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Challenge #9: Report Points Here
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birth - which is 1960
323 pages - 4 pts
Task total - 54 pts
Task 5.3 - Super PowersA Kiss Before the Apocalypse by Thomas E. Sniegoski (Main character is an angel with an enhanced sense of smell and the ability to hear thoughts.)
Page bonus - 290 pages = 2 points
Task total = 7 points
Challenge total = 7 points
Task 20.2 Make them proud (classic book)Far from the Madding Crowd
Page bonus - 480 pages = 4
Task total = 24
Challenge total = 24
50.1 Happy Birthday to Me!
Page Bonus: 410 = 4
HF Bonus: 1
Total: 55
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Red Hook Road by Ayalet WaldmanBook takes place in Maine
Pages 343 = 4 pts.
Task = 5 points
Book Total = 9
Challenge Total = 9
Task 50.1 Happy Birthday To Me!North River by Pete Hamill
Pages: 352
Task points: 50
Page bonus: 4
HF Bonus: 1
Points this task: 55
Challenge total: 62
Task 5.3 - Super Powers!Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
Merit has above average fighting skill even for vampires. Her fighting skills come from being able to "see" the magic emitted by the supernatural people.
Page bonus: 355 pgs = 4
Task points: 5
Points this post = 9
Challenge total = 9
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character or takes place around a historical event 
Enchantments by Kathryn HarrisonThe fall of the Russian monarchy and the murder of the family.
320 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Total = 20 pts.
Challenge total = 20 pts.
Total ponts = 20 pts.
15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal Lily of the Nile
351 pages - 5 pts.
Task total - 19 pts.
Challenge total - 73 pts
50.2 Be Proud to Show Your Age!Good Omens
Published in 1990! Yep, I'm a young whippersnapper!
Page Bonus: 412 = 4
Task Total: 54
Challenge Total: 109
5.2 – Touch Down! In honor of the upcoming Super Bowl read a book that either features football or has New England as a location 
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally GunningBoston and Cape Cod
320 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Total = 10 pts.
Challenge total = 30 pts.
5.3 - Super Powers! Read a book with a character who has an enhanced senseBreaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
Page Count: 8 points (768 pages)
HF: 0 points
Total Task Points: 13 points
Scoreboard:HeatherJ- 109
Margaret- 74
Butterflycager- 62
Holly- 33
Diane- 30
Shay- 13
Nancy- 9
Luckngrace- 9
Jen C.- 9
April- 9
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Margaret- Message 15 was added wrong, so you actually have an extra point :)
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Margaret- Message 15 was added wrong,..."
Actually my mistake, I am only suppose to get 4 pts for 351 pages not 5.
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Margaret- Message 15 was added wrong,..."
Actually my mistake, I am only suppose to get 4 pts for 351 pages not 5."
Margaret, your task points for the challenge should be 20.
15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal
Lily of the Nile
Page Count: 4 points, 351 pages
HF: 1 point
Total Task Points: 20 points
You didn't give yourself the point for historical fiction. So, it's 20 points even though your page count score was wrong.
10.1 – Oh Romeo! Oh Romeo! In honor of St. Valentine’s Day read a book with a character that has the same name as your current significant other. If you are single choose one of your old boyfriends/girlfriends. Mu husbands name is Laurence, same as the main character in the book.
408 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Total = 15 pts.
Challenge total = 45 pts.The Strange Fate of Kitty EastonThe Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Elizabeth Speller.
Becky wrote: "Holly, I love that book."I did, too!
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birth (1983 in my case)Gorillas in the Mist by: Dian Fossey
326 pages - 4 points
Total - 54 points
Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund545 pages: 6 pts.
HF: 1 pt
15.3 – Looking for Me Pot o’ Gold! Read a HF book with a green or gold cover: 15 pts.
Book Total: 22 pts.
Challenge Total: 22 pts.
(If that cover isn't gold enough I'll use 15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character or takes place around a historical event.. either way it's still 15 pts)
50.1- HF book over 310 pgs.The Fool's Tale: A Novel by Nicole Galland
554 pages: 6 pts
HF: 1 pt
Points this post: 57
Challenge points: 66 pts
Task 100-Best of the Best!(1 of 3)
Caleb's Crossing by Gerladine Brooks
300 pages: 2 pts
HF: 1 pt
Total: nothing yet :(
15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal 
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley527 pgs = 6 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Total = 22 pts.
