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Hot Yoga: 100 points1e. ✅ A person is on the cover - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Jazzercise: 200 points2b. ✅ LET'S GET PHYSICAL - Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey
Total: 300 points
Jazzercise: 200 points2d. ✅ CANT TOUCH THIS - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Total: 500 points
Cross Fit: 300 points3a. ✅ A book published in 2022 - The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
Published: May 31, 2022
Total: 800 points
Cross Fit: 300 points3b. ✅ Part of a series of at least three books - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
Book 2 of the trilogy
Total: 1100 points
Cross Fit: 300 points3e. ✅ Set in more than one country - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Set in the United States and the Dominican Republic
Total: 1400 points
Ninja Warrior: 500 points5a. ✅ A book with more than 500 pages - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Book has 835 pages
Total: 1900 points
Ninja Warrior: 500 points5e. ✅ A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings - Codependent No More & Beyond Codependency by Melody Beattie
774 ratings
Total: 2400 points
Aquarobics: 400 points4b. ✅ Published before 1922 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
First published in 1848
Total: 2800 points
Ninja Warrior: 500 points5c. ✅ A collection of essays, poems, or short stories - Such, Such Were the Joys by George Orwell
Total: 3300 points
Aquarobics: 400 points4a. ✅ By an author over the age of 50 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Published May 25, 2021; Author's birthdate May 6, 1971
Total: 4100 points
Ninja Warrior: 500 points5b. ✅ A book set primarily in Japan - Out by Natsuo Kirino
Total: 4600 points
Jazzercise: 200 points2a. ✅ PUMP UP THE JAM - Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Total: 4800 points
Hot Yoga: 100 points1d. ✅ A book with a lot of hype - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The book has been made into a television series, so I think that meets the criteria of "hype"
Total: 4900 points
Hot Yoga: 100 points1a. ✅ A book with a twist - The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
This book is an Irish noir, and it definitely had a twist!
Total: 5000 points
Woo hoo! I finished my first side challenge.
Hot Yoga: 100 points1c. ✅ An author you've been meaning to try - The Bone Farm by Dean Koontz
I'm a huge Stephen King fan, and almost everyone I know who is a King fan is also a Koontz fan. I have always wanted to try one of his books.
Total: 5100 points
Ninja Warrior: 500 points5e. ✅ A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings - Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
I actually screwed up the first time and linked to a book with the same cover as the one I read, but it actually wasn't the same book. I am exchanging it with this one.
Total: 5100 points
Jazzercise: 200 points2e. ✅ THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Total: 5300 points
Cross Fit: 300 points3d. ✅ Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional) - The Copenhagen Connection by Elizabeth Peters
Total: 5600 points
Cross Fit: 300 points3c. ✅ A book that combines more than one genre - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
This book is part memoir and part scientific research.
Total: 5900 points
Jazzercise: 200 points2c. ✅ HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Total: 6100 points
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1a. ✅ A book with a twist - The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
This book is an Irish noir, and it definitely had a twist!
Total: 5000 points
Woo hoo! I finished my ..."
Hot Yoga - 100 points
1a. ✅ A book with a twist - The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
1b. A romance
1c. ✅ An author you've been meaning to try - The Bone Farm by Dean Koontz
1d. ✅ A book with a lot of hype - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
1e. ✅ A person is on the cover - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Jazzercise - 200 points
Author's initials are in:
2a. ✅ PUMP UP THE JAM - Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
2b. ✅ LET'S GET PHYSICAL - Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey
2c. ✅ HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
2d. ✅ CANT TOUCH THIS - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2e. ✅ THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Cross Fit - 300 points
3a. ✅ A book published in 2022 - The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna
3b. ✅ Part of a series of at least three books - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
3c. ✅ A book that combines more than one genre - Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
3d. ✅ Title includes the name of a place (real or fictional) - The Copenhagen Connection by Elizabeth Peters
3e. ✅ Set in more than one country - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Aquarobics - 400 points
4a. ✅ By an author over the age of 50 - The Guncle by Steven Rowley
4b. ✅ Published before 1922 - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
4c. ✅ The cover has water on it - Duma Key by Stephen King
4d. A book that takes place in more than one era of time
4e. A biography or memoir
Ninja Warrior - 500 points
5a. ✅ A book with more than 500 pages - A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
5b. ✅ A book set primarily in Japan - Out by Natsuo Kirino
5c. ✅ A collection of essays, poems, or short stories - Such, Such Were the Joys and Other Essays by George Orwell
5d. A weapon is on the cover
5e. ✅ A book with fewer than 5000 goodreads ratings - Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka