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Theme week: TreasureBook: The Thursday Murder Club
Author: Richard Osman
Pages: 363
Date Read: September-1-2023
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
Justification: treasure in title (ThE thURSdAy murdEr club)
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 5
Theme week: TreasureBook: Breaking Silence
Author: Linda Castillo
Pages: 302
Date Read: September-1-2023
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
Justification: treasure in title (bREAking SilEnce, kaTe bUckholdeR series)
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 10
Theme week: TreasureBook: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Date: 1/9 3★
Pages: 480
Justification: in text - "a treasure trove of information" p.156
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total points: 15
Theme week: TreasureBook: Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh
Date: 2/9 3.5★
Pages: 416
Justification: "the small treasure she'd concealed there" p.103
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total points: 20
Theme week: TreasureBook: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Pages: 468 +3
Date Read: September-2-2023
Rating: 4 ⭐
Justification: treasure in text 24% "it had been a game, a treasure hunt."
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 25
Theme week: TreasureBook: One for the Money
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 352 +3
Date Read: September-3-2023
Rating: 5⭐
Justification: treasure in title/subtitle "onE foR ThE money, StephAnie plUm seRies"
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 30
Theme week: TreasureBook: Sun, Surf and Murder by D.C. Pitt
Date: 3/9 3.5★
Pages: 203
Justification: Trixie is a life-saving TREASURE
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 33
Theme week: TreasureBook: Weyward
Author: Emilia Hart
Date: 9/4/2023
Pages: 329
Justification: Goldie the spider is Violet's most treasured possession.
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 38
Theme week: TreasureBook: The Only Survivors
Author: Megan Miranda
Pages: 339 +3
Date Read: September-4-2023
Rating: 4⭐
Justification: treasure in text 69% "something from a treasure hunt."
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 43
Theme week: TreasureBook: Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh by Simon Brett
Date: 5/9 3.5★
Pages: 226
Justification: Mrs. Pargeter is a treasure, I love her :0)
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 46
Theme week 1: TreasureBook: The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Date: 5/9 4★
Pages: 236
Justification: "it was still such a treasure to Lulash" p.86
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 49
Completion Post: Theme week: Treasure
Book:
Author: Sean Parnell
Pages: 384
Date Read: 09/06
Rating: 3
Justification: Buried treasure page 69
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 52
Completion PostTheme Week: Treasure
Book: Classic Goosebumps - The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
Author: R. L. Stine
Pages: 144
Date Read: 9/7/23
Rating: 5
Justification: Classic GoosebUmpS 0 ThE ScAREcRow walks at midnight.
Used in Spider web: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Book points: 1 +2 bonus= 3
Team total points: 55
Completion Post:Theme week: Treasure
Book:
Author: Wilkie Collins
Pages: 494
Date Read: 09/7
Rating: 3
Justification: The stone in the plot is considered a national treasure.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 58
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasyBook: Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs
Date: 8/9 4★
Pages: 292
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 61
Completion PostTheme week: Treasure
Book: An Honest Man
Author: Michael Koryta
Pages: 373
Date Read: 09/7/2023
Rating: 5
Justification: Jacqueline's necklace is a priceless treasure. It is a key piece of info to solving the crime.
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total points: 66
Completion PostSpider Web Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
BooK: Possession in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Pages: 160
Date Read: 9/8/23
Justification: this book has been tagged as fantasy 20 times
Book points: 1 + 2 for using in spider web = 3
total team points- 69
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Completed Book by PrinzessBookDragon:Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Title, Author: Dolly by Measha Stone
Pages: 222
Date Read: 9.8.23 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
How It Fits: AFN starts with M in Mythology
Book Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Total Personal points: 3
Team Total points: 72
Completion Post:Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book:
Author: Peter Benchley
Pages: 320
Date Read: 09/09
Rating: 3
Justification: Tagged fantasy by 15 people
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 75
Theme week: TreasureBook: Death at the Café
Author: Alison Golden
Pages: 212 +1
Date Read: September-5-2023
Rating: 3⭐
Justification: treasure in text 60% "Annabelle’s treasure trove was no less impressive."
Book Points: 3
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 78
Theme week: Mythology/FantasyBook: Cassandra in Reverse
Author: Holly Smale
Pages: 434 +3
Date Read: September-9-2023
Rating: 4.5⭐
Justification: MPG Fantasy
Book Points: 5
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 83
Completion Post:Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book:
Author: Tim Powers
Pages: 389
Date Read: 09/09
Rating: 3
Justification: Mythology page 203
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 86
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasyBook: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Date: 9/9 4.5★
Pages: 158
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasy
Book: Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Date: 10/9 4★
Pages: 158
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasy
Book: Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Date: 11/9 4★
Pages: 158
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 95
Theme week: Mythology/FantasyBook: The Golden Enclaves
Author: Naomi Novik
Pages: 416 +3
Date Read: September-10-2023
Rating: 4.5⭐
Justification: MPG Fantasy
Book Points: 5
Spider Web Reading Challenge +2
Team Total points: 100
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasyBook: Network Effect by Martha Wells
Date: 12/9 4★
Pages: 350
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasy
Book: High Stakes by Erin McCarthy
Date: 12/9 2★
Pages: 304
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Points: 110
Completion Post:Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book:
Author: Alexander Key
Pages: 180
Date Read: 09/13
Rating: 3
Justification: MPG Fantasy
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 111
Completion Post:Theme Week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book:
Author: Clive Cussler/Graham Brown
Pages: 463
Date Read: 09/11
Rating: 3
Justification: The MC has to travel to the mythological birth place of the Incas to find the valuable missing technology.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 114
Theme week: Mythology/FantasyBook: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Author:Ben H. Winters Jane Austen
Date: 9/13/2023
Pages: 344
Justification: Page 39 - "No more talk of mountains, or queer spirals of steam, or other childish fantasies."
