Play Book Tag discussion

Level 6 -The Appalachian Steeplechase Track
Book should be completed and reviewed.
Spinner will have numbers 1-5
Participants will add the 3-5 grab bag tags
If member has two spins of 1 in a row, they will be asked to boost another randomized participant up to 15 spaces.

Joy D - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Olivermagnus - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Nancy J - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Tien - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Ellen - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Robin P - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Level 6 -The Appalachian Steeplechase Track - Olivermagnus and Domino

🔹Spinner will have numbers 1-5
🔹Participants will add the 3-5 grab bag tags
🔹If member has two spins of 1 in a row, they will be asked to boost another randomized participant up to 15 spaces.

🐣 Tags Added:
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🐣 Cozy
🐣 Survival
🐣 Regency
🐣 Indonesia
🐣 Archeology
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🎠 1. Renaissance
2. Plot Twist
3. Survival 🐣
4. Italy 🐾
🎠 5. Aging
6. Book Boyfriends 🎐
7. Tortoise and Hare Box Wood Hedge and Topiary
🎠 8. Aviation
🎠 9. Victorian
🎠 10. Suspense 🐾
11. Regency 🐣
12. The Old Mill Stream Water Feature
13. Guilty Pleasures 🐾
14. Adventure 🐾
🎠 15. Translated
16. Cozy🐣
17. Journey
🎠 18. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
19. Southern Fiction
20. Coming of Age
21. Secrets
22. Dark
🎠 23. Pogo Stick Hurdle 🎐
24. Double Jump Fixed Barrier
25. Indonesia 🐣
26. Essays
🎠 27. Pirates
28. Fixed Barrier Swing Set Hurdle
29. Mermaids
30. Abandoned
31. Trophy Fixed Barrier
🎠 32. Strong Women
33. Addiction
🎠 34. Speculative Fiction 🎐
35. The Frozen Tundra Snow Sculpture Hurdle 🐾
36. SF-Masterworks
37. Archeology 🐣
🎠 38. Comedy
39. Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle 🎐
🎠 40. Canada
41. Environment
42. Historical Fiction


🎠 Roll 1 = 1 - Renaissance - 21 tags
The Serpent and the Pearl - Kate Quinn - 5 Stars - 4/9/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 2 = 4 - Aging - 22 tags
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You - Margareta Magnusson - 3 Stars - 4/10/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 3 = 3 - Aviation - 26 tags
Airport - Arthur Hailey - 5 Stars - 4/11/23
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 4 = 1 - Victorian - 23 tags
The Watchmaker's Daughter - C.J. Archer - 4 Stars - 4/12/24
Review
Fantasy Romance - 12 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (PBT monthly tag) = 6

🎠 Roll 5 = Suspense - 37 tags
The Search Party - Hannah Richell - 4 Stars - 4/13/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 6 = 5 - Translated - 5 tags
The Torso - Helene Tursten - 4 Stars - 4/14/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 7 = 3 - Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
Read a short story that fits the tag you last read from this board. This will give you an additional 2 spaces when you choose to use it. Please note the date on your board.
My last tag was Translated
How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy - 4 Stars - 4/14/24 - 28 tags
Review
Hurdle = 3 points
Additional 2 spaces when you choose to use it.

🎠 Spin 8 = 5 - Pogo Stick Hurdle
Add 3 points to your next spin. - Used on Spin 9
Hurdle = 3 points

🎠 Spin 9 = 1+3 = 4 - Pirates - 153
A Ship of Bones & Teeth - Karina Halle - 4 Stars - 4/17/24
Review
Fantasy Romance - 116 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (PBT monthly tag) = 6

🎠 Roll 10 = 5 - Strong Women - 12 tags
Poison Study - Maria V. Snyder - 4 Stars - 4/18/24
Review
Fantasy Romance - 351 tags
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (PBT monthly tag) = 6

🎠 Roll 11 = 2 - Speculative Fiction -
American War - Omar El Akkad - 4 Stars - 4/19/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 12 = 4 - Comedy - 59 tags
Top Secret Twenty-One - Janet Evanovich - 3 Stars - 4/20/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 13 = Canada - 389 tags
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel - 4 Stars - 4/21/24
Review
Points: 2 (tag)

🎠 Roll 14 = 3 - Off the Board



Roll 4 = 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 7 = 2 spaces when you choose to use it.
Roll 9 = 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 10 = 2 spaces with a spin when they choose

Points - 40
Spaces - 8

Res

Game Points
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Cum Points = 429

Round 5 - Pony Express Steeplechase
Total Points = 73

Round 4 - Mongolian Ironman Steeplechase
Total Points = 112 points

Round 3 - Grand Marathon Steeplechase
Total Points = 116 points

Round 2 - Profound Endurance Steeplechase
Total Points = 76

Round 1 - Grand Pardubice Steeplechase
Total Points = 52
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♠ Tags Removed in Round 1
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Time
Asian Literature
Quirky
Scandinavia
Norway
Fairytale
Colonialism
Nature
Book to Screen
Hollywood
Beach Reads
Mafia
STEM
Medieval
Outdoors
Marriage
Dystopia
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♠ Hurdles Removed in Round 1
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Climbing Wall Barrier
Donnybrook Water Feature
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♠ Round 1 Bonus and Spaces
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Roll 3 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose -
Roll 4 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 8 - Climbing Wall Barrier - 3 space move to use when you please
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 19 - Donnybrook Water Feature - Free pass to skip the next tag you wish to avoid and move to the one immediately after.

