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TBR Scoring 2020
Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts#38 spot = 38 points
453 pages = 4 points
Date added March 15, 2018 = 4 points
Summer Bonus (one of the author's initials is in the word SUMMER) = 5 points
Book Total = 51 points
Challenge Total = 127 points
Ashley Marie wrote: "Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
#11 - 11pts
468 pages - 4pts
Book total: 15pts
Challenge total: 80pts"
Hey,
I don't have this book on your list anywhere currently. Are you planning on editing after the 1st?
#11 - 11pts
468 pages - 4pts
Book total: 15pts
Challenge total: 80pts"
Hey,
I don't have this book on your list anywhere currently. Are you planning on editing after the 1st?
Siracusa by Delia Ephron#47= 47 points
304pages = 4 points
Date added 7/16= 6 points
Bonus B = 5 points
Book Total 62 points
Challenge Total 308 points
SCORES UP TO #55
Donna 732
Kathleen 592
Maureen 308
Cheryl A 229
Chris 247
Jasmine 235
Peggy 231
Jayme 199
Linda 152
JC 127
Erica 108
Ashley Marie 65***
Gretchen 0
ASHLEY--Will you check your list, please? I do not have the book Poisoned Blade listed for you.
Donna 732
Kathleen 592
Maureen 308
Cheryl A 229
Chris 247
Jasmine 235
Peggy 231
Jayme 199
Linda 152
JC 127
Erica 108
Ashley Marie 65***
Gretchen 0
ASHLEY--Will you check your list, please? I do not have the book Poisoned Blade listed for you.
Ohhhh crap, I'm so sorry - I'd updated my list in my own spreadsheet prior to June 1st but forgot to update my list in the Book Lists thread. Is it possible to hold that one for a couple days until I can update the list for July?
Ashley Marie wrote: "Ohhhh crap, I'm so sorry - I'd updated my list in my own spreadsheet prior to June 1st but forgot to update my list in the Book Lists thread.
Is it possible to hold that one for a couple days unt..."
Yes, just make another post about it after July so I make sure to add the points in when I update the spreadsheet.
Is it possible to hold that one for a couple days unt..."
Yes, just make another post about it after July so I make sure to add the points in when I update the spreadsheet.
Jasmine wrote: "Yes, just make another post about it after July so I make sure to add the points in when I update the spreadsheet."Okay, fantastic. Thank you!
As of now I have 65 points.
The Cabinet of Curiosities by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child#45 - 45pts
629 pages - 6pts
TBR (Dec 2016) - 6pts
Book total: 57pts
Challenge total: 122pts (57 + Wolf Hall 65)
The Patient by Michael Palmer#44 - 44 pts
433pp - 4 pts
Date Added 6/1/17 - 6pts
Book Total: 54 pts
Challenge Total: 301 pts
To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd#49=49 points
HF=5 points
332 pages=4 points
Dated added 9/2012=15 points
Book total=73 points
Challenge total=225 points
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman#7 =7 points
401 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Date added: 1/17/2017 = 6 pts
Book Total: 22 pts
Challenge Total: 754
The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda#12 = 12 pts
352 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 3/31/2016 = 8 pts
Book Total: 24 pts
Challenge Total: 778
Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin#20 = 20 pts
347 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 8/21/2015 = 8 pts
Book Total: 32 pts
Challenge Total: 810
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
#47= 47 points
336 pages= 4 points
Bonus D= 5 points
Date Added 9/17/17= 4 points
Book Total=60 points
Challenge Total=295 points
#47= 47 points
336 pages= 4 points
Bonus D= 5 points
Date Added 9/17/17= 4 points
Book Total=60 points
Challenge Total=295 points
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor#48=48 points
HF=5 poins
401 pages=4 points
Date added 1/2013=15 points
Bonus a--a book set in summer=5 points
Book total=77 points
Challenge total=302 points
Blood Countess by Lana Popović#46 Spot - 46 pts
293 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 53 pts
The Hollywood Daughter by Kate Alcott
#34 Spot - 34 pts
305 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 4/20/17 - 6 pts
Bonus C - Summer scene on cover - 5 pts
Book total - 54 pts
June Mod Bonus
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Mod bonus - 50 pts
496 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 59 pts
Post total - 166 pts
Challenge total - 395 pts
The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher#30 = 30pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
#46 = 46pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 54pts
Seeing Darkness by Heather Graham
#1 = 1pt
384pgs = 4pts
Book total = 5pts
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
#32 = 32pts
322pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 41pts
Challenge total = 731pts
I've been reading all month. I haven't been updating all month so here goes.
