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Spring winners are Ebb, Massiel, and Taya. You can message me your bonus word or post it here!Bonus Words:
WATERMELON
SUNFLOWER
ROLLERCOASTER
Bonus Word: WATERMELONPages Read: 12,201
Bonus Points: 107
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Bonus Word: WATERMELONPages Read: 5750
Bonus Points: 33
Books Read:
1. Hello, Summer Debbie Macomber 432
2. Murder Lo Mein Vivien Chien 301
3. Clammed Up Barbara Ross 385
4. Island of Flowers Nora Roberts 187
5. Song of the West Nora Roberts 192
6. Regretting You Colleen Hoover 363
7. The Heart's Victory Nora Roberts 336
8. Positively Unstoppable: The Art of Owning It Diamond Dallas Page 295
9. Pumpkin Spice Peril Jenn McKinlay 288
10. High Noon Nora Roberts 492
11. Stuck Chris Grabenstein (not sure-I'll have to do some math)
12. Playing the Odds Nora Roberts 288
13. The Sun Down Motel Simone St James 336
14. The Build: Designing My Life of Choppers, Family, and Faith Paul Teutul Jr. 206
15. Summer Desserts Nora Roberts 225
16. Lessons Learned Nora Roberts 221
17. Tempting Fate Nora Roberts 288
18. Dear Wife Kimberly Belle 336
19. How to Win Friends & Influence People Dale Carnegie 291
20. Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Candace Owens 288
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Pages Read: 13,067
Bonus Points: 76 points (as of 09/19)
Books Read:
1. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses 2 points
2. Invisible Cities, 165 pages , 2 points (4)
3. Too Loud a Solitude, 110 pages, 1 point (5)
4. Year of the Monkey, 171 pages 2 points (7)
5. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 375 pages, 3 points (10)
6. The Ravishing of Lol Stein184 pages, 1 point (11)
7. Detective Kubu Investigates, 75 pages 2 points (13)
8. The Night Manager, 568 pages, 2 points, (15)
9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, 228 pages, 2 points (17)
10. Embers: One Ojibway's Meditation, 176 pages, 3 points, (20)
11. Of Mutts and Men,296 pages 2 points (22)
12. Dog on It, 306 pages, 2 points (24)
13. Thereby Hangs a Tail, 320 pages, 3 points (27)
14. To Fetch a Thief, 307 pages, 3 points (30)
15. A Fistful of Collars, 320 pages, 3 points (33)
16. The Dog Who Knew Too Much,320 2 points (35)
17. Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence, 164 pages, 0 points (35)
18. Ten Beach Road, 432 pages 1 point (36)
19. Alexander Hamilton, 818 pages 3 points (39)
20.Closely Watched Trains, 85 pages 1 point (40)
21. Regenerated, 7 pages 3 points (43)
22. The Way of Kings, 1124 pages, 2 points (45)
23. Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law , 279 pages, 0 points (45)
24. Gilead, 282 pages, 2 points (47)
25. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 423 pages, 3 points (50)
26. Call for the Dead, 171 pages 3 points, (53)
27. Evelina, 532 pages 1 point (54)
28. Malice, 628 pages 0 points (54)
29. Valor, 673 pages 0 points (54)
30. The Sea Cloak and other stories, 176 pages 1 point (55)
31. Men Without Women, 242 pages, 0 points (55)
32. Home, 512 pages 2 points (57)
33. The Rainbow Troops, 305 pages 3 points (60)
34. Saman, 197 pages 3 points (63)
35. Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co., 260 pages 1 point (64)
36. A Moveable Feast, 100 pages, 3 points (67)
37. The Lying Life of Adults, 324 pages 3 points (70)
38. Read and Buried, 325 pages 3 points (73)
39. DuneDune, 604 pages 0 points (73)
40. The Spook in the Stacks, 315 pages 3 points (76)
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWERPoints: 70
Books Read:
*Wild - Cheryl (S)trayed - 2
*How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain - (R)uth Goodman - 2
*The White Road - (S)arah Lotz - 2
*All the Clean Ones Are Married - (L)ori Cidylo - 2
*The Love of a Bad Man - (L)aura Elizabeth Woolett - 2
*(S)crew the Roses Send Me Thorns - Philip Miller - 1
*How to be Tudor - (R)uth Goodman - 2
*The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - (R)achel Joyce - 2
*The Perks of Being a Wallflower - (S)tephen Chbosky - 2