Cumulative Points = 52
Spaces - 9
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♠ Tags Removed in Round 2
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Nonfiction
Did Not Finish
Drama
True Crime
Graphic Novels
Mental.Health
Music
Western
Women Writers
LatinX
Hilarious
Spooky
Food
Letters
Life Changing
Literary Fiction
Whodunnit
Medical
(hide spoiler)]

♠ No Hurdles Removed in Round 2

♠ Tags and Hurdles Added in Round 2
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Arranged Marriage 🔹
School Books 🔹
Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle 🔹
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♠ Round 2 Bonus and Spaces
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Roll 3 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 10 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 11 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 12 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 13 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 14 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 16 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 17 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose

Total Points - 76
Spaces - 18
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♠ Tags Removed in Round 3
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Arranged Marriage
Technology
Short Stories
Debut
Fav
Ireland
Espionage
Short
Urban Fantasy
Space Opera
Retelling
Detective
Revenge
Black-Lives-Matter
Farm
Puddle Jumper Hurdle
New Orleans - completed on Magic Monday
Fun
Sisters
Caribbean
Egypt
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♠ Hurdles Removed in Round 3
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Meditating in the Zen Garden Hurdle
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♠ Tags and Hurdles Added in Round 3
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Steampunk 🔺
Espionage 🔺
Noir 🔺
Rose Hedge Hurdle 🔺
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♠ Round 3 Bonus Point and Spaces
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Roll 1 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 2 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 3 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 4 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 5 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Monumental Monday - Heart Principle - 6 points & 5 spaces
Monumental Monday - Seamstress of New Orleans - 2 points & 2 spaces
Completed Tags - Love, San Francisco, New Orleans
Roll 8 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 9 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 10 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 11 - Zen Garden Hurdle = 3 points
Roll 12 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 13 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 14 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 17 - Puddle Jumper Hurdle = 3 points
Roll 19 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Leap Day Benefit - 2/29/24 - 4 x 1 space = 4 spaces
Roll 20 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 21 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose

Total Points = 116 points
Total Extra Spaces = 32
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♠ Tags Removed in Round 4
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Small Town
Quest
Race
Highly Recommend
Steampunk
Animals
London
School Books
Noir
Gothic
Crime
Police
International
Linguistics
Cities
Sea
Disasters
Novella
Geography
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♠ No Hurdles Removed in Round 4

♠ Tags and Hurdles Added in Round 4
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Book Boyfriends 🎐
FBI 🎐
London 🎐
Speculative Fiction 🎐
Pogo Stick Hurdle 🎐
Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle 🎐
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♠ Round 4 Bonus Point and Spaces
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112 points
36 spaces

Roll 1 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 2 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 4 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 5 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 6 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 7 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 8 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 9 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 10 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 11 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 12 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 12 - Mammoth March = 5 points and 3 spaces 🔺
Roll 13 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 17 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they Mammoth Monday - 7 points and 5 spaces 🔺
Roll 19 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
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♠ Tags Removed in Round 5:
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Asia
FBI
Feminism
Criminal
Slice of Life
Paris 🐾
Multiple POV
Artificial Intelligence
Made-Me-Cry
Time Travel
Hoopla
Ghosts
(hide spoiler)]

♠ Hurdles Removed in Round 5
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Put on Your Wings Hurdle
Rose Hedge Hurdle
The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier 🐾
Hardenbergia Trellis Hurdle
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♠ Tags and Hurdles Added in Round 5
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Italy 🐾
Suspense 🐾
Guilty Pleasures 🐾
Adventure 🐾
Paris 🐾

Put on Your Wings Hurdle 🐾
The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier 🐾
The Frozen Tundra Snow Sculpture Hurdle 🐾
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♠ Round 5 Bonus Point and Spaces
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Roll 1 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 4 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 6 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 9 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 10 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 11 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 13 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 14 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
Roll 15 - PBT Monthly Tag - 2 spaces with a spin when they choose
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The Appalachian Steeplechase Track - Joy D and Hippocrates

Spinner will have numbers 1-5.
5 grab bag tags added 📚
Two spins of 1 in a row = boost a random participant up to 15 spaces

1. nonfiction
2. Renaissance (Theresa)
🐉3. Quest - Spin 1 = 3 - 4/8
4. Italy 💙
🐉5. Victorian - Spin 2 = 2 - 4/9
6. Race
7. Steampunk🔸
8. Quirky - Spin 3 = 3 - 4/10 - Initially landed here but used a +2 move earned on 2/10
9. alternate history📚
🐉10. fantasy 📚 - 4/10 - landed here after using +2
11. Criminal
🐉12. The Frozen Tundra Snow Festival Hurdle💙 - Spin 4 = 2 - 4/11
13. True Crime
14. Short (can be less than 150 pp.)
15. Classics 💙
🐉16. colonialism - Spin 5 = 4 - 4/12
🐉17. Science Fiction💙 - Spin 6 = 1 - 4/13
18. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
19. western
20. survival💙
21. The Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle ♐
🐉22. Detective - Spin 7 = 5 - 4/14
🐉23. artificial intelligence (Joy D) - Spin 8 = 1 - 4/15
🐉24. science fantasy📚 - Spin 9 = 1 - 4/16
25. revenge
26. Police
27. LatinX (BookConcierge) - Spin 10 = 3 - 4/17 - Initially landed here but used a +1 earned on 2/29
🐉28. space📚 - Landed here after using the +1 - 4/17
29. Put on your Wings Hurdle 💙
30. black-lives-matter (Shelly)
31. Hollywood
32. Farm - Spin 11 = 4 - 4/18 - initially landed here but used a +2 earned on 2/11
33. Pogo Stick Hurdle ♐
🐉34. archeology 📚- 4/18 - landed here after using the +2
35. Mermaids
36. speculative fiction ♐
🐉37. Maritime ♐ - Spin 12 = 3 - 4/19
38. letters
39. Cities (Robin P)
40. addiction
41. Disasters
42. Novella
43. Caribbean (Cora)
44. Egypt
45. The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier 💙 - Spin 13 = 5 +3 (for pages) = 8 - 4/20

