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Book
Author George R.R. Martin
Date Read Oct 20
Page Count 1061
Sin Lust
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Red cover
SS updated yes

Book: The Sleeping Beauty Proposal
Author: Sarah Strohmeyer
Date Read: 20 Oct 2019
Page Count: 320 pp
Sin: Vanity
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): Yes
Justification: Purple cover, Contemporary, shiny jeweled crown on cover
SS updated? (Yes or No): Yes

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Book A Court of Mist and Fury
Author Sarah J. Maas
Date Read Oct 20
Page Count 626
Sin Envy
Sin Bingo No
How it fits YA
SS updated yes

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Book Lock Every Door
Author Riley Sager
Date Read Oct 21
Page Count 384
Sin Sloth
Sin Bingo No
How it fits word Snake - p. 62 "It depicts a snake with its mouth clamped down on its tail..."
SS updated yes

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Book Honeybee Democracy
Author Thomas D. Seeley
Date Read Oct 20
Page Count 273
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Honeybee in title and honeybees on cover
SS updated yes

Book Ocean Light
Author Nalini Singh
Date Read Oct 21
Page Count 416
Sin Sloth mini challegne
Sin Bingo (Yes or No)
How it fits humpback whale
pg. 51 "..when a battle scarred humpback whale swam by on the other side of the transparent wall..."
SS updated yes

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Book: Below the Surface
Author: Karen Harper
Date Read: 10/21/2019
Page Count: 400
Sin: Sloth Mini-Challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: 4% — "The newest bull shark was at least seven feet long, his small, flat eyes staring at her each time he came near the surface."
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

Book: Wilder Girls
Author: Rory Power
Date Read: 22 Oct 2019
Page Count: 368 pp
Sin: Envy
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): Yes
Justification: Green cover, YA, Read by Team Ira
SS updated? (Yes or No): Yes

BOM: October
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Book: Save the Date
Author: Annabeth Albert
Date Read: 21 Oct 2019
Page Count: 153 pp
Sin: Vanity
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
Justification: LGBTQ
SS updated? (Yes or No): Yes

BOM: October
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Book:
Author: Rory Power
Date Read: 22nd October
Page Count: 368
Sin: Sloth
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits: Mini Challenge - "Crab" - "We watch the crab for a while" - loc 58.1
SS updated yes or no: Yes
BOM: October
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Book Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
Author David Kirby
Date Read Oct 21
Page Count 480
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits killer whale
SS updated yes

Book Thunderhead
Author Neal Shusterman
Date Read 22 Oct
Page Count 513
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Tiger shark
SS updated yes

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Book: Werewolf in the North Woods
Author: Vicki Lewis Thompson
Date Read: 10/22/19
Page Count 374
Sin: Pride
Sin Bingo No
How it fits: Contemporary
SS updated: yes

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Book: Save the Date
Author: Annabeth Albert & Wendy Qualls
Date Read: 10/23/2019
Page Count: 153
Sin: Vanity
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Contemporary
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

BOM October
DQ1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ 3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Book: Obsidio
Author: Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Date Read: 10/23/2019
Page Count: 615
Sin: Mini challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: cat in the text - p. 512 "there's a cat that's been hanging around the barracks for the last seven months. Small and black, somebody's pet before the invasion."
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book: Wayward Son
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Date Read: 10/23/2019
Page Count: 368
Sin: Mini challenge
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: grizzly bear in text p. 23 "I've heard that America is overrun with rats. And other animals. Grizzly bears, show dogs." (also has rat, squirrel, snake, cattle, deer if we need to free up the grizzly bear)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

(ETA: added the quote for the animal)

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Book: Wilder Girls
Author: Rory Power
Date Read: 10/23/2019
Page Count: 368
Sin: Envy
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): Yes
How it fits?: Green cover, YA, Read by Team Jealousy "Trinia"
SS Updated (Yes or No): No

BOM October
DQ1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ 3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Book: The Nowhere Man
Author: Gregg Hurwitz
Date Read: 10/23/19
Page Count: 369
Sin: Mini challenge
Sin Bingo: no
How it fits: Deer in text. Pg. 189 "...before realizing that the eyes belonged to a white-tailed deer.
SS updated: no

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Book: The Lying Game
Author: Ruth Ware
Date Read: 10/23/19
Page Count: 384
Sin: Mini challenge
Sin Bingo: no
How it fits: Sheep in text. Pg. 105 "...,the dead sheep in the flatbed of his truck."
SS updated: no

Sandi
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Book:
The Stand
Author: Stephen King
Date Read: 10/23
Page Count: 1153 (default edition)
Sin: N/A -- Mini Challenge
Sin Bingo: No
How it fits: gopher found in text. P. 1113 "And Kojak had brought a gopher for dinner."
SS updated: No

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Book Save the Date
Author Annabeth Albert
Date Read Oct 24
Page Count 153
Sin Pride
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Contemporary, LGBT
SS updated yes

DQ1 and 2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ4 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Book A Dance with Dragons
Author George R.R. Martin
Date Read Oct 23
Page Count 1125
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Owl, p 14 A horned owl flew silently between his trees....
SS updated yes

Book The Last Time I Lied
Author Riley Sager
Date Read Oct 24
Page Count 368
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Insect Easy 1 pg. 8 "You catch the drumroll of insects, the chirp of birds, a solitary loon letting out one last ghostly call that skaes acrossthe lake."
SS updated yes

