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Choose Your Own Adventure: The Race Forever
Registered by Morning-Star of Portland, Oregon USA on 8/28/2024
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
1 journaler for this copy...
Woohoo! This is the 250th book which I have registered on BookCrossing!
Normally, when I get a Choose Your Own Adventure book, I keep it, and so they never make it out to BookCrossing. But in this case, I received a copy of The Race Forever as a birthday gift from Danger Girl -- and I already have a copy! So now I get to release one of the copies on BookCrossing. Yay! I have been looking forward to a second chance to have a journal for one of these books.
I started reading CYOA books as a kid, beginning with the very first one. I have only read a couple dozen of them, but more than a gross of them exist -- and that's not including the knockoffs. This book (#17 in the series, but one can read them in almost any order) is about car racing, and it also has a property that no other CYOA book that I know of has. If you find this book, see if you can discover what that property is.
If you have never heard of Choose Your Own Adventure books and want to know what they are and how they work, turn to page 2.
If instead you decide that you want to know what the first book in the CYOA series is, turn to page 19.
If you feel that you would rather see the first CYOA book my shelf, turn to page 44.
If you want to know what a CYOA book would be like as a board game, turn to page 54.
If you would rather see a bat the size of a house, turn to page 106.
Normally, when I get a Choose Your Own Adventure book, I keep it, and so they never make it out to BookCrossing. But in this case, I received a copy of The Race Forever as a birthday gift from Danger Girl -- and I already have a copy! So now I get to release one of the copies on BookCrossing. Yay! I have been looking forward to a second chance to have a journal for one of these books.
I started reading CYOA books as a kid, beginning with the very first one. I have only read a couple dozen of them, but more than a gross of them exist -- and that's not including the knockoffs. This book (#17 in the series, but one can read them in almost any order) is about car racing, and it also has a property that no other CYOA book that I know of has. If you find this book, see if you can discover what that property is.
If you have never heard of Choose Your Own Adventure books and want to know what they are and how they work, turn to page 2.
If instead you decide that you want to know what the first book in the CYOA series is, turn to page 19.
If you feel that you would rather see the first CYOA book my shelf, turn to page 44.
If you want to know what a CYOA book would be like as a board game, turn to page 54.
If you would rather see a bat the size of a house, turn to page 106.
So I gave this book to my friend Amy (see the next entry below -- but I am making this entry first so as not to interfere with the release notes), which made her happy.
But then later she had a good idea, which I want to record here, and share with whomever might be reading this journal.
She took the book to a memory care facility for the elderly (sadly, I know way too many people who have a family member in one or another of these places), and she read the book to people there! One older man (who used to be a computer programmer) apparently really loved it. I hope that she gave her audience a chance to choose which way to go at each juncture in the book . . .
This had not even occurred to me as a possible method of cognitive stimulation for folks in this situation. I am going to have to try this myself, when I can. In the meantime, spread this idea around!
But then later she had a good idea, which I want to record here, and share with whomever might be reading this journal.
She took the book to a memory care facility for the elderly (sadly, I know way too many people who have a family member in one or another of these places), and she read the book to people there! One older man (who used to be a computer programmer) apparently really loved it. I hope that she gave her audience a chance to choose which way to go at each juncture in the book . . .
This had not even occurred to me as a possible method of cognitive stimulation for folks in this situation. I am going to have to try this myself, when I can. In the meantime, spread this idea around!
I gave this book to my friend Amy for her birthday. Yes, I realize that my original plan was to release this book into the wild, but that was before I knew how much of a fan of CYOA books Amy actually is. And she has never read this one! Woohoo!
And at some point, she might even release it . . .
And at some point, she might even release it . . .
