So Bear-sitting continues on into Week 3, and the little guy has really grown on all of us. Here's the latest, and as per short exchange I had with Themis-Athena not long ago, maybe this pup really was raised by cats... or was a cat in his previous life. It might explain the box...
Moving along to our regularly scheduled BLopoly roll...
I ended up choosing to read a book by Kylie Brant for my previous roll, Chasing Evil, and finished reading it mere moments after midnight, and so will now be rolling a day later than I'd anticipated, but oh wells... This seems to be the pattern for me now.
Anyway, Chasing Evil was read for the Beach Week 10 square, wherein a chose an author--Kylie Brant--who's first or last name began with any of the letters in the word 'BEACH'. This was your typical Kylie Brant romantic suspense, but with a bit darker content, and maybe more focus on the psychopathic murderer/rapist than I would have liked. Still, I hooked me in. With this read completed, I've added another $3 to my bank, bringing me to $61!
This next roll was a 6, which took me to Mountain Cabin 16, one of the first squares I had landed on at the beginning of the game. We've been here before, and this is one of my more ideal squares, because I have SO MANY options!
So we go from Zen Monkey to Really Zen Monkey, as he makes himself comfortable on Penni's star-studded BLopoly board. I'm sure if Penni were capable of reactions other than excited, she'd be looking outraged right now. But at least Monkey has not disturbed any of the already placed stars. Sorry, Penni. You know how Monkey is. We'll have to live with this until the next roll...
Meanwhile, as I'd already stated, this is one of my more ideal squares, because solely based on the "mystery/suspense" requirements of this square, I've got a ton of books I can choose from. Because mystery = crime thriller, and romantic suspense is still suspense...
So following on the heels of my most recently finished book, Chasing Evil, I'm going to happily jump right into the next book in the trilogy.
Touching Evil is the second book in Kylie Brant's Circle of Evil trilogy, which is a crime thriller, murder mystery, and romantic suspense, all rolled into one book... just how I like them! The book is 288 pages, Kindle version, which will get me $3 upon completion.
Novelty Cards Currently In My Pocket
My Progress
Current Bank: $61
Prison Library Donation: 0 pages
Books Read: 9
Pages Read: 3,056
Table notes:
*Dates link to corresponding dice roll updates / other links for related activities included.
*Book titles link to reviews if written.
*Page/Cash values in parentheses are still pending reads/ not yet cashed out.
| Date (Roll #) |
Dice Roll | Space/Prompt | Book Title / Author | Pages | Cash |
| 5/20 | Game Start | $20 | |||
| #1 | 5 | The Silk Road: Read a book set in any of the 40 countries along Silk Road, or by an author from any of those countries. |
Hard Target by Pamela Clare | 261 | $3 |
| 5/22 | |||||
| #2a | 8 | Novelty Card Robot -- save for later (Create a numbered list of ten books, and let a random number generator pick for you) |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
| #2b | 4 | Mountain Cabin 16: Read a book that is considered mystery/suspense genre, or which has a title that contains all of the letters in the word C-A-B-I-N. |
Tightrope by Amanda Quick | 320 | $3 |
| 5/25 | See Also: Roll #3 and Memorial Day Bonus Roll Activities | ||||
| #3 | 5 | The Lake House 20: Read a book that features a dog or which has a dog on the cover; or that is set in an area known for its lakes or on a fictional lake. |
Run to Ground by Katie Ruggle | 312 | $3 |
| Memorial Day Bonus Rolls | |||||
| #4 | 7 | The Summer Blockbuster 27: Read a book that features a hero's journey or is a Bildungsroman (coming of age tale); or that has a word related to space in the title (i.e., star, planet, rocket). |
Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier | 516 | $5 |
| #5 | 9 | European Vacation 35: Read a book set in Europe; or that was written by an author who was born in Europe; or that involves travel by boat or that has a picture of a ship on the cover. |
A Grave Matter by Anna Lee Huber | 433 | $5 |
| 6/8 | |||||
| #6a | 10 | Pass Go: Collect $5! | n/a | n/a | $5 |
| Novelty Card Race Car -- save for later (Race around the game board to the space of your choosing and read!) |
n/a | n/a | n/a | ||
| #6b | 11 | Mountain Cabin 18: Read a book that is set west of the Mississippi in the USA, or that was written by an author who comes from that region, or that is considered part of the Western genre. |
Stone Cold Heart by Laura Griffin | 357 | $3 |
| 6/10 | |||||
| #7a | 7 | BL Square: Spin the Wheel Decide | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Wheel Decide: Take one extra roll | n/a | n/a | n/a | ||
| #7b | 10 | European Vacation 33: Read a book set in the UK, or that was written by an author whose first or last name begins with any letter in the word L-O-N-D-O-N. |
The Indignation of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa | 212 | $3 |
| 6/13 | |||||
| #8 | 5 | Pass Go: Collect $5! | n/a | n/a | $5 |
| School's Out For Summer 1: Read a book that appears on any school related "summer reading list," or that is identified as YA or MG |
Going Rogue by Robin Benway | 321 | $3 | ||
| 6/16 | |||||
| #9 | 10 | Beach Week 10: Read a book that appears on any beach reads list, or a book whose author's first or last name begins with any letter in B-E-A-C-H. |
Chasing Evil by Kylie Brant | 324 | $3 |
| 6/19 | |||||
| #10 | 6 | Mountain Cabin 16: Read a book that is considered mystery/suspense genre, or which has a title that contains all of the letters in the word C-A-B-I-N. |
Touching Evil by Kylie Brant | (288) | ($3) |
| TBA | |||||
| TBA | |||||
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