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5.2 March Madness: Read a book about sports or a competition
272 pages-2 pts

Book Total- 7 pts

10.1 New Author Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne
Book Length 274 pp: 2 pts
Historical Fiction: 5 pts
Book Total: 17 pts

The Wrath and the Dawn
10.1 New Author
404 pages: 4 pts
Book Total: 14 pts

The Pearl Sister byLucinda Riley
10.2 new release 2018
510 pages 6 pts
Historical Fiction 5 pts
Book Total 21 pts

Keeper by Kim Chance
10.2 new release 2018
408 pages = 4pts
Book total: 14 pts.

Chalked Up: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey
5.2 March Madness- read a book about sports - 5pts
Book Length: 298pp -2pts
Book Total: 7pts

Challenge Total: 24pts

10.1 New Author
Mutiny on the Bounty by John Boyne

Task: 10
Book length: 496 pages: 4
Genre HF: 5

Task points: 19
Challenge points: 19

The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America
25.1 Group Read
496 pgs: 4 pts
HF: 5 pts

Total: 34 pts
Challenge Total: 48 pts

10.1 New Authors: Read a book by an author you have never read before.
The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester
504 pgs - 6 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 21 pts

15.1 Classic Lit: Read a book that is considered a classic
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
234 pgs - 2 pts
Book total - 17 pts

Post total - 38 pts
Challenge total - 38 pts

25.1 A group read & make a comment
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Book Length: 487 - 4pts
Historical fiction -5pts
Book Total: 34 pts

Challenge total: 58 pts

15.2 Dystopian Nation
Ready Player One
374 pages--4 pts
Book Total; 19 points

Challenge Total: 67

5.1 Springtime
The Shadowed Spring by Carola Salisbury
Book Length: 272 pp -2 pts
HF: 5 pts
Book Total: 12 pts

Challenge Total: 70 pts

25.1 Read our group book and make one post to the discussion. If you have already read this month’s book, go back and read a previous group read and post to the older discussion.
The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America
496 pages: 4
HF: 5
BT: 34

Total: 34

5.2 sport
Horse Dancer by JoJo Moyes
518 pages 6
HF 5
Book total 16

5.1 Springtime: Read a book set during spring (set in March/April).
Pagan Spring by G.M. Malliet
304 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 9 pts

Post total - 9 pts
Challenge total - 47 pts

Scores up to post #15

CHRIS 70
JASMINE 67
CHERYL A 47
HALEY 34
MAUREEN 21
SHANNON 19
MARGARET 16
JANA 14

Read three books which have won awards

50.1

1

King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild ( Duff Cooper Prize)

366 pages 4

2

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( Audie Award Los Angeles
Times)
401 pages 4
HF 5


3
Little Suns by Zakes Mda ( Barrie Ronge Fiction Prize

272 pages. 2
HF. 5

Books total 70
Challenge total 84

5.1 Spring time: Read a book that is set during the season of spring.

A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers. by Hazel Gaynor
5 points
419 pages 4 points
HF 5 points
Book total 14

Challenge Total 35

Dystopian novel 15.2: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Book Length 487pp: 4 pts
Book Total: 19 pts

Challenge total: 89pts

10.1--a book by an author I've not read before
The Tourist by Olin Steinhauer
408 pages=4 points
Book Total: 14 points

25.1--Read our group book read and post a comment
The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America by Allison Pataki
496 pages=4 points
HF-5 points
Book total: 34 points

100.1 read four books centered around the same topic. All of the following were set in California
California Gold by John Jakes
768 pages-8 points
HF=5 points
Book total=13 points
Maids of Misfortune by M. Louisa Locke
327 pages=2 points
HF=5 points
Book total=7 points
Uneasy Spirits by M. Louisa Locke
390 pages=4 points
HF=5 points
Book total=9 points
Thread of Hope by Jeff Shelby
225 pages-2 points
Book total=2 points
Total for this part of the challenge: 131 points

challenge total: 179 points

I think this does it for the month since I am about to have knee surgery and probably will be so out of it that I won't know what I'm reading!

15.2 Dystopia Nation: Read a book classified as a dystopia novel.
Good Morning, Midnight by Lily Brooks-Dalton
259 pgs - 2 pts
Book total - 17 pts

100.1 Read 4 books that center around the same topic (Women in relief efforts/nursing during WWI).
1. The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
299 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 7 pts
2. A Casualty of War by Charles Todd
378 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 9 pts
3. Poppy by Mary Hooper
276 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 7 pts
4. In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl
448 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 9 pts

Task total - 132 pts

Post total - 149 pts
Challenge total - 196 pts

10.2 New Authors: Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space by Morgot Lee Shetterly
368 pgs - 4 pts
Book Total - 14 pts

10.2: New Release: Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer
324 pgs - 4 pts
Book Total - 14 pts

