

For details see the logs for each board and the rewards compilation on Station Master, messages 22 -23

🏵️As of 10/23/23 Rewards Summaries
Remaining rewards from Porter, Engineer1+2 =
5 spaces = 4

Future Rewards Earned on Station Master 1 board:
40 Participation Points.
1 space = 2
2 space = 2
5 space = 2
2 rolls = 7

Station Master 2
Participation points 15*3 - 4 = 41
1 space =2
2 space = 2
5 space = 6
2 rolls = 4


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Conductor 1
Participation points 13*3
1 space = 1
2 space = 2
5 space = 2
2 rolls = 5

Conductor 2
Participation points 3*14
1 space = 3
2 space =1
5 space =3
2 rolls =5


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Game Board - Conductor Loop 3:

🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage used
🔸 = moved by another player or the randomizer
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1 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
2 The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert - Roll #1 (2) - 7/1 - initially landed here but book was checked out, so used an earned benefit on 2/27 to move forward 5 spaces
3 Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon
4 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
5 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
6 Irresistible Adam Alter
🔹7 The Path Between Seas David McCullough - 7/1 - After using 2/27 earned benefit of move forward 5 spaces
8 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry
9 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion
10 Foe Iain Reid
11 Dangling Man Saul Bellow
12 Ready Player Two Ernest Cline
13 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell
14 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
15 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
16 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
17 Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
18 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry
19 Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher
20 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
21 Lila Marilynne Robinson
22 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
23 Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls - Roll #2 (16) 4 dice - 7/2
24 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
25 French Exit Patrick deWitt
26 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
27 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
28 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells
29 Someone Alice McDermott
30 Invisible Paul Auster
31 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
32 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar
33 Satin Island Tom McCarthy
34 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlman
35 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos - Roll #3 (12) 3 dice - 7/3
36 The Man in the Maze Robert Silverberg
37 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
38 The Glory and the Dream
39 Anathem Neal Stephenson - Roll #4 (4) - 7/4
40 This Passing World Michael Herzog
41 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
42 In the Country of Men Hisham Matar
43 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
44 The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
45 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
46 Chemistry Weike Wang
47 Strange Flowers Donal Ryan
48 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
49 We Yevgeny Zamyatin
50 Losing Earth Nathaniel Rich
51 Murmur Will Eaves
52 Solo Faces James Salter
53 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
54 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
55 Irma Voth Miriam Toews
56 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell
57 Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Yiyun Li
58 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
59 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann
60 Inferno Max Hastings
61 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
62 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen
63 The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien - Roll #5 (24) - 6 dice - 7/7
64 Double Vision Pat Barker
65 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
66 American Duchess Karen Harper - Roll #6 (3) - 7/8
67 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
68 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez
69 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
70 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
71 West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge
72 Excellent Women Barbara Pym - Roll #7 (6) - 7/9
73 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
74 Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn - Roll #8 (2) - 7/10
75 Scythe Neal Shusterman
76 Sight Jessie Greengrass
77 The Wife Meg Wolitzer
78 An Experiment in Love Hilary Mantel- Roll #9 (4) - 7/11
79 The Body Artist Don DeLillo
80 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
81 Spinning Silver Naomi Novik - Roll #10 (3) - initially landed here but used special move earned on 3/21 to move ahead 3 by using 3 participation points
82 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym
83 Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson
🔹84 Where Angels Fear To Tread E.M. Forster used special move earned on 3/21 to move from 81 to 84
85 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym
🔹86 The Parade Dave Eggers - read instead of 88 using special advantage from 1/15
87 Summer Ali Smith
88 The Wave Susan Casey - Roll #11 (4)- 7/13 - landed here but used a special advantage from 1/15 to read #86 instead [Rolled 6,4 - You may read a book you have passed without moving backwards instead of the one you land on] - used 7/13
89 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
90 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
91 Zero K Don DeLillo
92 Ice Anna Kavan
93 The Butcher's Blessing Ruth Gilligan - Roll #12 (5) - 7/14 - used special advantage earned 3/22 to move ahead 3 spaces by using 3 participation points
94 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute
95 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Doestoyevsky
🔹96 The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson - used special advantage earned 3/22 to advance 3 spaces by using 3 participation points
97 Savage Country Robert Olmstead - Roll #13 (1) - 7/15 - 🐉 - landed here - used Swap #1 to read The Wager David Grann instead
98 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton *
99 Half-Earth Edward O. Wilson
100 Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert

* this is the only change from 6/29 to 6/30, replacing #98 after moving backward to Loop 2 due to the 1,1 roll. (hide spoiler)]

Round completed 7/16/23

Benefits Earned or Carried Over:

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1/14: (2,3)
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

1/15 - Rolled 6,4 - You may read a book you have passed without moving backwards instead of the one you land on. - used 7/13

1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/2 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #5 - used 5/22/23 in SM Loop 2

2/3 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #6

🔹2/8 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #9 - used 4/24 in SM Loop 1

2/16 - Extra move of 1 space earned w/ Porter roll #17 - used on 6/4 in Conductor Loop 1

2/24 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2

2/25 - Rolled 4,6 - You may move to the next non-fiction book in your list. You do not need to use this now if you don't want to. You can use it anytime. On 6/8, agreed with Anita to swap this out for "you may roll 4 extra dice." There was no way to know at the time this was awarded that there would be so many Boards. - used on 6/9

2/27 - Extra move of 5 spaces earned w/ Engineer roll #5 - used on 7/1

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Eng roll #6

3/8 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

3/15 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 1: qualifies for move forward 1 space (6 tags) - used on 6/17

3/19 - Roll #23 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 6/25 to move from 86 to 89 for conductor loop 2

3/21 - Roll #25 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used on 7/12 for Conductor Loop 3

3/22 - Roll #26 Eng Loop 1: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.- used 7/14

3/24 - Roll #1 Eng Loop 2
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

3/27 - Roll #4 Eng Loop 2: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/1 - Extra move of 1 space earned with compensatory move on 4/1/23

4/9 - Roll #15 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/12 - Roll #18 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/13 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 2
Last 2 rolls are 1, 2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/18: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

🔸 4/21 - Randomizer move to #88 Station Master Loop 1
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

🔸 4/22 - Moved back 3 spaces based on OM's 1,1 roll to #90 SM Loop 1
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space
3 participation points

5/2 - Roll of 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - requirement satisfied on 5/4 - added points to total

5/16 Rolled 1,2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

5/16 - Station Master Loop 2
87 taggers
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space (saved)
3 participation points

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
3 participation points

5/22 -
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese tagged indigenous x146
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used 5/23
3 participation points

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice (saved)
3 participation points

5/25 - Where the Dead Sit Talking
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

5/26 - Future Home of the Living God
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

5/29
Last 2 rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - earned on 6/1

6/1
Earned the 4 participation points from 5/29

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/5 - Last 2 rolls were 6,4: Joy, your special advantage is obtained by taking today's date, and multiplying it by the number of runs scored by your favorite baseball team tonight (if they don't play tonight then it will be tomorrow night - - but it will be 5x (a number to be determined). 10 runs x 5 = 50 - used 6/7 to finish Conductor loop 1 round

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/13 -
Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. (saved)

6/17 -
Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. (saved)

6/17
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar
Tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

7/2 - Where the Red Fern Grows
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used on 7/3
3 participation points

7/4 - Anathem - fits tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 9 - 6 = 3
Total: 116 - 6 = 110

Conductor Loop 3:
Swap 1 - 7/15 - Read The Wager David Grann (352 pages) instead of Savage Harvest Robert Olmstead (304 pages)
Swap 2 - na
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Detail of Rolls - Loop 3:
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Roll #1: 2 - 7/1
Landed on The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert but it was not available, so used an earned benefit from 2/27 to move forward 5 spaces to land on:
7. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough - 7/2/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review - tagged "adventure" x9:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

Roll #2: 16 (4-1-6-5) - 7/2 (4 dice - last book was 704 pages)
23. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls - 7/3/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits tag adventure x258
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used 7/3
3 participation points

Roll #3: 12 (1-5-6) - 7/3 (3 dice based on tags from last book)
35. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos - 7/4/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #4: 4 - 7/4
39. Anathem by Neal Stephenson - 7/7/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review - fits tag x29
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces (saved)
3 participation points

Roll #5: 24 (6 dice) - 7/7
63. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien - 7/8/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #6: 3 - 7/8
66. American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt by Karen Harper - 7/9/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #7: 6 - 7/9
72. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym - 7/10/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #8: 2 - 7/10
74. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn - 7/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #9: 4 - 7/11
78. An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel - 7/12/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #10: 3 - 7/12
I am going to use a special move earned on 3/21 to use 3 participation points to move ahead 3 spaces. With my roll of 3 today, I landed on #81 so this will put me on space #84 instead, which is: Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #11: 4- 7/13
88 The Wave Susan Casey - Roll #11 (4)- 7/13 - 🐉 - landed here - but used a special advantage from 1/15 to read #86 instead [Rolled 6,4 - You may read a book you have passed without moving backwards instead of the one you land on] - used 7/13 - Read: 86 The Parade by Dave Eggers - 7/14/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll # 12 (5) - 7/14
Landed on 93 but used special advantage earned on 3/22 to move ahead 3 spaces by using 3 participation points to land on: 96 The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson - 4* - My PBT Review

Roll #13: 1 - 7/15
Used swap for 97 Savage Harvest Robert Olmstead (304 pages) to read The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann - 7/16/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (352 pages)

Roll #14: 6 - 7/16 - Rolled off the end of the Board (hide spoiler)]
Round completed 7/16/23

Game Board: Conductor Loop 4
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🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage used
🔸 = moved by another player or the randomizer

