IT’S BACK!!
I participated in the Bookopoly reading challenge way back in 2018 when my blog was still a fledgling, and I was crushed when the creators had to take a break the next year…s. BUT they’ve done it again! This is a reading challenge hosted by @planwithemm and @knit.plan.jess over on IG from January 1st, 2024 – December 31st, 2024.
Rules:
- Read books during 2024 to count towards the prompts
- Books can only be used for one prompt
- You get 1 extra entry for each monopoly (all of one color/type) and 5 extra entries for a complete blackout
- Share your board to your IG stories and tag the creators! Deadlines for sharing for quarterly prizes: 3/31, 6/30, 9/30, and 12/31. Must follow the creators to be eligible AND have an Amazon wishlist equivalent linked in bio
You can join via StoryGraph’s Reading Challenges and follow the two on IG for quarterly prizes!
I will be keeping track of my progress here, as well as on my IG and StoryGraph 🙂 So, to keep everything nice and orderly, I’ll put the list below… with links to my reviews* of course!
Potential Monopolies (2 of 8 complete!):
- On TBR for 1+ years – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Book that was self-published – Welcome to Opine by Matthew Marullo*
- Title recommended by Emm or Jess
- Listened to an audiobook
- Read for a book club
- One bed – Phineas Varga and the Revenants of Windsor by AK Rouse* (review coming soon)
- Set during a holiday
- Romance by a BIPOC author
- Cozy mystery
- “Unlikeable” main character
- Title doesn’t contain “the” – Azygos by JH White*
- Set at a haunted house
- Features 3+ points of views – The Pod Tower by Pete Alexander* (review coming soon)
- Out of your comfort zone – Sword of Sorrow, Blade of Joy by JF Lee
- Hyped on social media
- Features your favorite trope – Windward by S. Kaeth* (The Powerful Artifact) (review coming soon)
- Author writes multiple genres
- Features a Renaissance Festival
- Features time travel – The Time Machine by HG Wells
- Features mythical creatures – The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
- Topic interesting to you – But Everyone Feels This Way: How An Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life by Paige Layle
- Lifestyle or Self-Improvement book – I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt by Madeline Pendleton
Railroads (1/4):
There are 4 Railroad spots marked on the board. These will be revealed one at a time throughout the year!
- Make a yearly TBR post and tag the creators in it
- Read 24 books in 2024 – Completed May 2nd!
- To Be Released June 1
- To Be Released Sept 1
Chance/Community Chest/Other Non-Monopoly Spaces (6/12):
- Recommended by a stranger – The Outsiders by SE Hinton
- Buy a book from an indie bookstore
- Follow a new bookstagrammer – @planwithemm
- Book Ban: no buying for 30 days
- Organize your bookshelves
- Recommended by a friend – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (recommended by my sister-in-law)
- Borrow a book from the library
- Follow ANOTHER new bookstagrammer – @knit.plan.jess
- Buy ANOTHER book from an indie bookstore
- Read a random book off your TBR – As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Follow ANOTHER new bookstagrammer – @readwithrosemary
- Donate a book to a LFL