15.1 Classic Lit: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
327 pgs - 4 pts
Book total - 19 pts

15.2 Dystopia Nation: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
227 pgs - 2 pts
Book total - 17 pts

Challenge Total - 64 pts

4 books on same topic:
100.1. All books which centre around a girl and with girl in the title:
1[ book: The Girl on the Train] by Paula Hawkins

232 pages. 4

2 [ Funny Girl] by Nick Hornby
452 pages 4
HF 5

3 [ [ book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo] by Stieg Larsson
465 pages

4

4 The Girl who played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

503 pages. 6

Books total. 123

Challenge total 207

100.1 Read four books that center around the same topic of your choosing. American Revolution
1. The Traitor's Wife: The Woman Behind Benedict Arnold and the Plan to Betray America byAllison Pataki
496 Pages 4 pts
HF 5 pts

2 The Lacemaker by Laura Frantz
413 Pages 4pts
HF 5 pts

3. My Name Is Resoluteby Nancy E. Turner
593 Pages 6 pts
HF 5 pts

4. My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton by Stephanie Dray
658 Pages 6 pts
HF 5 pts

Total Book 140

Challenge Total 175

5.2 March Madness: Read a book about sports or a competition.
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
368 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 14 pts

25.2 The Best of History: Read 2 books from B & N link.
1. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
516 pgs - 6 pts
2. March by Geraldine Brooks
280 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Task total - 38 pts

Post total - 52 pts
Challenge total - 248 pts

25.2 The Best of History: Read a two books from Barnes and Nobles list of 50 best works of historical fiction
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 343 pages 4 points HF 5 points Book Total 9

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 233 Pages 2 points HF 5 Points Book Total 7
Grand Total 41 Points

Challenge Total 216

50.1 Award Winners: Read 3 books with awards.
1. Pulitzer
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (1945)
269 pgs - 2 pts
2. Walter Scott
Tightrope by Simon Mawer (2016)
320 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
3. Nobel/Other Prize (Costa Book of the Year - 2016, Walter Scott 2017)
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
259 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts

Task total - 68 pts

Challenge total - 316 pts

10.2 New Release: Read a 2018 book.
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner
387 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 19 pts

Challenge total - 335 pts

That's it for me!! I'm still on the waiting list for Pachinko :(

Thanks, Jasmine, for the challenge!

15.1 Classic literature
The Odyssey by Homer, Translation Robert Fagles
Book Length : 485pp 4pts
Book Total: 19 pts

Challenge Total: 108pts

10.2 Read a book written in 2018
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
Book Length: 289pp - 2pts
Book Total: 12 pts

Challenge Total: 120pts

Read a book written in 2018
My name is Johanne Levesque and on March 28 2018, I proudly published my first historical novel set in Toronto during The Great Depression.
My book "Trouble and Strife is now available on Amazon, here is the link on amazon:


https://www.amazon.ca/Trouble-Strife-...
Here is the link to the publisher website

http://www.austinmacauley.com/book/tr...
Please share this post and help me spread the news around.

15 .1. Read a classic

July’s People by Nadine Gordimer 209 pp. 2

HF 5

15.2 Dystopia

[Hunger Games] by Suzanne Collins 374 pp 4

10.1 New Author

Little Suns by Zakes Mda 272 pp. 2

HF. 5

10.2 New release

[book: Killing Karoline by Sara Jane King 221 pp 2




Post total. 65

Challenge total 272

Mistake. I’ve added Little Suns twice

10.1 New Author

Just Kids by Patti Smith. 304 pp. 4

This makes a slight difference to the total it’s not historical fiction take off 5 pages are more add 2 must take 3 from the total

Book total is 62

Challenge total is 269

I'll get final scores totaled today everyone.

Johanne wrote: "My book Trouble and Strife will give you points in the following areas:
Historical Fiction:
New Authors: Read a book by an author you have never read before.
New Release: Read a 2018 book"
Johanne - Since you're new to the group, you may want to review the Group Rules, especially those regarding advertising your books. This thread is for posting scores only.

Wasn't this challenge over on 31 May?

Chris wrote: "Wasn't this challenge over on 31 May?"

Yes. I'm just behind on updating the scores and I don't want to lock the thread until I've posted scores.

Cheryl A wrote: "Johanne wrote: "My book Trouble and Strife will give you points in the following areas:
Historical Fiction:
New Authors: Read a book by an author you have never read before.
New Release: Read a 20..."

Thank you Cheryl. Johanne, your comment has been deleted. As Cheryl said, please see our group rules about advertising.

FINAL SCORES

CHERYL 335
MARGARET 269
MAUREEN 216
LINDA 179
CHRIS 120
JASMINE 67
RACHEL 64
HALEY 34
SHANNON 19
JAN 14

Thanks everyone for participating!

Thank you Jasmine for getting it all together.