1 The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert
2 We Yevgeny Zamyatin
3 Solo Faces James Salter
4 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
5 The Shepherd's Hut Tim Winton - Roll #1 (5) - 7/17 - [last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read A General Theory of Oblivion by Jose' Eduardo Agualusa from Hannah's Porter Board]
6 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute
7 Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon - Roll #2 (2) - 7/19
8 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
9 West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge
10 So Close to Home Michael J.Tougias
11 The Homesman Glendon Swarthout - Roll #3 (4) - 7/20
12 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
13 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
🔸14 Irresistible Adam Alter - Roll #4 (3) - 7/21 - Last 2 rolls totalled 7, so I am reading 1 book forward - 15 The Man in My Basement - 7/23 - Moved back 3 from 18 to 15 based on KateNZ's 1,1 roll - already read 15 so read 14 instead
🔸🔹15 The Man in My Basement Walter Mosley - 7/21 & 7/23 - moved here per KateNZ's 1,1 roll - already read it so will read 14 instead
16 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell
17 Measuring the World Daniel Kehlman - Roll #5 (3) - 7/22
18 Scythe Neal Shusterman - Roll #6 (1) - 7/23 - 🐉 - landed here [KateNZ rolled a 1,1 so moved back to 15, but I have already read 15 so will read 14 instead]
19 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
20 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry
21 Slouching Towards Bethlehem Joan Didion - Roll #7 (6) - 7/25
22 Foe Iain Reid
23 Three O'Clock in the Morning Gianrico Carofiglio (192 pages) - Roll #8 (2) - 7/26 - this book is not available, so I used swap to read: Maame by Jessica George (320 pages)
24 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell
25 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
26 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
27 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
28 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry
29 Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher
30 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
31 Lila Marilynne Robinson
32 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
33 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
34 The Gate of Angels Penelope Fitzgerald
35 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
36 French Exit Patrick deWitt
37 Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
38 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
39 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
40 Never Mind Edward St. Aubyn - Roll #9 (17) 3 dice - 7/27
41 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells - Roll #10 (1) - 7/28 - used advantage from 3/24 to move forward 5 spaces
42 Someone Alice McDermott
🔸43 Invisible Paul Auster - KateNZ rolled 1,1 so moved back here - this is another book that is not available so I'm using my 2nd swap to read Biography of X by Catherine Lacey instead - 7/28
44 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
45 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar
🔹46 Satin Island Tom McCarthy - used advantage earned on 3/24 to move forward 5 spaces from 41 to 46 - 7/29 - 🐉 - landed here - KateNZ rolled a 1,1 so had to move back to 43
47 A Fractured Mind Robert B. Oxnam
48 The Man in the Maze Robert Silverberg - Roll #11: 5 - 7/30
🔸49 2666 Robert Bolano - moved here based on Jen's 1,1 roll - 8/1
50 This Passing World Michael Herzog
51 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
52 In the Country of Men Hisham Matar - Roll #12: 4 - 8/1
53 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
54 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
55 Chemistry Weike Wang
56 Strange Flowers Donal Ryan - Roll #13 (7) - 5 dice - 8/5
57 Remembering Babylon David Malouf - Roll #14 (1) - 8/6 - landed here but used special benefit earned on 4/1 to move forward 1 space
🔹58 Losing Earth Nathaniel Rich - 8/6
59 Murmur Will Eaves
60 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
61 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
62 Irma Voth Miriam Toews - Roll #15 (4) - 8/7
63 Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Yiyun Li
64 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
65 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann
66 Inferno Max Hastings
67 The Glory and the Dream William Manchester
68 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen - Roll #16: 6 - 8/8 - landed here but used 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces - earned on 3/27
69 I Will Die in a Foreign Land Kalani Pickhart
70 Double Vision Pat Barker
🔹71 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle 8/8 - used 3 participation points earned on 3/27 to move forward 3 spaces from 68 to 71
72 Eggshells Caitriona Lally
73 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
74 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez
75 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
76 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
77 Nuclear Family Joseph Han
78 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
79 Time Pieces John Banville
80 Sight Jessie Greengrass
🔸 81 The Wife Meg Wolitzer - Amy moved me here based on the randomizer's choice of my name for her 3,1 roll - 8/8
82 On Time and Water Andri Snaer Magnuson
83 The Body Artist Don DeLillo
84 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
85 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym
86 Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson - Roll #17: 5 - 8/9 - 🐉 - landed here
87 The Bird of Night Susan Hill
88 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym
89 Coal Black Horse Robert Olmstead
90 The Heavens Sandra Newman
91 Summer Ali Smith
92 Dangling Man Saul Bellow
93 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
94 Zero K Don DeLillo
95 Ice Anna Kavan
96 When All Is Said Anne Griffin
97 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Doestoyevsky
98 Half-Earth Edward O. Wilson
🔸99 Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert - My 1,1 roll on 8/13 moved me back from Loop 5 Board to Loop 4 Board
100 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson

Roll #18: 2 & multiplied by 8 with benefit earned 8/8 = 16, landed off the board on 102 (hide spoiler)]

Round completed 8/10/23

Benefits Earned or Carried Over:

Note: I have deleted those already used so available benefits are easier to find. I will continue doing this in future rounds, leaving on the list only benefits that have not yet been used.

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1/14: (2,3)
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/3 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #6

2/24 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces based on tags earned w/ Eng roll #6

3/8 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice based on tags earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

3/24 - Roll #1 Eng Loop 2
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used on 7/28

3/27 - Roll #4 Eng Loop 2: 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used on 8/8

4/1 - Extra move of 1 space earned with compensatory move on 4/1 - used on 8/6

4/9 - Roll #15 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space

4/12 - Roll #18 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space

4/13 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 2
Last 2 rolls are 1, 2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

4/18: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

🔸 4/21 - Randomizer move to #88 Station Master Loop 1
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space

🔸 4/22 - Moved back 3 spaces based on OM's 1,1 roll to #90 SM Loop 1
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space

5/16 Rolled 1,2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

5/16 - Station Master Loop 2
87 taggers
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

5/25 - Where the Dead Sit Talking
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces (saved)

5/26 - Future Home of the Living God
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/13 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

6/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

6/17
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar
Tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/4 - Anathem - fits tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

Conductor Loop 4:
7/18 - The Shepherd's Hut - fits tag x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - saved
3 participation points

7/20 - The Homesman - fits tag x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - saved
3 participation points

7/22 - Measuring the World - fits tag x26
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - saved
3 participation points

7/24 - Scythe - fits tag x116
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice - used on 7/27
3 participation points

8/8 - Your 6-4 advantage is you can multiply any roll you get during the next 8 days by 8 (for August 8th). - used 8/10

Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 3
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 4: 12 - 3 = 9
Total: 122 - 3 = 119

Conductor Loop 4:
Swap 1 - Maame by Jessica George - 7/27/23 - 4* - My Review (320 pages) for Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio (192 pages)
Swap 2 - Biography of X by Catherine Lacey - 7/29/23 - 3* - My Review (416 pages)
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Details of Rolls - Conductor Loop 4:
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Roll #1: 5 - 7/17
5. The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton - 7/18/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits Adventure tag x6:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read:
A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa - 7/18/23 - 5* - My PBT Review (#88 on Hannah's Porter Board)

Roll #2: 2 - 7/19
7. Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon - 7/20/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #3: 4 - 7/20
11. The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout - 7/21/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits adventure tag x10
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #4: 3 - 7/21
Landed on 14 Irresistible, but my last two rolls were 4,3: "Any combination totaling 7: You move 7 spaces and stay on that space, but you may read the book you land on OR one book forward or one book back - - your choice."
I will read one book forward: 15. The Man in My Basement: A Novel by Walter Mosley - 7/22/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #5: 3 - 7/22
17. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann - 7/23/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review
Tagged "adventure" x26: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #6: 1 - 7/23
18. Scythe by Neal Shusterman - 7/24/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged adventure x116: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔸 KateNZ rolled 1,1 so moved back to 15. The Man in My Basement - already read it so read 14. Irresistible instead.
14. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter - 4* - My PBT Review - next move will be from space 15.

Roll #7: 6 - 7/25
21. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion - 7/26/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #8: 2 - 7/26
23. Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio (192 pages) - not available so used a swap and read:
Maame by Jessica George - 4* - My PBT Review (320 pages) - neither book fits the tag

Roll #9: 17 (3 dice) - 7/27
40. Never Mind by Edward St. Aubyn - 7/28/23 - 1* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
Used benefit earned on 7/24 to roll 2 extra dice earned (by reading Scythe, which is tagged "adventure" x116 - see Roll #6 above)

Roll #10: 1 - 7/28
Landed on 41 but used advantage earned on 3/24 to move forward 5 spaces and landed on:
46 Satin Island by Tom McCarthy - 7/29/23 - 3* - My PBT Review then had to move back 3 to 43 (see below)

🔸 KateNZ rolled a 1,1 so moved back 3 spaces to 43 Invisible by Paul Auster (332 pages) - not available so read Biography of X by Catherine Lacey - 7/29/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (416 pages) instead

Roll #11: 5 - 7/29 rolled morning of 7/30
48. The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg - 8/1/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits adventure and moral dilemmas but not enough tags to earn the benefit

Roll #12: 4 - 8/1
52. In the Country of Men: A Novel by Hisham Matar - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔸8/1 - Jen rolled 1,1 so after 52 I moved back 3 to land on:
49. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
898 pages - https://www.amazon.com/2666-Novel-Rob...

Roll #13: 7 (5 dice - 2-1-2-1-1) - 8/5
56. Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan - 8/6/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #14: 1 - 8/6
Landed on 57 but used benefit earned on 4/1 to move forward to 58. Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich - 8/7/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag but not tagged enough times to claim it for this game

Roll #15: 4 - 8/7
62. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews - 8/8/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #16: 6 - 8/8 - landed on 68 but used 3 points to move forward 3 spaces earned on 3/27 to land on 71. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔸8/8 - Amy moved me to #81 The Wife by Meg Wolitzer - 8/9/23 - 5* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #17: 5 - 8/9
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - 8/10/23 - 3* - My PBT Review

Roll #18: 2 - 8/10
Rolled 2 and multiplied by 8 with benefit earned on 8/8. Landed off the Board on space 102. (hide spoiler)]

Round completed 8/10/23

Game Board: Conductor Loop 5
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🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage used
🔸 = moved by a player or the randomizer or 1,1 roll

