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TBR Busters
Duration: June 1 - 30, 2024
Theme: Brides (2 bp)
Books Read | Total Points: 63
1. Skeleton Canyon | 400 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts
2. Paper & Blood | 304 pgs | TBR 2021 | 3pts
3. Pines | 320 pgs | TBR 2016 | 3pts
4. Vendetta in Death | 354 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
5. Love in the Time of Cholera | 348 pgs | TBR May 2024 | 3p + 2bp (brides in story)
6. Wayward | 351 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
7. Mind Games | 419 pgs | TBR 45413 | 3pts + 2bp (proposal/wedding)
8. Resting Witch Face | 365 pgs | TBR 2021 | 3pts + 2bp (wedding in story)
9. The Wishing Game | 320 pgs | TBR 45413 | 3pts
10. Golden in Death | 377 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
11. Faithless | 576 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5pts
12. Catching Fire | 439 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3pts
13. Shadows in Death | 345 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3pts
14. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | 368 pgs | TBR 45323 | 3pts
15. The Housemaid | 338 pgs | TBR 45413 | 3pts
16. Burn You Twice | 337 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3pts
17. The Search | 528 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5pts
Total Points: 291. Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard - 286pp. 1pt (6/1)
2. Traitor to His Class: Privileged Life & Radical Presidency of FDR - 825pp. 7pt (6/5)
3. Our First Civil War: Patriots & Loyalists in the American Revolution - 444pp. 3pt (6/9)
4. Untold Power: Fascinating Rise & Complex Legacy of Edith Wilson - 320pp. 3pt (6/13)
5. The Duke and I - 438pp. 3pt (6/14)
6. Jefferson the Virginian - 423pp. 3pt (6/21)
7. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier - 488pp. 3pt (6/22)
8. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry - 370pp. 3pt (6/23)
9. The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration - 308pp. 3pt (6/24)
June TBR BustersPage Count Limit: 100
Theme Bonus
Theme: Brides
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Book - On This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 by
Author - Joseph Bruchac
Date Read - 6/3/24
Page Count - 211
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Jesse's marries the girl he traveled The Trail of Tears with.
Book - West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
Author - Jim Murphy
Date Read - 6/4/24
Page Count - 204
Points - 1
Book - The Witch of Tin Mountain
Author - Paulette Kennedy
Date Read - 6/6/24
Page count - 328
Points - 3
Book - The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
Author - Lauren Tarshis
Date Read - 6/7/24
Page Count - 101
Points - 1
Book - Darklight
Author - Bella Forrest
Date Read - 6/8/24
Page Count - 402
Points - 3 Points
Book - Burntown
Author - Jennifer McMahon
Date Read - 6/10/2$
Page Count - 304
Points - 3
Book - Beware of the Woods Part II: Scary True Stories of the Unexplained
Author - Tony Urban
Date Read - 6/12/24
Page count - 154
Points - 1
Book - The Russian Cage
Author - Charlaine Harris
Date Read - 6/14/24
Page Count - 304
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Elsbeth and Eli get married before they leave The Holy Russian Empire
Book - Dark and Desperate Things
Author - Kelly Martin
Date Read - 6/15/24
Page Count - 136
Points - 1
Book - Transported: The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Australia, 1790
Author - Goldie Alexander
Date - 6/17/24
Page Count - 208
Points - 1
Book -Dark and Dangerous Things -
Author - Kelly Martin
Date Read - 6/18/24
Page Count - 112
Points - 1
Book - The Tenth Plague
Author - Nathaniel Burns
Date - 6/22/24
Page Count - 212
Points - 1
Book - The Japanese Tsunami, 2011
Author - Lauren Tarshis
Date - 6/22/24
Page Count - 117
Points - 1
Book - City of Ghosts
Author - Stacia Kane
Date - 6/23/24
Page Count - 408
Points - 3
Book - NYOTA: The remarkable tale of my journey to freedom, guided by a modern-day Moses - my Mother, amidst the fiery sands of Civil War
Author - Fab Kakosso
Date Read - 6/26/24
Page Count - 216
Points - 1
Book - Taylor Before and After
Author - Jennie Englund
Date Read - 6/26/24
Page Count - 320
Points - 3
Book - Exit Strategy
Author - Martha Wells
Date Read - 6/27/24
Page Count - 176
Points - 1
Book - The Naturals
Author - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Date Read - 6/29/24
Page Count - 308
Points - 3
Total Points - 36
Aaaand we're back!Only counting books I added to my TBR before this year.
