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message 1: by Jasmine, Gatekeeper of Giveaways. (last edited Dec 05, 2021 07:16AM) (new)

Jasmine | 1478 comments Mod
Record your scores on this thread.

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The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
20th Century-10 points
343 pages- 4 points
Bonus I: 5 points
Total: 19 points


message 2: by Jayme (last edited Dec 05, 2021 03:18PM) (new)

Jayme Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
20th Century: 10 points
234 pages: 2 points
Bonus C: Author's initials - 5 points
Total: 17 points


message 3: by Monica (last edited Dec 12, 2021 07:11AM) (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
21st century- 10 points
400 pages- 4 points
Bonus D- 5 points
Total- 19 points


message 4: by Joanne (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) Winter's Fire by Giles Kristian

8th Century -10 points
320 Pages-4 points
Bonus A -5 points

Total Points 19


message 5: by Wanda (last edited Dec 09, 2021 09:30PM) (new)

Wanda (wanda71) Forsaken Soul-Priscilla Royal
13th Century-10 Points
224 Pages-2 Points
Bonus C -5 Points

Total Points 17


message 6: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley
21st century - 10 Points
512 pages - 6 points
Bonus G 'Set in Africa' - 5 points

Total Points 21


message 7: by Joanne (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) The Rebels

18th Century -10
398 pages -4 pages
Bonus D - 5

Total Points this book 19
Total challenge Points 38


message 8: by Diane (last edited Dec 11, 2021 05:41AM) (new)

Diane | 287 comments When the Eagle Hunts by Simon Scarrow
1st Century -10
288 pages -2
Bonus A, set in winter- 5
Book total = 17

Terra Incognita by Ruth Downie
2nd Century -10
384 pages - 4
Book total = 14

A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill
20th Century -10
384 pages -4
Bonus I, Australia - 5
Book total = 19

Total challenge Points = 50



message 9: by Monica (last edited Dec 12, 2021 08:56AM) (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Brides of Rome by Debra May Macleod
BCE- 10 points
304 pages- 4
Bonus G- 5 points
Total- 19 points

Beyond The Wall by Tanya Landman
4th century- 10 points
384 pages- 4 points
Bonus C- 5 points
Total- 19 points

Overall Challenge Total- 57 points


message 10: by Joanne (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) Columbine
20th century 10 points
417 pages-4 points

Points this book 14
Total Challenge points 52


message 11: by Jayme (last edited Dec 12, 2021 07:10AM) (new)

Jayme Window Shopping
21st Century: 10 points
258 pages: 2 points
Bonus A: set in winter - 5 points
Total: 17 points

Outlawed
19th Century: 10 points
261 pages: 2 points
Bonus D: set in North America 5 points
Total: 17 points

Total Challenge Points: 51


message 12: by Linda (new)

Linda Bridges (lindajoyb) | 846 comments Till the Boys Come Home by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
20th century: 10 points
400 pages: 4 points
Bonus C: Author's initials 5 points
Total Points: 19 points


message 13: by Mariana (last edited Feb 17, 2022 07:24PM) (new)

Mariana Escobar | 8 comments Vengeance of a Slave by V.M. Sang
1st century - 10pts
270 pages - 2 pts
Total: 12 pts

Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell
11th century - 10 pts
410 pages - 4 pts
Total: 14 pts

Matrix by Lauren Groff
12th century - 10 pts
260 pages - 2 pts
Bonus A - 5pts
Total: 17 pts

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
14th century - 10 pts
416 pages - 4 pts
Bonus H - 5 pts
Total: 19 pts


Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
17th century - 10 pts
368 pages - 4 pts
Total: 14 pts

Land Without Evil by Matthew J. Pallamary
18th century - 10 pts
372 pages - 4 pts
Bonus E - 5 pts
Total: 19 pts

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
19th century - 10 pts
370 pages - 4 pts
Bonus I - 5 pts
Total: 19 pts

The French Gift: A Novel of World War II Paris by Kirsty Manning
20th century - 10 pts
368 pages - 4 pts
Bonus F - 5 pts
Total: 19 pts

Captive: A Mother's Crusade to Save Her Daughter from the Terrifying Cult Nxivm by Catherine Oxenberg
21st century - 10pts
320 pages - 4 pts
Bonus D - 5 pts
Total:19

TOTAL ACCUMULATED: 152pts


message 14: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments A Winter War by Tim Leach
2nd century- 10 points
384 pages- 4 points
Bonus A- 5 points
Total- 19 points