1 The Sun Is a Compass Caroline Van Hemert - Roll #1: 1 - 8/11
2 We Yevgeny Zamyatin - Roll #2: 1 - 8/13
3 Solo Faces James Salter - Roll #3: 1 - 8/16 - Note: A 1,1 roll took me back to space 100 of the previous Board - - Another 1,1 roll took me back from 6 to 3 - reading a swap since I've already read this one (landed here twice)
4 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
5 The Many Wyl Menmuir
6 Three O'Clock in the Morning Gianrico Carofiglio - used special benefit to land here, then backed up 3 spaces due to another 1,1 roll
7 Trustee from the Toolroom Nevil Shute - Roll #4: 1 - 8/18
8 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
9 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
10 So Close to Home Michael J.Tougias
11 Dispatches Michael Herr - Roll #5: 4 - 8/19 - initially landed here but moved forward 1 per tag advantage earned on 4/9
12 Coal Black Horse Robert Olmstead - Roll #6: 4 - 8/19
13 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
14 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
15 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin - Roll #7: 3 - 8/20 [Note: Last 2 rolls were a total of 7 so I am reading 1 ahead, but will move from here]
16 Actress Anne Enright - Read this one based on roll of 7 but moved from 15
17 The Road Home Rose Tremain - Roll #8: 2 [moved from 15 to 17] - 8/21
18 Soldiers Don't Go Mad - read as a swap
19 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason
20 Horseman, Pass By Larry McMurtry - Roll #9: 3 - 8/22
21 The Man in the Red Coat Julian Barnes
22 Foe Iain Reid - Roll #10: 2 - 8/23 - initially landed here, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 2/3 to move forward 2 spaces
23 I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O'Farrell
24 Invisible Paul Auster - 8/23 - 🔹 after using benefit
25 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
26 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
27 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
28 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
29 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry
30 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi (257 pages) - Roll #11: 6 - 8/24 - read a swap: Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin (368 pages)
31 Lila Marilynne Robinson
32 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
33 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
34 The Gate of Angels Penelope Fitzgerald - Roll #12: 4 - 8/25
35 Eggshells Caitriona Lally
36 French Exit Patrick deWitt - Roll #13:2 - 8/26
37 Undaunted Courage Stephen Ambrose
38 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
39 Leonardo da Vinci Walter Isaacson
40 Some Hope Edward St. Aubyn - reading 1 before where I landed with my last 2 rolls totaling 7 - 8/27
41 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells - Roll #14: 5 - 8/27 - last 2 rolls totaled 7 so will read Some Hope instead. Will move from 41
42 Someone Alice McDermott
43 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell
44 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
45 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar
46 Another World Pat Barker - Roll #15: 5 - 8/28 - landed here but used advantage earned on 4/12 to move forward 1 space
🔹 47 A Fractured Mind Robert B. Oxnam 8/28
48 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti
49 City of Dreams Tyler Anbinder
50 This Passing World Michael Herzog - Roll #16: 3 - 8/29
51 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
52 Safe From the Sea Peter Geye
53 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
54 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
55 Chemistry Weike Wang
56 Harvest Jim Crace
57 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
58 Red Clocks Leni Zumas
59 Murmur Will Eaves
60 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy - Roll #17: 10 (3 dice 2-6-2) - 8/31 - landed here but used benefit earned on 4/13 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces
61 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
62 The English Teacher Lily King
🔹63 Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life Yiyun Li - 8/31
64 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
65 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann
66 Inferno Max Hastings
67 Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher
68 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen - Roll #18: 5 - 9/1 - used tag-related benefit earned on 4/21 to move forward 1 space
🔹69 I Will Die in a Foreign Land Kalani Pickhart - 9/1
70 Double Vision Pat Barker
71 Father's Day Simon Van Booey
72 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
73 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
74 The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Roll #19: 5 - 9/2
75 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
76 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
77 Nuclear Family Joseph Han
78 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
79 Time Pieces John Banville
80 Sight Jessie Greengrass - Roll #20: 6 - 9/3 - [Last 2 rolls were 5,6, so also read The Man Who Fell to Earth from Diana H's game board]
81 The Wall Marlen Haushofer
82 On Time and Water Andri Snaer Magnuson - Roll #21: 2 - 9/4 - landed here but used tag-related benefit earned 4/22 to move forward 1 space
🔹83 The Body Artist Don DeLillo - 9/4
84 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
85 Some Tame Gazelle Barbara Pym - Roll #22: 2 - 9/5
86 Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness Ingrid Fetell Lee - Roll #23: 1 - 9/6 landed here but used tag-related benefit earned 5/25 to move forward 5 spaces
87 The Bird of Night Susan Hill
88 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym
🔸89 The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards Kristopher Jansma (273 pages) - backed up 3 spaces from 92 - will read an extra swap earned on 1/14 - The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester (411 pages) - 9/7
🔹90 The Heavens Sandra Newman - 9/10 - already read #91 so backed up 1 space, but will move from 91 (Swapping this one with another book by using a benefit earned by rolling a 3, 2 from 4/18)
🔸🔹91 Summer Ali Smith - first landed here on 9/6, then again on 9/10 - After Jen's 1,1 roll, backed up 3 from #94 - already read this one so would need to read #90) - 🐉 landed here (& moving from here)
92 Dangling Man Saul Bellow - Roll #24: 1 - 9/7 - landed here, last 2 rolls were 1,1 so read this, then backed up 3 spaces to 89
93 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
🔸94 Zero K Don DeLillo - 9/10 - Moved back 1 by Ursula on Shake It Up Sunday
95 Ice Anna Kavan - Roll #25: 6 - 9/9 - moved from 89 to 95
96 When All Is Said Anne Griffin
97 Notes from the Underground Fyodor Doestoyevsky
98 Half-Earth Edward O. Wilson
99 Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert
100 Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson (hide spoiler)]

Benefits Earned or Carried Over to Loop 5:

Note: I have deleted those already used so available benefits are easier to find. I will continue doing this in future round. I am striking through the benefits used in the current round and deleting those used in prior rounds.

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1/14: (2,3)
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. - used 9/7

1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/3 - Extra move of 2 spaces earned w/ Porter roll #6 - used 8/23

2/24 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces based on tags earned w/ Eng roll #6

3/8 - Extra move of rolling 2 dice based on tags earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

4/9 - Roll #15 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space - used on 8/19

4/12 - Roll #18 Eng Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space - used 8/28

4/13 - Roll #19 Eng Loop 2
Last 2 rolls are 1, 2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 8/31

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

4/18: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. - used 9/10

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

🔸 4/21 - Randomizer move to #88 Station Master Loop 1
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space - used 9/1

🔸 4/22 - Moved back 3 spaces based on OM's 1,1 roll to #90 SM Loop 1
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 9/4

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space

5/16 Rolled 1,2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 8/16

5/16 - Station Master Loop 2
87 taggers
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 8/17

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

5/25 - Where the Dead Sit Talking
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 9/6

5/26 - Future Home of the Living God
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 9/11

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/13 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

6/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

6/17
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar
Tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/4 - Anathem - fits tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

Conductor Loop 4:
7/18 - The Shepherd's Hut - fits tag x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - saved
3 participation points

7/20 - The Homesman - fits tag x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - saved
3 participation points

7/22 - Measuring the World - fits tag x26
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - saved
3 participation points

Conductor Loop 5:
8/11 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

8/19 - Last two rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - earned 8/20 and added below

8/21 - Last 2 rolls were 3,2: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/22 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/23 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/25 - Last 2 rolls were 6, 4 which qualifies for a special advantage - the advantage is to add together the runs scored at the baseball game I attended on 8/26. Braves - 7, Giants - 3, so 10 spaces.

9/1 - I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - tagged Literary Fiction x19
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/2 - The Autumn of the Patriarch - tagged literary fiction x23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/3 - Sight by Jessie Greengrass - tagged literary fiction x29
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/4 - The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x35
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/5 - Some Tame Gazelle - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/6 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

9/6 - Summer by Ali Smith tagged literary fiction x71
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

9/7 - Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/9 - Ice by Anna Kavan - tagged literary fiction x30
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/10 - Zero K by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x51
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points


Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 3
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 4: 0
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 5: 31
Total: 141

Loop 5 Swaps:
1) Already read Solo Faces by James Salter (220 pages) - Did not want to return to previous board, so I used a swap and read: Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War by Charles Glass - 8/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (352 pages)
2) Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin - 8/25/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (368 pages) swapped for the book I landed on that was unavailable at the library: Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (257 pages)
3) Used additional swap earned on 1/14 based on 3,2 roll:
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 9/8/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (416 pages) for 89. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma (273 pages)
4) Used additional swap earned on 4/18 based on 3,2 roll:
Instead of The Heavens by Sandra Newman (272 pages), read:
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang - 9/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (544 pages)
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Details of Rolls - Conductor Loop 5:
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Roll #1: 1 - 8/11
1. The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds by Caroline Van Hemert - 8/12/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #2: 1 - 8/13
🔸 My last 2 rolls were 1,1 so I moved back 3 spaces to read the book on my previous Board:
99. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert - 8/16/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
I am now reading the one I landed on initially for Roll #2:
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tagged but does not have enough tags to qualify for the bonus

Roll #3: 1 - 8/16
100. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson - 8/17/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
In conjunction with this roll, I am using a benefit earned 5/16 to move forward 3 spaces & landed on:
3. Solo Faces: A Novel by James Salter - 8/17/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
🔸 My roll of 1,1 (again) moves me back to space 100. Open Water, so I read both books

Roll #4: 1 - 8/17
Roll of 1 puts me on space 1 of Loop 5. I am using a special benefit to move forward 5 spaces (earned 5/16) to #6.
🔸 Since I rolled another 1,1, I will move back 3 spaces to #3 (and read a swap since I've already read it and I don't want to go back to the prior Board unless I have to).
Summary:
The 2 books I'm reading are:
6. Three O'Clock in the Morning by Gianrico Carofiglio - 8/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
3. Used a swap (already read Solo Faces 220 pages) - Instead, I read: Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A True Story of Friendship, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War by Charles Glass - 8/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (352 pages) - fits tag but not enough tags to earn a benefit (plus it's a swap so it doesn't qualify anyway)

Roll #5: 4 - 8/18
7. Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute - 8/19/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #6: 4 - 8/19
Used advantage earned by 5-25 tags to move forward 1 space to
12. Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead - 8/20/23 - 4* - My Review - does not fit tag
Last two rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review

Roll #7: 3 - 8/20
Landed on 15. but my last 2 rolls were 4,3 so the rule of any roll totaling 7 allows me to read 1 ahead or behind. I am going to read:
16. Actress by Anne Enright - 8/21/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹The rule states "You may read the book you land on OR one book forward or one book back - - your choice."

Roll #8: 2 - 8/21
Moved from 15. to 17. The Road Home by Rose Tremain - 8/22/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag [Roll of 2,3 earned extra swap]

Roll #9: 3 - 8/22
20. Horseman, Pass By by Larry McMurtry - 8/23/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag [Roll of 2,3 earned extra swap]

Roll #10: 2 - 8/23
🔹 Landed on 22, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 2/3 to move forward 2 spaces, taking me to 24. Invisible by Paul Auster - 8/24/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits tag but not tagged enough to earn a benefit. [Roll of 2,3 earned extra swap]

Roll #11: 6 - 8/24
30. Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi (257 pages) - I used a swap: Solovyov and Larionov by Eugene Vodolazkin - 8/25/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (368 pages)

Roll #12: 4 - 8/25
34. The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald - 8/26/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #13: 2 - 8/26
36. French Exit by Patrick deWitt - 8/27/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #14: 5 - 8/27
Roll of 5 takes me to 41 but last two rolls totaled 7, so will read 40. Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn - 8/28/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag. Will move forward from 41 with the next roll. 🔹The rule states "You may read the book you land on OR one book forward or one book back - - your choice."

