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20.3 – Make Love Not War! Read a HF about war told from the point of view of a non-combatant Between Shades of Gray
HF - 1
344 pages - 4
Total: 25 points
Challenge Total = 195
Jackie - thanks for catching my math error. As of your last update, I verified & counted 170 points - not 169. :p
15.1= 18
15.2=20
15.3=20
20.3=25 100=112
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character. William Marshal, King Richard (Coeur de Lion), Henry II of England and others
The Time of Singing by Elizabeth Chadwick
514 pages - 6 points
HF - 1 points
Task Total - 22 points
Challenge Total - 324 points
Task 15.3 - Looking for me pot o' gold (green cover)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
258 pages = 2 bonus
HF = 1
Task total = 18
Challenge total = 329
10.3- Oh Mr. PresidentBlood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
390 pgs= 4 pts
Task Total= 14 pts
Challenge total= 169 pts
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count) A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres (Best History & Biography)
Page Count: 4 points (307 pages)
The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, The Horse That Inspired A Nation by Elizabeth Letts (Best History & Biography)
Page Count: 4 points (329 pages)
Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey (Category: Humor)
Page Count: 4 points (357 points)
Total Task Points: 112 points
Total Challenge Points: 187 points
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 The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
412 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 15 pts
Book total 20 pts
15.2 – Hail Caesar! Not! Read a HF book that features either Caesar or betrayal
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore
330 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 15 pts
Book total 20 pts
15.3 – Looking for Me Pot o’ Gold! Read a HF book with a green or gold cover
by Anne Perry304 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 15 pts
Book total 20 pts
Challenge total 124 pts
5.1 Microhistory: Alcatraz: A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years by Michael Esslinger451 pages-4
total-9
Challenge total-180
20.3- Make Love Not War!The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
About a photog taking pics during the Vietnam War.
384 pgs= 4 pts
HF= 1 pt
Post total= 25 pts
Challenge total= 194 pts
10.3 – Oh Mr. President! Read a book by or about a US president or presidential candidate or a fictional or futuristic president11/22/63 by Stephen King
849 pages - 8 points
18 task points
342 challenge points
10.2 – What’s in a Name? Read a book by an author that has the same first or last name as you do Big Girl Small: A Novel by Rachel DeWoskin
304 pages = 4
Total = 14
Challenge total = 209
20.3 Make Love NOT War!The Invisible Bridge
602 pages - 6 pts.
HF - 1 pt
Task total - 27 pts.
Challenge total - 288 pts
20.3- Make Love Not War! All That I Am: A Novel
384 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Total 25 pts.
Challenge total = 259 pts.
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count) The Paris Wife by: Paula McLain
314 pages
HF
1/3
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
Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
453 pages - 4 points
HF - 1 point
Task Total = 19 points
Challenege Total = 242 points
10.2- What's in a name?Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles by Kathleen Turner. My last name is Turner.
272 pgs= 2 pts
Post total= 12
Challenge total= 206 pts
Task 50.2 - Be proud to show your age (1976)
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
440 pages = 4 bonus
Task total = 54
Challenge total = 383
5.2 New England location-Maine: Bag of Bones by Stephen King732 pages= 6 pts
total: 11
Challenge Total: 191 points
5.2 Touch Down!The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre
352 pages - 4 pts.
HF - 1 pt.
Task total: 10 pts
Challenge total: 298 pts.
15.2 Hail Caesar! Not!
The Other Boleyn Girl
I'd say this book has it's fair share of betrayal!
664 Pages = 6 pts
HF = 1 pt
Task Total = 22
Challenge Total = 331
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Poison by Sara Poole
Features members of the Borgia family (Rodrigo, Cesare, and Lucrezia) as characters.
Pages: 388
Task points: 15
Page bonus: 4
HF bonus: 1
Total this task: 20
Total challenge points: 257
Task 5.2 - Touch Down (set in Connecticut)
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
912 pages = 8 bonus
Task total = 13
Challenge total = 396
Kristine wrote: "Task 20.1The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 20 pts
pages 2 points
total 22 points
Grand total 313"
Per the group rules this is not considered HF. It has to be 50 years from the publication date. You have 10.2 and 10.3 open. Can you fit it in one of those?
Jackie wrote: "Kristine wrote: "Task 20.1The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 20 pts
pages 2 points
total 22 points
Grand total 313"
Per the group rules this is not considered HF. It has to be 50 years f..."
My bad...then I should be at 291
Melissa wrote: "Jackie wrote: "Melissa wrote: "The Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteWe don't give partial points just for pages. Unfortunately, it has to fit in a task. From reading the description..."
I'm sorry. I should have looked at the score sheet before suggesting 5.3. You already have Avalon for that one. However, 10.1 and 10.2 are open so maybe one of those would work?
