Rapunzel Check-in

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Check-in your completed books here

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Rating:
Justification:
Book Points:
Team Total points:


Challenge rules:
*No graphic novels, poetry or cookbooks allowed.
*Follow your own time zone. If you finish the book between the theme dates in your time zone, it counts.
*You must be able to justify how your book fits the theme. Example: If the theme is cats, then your book can have a cat on the cover, a cat in the book, can be all about cats, etc. If you can justify it, then it will work. Let's keep this easy and you may be creative with your links to the themes.
Standard Rules Apply

Themes
May 1-7 Good
May 8-14 Evil
May 15-21 Curses
May 22-31 Magic

*Theme Start & End times are based on your time zone. So the Good theme will end on May 7th at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*

Book Points


Poll
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Good
Book:
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 146
Date Read: 05/03
Rating: 4
Justification: Good in text page 39
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 1

[Jenny]

Theme week: Good
Book: The Haircut: A New Year's Tale
Author: Donna Callea
Pages: 164
Date Read: 3 May
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: Mike is a very good man. Perfect almost.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 2

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Good
Book: The Winter Promise
Author: Rosie Goodwin
Pages: 416
Date Read: 5/4/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: author surname GOODwin
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 5

[Jenny]

Theme week: Good
Book: The Dry
Author: Jane Harper
Pages: 331
Date Read: 4 May
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Good in text. I stopped counting at 50 times. Also, Eric Bana plays the MC in the movie, and he is gooooooood!!!!!!!
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 8

[Shaw]

Completion Post:
Theme week: (example: Good
Book:
Author: Neal Stephenson
Pages: 559
Date Read: 05/05
Rating: 3
Justification: MC name Hiro Protaganist means he's the good guy.
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 13

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Good
Book: The Survivors
Author: Jane Harper
Pages: 385
Date Read: 5/6/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: “…the look of gnarled good health…” at 2%
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 16

[bamaace83]

Theme week: Good
Book: Of Beast and Beauty
Author: Chanda Hahn
Pages: 310
Date Read: 5/1/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Good versus evil fairytale retelling of Beauty and the Beast. :)
Book Points: 3


Theme week: Good
Book: Of Glass and Glamour
Author: Chanda Hahn
Pages: 292
Date Read: 5/2/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Another good versus evil story of a retelling of Cinderella. :)
Book Points: 1

Theme week: Good
Book: The Library
Author: Bella Osborne
Pages: 384
Date Read: 5/3/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Ch. 1 "Dead is not a good reason..."
Book Points: 3


Team Total points: 23

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Evil
Book: The Family Holiday
Author: Shalini Boland
Pages: 285
Date Read: 5/9/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: a character sets up an elaborate murder for revenge
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 24

[Mary]

Can I still put my title in for Good? I was having internet troubles and Goodreads wanted to be stupid. I will just post and if that doesn't count then I can delate it.

Theme week: Good
Book: Pink and Country
Author:Emmanuelle Snow
Pages: 498 pages
Date Read: May 6 2022
Rating: 3.5
Justification: "Good morning, I whispered" 64% (read via e-book)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 27

[Angie ☯]

Theme Week ~ Good

Book: Look Alive Twenty-Five
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 317
Date Read: 5/1
Rating: 3
Justification: "Sally gave the door a good kick with her boot heel..." pg 3
Book Points: 3

Book: The 17th Suspect
Author: James Patterson
Pages: 369
Date Read: 5/1
Rating: 3
Justification: Detective Boxer is really good at solving cases! Good in text and Good vs Evil theme
Book Points: 3

Book: Twisted Truth
Author: Melinda Leigh
Pages: 110
Date Read: 5/5
Rating: 3
Justification: Good people in the story - Seth and Carly. Good in text
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 34

[bamaace83]

Theme week: Good
Book: Night Road
Author: Kristin Hannah
Pages: 385
Date Read: 5/4/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Ch 1 "I'll be good."
Book Points: 3


Theme week: Good
Book: Jesse's Girl
Author: Miranda Kenneally
Pages: 302
Date Read: 5/6/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Ch. 1 "Oh good"
Book Points: 3

Theme week: Good
Book: Artificial Condition
Author: Martha Wells
Pages: 158
Date Read: 5/7/22
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: Ch. 1 "That was good"
Book Points: 1


Team Total points: 41

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Evil
Book:
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Pages: 190
Date Read: 5/9
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil in text page 91
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 42

[Angie ☯]

Donna - I know you split each of the weeks for points.
To here we have:
40 points for Good and
2 points for Evil

[Carrie]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Evil
Book: The Book of Cold Cases
Author: Simone St. James
Pages: 344
Date Read: 5/10
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg 46 - I know pure evil when I see it.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 45

[Jenny]

Theme week: Evil
Book: Carrie
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 245
Date Read: 5/9
Rating: 4
Justification: Evil in text a lot. Plus there is Carrie's mother. 'Nuff said.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 46

[Jenny]