Belgrave Square by Anne Perry
#39 = 39pts
414pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2019 = 2pts
Book Total = 50pts
Devil Dance by Suzanne Arruda
#25 = 25pts
248pgs = 2pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2017 = 6pts
Book Total = 38pts
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
#44 = 44pts
432pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2018 = 4pts
Book Total = 57pts
The White Mirror by Elsa Hart
#45 = 45pts
310pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2019 = 2pts
Book Total = 56pts
Challenge Total = 201pts
Belgrave Square by Anne Perry
#39 = 39pts
414pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2019 = 2pts
Book Total = 50pts
Devil Dance by Suzanne Arruda
#25 = 25pts
248pgs = 2pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2017 = 6pts
Book Total = 38pts
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
#44 = 44pts
432pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2018 = 4pts
Book Total = 57pts
The White Mirror by Elsa Hart
#45 = 45pts
310pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Before 6/2019 = 2pts
Book Total = 56pts
Challenge Total = 201pts
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín#44 - 44pts
262 pages - 2pts
HF - 5pts
TBR (Jan 2015) - 10pts
Set in Summer Bonus - 5pts
Book total: 66pts
Challenge total: 188pts
The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas#35 spot = 35 points
448 pages = 4 points
Date added May 21, 2020 = 2 points
Book Total = 41 points
Challenge total = 168 points
Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher#40 spot = 40 points
504 pages = 6 points
Date added December 20, 2019 = 4 points
Book total = 50 points
Challenge total = 218 points
Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham#46=46 points
HF=5 points
416 pages=4 points
Date added 2013=15 points
Book total=70 points
Death on Blackheath by Anne Perry
Moderator bonus #1=50 points
320 pages=4 points
Book total=54 points
Challenge total=426 points
Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
#45=45 points
551 pages= 6 points
HF= 5 points
Bonus F= 5 points
Date Added 11/10/18= 2 points
Book Total=63 points
Challenge Total=358 points
#45=45 points
551 pages= 6 points
HF= 5 points
Bonus F= 5 points
Date Added 11/10/18= 2 points
Book Total=63 points
Challenge Total=358 points
Book list has been updated accordingly.Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
#11 - 11pts
468 pages - 4pts
Book total: 15pts
Challenge total: 203pts
Kathleen wrote: "The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher
#30 = 30pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
#46 = 46pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5..."
Just a heads up, you added wrong for Red Letter Days. It should be 55 points.
#30 = 30pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
#46 = 46pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5..."
Just a heads up, you added wrong for Red Letter Days. It should be 55 points.
JC wrote: "The Assassin's Blade by Sarah J. Maas
#35 spot = 35 points
448 pages = 4 points
Date added May 21, 2020 = 2 points
Book Total = 41 points
Challenge total = 168 points"
To be eligible for the date added points the book had to be added before June 1 2019.
#35 spot = 35 points
448 pages = 4 points
Date added May 21, 2020 = 2 points
Book Total = 41 points
Challenge total = 168 points"
To be eligible for the date added points the book had to be added before June 1 2019.
SCORES UP TO #78
Donna 810
Kathleen 732*
Linda 426
Cheryl A 395
Jasmine 358
Maureen 308
Chris 301
Peggy 231
JC 212*
Ashley Marie 203
Gretchen 201
Jayme 199
Erica 108
SCORE ADJUSTMENTS:
-Kathleen: Incorrectly added in post #69
-JC: Incorrect points for date added in post #72&73
Donna 810
Kathleen 732*
Linda 426
Cheryl A 395
Jasmine 358
Maureen 308
Chris 301
Peggy 231
JC 212*
Ashley Marie 203
Gretchen 201
Jayme 199
Erica 108
SCORE ADJUSTMENTS:
-Kathleen: Incorrectly added in post #69
-JC: Incorrect points for date added in post #72&73
Jasmine wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "The Kennedy Debutante by Kerri Maher#30 = 30pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford
#46 = 46pts
384..."
Thanks for catching that error
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelMod Bonus Jackie= 50 points
559 pages = 6 points
HF 5 points
Book Total 61 points
Challenge Total 369
The Italian Secretary by Caleb CarrBonus Book #1 Becky's List: 50pts
333pp - 4pts
HF - 5pts
Bonus b (MC takes a train trip) 5pts
Book Total: 64pts
Challenge Total: 365
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart#37 spot = 37 points
345 pages = 4 points
Summer Bonus (set during a pandemic) = 5 points
Book total = 46 points
Challenge Total = 264
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison#46 spot - 46 points
416 pages - 4 points
Added to TBR May 2019 - 2 points
Book total: 52 points
Challenge total: 216 points
Jasmine - in the tally's to date you still have me at 108 points, but I think you've missed my additional book in message 25. New total in this post anyway :)
Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly#35 = 35 pts
448 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 12/20/2014 = 10 pts
Book Total: 49 pts
Challenge Total: 859
Erica wrote: "No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
#46 spot - 46 points
416 pages - 4 points
Added to TBR May 2019 - 2 points
Book total: 52 points
Challenge total: 216 points
..."