Roll #15: 5 - 8/28
🔹 Landed on 46 but used a tag-related advantage earned on 4/12 (5-25 taggers move forward 1 space) to move forward 1 space to 47. A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder by Robert B. Oxnam - 8/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #16: 3 - 8/29
50. This Passing World: A Novel About Geoffrey Chaucer by Michael Herzog - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag but does not have enough to earn the benefit

🔹 Roll #17: 10 (2-6-2) (3 dice) - 8/31
Landed on 60 but used benefit earned on 4/13 to spend 3 participation points and move forward 3 spaces to land on:
63. Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li - 9/1/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #18: 5 - 9/1
Landed on 68 but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/21 to move forward 1 space to land on:
69. I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - 9/2/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag Literary Fiction x19:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #19: 5 - 9/2
74. The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez - 9/3/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag literary fiction x23
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #20: 6 - 9/3
Sight by Jessie Greengrass - 9/4/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag literary fiction x29:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Last 2 rolls were 5,6, so also read The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis - 9/4/23 - 4*- My PBT Review off Diana H's game boards (Clerk #40, Porter #44, Engineer #28)

Roll #21: 2 - 9/4
Landed on 82 but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/22 to move forward 1 space to 83. The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - 9/5/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag x35: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #22: 2 - 9/5
85. Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym - 9/6/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x17: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #23: 1 - 9/6
Landed on 86, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 5/25 to move forward 5 spaces to 91. Summer by Ali Smith - 9/7/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x71: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #24: 1 - 9/7
92. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - 9/8/23 - 2* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x14:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Last 2 rolls were 1,1 so will back up 3 spaces to 89. Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma (273 pgs) - will use a swap earned on 1/14 by rolling a 1,2: The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester - 9/8/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (416 pages)

Roll #25: 6 - 9/9
Moved from space 89 to 95. Ice by Anna Kavan - 9/10/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x30: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔸Moved back 1 by Ursula on Shake It Up Sunday - 9/10
94. Zero K by Don DeLillo - 9/11/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x51:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔸Moved back 3 spaces based on Jen's 1,1 roll to 91. Summer by Ali Smith, which I have already read so would need to read 90. The Heavens by Sandra Newman (272 pages). Used an additional swap earned on 4/18 by rolling a 3,2 to read: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang - 9/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (544 pages)

Roll #26: 3+3=6 - 9/11 (2 dice)
Landed on space 96, but used a tag-related benefit earned 5/26 to move forward 5 spaces, which takes me off the end of the Loop 5 Board.
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Round completed 9/11/23

Nancy Conductor 2
Board 8
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1. The Reader by Bernhardt Schlink
2. Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
✅🎲3. Upgrade by Blake Crouch8/29/23
4. The Reader
✅5. Humankind: A Hopeful History 8/31/23
🎲6. Upgrade - I already read this, so I'm reading #5 instead.
7. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
✅🎲+1reward 8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
9. The Reader
10. Humankind: A Hopeful History
11. Upgrade
12. Tsar of Love and Techno
13. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker
14. Demon Copperhead
15. Humankind: A Hopeful History
✅🎲16. Tsar of Love and Techno
17. Demon Copperhead
18. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
19. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
20. The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
✅🎲21.The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - SUB- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell 9/13/23
✅🎲22. The Door by Magda Szabo 9/16/23
23. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
24. Demon Copperhead
25. The Marriage Portrait
✅26. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 9/17/23
27. Upgrade
28. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
29. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
30. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
✅🎲31.The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride - 9/20/23
✅🎲32. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak 9/26/23
33. Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
34. Half of a Yellow Sun
✅🎲35.Weather by Jenny Offill9/26/23
36. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
X37. The Marriage Portrait
X38. The Door
39. The Snow Child
40. Middlesex
41. Waiting for the Barbarians
42. Tale of Two Cities
43. East of Eden
44. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
45. The God of Small Things
✅46. The Snow Child
🎲🔹X47. The Door (already read, so I read Snow Child)
48. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
X49. Tsar of Love and Techno
50. Tom Lake
X51. The Marriage Portrait
52. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
✅🎲53. The God of Small Things SUB Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 9/30/23
X54. The Door
🎲55. The Snow Child - already read, so I’ll go backwards or use a reward to go forwards
56. Housekeeping
57. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
X58. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
X59. Three Daughters of Eve
✅🎲🔹(+5)60. Everything Here Is Beautiful. 5 move reward from March 11. 10/9/23
61. Half of a Yellow Sun
62. Weather
63. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
64. Middlesex
65. Waiting for the Barbarians
✅🎲66. Tale of Two Cities 10/13/23
67. East of Eden
68. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
69. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
X70. Tom Lake
71. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
72. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
73. The God of Small Things
✅🎲🔹(+2) 74.Housekeeping 10/16/23
75. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
X76. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
X77. Three Daughters of Eve
X78. Everything Here Is Beautiful
✅🎲79. < i>Half of a Yellow Sun 10/21/23
X80. Weather
✅🎲81. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 10/23/23
82. Middlesex
83. Waiting for the Barbarians
X84. Tale of Two Cities
85. East of Eden
86. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
87. Housekeeping
88. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
X89. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
X90. Three Daughters of Eve
X91. Everything Here Is Beautiful
92. Half of a Yellow Sun
X93. Weather
94. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
95. Middlesex
96. Waiting for the Barbarians
X97. Tale of Two Cities
98. East of Eden
99. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
100. The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Last roll 10/23/23 = 3,
🏵️Earned a special award 2-3, for one extra swap
🔹Used a Special reward from August 15 (Remy) 18 moves
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Finished board 10/23/23

Nancy Conductor 2 Tracking Log
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Rewards carried over =18, 21, 42, sum of cards to be drawn, extra swap.
🔹18 used 10/23/23

(Board S-8)

August 28 roll = 3
✅8/29/23 - 3. Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Fits August tag, 5 moral dilemma tags, 🎗️3 participation points. 🏵️Future rewards = move 1 space ahead.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

August 29 roll = 3. Landed on #6 (already read it) reading #5
✅8/31/23- (space 6) 5. Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

September 2 roll = 1 + 1 reward space earned 4/24 (Tsar isn’t available)
✅9/9/23 - #8. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Fits Sept tag, 399 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 part points 🏵️2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
500+ pages

September 10 roll = 6-2
✅ 9/11/23- #16. The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
84 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future reward = 5 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sept 11 roll = 5
✅#21. 9/14/23 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - SUB- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie OFarrell
Fits tag, 217 literary fiction tags,🎗️ 3 part pts (no rewards)
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

September 14 roll = 1
✅ 9/16/23- #22. The Door by Magda Szabo
102 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 part points, 🏵️2 free rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

September 16 roll =3. Added 1 move earned 4/27/23
✅ 9/17/23 - 26. The Reader,by Bernhard Schlink
187 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 part points, 🏵️2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

September 18 roll = 5
✅9/20/23- 31. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
74 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 part points, 🏵️5 space reward
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Sept 20 roll = 1
✅9/26/23- 32. Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
61 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 participation pts, 🏵️future reward= 5 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

9/26/23 roll=3
✅ 35.Weather by Jenny Offill
226 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️2 rolls
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

9/27/23 roll = 3-3-6
47. The Door. Already read, so I’ll read #46
9/29/23✅The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Matches Sept tag, 231 literary fiction tags. 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️future rewards = 2 extra rolls.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

9/29/23 roll= 6 SUB= Hello Beautiful
✅ 9/30/23 53.The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -
✅SUB- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. (333 pages<390 pages)
Fits sept tag, 250 literary fiction tags, 🎗️3 participation pts (no rewards)
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oct 2 roll = 2. I already read #55, so I’ll use a reward to move ahead. 🔷used 5 space rewards earned 3/11/23 to move to #60
✅60. Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira T
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oct 10 roll = 6
✅ 10/13/23- 66. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
520 pages
Fits October tag. 26 Winter Tags, 🎗️3 part points, 🏵️reward = 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oct 13 roll = 4-2, 🔹added a +2 reward from 4/25
✅ 10/16/23 -74. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Fits tag, 6 winter tags, 🎗️3 participation points, 🏵️reward= 1 space
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oct 17 roll = 5
✅ 10/21/23- 79. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Does not fit tag
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Oct 22 roll = 2
✅ 10/23/23- 81. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
Fits monthly tag,🎗️ 8 winter tags, 🏵️3 part points, 1 space reward
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Review:


Last roll 10/23/23 = 3,
🏵️Earned a special award 2-3, for one extra swap
🔹Used a Special reward from August 15 (Remy) 18 moves

81+3+18= 102, this brings me off the board.

