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Theme week: AirBook: A Midsummer Night's Scheme
Author: Harper Kincaid
Pages: 272
Date Read: 6/1/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: AIR found in author's name (hARper kIncaid)
Book Points: 1+2 bonus = 3
Team Total points: 3
Theme week: airBook: Seeing Darkness
Author: Heather Graham
Pages: 303
Date Read: 6/2/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: He did something with his hands in the air.. Pg 256
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 6
Theme week: airBook: Guava Flavored Lies
Author: J J Arias
Pages: 340
Date Read: 6/5/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: nasally puff of air.... Pg 276
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 9
Theme week: AirBook: Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Pages: 368
Date Read: 6/1/23
Rating: ♎♒♊♎
Justification: Out of instinct I looked in the rearview and saw what was left of Matt floating up in the air on that baling wire, coming apart in pieces that were sailing backwards in the draft like wet confetti. pg. 22
Book Points: 3+2 bonus = 5
Team Total points: 14
Theme week: AirBook: The Butcher and the Wren
Author: Alaina Urquhart
Pages: 242
Date Read: 6/3/23
Rating: ♎♒♊
Justification: MC name is Wren. Wrens are birds. Birds fly in the AIR
Book Points: 1+2 bonus = 3
Team Total points: 17
Theme week: AirBook: The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller
Pages: 408
Date Read: 6/5
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: the wind is always flying through Achilles hair as he is running into battle
Book Points: 3+2 bonus = 5
Team Total points: 22
Theme week: AirBook: Force of Nature
Author: Jane Harper
Pages: 326
Date Read: 6/01/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: "The night air was chilly" (6).
Book Points: 3+2 bonus = 5
Team Total points: 27
Link to my post in the Zodiac Challenge: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Theme week: airBook: Never Kiss a Cowgirl
Author: Ali Vali
Pages: 251
Date Read: 6/7/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: free arm in the air.... Pg 12
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 28
Theme week: AirBook: Sounder
Author: William H. Armstrong
Pages: 242
Date Read: 6/6/23
Rating: ♎♒♊
Justification: Author's name contains AIR: willIAm h. aRmstrong
Book Points: 1+2 bonus = 3
Team Total points: 29
Theme week: airBook: Down Among the Dead
Author: K B Wagers
Pages: 432
Date Read: 6/7/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: There was air in my lungs. Ch 1
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 34 (pts before me should be 31 =28+3)
Theme week: airBook: Killing Moon
Author: Jo Nesbø
Pages: 464
Date Read: 6/7/23
Rating: 4.5 stars
Justification: Libra - Aquarius Scales - This book is about bringing a killer to justice
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 37
Theme week: waterBook: For Her Consideration
Author: Amy Spalding
Pages: 329
Date Read: 6/8/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: ...helped lessen water use..pg75
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 40
Theme week: WaterBook: Exiles
Author: Jane Harper
Pages: 356
Date Read: 6/06/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: "He'll be down at the water" (loc. 2156)
Book Points: 3+2 bonus = 5
Team Total points: 45
Theme week: WaterBook: The City of Brass
Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Pages: 560
Date Read: 6/8/23
Rating: ♎♒♊
Justification: Djinn can't swim.
Book Points: 5+2 bonus = 7
Team Total points: 52
Theme week: WaterBook: Jurassic Dead
Author: David Sakmyster
Pages: 215
Date Read: 6/8/23
Rating: ♎♒
Justification: The zombie virus comes from organisms in the water.
