Rebecca is book-hooked’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2022)

Rebecca is book-hooked’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

Added Points:
See message #24

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Rebecca_book-hooked wrote: "💎💎💎
October Total: 13.5 points

I'm not sure what you mean. I've been logging all of my books on GoodReads. I add them to Currently Reading and then update as finished when I've completed the book. All of the books I've posted are showing in my Read list with correct dates for October 2022.

Added Points:
13.5 points total for October
Message #24

Added Points:
10.5 points total for October
Message #24

I second The Crucible

Added points:
7 points total in October
Updated in Message #24

Saar The Book owl wrote: "Rebecca_book-hooked wrote: "💎💎💎 I am so excited!! First year for me too!
October Total: 2 points
1) The Field Guide - Spiderwick Chronicles #1, 10/1, 114 pg, 1 point
2) [book:The Seei..."

Trying to figure out how to do that now. (I only started using the desktop version of GR recently for this challenge. A lot of new stuff I'm discovering.)

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Revecca: the short stories mentioned in messages #55 and #57, you haven't read them yet? Just to besure that I don't count them already."

No, I have not read any of these short stories in October.

*Quick Read*
These are both short stories just above the 50 pg mark so they don't count in your 10 easy reads/month.

1. Wildlife by Jeff VanderMeer (57 pages)
2. The Backbone of the World by Stephen Graham Jones (54 pages)

*Free Short Stories*
https://bookriot.com/free-short-stori...

*Quick Read*
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...

This is a link to the short story My Purple Scented Novel by Ian McEwan, 34 pages

I love this story!!!

I second The Jungle.

I second Wonder.

I nominate The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (294 pages)

I second:
Life of Pi
Diary of a Young Girl

@Saar: Message 24 - 2 points on 10/1

Saar The Book owl wrote: "@Rebecca: you've had some interesting adventures/travels! 'The three musketeers' by Alexandre Dumas was one of my first books that I bought with my own money. I think I was around the age of 9 year..."

Yes, we went on a boat tour of where they filmed it. It's mostly beach and rocks but I totally recognized those rocks lol! It looked just like the opening scene in the movie except they didn't have the hanging skeletons.

Hi, I'm Rebecca, 29 years old. I'm from Texas and I'm a project manager for a tech/software development company. I love to travel and learn about other cultures. I lived in India for 15 months (working for my company). I've also been to Thailand, Maldives, Dominican Republic, and St. Vincent where the 1st Pirates of the Caribbean movie was filmed.

I like to read a variety, but my favorites are Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult/Children's, and books written from other cultural perspectives. (There's a lot of good books written by American & English authors, but I like to hear from voices all around the world.) Favorite authors are Jane Austen, Agatha Christie & Alexandre Dumas.

*Quick Read*
The Mindf*ck series (5 books) by S. T. Abby is a sinister-suspense romance series. Each book is around 130 pages and all 5 books are rated 4 stars or higher. Available on Kindle or can order in print.

I'm starting this after finishing Peculiar Children.

Book 1:
The Risk

This is the perfect time to re-read your favorite books, authors, and genres. (Books fly by when you're having fun!)

For Audiobooks, don't forget you can turn up the play speed. A lot of narrators are slow paced/take frequent pauses, so turning up the speed helps cut down those times a ton.

Also when deciding what to read next, look at page numbers and double check GoodReads for their posted page count for the book.

*Page Count Sweet Spots:
- Anything in the 100's will be a quick read and an easy 1 point
- 250-350, a lot of books in this range and an easy way to snag 2
points
- 500-575, an efficiently earned 3 points
- 750-800, a whopping 4 points

