Beach Reads Challenge

The 52 Book Club’s summer reading challenge is out – Beach Reads. And while this was released in June, it doesn’t have to be finished over the summer, you can take your time with it. You can find the rules at https://www.the52book.club/beach-reads-challenge/, but they involve the board game below and rolling dice for what space you land on and which genre you’re reading.

• Prompt 1 — Sand in your shoes! A gritty read.
• Prompt 2 — A _ word title – Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite
• Prompt 3 — Chance
• Prompt 4 — Author from somewhere you’ve vacationed – Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
• Prompt 5 — Item on cover: A thing you’d find at the beach – Cruising Through Midlife by Addison Moore
• Prompt 6 — Beachcomb for hidden gems: A non-popular read – Death on the Night Train to Verona by Benedict Brown
• Prompt 7 — Final page number: even or odd?
• Prompt 8 — Features an island country – The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
• Prompt 9 – Chance
• Prompt 10 – Character with a unique career – Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
• Prompt 11 – Flip flop! Pick two books.
• Prompt 12 – More than _ hundred pages.
• Prompt 13 – Published within _ years of previous author’s birth
• Prompt 14 – Publisher you haven’t used on this challenge yet – The Librarian of the Haunted Library by Brian Yansky
• Prompt 15 – Chance – Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
• Prompt 16 – An author with _ books.
• Prompt 17 – Apply sunscreen. A red spine.
• Prompt 18 – Published in 202_
• Prompt 19 – Author’s last name starts _ letters after yours
• Prompt 20 – A “watery” scene – Sprinkles and Sea Serpents by Danielle Garrett
• Prompt 21 – Chance – The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict
• Prompt 22 – Related to the word “Destination”
• Prompt 23 – Retails new within $___ of your last read.
• Prompt 24 – First word in book is _ letters long.
  

And my genre cards. These will change throughout the game, but yeah, I’m going to mostly stay in the same zones.

We start on start, obviously. I may have to keep track of my rolls here, since it matters if you roll the same number multiple times in a row.

• -4 (somewhere you’ve vacationed, horror: Home Before Dark)
• -1 (Item on cover cozy mystery: Cruising through Midlife)
• -5 (chance -3: same last name letter as previous: missing man)
• -4 roll again
• -2 (publisher, any genre on card: librarian)
• -1 (chance 5- Finlay)
• -6 (a watery scene, paranormal – Sprinkles and Sea)
• -2(first word is 6 letters long, sci fi – Murder by Memory)
• -5 (holds overdue, swap cozy mystery for historical mystery)
• -1 (Non popular read hist mystery – Night train)
• -3 (chance #3 – Queens)
• -1 (unique career – Mistress)
• -3 (roll again)
• – 6 book slump, head to holds overdue)
• reroll 1 genre change horror to contemporary romance)
• 3 – features island country police (the crow trap)
• 5 – roll again
• 2 author with ( 1) Science fiction (Simultaneous)
• 4 Authors last name starts with J – horror (The hotel)