Play Book Tag discussion

I had a bad reading funk all year and will have read more than 125 in 2024. The possibilities for 2025 are endless!

When requesting a spin, please post your review in Tag of the month or other books. Please do not add Compass Spin to title.
For the spin request link the review, post points, & mileage if you are tracking that and your departure point with validation.



COMPASS

Goal: Goal: To read books I do not have on my TBR, if my list does not have a book to move me in the direction I am given. For me, this is a big deal. Also, I want to visit places I have never been to before

Starting Locale : Clarkston Michigan

First Spin: Southwest

Book You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
Locale: Vietnam
Distance traveled: 8,722 miles
Monthly Tag Match: No
Location Tag: Yes

Second Spin-Southwest to Madagascar
Return to the Enchanted Island
Travel Distance: 4825.18 miles
Monthly Tag Match: No
Location Tag: Yes

Third Spin-NW from Madagascar to New Jersey
Now or Never
Travel distance: 8685.69 miles
Location Tag: Yes tagged 5 time NJ
Monthly Tag: No
"AI Overview
Yes, New Jersey is northwest of Madagascar; New Jersey is located in the northeastern United States, while Madagascar is an island off the southeast coast of Africa, placing New Jersey significantly to the northwest on the globe.

Fourth Spin NE : Trenton NJ, to London. England
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Travel distance: 3513.63
Location Tag: Yes tagged London times
Monthly Tag: Yes-Tagged Science 38 times
Matches monthly tag 38 times
AI Overview: Yes, the initial flight path from New Jersey to London is northeast (NE). Explanation: The initial bearing from New Jersey to London is 50.90° NE.


Fifth Spin: N-London, England to Glasgow, Scotland
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Travel distance: 345.53 miles
Location Tag: Yes, tagged 39 times

Sixth Spin: SE- Glasgow to Beijing, China. used a free pass to change direction.
The Beijing Betrayal
Travel Distance: 4947.70

Seventh Spin: W (used free directions) Beijing to New York, New York
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
Travel Distance: 6808.67
No tag matches

Eighth Spin: SW
New York, New York to Galveston, Texas
Oleander City
Travel Distance: 1,415.93
No Matching Tags

Ninth Spin-SE-
Galveston, Texas to New York
Where the Light Enters
Travel Distance: 1,415.93
Matches New York Tag 20 times

Tenth Spin-East
New York City to Badajoz, Portugal
Sharpe's Company
Travel Distance - 3,461.42
No matching tag

Eleventh Spin-West
Badajoz, Portugal to Butcher's Crossing, Kansas
Butcher's Crossing
Distance: 4,690.11 miles
No tags

Twelfth Spin: New-Used last Free Spin
Butcher's Crossing, Kansas to Cleveland, Ohio
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread
Distance 911.79
Tagged Cleveland 6 times
Total miles: 49,743.58

Review:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

13th Spin-NE
Butcher's Crossing, Kansas to Lincolnshire, England
Katherine
Distance: 4,455.81 miles
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

14th Spin- SE
Lincolnshire, England to Iraq
The Girl in Green
Distance: 2,574.00 miles
Review:

Total Mileage: 56,769.39

15th Spin W
Iraq to New York
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Distance 5,995.52 miles
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

16th Spin East
New York to Anrados, Portugal
Sharpe's Enemy
Distance 3391.21 miles
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

one free spin for the phrase "Costume Party"


Total Mileage: 66,157.12


Mileage Calculator: https://www.mapdevelopers.com/distanc...



1 free tickets to choose the direction of their choice

Points

1 point - per book or location-

2 points - tag for location-

3 points - matching tag of the month.


Personal Notes:

Book 1-You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War 3 points
Book 2 - Return to the Enchanted Island 3 points
Book 3-Now or Never 3 points
Book 4- To Say Nothing of the Dog Total Points 6
Book 5 - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Total book points 3
Book 6 The Beijing Betrayal 1 point for book.
Book 7 Miss Morgan's Book Brigade 1 point for book
Book 8 Oleander City 1 point for book
Book 9 Where the Light Enters 1 Point for book, one for tagged location. Tagged NY 20 times. Total 3 points
Book 10 Sharpe's Company - No tags 1 point
Book 11 Butcher's Crossing- No tags 1 point
Book 12 The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread 1 point for book, 2 points for tag location
Book 13Katherine 1 point for book, 2 Points Location
Book 14 The Girl in Green 1 point for book, 2 points for location-tagged Iraq 6 times.
Book 15 Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty 1 point for book, 2 points for location. Tagged NY by 39 people. Book 15
Book 16 Sharpe's Enemy 1 point for book,