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Grand Total: 224

October Total: 69.5 points
(view spoiler)[1) The Field Guide - Spiderwick Chronicles #1, 10/1, 114 pg, 1 point
2) The Seeing Stone - Spiderwick Chronicles #2, 10/1, 114 pg, 1 point
3) Ready Player One, 10/2, 374 pg, 2 points
4) El horror de Dunwich, 10/2, 96 pg, 1 point
5) The Bad Beginning - Unfortunate Events #1, 10/2, 176 pg, 1 point
6) The Fall of the House of Usher: An Edgar Allan Poe Short Story, 10/2, 36 pg, 1 point, 1/10 easy points
7) Smile (GN), 10/3, 214 pg, 0.5 point
8) The Trial (Kafka), 10/3, 255 pg, 2 points
9) Coraline, 10/3, 176 pg, 1 point
10) Dragon Rider, 10/4, 527 pg, 3 points
11) The Graveyard Book, 10/6, 312 pg, 2 points
12) The Man in the Brown Suit, 10/7, 381 pg, 2 points
13) The Tell-Tale Heart, 10/7, 31 pg, 1 point, 2/10 easy points
14) Eragon, 10/9, 503 pg, 3 points
15) Eldest, 10/10, 704 pg, 3 points
16) Batman: The Killing Joke Deluxe (GN), 10/10, 96 pg, 0.5 point
17) Brisingr, 10/11, 748 pg, 3 points
18) Inheritance, 10/13, 849 pg, 4 points
19) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 10/13, 108 pg, 1 point
20) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (BOTM), 10/14, 352 pg, 2.5 points
21) Sisters - Smile #2 (GN), 10/14, 199 pg, 0.5 point
22) Just So Stories, 10/14, 210 pg, 1 point
23) A Study in Emerald, 10/15, 1 pg (49 min audio), 1 point, 3/10 easy points
24) The Masque of the Red Death - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story, 10/15, 76 pg, 1 point
25) The Cask of Amontillado - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story, 10/15, 20 pg, 1 point, 4/10 easy points
26) A Descent into the Maelstrom - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story, 10/15, 36 pg, 1 point, 5/10 easy points
27) The Maze Runner, 10/17, 384 pg, 2 points
28) The Turn of the Screw, 10/17, 121 pg, 1 point
29) Batman: Year One (GN), 10/18, 144 pg, 0.5 point
30) Pumpkinheads (GN), 10/18, 209 pg, 0.5 point
31) A Monster Like Me, 10/18, 304 pg, 2 points
32) The Risk - Mindf*ck #1, 10/18, 132 pg, 1 point
33) Carmilla, 10/19, 108 pg, 1 point
34) Tales of Beatrix Potter, 10/19, 75 - 90 pg (3 hrs audio), 1 point
35) Sidetracked - Mindf*ck #2, 10/20, 116 pg, 1 point
36) Kidnapped, 10/21, 288 pg, 2 points
37) Trapped in Death Cave, 10/21, 151 pg, 1 point
38) Riding Freedom, 10/22, 144 pg, 1 point
39) The Enchanted Castle, 10/24, 291 pg, 2 points
40) Scarlet Angel - Mindf*ck #3, 10/24, 139 pg, 1 point
41) Where the Crawdads Sing, 10/26, 384 pg, 2 points
42) The Phantom of the Opera, 10/27, 360 pg, 2 points
43) Suee and the Shadow (GN), 10/28, 240 pg, 0.5 point
44) Pride and Prejudice, 10/29, 279 pg, 2 points
45) Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, 10/29, 5 pg, 1 point, 6/10 points
46) The Magic Shop, 10/29, 32 pg, 1 point, 7/10 easy points
47) The Music On The Hill, 10/29, 8 pg (15 min), 8/10 easy points
48) All the Lies - Mindf*ck #4, 10/30, 141 pg, 1 point
49) Little Lord Fauntleroy, 10/30, 164 pg, 1 point (hide spoiler)]


November Total: 85 points
(view spoiler)[1) Paint It All Red- Mindf*ck #5, 11/1, 176 pg, 1 pt
2) Murder Most Pemberley, 11/1, 252 pg, 2 pts
3) El Deafo (GN), 11/2, 233 pg, 0.5 pt
4) Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, 11/3, 271 pg, 2 pts
5) My Best Friend's Exorcism, 11/4, 337 pg, 2 pts
6) Holes, 11/5, 233 pg, 1 pt
7) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 11/5, 288 pg, 2 pts
8) The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, 11/6, 400 pg, 2 pts
9) V for Vendetta (GN), 11/6, 296 pg, 1 pt
10) Garlic and the Vampire (GN), 11/7, 160 pg, 0.5 pt
11) Dry, 11/8, 293 pg, 2 pts
12) One of Us Is Dead, 11/9, 272 pg, 2 pts
13) Heartless, 11/10, 464 pg, 2 pts
14) The Scarlet Pimpernel, 11/11, 182 pg, 1 pt
15) Bleak House, 11/12, 1,017 pg, 5 pts
16) A Court of Thorns and Roses (BOTM), 11/13, 432 pg, 2.5 pts
17) This One Summer (GN), 11/13, 319 pg, 1 pt
18) Mary Poppins Comes Back, 11/13, 312 pg, 2 pts
19) Hana's Suitcase: A True Story, 11/13, 120 pg, 1 pt
20) The Egg and Other Stories, 11/13, 36 pg, 1 pt, 1/10 easy points
21) Premeditated Myrtle, 11/14, 361 pg, 2 pts
22) The Secret Adversary, 11/15, 268 pg, 2 pts
23) Jaws, 11/15, 320 pg, 2 pts
24) The Orphan of Ellis Island, 11/16, 192 pg, 1 pt
25) Testimony, 11/16, 320 pg, 2 pts
26) A Little Princess, 11/16, 242 pg, 1 pt
27) Kim, 11/17, 366 pg, 2 pts
28) Murder in Old Bombay, 11/18, 400 pg, 2 pts
29) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 11/19, 309 pg, 2 pts
30) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 11/20, 341 pg, 2 pts
31) Five Little Pigs, 11/21, 224 pg, 1 pt
32) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 11/21, 435 pg, 2 pts
33) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 11/22, 734 pg, 3 pts
34) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 11/23, 912 pg, 4 pts
35) The Apartment, 11/23, 266 pg, 2 pts
36) The Crossover (GN), 11/23, 224 pg, 0.5 pt
37) Out of Africa, 11/24, 401 pg, 2 pts
38) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 11/25, 652 pg, 3 pts
39) There is a Tide, 11/25, 224 pg, 1 pt
40) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 11/26, 759 pg, 4 pts
41) The Wanderer (pic book), 11/28, 96 pg, 0.5 pt
42) The Giving Tree (pic book), 11/28, 64 pg, 0.5 pt
43) Poirot Investigates, 11/28, 191 pg, 1 pt
44) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 11/29, 620 pg, 3 pts
45) My Bluegrass Baby, 11/29, 250 pg, 2 pts
46) Lucinda's Secret - Spiderwick Chronicles #3, 11/30, 114 pg, 1 pt
47) Strong Like the Sea, 11/30, 304 pg, 2 pts
48) O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War (pic book), 11/30, 64 pg, 0.5 pt
49) The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country (poetry), 11/30, 32 pg, 0.5 pt, 2/10 easy points (hide spoiler)]