Challenge Total- 76 points


message 15: by Jayme (last edited Dec 14, 2021 06:53PM) (new)

Jayme The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
18th Century: 10 points
301 pages: 4 points
Bonus F: set in Europe 5 points
Total: 19 points

Total Challenge Points: 70


message 16: by Valerie (last edited Dec 21, 2021 03:19AM) (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
18th Century - 10 points
352 pages - 4 points
Bonus I 'Set in Australia' - 5 points
Total points - 19 points

Total Challenge Points - 40 points


message 17: by Diane (new)

Diane | 287 comments Sarah by Orson Scott Card
BCE - 10
341 pages - 4
Book Total - 14

Eagle in the Snow: A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand by Wallace Breem
4th Century - 10
400 pages - 4
Bonus B 'Winter Cover' - 5
Book Total - 19

Daughter of Destiny by Nicole Evelina
5th Century - 10
314 pages - 4
Bonus E 'Author's Initial in Winter' - 5
Book Total - 19

One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
11th Century - 10
214 pages - 2
Book Total - 12

The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
19th Century - 10
368 pages - 4
Bonus J 'set during a blizzard/snowstorm' - 5
Book Total - 19

Challenge total - 133


message 18: by Angie (new)

Angie | 2 comments Mistress of Rome-Kate Quinn
1st Century = 10 points
483 pages= 4 points
Bonus F-set in Europe = 5 points
Total= 19 points


message 19: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
14th century- 10 points
385 pages- 4 points
Bonus B- 5 points
Total-19 points

Challenge Total- 95 points


message 20: by Maureen (new)

Maureen (maursbooks) | 588 comments Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
18th Century = 10 points
902 pages = 8 points
Bonus D 5 points
Total points 23


message 21: by Valerie (last edited Dec 21, 2021 03:19AM) (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present by Philipp Blom
17th century - 10 points
332 pages - 4 points
Bonus B 'Winter scene on cover' - 5 points
Total points - 19 points

Total Challenge Points: 59 points


message 22: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan
1st century- 10 points
306 pages- 4 points
Bonus F- 5 Points
Total-19 points

Challenge Total- 114 points


message 23: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments A Christmas Railway Mystery by Edward Marston
19th century - 10 points
352 pages - 4 points
Bonus A 'Set in Winter - 5 points
Total points - 19 points

Challenge Total: 78 points


message 24: by Jasmine, Gatekeeper of Giveaways. (new)

Jasmine | 1478 comments Mod
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
20th Century- 10 points
576 pgs- 6 points
Bonus D 'North America'- 5 points

Total- 21 points
Challenge Total- 21 points


message 25: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Saint Brigid's Bones by Philip Freeman
6th century- 10 points
225 pages- 2 points
Total- 12 points

Challenge Total- 126 points


message 26: by Wanda (new)

Wanda (wanda71) Templar Silks-Elizabeth Chadwick
12th Century: 10 Points
432 Pages: 4 Points
Bonus F: 5 Points
Total: 19 Points




message 27: by Wanda (new)

Wanda (wanda71) Blessed Are the Dead-Malla Nunn
20th Century: 10 Points
336 Pages: 4 Points
Bonus G: 5 Points
Total Points: 19

Total Challenge Points: 55


message 28: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
9th century-10 points
351 pages- 4 points
Total- 14 points

Challenge Total- 140


message 29: by Diane (new)

Diane | 287 comments One for Sorrow by Mary Reed
6th Century - 10
302 pages - 4
Book Total - 14

Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
18th Century - 10
876 pages - 8
Bonus D 'set in North America' - 5
Book Total - 23

Challenge Total - 170


message 30: by Joanne (last edited Dec 28, 2021 07:13AM) (new)

Joanne (joabroda1) The Endless Forest by Sara Donati
19th Century - 10 points
628 pages - 6 points
Book total - 16
Total Challenge - 68


message 31: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Children's Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
19th Century- 10 points
368 pages- 4 points
Bonus J- 5 points
Total- 19 points

Challenge Total- 159 points


message 32: by Maureen (new)

Maureen (maursbooks) | 588 comments Daughter of Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
20th Century 10 points
308 pages 4 points
Total 14 points

Challenge Total 37 points


message 33: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Dawn Empress: A Novel of Imperial Rome by Faith L. Justice
5th Century- 10 points
354 pages- 4 points
Total- 14 points

Challenge Total- 173 points


message 34: by Linda (last edited Dec 31, 2021 10:49AM) (new)

