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Summer TBR 2023- Scoring Thread
The Book of Lost Friends by LIsa Wingate#21 on list=21 points
HF=5 points
388 pages=4 points
On TBR since 3/2020=6 points
Book total=36 pointss
Challenge total=757 points
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury#38 = 38 points
294 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - May 2023 = 0 points
Total = 45 points
Challenge total = 829 points
#32 Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis312 pages = 4
HF = 5
Book Total = 41
#27 Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer
206 pages = 2
HF = 5
Book Total = 34
Challenge Total = 1,045
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak#45 -45 pts
350pp -4pts
Dated added 7/16 -15 pts
HF -5 pts
Bonus e -5 pts
Book Total 74 pts
Challenge Total: 529 pts
Miami by Joan Didion#43 - 43 points
240 pages - 2 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: March 4, 2022 - 2 points
TOTAL POINTS - 47 points
CUMULATIVE POINTS - 1168 points
Pianist in a Bordello by Mike C. Erickson#35 = 35 points
233 pages = 2 points
TBR - Feb 2019 = 8 points
Total = 45 points
Challenge total = 832 points
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver#48= 48 points
546 pages = 6 points
Date added 6/01/22= 2 points
Book Total 56 points
Challenge Total 593 points
The House at the Edge of Night by Catherine Banner #41 on list=41 points
HF=5 points
432 pages=4 points
On TBR since 5/2018=10 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=817 points
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers#27 - 27 points
345 pages. - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: February 22, 2015 - 15 points
Summer Bonus (a) - 5 points
Total - 56 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1224 points
The Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeBonus Book - Gretchen- 50 points
352 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Book total - 59 points
Previous challenge total - 314 points
Challenge total - 373 points
Total books read - 7
#33 The Invisible Mountain by Carolina De Robertis384 pages = 4
HF = 5
Book Total = 42
Challenge Total = 1,087
Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead by Livia J. Washburn#39 = 39 points
224 pages = 2 points
TBR - Oct 2021 = 2 points
Total = 43 points
Challenge total = 875 points
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy#6 - 6pts
302p - 4pts
TBR 17 Oct 2015 - 15pts
Total - 25pts
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
#11 - 11pts
216p - 2pts
TBR 29 August 2015 - 15pts
HF bonus - 5pts
Total - 33pts
Challenge total - 577pts
#35 The Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt296 pages = 2
Book Total = 37
Challenge Total = 1,124
The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game by Edward Achorn#46 spot - 46 points
336 pages - 4 points
Bonus A: set in Summer - 5 points
Date added: July 09, 2023 - 0 points
Book total - 55 points
Previous challenge total - 373 points
Challenge total - 428 points
Total books read - 8
Portrait of a Marriage by Pearl S. Buck#40 on list=40 points
HF=5 points
On TBR since 5/2015=15 points
208 pages=2 points
Book total=62 points
Challenge total=879 points
1124#29 Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
258 pages = 2
Book Total = 31
Challenge Total = 1,155
Allegedly by Tiffany D. JacksonBonus Book #2 (Jasmine) - 50pts
390p - 4pts
Total - 54pts
Challenge total - 631pts
The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley#50=50 points
Date added 6/2016= 15 points
608 pages= 6 points
Bonus A set in summer= 5 points
Book Total 76 points
Challenge Total 669 points
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim#35 - 35 points
279 pages - 2 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: September 9, 2017 - 15 points
Total - 57 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1281 points
Ramses: Under the Western Acacia by Christian Jacq#46 - 46 points
356pp - 4 pts
Date Added 7/17 - 10 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book Total: 65 pts
Challenge Total: 594 pts
Horse by Geraldine Brooks#27 on list=27 points
HF=5 point
401 pages=4 points
Book total=36 points
Challenge total-915 Points
Mod
#40=40 points
372 pgs=4 points
TBR May 1, 2022= 2 points
Book Total=46 points
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Hazel Prior
#29=29 points
355 pgs= 4 points
TBR March 21, 2021= 4 points
Book=37 points
Challenge total= 628 points
Mod
LORNA 1281 points
DOTTY 1151 points
LINDA 915 points
ROBIN 875 points
MAUREEN 669 points
ASHLEY MARIE 631 points
JASMINE 628 points
CHRIS 594 points
PEGGYZMUSICANDBOOKS 428 points
This year everything is on the honor system just because of the time necessary to double check everything. It's time I don't have this year. Nevertheless, I love this challenge and I love doing it with all of you. Thank you for participating.