Total points 39

Read Harder

✅1. A book Title with all the vowels in it (A E I O U) -The House in the Cerulean Sea
✅2. A book written by an Indigenous author - To Shape a Dragon's Breath
✅3.Read a book with recipes in it. Make one of the recipes and include a review of the recipe in your review - Sweetie-licious Pies: Eat Pie, Love Life - Read March, 23, 2025
✅4. A book set in New York Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
✅5. Read a book related to a culture other than your own. The Invisible Bridge - Main character is a Hungarian Jewish man.
✅6. Draw a random tarot card and read a book with a title that has to do with the card. Could either be literal i.e. if you drew The Magician, read The Magicians by Lev Grossman; OR pick any imagery from the card to find in a book title, i.e. if you drew the 3 of Swords you could read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad because the 3 of Swords features a heart. If people don't own any tarot decks there are a number of free random generators like this one: https://www.dailytarotdraw.com/cards#...The Royal Succession - Read February 16, 2025
✅7. A book that involves the mind, brain, or neuroscience Move on Motherf*cker: Live, Laugh, and Let Sh*t Go Read April 6. 2025
✅8. A book with a wild animal in the content, title or cover Wolves of Winter
✅9. Find your most read author. Read a new book by them. If you have read everything by that author, use your next most read author. Wrath of a Mad God - Read January 2025
✅10. Read a book from NPR's 2024 Best Books of the year list- Real Americans
✅11/Read a book that is Historical fiction -Here Be Dragons
✅12. A book with less than 3,000 ratings on Goodreads You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War 1,262 ratings. Read January 14, 2025

LIST 2

✅1. Read a book set primarily in a hospital - The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
2. Read a police procedural mystery or thriller From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance tagged Thriller
✅3. Read a book that features a shady or secretive company or organization. An Inside Job
4. A memoir by a chef or a food writer-My Life in France
5. A book with a unit of measure in the title ]
✅6. Read a book you've been avoiding or keep putting off-Katherine
✅7. Read a book that includes a penguin The Penguin Lessons
✅8. A book that you think honors Martin Luther King's Birthday: The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph
✅9. Read a cookbook - Milk Street Simple
✅10. A book set in a country you would like to visit but never have Queens of the Crusades
✅11. A book set in desert - The City of Brass
✅12. Read a book where one of the main characters is in the military The Girl in Green

Unofficial Trim

✅1 Next in Pern Series The Masterharper of Pern Read May, 2025
✅2 Next in Sharpe Series - Sharpe's Havoc Read
✅3 Next in Veronica Speedwell -An Impossible Impostor Read April 2025
4 Next in Cork O'Connor
✅5 Next in Five Gods -The Hallowed Hunt-DNF
6 Next in St. Mary's
7 Dragons - A Gift of Dragons -Read June 2024
8 R.J. Baker -Next in line
✅9 Sara Donti Where the Light Enters - Read June 2024
✅10 Maurice Druon The Royal Succession - Read February 16, 2025
✅11 Robert Harris - Precipice Read March 20 2025
12 Juliet Mariller

Note: Not following drawn numbers this year. I will read the number I feel like reading. I cannot get stuck in a funk again this year, it is read what you feel year for me

Going Long

1st Quarter

The Invisible Bridge - Read February 2025
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 -Read February 16, 2025
The Doomsday Book - read January 2025
Wrath of a Mad God - read January 2025
The Will of the Many- read March, 2025.

2nd Quarter
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn - Read April 4, 2025
Where the Light Enters - Read June 2025

3rd Quarter
Here Be Dragons - Read July 11, 2025
The Devils Read August 3rd
To Shape a Dragon's Breath Read August 10th
Katherine - 588 pages
Queens of the Conquest
The City of Brass -Read September 2023
Queens of the Crusades Read September

4th Quarter

A Bridge Too Far
The Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

14 total books

Reading Older Fantasy-published 2005 or before

Magic's PromiseRead January 14, 2005
Doomsday Book - Read January 26, 2025
To Say Nothing of the Dog Read February 27, 2025
Magic's Price
The Masterharper of Pern
A Gift of Dragons- Read June 25th
By the Sword,- Read July 11, 2025
Winds of Fate - Read August 22, 2025
Winds of Change Read October 24, 2025