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Theme week: GryffindorBook: Cloud Atlas
Author: David Mitchell
Pages: 509
Date Read: 1/2/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: House colors Scarlet and Gold in Text: Scarlet pg 82 "Guided the composer in the SCARLET room". Gold pg 2 "shall be transmuted to GOLD & how?"
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 5
Completion Post:Theme week: Gryffindor
Book:
Author: Adam Cesare
Pages: 353
Date Read: 01/03
Rating: 3
Justification: Scarlet lettering on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 8
Theme week: GryffindorBook: The Paris Apartment
Author: Lucy Foley
Pages: 360
Date Read: January 2nd
Rating: 3
Justification: Lion in text "The big lion’s head knocker must just be for show" Page 13
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 11
Theme week: GryffindorBook:The New Year's Eve Party
Author: Hannah Emery
Pages: 336
Date read: 4.1.22
Rating: 4*
Justification: Gold in the text
Book points: 3
Total team points: 14
Completion Post:Theme week: Gryffindor
Book:
Author: Graham Greene
Pages: 212
Date Read: 1/4/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Author has same initials as Godric Gryffindor-founder of the Gryffindor house.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 15
Theme week: GryffindorBook: An American Marriage
Author: Tayari Jones
Pages: 308
Date Read:1/4/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: LION in text: pg 111: "now like a LION full grown and not just an adorable cub".
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 18
Theme week: GryffindorBook: When the Dead Come Home
Author: B.L. Brunnemer
Pages: 326
Date Read:5/1/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MC has red hair.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 21
Theme week: GryffindorBook: Death on the Shelf
Author: Allison Brook
Pages: 313
Date Read: Jan. 5, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Gold embedded in text: “…had a service animal. A golden retriever she brought to hospitals…”
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 24
Theme week: GryffindorBook: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Author: Bushra Rehman
Pages:288
Date Read: 1/6/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Lion in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 25
Theme week: GryffindorBook: House of Hunger
Author: Alexis Henderson
Pages: 304
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Golden mirror on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 28
Theme week: GryffindorBook: The Collector
Author: John Fowles
Pages: 283
Date Read: 1/7/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Miranda has long blonde hair like the mane of a lion
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 28
Theme week: GryffindorBook:
Author: C.J. Tudor
Pages: 352
Date Read: 1/7/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Text on cover is Scarlet
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 31
Theme week: SlytherinBook: His Secret Daughter
Pages: 261
Author: Melissa Wiesner
Date read: 8.1.23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: And a set of napkin-rolled silver on the counter, as Emma slid into a barstool.
Book points: 3
Team total points: 34
Theme week: GryffindorBook:
Author: John Hart
Pages: 325
Date Read: 1/7/2023
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Gold text on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 37
Completion Post:Theme week: Slytherin
Book:
Author: Jeff Lindsay
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/9/23
Rating: 3
Justification: “Resourceful cunning” page 272 and MC is dedicated to self-preservation which are all Slytherin traits.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 40
Completion Post:
Theme week: Slytherin
Book: What We Buried
Author: Kate A. Boorman
Pages: 302
Date Read: 1/9/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Snake in text: pg 13 “a SNAKE eating it’s own tail”.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 43
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Theme week: GryffindorBook: Sleigh Bells Ring
Author: RaeAnne Thayne
Pages: 352
Date Read: Jan. 6, 2023
Rating: 4
Justification: Scarlet lettering on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 47
Completion Post:Theme week: Slytherin
Book:
Author: Rex Stout
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/12/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Snake on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 50
Completion Post:
Theme week: Slytherin
Book: Hidden
Author: Shalini Boland
Pages: 414
Date Read: 1/10/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Snake in text: loc 328 “she felt two hands SNAKE around her waist”
Book Points: 3
Theme week: Slytherin
Book: Killers of a Certain Age
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Pages: 353
Date Read: 1/11/23
Rating: 5
Justification: Snake in text: pg 272 “the telephone line SNAKES down one wall.”
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 56
Theme week: Slytherin
Book: Paris for One and Other Stories
Author: Jojo Moyes
Pages: 274
Date Read: 1/10/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Snake in text: pg 247 "The way his hand would SNAKE across her..."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 57
Theme week: SlytherinBook: Runaway Girl
Author: Emma Tallon
Pages: 288
Date read: 13.1.23
Rating: 4*
Justification: Finally saw Anna for the snake she was
Book Points: 1
Total team points: 58
Theme week: SlytherinBook: When We Left Cuba
Author: Chanel Cleeton
Pages: 346
Date Read: 1/12/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Beatriz has similar traits to a slytherin, she is goal oriented in her attempt to kill Castro, she is cunning in her amourous ways to woo a man and she is loyal to her country of Cuba.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 61
Theme week: SlytherinBook: The Little Paris Bookshop
Author: Nina George
Pages: 392
Date Read: 1/13/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Snake in text : pg 111 Herons and wild geese angled for fish, and SNAKES pursued green lizards”.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 64
Theme week: SlytherinBook:
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Pages: 127
Date Read: 1/13/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Green cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 65
Theme week: SlytherinBook: Brazen
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Pages: 216
Date Read: Jan. 10, 2023
Rating: 4
Justification: One of Nick's characteristic's is that he is fiercely loyal to his Alpha.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 66
Theme week: SlytherinBook: Singapore Sapphire
Author: A. M. Stuart
Pages: 367
Date Read: Jan. 13, 2023
Rating: 4
Justification: Two word title, both words beginning with S, like Salazar Slytherin
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 69
Completion Post:Theme week: Slytherin
Book:
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Pages: 908
Date Read: 01/14/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Dungeon in text page 452- dungeon is location of Slytherin common room.
