TBR Busters: November 2024

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Individual Competitive Challenge
November 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 | 11/3/24 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 11/4/24 | 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: Cowboys
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

November badges:

1st place:


2nd place:


3rd place:

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Participants

Sammy 86
Angie 0
Jenny 62
Tori 0
Risa 48
LaurLa 73
Michelle 22
Heather 6

[Sammy]

In! Love me some cowboys, but don't have many on my TBR right now. Should probably remedy that... 😁

Total points: 86


1. Autumn Chills - 1 point
3. Sketches by Boz - 5 points
3. Follow Me Down - 3 points
4. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter - 1 point
5. And Then She Vanished - 1 point
6. Best Kept Secret - 3 points + "You could be a cowboy or a banker" - 2 points
7. I Am Number Four - 3 points
8. Lily's House - 3 points
9. Killing Time - 3 points
10. Satellite - 3 points + MC goes to live on a cattle ranch - 2 points
11. Wanderers - 7 points
12. The Pearl Sister - 7 points + love interest works on a cattle ranch (= an Aussie cowboy!) + 2 points
13. The Moon Sister - 7 points
14. Killer of Men - 3 points
15. The Betrothed - 7 points
16. Savage Lane - 3 points
17. This Charming Man - 3 points
18. Stella Maris - 1 point
19. Three Bells, Two Bows and One Brother's Best Friend - 1 point
20. Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress - 10 points
21. The Charterhouse of Parma - 5 points

[Angie ☯]

[Jenny]

Running total- 62

1-Cytonic 3pts
2-A Head Full of Ghosts 1pt
3-Bright Young Women 3pts
4-Digging In 1pt
5-The Scent Keeper 3pts
6-The Stars My Destination 1pt
7-Anna Karenina 10pts
8-Burn 3pts
9-Two-Step Devil 1pt
10-Quichotte 3pts
11-Once There Were Heroes 7pts
12-Parade 1pt
13-Flux 3pts
14-The Endless Vessel 3pts
15-Black Infinity: Discovery's End 1pt
16-The Thing in the Snow 1pt
17-The Hexologists 3pts
18-A Brief History of Seven Killings 5pts
19-What Lies in the Woods 3pts
20-The Borrower 3pts
21-Children of Memory 3pts

[Tori]

Theme Bonus: Cowboys

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[❡MaRisa]

TBR Busters
November 2024

Theme: Cowboys
Books Read: 12
Total Points: 48

1.
08/11/24 | 864 pages | 7 points

2.
09/11/24 | 163 pages | 1 point

3.
11/11/24 | 464 pages | 3 points

4.
11/11/24 | 416 pages | 3 points

5.
12/11/24 | 784 pages | 7 points

6.
19/11/24 | 416 pages | 3 points

7.
20/11/24 | 446 pages | 3 points

8.
22/11/24 | 304 pages | 3 points

9.
22/11/24 | 800 pages | 7 points

10.
29/11/24 | 448 pages | 3 points

11.
29/11/24 | 576 pages | 5 points

12.
30/11/24 | 338 pages | 3 points

[LaurLa]

TBR Busters
November 2024

My TBR Busters Challenge (msg 9)

Theme🚦Cowboys

🚥My True Love Gave to Me🚦11.01 ★★★★🚦338 pp🚦3 pp + 2bp
🚥🚥Bonus: running off with a handsome cowboy [loc 423.6]
🚥Enslaved🚦11.03 ★★★★🚦384 pp🚦3 pp
🚥This Beautiful Thing🚦11.04 ★★★🚦182 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Gargoyle Gets His Girl🚦11.05 ★★★★🚦356 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Clash🚦11.07 ★★★★🚦137 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: title starts in Cowboy
🚥Dual Abduction🚦11.09 ★★★🚦160 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Things We Never Got Over🚦11.10 ★★★★🚦572 pp🚦5 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: She wore cowboy boots [loc 619.8]
🚥Network Effect🚦11.11 ★★★★🚦346 pp🚦3 pp
🚥The Girl in the Woods🚦11.13 ★★★★🚦386 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Murder in the East End🚦11.15 ★★★★🚦313 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Fall Hard🚦11.16 ★★★★🚦224 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Darkness Awakened🚦11.16 ★★★★🚦253 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Steel's Edge🚦11.17 ★★★★🚦401 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Delayed Satisfaction🚦11.18 ★★★🚦110 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: author last initial in cowboy
🚥Beard Science🚦11.19 ★★★★🚦424 pp🚦3 pp
🚥The Loneliest Man in the Mountains🚦11.20 ★★★🚦117 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: while Erastus and I bedded down with the cowboys. [loc 42.5]
🚥His Brother's Wife🚦11.21 ★★★🚦285 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: Rafe is a cowboy and rancher
🚥The Lady Most Willing...🚦11.23 ★★★★🚦384 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: author initials CB in cowboys
🚥Quiet Man🚦11.23 ★★★★🚦256 pp🚦1 pp
🚥A Match Made for Thanksgiving🚦11.24 ★★★🚦119 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Cinnamon Spiced Omega🚦11.25 ★★★🚦119 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: author initial in cowboys
🚥One Night Stand with Benefits🚦11.25 ★★★★🚦241 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: A cowboy-themed wedding? [loc 214.2]
🚥Intimate Strangers🚦11.26 ★★★🚦187 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: Jessie nicknames Chad "Cowboy"
🚥Guest Night on Union Station🚦11.28 ★★★🚦250 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Building Strength🚦11.29 ★★★★🚦208 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: title starts with letter in cowboy
🚥Party of Two🚦11.30 ★★★★🚦349 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Rubbed Out🚦11.30 ★★★🚦271 pp🚦1 pp

