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Summer TBR Scoring 2021
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#40=40 points
368 pgs= 4 points
Bonus A= 5 points
Book Total= 49 points
Challenge Total= 925 points
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The Paris Library
50 pts
351 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
---Book Total: 59 pts
Challenge Total: 2042 pts"
Congratulations Donna for completing the challenge! Way to go.
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Donna 2042
Lorna 1445
CherylA 1425
Wanda 1382
Julia 1322
Kathleen 1307
Linda 1013
Jasmine 925
Maureen 849
AshleyMarie 705
Chris 687
JoAnne 685
Peggy 555
Gretchen 526
Erica 453
Becky 447
Jayme 151
Ashley 0
Aurora 0
Donna; Congratulations on completing the 2021 Summer TBR Challenge!
The Widows of Champagne by Renee Ryan#32 = 32 points
HF 5 points
379 pages = 4 points
Book Total 41 points
Challenge Total 890 points
The Paper Magician by Charlie N. HolmbergTask ##46 - #46 points
222 pgs - 2 points
HF N - 0 points
TBR Years 3 - 6 points
Total Points = 54
Total Challenge points 739
Thanks. I love participating in this challenge. It's nice to finally get to books I've collected over the years. I often think, "Why didn't I read this one sooner? It's so good."
Donna wrote: "Thanks. I love participating in this challenge. It's nice to finally get to books I've collected over the years. I often think, "Why didn't I read this one sooner? It's so good.""I add my congrats on your prolific reading!!
Book # 33 In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez33 points
HF=5 points
On TBR since 2013=15 points
334 pages=4 points
Book total=57 points
Challenge total=1070 points
The Passing Bells by Phillip Rock#33 spot - 33 points
527 pages - 6 points
Date added: March 15, 2014 - 15 points
HF - 5 points
Book total - 59 points
Previous total - 555 points
Challenge total - 614 points
Total books read - 10
Plus 1 Bonus book
Congratulations, Donna! I never manage more than about 20 of the books, but at least that shortens that ever growing list.
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben Macintyre#8 spot - 8 points
377 pages - 4 points
Date added: March 6, 2021 - 0 points
Book total: 12 points
Challenge total: 1334 points
Way to go, Donna! A staggering amount of books! Short of taking a three week vacation, I always seem to fall short of my summer reading goals - and working in the library doesn't help. So true about "Why didn't I read this sooner?"
A Death in the Small Hours by Charles Finch#30 = 30pts
310 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 39pts
A Royal Affair by Allison Montclair
#32 = 32pts
320 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 41pts
The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
#16 = 16pts
368 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 25pts
The Disappearance of Alistair Ainsworth by Leonard Goldberg
#26 = 26pts
320 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 35pts
Challenge total = 1449pts
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo#23 spot = 23 points
Historical Fiction = 0 points
290 pages = 2 points
Date added: October 13, 2016 = 8 points
Total Points: 33 points
Cumulative Points = 1468 points
Still Life With Crows by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child#30 - 30pts
564p - 6pts
TBR Date 31Dec16 - 8pts
Bonus A, Set in summer - 5pts
Book total - 49pts
Challenge total - 792pts
Linda wrote: "Congratulations, Donna! I never manage more than about 20 of the books, but at least that shortens that ever growing list."That's about my total also, Linda.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survivalby John VaillantTask #31 - 31 points
352 pgs - 4 points
HF N - 0 points
TBR Years 0 - 0 points
Bonus Category -
Total Points = 35
Total Challenge Points 774
The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel#46 46 pts
date added 2/12: 15 pts
373pp: 4 pts
Book Total: 65 pts
Challenge Total: 752 pts
book:Virgin Widow|9913832]-Anne O'Brien-8/6-💚💚💚💚#37= 37 Points
449 Pages = 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-2/9/2011- 15 Points
Total Points= 61
Book:-The Devil Amongst the Lawyers-Sharyn McCrumb-8/8-👹👹👹👹👹
#33= 33 Points
320 pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-4/23/2012= 15 Points
Total Points for Book= 57
Those Who Save Us-Jenna Blum-8/9-🍞🍞🍞🍞
#14=14 Points
479 Pages= 4 Points
Hf-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-5/22/2012= 15 Points
Total for Book=38 Points
Pirate Latitudes-Michael Crichton-8/11-🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
#34= 34 Points
312 Pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-3/11/2012= 15 Points
Total Points for Book= 58
Book: The Good Knight-Sarah Woodbury-8/13-🐴🐴🐴🐴
#4= 4 Points
361 Pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-5/3/2014= 15 Points
Total Points for Book= 28
Total Challenge Points= 1624
In America by Susan Sontag#38 spot = 38 points
Historical Fiction = 5 points
387 pages = 4 points
Date added: May 20, 2014 = 15 points
Total Points: 62 points
Cumulative Points = 1530 points
Some Distant Shore#25 spot - 25 points
235 pages - 2 points
Date added: May 15, 2021 - 0 points
Book total: 27 points
Challenge points: 1361 points
Eye of the LawBonus book from Gretchen's TBR shelf (page 9) - 50 points
224 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Book total: 57 points
Challenge total: 1418 points
Church of Marvels by Leslie ParryBonus book from moderator JoLene's TBR shelf = 50 points
352 pages = 4 points
Historical Fiction = 5 points
Total Points: 59 points
Cumulative Points: = 1589 points
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan#37 = 37 points
334 pages = 4 points
Date added 6/23/18 =4 points
HF 5 points
Bonus b 5 points
Total points 55 points
Challenge Total 945 points
Path Between: An historical novel of the Dickinson Family of Amherst#22 spot - 22 points
288 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 15, 2021 - 0 points
Book total: 29 points
