Hooked on Books discussion

Check-in your completed books here

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 and you may be creative with your links to the themes.
Standard Rules Apply

Themes
Dec 1-7 Scrooge
Dec 8-14 Past
Dec 15-21 Present
Dec 22-31 Future

*Theme Start & End times at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*


Book Points



Poll
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...



Formal Buddy Reads bonus
✨If you can make it fit a theme and read it during the theme week & participate in the discussion, you get 4 bonus points plus page points. (book must be completed during theme week to get the 4 points)
✨If you can't make it fit a theme but still read & participate you get 2 bonus points plus page points. Just mark the theme as "Bonus" and add the bonus points to your completion post. (book may be completed during any week of the challenge to get the 2 points)

You can find the buddy read here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: A Wallflower Christmas
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Pages: 213
Date Read: 12-2-2022
Rating: 3*
Justification: Scrooge was a character in the story.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 1

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: The Family Christmas Survival Guide
Author: Jon Rance
Pages: 121
Date read: 5.12.22
Rating: 4*
Justication: Scrooge mentioned in text
Book points: 1 point
Total points: 2 points

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: Secrets of a Summer Night
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Pages: 384 pgs
Date Read: 12/5/22
Rating: 4.5/5
Justification: Simon is similar to Scrooge in that he is a workaholic, investor, businessman, scorns other people that are unlike him and has many people who owe him money.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 5

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny
Author: Willa Nash
Pages: 165 pgs
Date Read: 12/4/22
Rating: 3.5/5
Justification: The ex-wife is very greedy like Scrooge. She legally was given $25 million in exchange for custody of their daughter and even showed up a couple of days after Christmas to spend time with the daughter and didn't even bring a Christmas present, leaving less than 24 hours later, without saying goodbye.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 6

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: My Big Fat Bloodsucker Secret Baby
Author: Bella Jacobs
Pages: 224 pgs
Date Read: 12/6/22
Rating: 4/5
Justification: You can spell SCROOGE using the letters in the title. Hero is also pretty grumpy and has no friends.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 7

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: Elves with Benefits
Author: Jana Aston
Pages: 109 pgs
Date Read: 12/7/22
Rating: 2/5
Justification: Heroine routinely calls hero Ebenezer and Scrooge because he doesn't want to participate in Christmas and is obsessed with trying to win the big promotion that is coming up at work.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 8

Theme week: Scrooge
Book: A Very Bossy Christmas
Author: Kayley Loring
Pages: 255 pgs
Date Read: 12/4/22
Rating: 4/5
Justification: Boss is all about work and does not want to give time off to his assistant.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 9

Theme week: Past
Book: It Happened One Autumn
Author: Lisa Kleypas
Pages: 382 pgs
Date Read: 12/13/22
Rating: 4.5/5
Justification: Multiple mentions of main character's mother having a sordid past
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 12

Theme week: Past
Book: All Good People Here
Author: Ashley Flowers
Pages: 312 pgs
Date Read: 12/12/22
Rating: 4/5
Justification: Goes back and forth 20 years solving a murder in a small town.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 15

Theme week: Past
Book: Bring Me Back
Author: B.A. Paris
Pages: 291 pgs
Date Read: 12/8/22
Rating: 3/5
Justification: Goes back and forth from wife's disappearance to present time.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 16

Theme week: Past
Book: Cantoras
Author: Carolina De Robertis
Pages: 312 pgs
Date Read: 12/13/22
Rating: 4/5
Justification: Based in 1977
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 19

Theme week: Past
Book: Six of Crows
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Pages: 465
Date Read: 12-14-2022
Rating: 4
Justification: Story goes back in the past to tell backgrounds for various characters
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 22

Theme week: Past
Book: All Good People Here
Author: Ashley Flowers
Pages: 336
Date Read: 12-14-2022
Rating: 4*
Justification: The story goes into the past to discuss the murder of January which took place 25 years prior.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 25

Theme week: Present
Book: Third a Kiss
Author: Pepper Winters
Pages: 260
Date Read: 12-17-2022
Rating: 4*
Justification: The story takes place in the present.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 26

Theme week: Present
Book: The Butcher of the Bay: Part II
Author: J. Bree
Pages: 256
Date Read: 12-19-2022
Rating: 4*
Justification: The story takes place in the present.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 27

Theme: Present
Book:The Wedding
Author: Ruth Heald
Pages: 321
Date read: 21.12.22
Rating: 3*
Justification: It’s a present for my goddaughter page 227
Book points: 3 points
Team total points: 30

Theme week: Future
Book: The Family Trap
Author: Lorna Dounaeva
Pages: 271
Date read: 27.12.22
Rating: 3*
Justification: future in text
Book points: 1
Total points: 31