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Beth's Log - TBR Knockout!

Book: Spare (+3)
Author: Prince Harry
Page Count: 410 (+4)
Prompt: #1 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 10

Book: Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery #1) (+3)
Author: Naomi Hirahara
Page Count: 312 (+3)
Prompt: #2 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 19

Book: Skeleton Crew (+3)
Author: Stephen King
Page Count: 788 (+7)
Prompt: #3 (+3)
Points: 13
Total Points: 32

Book: The Boy In The Suitcase (Nina Borg, #1) (+3)
Author: Lene Kaaberbol, Agnete Friis
Page Count: 321 (+3)
Prompt: #4 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 41

Book: Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) (+3)
Author: Louise Penny
Page Count: 321 (+3)
Prompt: #5 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 50

Book: Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books (+3)
Author: Helene Hanff
Page Count: 304 (+3)
Prompt: #6 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 59

Book: Finding Me (+3)
Author: Viola Davis
Page Count: 304 (+3)
Prompt: #7 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 68

Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) (+3)
Author: Douglas Adams
Page Count: 215 (+2)
Prompt: #8 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 76

Book: A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy #1) (+3)
Author: Caimh McDonnell
Page Count: 364 (+3)
Prompt: #9 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 85

Book: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (+3)
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Page Count: 384 (+3)
Prompt: #10 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 94

Book: Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel (+3)
Author: Shelby Van Pelt
Page Count: 360 (+3)
Prompt: #11 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 103

Book: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music (+3)
Author: Dave Grohl
Page Count: 376 (+3)
Prompt: #12 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 112

Book: Little Women (+3)
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Page Count: 418 (+4)
Prompt: #13 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 122

Book: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (+3)
Author: Eric Metaxas
Page Count: 608 (+6)
Prompt: #14 (+3)
Points: 12
Total Points: 134

Book: Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) (+3)
Author: Art Spiegelman
Page Count: 160 (+1)
Prompt: #15 (+3)
Points: 7
Total Points: 141

Book: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (+3)
Author: Gail Honeyman
Page Count: 331 (+3)
Prompt: #16 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 150

Book: Run on Red (+3)
Author: Noelle Ihli
Page Count: 291 (+2)
Prompt: #17 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 158

Book: Outback (DS Walker, #1) (+3)
Author: Patricia Wolf
Page Count: 292 (+2)
Prompt: #18 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 166

Book: Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) (+3)
Author: Octavia E. Butler
Page Count: 311 (+3)
Prompt: #19 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 175

Book: Under the Egg (+3)
Author: Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Page Count: 256 (+2)
Prompt: #20 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 183

Book: Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) (+3)
Author: Elie Wiesel
Page Count: 120 (+1)
Prompt: #21 (+3)
Points: 7
Total Points: 190

Book: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (+3)
Author: Mary Ann Shaffer
Page Count: 306 (+3)
Prompt: #22 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 199

Book: The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) (+3)
Author: C. S. Lewis
Page Count: 221 (+2)
Prompt: #23 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 207

Book: Circus Mirandus (+3)
Author: Cassie Beasley
Page Count: 306 (+3)
Prompt: #24 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 216

Book: Carrie Soto Is Back (+3)
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Page Count: 352 (+3)
Prompt: #25 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 225

Book: Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables (+3)
Author: David M. Bader
Page Count: 100 (+1)
Prompt: #26 (+3)
Points: 7
Total Points: 232

Book: Obeying Evil: The Mockingbird Hill Massacre Through the Eyes of a Killer (+3)
Author: Ryan Green
Page Count: 124 (+1)
Prompt: #27 (+3)
Points: 7
Total Points: 239

Book: Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally (+3)
Author: Emily Ladau
Page Count: 176 (+1)
Prompt: #28 (+3)
Points: 7
Total Points: 246

Book: A Town Called Solace (+3)
Author: Mary Lawson
Page Count: 292 (+2)
Prompt: #29 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 254

Book: The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There (+3)
Author: Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey
Page Count: 336 (+3)
Prompt: #30 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 263

Book: Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery, #1) (+3)
Author: Spencer Quinn
Page Count: 305 (+3)
Prompt: #31 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 272

Book: Does My Body Offend You? (+3)
Author: Mayra Cuevas, Marie Marquardt
Page Count: 432 (+4)
Prompt: #32 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 282

Book: The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) (+3)
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Page Count: 322 (+3)
Prompt: #33 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 291

Book: A Farewell to Arms (+3)
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Page Count: 340 (+3)
Prompt: #34 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 300

Book: The Book Thief (+3)
Author: Markus Zusak
Page Count: 552 (+5)
Prompt: #35 (+3)
Points: 11
Total Points: 311

Book: Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service (+3)
Author: Carol Leonnig
Page Count: 560 (+5)
Prompt: #36 (+3)
Points: 11
Total Points: 322

Book: The Maid's Diary (+3)
Author: Loreth Anne White
Page Count: 314 (+3)
Prompt: #37 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 331

Book: Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South (+3)
Author: Beth Macy
Page Count: 398 (+3)
Prompt: #38 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 340