RUNNING TOTAL🚦73

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Those of you playing Theme Throwdown over on our sister site can use any books here for that challenge. I love when we can cross promote challenges!

[Michelle]

TBR Busters: November 2024
Theme Bonus: Cowboys

Book 1 - Justice Calling
Author - Annie Bellet
Date Read - 11/1/24
Pages - 154
Points - 1

Book - Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors
Author - Amber Share
Date Read - 11/5/24
Pages - 224
Points - 1

Book - The Lost Letters of Aisling
Author - Cynthia Ellingsen
Date Read - 11/9/24
Pages - 302
Points - 3

Book - Lake Ness: Extinction Is About To Be Redefined
Author - Cherie Mitchell
Date Read - 11/12/24
Pages - 206
Points - 1

Book - Dark River Inn
Author - J.R. Erickson
Date Read - 11/13/24
Pages - 256
Points - 1

Book - These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens
Author - Ruby Slipperjack
Date Read - 11/14/24
Pages 200
Points - 1

Book - Clown in a Cornfield
Author - Adam Cesare
Date Read - 11/16/24
Pages - 346
Points - 3

Book - Pennsylvania's Unexplained Mysteries: Ghosts, UFOs, Cryptids, & More
Author - Tony Urban
Date Read - 11/17/24
Pages - 162
Points - 1

Book - When it Rains
Author - Mark Allan Gunnells
Date Read - 11/18/24
Pages - 144
Points - 1

Book - Junkyard Bargain
Author - Faith Hunter
Date Read - 11/20/24
Pages - 166
Points - 1

Book - Historic Snowstorms of Central New York
Author - Jim Farfaglia
Date Read - 11/23/24
Pages - 160
Points - 1

Book - When Sorrows Come
Author - Seanan McGuire
Date Read - 11/24/24
Pages - 384
Points - 3

Book - Urgent Justice
Author - John Etzil
Date Read - 11/29/30
Pages - 164
Points - 1

Book - Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
Author - Adam Cesare
Date Read - 11/30/24
Pages - 406
Points - 3


Total Points - 22

EVERYTHING IS POSTED

[Heather]

Theme Bonus: Cowboys

Books read:12
total points:28


1.Love on the Brain-added 2/10/23-read 11/1/24 (368pgs)=3pts
2.The Wedding Witch-added 4/19/23-read 11/3/24 (352pgs)=3pts
3.Club Dead-added 11/14/21-read 11/4/24 (274pgs)=1pts
4. Glass Houses-11/19/21-read 11/9/24 (239pgs)=1pts
5. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice-5/24/23-read 11/11/24 (320pgs)=3pts
6. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone added-1/1/24-read 11/11/24 (333pgs)=3pts
7. Maybe Now added-6/21/24-read 11/15/24 (414pgs)=3pts
8. Life’s Too Short-added 1/2/24-read 11/16/24 (384pgs)=3pts
9. Dead to the World-added 1/20/19-read 11/17/24 (291pgs)=1pts
10. Dead as a Doornail-added 11/14/21-read 11/21/24 (295pgs)=1pts
11. Conspiracy in Death-added 12/3/22-read 11/25/24 (364pgs)=3pts
12. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men-added 9/19/24-read 11/26/24 (448pgs)=3pts

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Just a quick note: The Cowboys are lagging behind on Theme Throwdown (on BFL). I see a couple of cowboy books here that could even up the score a little. It works like this & Theme Wars used to. You have the creative freedom to make your books fit the theme. You just have to explain it.

Or maybe you prefer Pirates? They are winning but just pile it on, I guess.


https://www.librarything.com/topic/36...

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Don't forget to update your posts. I will be announcing winners early tomorrow.

[LaurLa]

updated! Thanks!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

1st place (Bosses): Sammy
2nd place (Buckaroos): LaurLa
3rd place (Ranch Hand): Jenny