Challenge total = 67 pts.
Diane wrote: "15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley527 pgs = 6 pt..."
Good to know! I'll be reading that book soon and wasn't sure if it would fit anywhere.
50.1 - Happy Birthday To Me! In honor of my birthday (March 1st) I’m giving everyone a free pass to read any HF book they want as long as it’s over 310 pages Outlander
by Diana GabaldonPages=>629=>6pts
HF=>1pt
Task Points=> 57
Challenge Total Points=> 57
Melissa wrote: "Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund545 pages: 6 pts.
HF: 1 pt
15.3 – Looking for Me Pot o’ Gold! Re..."
I put this one under 15.1 for you. There should be more gold or green in the cover.
Whoohoo! We got some new participants on the board:HeatherJ- 132
Margaret- 74
Diane- 67
April- 66
Butterflycager- 62
Cristina- 57
Ladywallingford- 54
Holly- 33
Diane Whitney- 25
Melissa- 22
Shay- 13
Jen C.- 9
Luckngrace- 9
Nancy- 9
Kirsten- 0
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count)115 task points
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles HF 352 pp = +5 points
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey HF 453 pp = +5 points
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks HF 300 pp = 3 points
Task Total - 113 points
Challenge Total - 113 points
Jackie wrote: "Melissa wrote: "Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund545 pages: 6 pts.
HF: 1 pt
15.3 – Looking for Me..."
Thanks Jackie.
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birth Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
302 pages - +4 points
Task total - 54 points
Challenge total - 167 points
5.3 - Super Powers! Read a book with a character that has an enhanced sense: Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #3) by Charlaine Harris - Sookie is a telepath.
Page Bonus: 274 pages – 2 points
Task Total: 7 points
Challenge Total: 7 Points
Task 20.1 - Free at Last!
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
436 pages = 4 bonus
HF = 1
Task total = 25
Challenge total = 34
15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal India Black and the Widow of Windsor by Carol K. Carr (Betrayal - the main characters are trying to foil a Scottish plot to murder Queen Victoria.)
Pages: 309
Task points: 15
Page bonus: 4
HF: 1
Total this task: 20
Challenge total: 82
5.1 – Let’s Learn Some History! Read a microhistory of something
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach303 pgs. = 4 pts.
Total = 9 pts.
Challenge total = 76 pts.
20.1 – Free At Last! In honor of African American History Month read a HF book that features slavery Yellow Crocus by: Laila Ibrahim
238 pages - 2 pts
HF - 1 pts
Total - 23 pts
Challenge Total - 77 pts
Avalon: The Return of King Arthur by Stephen Lawhead496 pages: 4 pts.
5.3 - Super Powers! Read a book with a character who has an enhanced sense (The main character can sense danger and Merlin and Moira can both use magic): 5 Pts.
Book Total: 9 pts.
Challenge Total: 31 pts.
Problem: GR won't let me add book (jumps to top of page) so my green book will have to be verified Jackie, sorry.15.3 Pot of gold (green cover): Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
398 pages=4
HF=1
Book total=20
20.1 Free at last (slavery): Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim
238 pages=2
HF=1
Book total=23
This post-43
Challenge total-52 points
5.1 - Let's Learn Some History!Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
287 pages - 2 pts.
Task total - 7 pts
50.1 Happy Birthday To Me!
The Rose Garden
478 pages - 4 pts
HF - 1 pt
Task total - 55 pts
Challenge total - 136 pts
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character or takes place around a historical eventThe Confessions of Catherine de Medici
Pages: 397= 4
HF = 1
Post total = 20
Challenge total = 86 pts
Antony and Cleopatra
Task 15.2 Hail Caesar or betrayal = 15
HF = 1
Pages (567) = 6
Task total = 22
Challenge total = 55
Task 100.1 - Best of the best
1/3 completed
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Nominee for favorite book category
352 pages = 4 bonus
HF = 1 (This book went back and forth so much between present day and 1940 that I have no idea if it qualifies as HF, so if I don't get the point I'm ok with it).
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Task points: 5 pts
370 pages: 4 pts
Task: 9 pts
100.1 Best of the Best (1 of 3)
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
Challenge Total: 9 pts
Edited: bonus points and remove page bonus for "Best of Best" task as per current point count
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