Saved Benefits:(view spoiler)[
- 2/10 - move two spaces with a spin - used 4/10
- 2/11 - move two spaces with a spin - used 4/18
- 2/13 - move two spaces with a spin
- 2/14 - Monumental Monday earned +2 spaces
- 2/16 - move two spaces with a spin
- 2/17 - move two spaces with a spin
- 2/18 - move two spaces with a spin
- 2/19 - move two spaces with a spin
- 2/23 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 2/24 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 2/25 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 2/26 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 2/29 - leap day benefit - move 1 space - used 4/17
- 2/29 - leap day benefit - move 1 space
- 2/29 - leap day benefit - move 1 space
- 3/1 - move two spaces with a spin
- 3/2 - move two spaces with a spin
- 3/6 - move two spaces with a spin
- 3/7 - move two spaces with a spin
- 3/8 - move two spaces with a spin
- 3/8 - Mammoth March +3 spaces
- 3/9 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/11 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/12 - Mammoth March +3 spaces
- 3/18 - Mammoth March + 5 spaces
- 3/20 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/22 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/23 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/25 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/26 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/27 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/28 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 3/29 - move +3 with a spin (The Climbing Wall Barrier)
- 3/30 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 4/6 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 4/11 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 4/12 - move 2 spaces with a spin
- 4/18 - Earth Day + 7 spaces
- 4/20 - Earth Day + 7 spaces
- 4/21 - move 2 spaces with a spin
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Level 1 Summary: (view spoiler)[
Tags read in Level 1: Time, Did Not Finish, Drama, Scandinavia, Slice of Life, Translated, Space Opera, Multiple POV, Beach Reads, Hilarious, Mafia, Abandoned, Sea (2), Canada, Environment, Geography

Hurdles completed in Level 1: Double Jump, Puddle Jumper, Hardenbergia Trellis

Grab bag tag read in Level 1: Environmental

Game Points in Level 1: 65
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Level 2 Summary:(view spoiler)[
🔹Level 2 - Added School Books, Culture, & Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle

Points for Level 2: 73
Total Points So Far All Levels: 65+73=138

Tags read in level 2: aging, short stories, debut, animals, journey, southern fiction, crime, nature, women writers, book to screen, time travel, STEM, New Orleans, marriage, fun, literary fiction, ghosts

Hurdles completed in level 2: Fixed Barrier Swing Set, Donneybrook Water Feature

Grab bag tags read in level 2: childhood favorites (Swing Set Hurdle), dragons (monumental challenge), love (monumental challenge, Asian literature (monumental)

Replaced Graphic Novels with Travel (Swing Set reward) (hide spoiler)]

Level 3 Summary: (view spoiler)[
🔶Added Steampunk + Favorites and World Literature from Grab Bag; Added Rose Hedge Hurdle

Tags read in level 3: school books, technology, asian literature, norway, ireland, travel, urban fantasy, mental health, coming of age, culture, made me cry, medieval, life changing, strong women, comedy, dystopia, medical, historical fiction

Hurdles completed in level 3: Rose Hedge

Grab bag tags read in level 3: wishlist (1 of 6)

Game Points in Level 3: 82
Total Points So Far All Levels: 65+73+85=223
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Level 4 Summary: (view spoiler)[
Added speculative fiction
Added 3 tags from the grab bag (Bildungsroman, Adventure, Maritime)
Added The Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle & Pogo Stick Hurdle

Tags Read in Level 4: bildungsroman, highly recommend, adventure, gothic, music, international, essays, linguistics, food, outdoors, sisters

Hurdles Completed in Level 4: Tortoise and Hare Box Wood Hedge, The Old Mill Stream, Meditating in a Zen Garden

Grab bag tags read in level 4: cozy (for hurdle), books about books (2 of 6)

Extra tags: Diversity, Ireland, Rome and Ancient Rome (all from Mammoth March)

Total Points So Far All Levels: 65+73+85+72=295 (hide spoiler)]

Level 5 Summary: (view spoiler)[
💙Added Italy
Added 4 from grab bag (Classics, Science Fiction, Survival, mountaineering)
Added The Frozen Tundra Snow Festival Hurdle, Put on your Wings Hurdle, and The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier
📕

Tags read in level 5: small town, asia, plot twist, aviation, feminism, fav, favorites, fairytale, secrets, dark, mountaineering, world literature, spooky, hoopla, sf-masterworks, whodunit

Hurdles Completed in Level 5: The Climbing Wall Barrier, Trophy Fixed Barrier

Grab bag tags read in level 5: none

Extra tags: fantasy-romance (for Hurdle-Trophy Fixed Barrier)

Total Points So Far All Levels: 65+73+85+72+73=368 (hide spoiler)]

Level 6 Summary: (view spoiler)[
📚Added from grab bag (alternate history, archeology, fantasy, science fantasy, space)
📕

Tags read in level 6: quest, Victorian, fantasy, colonialism, science fiction, detective, artificial intelligence, science fantasy, space, archeology, maritime

Hurdles Completed in Level 6: Frozen Tundra Hurdle, The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier

Grab bag tags read in level 6: none

Extra tags: winter (hurdle), planets (earth day), plastic (earth day), climate (earth day), fantasy (again - for Bookshelf Fixed Barrier) (hide spoiler)]

Detail of Spins

Spin 1 = 3 - 4/8
3. Quest x9
The Silver Chair - 4 stars - 4/9
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 2

Spin 2 = 2 - 4/9
5. Victiorian x260
Agnes Grey - 3 stars - 4/10
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 4

