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Summer TBR 2023- Scoring Thread
#47 These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 by Nancy E. Turner -47 ptsDate added 6/29/17 - 10 pts
384pp - 4 pts
HF -5 pts
Book Total : 66pts
Challenge Total: 270pts
The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes#41 - 41 points
516 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 21, 2014 - 15 points
Summer theme bonus (d) - 5 points
TOTAL - 72 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 638 points
Mod
#49=49 points
337 pgs= 4points
TBR Oct 21, 2021= 2 points
Book Total=55 points
Challenge total=306 points
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth#36= 36 points
336 pages= 4 points
Book Total 40 points
Challenge Total 297 points
Bonus Book Becky's TBR List: 50 ptsThe Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
233pp (2pts)
Book Total: 52 pts
Challenge Total: 322 pts
The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca by Tahir Shah#37 - 37 points
368 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: March 24, 2014 - 15 points
TOTAL - 56 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 694 points
Mod
#30= 30 points
403 pgs= 4 points
TBR May 4, 2022= 2 points
Book Total=36 points
Challenge total=342points
#43 Victoria and Albert by Evelyn Anthony = 43 points359 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
Date added: 8/2021 = 2 points
Total = 54 points
Challenge total = 566 points
Now or Never by Elizabeth Adler#44=44 points
362 pages=4 points
On TBR since 5/2017=15 points
Book total=63 points
Challenge total=542 pages
Camino Island by John Grisham#47= 47 points
Date added 4/2017= 15 points
290 Pages = 2 points
Bonus F = 5 points
Book Total 69 points
Challenge Total 366 points
#37 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett252 pages = 2
HF = 5
Book total = 44
Challenge Total= 742
#40 The Last Kind Words Saloon by Larry McMurtry = 40 points256 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
Date added: 01/2019 = 8 points
Total = 55 points
Challenge Total = 621 points
#26 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon226 pages = 2
Book total 🟰 28
Challenge Total 🟰 770
The Company: A Novel of the CIA by Robert Littell#50 - 50 points
894 pages - 8 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 24, 2014 - 15 points
TOTAL - 78 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 772 points
Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Stephanie Marie Thornton#36 - 36pts
448p - 4pts
TBR 2023 - 0pts
HF bonus - 5pts
Total - 45pts
Challenge total - 363pts
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict#41 = 41 points
320 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
TBR 10/2020 = 6 points
Total = 56 points
Challenge Total = 677 points
Mohawk by Richard Russo#49 - 49 points
428 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: March 1, 2016 - 15 points
TOTAL - 73 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 845 points
Midnight Champagne by A. Minette Ansay#43=43 points
225 pages=2 points
On TBR since 5/2017=15 points
Book total= 60 point
Challenge total=602 points
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro#18 - 18pts
258pts - 2pts
TBR 4 Apr 2015 - 15pts
Total - 35pts
Challenge total - 398pts
Penmarric by Susan Howatch#47 spot - 47 points
704 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Dated added: October 3, 2009 - 15 points
Bonus E: Author's initial in Summer - 5 points
Book total - 78 points
Previous Challenge total - 183 points
Challenge total - 261 points
Total books read - 4
One More Seat at the Round Table by Susan Dormady Eisenberg#42 = 42 points
HF 5 points
340 pages= 4 points
Book Total 51 points
Challenge Total 417 points
The Night Before by Lisa Jackson#39=39 points
Bonus a--takes place in summer=5 points
352 pages=4 points
On TBR since 4/2015=15 points
Book total=63 points
Challenge total=665 points
Hollow City byRansom RiggsNarrator’s Becky = 50
ay 2016 = 15
421 Pages = 4
HF = 5
Book total =74
Challenge Total = 844
Nirvana Blues: A Novel by John Nichols#47 - 47 points
527 pages - 6 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: October 24, 2011 - 15 points
TOTAL - 68 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 913 points
Mod
#33=33 points
576 pgs=6 points
TBR June 3,2021= 2 pts
