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COMPLETION POST:Theme: SCROOGE (1-7 Dec)
Book:
Author: Camron Wright
Read: 1 Dec
Pages: 240
Book Points: 1
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MC Carter does not like Xmas, he's a kind of Scrooge
TEAM TOTAL POINTS:1
Theme week: SCROOGE
Book: Humbug: The Unwinding of Ebenezer Scrooge
Author: Tony Bertauski
Pages: 446
Date Read: 12/2
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Story is about Scrooge, based on The Christmas Carol
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 4
Theme week: ScroogeBook:
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Pages: 1,462
Date Read: 12/2
Rating: 5 Stars
Justification: Many people refuse to help the poor. Edmund himself is thrown into a jail so that he cannot rise in status. Wanting to keep the small man down, and spit on the poor
Book Points: 10
Team Total points: 14
Book:
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 562
Date Read: 10/4
Rating: 5 Stars
Justification: The King does not want the Beltane celebrations and other aspects of a religion of a people to be celebrated to the point that he destroys the magic.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 19
Book:
Author: Jacqueline Carey
Pages: 512
Date Read: 12/5
Rating: 512
Justification: Tanaros Blacksword lived his life in support of a Scrooge leader and playing scrooge himself, keeping the poor down and collecting their money. Like scrooge he ends up having a change of heart after a wake-up call at night that leads him to try to help those less fortunate
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 24
COMPLETION POST:Theme: SCROOGE (1-7 Dec)
Book:
Author: Alex Brown
Read: 3 Dec
Pages: 400
Book Points: 3
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Hettie's evil nephew tries to ruin her life and Xmas, he's a kind of Scrooge with no redemption
TEAM TOTAL POINTS: 27
Theme week: SCROOGEBook:
Author: Rob Burkhart
Pages: 160
Date Read: 12/6
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Scrooge loc 26 "with images of SCROOGE and Marley's ghost"
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 28
Theme Week: SCROOGE
Book: Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Pages 336
Date Read: Dec 1
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Justification: Verity appears ghostly at times to one of the characters and their presence is discounted by others and brushed off as being something else. Ghosts visit Scrooge in CC.
Book Points: 3
Total Team Points: 31
Theme week: ScroogeBook:
Author: Jess Kidd
Pages: 384
Date Read: 12/7
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Mahony is lead by ghosts to uncover the truth of his life and to change to become a better person.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 34
Theme Week: Past
Book: Amari and the Night Brothers
Author: B.B. Alston
Pages: 384
Date Read: Dec 8th
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Has to find out what had happened to her brother in the past.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points 37
Theme week: PastBook: Where the Drowned Girls Go
Author: Seanan McGuire
Pages: 160
Date Read: 12/8
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: The girls reflect on the Past when they found their doors for the first time and entered them.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 38
Theme week: SCROOGEBook: The Perfect Christmas
Author: Debbie Macomber
Pages: 351
Date Read: Dec. 2, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: two different men were told they were a "Scrooge"
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 41
Theme Week: Past
Book: Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
Author: A.F. Steadman
Pages: 448
Date Read: Dec 10th
Rating 4 Stars
Justification: Skandar discovered things about his past throughout his journey to be a unicorn rider
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 44
Theme week: Past
Book: Whistling Past the Graveyard
Author: Susan Crandall
Pages: 307
Date Read: 12/9
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: PAST in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 47
Theme week: Past
Book: Identical
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Pages: 565
Date Read: 12/10
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Kaeleigh struggles with an incident from the PAST that she cannot get over.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 52
Theme week: PASTBook: Here Comes Trouble
Author: Debbie Macomber
Pages: 192
Date Read: Dec. 10, 2022
Rating: 2
Justification: The main couple tell the story of how they met, almost the entire book takes place in their past.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 53
Theme week: PASTBook: Legends & Lattes
Author: Travis Baldree
Pages: 318
Date Read: Dec. 11, 2022
Rating: 4
Justification: Main character leaves her past behind to start life fresh but the past won't stay past.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 56
Theme week: PASTBook: Mistletoe and Murder
Author: Carola Dunn
Pages: 239
Date Read: Dec. 11, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: The motive for murder is to keep the victim from reporting events from the past. Slowly the past unravels.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 57
Theme Week: Past
Book: The Satsuma Complex
Author: Bob Mortimer
Pages: 301
Date Read: December 12th
Rating 3.5 Stars
Justification: Some chapters are a character talking about their past
Book Points 3
Team Total Points 60
Theme Week: Past
Book: The Hunger Games
Author: Suzanne Collins
Pages: 458
Date Read: December 13th
Rating 4 Stars
Justification: The Hunger Games happen because of an uprising that occurred in the past
Book Points 3
Team Total Points 63
COMPLETION POST:Theme: PAST (8-14 Dec)
Book:
Author: Rosamunde Pilcher
Read: 8 Dec
Pages: 698
Book Points: 5
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: The book was published in 2001, so it is about a Christmas "in the past".