Book: Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War (+3)
Author: Pamela D. Toler
Page Count: 262 (+2)
Prompt: #39 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 348

Book: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War (+3)
Author: Karen Abbott
Page Count: 544 (+5)
Prompt: #40 (+3)
Points: 11
Total Points: 359

Book: The Kitchen Front (+3)
Author: Jennifer Ryan
Page Count: 408 (+4)
Prompt: #41 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 369

Book: The Body in the Dales (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries, #1) (+3)
Author: J. R. Ellis
Page Count: 317 (+3)
Prompt: #42 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 378

Book: The Handmaid's Tale (+3)
Author: Margaret Atwood
Page Count: 311 (+3)
Prompt: #43 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 387

Book: Birdmen: The Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies (+3)
Author: Lawrence Goldstone
Page Count: 448 (+4)
Prompt: #44 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 397

Book: The Second Mrs. Astor (+3)
Author: Shana Abé
Page Count: 317 (+3)
Prompt: #45 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 406

Book: Lincoln in the Bardo (+3)
Author: George Saunders
Page Count: 349 (+3)
Prompt: #46 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 415

Book: The Vanishing Half (+3)
Author: Brit Bennett
Page Count: 345 (+3)
Prompt: #47 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 424

Book: Looking for Alaska (+3)
Author: John Green
Page Count: 221 (+2)
Prompt: #48 (+3)
Points: 8
Total Points: 432

Book: White Ivy (+3)
Author: Susie Yang
Page Count: 368 (+3)
Prompt: #49 (+3)
Points: 9
Total Points: 441
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Object: Complete as many prompts as possible!
Instructions/Rules:
• This is an individual challenge. Prompts will be completed on your own.
• You will complete prompts and log them in your own individual topic which will be provided upon sign-up. All prompts will be the same for everyone.
• You get a specific number of points depending on the length of the book you read (point system listed further down).
• You get three (3) points for each book you read.
• You get three (3) points for each prompt you complete.
• You CANNOT repeat prompts until you have finished ALL of the ones provided. You are not required to finish all of them but you can't repeat prompts until you do.
• The person who has the most points at the end of the challenge wins!
Time Frame: This challenge will run from January 1st, 2023 through December 31st, 2023.
HOW TO LOG YOUR BOOKS:
Log them in your assigned topic!
Name: (sign-up name)
Book: (title)
Author: (author's name)
Page Count: (# of pages in your edition)
Prompt: (prompt #)
Points: (# of points you got from this book)
Total Points: (# of points you have thus far)
Page Count Point System:
0-99 pages: 0 points
100-199 pages: 1 point
200-299 pages: 2 points
300-399 pages: 3 points
400-499 pages: 4 points
500-599 pages: 5 points
600-699 pages: 6 points
700-799 pages: 7 points
And so on...
Example:
Name: Emily
Book: Shadow and Bone (+3)
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Page Count: 416 (+4)
Prompt: #8 (+3)
Points: 10
Total Points: 10
Click "view spoiler" to see the prompts!
(view spoiler)[Prompts:
1. Read a book that came out in 2023.
2. Read a historical fiction.
3. Read the longest book in your TBR.
4. Read a book that you're a bit scared to pick up.
5. Read a book that a friend recommended to you.
6. Read a comfort book.
7. Read a book that you'd rate 5 stars.
8. Read a book that is a genre you don't read very often.
9. Read a book with a red cover.
10. Read a book that has been in your TBR for more than a year.
11. Read a book that you got as a gift.
12. Read a memoir.
13. Read a book that has to do with a holiday (can be any holiday).
14. Read a book that inspires you.
15. Read a graphic novel.
16. Read a book with a character that reminds you of yourself.
17. Read a book that makes you sleep with the lights on.
18. Read a book by a new-to-you author.
19. Read a book that came out before 2000.
20. Read a middle-grade book.
21. Read a book that has been translated.
22. Read a debut book.
23. Read an epic fantasy.
24. Read a book with a circus/carnival.
25. Read a book you've been waiting for.
26. Read a poetry collection book.
27. Read an independently published book.
28. Read a book with disability representation.
29. Read a book that you read along with someone else.
30. Read a book that won a category in the GR Choice Awards in 2022.
31. Read a book that features a dog.
32. Read a book by an author of color.
33. Read a book that is part of a duology.
34. Read a banned book.
35. Read a book made for the screen.
36. Read a book that is 500 pages or longer.
37. Read a book with a shocking plot twist.
38. Read a book with plants on the cover.
39. Read a book that is on your physical TBR.
40. Listen to an audiobook.
41. Read a book that has multiple POVs.
42. Read a book that is part of a series with 5 books or more.
43. Read a classic you've been wanting to get to.
44. Read a nonfiction book about something you want to learn about.
45. Read a book with discussion questions in it.
46. Read a book that you purchased more than 6 months ago.
47. Read a book that was recommended by a celebrity.
48. Read a young adult book.
49. Read a coming-of-age book.
50. Read a book with food on the cover.
51. Read a book that you found on social media.
52. Read a book with zero romance in it.
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