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Challenge #14 (Mar-Apr): Reporting Thread
25.1 Get out and explore Read a HF book which that features exploration or a major journey (taking at least a month of travel) as a significant part of the plot line.Euphoria by Lily King
256 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Book Total - 32 points
Challenge Total - 32 points
10.1 Set during Roman times (27 BC-476 AD)
Martha by Diana Wallis Taylor
247 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Task/Total points: 17 points
Martha by Diana Wallis Taylor
247 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Task/Total points: 17 points
20.1: 2 sets of double lettersBitter Greens
496 pages: 4 pts
HF: 5 pts
Post total: 29 pts
Challenge total: 29 pts
5.3 Library Week (a book I checked out of the library)10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
Page bonus: 2
Book total: 7
Challenge total to date: 7
20.2 Playing Catch-up: Read a HF book which we have read as part of a group read.I, Claudius by Robert Graves
468 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Book Total: 29 points
Challenge Total: 61 points
10.2: Got Game????Say You're Sorry by Michael Robotham
435 pages: 4 pts
Post total: 14 pts
Challenge total: 43 pts
50.1 555: Read a HF book which is over 500 pages which one of your friends has rated 5 stars and the author’s (first or last) name is at least 5 letters long.The Visitors by Sally Beauman
Rated 5 stars by Louise:
Louise's rating
529 pages = + 6
HF = +5
Post total = 61
Challenge total: 61
15.2. New Series/New Author Read the first book in a new series which contains more than 3 books by an author that you haven’t read before.The Last Kingdom
368 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Book Total: 24 points
Challenge Total: 85 points
20.2:Historical Fictionistas Group ReadThe Piano Teacher
328 pgs: 4 pts
HF: 5 pts
Book Total: 29 pts
Challenge Total: 72 pts
10.3 Spring Forward: read a book which features time travelBlackout
Page bonus: +6 (512 pages)
HF bonus: +5
Book Total: 21
20.1 Doubles Anyone? Title has 2 sets of consecutive double letters
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Page bonus: +4 (310 pages)
Book Total: 24
Post total: 45
Challenge total to date: 52
5.3 library bookFlowers for Algernonby Daniel Keyes
Task +5
Book length +4 (311pp)
Book total 9
Grand Total 9
25.3 Cult of the New-ish: Read two HF books from the Historical Fiction 2014Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
416 pages = + 4
HF = +5
Book total = 9
Mrs. Lincoln's Rival by Jennifer Chiaverini
432 pages = +4
HF = +5
Book total = 9
Task total = 43
Challenge total: 104
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336 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book Total = 19pts
5.3) Library Week- Book checked out from the library
Her Highness, the Traitor by Susan Higginbotham
323 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book Total = 19pts
15.1- Support Red Cross- Book deals with aftermath of bubonic plague in England
Plague Land
336 pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book Total = 24pts
15.2 New Series/New Author Firedrake's Eye
262 pgs = 2pts
HF = 5pts
Book Total = 22pts
Challenge Total = 82 pts
5.2 Here comes the sun: Read a book with has a picture of the sun on the cover OR the title is in yellow.The Tsarina's Daughter by Carolly Erickson
325 pages = +4
HF = +5
Task total = 14
Challenge total = 118
20.1 Doubles Anyone? Read a either the title or the authors name has 2 sets of double (consecutive) letters. The letters can be the same or different.Louisa and the Missing Heiress by Anna Maclean
Qualifier: 2 sets for double SS
304 pages = +4
HF = +5 points
Task Total = 29
Challenge total = 29
5.1 Everyone's Irish - Read a book with a predominately green cover.
Also Known As by Robin Benway
318 pgs +4 pts
Task total +9 pts
5.2 Here Comes the Sun - Read a book that has a picture of the sun on the cover or the title is in yellow (yellow title).