Bonus B= 5 points
Book Total=46 points
Challenge total=388 points
What the Dead Leave Behind by Rosemary Simpson#37 = 37 points
292 pages = 2 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - June 2019 = 6 points
Total = 50 points
Challenge total = 727 points
Bonus Jolene’s TBRA Place Beyond Courage by Elizabeth Chadwick
50 Bonus points
HF= 5 points
544 pages= 6 points
Book total 61 points
Challenge Total 478 points
milk and honey by Rupi KaurBonus Book #2 (Jolene) - 50pts
204p - 2pts
Total - 52pts
Pageboy by Elliot Page
#43 - 43pts
271p - 2pts
TBR 30 Mar 2022 - 2pts
Total - 47pts
Challenge total - 497pts
The Lake House by Kate Morton#49 - 49 pts
492pp - 4pts
Date added 7/17 -10 pts
HF - 5pts
Bonus A - 5 pts
Book Total : 73 pts
Challenge Total : 395 pts
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea#30 - 30 points
528 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 29, 2016 - 15 points
TOTAL - 56 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 969 points
The Leper of Saint Giles #5 Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters#21 spot - 21 points
208 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 Points
Date added: July 17, 2023 - 0 points
Book total - 28 points
Previous challenge total - 261 points
Challenge total - 289 points
Total books read - 5
A Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin Hazzard#43 -43 pts
Date Added 4/16 -15 pts
261 pp - 2pts
Book Total: 60 pts
Challenge Total: 455 pts
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene#36 - 36 points
274 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: August 10, 2020 - 4 points
Summer Bonus (b) - 5 points
TOTAL - 52 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 1021 points
Mod
#22=22 points
320 pgs= 4 points
Book Total=26 points
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
#14=14 points
400 pgs= 4 points
Book Total=18 points
The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
#34=34 points
352 pgs=4 points
Hf= 5 points
TBR May 7, 2022=2 points
Book Total=45 points
Challenge total=477 points
Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand#39= 39 points
448 pages= 4 points
Date added 1/2020 = 6 points
HF = 5 points
Bonus C = 5 points
Book Total 59 points
Challenge Total 537
#17 If You Ask Me: And of Course You Won't by Betty White258 pages = 2
Book Total = 19
Challenge Total 863
John Saturnall's Feast: A Novel by Lawrence Norfolk#46 = 46 points
417 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
TBR - Feb 2022 = 2 points
Total = 57 points
Challenge total = 784 points
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienBONUS BOOK (Becky's TBR) - 50 points
236 pages - 2 points
HF - 0 points
TOTAL - 52 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 1073 points
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann#42 on list =42 points
On TBR since 1/2018=10 points
349 pages=4 points
Book total=56 points
Challenge total=721 points
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides#12 - 12pts
336p - 4pts
TBR 12 Apr 2020 - 6pts
Total - 22pts
Challenge total - 519pts
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy#40 - 40pts
216p - 2pts
TBR 30 Jan 2019 - 8pts
Total - 50pts
Challenge total - 569pts
Ashley Marie wrote: "milk and honey by Rupi KaurBonus Book #2 (Jolene) - 50pts
204p - 2pts
Total - 52pts"
Retracting this one because I realized that would be two bonus books read in July (Northanger Abbey, message #38).
Updated challenge total is 519pts.
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer & the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla Johnson McMillan#29 - 29 points
384 pages - 4 points
HF - 0 points
Date added: July 6, 2013 - 15 points
TOTAL - 48 points
CHALLENGE TOTAL - 1121 points
Mod
#44=44 points
393 pgs=4 points
HF=5 points
TBR Aug 6 2016= 15 points
Book Total=68 points
Challenge total= 545 points
A Most Novel Revenge #3 Amory Ames by Ashley Weaver#12 spot - 12 points
320 pages - 4 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: May 22, 2021 - 4 points
Book total - 25 points
Previous challenge total - 289 points
Challenge total - 314 points
Total books read- 6
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Bonus Book - Jasmine's TBR = 50 points
448 pages = 4 points
HF = 5 points
Total = 59 points
Challenge Total = 512 points