Book Points: 1+2 bonus = 3
Team Total points: 55
Theme week: AirBook: The Flying Flamingo Sisters 2: A Tale of Derring-Deux
Author: Carrie Seim
Pages: 100
Date Read: June 7, 2023
Rating: 2
Justification: Airplanes flying in the air
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 56
Theme week: waterBook: Treacherous Seas
Author: Radclyffe
Pages: 246
Date Read: 6/9/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Seas=water in the title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 57
Theme week: waterBook: Saved by her Bodyguard: A Lesbian/Sapphic Bodyguard Romance
Author: Emily Hayes
Pages: 113
Date Read: 6/11/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: in water filled with roses...pg61
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 58
Theme week: waterBook: How to Sell a Haunted House
Author: Grady Hendrix
Pages: 419
Date Read: 6/14/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: water 20 times in book - The black water sucked him in and Mark disappeared. Page 180
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 61
Theme week: waterBook: The Bookshop by the Bay
Author: Pamela Kelley
Pages: 320
Date Read: June 14, 2023
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Water on the cover, references to Cape Cod, seafood, beach, swimming, boating
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:
Theme week: fireBook: Love at First Set
Author: Jenn Dugan
Pages: 329
Date Read: 6/15/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: fire off a text...pg 37
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 67 (pts before me should be 64 due to Carrie putting wrong book points but right total team points)
Delitealex wrote: "Theme week: fireBook: Love at First Set
Author: Jenn Dugan
Pages: 329
Date Read: 6/15/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: fire off a text...pg 37
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 67..."
Thanks for the catch - Fixed
Theme week: fireBook: Mastering the Art of French Murder
Author: Colleen Cambridge
Pages: 304
Date Read: 6/16/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: she'll catch on fire and it'll be a disaster (page 173)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 70
Theme week: FireBook: The Girls of Summer
Author: Katie Bishop
Pages: 320
Date Read: 6/16/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Rachel inadvertently started a fire in the kitchen by leaving a pan of pasta boiling on the stove (loc. 1629)
Book Points: 3+2 bonus = 5
Team Total Points: 75
Theme week: fireBook: Unconquerable Sun
Author: Kate Elliott
Pages: 528
Date Read: 6/21/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Holy fire. You were ice, so calm...pg 56
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 80
Theme week: FireBook: Heart Stings
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 178
Date Read: June 20, 2023
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: ...that fire inside me burned a little brighter... pg. 82. There are also mentions of fireworks and fire pits
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 81
Theme Week: EarthBook: Everything the Darkness Eats
Author: Eric LaRocca
Pages: 202
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: All the letters in "EARTH" are present in the title
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 82
Theme Week: EarthBook: The Hole
Author: Hye-Young Pyun
Pages: 160
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: 87% mark - That one day was nothing compared to all of the days he'd spent on Earth.
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 83
Theme week: fireBook: House of Sky and Breath
Author: Sarah J Maas
Pages: 807
Date Read: 6/26/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: the cold earth met her hand.....pg5
Book Points: 7
Theme week: earth
Book: Rooting for You
Author: Roz Alexander
Pages: 151
Date Read: 6/27/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Fisch's heaven on earth. Pg19
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 91
Theme Week: EarthBook: They Drown Our Daughters
Author: Katrina Monroe
Pages: 384
Rating: 3.5 stars
Justification: Title has the word Daughters in it - you can spell Earth using the word daughters
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 94
Theme Week: EarthBook: A Sliver of Darkness
Author: C.J. Tudor
Pages: 256
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Earth is the setting for all of the stories
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 95
Hey, team, I totally dropped the bomb on this one and forgot to post my EARTH book. I am so sorry.
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A Sliver of Darkness (other topics)They Drown Our Daughters: A Queer Gothic Horror of Generational Curses (other topics)
House of Sky and Breath (other topics)
Rooting for You (other topics)
The Hole (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
C.J. Tudor (other topics)Katrina Monroe (other topics)
Hye-Young Pyun (other topics)
Eric LaRocca (other topics)
Katie Bishop (other topics)
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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
June 1-7 Air
June 8-14 Water
June 15-21 Fire
June 22-30 Earth
*Theme Start & End times are based on your time zone. So each theme will end 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...
This theme fits the Zodiac year-long challenge perfectly. So let's give some bonus points if you participate in both this & the Zodiac challenge. Please link to your post in the Zodiac Challenge.
✨ 2 bonus points if a book is used in both challenges
2023 Zodiac Year-Long Challenge