The Formula for Murder by Carol McCleary
336 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total +14 pts
5.3 Library Week: Read a library book (like - every book is a library book!)
Beneath the Abbey Wall by A.D. Scott
352 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total +14 pts
Post total 37 pts
Challenge total 37 pts
20.2. Read a HF book which we have read as part of a group read.
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
HF - 5 points
309 pgs - 4 points
Post Total - 29 points
Challenge Total - 46 points
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
HF - 5 points
309 pgs - 4 points
Post Total - 29 points
Challenge Total - 46 points
25.2 Clear the TBR- read 2 books from TBR list that have sat for at least 3 yrs.Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw
Page bonus (313pp) 4pts
HF bonus: 5pts
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
Page bonus: (331pp) 4pts
Total points: 38 points
20.1 Doubles anyone?book:Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder|33443]by Joanna Fluke
436 pages=4 points
Book total=24 points
Challenge total=24 points
25.2: 2 books from the TBR pileBOOK 1:
Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
643 pages = 6 pts
HF = 5 pts
BOOK 2:
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
406 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Post Total: 45 pts
Challenge Total: 117 pts
5.3 Library WeekAlmost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail by Suzanne Roberts
Qualifier: Borrowed from the Ottawa Public Library.
Regular points = +5
260 pages = +2
Task Total = 7
Challenge total = 36
10.1 Beware of the Ides of March Read a book which is set during Roman times (27 BC – 476 AD, any location) OR read a book which is set in the country of Italy (1861 and after).Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
470 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Book Total: 19 points
Challenge Total: 80 points
To Ruin A Queen25.1 Get Out and Explore (travel from France to England, across England to Welsh border, across Welsh border and back, back to France)
400 pages=5 points
HF=5 points
Book Total: 35 points
The Last Kingdom
15.2 New Author/New Series
HF=5 points
368 pages=4 points
Book Total=24 points
Challenge total=83 points
5.1 Everyone's Irish: a book with a predominantly green cover - Human Croquet
HF bonus: +5
Page bonus (352 pages): + 4
Book total: 14
Challenge total to date: 66
20.3 Books into Movies Read a book that was made into a move that has been released in the 21st century (since 2000).Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
363 pages = +4
Book total = 24
Challenge total = 142
25.1 HF book that features exploration or a major journey.The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig
HF bonus +5 pts
Page Bonus (275) +2pts
Book total: 32 pts
Challenge total: 70 pts
The Return to Zion5.3 Library Week
398 pages=5 points
HF=5 points
Book total=14 points
Challenge total=97 points
25.1 Get out and explore - a book that features a major journeyGalápagos Regained
HFU bonus: +5
Page bonus (496 pages): + 4
Book total: 34
Challenge total to date: 100
5.3: library bookThe Birth of Venus
403 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Post Total: 14 pts
Challenge Total: 131 pts
10.1 Beware the Ides of March: Read a book set during Roman timesVenus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
275 pgs +2 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total = 17 pts
10.2 Got Game? Read a book which features the name of a board game in the title
Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indriðason
336 pgs +4 pts
Task total = 14 pts
10.3 Spring Forward: Read a book that features time travel
London Calling by Edward Bloor
304 pgs +4 pts
Task total = 14 pts
Post total = 45 pts
Challenge total = 82 pts
5.1 everyone's Irish Green cover
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt
Pages: 385 = 4
Points - 5
Total = 9
Challenge total = 45
Undoing post # 20. I misunderstood about the double letters. Makes my new challenge total 73.
15.1 Support the Red Cross: Read a book about a natural disaster.Hold Tight, Don't Let Go: A Novel of Haiti by Laura Rose Wagner (Haitian earthquake)
272 pgs +2 pts
Task total = 17 pts
15.2 New Series/New Author: Read the 1st book in a new series which contains more than 3 books by an author you haven't read before.
Dying In the Wool by Frances Brody
357 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total = 24 pts
15.3 Renaissance Man: Read a book which either features an artist as a main character or features an artwork in the plot.
I Always Loved You by Robin Oliveira
352 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total = 24 pts
Post total = 65 pts
Challenge total = 147 pts
20.2 Read a book that was a Group readMoloka'iby Alan Brennert
Task +20
HF +5
Bonus +4(388pp)
Book Total: 29
Grand Total: 38
20.3: book to moviePaper Towns
305 pgs = 4 pts.