Theme week: Evil
Book: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson
Pages: 162
Date Read: 5/9
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil in text a lot. Pgs 3, 11, 92, 100, 111
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 47

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Evil
Book:
Author: Maria Hummel
Pages: 275
Date Read: 05/10
Rating: 3
Justification: All the letters E-V-I-L in title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 48

[Jenny]

Theme week: Evil
Book: Sorrowland
Author: Rivers Solomon
Pages: 355
Date Read: 5/10
Rating: 5
Justification: Evil in text pg 183
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 51

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Evil
Book: A Thousand Ships
Author: Natalie Haynes
Pages: 366
Date Read: 5/11/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: “… sign to ward off the evil eye”, at 13%
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 54

[[deleted user]]

Theme Week: Good
Book: The Rose Code
Author: Kate Quinn
Pages: 624
Date Read: 5/03/2022
Rating: 5
Justification: The Bletchley Park codebreakers worked on the Enigma code during WWII to stop the Nazi's.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 59

[Jenny]

Theme week: Evil
Book: Anxious People
Author: Fredrik Backman
Pages: 336
Date Read: 12 May
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: evil pg 98
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 62

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Evil
Book:
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 256
Date Read: 05/13
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil in title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 63

[[deleted user]]

Theme Week: Evil
Book: Black Lightning
Author: John Saul
Pages: 438
Date Read: 5/13/2022
Rating: 5/5
Justification: There is a serial killer...there is a lot of killing. It's a horror book.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 66

[[deleted user]]

Theme week: Evil
Book: The Widows of Eastwick
Author: John Updike
Pages: 308
Date Read: 5/13/2022
Rating: 5/5
Justification:
Pg. 110
She was more than a child at the time it happened, you know. She was seventeen. She was aware of things. Of evil ."

Pg.152
"The children are forever away. Come be my strength. Evil must not unpunished go."

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 69

[Kat]

Theme week: Evil
Book: Keep me close
Author: Jane Holland
Pages: 316
Date Read: 14/5/22
Rating: 3stars
Justification: Evil word in book
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 72

[Jenny]

Theme week: Curses
Book: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Author: Rachel Joyce
Pages: 370
Date Read: 15 May
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: pg 341 "...feels like a curse..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 75

[Angie ☯]

Theme Week ~ Evil

Book: House of Royals
Author: Keary Taylor 
Pages: 225
Date Read: 5/8
Rating: 3
Justification: The House is evil! (Can't tell how, spoilers!)
Book Points: 1

Book: The Abolition of Man
Author: C.S. Lewis
Pages: 113
Date Read: 5/8
Rating: 1
Justification: Evil in text
Book points: 1

Book: Black Hat, White Witch
Author: Hailey Edwards
Pages: 224
Date Read: 5/9
Rating: 1
Justification: Evil in text and the Black Hat Society is searching for some very evil people.
Book Points: 1

Book: Fate Interrupted
Author: Elizabeth Hunter
Pages: 314
Date Read: 5/10
Rating: 4
Justification: Angela and her sister are pure evil. Evil plans are laid.
Book Points: 3

Book: Boundary Lines
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 276
Date Read: 5/12
Rating: 1
Justification: Rustling and butchering of hundreds of cattle is an evil act.
Book Points: 1

Book: Caged Wolf
Author: S.M. Reine
Pages: 200
Date Read: 5/12
Rating: 3
Justification: Big Papa and the Silver Needles are evil and Evil in text
Book Points: 1

Book: Twisted Twenty-Six
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 312
Date Read: 5/14
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil in the text. Stephanie has to deal with mob members
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 86

[bamaace83]

Theme Week - Evil

Book: Dirty
Author: Kylie Scott
Pages: 275
Date Read: 5-8-2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Lydia was given a scandalous video of her soon to be husband on their wedding day. I would say he's evil for playing her like that!
Book Points: 1

Book: Mine
Author: Katy Evans
Pages: 337
Date Read: 5-8-2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil character named Scorpion who actually sent scorpions in the mail to someone.
Book points: 3

Book: Of Sea and Song
Author: Chanda Hahn
Pages: 314 pages
Date Read: 5-9-2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Evil water witch in this retelling of Little Mermaid. Very mean and evil.
Book Points: 3

Book: Defy Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Pages: 357
Date Read: 5-11-2022
Rating: 4
Justification: The MC's parents are just evil people. All of them!
Book Points: 3

Book: Perfect Love Story
Author: Natasha Madison
Pages: 186
Date Read: 5-12
Rating: 3
Justification: Her husband had another wife. An evil person indeed!
Book Points: 1


Team Total points: 97

[Mary]

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: Evil
Book: Mirror, Mirror
Author: Jen Calonita
Pages: 344
Date Read: 5/14/22
Rating: 4.5
Justification: "What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?" The tag line is on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 100

[[deleted user]]

Theme week: Curses
Book: The Book of Longings
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Pages: 418
Date Read: 5/16/22
Rating: 5/5
Justification: Curse is used in the book.
Pg. 9
Did not a blessing carved on a talisman safeguard a newborn and a curse inscription protect a tomb?
Pg. 18
The rabbi, the supercilious one, would write a curse and force me to swallow an infusion of the ink with which it was written.
Pg. 36
I cursed the world God had created.