Finished 10/23/23

Two extra swaps to be carried over to conductor 3

Participation points and rewards from Porter, Engineer and Station Master see messages 23 plus station master 2
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Nancyj

Participation points and rewards - from Porter to Conductor1
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Special advantages saved as of 10/23/23 - see message 21 above
2 extra swaps
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Participation Points Summary
Porter = 36
Engineer1= 15
Engineer 2= 39
Station Master 1= 42-2= 40
-Station Master 2= 45-4= 41
Conductor 1 = 3*13=39
Conductor 2 = 3*14=42
Conductor 3 = 3*8 = 24

For additional details, see the logs for each boar. Rewards usage from early boards is logged on the Station Master, messages 22 -23

🏵️As of 10/23/23 Rewards Summaries
Remaining rewards from Porter, Engineer1+ Engineer 2 =
5 spaces = 4 ( 2 remaining as of 11/5)
🔹used 1 on 10/31/23
🔹used 1 on 11/5/23
🔹used 1 on 11/15/23

Future Rewards Earned on Station Master 1 board:
37 Participation Points.
1 space = 2 🔹used 1 on November 6, 1 left
2 space = 2
5 space = 2
2 rolls = 7 🔹used 1 on Nov 27, 6 left

Station Master 2
Participation points 14*3 - 4 = 38
1 space =2
2 space = 2
5 space = 6
2 rolls = 4

Conductor 1
Participation points 3*10= 30
1 space = 1
2 space = 2
5 space = 2
2 rolls = 5

Conductor 2
Participation points 3*11=33
1 space=3
2 space=1
5 space =4 ===corrected 3
2 rolls=4 ===== corrected 5

Conductor 3
Participation points 3*8 = 24
1 space =2
2 space =1
5 space = 3
2 rolls = 1
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# books read
Clerk - 13
Porter - 16
Engineer 1 - 10
Engineer 2 - 14
Station Master 1 - 17
Station Master 2 - 19
Conductor 1 - 19
Conductor 2 - 17
Conductor 3 - 15
Total = 125 books
Total = 140 books

Game Board: Conductor Loop 6

🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage or benefit used
🔸 = moved by a player or the randomizer or 1,1 roll
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1 A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
2 The Aspern Papers Henry James
3 Run Ann Patchett
4 Memphis Tara Stringfellow - Roll #1: 4 - 9/12 - initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned on 2/28 to move forward 2 spaces
5 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell
🔹6 The Magician Colm Toibin - 9/12
7 Elmet Fiona Mozley
8 The English Teacher Lily King
9 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
10 The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich
11 Waiting for Bojangles Oliver Bourdeaut
12 Eggshells Caitriona Lally
13 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
14 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
15 On Love Alain de Botton
16 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
17 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
18 The Glass Room Simon Mawer - Roll #2 (6,6) - 9/13
19 The Many Wyl Menmuir
20 The Orphanage Serhiy Zhadan
21 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser
22 1Q84 Haruki Murakami - Roll #3: 4 - 9/14 - landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/15 to move forward 2 spaces
23 The Emissary Yoko Tawada
🔹24 The Forty Rules of Love Elif Shafak - 9/14
25 Lila Marilynne Robinson
26 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
🔸27 Saturday Ian McEwan (289 pages) - Roll #4: 3 - 9/15 - landed here but used a benefit earned on 6/13 from rolling 1,2 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces - then backed up 3 spaces from 30 per Booknblues roll of 1,1 - Read a swap for this one - The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (656 pages) - moved forward from 27 on roll #5
28 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner
29 Netherland Joseph O'Neill
🔹30 The Fraud Zadie Smith - 9/15
31 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar
32 Brass Xhenet Aliu
33 When All Is Said Anne Griffin
34 Notes from the Underground and Other Stories Fyodor Doestoyevsky
35 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbury
36 Clock Dance Anne Tyler
37 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride - Roll #5: 10 (3 dice) - 9/16 - initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/27 to move forward 2 spaces to 39
38 The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman
🔹39 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell - 9/16
40 TransAtlantic Colum McCann
🔸41 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford - 9/18 - Shake It Up Monday moved me back 5 spaces. Used a swap to read The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan
42 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry
43 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
44 Migrations Charlotte McConaghy - Roll #7: 3 - 9/19
45 Honor Thrity Umrigar
46 Fake Accounts Lauren Oyler - 9/17 - Roll #6: (4,3)
47 The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Anissa Gray (320 pages) - Roll #8: 2,1 (2 dice) - 9/20 - Used extra swap earned on 4/19 to read: Translation State by Ann Leckie (432 pages)
48 Open City Teju Cole
49 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells
50 Someone Alice McDermott
51 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward - Roll #9: 4 - 9/21 - landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/29 to move forward 2 spaces
52 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar
🔹53 The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards Kristopher Jansma - 9/21
54 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss
55 Black Dogs Ian McEwan - Roll #10: 2 - 9/22
56 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti
57 Narcissus and Goldmund Herman Hesse
58 Mason & Dixon Thomas Pynchon - Roll #11: 3 - 9/23 - Initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned on 4/26 to move forward 1 space
🔹59 The Other Americans Laila Lalami - 9/23
60 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
61 Chemistry Weike Wang
62 Harvest Jim Crace
63 Red Clocks Leni Zumas
64 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
65 West with Giraffes Lynda Rutledge - Roll #12: 6 - 9/24
66 Mother's Milk Edward St. Aubyn - Roll #13: 1 - 9/25 - initially landed here, but used tag related benefit earned on 9/6 to move forward 5 spaces
67 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
68 A Little Life Hana Yanagihara
69 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
70 Shadow Country Peter Matthiessen
🔹71 Cain Jose Saramago - 9/25
72 Father's Day Simon Van Booey
73 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
74 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
75 Murmur Will Eaves
76 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty - Roll #14: 5 - 9/26 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 5/1 to move forward 1 space to 77
🔹77 Nuclear Family Joseph Han - 9/26
78 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
79 So Big Edna Ferber (230 pages) - Roll #15: 2 - 9/27 - used extra swap earned on 8/21 to read The Art Thief by Michael Finkel(240 pages)
80 The Magician W. Somerset Maugham
81 The Wall Marlen Haushofer
82 Savage Country Robert Olmstead: Roll #16: 3 - 9/28- initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 5/19 to move forward 1 space
🔹83 Sadness Is a White Bird Moriel Rothman-Zecher - 9/28
84 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
85 Toby's Room (Life Class #2) Pat Barker - Roll #17: 2 - 9/29 - initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 5/18 to move forward 2 spaces
86 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym
87 The Heavens Sandra Newman - 9/29
88 Infinite Home Kathleen Alcott
89 Foe Iain Reid
90 Safe From the Sea Peter Geye
91 Forty Rooms Olga Grushin
92 Another World Pat Barker
93 Night Came with Many Stars Simon van Booy
94 The Mystic Masseur V.S. Naipaul
95 The Odds Stewart O'Nan
96 The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson
97 Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton
98 The Oresteia Aeschylus Roll #18: (3-5-3) total 11 - 9/30
99 Maxwell's Demon Steven Hall
100 Embassytown China Mieville

10/1 - 🐉 landed here (rolled off board) (hide spoiler)]

Benefits Earned or Carried Over to Loop 6:

Note: I have deleted those already used so available benefits are easier to find. I will continue doing this in future rounds. I am striking through the benefits used in the current round and deleting those used in prior rounds.

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1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

2/24 - Roll extra 2 dice earned w/Engineer roll #2 (over 100 tags) - used 9/30

2/28 - Extra move of 2 spaces based on tags earned w/ Eng roll #6 - used 9/12

3/8 - Roll extra 2 dice based on over 100 tags earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

4/15 - Roll #21 Eng Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 9/14

4/19: last 2 rolls were (3,2):
2-3 Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. - used 9/20

4/26 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 9/23

4/27- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 9/16

4/29- Station Master Loop 2
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 9/21

5/1 - Station Master Loop 2
5-25 taggers move forward 1 space - used 9/26

5/18
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 9/29

5/19
5 - 25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 9/28

5/21
🔸 Moved back 3 spaces based on Diana's roll of 1,1
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot is tagged indigenous x 257
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

6/4/23 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/13 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces - used 9/15

6/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

6/17
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar
Tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/4 - Anathem - fits tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

Conductor Loop 4:
7/18 - The Shepherd's Hut - fits tag x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/20 - The Homesman - fits tag x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/22 - Measuring the World - fits tag x26
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

Conductor Loop 5:
8/11 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

8/19 - Last two rolls were 4-4: Receive 4 participation points for the next book you read/review - earned 8/20 and added below

8/21 - Last 2 rolls were 3,2: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game. - used 9/27

8/22 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/23 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/25 - Last 2 rolls were 6, 4 which qualifies for a special advantage - the advantage is to add together the runs scored at the baseball game I attended on 8/26. Braves - 7, Giants - 3, so 10 spaces.

9/1 - I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - tagged Literary Fiction x19
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/2 - The Autumn of the Patriarch - tagged literary fiction x23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/3 - Sight by Jessie Greengrass - tagged literary fiction x29
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/4 - The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x35
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/5 - Some Tame Gazelle - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/6 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

9/6 - Summer by Ali Smith tagged literary fiction x71
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 9/25

9/7 - Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/9 - Ice by Anna Kavan - tagged literary fiction x30
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/10 - Zero K by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x51
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

Conductor Loop 6 Benefits:
9/12 - The Magician by Colm Toibin - tagged literary fiction x61
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

9/13 - The Glass Room by Simon Mawer - tagged literary fiction x21
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/14 - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak - tagged literary fiction x76
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

9/15 - The Fraud by Zadie Smith - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/16 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - tagged literary fiction x527
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice
3 participation points

9/17 - Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler - tagged literary fiction x69
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

9/19 - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - tagged literary fiction x264
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

9/20 - 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

9/21 - The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards - tagged literary fiction x41
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/22 - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - tagged literary fiction x39
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/23 - The Other Americans - tagged literary fiction x94
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces
3 participation points

9/24 - West with Giraffes - tagged literary fiction x38
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/25 - Cain by Jose Saramago - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/26 - Nuclear Family by Joseph Han - tagged literary fiction x20
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/28 - Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman Zacher - tagged literary fiction x15
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

9/29 - last 2 rolls were 3,2: : Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game

9/29 - The Heavens by Sandra Newman - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

9/30 - The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus - tagged literary fiction x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points


Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 3
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 4: 0
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 5: 31
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 6: 42
Total: 180

Books Read:
Clerk 1: 14
Porter 1: 26
Engineer 1: 27
Engineer 2: 24
Station Master 1: 10
Station Master 2: 29
Conductor 1: 14
Conductor 2: 23
Conductor 3: 13
Conductor 4: 22
Conductor 5: 33
Conductor 6: tbd
Total: 235 through Conductor Round 5

Loop 6 Swaps:
1) Swapped out 27. Saturday by Ian McEwan (289 pages) for The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (656 pages)
2) Swapped out 41. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (242 pages) for The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan (336 pages)
3) Used benefit earned on 4/19 to swap out 47. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (320 pages) for Translation State by Ann Leckie (432 pages)
4) Used benefit of extra swap earned 8/21 to read The Art Thief by Michael Finkel (240 pages) instead of So Big by Edna Ferber (230 pages)
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Details of Rolls - Conductor Loop 6
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Roll #1: 4 - 9/12
🔹Landed on 4 but used a tag-related benefit earned on 2/28 to move forward 2 spaces to 6. The Magician by Colm Tóibín - 9/13/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x61: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #2: 12 (6,6) - 9/13
18. The Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer - 9/14/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag literary fiction x21:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #3: 4 - 9/14
🔹Landed on space 22, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 4/15 to move forward 2 spaces to 24. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x76:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #4: 3 - 9/15
🔹Landed on space 27, but used a benefit earned on 6/13 from rolling 1,2 to move forward 3 spaces by using 3 participation points to space 30. The Fraud by Zadie Smith - 9/16/23 - 3 stars - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x25: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔸 9/15 - Backed up 3 spaces based on Booknblues's 1,1 roll to 27. Saturday by Ian McEwan (289 pages) but decided to use a swap to read The Bee Sting by Paul Murray - 9/16/23 - 2 stars - My PBT Review (656 pages)

