Fall ‘20 Read-A-Thon Raffle Entries

[Suzanne]

These Books Are LIT
✅ 400 - You might not think this book is 'lit' but L, I, and T are definitely in its title
All the Birds, Singing

Checked Out
✅ 600 - This is a debut novel, and it's about time you started on it
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Talk Wordy To Me
✅ 1000 - At over 450 pages, this hefty tome should give your arms a good workout too :
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS which has 640 pages.

[Kristina]

Kristina G.

These Books Are LIT
600 - Find a new flame in this book published in the last 3 years
Piranesi - started/completed 9/13/2020
- published 2020

No Shelf Control
600 - Dig through the backlog to find this book published more than 5 years ago
Stranger in a Strange Land - last 335 pages read between 9/12-9/19/2020
- published 1961

1000 - It'll take some time to read all of this author's works - there's more than 15 books!
The Pharaoh Key by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - started/completed 9/19-9/20/2020
- this duo has written 30 books together

TOTAL: 2,200/2,000

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

up to date through post 52

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Jackie M.

Talk Wordy To Me for 800 - 7+ words in title
A House at the Bottom of a Lake

Wilde Things for 800 - set in Wilde's lifetime
Little House in the Big Woods

No Shelf Control for 1000 - author w/ >15 books
Murder in Mesopotamia

[Kathy]

2400 points:

Checked Out
200 - Better return this borrowed book when you're done
A Lost Lady - Willa Cather

600 - This is a debut novel, and it's about time you started on it
A Kind of Freedom- Margaret Wilderson Sexton

1000 - Since 2009 the Goodreads Choice Awards has been introducing readers to new books, like this nominee
There There - Tommy Orange (for Fiction and Debut Author)

No Shelf Control
600 - Dig through the backlog to find this book published more than 5 years ago
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (2013)

[Irene]

2600 points! ^_^

These Books Are LIT
1000 - Everybody's talking about this book that at least 300,000 people rated | To Kill a Mockingbird ✓

Checked Out
1000 - Since 2009 the Goodreads Choice Awards has been introducing readers to new books, like this nominee | Uprooted ✓
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015)

No Shelf Control
600 - Dig through the backlog to find this book published more than 5 years ago | The Travelling Cat Chronicles ✓
Originally published in 2012. (Alternatively, if this isn't allowed, I believe my particular edition fits the book published in the last 3 years (2018) for the same point value in "These Books are Lit").

Links below are the exact editions read:

[Jax]

1000 - At over 450 pages, this hefty tome should give your arms a good workout too.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

1000 - Everybody's talking about this book that at least 300,000 people rated
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Kathy wrote: "2400 points:
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Hey Kathy, you already have an entry in the raffle. One per person this time.

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

updated through post 57

[Kathy]

Jackie wrote: "Kathy wrote: "2400 points:
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Hey Kathy, you already have an entry in the raffle. One per person this time."

Oops, okay. Thanks, Jackie