Challenge total: 1447 points
Truly Madly Plaid by Eliza Knight#11 = 11pts
384 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 20pts
Three Words for Goodbye by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb
#5 = 5pts
400 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 14pts
The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck
#28 = 28pts
353 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 37pts
An Art of Deception by Leonard Goldberg
#25 = 25pts
320 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 34pts
An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch
#29 = 29pts
304 pages = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 38pts
Challenge total = 1592
The Stolen Crown: The Secret Marriage that Forever Changed the Fate of England by Susan Higginbotham#36 on list=36 points
HF=5 points
384 pages=4 points
On TBR since 2013=15 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=1130 points
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 BY Rick AtkinsonTask #42 - 42 points
877 pgs - 8 points
HF N - 0 points
TBR Years 1 - 2 points
Bonus Category -
Total Points = 52
Total Challenge points 826
Fool's Fate BY Robin Hobb Task #47 -47 points
805 pgs - 8 points
HF N - 0 points
TBR Years 0 - 0 points
Bonus Category -
Total Points = 55
Total Challenge Points 881
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#6 = 6pts
HF = 5pts
336pgs = 4pts
Book Total = 15pts
#13 - Nobody Loves a Centurion by John Maddox Roberts
#13 = 13pts
HF = 5pts
288pgs = 2pts
Before 6/2016 = 10pts
Book Total = 20pts
#4 - The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin
#4 = 4pts
352pgs = 4pts
Author Initials in Word Summer = 5pts
Book Total 13pts
#32 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
#32 = 32pts
HF = 5pts
416pgs = 4pts
Book Total = 41pts
#10 The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
#10 = 10pts
HF = 5pts
368pgs = 4pts
Book Total = 19pts
#27 Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
#27 = 27pts
320pgs = 2pts
Book Total = 29pts
#12 Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
#12 = 12pts
HF = 5pts
449pgs = 4pts
Book Total = 21pts
Challenge Total = 684pts
Snow in August by Pete Hamill#20 spot = 20 points
Historical Fiction = 5 points
327 pages = 4 points
Date added: May 20, 2014 = 15 points
Total Points: 44 points
Cumulative Points = 1633 points
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley#41 Spot - 41 pts
496 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 45 pts
The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls by Jessica Spotswood
#37 Spot - 37 pts
320 pgs - 4 pts
Added 7/14/18 - 4 pts
Bonus A - Summer in the titles - 5 pts
Book total - 50 pts
Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris
#43 Spot - 43 pts
336 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 1/11/20 - 2 pts
Book total - 54 pts
Post total - 149 pts
Previous total - 1425 pts
Challenge total - 1574 pts
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#42= 42 points
401 pgs= 4 points
HF= 5 points
4/30/2020= 2 points
Book Total= 53 points
A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell
#2= 2 points
256= 2 points
HF= 5 points
Book Total= 9 points
Challenge Total= 985 points
August Bonus BookChosen from Jasmine's List
A Thousand Ships-Natalie Haynes
Bonus Book= 50 Points
366 Pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Total Points for Book= 59
Total for Challenge= 1683
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Virginia Hanlon Grohl#38 - 38pts
240p - 2pts
Book Total - 40pts
Challenge Total - 832pts
Leaving Before It's Over by Jean Reynolds Page#32 on list=32 points
368 pages=4 points
On TBR since 2013=15 points
Book total= 51 points
Challenge total=1181 points
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster#14 spot = 14 points
Historical Fiction = 0 points
330 pages = 4 points
Date added: January 16, 2015 = 15 points
Total Points: 33 points
Cumulative Points = 1666 points
Circles of Time by Phillip Rock#30 spot - 30 points
309 pages - 4 points
Date added: October 17, 2019 - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Book total - 41 points
Previous total - 614 points
Challenge total - 655 points
Total books read - 11
Plus 1 Bonus book
The Boleyn King by Laura Andersen#45 spot - 45 points
358 pages - 4 points
Date added: July 11, 2013 - 15 points
Book total - 64 points
Previous total - 655 points
Challenge total - 719 points
Total books read - 12
Plus 1 Bonus book
Table for Five by Susan Wiggs#27 on list=27 points
464 pages=4 points
On TBR since 2013=15 points
Bonus a--set in summer
Book total=51 points
Challenge total=1232 points
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir#45= 45 points
480 pages = 4 points
Dated added 1/17= 8 points
HF = 5 points
Book Total 62 points
Challenge Total 1007 points
The Painter Knight#35 spot - 35 points
522 pages - 6 points
Date added May 15, 2021 - 0 points
Book total: 41 points
Challenge total: 1488 points
Power by Linda Hogan#10 spot = 10 points
Historical Fiction = 0 points
235 pages = 2 points
Date added: September 29, 2014 = 15 points
Total Points: 27 points
Cumulative Points = 1693 points
Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo-Stephanie Storey-8/16-💙💙💙💙💙#1 Spot- 1 Point
320 Pages = 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-5/23/2016= 10 Points
Total Points for Book = 20
Etruscans-Morgan Llywelyn-8/18-⚡⚡⚡
#15 Spot= 15 Points
320 Pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-5/24/2012= 15 Points
Total Points for Book=39
book:Prince of Time-Sarah Woodbury
#3 Spot= 3 Points
363 Pages = 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-12/1/2013= 15 Points
Total Points for Book = 27
Book: A Burnable Book
Spot #2= 2 Points
464 Pages= 4 Points
HF-Y= 5 Points
Date Added to TBR-12/21/2015= 10 Points
Total Points for Book= 21
Total Points for Challenge=1790
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#34 spot - 34 points
476 pages - 4 points
Book total: 38 points
Challenge total - 453 points