Month: June 2020
BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Roll #12
I actually rolled last night already, but BL was so buggy that I gave up on trying to post. And I’m glad it’s a simple roll again for once. So, off to Australia we go — and I’m wondering whether it’s a coincidence that this small-town mystery is called Goodwood, whereas one of my new […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Roll #11
I rolled again yesterday after having finished my books from roll #10, but it was too late and would have taken too long to add the new books I’m planning to read, so I deferred posting until today. So here’s where the dice are taking me in this round: (I was going to leave the […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Tenth Roll
I guess it’s a good thing that for once I finished a BL-opoly book in the afternoon, because the game gods had apparently decided that since we’ve been having so much fun with multiple hop, skip and jump rounds lately, why not just do another one? For square #4 — the first square the doubles […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Ninth Roll
Well, it turns out the BL-opoly gods are insistent on re-bestowing on me the “cat” novelty card I just used for my last read, plus another “dog” card for good measure. If things go on like that, I’ll end up with a whole menagerie … I’m minded to stay in the region I just visited […]
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Anne Perry: Defend and Betray
Oh dear, oh dear. That escalated quickly … within a mere three books, this series has already turned into repeat instances of “coincidence dressed up as Hester Latterly’s current client saves the day because Monk is too busy being mad at everybody (including himself) to do any investigating, and Hester is too busy trying to […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Eighth Roll
Eh. I need some truly poetic sentiment by way of brain bleach after the solution of The Roman Hat Mystery. And since the dice just sent me to the Patagonian Star square for the third time in less than two weeks (even though as a compensation I did also get to collect the Race Car […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Seventh Roll
* Slowly releases breath * I guess it’s just as well that I decided not to roll again immediately after finishing my last BL-opoly book last night … this one turned out the game’s first true, um, roller-coaster. In sequence: … all of which, a trip round half the board later, takes me to […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Sixth Roll
I’ve owned (and wanted to read) this for way too long — time to finally get around to doing just that. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2667603/bl-opoly-pandemic-edition-sixth-roll
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Jean François Parot: L’énigme des Blancs-Manteaux
Buddy read en français avec / with Tannat & onnurtilraun. Buddy Read Announcement Reblogged from: Tannat Themis-Athena, onnurtilraun, and I are planning to start a buddy read this weekend and we’d like you to invite you to join us. Sorry for the late notice but we were wavering on which book to pick. I definitely […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Fifth Roll
Landed on “Go” and rolled again (after double checking the rules since I couldn’t remember how this works — though what with the abolition of “roll days”, it hardly seems to matter this year). I was only moderately impressed with book 1 of Helene Tursten’s Irene Huss series, but this one is supposed to be […]
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – Fourth Roll
For once my “quick roll before going to bed” is turning out just that — hooray. Knight’s entries in the Medieval Murderers series are not necessarily among my favorites, but it is clear that he knows his stuff, and I might just as well finally catch up with his protagonist Sir John de Wolfe’s earlier […]
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Ian Doescher: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Verily, a New Hope
Verily, a Great Entertainment “CHORUS: As our scene to space, so deep and dark, O’er your imagination we’ll hold sway. For neither players nor the stage can mark The great and mighty scene they must portray. We ask you, let your keen mind’s eye be chief – Think when we talk of starships, there […]
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