A Distant Melody - Sarah Sundin The Scandalous Suffragette - Eliza Redgold The Final Days - Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis--Suez and the Brink of War - David A. Nichols The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History - Molly Caldwell Crosby Beauty Queens - Libba Bray The Dead and the Gone (The Last Survivors, Book 2) by Pfeffer, Susan Beth [Hardcover(2008/6/1)] - Susan Beth Pfeffer Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth - Sarah Smarsh 1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire - Rebecca Rideal

 

 I am Finished!

Nine rolls.

Eight prompts filled.

Five books off my physical reading shelf read.

No ladders, yet also no snakes. 

 

 

 

Previous Rolls

1. Space 1: Author is a Woman

A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory #1) by Sarah Sundin, 355 pages (worth 2 rolls) - Finished 4/9/2020

 

2 You rolled 2 dice:

6 5

Timestamp: 2020-04-10 00:43:11 UTC

Space 11

 

You rolled 2 dice:

3 5

Timestamp: 2020-04-10 00:44:57 UTC

Space 19: Set in UK

The Scandalous Suffragette by Eliza Redgold, 234 pages, set in London, Manchester, and the Kent countryside (worth 2 rolls). Read April 9th-14th. 

 

3. You rolled 2 dice:

2 3

Timestamp: 2020-04-15 13:56:05 UTC

Space 24

 

You rolled 2 dice:

3 1

Timestamp: 2020-04-15 13:57:14 UTC

Space 28: Written between 1900 and 1999

 

The Final Days: The Classic, Behind-the-Scenes Account of Richard Nixon's Dramatic Last Days in the White House by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, originally published in 1976 (456 pages without the index). Worth 2 rolls when completed. Read 4/16-4/22.

 

 4. You rolled 2 dice:

1 3

Timestamp: 2020-04-23 00:31:33 UTC

Space 32

 

You rolled 2 dice:

5 4

Timestamp: 2020-04-23 00:32:04 UTC

Space 41 - Characters involved in politics

 

Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis - Suez and the Brink of War by David A. Nichols (286 pages without notes or index). Worth 2 rolls when completed. Read 4/17-May 11.

 

 5. You rolled 2 dice:

1 6

Timestamp: 2020-05-12 21:04:28 UTC

Space 48

 

You rolled 2 dice:

5 6

Timestamp: 2020-05-12 21:04:48 UTC

Space 59 - Book published more than 10 years ago

 

I am using a book that I read during the game. The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby (285 pages without notes and index). Read 4/25-4/27. Worth two rolls.

 

6. You rolled 2 dice:

5 6

Timestamp: 2020-05-15 01:35:41 UTC

Space 70

You rolled 2 dice:

2 1

Timestamp: 2020-05-15 01:36:02 UTC

Space 73 - Categorized as YA

 

Another book I read during the game is Beauty Queens by Libby Bray (396 pages; I listened to the unabridged audiobook). Read 4/25-26th. Worth 2 rolls.

 

7. You rolled 2 dice:

3 2

Timestamp: 2020-05-16 14:56:03 UTC

Space 78

You rolled 2 dice:

3 1

Timestamp: 2020-05-16 14:56:24 UTC

Space 82 - Urban Fantasy

 

The Dead & the Gone - 309 pages.  Read 5/15-16. Worth one roll.

 

8. You rolled 2 dice:

6 6

Timestamp: 2020-05-19 00:27:52 UTC

Space 94 - Nonfiction

 

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh. Read 5/13-14. Worth 2 Rolls.

 

9. You rolled 2 dice:

2 4

Timestamp: 2020-05-19 00:41:19 UTC

Space 100 - Right on the nose, how 'bout that?

 

1666: Plague, War, and Hellfire by Rebecca Rideal (234 pages of reading material).