Reindeer: Check-in

[Jenny]

Theme week: Bells
Book: A Place of Execution
Author: Val McDermid
Pages: 480
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: "...attaching festive bells of honeycomb paper..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 146

Theme week: Bells
Book: Watchers
Author: Dean Koontz
Pages: 624
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: "The bell was audible from inside."
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 151

[Maddielucy(Patti)]

Completion: Bells
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn

Read 12/18
Pages: 384
Rating: 5⭐️
Justification: in prologue, pg 9 “Church bells rang for hours….”
Book points: 3

Team total points: 154

[Maddielucy(Patti)]

Completion: bells

Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Read 12/17
Pages: 432
Rating 3 1/2⭐️
Justification: pg 108 “It doesn’t set off alarm bells in my head…:
Book points 3

Team total points: 157

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: Blood Will Tell (Kate Shugak #6)
Author: Dana Stabenow
Pages: 256
Date Read: Dec 18
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Pg. 138: “But Arctic Investors doesn’t ring a bell?”
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 158

[Erin]

Theme week: Bells
Book: Well Matched
Author: Jen DeLuca
Pages:325
Date Read: 12/18/21
Rating:5 stars
Justification: on page 14: " The bell over the door to the shop chimed,... "
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 146

[Preeti]

Correction: Message 55 should be 161 points.

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Pages: 371
Date Read: Dec 20
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 38: We would hear their caravans approaching our neighborhood, the mewling of their sheep, the baaing of their goats, the jingle of bells around their camels’ necks.
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 164

[Judith]

Theme week: Bells
Book: Vespertine
Author: Margaret Rogerson
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/21/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: lots of church bells, - "the chapels bells had begun to ring" (10%)
Book Points: 3
Total Points: 167

[Stacey]

Theme week: Bells
Book: Bring Her Home
Author: David Bell
Pages: 434
Date Read: 12/21
Rating: 4*
Justification: Author last name, bell on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points 170

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1)
Author: Shelby Mahurin
Pages: 513
Date Read: Dec 22
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 191: The clanging from the bell tower spared me from leaping into the fireplace.
Points: 5

Team Total Points: 175

[Stacey]

Book: The Bookshop of Second Chances
Author: Jackie Fraser
Pages: 431
Date Read: 12/23
Rating: 4*
Justification: Bookshop has been on door and on desk
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 178

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: Go Set a Watchman (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Author: Harper Lee
Pages: 278
Date Read: Dec 23
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 127: One day, as the taking-in bell rang, Albert, beating cola dust from his breeches, said, “Wait a minute, Jean Louise.”
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 179

[Jenny]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: A Dog Named Christmas
Author:Greg Kincaid
Pages: 148
Date Read: Dec 21
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: pg 5 "...dog barks, church bells..."
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 180

Theme Week: Bells
Book: Swamplandia!
Author: Karen Russell
Pages: 418
Date Read: Dec 21
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: pg 31 "...ringing like Sunday church bells..."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 183

Theme Week: Bells
Book: All the President's Men
Author: Carl Bernstein
Pages: 480
Date Read: Dec 22
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 124 "Did that ring a bell?"
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 186

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: When Eight Bells Toll
Author: Alistair MacLean
Pages: 284
Date Read: Dec 24
Rating: 4
Justification: “Bells” in the title
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 187

[Angie ☯]

Theme week: Bells

Book: Warming My Winter Heart
Author: Michell eCornish
Pages: 194
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 3
Justification: "All we need now are some sleigh bells...." Pg 123
Book Points: 1

Book: Shades of Pink
Author: Ginna LaManna
Pages: 264
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 3
Justification: "...the bell tinkling as I left." Pg 189
Book Points: 1

Book: The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Pages: 506
Date Read: 12/18
Rating: 3
Justification: "When the cathedral bells tolled midnight...." Pg 7
Book Points: 5

Book: Cold Cold Heart
Author: Tami Hoag
Pages: 462
Date Read: 12/19
Rating: 3
Justification: "John's head was ringing like a bell...." Pg 362
Book Points: 3

Book: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Author: E.L. Konigsburg
Pages: 188
Date Read: 12/22
Rating: 3
Justification: "...minutes until the bell rang." Pg 40
Book Points: 1

Book: Midlife Bounty Hunter
Author: Shannon Mayer
Pages: 340
Date Read: 12/22
Rating: 3
Justification: "That name rang a loud bell in my head." Pg 145
Book Points: 3


Team Total points: 201

[Rosina]

Book: Murder in Her Stocking
Author: G.A. McKevett
Pages: 304
Date Read: 12/24
Rating: 4
Justification: signed by everyone present and decorated with Christmas bells, Pg 253
Book Points: 3

Total Team Points 204

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Mistletoe
Book: One Day in December
Author: Josie Silver
Pages: 413
Date Read: Dec 26
Rating: 2.5
Justification: Pg. 178: She hands me a biro and walks away to help another customer who’s just come in with a ‘Santa Stop Here’ sign and a bunch of mistletoe from outside.
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 207

[Stacey]

Theme week: Mistletoe
Book: Christmas Every Day
Author: Beth Moran
Pages: 408
Date Read: 12/25
Rating: 4*
Justification: Prologue: "...a cheeky sprig of mistletoe hanging from the center..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 210

[Jenny]

Theme Week: Bells
Book: Once Upon a Wardrobe
Author: Patti Callahan
Pages: 320
Date Read: Dec 24
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: pg 52 "...as if he rang a bell."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 213

Book: Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage
Author: M.C. Beaton
Pages: 196
Date Read: Dec 24
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: pg 157 "She could hear the bells..."
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 214

[Rosina]

Book: Seashells & Mistletoe
Author: Rachelle Ayala
Pages: 227
Date Read: 12/26
Rating: 4
Justification: Word in Title
Book Points: 1

Total Team Points 215

[Jenny]

Theme week: Mistletoe

Book:
Christmas in Vermont: A Very White Christmas
Author: Bryan Mooney
Pages: 189
Date Read: 26 Dec
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: mistletoe on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 216

Book: Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes
Author: Joanne DeMaio
Pages: 209
Date Read: 26 Dec
Rating: 32 stars
Justification: pg 71 :...mistletoe hanging above them..."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 217

[Jenny]

Theme Week: Mistletoe

Book: Snowed In at the Archive
Author: Ellie Thornton
Pages: 169
Date Read: Dec 27
Rating: 3
Justification: pg 78 "For the love of mistletoe..."
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 218

[Angie ☯]

Theme Week ~ Mistletoe

Book: Sweet Magik
Author: Penny Watson
Pages: 304
Date Read: 12/27
Rating: 4
Justification: "I thought you had to have mistletoe for that." Pg 143
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 221

[Preeti]

Theme Week: Mistletoe
Book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 870
Date Read: Dec 29
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 418: ‘Mistletoe,’ said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry’s head.
Points: 7

Team Total Points: 228

[Judith]

Completion Post

Theme Week: Mistletoe
Book: Nick and Noel's Christmas Playlist
Author: Codi Hall
Pages: 394
Date Read: Dec 29
Rating: 2
Justification: takes place in Mistletoe, ID
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 231

[Rosina]

Completion Post

Theme Week: Mistletoe
Book: Miss Amelia's Mistletoe Marquess
Author: Jenni Fletcher
Pages: 288
Date Read: Dec 31
Rating: 5
Justification: word in title
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 232

[Judith]

Completion Post

Theme Week: Mistletoe
Book: There’s Something about Merry
Author: Codi Hall
Pages: 336
Date Read: Dec 31
Rating: 3
Justification: takes place in Mistletoe, ID
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 235