Spin 3 = 3 - 4/10
Initially landed on 8. quirky, but used a +2 earned on 2/10 to move to:
10. fantasy x1832
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands - 4 stars - 4/11
also tagged fantasy-romance x81
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag) + 4 (PBT monthly tag) = 6
Points this round: 10
Earned +2 move (save for future use)

Spin 4 = 2 - 4/11
12. Frozen Tundra Hurdle = read a book with an icy or snowy setting
The Girl in the Tower - 4 stars - 4/12
tagged winter x114
also tagged fantasy romance x47
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 3 (hurdle) + 4 (PBT monthly tag) = 7
Points this round: 17
Earned +2 move (save for future use)

Spin 5 = 4 - 4/12
16. colonialism x6
Scoop - 3 stars - 4/13
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 19

Spin 6 = 1 - 4/13
17. science fiction x144
The Affirmation - 4 stars - 4/14
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 21

Spin 7 = 5 - 4/14
22. detective x143
The Thin Man - 3 stars - 4/15
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 23

Spin 8 = 1 - 4/15
23. artificial intelligence
A Thousand Brains - 4 stars - 4/16
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 25

Spin 9 = 1 - 4/16
24. science fantasy x33
Dragonsdawn - 3 stars - 4/17
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 27

Spin 10 = 3 - 4/17
Initially landed on 27 but used a +1 earned on 2/29 to move to:
28. space x58
The Planets - 3+ stars - 4/18
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 29

April Earth Day Special Activity
The Planets - earned 7 points, 7 spaces
Tagged "planets" x7
Points: 7
Points this round: 36

Spin 11 = 4 - 4/18
Initially landed on 32 but used a +2 earned on 2/11 to move to:
34. archeology x12
The Fires of Vesuvius - 4 stars - 4/19
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag)
Points this round: 39

Spin 12 = 3 - 4/19
37. maritime x11
Pacific Crucible - 5 stars - 4/20
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Book is 640 pages
Points: 2 (tag) + 3 (over 600 pages) = 5
Points this round: 44

April Earth Day Special Activity
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story - earned 7 points, 7 spaces
Tagged "plastic" x6 and "climate" x5
Points: 7
Points this round: 51

Spin 13: 5 + 3 (last book over 600 pages) = 8 - 4/20
45. The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier Hurdle - read a tag you have already read this round
Fantasy x11,569
also tagged fantasy romance x138
Spinning Silver - 2 stars - 4/21
PBT Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Points: 2 (tag) + 3 (hurdle) + 4 (PBT monthly Tag)
Points this round: 60
Earned +2 move (save for future use)

Round finished 4/20 (review posted 4/21)

Nancyj reserved

Level 6 - The Appalachian Steeplechase Track

Add 3-5 tags from grabbag: 🔺 NYC, 🔺Alternate history,🔺Guilty Pleasures

1. 🔺Guilty Pleasures - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
2. Nonfiction - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
🔹added a 1 space reward
✅🎗️3. Renaissance (Theresa) - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4/29
4. 🔸Italy -https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
5. Time - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
6. Did not finish - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
7. Technology - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
8. Victorian - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
9. Short Stories - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
🔹Added 3 spaces from my MM rewards bank.
✅10. Highly Recommend (KT) - Stardust 4/30
11. Drama - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
12. 🔸Adventure - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
13. Scandinavia (Hilde) - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
14. Norway - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
15. Criminal - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
16. True Crime - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
17. ▪️{{Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle}}
Moved by Cheryl
✅🎗️18. Translated - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
19. Journey - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
20. ▪️{{Pogo Stick Hurdle}}
✅🎗️21. Music - Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon.
22. {{The Climbing Wall Barrier}}
23. Western - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
24. Detective - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
25. {{Double Jump fixed barrier}}
✅26. International (Olivermagnus) - The Ardent Swarm
27. Hollywood - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
28. 🔸{{Put on your wings hurdle}}
29. Farm - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... - chickens
✅🎗️30. spooky - Never Lie
31. 🔸{{Bookshelf Fixed Barrier}}
✅🎗️32. Classics (replaced Mafia) - Murder on the Orient Express-
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
33. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C) - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
34. Cities (Robin P) - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
35. ▪️Fantasy -https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✅🎗️36. Medieval - A Morbid Taste for Bones
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
37. Marriage - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... - His only wife
38. Disasters -SF
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
39.🔺NYC- https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/nyc
✅🎗️40. SF-masterworks - The Island of Dr. Moreauhttps://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
41. 🔸Science Fiction
42. Dystopia - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
43. 🔺Alternate History - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✅44. {{Donnybrook water feature}}
45. Canada (Library Cin) - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
46. Medical - https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

5/9 rolled off the board

Level 6 Tracking Log

Points earned = 8*6+2*1= 50
Rewards Earned = 2 space units x 8
Rewards Spent = 1 space + 3 spaces

SPINS

Spin #1 (4/29) = 2. 🔹Add one space from MM rewards bank. 3. Renaissance. ✅🎗️
Spin #2 (4/30) = 4. 🔹add 3 spaces from rewards bank. 10. highly Recommended. ✅🎗️
Cheryl moved me to #18. Translated. ✅🎗️
Spin #4(5/1) = 3. 21. Music. ✅🎗️
Spin #5. 5/2) =5. 26. International. ✅

Spin #6 (5/4). = 4. 30. Spooky. ✅🎗️
Spin #7. 5/5). =2. 32. Classics. ✅🎗️
Spin #8 5/6) = 4. 36. Medieval✅🎗️
Spin #9 SF Masterworks ✅🎗️

