Hooked on Books discussion

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Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Rating:
Justification:
Book Points:
Team Total points:

Challenge rules:
*No graphic novels, poetry or cookbooks allowed.
*Follow your own time zone. If you finish the book between the theme dates in your time zone, it counts.
*You must be able to justify how your book fits the theme. Example: If the theme is cats, then your book can have a cat on the cover, a cat in the book, can be all about cats, etc. If you can justify it, then it will work. Let's keep this easy.
Standard Rules Apply

Themes
April 1-7 Tigers
April 8-14 Elephants
April 15-21 Acrobats
April 22-30 Jugglers

*Theme Start & End times are based on your time zone. So the Green theme will end on March 7th at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*

Book Points


Poll
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Completed Book
Theme week: Tiger
Book: The Album of Dr. Moreau
Author: Daryl Gregory
Pages: 176
Date Read: 4/1
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Tiger in text (name of an album) and one of the MC is a human-feline hybrid
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 1

Completed Book
Theme week: Tiger
Book: Hooked on a Phoenix
Author: Ashlyn Chase
Pages: 352
Date Read: 4-1-2022
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Ch. 6 "She looks like a tiger."

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 4

Theme Week ~ Tigers

Book: Fate Actually
Author: Elizabeth Hunter
Pages: 330
Date Read: 4/1
Rating: 4
Justification: Tigers are in the Wild/Big cat family, as are cougars. M/C is a bit wild and described as a cougar...."You're such a cougar." pg 131
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 7

Theme week: Tigers
Book: Strange Beasts of China
Author: Yan Ge
Pages: 232
Date Read: 4/2
Rating: 4*
Justification: pg 139 'Having trodden on a tiger mum's tail....'
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 8

Theme week: Tigers
Book: Succubus Heat
Author: Richelle Mead
Pages: 353
Date Read: 4/3
Rating: 4*
Justification: pg 187 'I gave up and left the TV on some sort of nature show about Siberian Tigers....'
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 10

Completed Book
Theme week: Tiger
Book: Honey and Pepper
Author: A.J. Demas
Pages: 222
Date Read: 4/2
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MC's gangster, former employer keeps a tiger in the garden
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 11

Theme week: Tigers
Book: The Last House on Needless Street
Author: Catriona Ward
Pages: 335
Date Read: 4/4
Rating: 4*
Justification: several including '...his tawny body and tiger's tail' (describing a cat)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 15**
** message 6 should be 3 points not 2. Corrected for this.

Theme Week: Tiger
Book: Tiger, Tiger
Author: Lynne Reid Banks
Pages: 231
Date Read: 4/2/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification: the word " Tiger" in the title & a tiger on the cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 16

Theme Week: Tiger
Book: Tiger Shrimp Tango
Author: Tim Dorsey
Pages: 306
Date Read: 4/5/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Justification: the word "tiger" in the title
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 19

Theme Week: Tiger
Book: Blind Tiger
Author: Sandra Brown
Pages: 512
Date Read: April 7 2022
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: the word "tiger" in the title
Book Points: 5
Team Total Points: 24

Theme week: Tigers
Book: The Book of Cold Cases
Author: Simone St. James
Pages: 352
Date Read: 4/7/22
Rating: 4*
Justification: Tigers are sleek, beautiful apex predators. One of the MCs is a sleek, beautiful apex predator (female serial killer - victims are men)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 27

Theme week: Tigers
Book: When You Trap a Tiger
Author: Tae Keller
Pages: 304
Date Read: 4/6/22
Rating: 3
Justification: Tiger on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 30

Theme Week ~ Tigers

Book: Criminal Mischief
Author: Stuart Woods
Pages: 352
Date Read: 4/6
Rating: 3
Justification: Tiger in text - page 281
I was listening to the audio and wrote down the sentence ....now I can't find it.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 33

Theme week: Elephants
Book: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
Author: Lawrence M. Schoen
Pages: 384
Date Read: 4/9
Rating: 3*
Justification: Title and MCs
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 36

Theme week: Elephants
Book: Back in the Burbs
Author: Tracy Wolff
Pages: 400
Date Read: 4/9
Rating: 3*
Justification: Chapter 16: ..'a giant thing with split, elephant-shaped dark-green leaves...'
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 39

Theme Week ~ Elephants

Book: April Fools
Author: Jess Lourey
Pages: 320
Date Read: 4/11
Rating: 3
Justification: "...avoiding the elephant in the room..., Pg 292
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 42

Theme Week ~ Elephants

Book: The Big Over Easy
Author: Jasper Fforde
Pages: 420
Date Read: 4/11
Rating: 4
Justification: "It might have been a lime green elephant for all she knew" (84%)
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 45

Theme Week ~ Elephants

Book: How I Live Now
Author: Meg Rosoff
Pages: 194
Date Read: 4/10
Rating: 3
Justification: Ch. 15 "stamped on by elephants"
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 46