TEAM TOTAL POINTS: 68
Theme week: PastBook:
Author: Jessica Knoll
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Ani's past still haunts her and the past narration helps tell the story of the horrors of her school experience. She must revisit them for an anniversary interview that could destroy all she has built to cope now.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 74
Theme week: Past
Book:
Author: Amanda Jayatissa
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/11
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Paloma's past caused her trauma that she still deals with today. The past narration points fill in the details of what happened at the orphanage in Sri Lanka, and her past is back to haunt her today
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 77
Theme week: Past
Book:
Author: Sarah Waters
Pages: 564
Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 2 Stars
Justification: Historical Fiction about the past
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 82
Theme week: Past
Book:
Author: Cynthia Hand
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Holly is the Ghost of Christmas Past
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 85
Theme week: Past
Book:
Author: Lauren Weisberger
Pages: 400
Date Read: 12/13
Rating: 3
Justification: Andy's pas is back to ruin all that she has built with the face of Miranda Priestly
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 88
Theme week: PastBook:
Author: Kate Summerscale
Pages: 368
Date Read: 12/13
Rating: 5
Justification: a Biography of the past, London, 1938
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 91
Theme week: PAST
Book: The Final Girl Support Group
Author: Grady Hendrix
Pages: 352
Date Read: 12/12
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: The girls were all the final girl survivor from PAST serial killer murders. They meet regularly to discuss the past experiences they have in common.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 94
Theme week: PAST
Book: It Starts with Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Pages: 323
Date Read: 12/13
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Atlas and Lily has a relationship on the PAST (their teen years) and are now reunited in their adult lives.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 97
Theme week: PAST
Book: A House With Good Bones
Author: T. Kingfisher
Pages: 256
Date Read: 12/14
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Sam digs into her family's PAST to learn about their involvement with magic
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 98
Theme week: PASTBook: The Ghost and the Stolen Tears
Author: Cleo Coyle
Pages: 336
Date Read: Dec. 14, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: The main character has dreams where she is transported into the past in order to get clues to solve the mystery.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 101
Theme week: PastBook:
Author: Kristin Hannah
Pages: 512
Date Read: 12/14
Rating: 3
Justification: Historical Fiction starting in the 1970s
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 106
Theme Week: Past
Book: The Cat Who Caught a Killer
Author: L.T. Shearer
Pages: 318
Date Read: December 14th
Rating: 2.5
Justification: Details from the past are used to solve the case
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 109
Theme Week: Present
Book: Witchlings
Author: Claribel A. Ortega
Pages: 334
Rating: 3
Justification: The witchlings haveb to pull together to fight the threat that's present.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 112
Theme Week: Present 
Book: Catching Fire
Author: Suzanne Collins
Pages: 437
Rating: 4
Justification: The Hunger Games winners are presented to the districts on a victory tour and given presents by sponsors inside the arena
Book Points:3
Team Total Points: 115
Theme Week: Present
Book: Circe
Author: Madeline Miller
Pages: 344
Rating: 3
Justification: Being immortal means that Circe will be present throughout the deaths of people she loves and cares about. Mortals also present tributes to the Gods.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 118
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Donna wrote: "Updated total: 115"Oops sorry that was me adding the stars instead of the points
Theme Week: Present
Book: Mockingjay
Author: Suzanne Collins
Pages: 458
Rating: 4
Justification: A fight in the present to try and form a better future for the residents of Panam
Book Points:3
Team Total Points: 118
Theme Week: Present
Book: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Pages: 112
Rating: 3
Justification: Visited by the ghost of Christmas Present.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 119
Theme week: PRESENTBook: Angel's Rest
Author: Emily March
Pages: 336
Date Read: Dec. 19, 2022
Rating: 4
Justification: MC must help man she's falling for figure out how to live in the present and let go of his guilt.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 122
Theme week: PRESENTBook: Twelve Days of Christmas
Author: Debbie Macomber
Pages: 288
Date Read: Dec. 20, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: MC is actively being present in a neighbour's life every day to effect a change in him by acts of kindness.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 123
Theme Week: Future
Book: To Paradise