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✅🎗️4/30/24 - 3. Renaissance. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.
103 Renaissance tags 2 pts
🎗️8 fantasy romance tags, 4 pts , 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️4/30/24. - 10. Highly recommend . Stardust by Neil Gaiman
16 highly recommend tags, 2 points, 🎗️78 fantasy romance tags, 4 pts 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

May monthly tag = Crime
✅🎗️5/1/24. - 18. Translated. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good by Helene Turston.
151 translated tags, 2 pts, 🎗️203 crime tags, 4 points, 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️ 5/2/24 - 21. Music. Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon
34 music tags, 2 pts, 🎗️317 crime tags. 4 pts , 2 spaces.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅5/3/24 - 26.International - The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai
9 International tags, 2 points
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️5/5/24. - 30. Spooky - Never Lie by Freida McFadden
18 Spooky tags, 2 pts, 189 crime tags, 4 pts, 2 spaces
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️5/6/24. 32. Classics- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
38 Classics tags, 2 pts, 🎗️2944 crime tags, 4 pts, 2 spaces
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️(5/7/24). 36. Medieval - A Morbid Taste for Bones
229 Medieval tag 2 points, 🎗️277 crime tag, 4 points, 2 spaces
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

✅🎗️ (5/8/24) SF-Masterworks. The Island of Dr. Moreau by HG Wells. 77 SF Masterworks tags 2 points, 🎗️8 crime tags 4 points, 2 spaces.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Nancy - combined tags

Level 1= 14 tags + 1 hurdle with book read
Total= 14

Level 2 reading= 16 tags + 4 bonus tags (SanFrancisco, NewOrleans,Dragons, Romance) + 3 hurdles
Total = 14+20= 34

Level 3 = 17 tags + 2 bonus tags (migrant workers, Actors)
Total = 34+19= 53

Level 4 = 16 tags + 2 bonus tags + 2 hurdles
Total = 53+18= 71

Level 5 = 14 tags + 2 hurdle bonus tags (winter, zombies) + 2 other hurdles + 4 or more Earth Day bonus tags (Climate, Earth, Plastic, Recycling [2 children’s books] and maybe earth day, garbage ) 🚩
71+ 20= 91

Level 6 as of May 8 =9

Total = 91+9= 100

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Read in Level One
✅1. Small town. The River We Remember
✅6. Quest. The Tombs of Atuan
✅14. Race. The Trees
✅21. Debut. Soulless
✅27. Ireland. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
✅35. Urban fantasy. Changeless
✅44. Southern Fiction. If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
✅54. Women Writers. Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson.
✅63. Black-lives-matter. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir byPatrisse Khan-Cullors.
✅70. Linguistics. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig.
✅77. Time Travel. A Rip Through Time by Kelley Armstrong.
✔️84. Trophy Fixed Barrior. - Best of 2023 list. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters.🚩
✅92. Fun. A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn.
✅100 Novella. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig.
✅107. Environment. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

#1= 14 tags + 1 hurdle with book read


Level 2: Profound Endurance Steeplechase - NancyJ and Darwin
✅🎗️10. Aviation 1/31/24. The Huntress
✅🎗️18. Feminism - 1/31/24 - Lady Cop Makes Trouble
✅ 25. Graphic Novels Heartstopper 2/1/24
✅🎗️27. slice of life What you are looking for is in the library 2/3/24
✔️🎗️33. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge Interpreter of Maladies. 2/4/24🚩 (did this count?)
✅🎗️34. Space Opera (Sue) - Babel-17 -2/5/24
✅🎗️🔸36. School Books Other Words for Home - 2/7/24
✅🎗️40. Multiple POV (Diana)- This is how you lose the time war 2/9/24
✅🎗️🔸43. memoir - Heavy 2/10/24
✅🎗️46. Crime - - Razorblade tears - 2/11/24
✅47. nature . The Nature of Nature - 2/12/24
✅🎗️51. revenge Long Way Down
✅58. Essays - What happened to Lacey
61. Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdleClick Clack Moo.🔶🚩
69. Puddle Jumper 🔶earned a 2 space
✅74.abandoned Astonishing color of after
✅80. Life changing The Poet X
✅87. Sisters - To All the Boys I loved Before
✅95. Whodunit While Justice Sleeps
Monumental Monday Bonus tags
✴️ Romance tag- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
✴️ San Francisco tag- The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans.
✴️ Dragons - How to Date Your Dragon by Molly Harper.
✴️ New Orleans - The Revisioners by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Level 2 reading= 16 tags + 4 bonus tags + 3 hurdles = 20 tags

Level 3 Grand Marathon Steeplechase - Nancyj and Darwin

✅🎗️5. Aging - Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande 2/23/24
✅🎗️12.Asian Literature (Patty) A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa 2/24.
✅🎗️19. Fav Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
✅🎗️23.Short (can be less than 150 pp.) - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
✅🎗️33. Secrets - Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
✅🎗️35.Dark - Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
✅38. Artificial intelligence (Joy D) - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
✅🎗️40. Police - The Maid
41. {{Double Jump fixed barrier}}
✅🎗️43. Book to screen The Outsiders
✅🎗️44.LatinX (BookConcierge) - The Gods of Tango
✅🎗️50. hilarious - A Girl Named Zippy
✅🎗️🦖55.Food (Joanne) - Esperanza Rising
✴️ Migrant Workers tag - Mammoth March Bonus
✅🎗️🦖64. Strong women - I am Malala
✴️ DEI + Womens history month tag Mammoth March bonus
✅🎗️66. Addiction - I’m Glad my Mom is Dead
✅🎗️72. Literary fiction Chemistry-
✅🎗️74. Caribbean (Cora) - When Life Gives You Mangos
✅80. Geography (Ellen) - The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