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead#39 - 39 points
336 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: May 17, 2023 - 0 points
Total - 48 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1329 points
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell#32 = 32 points
321 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - July 2022 = 0 points
Total = 41 points
Challenge total = 916 points
1151#31 A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill
349 pages = 4
HF = 5
Book Total = 40
Challenge Total = 1,191
The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff#38 on list=38 points
HF=5 point
288 pages=2 points
On TBR since 8/2016=15 points
Book total=60 points
Challenge total=975 points
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr#35= 35 points
HF 5 points
Date added 4/21= 4 points
626 pages= 6 points
Book total 50 points
Challenge Total 719 points
D is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton#3 - 3pts
320p - 4pts
TBR 26 March 2018 - 10pts
Total - 17pts
Bring the Fire by Craig Schaefer
#50 - 50pts
427p - 4pts
TBR 17 Aug 2021 - 2pts
Total - 56pts
Challenge total - 704pts
Keep Quiet by Lisa Scottoline#36 on list=36 points
On TBR since 8/2014=15 points
338 pages=4 points
Book total=55 points
'Challenge total=1030 points
After You by Jojo Moyes#44 - 44 pts
Dated added 7/17 - 10pts
356 pages - 4 pts
Book Total: 58 pts
Challenge Total: 652 pts
1191#19 Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
346 pages = 4
HF = 5
Book Total = 28
Challenge Total = 1,219
The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss#45 spot - 45 points
519 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: Feb 15, 2014 - 15 points
Book total - 71 points
Previous challenge total - 428 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 499 points
Total books read - 9
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende #34=34 points260 pages= 2 points
dated added 2/2023=0
HF 5 points
Book Total 41 points
Challenge Total 760
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher#41 - 41pts
245p - 2pts
TBR 7 Nov 2022 - 0pts
Total - 43pts
Challenge total - 747pts
The Last Ranger by Peter Heller#32 - 32 points
304 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: June 8, 2023 - 0 points
Total - 36 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1365 points
Dead Stick by L.J. Washburn#34 = 34 points
267 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - Feb 2023 = 0 points
Total = 41 points
Challenge total = 957 points
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham#26 - 26 points
262 pages - 2 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: April 5, 2021 - 4 points
Total - 32 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1397 points
The Perfumist of Paris by Alka JoshiJasmine’s TBR Bonus= 50 points
HF 5 points
368 pages= 4 points
Book Total 59 points
Challenge Total 819
Rules of Civility by Amor TowlesBonus Book -Gretchen - 50 pts
324pp (4pts)
HF (5 pts)
Book Total: 59 pts
Challenge Total: 711 pts
Elizabeth: A Novel of Elizabeth I by Evelyn Anthony#44 spot - 44 points
365 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: June 20, 2017 - 10 points
Book total - 63 points
Previous challenge total - 499 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 562 points
Total books read - 10
Pronto by Elmore Leonard#33 = 33 points
400 pages = 4 points
TBR - Sept 2021 = 2 points
Total = 39 points
Challenge total = 996 points
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See#33 - 33 points
343 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 5 points
Date added: December 25, 2022 - 0 points
Total - 42 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1439 points
1286#11 The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
362 pages = 4
HF = 5
Book Total = 20
Challenge Total = 1,306
A Whistling Woman by A.S. Byatt#12 - 12 points
448 pages - 4 points
Historical Fiction - 0 points
Date added: April 1, 2022 - 2 points
Total - 18 points
CUMULATIVE TOTAL: 1457 points
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Narrator read = 50
312 pages = 4
Book Total = 54
Challenge Total 🟰 968
Forgot to add title. Aug3, 2023
Still Life by Louise Penny