*The Modern Guide to Witchcraft - (S)kye Alexander - 2
*Paganism for Beginners - Althaea (S)ebastiani - 2
*The Spiral Dance - (S)tarhawk - 2
*In the Miso Soup - (R)yu Murakami - 2
*Melmoth - (S)arah Perry - 2
*Pine - (F)rancine Toon - 2
*The Manson Family - Allegra H. (L)ansing - 2
*(R)ites of Extinction - Matt (S)erafini - 3
*(F)our Sisters - Helen (R)appaport - 3
*Wild Embers - (N)ikita Gill - 2
*(R)ussia - Martin (S)ixsmith - 3
*The Lottery and Other Stories - (S)hirley Jackson - 2
*Crossroads - (L)aurel Hightower - 2
*The Japanese Mind - (R)oger L Davies - 2
*The Paper Menagerie - Ken (L)iu - 2
*The Possession - Michael (R)utger - 2
*The Anomoly - Michael (R)utger - 2
*The Housekeeper and the Proffessor - Yoko (O)gawa - 2
*Missing Person - (S)arah Lotz - 2
*The Nothing to See Here Hotel - (S)teven Butler - 2
*You Ain't Seen Nothing Yeti - (S)teven Butler - 2
*(S)eaing is Believing - (S)teven Butler - 3
*(S)ealed - (N)aomi Butler - 3
Bonus Word: Watermelon Pages Read: 220
Bonus Points: 3
Books Read:
- Nancy Holder - Jun 21, 2020 - 3 points
Bonus Word: RollercoasterTBR:
Pages Read: 9049
Bonus Points: 73
Books Read:
Bonus Word: WATERMELONCurrently Reading:
1. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (3 points)
2. The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis (3 points)
Books Read:
1. The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket (3 points & 221 pages)
2. Moonshine & Mischief by Kathleen Brooks (1 point & 120 pages)
3. The Darkest Whisper by Gena Showalter (1 point & 414 pages)
4. Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey (2 points & 248 pages)
5. The Darkest Angel by Gena Showalter ( 1 point & 118 pages)
6. The Darkest Passion by Gena Showalter (1 point & 443 pages)
Pages Read: 1,564
Bonus Points: 9
TBR: ** no set TBR. I'll read whatever I'm in the mood for **Currently reading:
Pages Read: 5,167
Books Read:
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Summer Read-a-ThonDuration: June 21 - September 20, 2020
It was hard to choice, but I'll go with:
BONUS WORD: WATERMELON
TBR:
TOTAL PAGES READ:
TOTAL BONUS POINTS:
CURRENTLY READING:
BOOKS READ in JUNE
** (pages read/running total/points earned/running total)
1. Oliver the Cat Who Saved Christmas: The Tale of a Little Cat with a Big Heart by Sheila Norton (6/25/20) ☆☆☆☆ (320/---/3/---)
2. Any Fin is Possible by Mo O'Hara (6/27/20) ☆☆☆ (208/528/3/6)
3. Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson (6/28/20) 3.5☆☆☆ (272/800/3/9)
4. French Pastry Murder by Leslie Meier (6/29/20) 3.5 ☆☆☆ (288/1088/2/11)
PAGES READ IN JUNE: 1088
BONUS POINTS FOR JUNE: 11
BOOKS READ in JULY
5. Invitation Only Murder by Leslie Meier (7/2/20) ☆☆☆☆ (240/---/2/--)
Have 2 questions.1. Do we excludes The, A, An at the beginning of the titles or do they count?
2. Do we use the same bonus word the entire challenge or can we change bonus words at different months?
ex.. use the second bonus word starting July 1 and maybe use the 3rd bonus word August 1 etc... or maybe returning to the 1st bonus word on September 1
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWERTBR:
Pages Read: 4563
Bonus Points: 11
Books Read:
1. Frozen Charlotte by Alex Bell - 1 bonus point
2. Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson - 1 bonus point
3. A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
4. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
5. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
6. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
7. The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder - 2 points
9. The Fear Index by Robert Harris - 2 points
10. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - 2 points
11. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
12. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson 3 points
Bonus word: WATERMELONtbr: all the books I currently own
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Diana S wrote: "Have 2 questions.1. Do we excludes The, A, An at the beginning of the titles or do they count?