Level 3 = 17 tags + 2 bonus tags (migrant workers, Actors) = 19

Level 4 Grand Marathon Steeplechase - Nancyj and Darwin

✅🎗️8. ▪️Bio-Memoir - Finding Me
✴️ Actor> Mammoth March Bonus
✴️ Rome or Julius Caesar Julius Caesar Mammoth March Bonus
✅🎗️13. Quirky -- Now Is Not the Time to Panic
✅🎗️21. Animals - Where the Crawdads Sing
✅🎗️25. ▪️Favorites - Home
✅27. Colonialism - The Colony,
✅28. Mental Health (Nancy J) - Mockingbird
✅🎗️32. Coming of age - Akata Witch
✅🎗️36. 🔸Bildungsroman - I Capture the Castle
✅🎗️38.made-me-cry - Water for Elephants
✔️44. {{Meditating in Zen Garden Hurdle}}
✅50.letters The Perks of Being a Wallflower
✅ 52.▪️Wishlist The Patron Saint of Liars
✔️ 3/2754.🔸 {{Rose Hedge Hurdle}} .
✅56.Outdoors (Linda Nielson) -My side of the mountain
✅62. Comedy - Heartstopper: Volume Two
✅63.▪️ Speculative Fiction - Cinder
✅68. Ghosts (Amy) - Graveyard Book
✅71. 🔸 Steampunk - Scarlet

Level 4 = 16 tags + 2 bonus tags + 2 hurdles = 18;tags


Level 5 Pony Express Steeplechase - Nancyj and Darwin

✅🎗️3. Asia - Daughter of the Moon Goddess
✅🎗️4. Plot twist -Fable
✅🎗️9.🔸Space - Strange Love
✔️10. {{Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary}}
✔️15. {{The Old Mill Stream Water Feature}}
✴️New tag Zombies Magic Bites
✅🎗️23. Fairytale - The Bear and the Nightingale
✅🎗️26.Gothic - Nettle & Bone
✅🎗️30. Retellings -. Fairest https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✅🎗️34.Pirates - Namesake
✅37.Beach Reads -. Cress
✅39.Mermaids - Mermaid of Black Conch
✅43. Hoopla - Clean Sweep https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✔️48.🔸The Frozen Tundra Snow Sculpture Hurdle
✴️New Tag Winter Spinning Silver
✅49.Sea (Lyn) - Saint
✔️53. {{Hardenbergia Trellis}} The Seas
✅58. Egypt - SWAP from grabbag environmental Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
✅🎗️60. Historical fiction - A Stitch in Time
✅🎗️61. 🔸 Suspense Slave to Sensation
Earth Day Bonus tags
✴️ Earth = Losing Earth: A Recent History - 5 earth tags
✴️Plastic = Plastic: A Toxic Love Story - 6 plastic tags
✴️Climate = Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change 15 climate tags
✴️Recycling= One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia 29 recycling tags AND All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff 6 garbage tags, (5 recycling)
Earth day = The Lorax 23 earth day tags (and other garbage and earth books)

Tags completed = 14 + 2 extra hurdle bonus tags (winter, zombies) + 2 other hurdles + 4 April earth day bonus tags = Climate, Earth, Plastic, Recycling (2 children’s books) , and maybe earth day, garbage 🚩 check
Total = 20 tags

Level 6 - The Appalachian Steeplechase Track
✅🎗️3. Renaissance (Theresa) - A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4/29
✅10.Highly Recommend (KT) - Stardust 4/30
✅🎗️18.Translated - An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
✅🎗️21. Music - Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon.
✅26. International (Olivermagnus) - The Ardent Swarm
✅🎗️30. spooky - Never Lie
✅🎗️32.Classics (replaced Mafia) - Murder on the Orient Express-
✅🎗️36. Medieval - A Morbid Taste for Bones
✅🎗️40. SF-masterworks - The Island of Dr. Moreau

May 8

Total tags = 100


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Level 7

added: Books-about-books, Culture, Historical mystery, Travel

✅🎗️7. 📘 Historical mystery - Murder on Astor Place
✅🎗️10. Drama - The Last House on the Street
✅🎗️11. 🔸 Adventure - Winter
✅🎗️23. Detective - The Heavens May Fall
✅🎗️27. 📘 Books-about- books- Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
✅🎗️32. 🔸 Fantasy - Naked in Death
✅37. Dystopia - The Calculating Stars

Level 7 read 7 tags
Total 107

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Level 8 – The Silk Road Steeplechase Track - Nancyj and Darwin

✅🎗️5. D not finish - Ring Shout
✅🎗️8. Victorian - The Case of the Missing Marquess
✅13. True Crime - SWAP Police Procedural Long Bright River
✅22. Hollywood - The Chaperone
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...
✅🎗️26. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C) - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
✅🎗️32. 🔸 NYC- The Glass Hotel
✅33. 🔸 Science Fiction - Sea of Tranquility

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☄️The Appalachian Steeplechase Track - Tien and Solgaleo:☄️

