Alaina’s Comments (group member since Oct 31, 2021)

Alaina’s comments from the Hooked on Books group.

Woohoo! Hopefully I can knock some of those out with the books I need to add.

Nice! That was close!

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Jenny B. Jones
Pages: 330
Date Read: 5/31
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg. 37, "How could I know your magic cow could hurdle something made to keep her in?"
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 264

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Helena Hunting
Pages: 352
Date Read: 5/30
Rating: 4
Justification: 37%, "magic of it all"
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 256

I'll look to see if I can find some Z titles that can knock off some of these harder one's next month. Here is the updates list of countries we haven't visited.

Azerbaijan
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Burundi
Côte d'Ivoire
Czechia (Czech Republic)
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Guinea-Bissau
Herzegovina
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan
Lithuania
Madagascar
Marshall Islands
Montenegro
Mozambique
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
Netherlands
Nicaragua
North Macedonia
Palestine State
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Portugal
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Switzerland
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Okay, added all the books I've read for this month that weren't there.

I knocked out the following from the list up above,

Ethiopia
Gambia
Hungary
Kuwait
Mongolia
Tobago
Trinidad

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Helena Hunting
Pages: 320
Date Read: 5/29
Rating: 4
Justification: 58%, "identify the magic"
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 253

Thanks for that Alyana! I'll go update scores and then I'll check back before I start adding books to the spreadsheet.

Good over here. Definitely got behind on adding books. Will have to look at what was last added and update everything. Is the list of where we have gone/haven't gone up to date?

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Marisa Urgo
Pages: 320
Date Read: 5/28
Rating: 4
Justification: 21%, "So, magic carpet?"
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 247

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Maci Aurora
Pages: 518
Date Read: 5/28
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 4, "magic didn't exist."
Book Points: 5

Team Total Points: 244

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Katie May
Pages: 353 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09...
Date Read: 5/28
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 90, "like a wall made of monstrous magic."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 239

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Scarlett St. Clair
Pages: 368
Date Read: 5/27
Rating: 4
Justification: MPG Magic
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 236

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: J. Bree
Pages: 425
Date Read: 5/27
Rating: 4
Justification: MPG Magic
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 233

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Becky Albertalli
Pages: 387
Date Read: 5/27
Rating: 4
Justification: 23%, "It's our magic escape code."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 230

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Patti Callahan
Pages: 320
Date Read: 5/27
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 28, "Maybe the magic came later."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 227

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Sarah Adams
Pages: 320
Date Read: 5/26
Rating: 4
Justification: 72%, "Magic."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 224

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: John Connolly
Pages: 339
Date Read: 5/26
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 315, "perhaps even magic."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 218

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: Robby Weber
Pages: 392
Date Read: 5/24
Rating: 4
Justification: 32%, "It's like a magic potion."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 215

Theme week: Magic
Book:
Author: L. Alison Heller
Pages: 336
Date Read: 5/24
Rating: 3
Justification: 33%, "The book: The Little Magic Bookstore by Wendy Nolan..."
Book Points: 3

Team Total Points: 212