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Book: The Wonder
Author: Emma Donoghue
Date Read: 10/24/19
Page Count: 304
Sin: Mini challenge
Sin Bingo: No
How it fits: Dragonfly in book: pg. 86: "Two azure dragonflies clung together a few inches above the water."
SS updated: no

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Book: واي من لوف مزز
Author: إيهاب معوض
Date Read: 10/24/2019
Page Count: 264
Sin: Gluttony
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Pink cover
SS Updated (Yes or No): No

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The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
finished: 10/24/19
pgs: 267
Sin: Pride or Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo: No
How it fits: purple cover or pg 85 "Wendell and Harvey climbed up into the tree house to discover the branches around it were swarming with parrots and monkeys"
SS Updated: No since I wasn't sure which to go with

Book Save the Date
Author Annabeth Albert
Date Read Oct 25
Page Count 153
Sin Pride
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Contemporary, LGBT
SS updated yes

DQ1 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ2 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
DQ3 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Book
Author J.R. Ward
Date Read Oct 24
Page Count 673
Sin Lust
Sin Bingo Yes
How it fits Red cover, guilty pleasures, hot scenes
SS updated yes or no

Book Team Player 2: A Sports Anthology
Author Charleigh Rose
Date Read Oct 25
Page Count 1014
Sin Pride
Sin Bingo No
How it fits Contemporary
SS updated yes

Book A Court of Wings and Ruin
Author Sarah J. Maas
Date Read Oct 25
Page Count 707
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits reindeer p 520 ..wagons were hauled by sure-footed reindeer and lumbering white bears...
SS updated yes

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Book:
Author: Kira Jane Buxton
Date Read: 26th October
Page Count: 320
Sin: Sloth/Envy
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): Yes (Green cover, read by Lexi on team Acedia in 2019 and currently has Young Adult on top shelves - column 3).
How it fits: Mini Challenge - "Kingfisher" - "We were utterly surrounded. Plovers, kingfishers, ospreys," - loc 380.5
SS updated yes or no: Yes

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Book: Godsgrave
Author: Jay Kristoff
Date Read: 10/26/2019
Page Count: 455
Sin: Sloth
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Mini challenge - wolf on cover
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: 11 Oct 2019
Page Count: 791
Sin: Sloth
Sin Bingo (Yes/No): No
How it fits: Mini challenge - bat
SS updated (Yes/No): Yes

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Book: يوتوبيا
Author: أحمد خالد توفيق
Date Read: 10/26/2019
Page Count: 192
Sin: Avarice
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: Genre: Dystopia
SS Updated (Yes or No): No

Sandi
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Book: Starboard Secrets
Author: Hope Callaghan
Date Read: 10/26/2019
Page Count: 278
Sin: N/A
Mini Challenge: Tricky Animal Macaw
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: @page 223 "Inside the cage was a bright red macaw."
SS Updated (Yes or No): No

Book: Harry Potter e a Pedra Filosofal
Author: J.K. Rowling
Date Read: 10/27/2019
Page Count: 248
Sin: N/A
Mini Challenge: Easy Animal Lizard
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits?: p 29 'Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone.'
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book: Recursion
Author: Blake Crouch
Date Read: 27 Oct 2019
Page Count: 336
Sin: Sloth
Sin Bingo (Yes/No): No
How it fits: Mini Challenge - Albatross
SS updated (Yes/No): Yes

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Book Delirium
Author Lauren Oliver
Date Read Oct 26
Page Count 441
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits p 42 ..nurses squealing, swatting at lowing cows with clipboards.
SS updated no

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Book: A Wedding to Die For
Author: A.R. Winters
Date Read: 27 Oct 2019
Page Count: 235 pp
Sin: Sloth (Mini Challenge)
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it Fits: Parrot on cover & character
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book: Thunderhead
Author: Neal Shusterman
Date Read: 10/27/2019
Page Count: 515
Sin: Envy
Sin Bingo (Yes or No):
How it fits?: Green cover, YA, read by Steven (Team Lust)
SS Updated (Yes or No): Yes

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Book Fire & Blood
Author George R.R. Martin
Date Read Oct 27
Page Count 719
Sin Sloth mini challenge
Sin Bingo No
How it fits p 52 ..first thing he did was butcher one of the castle cats
SS updated no

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Book: Hammaskeiju
Author: Eve Hietamies
Date Read: 10/27/19
Page Count: 415
Sin: Greed
Sin Bingo: no
How it fits: Anything goes
SS updated: no

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Death by Jack-o'-Lantern by Alexis Morgan
finished: 10/27/19
pgs: 304
sin: Lust
Sin Bingo: No
How it fits: published in 2019
SS updated: yes

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Book: The Ash Moon
Author: Michelle Dare
Date Read: 27 Oct 2019
Page Count: 251
Sin: Envy
Sin Bingo (Yes/No): No
How it fits: YA
SS updated (Yes/No): Yes

Book: Dead Wrong
Author: Leighann Dobbs
Date Read: 28 Oct 2019
Page Count: 252 pp
Sin: Wrath (Mini Challenge)
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
Justification: Cozy Mystery per rules & MPG Mystery
SS updated? (Yes or No): Yes

Book: Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man
Author: Justin Richards
Date Read: 28 Oct 2019
Page Count: 256 pp
Sin: Wrath (Mini Challenge)
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
Justification: Read a book with a brown cover
SS updated? (Yes or No): Yes

Book: 101 سر آريوس
Author: جهاد الترباني
Date Read: 28/10/2019
Page Count: 288
Sin: Avarice
Sin Bingo (Yes or No): No
How it fits: Criteria: Anything Goes.
SS updated? (Yes or No): No