1. Small town 23x Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1) by Heather Fawcett -Completed 06/12
2. nonfiction
3. Renaissance (Theresa)
4. insects ****
5. steampunk** 30x Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy #1) by Kerstin Gier -Completed 06/13
6. adventure*
7. motherhood *****
8. aliens**
9.  Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary
10. regency**
11. seasons ****
12. Race
13. Asian Literature (Patty)
14. culture **** 20x Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk -Completed 06/14
15. sequel *****
16. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle* - Completed 06/15
17. circus ****
18. Feminism
19. Scandinavia (Hilde) 8x An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady #2) by Helene Tursten -Completed 06/16
20. The Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle***
21. Criminal
22. True Crime
23. second chances *****
24. Short (can be less than 150 pp)
25. Put On Your Wings Hurdle **** - Completed 06/17
26. Translated
27. revolution *****
28. urban fantasy
29. Journey
30. Space Opera (Sue)
31.  college *****
32. Southern Fiction (Holly)
33. Multiple POV (Diana) 5x The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman -Completed 06/18
34. secrets
35. western
36. zombie***
37. artificial intelligence (Joy D)
38. revenge 26x Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris - Completed 06/20
39.  The Bookshelf Fixed Barrier ****
40. LatinX (BookConcierge)
41. sapphic***
42.  Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle - Completed 06/21
43. linguistics
44. spooky
45. mafia
46. STEM (science technology engineering math) (Linda C)
47. Outdoors (Linda Nielson) 6x Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz -Completed 06/22
48. Strong women 5x The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman -Completed 06/23
49. Rose Hedge Hurdle
50. marriage
51. sf-masterworks
52.  Hardenbergia Trellis: Ophelia - Jackie French
53. Comedy 32x The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman -Completed 06/24
54. Novella (can be less than 150 pp.) 12x Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov -Completed 06/25
55. The Frozen Tundra Snow Festival Hurdle ****
56. Egypt
57. Ghosts (Amy) 23x The Empty House and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood -Completed 06/26
58. Geography (Ellen)

Spin 1: 1 #1. Small town 23x Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde #1) by Heather Fawcett + 11x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/12

Spin 2: 4 #5. steampunk** 30x Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy #1) by Kerstin Gier + 21x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/13

Spin 3: 4 #9.  Tortoise and Hare box wood hedge and topiary >>> Move forward 5 spaces to

#14. culture **** 20x Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk + 26x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/14

Spin 4: 2 #16. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle* - Completed 06/15

By ancestor’s will
Food, Family, Old-Fashioned
Entrenched under skin

Spin 5: 3 #19. Scandinavia (Hilde) 8x An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed (Elderly Lady #2) by Helene Tursten + 13x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/16

Spin 6: 4 (+2 advantage) #25. Put On Your Wings Hurdle **** - Completed 06/17

Spin 7: 4 (x2 from above hurdle) #33. Multiple POV (Diana) 5x The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman + 22x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/18

Spin 8: 5 #38. revenge 26x Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris + 13x June tag (europe) - Completed 06/20

Spin 9: 4 #42.  Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle - Completed 06/21

Spin 10: 3 (+2 advantage) #47. Outdoors (Linda Nielson) 6x Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz + 5x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/22

Spin 11: 1 #48. Strong women 5x The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman + 9x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/23

Spin 12: x3 (+2 advantage) #53. Comedy 32x The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club #4) by Richard Osman + 10x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/24

Spin 13: 1 #54. Novella (can be less than 150 pp.) 12x Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov + 9x June tag (europe) -Completed 06/25

Spin 14: 3 #57. Ghosts (Amy) 23x The Empty House and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood -Completed 06/26

Spin 15: 5 ---> onto The Sierra Crest Steeplechase Track

*ADVANTAGES (for future use)
From Level 5:
⏭️ 7x: can move 2 spaces with a spin
used 1 for Spin 6 - left 6x
used 1 for Spin 10 - left 5x
used 1 for Spin 11 - left 4x
⏭️ Puddle Jumper --> a pass to move forward 2 spaces
⏭️ Raven's Roose Red Rose Hedge (Level 5): can move 2 spaces whenever (earned 05/08)
⏭️ Spin 1: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 2: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 3: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 5: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 7: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 8: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Fixed Barrier Swing Set hurdle (Spin 9): Replace any upcoming tag with a tag of your choice (earned 06/21)
⏭️ Spin 10: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 11: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 12: can move 2 spaces with a spin
⏭️ Spin 13: can move 2 spaces with a spin

GAME POINTS
Total books/tags read: 11 x 2 points = 22
Extras:
Spin 1: 4 points
Spin 2: 4 points
Spin 3: 7 points
Spin 4: 3 points
Spin 5: 4 points
Spin 6: 3 points
Spin 7: 4 points
Spin 8: 4 points
Spin 9: 3 points
Spin 10: 4 points
Spin 11: 4 points
Spin 12: 4 points
Spin 13: 4 points

Level 6: 74
Level 5: 48
Level 4: 90
Level 3: 50
Level 2: 66
Level 1: 58
Total: 386

SWAPS
-->from now on, any swaps will have to be purchased by game points
Swap 1: 10 points
Swap 2: 25 points
Swap 3: 50 points
Swap 4: 50 points
...

Tags removed from grabbag
1. adventure (added to Level 2 - #7)
2. aliens (added to Level 3 - #10)
3. alternate history
18. books-about-books (added to Level 4 - #34)
20. circus (added to Level 5 - #17)
22. college (added to Level 6 - #31)
23. cozy
25. culture (added to Level 5 - #14)
27. espionage
29. favorites
41. indonesia
42. insects (added to Level 5 - #4)
53. motherhood (added to Level 6 - #7)
65. regency (added to Level 3 - #12)
67. revolution (added to Level 6 - #27)
68. royalty
69. sapphic (added to Level 4 -- #48)
70. science fantasy
72. seasons (added to Level 5 - #11)
73. second chance (added Level 6 - #23)
74. sequel (added to Level 6 - #15)
81. suspense
88. zombie (added to Level 4 -- #40)