Theme: Brides
Total Points: 71
1. Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland - 1 point
2. Faust - 5 points
3. In the Market for Murder - 1 point
4. The Last Orphan - 3 points
5. The Persian Boy - 3 - Alexander takes a few brides! + 2 points
6. The Woman in the Middle - 3 points - A character leaves his (abusive) bride at the altar + 2 points
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 1 point
8. Queen of Shadows - 5 points
9. Against the Day - 10 points
10. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West - 3 points
11. Anthem - 1 point
12. Empire of Storms - 5 points
13. Starling House - 3 points - Eleanor Staling becomes the bride of one of the Gravely brothers + 2 points
14. The Human Division - 3 points
15. Tower of Dawn - 5 points
16. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland - 1 point + several brides in the stories + 2 points
17. Eating for England: - 1 point
18. Little Women - 3 points + Meg becomes John's bride + 2 points
19. Lily - 1 point
20. Two For Three Farthings - 3 points
Only books that were already on my TBR before I started them.1. Extinction 3pts
2. A Whisper in the Walls 3 pts
3. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels 3 pts
4. Jerusalem 10 pts
5. Salvation 5 pts
6. The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts 1pt
7. Poster Girl 1pt
8. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons 1pt
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude 3pts
10. Ghostdrift 3pts
11. Killing Time 3pts
12. After That Night 3pts
13. A Bad Deal for the Whole Galaxy 5pts
14. Impact 3pts
15. The Thick and the Lean 3pts
16. Goddess of the River 3pts
17. Mason & Dixon 7pts
18. Blasphemy 3pts
19. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying 3pts
20. Wanderers 7pts
21. The Bee Sting 5pts + wedding important to the story +2pts = 7pts
22. Beastly Beauty 3pts
running total 83
You will just read books from your TBR.Theme Bonus
Theme: Brides
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Books read:9
Points: 27
1. Crown of Midnight-added 7/5/23-read 6/2/24 (420 pgs)=3pts
2. The Unhoneymooners-added 5/4/22-read 6/5/24 (432pgs)=3 pts + bonus 2=5 pts.
3. The Kidnapper's Accomplice-added 11/11/21-read 6/9/24 (274pgs)=1pt
4. The Happy Ever After Playlist-added 5/24/23-read 6/11/24 (401 pgs)=3pts
5. Sizzling Sixteen-added 1/6/22-read 6/14/24 (371pgs)=3pts
6. Group Therapy-added 2/26/22-read 6/16/24 (280pgs)=1pt
7. The 100-added 9/17/22-read-6/16/24 (323 pgs)=3 pts
8. Maybe Someday-added 1/6/22-read 6/21/24 (385pgs)=3pts
9. After-added 2/4/22-read 6/27/24 (582pgs)=5pts
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2nd place: Sammy 71
3rd place: Angie 63
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June 2024
This is a relatively simple challenge. You will just read books from your TBR. The competitive aspect comes from the fact that you are competing against other members. Each book will be worth points. See the chart below for the point value. There will be badges for the top 3 highest scorers. I will award them at the end of the month. Make sure you update your scores. I will give you an extra day to update your scores. Now go work on those TBRs!
Sample tracking post
Total Points: 4 pts
1. Fortune's Fool | 5/3/24 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 5/4/24 | 1pt
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Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed
Point System
Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.
Theme Bonus
Theme: Brides
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.