2. Do we use the same bonus word the entire challenge or can we change bonus words at different mon..."
1. Yes, you cound The, A and An for the first word in the title.
2. Same word the entire challenge.
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWER
Pages Read: 2,048
Bonus Points: 13
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Pages Read: 2,048
Bonus Points: 13
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Leane wrote: "Diana S wrote: "Have 2 questions.1. Do we excludes The, A, An at the beginning of the titles or do they count?
2. Do we use the same bonus word the entire challenge or can we change bonus words ..."
Thank you Leane :D
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWERJUNE 21-SEPTEMBER 20
TBR: anything that i own and haven't yet read
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I choose ROLLERCOASTER for my bonus wordBonus Word: ROLLERCOASTER
June 21-September 20
Books:
(2) Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote - 108 pages
(3) The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon - 350 pages
(2) Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss - 152 pages
(2) Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright - 320 pages
(1) Anxious People by Fredrik Backman - 352 pages
(2) Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine - 360 pages
(3) The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom - 160 pages
(3) The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows - 416 pages
(2) Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith - 171 pages
(1) The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History's Unsolved Mysteries by Brad Meltzer - 224 pages
(3) Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump by Kate Andersen Brower - 271 pages
(1) America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster by Mary Kay McBrayer - 224 pages
(3) Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies’ Most Memorable Crimes by Harold Schechter - 374 pages
(2) The Darkness by Ragnar Jonasson - 310 pages
(0) Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson - 272 pages
(3) Little Eyes - 256 pages
(2) The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry - 272 pages
(1) Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important and Most Unexpected Questions by Ian Olasov - 176 pages
(2) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - 444 pages
(3) Letters From An Astrophysicist - 247 pages
(2) The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket - 272 pages
(1) The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley - 336 pages
(2) The Mist by Ragnar Jonasson - 300 pages
(3) Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror by Lincoln Michel - 304 pages
(2) Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell - 368 pages
(2) The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket - 272 pages
(3) Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg - 352 pages
(0) The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward - 226 pages
(3) S by Koji Suzuki - 240 pages
(3) The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith - 384 pages
(0) Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman - 324 pages
(3) Evie and the Pack-Horse Librarians by Laurel Beckley - 83 pages
(3) Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion by Tori Telfer - 320 pages
(2) Misery by Stephen King - 370 pages
(0) Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman - 301 pages
(0) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - 244 pages
(0) Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie - 288 pages
(3) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata - 163 pages
(3) The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - 304 pages
(0) Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky - 486 pages
(2) Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter - 189 pages
(3) Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Remarkable Stories of Criminal Women Throughout History by Erika Owen - 208 pages
(2) How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity - 240 pages
(3) Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson - 302 pages
(2) Nightblind by Ragnar Jonasson - 206 pages
(3) The Trial of Lizzie Borden - 289 pages
Bonus points: 93
Total pages: 12,630 pages
Karen wrote: "I love the bonus words!"Thank you! <3 Me too, they are awesome.