Scoreboard updated:Jen C.- 396
LemonLinda- 342
HeatherJ- 331
Kristine- 305
Margaret- 298
Diane- 259
Butterflycager- 257
Kirsten- 243
Christina- 226
Nancy- 217
Rachel- 209
April- 206
BethNC- 203
Luckngrace- 192
Shay- 187
Ladywallingford- 156
Holly- 149
HollyP- 137
Cheryl- 124
Diane Whitney- 120
Sarah (Loudog) Louise- 115
JoLene- 55
Melissa- 31
JennBunny- 23
Jayme- 9
JenniferB- 7
15.1 – Keeping It Real! Read a HF book that has a real historical figure as a character or takes place around a historical eventDuchess by Susan Holloway Scott
Task Pts: 15
HF: 1
Pg Bonus: 4 (384 pgs)
Total: 20
Cumulative Total: 157
15.3 Looking for Me Pot o' Gold!Cutting for Stone
541 pages - 6 pts
HF - 1 pt
Total total - 17 pts
Challenge total - 320 pts
Mod
The Angel Makers bay Jessica Gregson
340 pages= 4 pts
HF = 1 pt
Task Points: 55 pts
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birth (1966 -- NOTE: 1st published as short story, novel publication in 1966)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
304 pages = 4 pts
Task total: 54 pts
Challenge Total: 164 pts
20.1 – Free At Last! In honor of African American History Month read a HF book that features slavery Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by
Ann Rinaldi
352 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 20 pts
Book total 25 pts
20.2 – Make Them Proud! Read a HF book you'd be proud to tell your High School English Teacher (or parent, pastor, etc) you're reading
A Twist at the End by Steven Saylor
576 pgs 6 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 20 pts
Book total 27 pts
My High School English teacher's grandfather performed the wedding ceremony for William Sydney Porter and his wife, Athol, in Austin. If nothing else, she'd be proud of my taking an interest in the history of Austin.
20.3 – Make Love Not War! Read a HF about war told from the point of view of a non-combatant
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
304 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 20 pts
Book total 25 pts
Challenge total 200 pts
20.1 – Free At Last! In honor of African American History Month read a HF book that features slavery Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Pages=>470=>4pts
HF=>1pt
Task Total=>25pts
Challenge Total=>251pts
20.2 MAKE THEM PROUD - The Healing: A Novel by Jonathan OdellMr. Fowler was the teacher who first made me aware of race issues and mistreatment of slaves and Native Americans. He would have loved this book
352 pages = 4 pt
HF (1800's) = 1 pt
Total Points = 25 pts
100.01 BEST OF THE BEST -
A. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
387 pages = 4 pt
HF (1900's) = 1pt
B. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
314 pages = 4 pt
HF (1920's) = 1 pt
C. The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
504 pages = 6 pts
HF (70BC) = 1 pt
Task Points = 117 pts
Total Challenge Points = 345
100 – Best of the Best! Read 3 books from Goodreads Choice Awards (yes, nominees count) The Paris Wife by: Paula McLain
314 pages
HF
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by: Michelle Moran
446 pages
HF
2/3
Task 100.1 Best of the BestRules of Civility by Amor Towles
352 pgs = 4 bonus
HF = 1
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovich
241 Pgs = 2 bonus
Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
400 pgs = 4 bonus
HF = 1
Task total: 112 pts
5.1 – Let’s Learn Some History! Read a microhistory of something Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
495 pages = 4
Total = 9
Challenge total = 218
5.3 Super Powers!The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
336 pts - 4 pts
HF - 1 pts
Task total - 10 pts.
Challenge total - 330 pts
100.1 Best of the Best (Goodreads Choice Awards)Rules of Civility HF = 1 352 pages = 4
Letters from Home HF = 1 359 pages = 4
The Soldier's Wife HF = 1 416 pages = 4
Task total = 115
Challenge Total = 264
Task 20.3 - Make love not war
Atonement by Ian McEwan
351 pages = 4 bonus
HF = 1
Task total = 25
Challenge total = 421
15.3 Looking for Me Pot o' Gold!
The Boleyn Inheritance
518 pages = 6
HF = 1
Task Total = 22
Challenge Total= 353
5.2 – Touch Down!Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Majority set in New England
317 pgs= 4 pts
100 – Best of the Best!
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
History and Bio nom
450 pgs= 4 pts
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Favorite book nom
352 pgs= 4pts
God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette
Humor nom
231 pgs= 2 pts
Post total= 119
Challenge total= 325
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 
To Defy a King by Elizabeth Chadwick513 pages - 6 points
HF - 1 point
Task Total - 57 points
Challenge Total - 399 points
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 The Blood Royal by Barbara Cleverly
391 pgs 4 pts
HF 1 pt
Task 50 pts
Book total 55 pts
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age! Read a book published in the year of your birth - 1961
Mila 18 by Leon Uris
576 pgs 6 pts
Task 50 pts
Book total 56 pts
Challenge total 317 pts
10.3 Oh Mr. President!To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom
352 pages - 4 pts.
HF - 1 pt.
Task Total - 15 pts.
Challenge Total: 345 pts.
Updated Scoreboard:Jen C.- 421
LemonLinda- 399
HeatherJ- 353
Margaret- 345
BethNC- 345
April- 325
Cheryl- 312
Kristine- 305
Holly- 284
Diane- 259
Butterflycager- 257
Christina - 251
Kirsten- 243
Rachel- 218
Nancy- 217
Luckngrace- 192
Shay- 187
JoLene- 164
HollyP- 157
Ladywallingford- 156
Diane Whitney- 120
Sarah (Loudog) Louise- 115
Robyn- 112
Melissa- 31
JennBunny- 23
Jayme- 9
JenniferB- 7
5.1London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
5 pts
pages 2 pts
total 7 pts
grand total 312 pts
50.2 – Be Proud to show your age!Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
Task points:50
384 pages: 4
Callenge points: 168
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Task 10.2 - What's in a name?
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
472 pages = 4 bonus
Task total = 14
Challenge total = 311