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Completion/Trees 🎄From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Read 12/1
Pages: 454
Rating: 4🌟
Justification: pg 76 “…wood from a Blood Forest tree”
Book points: 3
Team points: 3
Completion/Trees 🎄Kiss My Cupcake by Helena Hunting
Pages: 368
Date: 12/2
Rating: 4 1/2 🌟
Justification: pg 248 “…she traces the outline of the tree that decorates my side….”
Book points: 3
Team points: 6
Completion PostTheme week: Trees
Book: The Light of All That Falls
Author: James Islington
Pages: 864
Date Read: 12/1
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: several times throughout the book the soldiers hide in trees
Book Points: 7
Team Total points: 13
Theme week: TreesBook: Season of Wonder
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Pages: 320
Date Read: 12/2
Rating: 4*
Justification: Trees on cover and christmas tree in text.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points 16
Theme Week: TreesBook: Such a Fun Age
Author: Kiley Reid
Pages: 320
Date Read: Dec 2
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 147: It was the first time all day the snow had stopped falling, and above their heads, it balanced an inch high on naked trees, wires, and window ledges.
Points: 3
Team Total Points: 19
Theme Week: TreesBook: The Shadow Of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy #1)
Author: James Islington
Pages: 704
Date Read: Dec 3
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 246: The trees themselves were thick, bent and twisted, looming over them as if angered by their intrusion.
Points: 7
Team Total Points: 26
Theme week: TreesBook: Empire of the Vampire
Author: Jay Kristoff
Pages: 752
Date Read: Dec 3 2021
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: loc 1184 taller than the grandest trees
Book Points: 7
Team Total points: 33
Theme week: TreesBook: Christmas Bliss
Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Pages: 294
Date Read: 12/1/21
Rating:1 star
Justification: trees on cover
Book Points:1
Team Total points:34
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Book: Afraid
Author: Jack Kilborn
Pages: 388
Date Read: 12/1
Rating: 3
Justification: Trees on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 37
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Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 401
Date Read: 12/3
Rating: 4
Justification: "...I'd be sitting there in a red velvet dress, next to a fully lit Christmas tree..." pg 51
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 40
Theme Week: TreesBook: A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Pages: 720
Date Read: Dec 4
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg.57: The only thing he missed—besides Hemming—was Wyoming itself, its extravagant flatness, its trees so deeply green they looked blue, the sugar-and-turd apple-and-peat smell of a horse after it had been rubbed down for the night.
Points: 7
Team Total Points: 47
Theme week: TreesBook: Back in the Burbs
Author: Tracy Wolff
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/3
Rating: 4
Justification: when Mallory went to her aunt's house she inherited, there was a tree that fell through the front porch.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 50
Theme Week: TreesBook: Yesternight
Author: Cat Winters
Pages: 384
Date Read: Dec 4
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Pg. 213: A Christmas wreath made of fresh boughs of pine hung on the bare planks of the front door, and through one of the lobby’s eight-foot-tall windows I spied a Christmas tree, festooned with glass ornaments and strings of popcorn.
Points: 3
Team Total Points: 53
Theme Week: Trees Book: In Bed with a Highlander
Author: Maya Banks
Pages: 351
Date Read: 12/3
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 64- " she entered the shelter of the trees "
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:56
Completion: Trees weekBook: Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Pages: 1078
Read: 12/4
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 78 “The road was dark, edged with trees”
Book points: 10
Team points: 66
Theme week: treesBook: A Season to Celebrate
Author: Fern Michaels
Pages: 389
Date Read: 12/5/21
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: tree in truck on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:70
Theme Week: TreesBook: Now Entering Addamsville
Author: Francesca Zappia
Pages: 357
Date Read: Dec 4
Rating: 3
Justification: Trees on the cover
Points: 3
Team Total Points: 73
Theme week/ TreesBook: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Pages: 756
Date: 12/4
Rating: 2🌟
Justification pg 51 “…the sun to set behind the trees”
Book Points: 7
Team points: 85
Completion/ Trees weekBook: His & Hers
Author: Alice Feeney
Pages: 304
Date: 12/5
Rating: 5🌟
Justification: creepy dead trees on cover
Book points: 3
Team points: 88
Theme week: TreesBook: The Iron King
Author: Julie Kagawa
Pages: 384
Date Read: Dec 6 2021
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: page 18 A branch snapped in the trees,
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 91
Theme Week: TreesBook: A Cold Blooded Business (Kate Shugak #4)
Author: Dana Stabenow
Pages: 242
Date Read: Dec 7
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 51: Between the two rooms and directly in front of them was an atrium with, if Kate’s eyes did not deceive her, real birch trees growing behind glass and extending up through a hole in the ceiling into the next floor.