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWERTBR: TBR:
Bonus Points:
Pages Read:
Books Read:
1. The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
2. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
3. Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz
4. Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz
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Summer 2020 Read-A-ThonJun. 21/20 to Sep. 21/20
Bonus Word: ROLLERCOASTER
Pages Read: 6310
Bonus Points: 37
Books read: 18
1. Of Curses and Kisses, Sandhya Menon, 380 pgs, 3 pts
2. The Undead Pool, Kim Harrison, 423 pgs, 1 pt
3. The Witch With No Name, Kim Harrison, 462 pgs, 1 pt
4.The Black God's Drums, P. Djeli Clark, 112 pgs, 3 pts
5. Chosen Ones, Veronica Roth, 419 pgs, 3 pts
6. American Demon, Kim Harrison, 464 pgs, 1 pt
7. Slay, Brittney Morris, 323 pgs, 1 pt
8. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pgs, 3 pts
9. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy, 518 pgs, 3 pts
10. Cursed Luck, Kelley Armstrong, 309 pgs, 3 pts
11. False Value, Ben Aaronovitch, 416 pgs, 2 pts
12. Junkyard Cats, Faith Hunter, 116 pgs, 0 pts
13. Snared, Jennifer Estep, 385 pgs, 3 pts
14. Cress, Marissa Meyer, 552 pgs, 1 pt
15. Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark, Stephanie K. Smith, ? pgs, 3 pts
16. A Bad Day for Sunshine, Darynda Jones, 400 pgs, 1 pt
17. Black Panther: A Nation at our Feet, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 144 pgs, 2 pts
18. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova, 676 pgs, 3 pts
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Currently Reading:
Pages Read: 2,563
Listening Time: 24hr 36min
Bonus Points: 14
Bonus Word: WATERMELON
Books Read:
1. Ruby Ridge by Jess Walter
2. Starry Montana Sky Debra Holland
3. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America Nancy Isenberg
4. Dracula Bram Stoker
5. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
6. James Madison: A Life Reconsidered Lynne Cheney
7. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone J.K. Rowling
8. John Adams David McCullough
Bonus Word: SUNFLOWER
TBR:
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Summer Read-A-Thon = June 21, 2020 - September 21, 2020Bonus Word: ROLLERCOASTER
Books:
(3) The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Pages: 372
Read: 6/20/2020 - 6/23/2020
(2) Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole
Pages: 368
Read: 6/24/2020 - 6/27/2020
(2) Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines
Pages: 328
Read: 6/28/2020 - 6/30/2020
(2) Fireborne by Rosaria Munda
Pages: 432
Read: 7/1/2020 - 7/6/2020
(3) The Winter King by C.L. Wilson
Pages: 594
Read: 7/7/2020 - 7/14/2020
(2) In the Hand of the Goddess by Tamora Pierce
Pages: 209
Read: 7/15/2020 - 7/17/2020
(2) In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
Pages: 482 pages
Read: 7/18/2020 - 7/26/2020
(3) The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Pages: 437
Read: 7/27/2020 - 8/3/2020
(2) Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao
Pages: 455
Read: 8/3/2020 - 8/10/2020
(3) The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Pages: 360
Read: 8/11/2020 - 8/14/2020
(3) Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Pages: 502
Read: 8/15/2020 - 8/21/2020
(3) The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
Pages: 326
Read: 8/22/2020 - 8/27/2020
(3) The Last Ever After by Soman Chainani
Pages: 655
Read: 8/28/2020 - 9/4/2020
(3) Crown of Coral and Pearl by Mara Rutherford
Pages: 424
Read: 9/5/2020 - 9/11/2020
(3) The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
Pages: 381
Read: 9/11/2020 - 9/14/2020
(2) Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards
Pages: 290
Read: 9/15/2020 - 9/19/2020
Pages Read: 6,615
Bonus Points: 41
Books Read: 16
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For every book that you read with a title starting with one of the letters in the bonus word give yourself 1 point, if any section (first, middle, last) of the author's name starts with a letter in the bonus word give yourself 2 points. The most you can have for any one book is 3 bonus points, 1 for title and 2 for author.
For example (if WINTER were our bonus word):
Nothing Lasts Forever by Sidney Sheldon = 1 point for title
OR
Fire in the Blood by Dale Ibitz = 2 bonus points for author last name
OR
Winter Swans by Danica Winters = 1 point for title, 2 points for author = 3 bonus points
Be sure to tally your pages and bonus points separately. The top 3 people with the most bonus points at the end of the challenge will get to choose a bonus word for the next quarter. NOTE: Bonus point winners cannot win in two read-a-thon's in a row, to give more people the chance to choose bonus words.
To sign up simply start yourself a post to track what you've read during the read-a-thon. Edit your post throughout the read-a-thon to let everyone know which books you've read & your total number of pages.
Here is a template for your post:
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Bonus Word:
TBR:
Pages Read:
Bonus Points:
Books Read:
1.
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Our last Spring read-a-thon winners will be the top three bonus point holders, and they will each choose a word for us to use in the Summer!
You can choose from:
TBA