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 103

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Curses
Book:
Author: Brad Magnarella
Pages: 312
Date Read: 5/16
Rating: 3
Justification: Curse in title
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 106

[Jenny]

Theme week: Curses
Book: Gilded
Author: Marissa Meyer
Pages: 502
Date Read: 16 May
Rating: 4.5 stars
Justification: pg 46 "...a life without curses..."
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 111

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Curses
Book:
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 352
Date Read: 5/17
Rating: 4
Justification: Curse in text page 192
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 114

[Carrie]

Theme week: Curses
Book: The Change
Author: Kirsten Miller
Pages: 480
Date Read: 5/19/2022
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: People think Harriet is a witch who casts curses
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 115

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Curses
Book: The Little Drummer Girl
Author: John le Carré
Pages: 641
Date Read: 5/20/22
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: “…& cursed them in a fury…” at 21%
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 120

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Curses
Book:
Author: Damien Lewis
Pages: 435
Date Read: 5/20
Rating: 3
Justification: C-U-R-S-E-S letters in title
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 123

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Magic
Book: Pastoral
Author: Nevil Shute
Pages: 243
Date Read: 5/22/22
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: “…magic abroad in the air…” at 89%
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 124

[bamaace83]

Theme week: Curses
Book: The Cartographers
Author: Peng Shepherd
Pages: 392
Date Read: 5/21
Rating: 4
Justification: There is a map that is cursed in this book!
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 127

[Angie ☯]

Theme Week ~ Curses

Book: Strangers in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Pages: 380
Date Read: 5/17
Rating: 3
Justification: "...ignored the curses from people she bumped aside." pg 121
Book points: 3

Book: The Travelling Cat Chronicle
Author: Hiro Arikawa
Pages: 288
Date Read: 5/19
Rating: 3
Justification: "I cursed as I tried to stand up." pg 7
Book Points: 1

Book: Long Isle Iced Tea ~ 5/21
Author: Gina LaManna
Pages: 334
Date Read: 5/21
Rating: 3
Justification: There is a dark spell (Curse) that takes place.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 134

[Jenny]

Theme Week: Curses

Book: The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Author: Hiro Arikawa
Pages: 288
Date Read: 19 May
Rating: 4
Justification: "I cursed as I tried to stand up." pg 7
Book Points: 1

Book: Honeycomb
Author: Joanne M. Harris
Pages: 432
Date Read: 21 May
Rating: 4
Justification: pg 91 "...tale of a sleeping girl under a curse..."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 138

[[deleted user]]

Theme week: Magic
Book: Hearts in Atlantis
Author: Stephen King
Pages: 673
Date Read: 5/23/2022
Rating: 5/5
Justification:
Pg. 418
There was magic in her story.
Pg. 618
Sully thought that in the new lieutenant's case the wars these day involved selling computers with something magical called Pentium inside them...
Pg. 658
There had been magic that summer, even at the age of fifty he did not question that, but he no longer knew of what sort it had been.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 143

[Jenny]

Theme week: Magic
Book: The Ministry for the Future
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Pages: 563
Date Read: 23 May
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 435 "It was like a magic trick."
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 148

[Angie ☯]

Theme Week ~ Magic

Book: Wildfire
Author: Sam Burns
Pages: 232
Date Read: 5/22
Rating: 3
Justification: MPG Magic
Book points: 1

Book: Ashes of Midnight
Author: Lara Adrian
Pages: 370
Date Read: 5/22
Rating: 3
Justification: "the town docks were a magical place, especially at night." pg 184
Book Points: 3

Book: Last Strand
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 382
Date Read: 5/23
Rating: 3
Justification: MPG Magic
Book points: 3

Team Total points: 155

[Tr1sha]

Theme week: Magic
Book: Dragonwyck
Author: Anya Seton
Pages: 368
Date Read: 5/24/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: “… it was a species of magic…” at 39%
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 158

[Shaw]

Completion Post:

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Luanne G. Smith
Pages: 261
Date Read: 05/24
Rating: 3
Justification: Magic in series title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 159

[Carrie]

Theme week: Magic
Book: The Hacienda

Author:Isabel Cañas
Pages: 352
Date Read: 5/26/2022
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Padre Andres is a witch who does incantations
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 162

[Jenny]

Theme week: Magic
Book: Cryptonomicon
Author: Neal Stephenson
Pages: 1168
Date Read: 25 May
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Magic mentioned in book over 20 times
Book Points: 10
Team Total points: 172

[Carrie]

Theme week: Magic
Book: The Push

Author: Ashley Audrain
Pages: 303
Date Read: 5/27/2022
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: This book demonstrates that motherhood can be magical but it can also be a harrowing experience
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 175

[Jenny]

Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book: And One Last Thing ...
Author: Molly Harper
Pages: 310
Date Read: 26 May
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg 71 "Those are the magic words..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 178