Linda Bridges (lindajoyb) | 846 comments The Forgotten Queen by D L Bogdan
16th century=10 points
496 pages=4 points
Bonus f: Set in Europe 5 points
Book total=19 points

Queen of Swords by Sara Donati
19th century=10 points
564 pages=6 points
Bonus d: Set in North America 5 points
Book total 21 points

Challenge total: 59 points


message 35: by Loverly Reads (new)

Loverly Reads (loverlyreads) | 9 comments The Ides of April
1st century= 10
352 pages = 4
Total = 14

Challenge Total = 14


message 36: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Beloved by Bertrice Small
3rd Century- 10 points
480 pages- 4 points
Total- 14 points

Challenge Total- 187 points


message 37: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Third Witch by Rebecca Reisert
11th century- 10 points
336 pages- 4 points
Total- 14 points

Challenge Total- 201 points


message 38: by Linda (new)

Linda Bridges (lindajoyb) | 846 comments In Praise of the Bees by Kristin Gleeson
6th century=10 points
306 pages=4 points
Book total=14 points

Challenge total=73 points


message 39: by Cheryl A (new)

Cheryl A | 1054 comments The War Widow by Tara Moss
20th Century - 10 pts
352 pgs - 4 pts
Bonus I - Set in Australia - 5 pts
Book total - 19 pts

What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris
19th Century - 10 pts
336 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 14 pts

Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
16th Century - 10 pts
321 pgs - 4 pts
Bonus E - Set in South America - 5 pts
Book total - 19 pts

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
12th Century - 10 pts
384 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 14 pts

Post total - 66 pts
Challenge total - 66 pts


message 40: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments La couronne insolente by Jocelyne Godard
BCE - 10 points
444 pages - 4 points
Total - 14 points

Challenge total - 92 points


message 41: by Maureen (new)

Maureen (maursbooks) | 588 comments Matrix by Lauren Groff
12th Century = 10 points
260 pages = 2 points
Bonus F = 5 points
Book Total 17 points

Challenge Total 54 points


message 42: by Maureen (new)

Maureen (maursbooks) | 588 comments The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
14th century 10 points
360 pages 4 points
Bonus A 5 points
Book total 19 points

Challenge Total 73 points


message 43: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Empress by Shan Sa
7th century- 10 points
336 pages- 4 points
Bonus H- 5 points
Total-19 points

Challenge Total- 220 points


message 44: by Jayme (new)

Jayme The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

12th Century: 10 points
976 pages: 8 points
Total: 18 points

Total Challenge Points: 88


message 45: by Jayme (new)

Jayme Monica wrote:

Challenge Total- 220 points"


Wow, Monica you are rocking this challenge!!


message 46: by Diane (new)

Diane | 287 comments The Abbess of Whitby: a Novel of Hild of Northumbria1 by Jill Dalladay
7th Century - 10
352 pages - 4
Book Total - 14

The King's Nun: A Novel of King Charlemagne by Catherine Monroe
8th Century - 10
288 pages - 2
Book Total - 12

The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
9th Century - 10
384 pages - 4
Book Total - 14

The Widow Queen by Elżbieta Cherezińska
10th Century - 10
512 pages - 6
Bonus F - Set in Europe- 5 pts
Book Total - 21

Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows by Sigrid Undset
13th Century - 10
336 pages - 4
Book Total - 14

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
14th Century - 10
409 pages - 4
Bonus H - Set in Asia- 5 pts
Book Total - 19

Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
16th Century - 10
321 pages - 4
Bonus E - Set in South America- 5 pts
Book Total - 19

Challenge Total - 283


message 47: by Valerie (new)

Valerie (valroos) | 48 comments The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
20th century - 10 points
Bonus 'Set in North America' - 5 points
464 pages - 4 points
Book total - 19 points

Challenge total: 111 points


message 48: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments Jayme wrote: "Monica wrote:

Challenge Total- 220 points"

Wow, Monica you are rocking this challenge!!"


Thank you Jayme! I love this challenge. Diane is also doing amazing!


message 49: by Monica (last edited Jan 15, 2022 02:19PM) (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes (1/15)
20th century-10 points
368 pages- 4 points
Bonus E- 5 points
Total- 19 points

Challenge Total- 239 points


message 50: by Monica (new)

Monica Hills | 153 comments The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (1/16)
18th century- 10 points
307 pages- 4 points
Bonus I- 5 points
Total-19 points

Challenge Total-258 points


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