Roll #5: 10 (3 dice) - 9/16
🔹Landed on 37 but used tag related benefit earned on 4/27 to move forward 2 spaces to 39. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - 9/17/23 - 4.5 stars - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x527: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #6: (4,3) (2 dice) - 9/17
46. Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler - 9/18/23 - 3.5* - My Review - fits tag literary fiction x69:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔸 9/18 - Moved back 5 spaces per Shake It Up Monday to
41. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (242 pages) but decided to use a swap. Instead, will read The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan - 9/19/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review (336 pages) - fits tag but did not claim benefit due to swap

Roll #7: 3 - 9/19
44. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - 9/20/23 - 4* - My Review - fits tag literary fiction x264:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #8: (1,2) (2 dice) - 9/20
47. Used extra swap earned on 4/19 to read Translation State by Ann Leckie - 9/21/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (432 pages) instead of The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (320 pages)

Roll #9: 4 - 9/21
Landed on 51. but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/29 to move forward 2 spaces to 53. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma - 9/22/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x41:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #10: 2 - 9/22
55. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - 9/23/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits literary fiction tag x39: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #11: 3 - 9/23
Landed on 58 but used tag-related benefit earned on 4/26 to move forward 1 space to 59. The Other Americans by Laila Lalami - 9/24/23 - 4* - My PBT Review- fits tag literary fiction x94: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #12: 6 - 9/24
65. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge - 9/25/23 - 3.5 - My PBT Review - Tagged literary fiction x38: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #13: 1 - 9/25
Landed on 66 but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/6 to move forward 5 spaces to 71. Cain by José Saramago - 9/26/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x25: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #14: 5 - 9/26
Initially landed on 76 but used tag-related benefit earned on 5/1 to move forward 1 space to 77. Nuclear Family by Joseph Han - 9/27/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x20: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #15: 2 - 9/27
Landed on 79. So Big by Edna Ferber (230 pages) - used an extra swap earned on 8/21 to read The Art Thief by Michael Finkel - 9/28/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (240 pages) instead

🔹Roll #16: 3 - 9/28
Initially landed on 82 but used tag-related benefit earned on 5/19 to move forward 1 space to 83. Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman-Zecher - 9/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits tag literary fiction x15: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #17: 2 - 9/29
Initially landed on 85, but used tag related benefit earned on 5/18 to move forward 2 spaces to 87. The Heavens by Sandra Newman - 9/30/23 - 3* - My PBT Review- tagged literary fiction x25: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #18: (3-5-3) - 3 dice totaling 11 - 9/30
Used tag-related benefit earned 2/24 to roll 2 extra dice
98. The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus - 10/1/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - tagged literary fiction x10: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
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Roll #19: 3 - 10/1
This roll takes me off the end of the Board - Round Completed

Conductor Loop 7

🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage or benefit used
🔸 = moved by a player or the randomizer or 1,1 roll
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1 A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
2 Time Pieces John Banville - Roll #1: 2 - 10/2
3 Roadside Picnic Arkady Sturgatsky
4 Memphis Tara Stringfellow - Roll #2: 2 - 10/4 - initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/17 to move forward 2 spaces
5 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell
🔹6 The Aspern Papers Henry James - 10/4
7 Elmet Fiona Mozley
8 Waiting for Bojangles Oliver Bourdeaut
9 The English Teacher Lily King
10 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan - Roll #3: 4 - 10/5 - initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned 7/4 to move forward 2 spaces
11 The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich
🔹12 Eggshells Caitriona Lally - 10/5
13 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
14 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
15 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
16 On Love Alain de Botton
17 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
18 Brass Xhenet Aliu - Roll #4: 6 - 10/6
19 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
20 The Many Wyl Menmuir
21 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann - Roll #5: 3 - 10/7 - initially landed here but used 1,2 roll from 6/17 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces
22 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser
23 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
🔹24 Clock Dance Anne Tyler - 10/7
25 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
26 The Emissary Yoko Tawada
27 Lila Marilynne Robinson
28 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark - Roll #6: 4 - 10/8 - initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned 7/22 to move forward 2 spaces
29 Saturday Ian McEwan
🔹30 A Long, Long Way Sebastian Barry - 10/8
31 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner
32 Notes from the Underground and Other Stories Fyodor Doestoyevsky
33 Netherland Joseph O'Neill - Roll #7: 3 - 10/9 - initially landed here but used benefit from rolling a 1,2 earned on 8/11 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces
34 Foe Iain Reid
35 Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar
🔹36 Vita Nostra Marina Dyachenko & Sergey Dyachenko - 10/9
37 When All Is Said Anne Griffin
38 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
39 The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbury
40 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride - Roll #8: 4 - 10/10 - initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned 9/3 to move forward 2 spaces
41 The Imperfectionists Tom Rachman
🔹42 Land of Milk and Honey C. Pam Zhang - 10/10
43 The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
44 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford (242 pages) - Roll #9: 2 - 10/11 - Used a SWAP to read Gallop Toward the Sun by Peter Stark (400 pages)
45 Run Ann Patchett
46 The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Anissa Gray - Roll #10: 2 - 10/12 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/4 to move forward 2 spaces to 48
47 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
🔹48 A Line Made by Walking Sara Baume - 10/12
49 Honor Thrity Umrigar
50 Murmur Will Eaves
51 The Dreamers Karen Walker
52 Enduring Love Ian McEwan
53 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells - Roll #11: 5 - 10/13 - initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned 6/4 to move forward 1 space
🔹54 Winter's Tale Mark Helprin - 10/13
55 Someone Alice McDermott
56 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss
57 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
58 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar
59 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti
60 Snow John Banville
61 Harvest Jim Crace
62 The Long Take Robin Robertson
63 Red Clocks Leni Zumas
64 Where'd You Go Bernardette Maria Semple
65 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton
66 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
67 Father's Day Simon Van Booey
68 Chemistry Weike Wang
69 Mother's Milk Edward St. Aubyn - 10/14 - Roll #12: 6-3-2-4 (4 dice based on pages of last book) - initially landed here but used benefit earned by 1,2 roll earned 9/6 to move forward 3 spaces by using 3 participation points
70 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
71 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
🔹72 Winter in Madrid C.J. Sansom - 10/14
73 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
74 The Bird of Night Susan Hill
75 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
76 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
77 The Wall Marlen Haushofer
78 Wintering (Eide Family #2) Peter Geye
79 So Big Edna Ferber - 10/15 - Roll #13 (6-1) (total of 7 from 2 dice) - initially landed here but used benefit earned on 9/10 to move forward 5 spaces
80 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
81 A Little Life Hana Yanagihara
82 The Magician W. Somerset Maugham
83 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
🔹84 A Train in Winter Caroline Moorehead - 10/15
85 Toby's Room (Life Class #2) Pat Barker
86 The Odds Stewart O'Nan - Roll #14: 2 - 10/16
87 A Glass of Blessings Barbara Pym - Roll #15: 1 - 10/17
88 Safe From the Sea Peter Geye
89 Forty Rooms Olga Grushin (352 pages) - Roll #16: 2 - 10/18 - SWAP: The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin (398 pages)
90 Snow Orhan Pamuk
91 Another World Pat Barker
92 Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times Katherine May
93 The Mystic Masseur V.S. Naipaul - Roll #17: 4 - 10/19
94 Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty
95 Maxwell's Demon Steven Hall
96 Fangirl Rainbow Rowell
97 The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson
98 Five Tuesdays in Winter Lily King - 10/20 - Roll #18: 5
99 Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton
100 Embassytown China Mieville
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Roll #19: 5 - Takes me off the end of the Board - 🐉 landed here
Round completed 10/21/23

Benefits and Advantages Carried Over to Loop 7:

Note: I have deleted those already used so available benefits are easier to find.

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1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

3/8 - Roll extra 2 dice based on over 100 tags earned w/Engineer roll #12

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

5/21 - Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot tagged indigenous x 257
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

6/4 - When the Moon Is Low
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 10/13

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces - used 10/7

6/17 - Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea - fits immigration tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/4

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar - tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/4 - Anathem - fits tag x28
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/5

Conductor Loop 4:
7/18 - The Shepherd's Hut - fits tag x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/20 - The Homesman - fits tag x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/22 - Measuring the World - fits tag x26
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/8

Conductor Loop 5:
8/11 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 10/9

8/22 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/23 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

8/25 - Last 2 rolls were 6, 4 which qualifies for a special advantage - the advantage is to add together the runs scored at the baseball game I attended on 8/26. Braves - 7, Giants - 3, so 10 spaces.

9/1 - I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - tagged Literary Fiction x19
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/2 - The Autumn of the Patriarch - tagged literary fiction x23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/3 - Sight by Jessie Greengrass - tagged literary fiction x29
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/10

9/4 - The Body Artist by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x35
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/12

9/5 - Some Tame Gazelle - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/6 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces - used 10/14

9/7 - Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/9 - Ice by Anna Kavan - tagged literary fiction x30
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/10 - Zero K by Don DeLillo - tagged literary fiction x51
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 10/15

Conductor Loop 6 Benefits:
9/12 - The Magician by Colm Toibin - tagged literary fiction x61
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/13 - The Glass Room by Simon Mawer - tagged literary fiction x21
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/14 - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak - tagged literary fiction x76
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/15 - The Fraud by Zadie Smith - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/16 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - tagged literary fiction x527
More than 100 taggers - roll two dice

9/17 - Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler - tagged literary fiction x69
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/19 - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - tagged literary fiction x264
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

9/20 - 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces.

9/21 - The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards - tagged literary fiction x41
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/22 - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - tagged literary fiction x39
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/23 - The Other Americans - tagged literary fiction x94
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/24 - West with Giraffes - tagged literary fiction x38
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/25 - Cain by Jose Saramago - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/26 - Nuclear Family by Joseph Han - tagged literary fiction x20
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/28 - Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman Zacher - tagged literary fiction x15
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/29 - last 2 rolls were 3,2: : Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game

9/29 - The Heavens by Sandra Newman - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/30 - The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus - tagged literary fiction x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Conductor Loop 7:
10/2 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

10/6 - Last 2 rolls were 4, 6:
"Take the year your State entered the Union and add it up for your special roll." 1864, 1+8+6+4 = 19.

