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text 2019-05-15 10:08
Tea's BL Snakes and Ladders Tracker - The Final Update

I finished my last book last night. 

 

The Final Stats:

Snakes - 0

Ladders - 0 (no wonder it took me so long to finish the game, lol)

Prompts: 3 books fit their prompts out of 21 books read

 

Audiobooks: 3 books

Ebooks: 3 books

Print: 15 books

 

Non-Fiction: 20 books

Fiction: 1 book

 

Male Authors: 11 books

Female Authors: 10 books

Diverse Authors: 8 books (two by the same author)

 

 

Space 1. Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection by Jacob Silverman (429 pages) - Read 2/17/2019 - 2/22/2019.

 

Roll die and got 4.

 

Space 5 (Published in 2018). Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister, published in 2018 (284 pages). Read 2/22 - 2/24/2019.

 

Roll two dice and got 12.

 

Space 17.  The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder by Carolyn Murnick (245 pages). Read 2/24 - 2/28/2019.

 

Roll die and got 4.

 

Space 21. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah (listen to audiobook, GR has the hardcover version set at 288 pages). Read 2/26 - 2/27/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 26. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta (288 pages). Read 3/1/2019.

 

Roll die and got 6.

 

Space 32. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A  Memoir by Carrie Brownstein. Read 3/2-3/4/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 37. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn (read by George Newbern). Read 3/3 - 3/6/2019.

 

Roll die and got 1.

 

Space 38. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay. Read 3/7 - 3/8/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 43. Character involved in the law. Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts. Read 3/9 - 3/12/2019.

 

Roll dice and got 9.

 

Space 52. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi. Read 3/18 - 3/22/2019.

 

Roll die and got 2.

 

Space 54. Prompt: is more than 400 pages long. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell is 427 pages with an additional 35 pages of source notes. Read 3/23 - 3/28/2019.

 

Roll dice and got 7.

 

Space 61. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. Read 3/29 - 3/30/2019.

 

Roll die and got 6.

 

Space 67. The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn. Read 4/1 - 4/14/2019.

 

Roll die and got 3.

 

Space 70. 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky. Read 4/14 - 4/21/19.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 75. Tears of Salt: A Doctor's Story by Dr. Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta because I don't read fantasy. Read 4/22/2019.

 

Roll die and got 3.

 

Space 78. 1969: The Year Everything Changed by Rob Kilpatrick. Read 4/23 - 4/29/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5. 

 

Space 83. We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time by Jose Andres et al. Read 4/30 - 5/5/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 88. Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Dr. Damon Tweedy. Read 5/7 - 5/9/2019.

 

Roll die and got 4.

 

Space 92. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis. Read 5/9-5/10/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 97. American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot by Craig Ferguson. Listened to the audiobook 5/11-5/13/2019.

 

Roll die and got 5.

 

Space 100. BL'ers get to choose. The winner was Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim. Read 5/10-5/14/2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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text 2019-03-17 15:25
FINISHED! Another reading game in the rearview mirror!

 

I finished A Treacherous Curse, so I'm finished with my Snakes and Ladders game! 

 

 

  

1. Author is a woman:  The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie King; rolled 1 & 5.

7. Author's last name begins with the letters A, B, C, or D: Why Didn't They Ask Evans by Agatha Christie; rolled 3 & 7.

14. Author is dead: Killer's Payoff by Ed McBain; rolled snake eyes

16. Genre: fantasy: Oathbound by Mercedes Lackey; rolled 5 & 3

24. Set in Africa: Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie; rolled one die for 6

30. Someone travels by train: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha; rolled 5 & 3

39. A reread: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; rolled 3 & 1.

43. Characters involved in the law: Island of the Mad by Laurie King; rolled 5 with one die.

48. A book you acquired in February, 2019: The Huntress by Kate Quinn; rolled 6 & 1 

55. Is more than 500 pages long: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (734 pages long); rolled 5 & 3;

57. Was published more than 50 years ago: She Came Back by Patricia Wentworth (published in 1945); rolled 4 & 2.

63. Cover is more than 50% blue: ladder: The Black Cabinet by Patricia Wentworth; climb ladder to space 95

64. Cover is more than 50% yellow: The Sittaford Mystery; rolled a 6

70. Something related to fall/autumn on the cover: The Smouldering Fire by D.E. Stevenson; rolled a 3 & a 6.

79. Main character is a woman: Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie; rolled 4 & 4.

87. Snake - go back to 57: Ugh. Landed on this one, so back to 57 I go.

95. Memoir: Wolf Pack by C.J. Box; rolled one dice for a 6.

100. Let BL pick it for you: post 4 choices and read the one that gets the most votes: A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn came out on top of the poll.

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text 2019-03-08 19:19
Reading progress update: I've read 42%.
Smouldering Fire - D.E. Stevenson

This is purportedly a bit darker of a D.E. Stevenson novel. I bought it a while ago, but it made its way to the top of the TBR because I need a book with "something related to autumn" on the cover, and this book definitely has fall leaves on the cover.

 

Just as an aside, I really love this cover.

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text 2019-02-26 20:56
Reading progress update: I've read 1%.
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie

I need a train book! I was vacillating between this one and 4:50 From Paddington (since I used Murder is Easy for the "Set in Africa" prompt). While I dearly love 4:50 From Paddington (aka What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw), I've read it more recently than Murder on the Orient Express, so Orient Express it is.

 

I won't start this one until tonight, so if you can think of any alternative golden age mystery novels where someone travels by train (esp Allingham/Marsh) let me know in the comments and I might choose something else!

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