The Reading Challenge Group discussion

I'm playing Bookopoly again

My challenges

➜ electronic dice: https://virtualdiceroll.com/

The Board

GO - Read the book on your shelf that matches the number rolled

Dark Blue - Genre: Classic
Partner Pick - Chosen from your shelf by another player
Dark Blue - Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi (Can also include Paranormal / Dystopia / Horror)
Library Fine - A borrowed book
Railroad - Travel Afar: Featuring a journey
Light Blue - Theme: Relationships
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Light Blue - Theme: Purpose, War, Survival
Light Blue - Theme: Tradition & Change

Book Ban - Read a book you've been putting off for a long time, or finish a book that you've previously abandoned

Purple - Category: Published this year
Electric Co - In a setting that's new to you
Purple - Category: Recommended to you
Purple - Category: Part of a series
Railroad - Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future)
Orange - Genre: YA, Middle Grade, or Children's
Partner Pick - Chosen from your shelf by another player
Orange - Genre: Mystery
Orange - Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Sale! - Book by a favorite author, or an old favorite

Red - Category: Highest number of ratings on your shelf
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Red - Category: Book with the highest average rating on your shelf
Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf
Railroad - Travel Abroad: Set in a different country
Yellow - Theme: Nature
Yellow - Theme: Society
Library Fine - A borrowed book
Yellow - Theme: Times of Life (e.g. childhood, young-adulthood, mid-life, old age, etc.)

Go to Book Ban!

Green - Category: Most recently added to your shelf
Green - Category: On your shelf the longest
Partner Pick - Chosen from your shelf by another player
Green - Category: The longest book on your shelf
Railroad - Travel Away: Set in another world
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Blue - Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Water Works - By an author that's new to you
Blue - Genre: Award winner

Have fun doing your challenges in 2023!

FIRST TIME around the board

Roll #1 - 6
Relationships
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - finished January 2

Roll #2 - 4
Book Ban
City of Lost Souls - finished January 21
(I stopped reading the series at one point and it's taken me a while to read it.)

Roll #3 - 5
Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future)
The History of Rome, Vol 1: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy - Finished March 4

Roll #4 - 11
Nature
Allegiant - finished February 20
(so much discussion of nature vs nurture - thinking genes were everything)

Roll #5 - 9
Travel Away: Set in another world
Prentice Alvin - finished April 2

Roll #6 - 3
Water Works - By an author that's new to you
The Jane Austen Project - finished March 26

SECOND time around the board

Roll #7 - 8
Relationships
A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories - finished March 31

Roll #8 - 9
Travel Along: Set in a different time (past or future)
All's Well That Ends Well - finished April 26

Roll #9 - 8
Book with the highest average rating on your shelf
Dark Days - finished July 23

Roll #10 - 9
On your shelf the longest
Of Mice and Men - finished August 30

Roll #11 - 4
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
Alice - finished May 24

THIRD time around the board

Roll #12 - 9
Travel Afar: Featuring a journey
The Silver Chalice - finished June 4

Roll #13 - 8
Recommended to you
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - finished June 20

Roll #14 - 9
Chance - Sort your shelf by "Random" and read the first book
The Starless Sea - finished July 15

Roll #15 - 6
Library Fine - A borrowed book
The Wandering Fire - finished July 30

Roll #16 - 7
Travel Away: Set in another world
Eldest - finished September 4

FOURTH time around the board

Roll #17 - 8
Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi (Can also include Paranormal / Dystopia / Horror)
City of Heavenly Fire - finished October 9

Roll #18 - 7
Book Ban - Read a book you've been putting off for a long time, or finish a book that you've previously abandoned
How a Woman Becomes a Lake - finished September 30

Roll #19 - 10
Book Sale! - Book by a favorite author, or an old favorite
Daisy Darker - finished October 15

Roll #20 - 4
Red - Category: The shortest book on your shelf
Leaf by Niggle - finished December 15

Roll #21 - 3
Theme: Society
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - finished October 25

Roll #22 - 11
Water Works - By an author that's new to you
Doctor Zhivago - finished December 12

FIFTH time around the board

Roll #23 - 5
Genre: Fantasy or Sci Fi
Alvin Journeyman - finished November 25

Roll #24 - 9
Electric Co - In a setting that's new to you