Thanks. i had missed post 6. Fixed now.
#46 spot - 46 points
416 pages - 4 points
Added to TBR May 2019 - 2 points
Book total: 52 points
Challenge total: 216 points
..."
Thanks. i had missed post 6. Fixed now.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II by Liza Mundy
#48= 48 points
640 pages= 6 points
Date Added October 2017= 4 points
Book Total=58 points
Challenge Total= 416 points
#48= 48 points
640 pages= 6 points
Date Added October 2017= 4 points
Book Total=58 points
Challenge Total= 416 points
Stranger in the Room by Amanda Kyle Williams#13 = 13 pts
320 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 3/14/2016 = 8 pts
Summer bonus a = 5 pts
Book Total: 30 pts
Challenge Total: 889
Tai-Pan by James Clavell#11 = 11pts
734 pgs - 6 pts
Date added: 4/13/2016 = 8 pts
HF = 5 pts
Book Total: 30 pts
Challenge Total: 919
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva#39 =39 pts
437 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 11/27/2014 = 10 pts
Book Total: 53 pts
Challenge Total: 972
The Enemy by Charlie Higson#10 = 10 pts
407 pgs =4 pts
Date added: 5/18/2016 = 8 pts
Book Total: 22 pts
Challenge Total: 994
Island of the Swans by Ciji Ware#46 Spot - 46 points
592 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date Added: Oct 26,2011 - 15 points
Previous Total - 231 pages
Book Total - 72 points
Challenge Total - 303 points
Clariel by Garth Nix #49 spot = 49 points
382 pages = 4 points
Date added May 17, 2020 = 2 points
Summer Bonus (set in summer) = 5 points
Book total = 60 points
Challenge total = 324
The Fairest of Them All by Carolyn Turgeon
#43= 43 points
288 pages= 2 points
Added November 2018= 2 points
Book Total= 47 points
Challenge Total=463 points
#43= 43 points
288 pages= 2 points
Added November 2018= 2 points
Book Total= 47 points
Challenge Total=463 points
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels by Freya Stark. #49 -49 points
Date Added: 4/13 -15 pts
320pp -4 pts
Bonus e (author's initials in the word summer) - 5pts
Book Total: 73pts
Challenge Total: 438pts
Coal River by Ellen Marie Wiseman#38 = 38 points
Dated added 1/2016 = 8 points
326 pages= 4 points
HF = 5 points
Bonus a set in summer 5 points
Book Total 60 points
Challenge Total 429 points
Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco#40 - 40pts
453 pages - 4pts
TBR (Nov 18) - 2pts
HF - 5pts
Bonus - MC takes a trip - 5pts
Book total: 56pts
Challenge total: 259pts
Murder on Pleasant Avenue by Victoria Thompson#36 = 36pts
336pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Bonus A - set in summer = 5pts
Book total = 50pts
The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
#4 = 4pts
320pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 13pts
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
#9 = 9pts
319pgs = 4pts
Book total = 13pts
The Girl in White Gloves by Kerri Maher
#29 = 29pts
384pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 38pts
Challenge total = 846pts
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett#38 spot - 38 points
337 pages - 4 points
Book total: 42 points
Challenge total: 258 points
Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History by Catharine Arnold#49 Spot - 49 pts
368 pgs - 4 pts
Bonus F - Pandemic - 5 pts
Book total - 58 pts
On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman
#44 Spot - 44 pts
305 pgs - 4 pts
Added 3/31/17 - 6 pts
Book total - 54 pts
Heirs and Assigns by Marjorie Eccles
#29 Spot - 29 pts
216 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 11/1/15 - 8 pts
Bonus E - Authors initials in Summer - 5 pts
Book total - 49 pts
Post total - 161 pts
Challenge total - 556 pts
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#49 = 49pts
512pgs = 6pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 60pts
Spitfire by M. L. Huie
#31 = 31pts
312pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 40pts
A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn
#40 = 40pts
320pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 49pts
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
#48 = 48pts
471pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 57pts
Challenge total = 592pts