Fall 2025 Mini Challenge - Scoring Thread

[Cheryl A]

Post your scores here.

Example:

5.1 Happy Place by Emily Henry

400 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 9 pts

[Monica]

15.2 The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden (10/3)
368 pages- 4 pts
Book Total- 19 pts

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

5.1 Pink cover A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder #1 Lady Harleigh by Dianne Freeman
HF - 5 points
306 pages - 4 points
Book total - 14 points

[Robin H-R]

15.2 NoeL. Read a book that does NOT contain the letter "L" in both the title and author's name.
Death on a Winter's Day, Verity Bright
HF - 5 pts
330 pages - 4 pts
Book total = 24 pts

[Monica]

5.3 Get your spooky on!! Read a book with a paranormal main character.
Death at the Door by Olivia Blacke
350 pages- 4 points
Book Total- 9 points

Challenge Total- 28 points

[Linda]

10.3 Call the Doctor! Read a book with the "Who" in the title A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
432 pages=4 points
Book total=14 points

10.2 It's Fall, Y'all! Read a book with an autumn picture on the cover
by Anne Rivers Siddon
512 pages=6 points
Book total=16 points
Challenge total=30 points

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

5.2 - Indigenous person - Henry Standing Bear
The Cold Dish #1 Walt Longmire by Craig Johnson
HF - No - 0 points
354 pages - 4 points
Book total - 9 points

Previous challenge total - 14 points
Total challenge points - 23
Total books read - 2

[Monica]

10.1 In honor of Remembrance/Veterans' Day, read a HF set during World War I.
A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum
HF- 5 points
464 pages= 4 points
Book Total- 19 points

Challenge Total- 47 points

[Robin H-R]

15.1 Winter Solistice. Celebrate the shortest day of the year by reading a book with a one word title.
Heresy: A Novel, Melissa Lenhardt

HF = 5 points
480 pages = 4 points
Book Total = 24

Total Points = 48 pts

[Linda]

5.2 Read a book featuring an Indigenous characterThe Old Cape Hollywood Secret by Barbara Eppich Struna
326 pages=4 points
Book total=9 points
Previous challenge total=30 points
Challenge total now=39 points

[Peggyzbooksnmusic]

5.3 - Paranormal main character - R.F. Jackaby- Able to see supernatural beings.
Beastly Bones #2 Jackaby by William Ritter
HF - no - 0 points
296 pages - 2 points
Book total - 7 points

Previous challenge total - 23 points
Total challenge total - 30 points
Total books read - 3

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

5.3 paranormal main character
Dead to the Worldby Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse- is telepathic and can read people's thoughts.
HF-0
320pp +4
Book total :9
Challenge total:9

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

15.1 Winter solstice- read a book with a one word title
Valdemarby Mercedes Lackey
HF-0
544 pp +6
Book total: 21
Challenge total: 30

[Robin H-R]

10.3 Call the Doctor! In honor of Doctor Who Day (November 23), read a book with "DOCTOR" or "WHO" in the title.
Doctor No by Ian Fleming
200-300 pgs = 2
Book total = 12
Challenge total = 60

[Monica]

10.3 Call the Doctor! In honor of Doctor Who Day (November 23), read a book with "DOCTOR" or "WHO" in the title.
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
HF- 5 points
391 pages- 4 points
Total- 19 points

Challenge Total- 66 points

[Maureen]

15.2 NoeL. Read a book that does NOT contain the letter "L" in both the title and authors name
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
HF 5 points
307 pages 4 points
Book Total 24 points

[Robin H-R]

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Fire, Burn! by John Dickson Carr HF, 285 pgs

Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by Alison Weir HF, 544 pgs

[Cheryl A]

Robin H-R wrote: "10.3 Call the Doctor! In honor of Doctor Who Day (November 23), read a book with "DOCTOR" or "WHO" in the title.
Doctor No by Ian Fleming
HF = 5..."

Hi, Robin. Unfortunately this book is not eligible for the HF bonus - written in 1958, but not set 50 years prior to that. Please edit your entry. Thanks!!

[Cheryl A]

5.1 - Primarily pink cover
by Clare Pooley
337 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 9 pts

5.2 - Indigenous Peoples Day
The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera
368 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 14 pts

10.1 - Veteran's Day
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles
318 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 19 pts

10.3 - Doctor Who Day
Who Will Remember by C.S. Harris
365 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 19 pts

15.1 - Winter Solstice - one word title
Soullessby Gail Carriger
357 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 19 pts

15.3 - Let it Snow
by Melanie Benjamin
355 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 24 pts

Post total - 104 pts

[Jasmine, Gatekeeper of Giveaways.]

5.3-Get Your Spooky On
The Book of Witching by C.J. Cooke
365 pgs- 4 pts
HF-5 pts
Book Total: 14 pts

15.1-Winter Solstice
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
296 pgs-2 pts
Book Total: 17 pts

15.2- NoeL
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
448 pgs-4 points
Book Total: 19 pts

Book Total=50 pts

[Monica]

5.1 In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, read a book with a primarily pink cover- It Girl by Allison Pataki
HF-5pts
416 pages- 4 points
Book Total- 14 points

10.2 It's Fall, Y'all!! Can't Help Falling in Love by Sophie Sullivan
304 pages- 4 points
Book Total- 14 points

15.3 Let it Snow. The Winter Guest by Pam Jenoff
HF- 5 points
333 pages- 4 points
Book Total- 24 points

5.2 In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day
Maud's Line by Margaret Verble
HF- 5 points
294 pages- 2 points
Book Total 12 points

Challenge Total- 130 points

[Linda]

15.2 A book with no "L" in the title or author's name Red Stefan by Patricia Wentworth
226 pages=2 points
Book total=17 points
Challenge total=56 points

[Robin H-R]

Cheryl A wrote: "Robin H-R wrote: "10.3 Call the Doctor! In honor of Doctor Who Day (November 23), read a book with "DOCTOR" or "WHO" in the title.

So then, according to your post, the current group read, 11/22/63 is not historical fiction? It's only 48 years before publication (2011). Guess I don't understand your definition?

[Robin H-R]

5.1 In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, read a book with a primarily pink cover.
A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder by Dianne Freeman

HF +5
306 pages +4
Book Total = 14

Challenge total = 74