Murder by Death

I'm doing something a little bit different this year. I wanted to track the game in the simplest way possible.  Fancy HTML tables are out; spreadsheets are out; an updated tracking post is not an option because BookLikes has never figured out what time it is in Australia, and I can never remember if they're an hour too fast or too slow.

The solution I came up with is to print the board out to get MT to print the board out for me, dig out some dice (we must have some somewhere), and play the game in real life, posting photos of the board as I progress.  Similar to what Ani's Book Abyss is doing with magnetic monkey and friends, but a lot duller (possible photo bombing by cats is the best I can offer).  

When I first brought up the idea to MT, I suggested printing out all the cards too, which earned me a glare from my better half, so I asked Moonlight Reader if she would mind if I recreated the board with the prompts, in a press-ready format.  She is a gracious and generous game overlord, and gave me her blessings, so I've tossed together a reasonable facsimile at high resolution and sent it off to the printer/husband, who promises to have it to me tomorrow.

Moonlight Reader also encouraged me to offer the high res file up to anyone who'd like to do the same (print it out), so know that it's on offer, and I'm happy to send it to whomever would like it for printing.  It's much plainer than Moonlight Reader's though:

(this is too small to read on BL, but you get the idea.)

Meanwhile, as I await the finished product, I'm going to roll the virtual dice for my first play:

 6. Read a book set in your home town, state, or country or that you checked out of your local library or that has been on your (physical) bookshelves since last summer.

I think this might be the perfect time to dig out one of my favorite books set in my home town:  Skinny-dipping: A Novel of Suspense by Claire Matturro  

"I, Lilly Rose Cleary, have a nearly endless capacity for driving myself crazy." And who knows a woman better than herself? Especially a woman like Lilly, a tough-as-nails partner working in a Sarasota, Florida, law firm representing fat-cat physicians in malpractice cases. Lilly is also an obsessive-compulsive health nut who has a bad habit of tripping over dead bodies.

It's a re-read, but it's been a long time since my last visit with Lilly Rose.  Too long, really.