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Pages: 720
Date Read: Dec 23rd
Rating: 4
Justification: One of the three books within this novel is set in the future, the year 2093
Book Points: 7
Team Total Points: 130
Theme week: FUTUREBook: Santa Cruise
Author: Fern Michaels
Pages: 368
Date Read: Dec. 26, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Reference to Ghost of Christmas Future
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 133
Theme week: FUTUREBook: How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps
Author: Andrew Rowe
Pages: 227
Date Read: Dec. 28, 2022
Rating: 4
Justification: The future of this generation's cycle rests on an unlikely hero and her sidekick
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 134
Theme week: FUTUREBook: The Stranded
Author: Sarah Daniels
Pages: 464
Date Read: 12/29
Rating: 4
Justification: Takes place in the future 2094
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 137
Theme week: PresentBook:
Author: James Patterson
Pages: 424
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Contemporary
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 140
Theme week: Present
Book:
Author: Elin Hilderbrand
Pages: 416
Date Read: 12/20
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: Contemporary
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 143
Theme week: Present
Book:
Author: Colleen Hoover
Pages: 337
Date Read: 12/21
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: Contemporary
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 146
Dec 22-31 FutureTheme week: Future
Book:
Author: Sue Lynn Tan
Pages: 480
Date Read: 12/26
Rating: 3 Stars
Justification: Determines the future of the Moon Goddess and the kingdom
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 149
Theme week: Future
Book:
Author: Rachel Caine
Pages: 496
Date Read: 12/27
Rating: 5 Stars
Justification: Takes place in the future
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 152
Theme week: Future
Book:
Author: James Clear
Pages: 319
Date Read: 12/30
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: How to set better habits to change your future
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 155
Brittany wrote: "Theme week: PresentBook:
Author: James Patterson
Pages: 424
Date Read: 12/17
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: Contemporary
Book Points: 3
Team Total points..."
I think you meant to post this one Genre of the Month ? Or change justification?
Completion post for PRESENT- sorry they're late... have been crazy with Christmas (If not allowed, no problem)Theme week: Present
Book: Pushing Up Daisies
Author: Katherine Hayton
Pages: 113
Date Read: 12/16
Rating: 3
Justification: Willow receives a PRESENT from her boyfriend, a cat that she is allergic to :(
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 156
Theme week: Present
Book: Our Woman in Moscow
Author: Beatriz Williams
Pages: 448
Date Read: 12/19
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Iris must PRESENT material (view spoiler)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 159
Theme week: Present
Book: Until it's over
Author: Nicci French
Pages: 376
Date Read: 12/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Present in Text : Pg 111 "Why were you PRESENT at both murders?"
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 162
Trinia Contemporary Genre novels are novels about now and the present:adjective: contemporary
1.
living or occurring at the same time.
2.
belonging to or occurring in the present.
Brittany wrote: "Trinia Contemporary Genre novels are novels about now and the present:adjective: contemporary
1.
living or occurring at the same time.
2.
belonging to or occurring in the present."
Well, that just opened up some opportunities! thanks, I just had finished my GOTM list, so I thought you were riding the same wave..
;D
Theme week: FUTUREBook: The Clause in Christmas
Author: Rachael Bloome
Pages: 420
Date Read: Dec. 31, 2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Main male character believes he has no future with main female character
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 165
No, i only do GOTM when it gives me points for the big team challenge. Otherwise It's too much to add to everything else :) And no problem didn't want you to miss any!
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Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Rating:
Justification:
Book Points:
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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
Dec 1-7 Scrooge
Dec 8-14 Past
Dec 15-21 Present
Dec 22-31 Future
*Theme Start & End times at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*
Book Points
Poll
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...
Formal Buddy Reads bonus
✨If you can make it fit a theme and read it during the theme week & participate in the discussion, you get 4 bonus points plus page points. (book must be completed during theme week to get the 4 points)
✨If you can't make it fit a theme but still read & participate you get 2 bonus points plus page points. Just mark the theme as "Bonus" and add the bonus points to your completion post. (book may be completed during any week of the challenge to get the 2 points)
You can find the buddy read here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...