Theme Week ~ Elephants

Book: Innocent in Death
Author: JD Robb
Pages: 401
Date Read: 4/11
Rating: 3
Justification: All elephant species are herbivores, consuming only plant material. African elephants eat mostly grass; Asian elephants eat mostly bamboo leaves. Most plant material, bamboo leaves and grass are green. Cover of the book is mostly green (85%).
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 49

Theme week: Acrobats
Book: Amour Amour
Author: Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie
Pages: 347
Date Read: 4/16/22
Rating: 3.5*
Justification: MCs are aerial acrobats
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 52

Theme Week ~ Acrobats

Book: The Album of Dr. Moreau
Author: Daryl Gregory
Pages: 176
Date Read: 4/16
Rating: 3
Justification: An acrobat is someone who skillfully performs gymnastic feats or other actions that involve agility and balance - Bobby jumps from balcony to balcony to get from one hotel room to another.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 53

Theme Week ~ Acrobats

Book: Bridal Jitters
Author: Jayne Castle
Pages: 112
Date Read: 4/19
Rating: 3
Justification: An acrobat is someone who skillfully performs gymnastic feats or other actions that involve agility and balance - Sam and Virginia show agility and balance while maneuvering through traps and obstacles to escape another dimension.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 54

Theme Week ~ Acrobats

Book: The Hansel and Gretel Curse
Author: Margo Ryerkerk
Pages: 224
Date Read: 4/21
Rating: 3
Justification: An acrobat is someone who skillfully performs gymnastic feats or other actions that involve agility and balance - Gretel demonstrates gymnastic feats while riding a dragon during a fight with a witch.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 55

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Beach Read
Author: Emily Henry
Pages: 380
Date Read: 4/22
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - MC's balance their writing lives and personal lives....and trying to outwit each other.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 58

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Now, Then, and Everywhen
Author: Rysa Walker
Pages: 530
Date Read: 4/23
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - MC's are juggling traveling their past activities with their current activities and trying to balance out the time shifts caused by time traveling.
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 63

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Cold Ridge
Author: Carla Neggers
Pages: 309
Date Read: 4/23
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - MC's are juggling their personal and professional lives while trying to stop a murderer.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 66

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: The Difference Between Somebody and Someone
Author: Aly Martinez
Pages: 258
Date Read: 4/22
Rating: 4
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects (Totally stole this from Angie!)

MC is juggling his emotions throughout this entire book, while dealing with overcoming a tragic event and at the same time learning how to mix the past with the future. A twist in this book that I didn't see coming happened and can't say much more but juggling happened.

Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 67

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Claimed
Author: J.R. Ward
Pages: 509
Date Read: 4/25
Rating: 4
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects (Totally stole this from Angie!)

MC is juggling multiple different balls in the air and trying to keep everything in balance and not let one thing let everything else fall apart.

Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 72

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
Author: Zoraida Córdova
Pages: 336
Date Read: 4/24
Rating: 4
Justification: Orquídea Divina runs away to the circus, where there are jugglers ("dancers and jugglers and sword swallowers" 86%)

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 75

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Magical Midlife Dating
Author: KF Breene
Pages: 468
Date Read: 4/24
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - MC is juggling her magic life with trying to keep her "normal" life
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 78

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: A Safe House
Author: Stuart Woods
Pages: 320
Date Read: 4/26
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - There is never a time that Stone isn't juggling - women, business with pleasure, trips around the globe!
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 81

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
Author: Jo Watson Hackl
Pages: 240
Date Read: 4/27
Rating: 3
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - Cricket is juggling her desire to find her mom and her sense of right and wrong. She does a grand job in the end
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 82

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: A Merciful Promise
Author: Kendra Elliot
Pages: 337
Date Read: 4/28
Rating: 4
Justification: A juggler is a person who adroitly balances several activities or objects - Mercy has to juggle her desire to uphold the law with her will to live and save others
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 85

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: Creation in Death
Author: JD Robb
Pages: 364
Date Read: 4/30
Rating: 4
Justification: "I've been doing some probabilities and some data juggling." pg 245
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 88

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: The Medical Examiner
Author: James Patterson / Maxine Paetro
Pages: 144
Date Read: 4/28
Rating: 3
Justification: Cindy Marvel listed as #25 in the Top 40 Jugglers of 2003....Cindy Thomas is a character in the book.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 89

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: The Toast of Time
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 129
Date Read: 4/30
Rating: 4
Justification: Taylor Glenn listed as #2 and Max Kuschmierz listed as #12 in the Top 40 Jugglers of 2021....Jodi Taylor is author and Max is MC of the book
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 90

Theme Week ~ Jugglers

Book: My Midlife Crisis, My Rules
Author: Robyn Peterman
Pages: 296
Date Read: 4/30
Rating: 3
Justification: The first juggler to start using cigar boxes was Jim Harrigan, who was the first ‘Tramp Juggler’ and one of the first jugglers to start adding comedy lines into his routine. Book tagged Humour / Humorour / Funny
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 91