December Total: 69.5 points

1) The Crucible (BOTM), 12/1, 143 pg, 1 pt
2) If I Stay, 12/1, 201 pg, 1 pt
3) The Silent Ones, 12/1, 302 pg, 2 pts
4) The Ironwood Tree - Spiderwick Chronicles #4, 12/2, 114 pg, 1 pt
5) Gilded, 12/3, 502 pg, 3 pts
6) The Hunger Games, 12/4, 374 pg, 2 pts
7) Catching Fire - Hunger Games #2, 12/4, 391 pg, 2 pts
8) The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War, 12/5, 272 pg, 2 pts
9) Anatomy of a Murder, 12/6, 449 pg, 2 pts
10) I Have Lived a Thousand Years, 12/6, 234 pg, 1 pt
11) Mockingjay - Hunger Games #3, 12/6, 398 pg, 2 pts
12) Wizard for Hire, 12/7, 416 pg, 2 pts
13) The Wrath of Mulgarath - Spiderwick Chronicles #5, 12/7, 146 pg, 1 pt
14) To Build a Fire, 12/7, 32 pg, 1 pt, 1/10 easy points
15) Cursed - Gilded #2, 12/8, 496 pg, 2 pts
16) The Club, 12/10, 320 pg, 2 pts
17) Wizard's First Rule, 12/13, 836 pg, 4 pts
18) Let the Right One In, 12/14, 513 pg, 3 pts
19) Geekerella, 12/15, 320 pg, 2 pts
20) The Princess and the Fangirl, 12/17, 320 pg, 2 pts
21) Fable, 12/19, 357 pg, 2 pts
22) Stranger in the Woods, 12/19, 378 pg, 2 pts
23) Spellbreaker, 12/20, 327 pg, 2 pts
24) From the Earth to the Moon, 12/20, 185 pg, 1 pt
25) Starship Troopers, 12/22, 264 pg, 2 pts
26) The Lady or the Tiger? And, the Discourager of Hesitancy, 12/22, 35 pg, 1 pt, 2/10 easy points
27) Mary Poppins Opens the Door, 12/23, 288 pg, 2 pts
28) Hunter, 12/24, 400 pg, 2 pts
29) Lie to Me, 12/26, 505 pts, 3 pts
30) Anne of Green Gables, 12/29, 320 pg, 2 pts
31) All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, 12/29, 432 pg, 2 pts
32) Artemis, 12/30, 305 pg, 2 pts
33) Mary Poppins in the Park, 12/31, 282 pg, 2 pts
34) Skipping Christmas, 12/31, 177 pg, 1 pt
35) Fletch, 12/31, 197 pg, 1 pt
36) Paddle-to-the-Sea, 12/31, 64 pg, 1 pt
37) Whirligig, 12/31, 144 pg, 1 pt
38) New Kid (GN), 12/31, 256 pg, 1 pt
39) The Invention of Hugo Cabret (GN), 12/31, 534 pg, 1.5 pts