25.3: 2 books from Historical Fiction 2014 List
Be Careful What You Wish For
387 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Silence for the Dead
384 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Post Total: 67 pts
Challenge Total: 198 pts
20.2 Playing catch up: a book from the group's reading listThe Tea Rose
HF bonus: +5
Page bonus (675 pages): +6
Book total: 31 points
Challenge total to date: 131
20.3 Book to movieStill Aliceby Lisa Genova
Movie came out March 2015
Task +20
Bonus +2 (292pp)
Book Total: 22
Grand Total: 60
15.3 Renaissance Man The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
(The Girl You Left Behind is a painting)
Pages: 369
Points: 15
Bonus: 4 + 5 (HF bonus / WWI)
Book Total: 24
Grand total: 69
20.1 Doubles Anyone? : Read a either the title or the authors name has 2 sets of double (consecutive) letters. The letters can be the same or different.The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell by William Klaber
304 pages = +4
HF = +5
Challenge total = 171
20.1 Doubles Anyone? Read a book where either the title or the authors name has 2 sets of double (Consecutive) letters.Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough
352 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total +29 pts
20.2 Playing Catch-Up: Read a HF book which we have read as part of a group read.
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
429 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total +29 pts
20.3 Books into Movies: Read a book that was made into a movie that has been released in the 21st century.
Enigma by Robert Dennis Harris
released 9/28/2001, starring Kate Winslet & Dougray Scott
372 pgs +4 pts
HF +5 pts
Task total +29 pts
Post total - 87 pts
Challenge total - 234 pts
25.3 Cult of the new-ish: 2 books from the Historical Fiiction 2014 ListLies Told in Silence
Page bonus (394 pages): +4
HF bonus: +5
City of Jasmine
Page bonus (354 pages): +4
HF bonus: +5
Post total: 43
Challenge total to date: 174
100.1 Best of the Best: Read 4 books that are at least 300 pages from any of the GoodReads Readers Choice nominees or winners.
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
354 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
344 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
525 pages - 6 points
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
418 pages - 4 points
Task Total: 128 points
Challenge Total: 174 points
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
354 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
344 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
525 pages - 6 points
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
418 pages - 4 points
Task Total: 128 points
Challenge Total: 174 points
20.1 Doubles anyone? Read a book where either the title or the author's name has two sets of double (consecutive) letters Every Crooked Nanny 320 pages=4 points
Book total=24 points
Challenge total=97
20.2 Playing Catch Up. Read a HF book that has been a group read. The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen KentPage bonus(332) 4 pts; HF bonus 5pts
Book Total: 29 pts
Challenge Total: 99 pts
5.2 Here comes the sun - title is in yellowA Duty To The Dead
Page bonus (329 pages): + 4
HF bonus: +5
Book total: 14
Challenge total to date: 188
50.1 555 A book which was rated 5 stars by a friend, is over 500 pages, and the author's name has more than 5 lettersVilla Triste by Lucretia Grindle
Diane rated it as 5 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Page bonus (629 pages): +6
Hf bonus: +5
Book total: 61
Challenge total to date: 249
100.1Book 1: Life After Life
544 pgs = 6 pts
HF = 5 pts
Book 2: The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court
312 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Book 3: Whistling Past the Graveyard
307 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Book 4: All the Light We Cannot See
531 pages = 6 pts
HF = 5 pts
Post Total: 140 pts
Challenge Total: 338 pts
15.2. New Series/New Author Read the first book in a new series which contains more than 3 books by an author that you haven’t read before.The Yard by Alex Grecian
304 pages = +4
HF = +5
Task total = 24
Challenge total = 195
5.3 Library week- a book from the libraryBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Page Bonus (263pp) 2pts
Book total: 7 pts
Challenge total: 106pts
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15.1 15.2. New Series/New Author : Read the first book in a new series which contains more than 3 books by an author that you haven’t read before.
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
543 pages - 6 points
HF = 5 points
Total - 26 points
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