10/9 - Vita Nostra - tagged "winter" x13
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

10/13 - Winter's Tale - tagged "winter" x47
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces
3 participation points

10/14 - Winter in Madrid - tagged winter x7
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

10/15 - A Train in Winter - tagged winter x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points

10/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

10/18 - Last 2 rolls were 1-2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

10/20 - Five Tuesdays in Winter - tagged winter x21
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space
3 participation points


Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 3
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 4: 0
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 5: 31
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 6: 42
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 7: -9 + 15 = 6
Total: 186

Books Read:
Clerk 1: 14
Porter 1: 26
Engineer 1: 27
Engineer 2: 24
Station Master 1: 10
Station Master 2: 29
Conductor 1: 14
Conductor 2: 23
Conductor 3: 13
Conductor 4: 22
Conductor 5: 33
Conductor 6: 20
Conductor 7: tbd
Total: 255 through Conductor Round 6

Loop 7 Swaps:
1) Swap: Instead of 44. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitord (242 pages), read Gallop Toward the Sun by Peter Stark (416 pages)
2) Swap: Instead of 89. Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin (352 pages), read The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin (398 pages)
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Detail of Rolls - Loop 7:
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Roll #1: 2 - 10/2
2. Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir by John Banville - 10/3/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag - last 2 rolls were 3,2, which qualifies for an extra swap

🔹Roll #2: 2 - 10/4
Initially landed on #4 but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/17 to move forward 2 spaces to 6. The Aspern Papers by Henry James - 10/5/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #3: 4 - 10/5
Initially landed on 14 but used a tag-related benefit earned on 7/4 to move forward 2 spaces to 16. Eggshells by Caitriona Lally - 10/6/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #4: 6 - 10/6
Last 2 rolls were 4,6 which qualifies for a Special Advantage (provided by Rachel and JoAnne)
Landed on 18. Brass by Xhenet Aliu - 10/7/23 - 3* - My PBT Review- does not fit tag

🔹Roll #5: 3 - 10/7
Initially landed on 21 but used benefit earned from rolling a 2,1 on 6/17 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces to 24. Clock Dance by Anne Tyler - 10/8/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #6: 4 - 10/8
Initially landed on 28 but used tag-related benefit earned 7/22 to move forward 2 spaces to 30. A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry - 10/9/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #7: 3 - 10/9
Initially landed on 33 but used benefit earned on 8/11 from rolling a 1,2 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces to land on 36. Vita Nostra by Marina Dyachenko and Sergey Dyachenko - 10/10/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits "winter" tag x13: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #8: 4 - 10/10
Initially landed on 40 but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/3 to move forward 2 spaces to 42. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang - 10/11/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #9: 2 - 10/11
Used a SWAP: Instead of 44. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford (242 pages), read Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter Stark - 10/12/23 - 4.5* - My PBT Review (400 pages) - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #10: 2 - 10/12
Initially landed on 46 but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/4 to move forward 2 spaces to 48. A Line Made by Walking by Sara Baume - 10/13/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #11: 5 - 10/13
Initially landed on 53 but used tag-related benefit earned 6/4 to move forward 1 space to 54. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin - 10/14/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - tagged "winter" x47: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #12: 6-3-2-4 (4 dice, total of 15) - 10/14
Initially landed on 69 but used benefit earned from a 1,2 roll to move forward 3 spaces by using 3 participation points to land on 72. Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom - 10/15/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits "winter" tag x7: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #13: (6-1) (total of 7 from 2 dice) - 10/15
Initially landed on 79 but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/10 to move forward 5 spaces to 84. A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead - 10/16/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits winter tag x6: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #14: 2 - 10/16
86. The Odds: A Love Story by Stewart O'Nan - 10/17/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #15: 1 - 10/17
87. A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym - 10/18/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag (Last 2 rolls were 1,2, which is a special roll - benefit noted above)

Roll #16: 2 - 10/18
Used a SWAP: Instead of 89. Forty Rooms by Olga Grushin (352 pages), read The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin - 10/19/23 - 3* - My PBT Review (398 pages per Amazon, mine was 442 pages) - does not fit tag
(Last 2 rolls were 1,2, which is a special roll - benefit noted above)

Roll #17: 4 - 10/19
93. The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul - 10/20/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #18: 5 - 10/20
98. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King - 10/21/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - fits winter tag x21: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #19: 5 - 10/21
This roll takes me off the end of the Board
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Round completed 10/21/23

Conductor Loop 8

🐉 = game marker
🔹 = special advantage or benefit used
🔸 = moved by a player or the randomizer or 1,1 roll
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1 A Patchwork Planet Anne Tyler
2 Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times Katherine May
3 Memphis Tara Stringfellow
4 Roadside Picnic Arkady Sturgatsky
5 Instructions for a Heatwave Maggie O'Farrell
6 The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut - 10/22 - Roll #1: 6 [Note: Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride off Nancy J's Conductor 2 Shelf #31]
7 Miracle Country Kendra Atleework
8 Run Ann Patchett
9 The English Teacher Lily King
10 The Revisioners Margaret Sexton - 10/23 - Roll #2: 4 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/9 to move forward 2 spaces
11 The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan
🔹12 Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell - 10/23
13 The Painted Drum Louise Erdrich - 10/24 - Roll #3: 1 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/12 to move forward 5 spaces
14 Snow John Banville
15 The Man in the Red Coat Julian Barnes
16 Sleeping on Jupiter Anuradha Roy
17 1Q84 Haruki Murakami
🔹18 Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson Tim Hornbaker - 10/24
19 Martin Dressler Steven Millhauser
20 Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury
21 Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin
22 Orwell's Roses Rebecca Solnit
23 Saturday Ian McEwan - 10/25 - Roll #4: 5 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/9 to move forward 1 space to 24
🔹24 Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest Wade Davis - 10/25
25 The Mars Room Rachel Kushner
26 Netherland Joseph O'Neill
27 Scoop Evelyn Waugh
28 Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness Ingrid Fetell Lee
29 To Die in Spring Ralf Rothmann
30 Lila Marilynne Robinson
31 So Close to Home Michael J.Tougias - 10/26 - Roll #5: 7 (4,2,1,) (total of 3 dice) - used SWAP to read Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
32 Waterloo Bernard Cornwell - 10/27 - Roll #6: 1
33 Safe From the Sea Peter Geye
34 The Lost Weekend Charles Jackson
35 End Zone Don DeLillo - 10/28 - Roll #7: 3 - used a swap to read This House is Haunted by John Boyne (304 pages)
36 The Magician W. Somerset Maugham
37 A Crime in the Neighborhood Suzanne Berne - 10/29 - Roll #8: 2 - Initially landed here but used a benefit earned on 9/20 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces
38 Half-Earth Edward O. Wilson
39 Celestial Bodies Jokha Alharthi
🔹40 Notes from the Underground and Other Stories Fyodor Doestoyevsky - 10/29
41 When All Is Said Anne Griffin
42 The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
43 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti
44 So Big Edna Ferber - 10/30 - Roll #9: 4 - Initially landed here but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/23 to move forward 1 space
🔹45 The Emissary Yoko Tawada - 10/30
46 D Michel Faber
47 Pnin Vladimir Nabokov
48 A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Eimear McBride
49 The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell
50 Double Vision Pat Barker
51 The Thirty Names of Night Zeyn Joukhadar (304 pages) - 10/31- Roll #10: 6 - used an extra SWAP earned on 8/22 to read River Spirit by Leila Aboulela (400 pages)
52 The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
53 Harvest Jim Crace
54 Waiting for Bojangles Oliver Bourdeaut
55 Murmur Will Eaves
56 Enduring Love Ian McEwan (272 pages) - 11/1 - Roll #11: 5 - used an extra SWAP earned on 8/23 to read The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylvainen (368 pages) - Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose off JoAnne's Clerk Board #69
57 The End of Loneliness Benedict Wells
58 The Wall Marlen Haushofer
59 Someone Alice McDermott
60 Dragonflight Anne McCaffrey
61 On Love Alain de Botton
62 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss - 11/2 - Roll #12: 6 - Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne, found on Cheryl's clerk board #4)
63 Love and Other Thought Experiments Sophie Ward
64 Strange Shores Arnaldur Indriðason - 11/3 - Roll #13: 2 - initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned on 9/15 to move forward 2 spaces
65 Annie Dunne Sebastian Barry
🔹66 Throne of Jade Naomi Novik - 11/3
67 Remembering Babylon David Malouf
68 The Long Take Robin Robertson
69 Savage Country Robert Olmstead
70 On Time and Water Andri Snaer Magnuson
71 Forty Rooms Olga Grushin - 11/4 - Roll #14: 5 - last 2 rolls totaled 7 which allows reading the book on either side - will read 72 instead but move from here
72 Highfire Eoin Coifer - 11/4
73 A Monster Calls Patrick Ness
74 The Many Wyl Menmuir
75 The Last Karankawas Kimberly Garza
76 Father's Day Simon Van Booey
77 Narcopolis Jeet Thayil - 11/5 - Roll #15: 6 - Initially landed here but used a tag-related benefit earned on 6/27 to move forward 1 space to 78
🔹78 Dragon Seed Pearl Buck - 11/5 - last 2 rolls were 5,6, so as an "extra" book I read The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton off Teodora's Clerk Board #23
79 Glimpses of the Moon Edith Wharton
80 Chemistry Weike Wang
81 Mother's Milk Edward St. Aubyn
82 The Stories of Eva Luna Isabel Allende
83 The Ghost Writer Philip Roth
84 They Are Trying to Break Your Heart David Savill
85 Loitering with Intent Muriel Spark
86 Red Clocks Leni Zumas
87 Toby's Room (Life Class #2) Pat Barker
88 The Bird of Night Susan Hill
89 Foe Iain Reid
90 A Thousand Moons Sebastian Barry
91 My Heart Semezdin Mehmedinovic
92 Dispatches Michael Herr (288 pages)- 11/6 - Roll #16: 4-4-6 (total of 14) - landed here but read a SWAP earned on 9/29: The Journey of Crazy Horse (336 pages)
93 The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
94 Another World Pat Barker
95 The Apple Michel Faber
96 Daily Rituals Mason Currey
97 Malagash Joey Comeau
98 Artemis Andy Weir
99 Quinn Em Strang
100 Mr. Eternity Aaron Their
- landed here 🐉
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11/7/23 - Move #17: Used Special Advantage earned on 6/27 to move forward 10 spaces, which completes the Board

Benefits and Advantages Carried Over to Loop 8:

Note: I have deleted those already used so available benefits are easier to find.