Book Points: 10
Team Total points: 79
Completion Post:Theme week: Ravenclaw
Book:
Author: Josh Malerman
Pages: 305
Date Read: 01/15/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Bird in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:82
Completion Post Theme week: Ravenclaw
Book: Before She Disappeared
Author: Lisa Gardner
Pages: 400
Date Read: 1/15/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Cover is blue, same as house color
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 85
Theme week: Slytherin
Book: Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
Author: Tom Felton
Pages: 288
Date Read: 1/13/2022
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Written by actor who played Draco Malfoy
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 86
Theme week: SlytherinBook: It Takes a Witch
Author: Heather Blake
Pages: 311
Date Read: Jan. 14, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: 'snake' in the text, page 28, "...quivering menacingly, truly like snakes."
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 89
Theme week: RavenclawBook:
Author: Kristin Hannah
Pages: 479
Date Read: 1/17/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Blue cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 92
Theme week: RavenclawBook:
Author: Holly Hill Mangin
Pages: 346
Date Read: 1/18/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Birds on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 95
Theme week: RavenclawBook:
Author: Sylvia Day
Pages: 199
Date Read: 1/18/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Blue cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 96
Week: RavenclawBook: Every Little Breath
Author:Keri Beevis
Pages: 389
Date read: 17.1.23
Justification: Beagle in text
Book points: 3
Total team points: 99
Completion Post:Theme week: Ravenclaw
Book:
Author: Ian Fleming
Pages: 393
Date Read: 01/169/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Blue in text page 13 and bronze in text page 120
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 102
Theme week: RavenclawBook: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Pages: 482
Date Read: 17/1/23
Rating: not sure yet
Justification: FMC had a very high average during her college years until stuff happened
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 105
Completion Post:Theme week: Ravenclaw
Book:
Author: Susan Hill
Pages: 138
Date Read: 01/20/23
Rating: 3
Justification: The Ravenclaw House ghost known as the Gray Lady - gray in text on page 10 and lady ghost on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 106
Week: RavenclawBook: White Nights
Author: Melissa de la Cruz
Pages: 214
Date read: Jan. 19, 2023
Justification: Blue cover
Book points: 1
Total team points: 107
Theme week: RavenclawBook:
Author: M.J. Padgett
Pages: 198
Date Read: 1/18/23
Rating: 5
Justification: Birds on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 108
Week: RavenclawBook: American Gods
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 541
Date read: Jan. 21, 2023
Justification: Blue cover
Book points: 5
Total team points: 113
Week: HufflepuffBook: A Christmas Visitor
Author: Anne Perry
Pages: 220
Date read: Jan. 22, 2023
Justification: Yellow lettering on cover
Book points: 1
Total team points: 114
Theme week: Ravenclaw
Book: The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Author: Kelly Barnhill
Pages: 388
Date Read: Jan 18, 2023
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: blue cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 117
Completion Post:Theme week: Hufflepuff
Book:
Author: Rin Chupeco
Pages: 276
Date Read: 01\23\23
Rating:3
Justification: Rhythm page 11, barrels page 160 and basement page 84: the right tapping rhythm required on the barrels to access tge Hufflepuff basement common room.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 118
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Theme week: HufflepuffBook:
Author: Andrew Mayne
Pages: 368
Date Read: 01\24\23
Rating: 3
Justification: Yellow page 37 and diamond page 66 - yellow diamonds are the Hufflepuff point hourglass stone
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 121
Theme week: Hufflepuff
Book: Out of the Dark
Author: Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Pages: 388
Date Read: 1/24/23
Rating: 4
Justification: Evan smoak is hard working and has a strong moral code.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 124
Week: HufflepuffBook:Girl on a Train
Author:A.J. Waines
Pages: 422
Date Read: 24/1/23
Rating: 3
Justification: Yellow in text
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 127
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Completed Book requirements:
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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
Jan 1-7 Gryffindor
Jan 8-14 Slytherin
Jan 15-21 Ravenclaw
Jan 22-31 Hufflepuff
*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...