Pick-a-Shelf discussion

Legend:
P: Property
C: Chance / Community Chest
S: Shelves
T: Theme

THE BOARD

Roll 2 dice

GO [READ]!

P: Cry No More - Book Request

C: 💗 Your Library

P: The Map of True Places - Paola's

S: Bea's Bar

T: 1, 2, 3...

P: Orphan Train - Lagullande's

C: 💗 Your Bookshop

P: After the Bloom - Amy's

P: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - Paola's

JAIL / Just Visiting

P: Traitor to the Throne (Rebel of the Sands #2) - Amanda's

S: Lyn's Library

P: The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) - Stacie's

P: It - Rosemary's

T: a, b, c...

P: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - CluckingBell's

C: 💗 Your Library

P: The Jungle Books - Joyce's

P: Giovanni's Room - Joyce's

FREE PARKING

P: Cover of Snow -LaurLa's

C: 💗 Your Bookshop

P: Crimson Lake (Crimson Lake #1) - CluckingBell's

P: Zero at the Bone - Elvenn's

T: Big and Little

P: Mind of My Mind (Patternist #2) - Coralie's

P: Dust (Silo #3) - Stacie's

S: Susan's Starship

P: Dark Matter - Elvenn's

GO TO JAIL

P: And the Mountains Echoed - Book Request

P: Small Great Things - LaurLa's

C: 💗 Your Library

P: Left Neglected - Amy's

T: Pick-a-Shelf's 10th Anniversary

C: 💗 Your Bookshop

P: Last Woman Hanged - Charity's

S: Tien's Tearoom

P: Common Sense - Book Request

Back to GO! (Note: this does not count as a square but GO is a Square)

💗 Your Library

Roll 2 dice

Do task # as per your dice roll.

1. N/A
2. Borrowed books for the whole family - Go to Big and Little
3. Damaged your borrowed books - Go back 5 spaces!
4. Advance token to nearest Shelf (S) square, follow the instruction and read 2 books for the shelf you rolled
5. Saved up by borrowing books from the library - Go forward 3 spaces
6. Notification to pick up reserved books! - Go forward 2 spaces
7. Advance to Go [READ]! [then roll 2 die & accordingly move forward on The Board]
8. Just borrowed 10 books for PAS reading challenge - there's an extra challenge at Pick-a-Shelf's 10th Anniversary
9. Overdue books! - Go to jail!
10. Dust up those books that have been Left Neglected (status: Amy's)
11. Advance token to the nearest Theme (T) square
12. Returned your books to the library before due date – Go forward 2 spaces

💗 Your Bookshop

Roll 2 dice

Do task # as per your dice roll.

1. N/A
2. Advance to Go [READ]! [then roll 2 die & accordingly move forward on The Board]
3. Met your favourite author – go forward 2 spaces
4. Lost in bookshop? Go check The Map of True Places (status: Paola's)
5. Advance token to the nearest Theme (T) square
6. Get out of jail free – (may be kept until needed but use only once)
7. Spent all your money buying new books - Go back 3 spaces
8. On the count of 3, Go to 1, 2, 3…
9. Take a trip on the Orphan Train (status: Lagullande's)
10. Stayed up to read & missed your stop because you’re still reading – go back 5 spaces
11. Advance token to nearest Shelf (S) square, follow the instruction and read 2 books for the shelf you rolled
12. An author tweeted you back - go forward 3 spaces

Shelves

Your options:
a. Read a book found on Mod's bookshelf OR
b. Roll 2 dice and read from shelf which correspond to number rolled.

Bea's Bar

1. Bea's bookshelf
2. alcohol
3. beauty and the beast
4. crime
5. ethnic
6. food and drink
7. dark
8. low fantasy
9. sports
10. tragedy
11. psychology
12. magic

Lyn's Library

1. Lyn's bookshelf
2. library
3. librarian picks
4. on hold
5. borrowed
6. books
7. reference
8. recommendations
9. free
10. available
11. ordered
12. on shelf

Susan's Starship

1. Susan's bookshelf
2. dystopia
3. space
4. science fiction
5. time travel
6. alternate reality
7. speculative fiction
8. biopunk
9. apocalyptic
10. aliens
11. NASA
12. futuristic

Tien's Tearoom

1. Tien's bookshelf
2. tea
3. Asia
4. baking
5. historical romance
6. Victorian
7. Regency
8. fantasy of manners
9. historical fantasy
10. womens
11. comfort read
12. cozy mystery

Theme Parks (railways)

Pick task as suits participant but each time they land on the square, they must choose different task each time. The end goal, if you've landed on same square 10 times, you would have completed 10 tasks for that square.

1, 2, 3... : Read a book (if possible from your Bookopoly shelf) that:

1. is first in a series
2. Has number in title/subtitle (in any form)
3. is part of a series (but not first nor last book in the series) Note book must have a serial number within the series
4. Has number intact in author's name. For example: one found in kim falcONEr
5. Has number on cover BUT number is not part of title
6. last 3 digits of publication year is sequential (eg. 1987, 1789, 2012, etc)
7. 1+1=2 - Read a book of an author whom you've only read 1 book from to date.
8. 123 Sesame Street - Read a book where title is an address (complete with building number). For example, 44 Scotland Street, 74 Seaside Avenue, etc
9. One, Two Buckle My Shoe... Nine, Ten Do It Again - Re-read a favourite
10. is last in the series

a, b, c...: Read a book (if possible from your Bookopoly shelf) where:

1. author's first & last initials are alphabetically sequential (A-Z & you may use ZA)
2. initial letter of each word in title (at least 3 words including A, An, The, but ignore subtitle) is alphabetically sequential. For example: Chronicle in Stone
3. title contains the letter X or Z
4. author's name contains the letter X or Z
5. title begins with A or Z (ignore A, An, The)
6. A is for Apple - Read a book with food on cover OR in title
7. B is for Ball - Read a book with toy/s on cover
8. C is for Cat - Read a book with animal on cover OR in title
9. you can find author's initials in title in any order. For example: Adriana Trigiani, initial AT found in big sTone gAp
10. you can find initial letter of each word in title (ignore subtitle) in author's name. For example: The Coroner's Lunch, TCL found in CoLin coTterill

Big and Little: Read a book (if possible from your Bookopoly shelf) :

1. where title contains one (1) word only
2. where title contains at least 16 letters (excluding subtitle)
3. with the less than 100 pages
4. with the more than 500 pages
5. with antonyms in title. For example: Black Girl/White Girl, Big Little Lies, etc
6. where author's name (first or last) only has 2 letters
7. where author's name (first or last) has at least 7 letters
8. on your TBR with the least number of ratings
9. on your TBR with the most number of ratings
10. on your TBR with an average rating of 5 (if there isn't one, the closest number to 5)

*we'll leave the thickest book for jail

Pick-a-Shelf: Our 10th Anniversary in 2018

1. Read the 10th book in a series
2. Read the 10th book in your TBR (sorted by oldest-newest date added)
3. Read the 10th book in your TBR (sorted by newest-oldest date added)
4. The traditional gift for 10th anniversary is tin - Read a book with 'tin' found intact in title
5. The modern gift for 10th anniversary is diamond - Read a book where author's initial (first & last) is found in DIAMOND
6. Read a book where initial letter of each word in title (ignore subtitle) is found in PICKASHELF.
7. Read an author's debut book that was first published in 2008
8. Read a book from the group's bookshelf
9. Read a book for the month's picked shelf (the month in which you've landed on this square)
10. Read a book first published in a year where the last 2 digits end with '10' (eg. 2010, 1910, etc)