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1/16 - Rolled 6,4 - Re-roll when you get a 6 or less in total. May be used once on any dice roll less than 6.

1/29 - Rolled 4,6 - You can move double whatever you roll. You can invoke this advantage before ANY given roll, so please request to use it when you request your roll.

3/8 - Roll extra 2 dice based on over 100 tags earned w/Engineer roll #12 - used 11/6

3/13 - For 6, 4 roll - Your special advantage is a 4 dice roll to be taken when you wish.

5/21 - Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot tagged indigenous x 257
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

Conductor Loop 1 benefits:
5/24 - Indian Horse
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

Benefits earned in Conductor Loop 2:
6/9 - All You Can Ever Know - tagged immigration x7
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 10/25

6/23 - Disoriental
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 10/30

6/27 - North to Paradise by Ousman Umar - tagged immigration x8
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space - used 11/5

6/27 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6, which qualifies for a special advantage
"Looking at the last three books you've finished that were published since the turn of the century. Take the oldest one, calculate its age, and move forward that many spaces (to be used anytime, but calculated now)." 2013 = 10 spaces - used 11/7/23 in place of a roll

Conductor Loop 3:
7/1 - The Path Between the Seas
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Conductor Loop 4:
7/18 - The Shepherd's Hut - fits tag x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

7/20 - The Homesman - fits tag x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Conductor Loop 5:
8/22 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - used 10/31

8/23 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - used 11/1

8/25 - Last 2 rolls were 6, 4 which qualifies for a special advantage - the advantage is to add together the runs scored at the baseball game I attended on 8/26. Braves - 7, Giants - 3, so 10 spaces.

9/1 - I Will Die in a Foreign Land by Kalani Pickhart - tagged Literary Fiction x19
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/2 - The Autumn of the Patriarch - tagged literary fiction x23
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/5 - Some Tame Gazelle - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/7 - Dangling Man by Saul Bellow - tagged literary fiction x17
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/9 - Ice by Anna Kavan - tagged literary fiction x30
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 10/23

Conductor Loop 6 Benefits:
9/12 - The Magician by Colm Toibin - tagged literary fiction x61
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces - used 10/24

9/13 - The Glass Room by Simon Mawer - tagged literary fiction x21
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/14 - The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak - tagged literary fiction x76
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/15 - The Fraud by Zadie Smith - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces - used 11/3

9/16 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell - tagged literary fiction x527
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

9/17 - Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler - tagged literary fiction x69
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/19 - Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - tagged literary fiction x264
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

9/20 - 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces. - used 10/29

9/21 - The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards - tagged literary fiction x41
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/22 - Black Dogs by Ian McEwan - tagged literary fiction x39
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/23 - The Other Americans - tagged literary fiction x94
50-100 taggers move forward 5 spaces

9/24 - West with Giraffes - tagged literary fiction x38
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/25 - Cain by Jose Saramago - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/26 - Nuclear Family by Joseph Han - tagged literary fiction x20
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/28 - Sadness Is a White Bird by Moriel Rothman Zacher - tagged literary fiction x15
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

9/29 - last 2 rolls were 3,2: : Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game - used 11/6

9/29 - The Heavens by Sandra Newman - tagged literary fiction x25
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

9/30 - The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus - tagged literary fiction x10
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Conductor Loop 7:
10/2 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game.

10/6 - Last 2 rolls were 4, 6:
"Take the year your State entered the Union and add it up for your special roll." 1864, 1+8+6+4 = 19.

10/9 - Vita Nostra - tagged "winter" x13
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

10/13 - Winter's Tale - tagged "winter" x47
25-50 taggers - move forward 2 spaces

10/14 - Winter in Madrid - tagged winter x7
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

10/15 - A Train in Winter - tagged winter x6
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

10/17 - Last 2 rolls were 2-1: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

10/18 - Last 2 rolls were 1-2: You may use up to 3 of your participation points to move yourself ahead up to 3 spaces

10/20 - Five Tuesdays in Winter - tagged winter x21
5-25 taggers - move forward 1 space

Conductor Loop 8 Benefits:
10/23 - Last 2 rolls were 6,4, which qualifies for a Special Advantage: your special advantage is that you may skip any book you land on that has at least 5 people who tagged it DNF (or any version of that i.e. did-not-finish, abandoned, etc.). Your subsequent roll will move you forward from that spot of the skipped book. You may use when you wish.

10/28 - Last 2 rolls were 3,1, which means I get to choose someone else's next move - moved Robin to 37. Shrines of Gaeity - 10/28

10/29 - Last 2 rolls were 2, 3: Get an extra "swap" that you may use anytime during the game

10/31 - Last 2 rolls were 4,6 which qualifies for a Special Advantage: your special advantage is: In honor of Halloween, count the number of pumpkins, gourds, jack-o-lanterns and cat faces - full images not partial - in this picture, divide by two, and move forward that number of spaces instead of a roll. Can be used any time in future.
This is 44 spaces (confirmed with Theresa)

11/3 - Throne of Jade - tagged dragons x864
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

11/4 - Highfire - tagged dragons x139
More than 100 taggers - roll two extra dice

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Participation Points earned in Porter Round: 12
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 1: 15
Participation Points earned in Engineer Round Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Station Master Loop 1: 6
Participation Points eared in Station Master Loop 2: 34
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 1: 16
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 2: 12
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 3: 3
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 4: 0
Participation Points earned in Conductor Loop 5: 31
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 6: 42
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 7: 6
Participation Points Earned in Conductor Loop 8: 3
Total: 189

Books Read:
Clerk 1: 14
Porter 1: 26
Engineer 1: 27
Engineer 2: 24
Station Master 1: 10
Station Master 2: 29
Conductor 1: 14
Conductor 2: 23
Conductor 3: 13
Conductor 4: 22
Conductor 5: 33
Conductor 6: 20
Conductor 7: 18
Conductor Loop 8: tbd
Total: 273 through Conductor Round 7

Loop 8 Swaps:
1) Used a swap on 10/26. Instead of So Close to Home by Michael J. Tougias (352 pages), read Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild - 10/27/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (468 pages)
2) Used a SWAP on 10/28 - Landed on End Zone by Don DeLillo (242 pages) but used a SWAP to read: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne - 10/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (304 pages)
3) Used an extra SWAP earned on 8/22 - Initially landed on The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (304 pages) but instead, read River Spirit by Leila Aboulela - 11/1/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (400 pages)
4) Used an extra SWAP earned on 8/23 - Initially landed on Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (272 pages) but instead, read The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My PBT Review (368 pages)
5) Used an extra SWAP earned on 9/29 - Initially landed on 92. Dispatches by Michael Herr (288 pages) but instead, read: The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III (336 pages)

Detail of Rolls - Loop 8:
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Roll #1: 6 - 10/22
6. The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut - 10/23/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag
Last 2 rolls were 5,6 - Also read The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride - 10/23/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - from NancyJ's Conductor 2 Board #31

🔹Roll #2: 4 - 10/23
Last 2 rolls were 6,4, which qualifies for a special advantage.
Initially landed on space 10, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 9/9 to move forward 2 spaces to: 12. Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell - 10/24/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #3: 1 - 10/24
Initially landed on 13, but used tag-related benefit earned on 9/12 to move forward 5 spaces to 18. Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson by Tim Hornbaker - 10/25/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #4: 5 - 10/25
Initially landed on space 23, but used a tag-related benefit earned on 6/9 to move forward 1 space to 24. Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis - 10/26/23 - 5* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #5: 4, 2, 1 (total of 7 from 3 dice)
Landed on 31. So Close to Home by Michael J. Tougias (352 pages) and used a swap to read Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild - 10/27/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (468 pages)

Roll #6: 1 - 10/27
32. Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell - 10/28/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #7: 3 - 10/28
Landed on 35. End Zone by Don DeLillo (242 pages) but used a SWAP to read: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne - 10/29/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (304 pages)

🔹Roll #8: 2 - 10/29
Initially landed on 37, but used a benefit earned on 9/20 to use 3 participation points to move forward 3 spaces to 40. Notes from Underground: w/White Nights, The Dreams of a Ridiculous Man & selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky - 3* - 10/30/23 - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

🔹Roll #9: 4 - 10/30
Initially landed on 44 but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/23 to move forward 1 space to 45. The Emissary by Yōko Tawada - 10/31/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag

Roll #10: 6 - 10/31
Landed on 51. The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (304 pages) but used an extra SWAP earned on 8/22 to read River Spirit by Leila Aboulela - 11/1/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (400 pages)

Roll #11: 5 - 11/1
Initially landed on 56. Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (272 pages), but used an extra SWAP earned on 8/23 to read The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen - 11/2/23 - 5* - My PBT Review (368 pages) Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose - 11/2/23 - 4* - My PBT Review off JoAnne's Clerk Board #68

Roll #12: 6 - 11/2/23
62. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss - 11/3/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - Last 2 rolls were 6,5 so also read Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne - 11/3/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - off Cheryl's Clerk Board #4

🔹Roll #13: 2 - 11/3
Initially landed on 64 but used a tag-related benefit earned on 9/15 to move forward 2 spaces to 66. Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik - 11/4/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits "dragon" tag x864: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Roll #14: 5 - 11/4
Landed on 71, but since my last 2 rolls totaled 7, I am able to read a book ahead or behind, so plan to read 72. Highfire by Eoin Colfer - 11/5/23 - 3* - My PBT Review - fits "dragon" tag x138: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

🔹Roll #15: 6 - 11/5
Initially landed on 77 but used tag-related benefit earned on 6/27 to move forward 1 space to 78. Dragon Seed by Pearl S. Buck - 11/6/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - does not fit tag (I am filing it under the monthly tag of dragons due to the name of the book, but it contains no "real" dragons)
Last 2 rolls were 5,6, so also read: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton - 11/6/23 - 4* - My PBT Review - off Teodora's Clerk Board #23

Roll #16: 4-4-6 (total of 14) - 11/6
92. Dispatches by Michael Herr (288 pages) - read an extra SWAP earned on 9/29: The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III- 11/7/23 - 4* - My PBT Review (336 pages on Amazon - my copy was 310)

Move #17: used Special Advantage earned on 6/27 to move forward 10 spaces, which completes this Board
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Completed 11/7/23