Level 5 Racetrack

Ellen and Purrito's Appalachian Steeplechase Track

1. Small town
2. Plot twist
3. Quest
4. Technology
5. Victorian
6. Bildungsroman
7. Short stories
8. Asian Literature
9. Culture
10. Favorites
11. School books
12. Debut
13. Feminism
14. FBI
15. Meditating in a Zen Garden Hurdle
16. Books to movies
17. Cozy
18. Translated
19. Italy
20. Urban fantasy
21. Sequel
22. Ghosts
23. Space Opera
24. Rose Hedge Hurdle
25. Multiple POV
26. Western
27. Dark
28. Revenge
29. Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle
30. Made me cry
31. Essays
32. Put on Your Wings Hurdle
33. Food
34. Time travel
35. Abandoned
36. Historical mystery
37. New Orleans
38. Disasters
39. *Wishlist* replaces SF Masterworks per Swing Set Hurdle
40. Pogo Stick Hurdle
41. Literary Fiction
42. Page to Screen
43. Bookshelf Fixed Barrier
44. Canada
45. Egypt
46. Medical
47. Geography

Spin #1=2 Plot Twist
Final Girls - Riley Sager
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 19 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #2 = 2 Technology
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 151 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #3 = 4 Asian Literature
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library - Michiko Aoyama
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 107 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #4 = 1 Culture
American Born Chinese - Gene Luen Yang
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 43 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #5 = 4 Feminism
If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury - Geraldine DeRuiter
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...--
Tagged 51 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #6= 4 Cozy
Arsenic and Adobo - Mia P. Manansala
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 175 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #7 = Italy
Death at La Fenice - Donna Leon
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 358 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #8 = 3 Ghosts
Ghosts - Raina Telgemeier
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 290 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #9 = 2 Rose Hedge Hurdle
I chose Audrey Hepburn from the Rose list
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman - Sam Wasson
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Spin #10 = 5 Sahara Sand Sculpture Hurdle
Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback - Robyn Davidson
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Fits the monthly tag for +2 and 4 points
tagged travel 534 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #11 = 4 Food
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 442 times
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Spin #12 = 4 New Orleans
All This Could Be Yours - Jami Attenberg
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 20 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Spin #13 = 4 Literary Fiction
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 548 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches the monthly tag - 36 times

Spin #14 = 2 Bookshelf Fixed Barrier
cozy
The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...--
Tagged 10 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches the monthly tag 5 times for +2 and 4 points

Spin #15 = 4 Geography
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - David Grann
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Tagged 31 times
https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Matches the monthly tag 679 times for +2 and 4 points

15 books x 2 = 30
3 hurdles x 3 = 9
4 matched monthly tag x 4= 16
55 points
carrying 410 points to level 7

ROBIN AND RAMBO THE RAMBOUILLET RAM RACETRACK
Level 6 -The Appalachian Steeplechase Track
Book should be completed and reviewed.
Spinner will have numbers 1-5
Participants will add the 3-5 grab bag tags
If member has two spins of 1 in a row, they will be asked to boost another randomized participant up to 15 spaces

Added Cozy, Multiple Reads, Second Chances, Space, Books about Books

Extra spaces carried over - 42 +15
Spaces earned - 8
Spaces used - 12
Spaces available - 38
Benefits carried over - Free tag of your choice (not necessarily from the grab bag), a jump of up to 15 spaces to use when you choose.
Points from Level 1 - 59
Points from Level 2 - 38
Points from Level 3 - 52
Points from Level 4 – 62
Points from Level 5 - 31
Points from Level 6 - 26

Total points 268

1st spin - 4
1. Small town
2. Renaissance (Theresa)
3. Plot Twist
4. Time - North Woods - 5 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 10/26
Next spin 4
5. Cozy
6. Technology
7. Aviation
8. Frozen Tundra Snow Sculpture Hurdle - go back 6 or read a book with a snowy or Arctic setting - If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name - set in Alaska, 73 tags for Travel
2 spaces, 4 pts
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 10/28
Next spin 2
9. Race
10. Adventure The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley - 19 tags, 516 tags for Steampunk
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 11/3
4 pts, 2 spaces for matching tag
Next spin 4, adding 4 from saved spaces
11. Drama
12. Debut
13. Norway
14.Multiple reads
15. Criminal
16. Ireland
17. True Crime
18. Graphic Novels Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening - 3694 tags, 458 tags for Steampunk
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 11/3 - 4 pts, 2 spaces
Next spin 3, adding 6 from saved spaces
19. Slice of life
20. Second chances
21. Fairytale
22. Maritime
23. Put On Your Wings Hurdle
24. Urban fantasy
25. Journey
26. Raven’s Roost Red Rose Hedge
27. Space The Stars, Like Dust - 33 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... 11/8
Next spin 4, adding 2 from saved spaces
28. The Climbing Wall barrier
29. Southern Fiction (Holly)
30. Secrets
31. Western
32. Dark
33. Fantasy A Master of Djinn 3,915 tags, 571 tags for Steampunk
4 pts, 2 spaces for matching tag
Next spin 4
34. revenge
35. speculative fiction
36. Police
37. Double Jump fixed barrier Book from grab bag
Choosing Classics - Death and the Dancing Footman - Ngaio Marsh - 10 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-- 11/16
Next spin 4, adding my saved 15-space jump
38. Book to screen
39. Essays
40. Books about books
41. Farm
42. Wishlist
43. linguistics
44. Mermaids
45. spooky
46. Puddle Jumper - move forward 2
47. STEM
48. Trophy Fixed Barrier
49. Outdoors (Linda Nielson)
50. Sea (Lyn)
51. Culture
52. Life changing
53. addiction
54. sf-masterworks
55. Hardenbergia Trellis
56. Comedy - Something Fabulous - 6 tags -
Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spin 3
57. Donnybrook water feature
58. Ghosts (Amy)
59. Using saved swap for tag outside Grab Bag to switch Whodunit to New Zealand - Colour Scheme - Ngaio Marsh - 19 tags
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Next spin 5
60. Meditating in a Zen Garden
61. Medical
62. Geography (Ellen)

**complete