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 92
Theme Week: TreesBook: The Secret History
Author: Donna Tartt
Pages: 629
Date Read: Dec 7
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg 12: Trees creaking with apples, fallen apples red on the grass beneath, the heavy smell of apples rotting on the ground and the steady thrumming of wasps around them.
Points: 5
Team Total Points: 97
Completion / Trees weekBringing Down the Duke
Author: Evie Dunmore
Pages: 368
Read: 12/6
Rating: 4🌟
Justification: pg 56 “…the trees on the ridge stood black and still”
Points: 3
Team points: 100
Completion PostTheme Week: Trees week
Book: Black Widow
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 357
Read: 12/6
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Gin hides in a tree to spy on Madeline Monroe
Points: 3
Team points: 103
Theme week: TreesBook: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 401
Date Read: 12/7/21
Rating: 4*
Justification: pg 326 "...around a fallen tree.."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 106
Theme week: TreesBook: The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery
Author: James Aura
Pages: 258
Date Read: Dec 8 2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: trees on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 107
Theme week: TreesBook:
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
Author: Molly Harper
Pages: 336
Date Read: 2 Dec
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: tress on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 110
Theme week: Trees
Book:
The Christmas Pig
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 288
Date Read: 5 Dec
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: tree on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 111
Theme week: TreesBook:
Gingerbread
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Pages: 258
Date Read: 7 Dec
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Tree branch on cover, and page six-
"...when the tress called heads or tails and let their leaves spin like red pennies as they fell."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 112
Theme week: TreesBook: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Author: Michelle McNamara
Pages: 352
Date Read: 8 Dec
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: trees on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 115
Theme week: TreesBook:
How the Dukes Stole Christmas
Author: Tessa Dare
Pages: 464
Date Read: 12/8
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: trees on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 118
Theme week: gingerbreadBook: Her Christmas Handyman
Author: Laura Ann
Pages:138
Date Read: 12/10/21
Rating:2
Justification: the series is called The Gingerbread Inn
Book Points:1
Team Total points:119
Theme week: gingerbreadBookHex
Author:Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Pages: 384
Date read: 12/10
Rating: 3
Justification: chapter 16, 51% "with gingerbread roof tiles"
Book points: 3
Team Total Points: 122
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: Hansel and the Gingerbread Queen (A Villain's Ever After #6)
Author: Lea Doué
Pages: 132
Date Read: Dec 11
Rating: 3
Justification: Gingerbread in title and on the cover (gingerbread house and gingerbread man). Also one of the MCs is a gingerbread man.
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 123
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: A Christmas at Gingerbread Falls
Author: Katie Mettner
Pages: 192
Date Read: Dec 11
Rating: 3
Justification: Gingerbread in title and on the cover (gingerbread man)
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 124
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Adjusted total : 118
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Donna, would you confirm/agree that the adjusted total should be 120?
Angie, I have to change the post. The edition of the book that I read was 258 pages. I used the default for Turf, and put the wrong one down here.
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Define good. I have been cleaning most of the day.
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Book: Cursed Yuletide
Author: Eve Langlais
Pages: 208
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 3
Justification: "...creating gingerbread cookie men..." pg 144
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 119
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Book: Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Pages: 116
Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 3
Justification: "I snapped the gingerbread out of his mouth." Loc 160
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 120
Theme week: GingerbreadBook:
Devil in Winter
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Pages: 384
Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 4.5
Justification: " with eyes the color of spiced gingerbread" page 191
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 123
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales)
Author: Robin McKinley
Pages: 256
Date Read: Dec 14
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Pg. 221: We resettled ourselves in the parlour while the babies were put to bed; none of the rest of us said anything till Grace and Hope returned, bringing with them a jug of cider and a plate of gingerbread.
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 124
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: Gingerbread Man
Author: Lee Strauss
Pages: 351
Date Read: Dec 14
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Title
Points: 3
Team Total Points: 127
Theme Week: GingerbreadBook: Featherbed
Author: Annabeth Albert
Pages: 186
Date Read: Dec 15
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: "gingerbread" page 78 (sorry, I returned the KU book without writing down the sentence.)
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 128
Theme Week: BellsBook: A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Pages: 293
Date Read: Dec 17
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 87: I rang the bell. Miss Gage came in.
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 129
Theme Week: BellsBook: Gone With The Wind
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Pages: 952
Date Read: Dec 17
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 245: …the swaying of hips so that skirts swung like a bell…
Points: 10
Team Total Points: 139
Theme Week: BellsBook: Hickory Dickory Dock
Author: Lee Strauss
Pages: 258
Date Read: Dec 17
Rating: 4
Justification: @68% : …the old dinner bell that he rang
Points: 1
Team Total Points: 140
Theme week: BellsBook: Sleigh Bells Ring
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Pages: 352
Date Read: 12/18
Rating: 3*
Justification: Title, bells on cover and in text
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 143
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