Page Points: 3
Team Points: 117
Theme week: Mythology/FantasyBook: Looking Glass Sound
Author:Catriona Ward
Date: 9/14/2023
Pages: 342
Justification: MPG Fantasy
Page Points: 3
Team Points: 120
Completion PostTheme Week: mythology/fantasy
Book: What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Author: Barbara Butcher
Date Read: 9/14/23
Pages: 288
Justification: page 179 : "satire of men's fantasies about women"
Page Points: 1
Spider Web Points: 2
Spider Web thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Total page points: 3
Team Points: 123
Completed Book by PrinzessBookDragon:Theme week: Fire
Title, Author: My Best Friend's Sister by Q.B. Tyler
Pages: 108
Date Read: 9.15.23🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
How It Fits: 'fire' found in text, pg 53, '...feel the fire in my eyes.'
Book Points: 1
Spider Web Challenge Link:--
Spider Web Points: 0
Total Personal points: 4
Team Total points: 124
Completion Post:Theme week: Fire
Book:
Author: Jack Fairweather
Pages: 495
Date Read: 09/17
Rating: 3
Justification: Fire in text page 267
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 127
Theme week: FireBook: China Mountain Zhang
Author: Maureen F. McHugh
Pages: 313
Date Read: 9/16/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 149 "I want the hole and fire a quick burst"
Book Points: 3 + 2 for spider web = 5
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Team Total points 132
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasyBook: Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
Date: 14/9 3★
Pages: 304
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasy
Book: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
Date: 14/9 3★
Pages: 215
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 1
Theme week 2: Mythology/fantasy
Book: Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
Date: 14/9 3★
Pages: 320
Justification: mpg fantasy
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Points: 11
Team Total: 143
Theme week 3: FireBook: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Date: 15/9 4★
Pages: 518
Justification: "We shoot it. Or set fire to it." p.204
Page Points: 5
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 3: Fire
Book: Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair by Laurie Perry
Date: 16/9 3★
Pages: 268
Justification: "the worst fire season in a decade" p.17
Page Points: 1
Theme week 3: Fire
Book: Move Your Blooming Corpse by D.E. Ireland
Date: 17/9 3.5★
Pages: 306
Justification: "putting out the blasted fire" p.154
Page Points: 3
Theme week 3: Fire
Book: A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E. Kinsey
Date: 17/9 4★
Pages: 257
Justification: "an iron or two in the fire" p.179
Page Points: 1
Points: 12
Team Total: 155
Completion Post:Theme week: Fire
Book:
Author: Lee Goldberg
Pages: 304
Date Read: 09/18
Rating: 3
Justification: Book about fire and firefighting
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 158
Completion Post:Theme week: Fire
Book: Lure of Obsession
Author: Lisa Kessler
Pages: 266
Date Read: 09/19/2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg 163 - ...once the FIRE blazed to life
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 159
Theme week 3: FireBook: Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
Date: 19/9 4★
Pages: 272
Justification: "sitting before the fire" p.133
Page Points: 1
Team Points: 160
Completion Post:Theme week: Fire
Book:
Author: Norman Maclean
Pages: 332
Date Read: 09/20
Rating: 3
Justification: Fire in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 163
Completed Book requirements:Theme week: Fire
Book:
Author: Clive Cussler/Dirk Cussler
Pages: 494
Date Read: 09/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Fire on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 166
Completion Post:Theme week: Fire
Book: The Crane Husband
Author: Kelly Barnhill
Pages: 122
Date Read: 09/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Fire in text - Page 74 -...something that made the FIRE glow with strange colors...
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 167
Theme week 3: FireBook:Vertigo by Karen Herbert
Date: 20/9 3★
Pages: 320
Justification: "Where there's a stroke, there's fire." p.110
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 3: Fire
Book:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie
Date: 21/9 4★
Pages: 294
Justification: "the body was lying near the fire." p.21
Page Points: 1
Team Total: 173
Theme week 4: BeastBook: Stars Uncharted by S.K. Dunstall
Date: 23/9 3.5★
Pages: 416
Justification: "let's flush these beasts out"" p.257
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total: 178
Theme week 4: BeastBook: Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
Date: 24/9 3★
Pages: 414
Justification: "a sleek predatory beast"" p.104
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total: 183
Completion Post:Theme week: Beast
Book:
Author: Piu Eatwell
Pages: 368
Date Read: 09/24
Rating: 3
Justification: B-E-A-S-T letters in title/subtitle
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 186
Theme week 4: BeastBook: Happiness for Beginners by Katherine Center
Date: 25/9 2.5★
Pages: 352
Justification: "my inner bloodthirsty beast" p.90
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Theme week 4: Beast
Book: Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon
Date: 25/9 4★
Pages: 373
Justification: BEAST in series - commisSArio BrunETti
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total: 196
Theme week 4: BeastBook: Cold, Cold Bones by Kathy Reichs
Date: 26/9 3.5★
Pages: 352
Justification: "into the heart of the beast" p.29
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total: 201
Theme week 4: BeastBook: The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan
Date: 26/9 3.5★
Pages: 336
Justification: Page 142 - Jayne "blur of sharp teeth and black and white fur" a badger - beast
Page Points: 3
Team Total: 204
Theme week 4: BeastBook: A Girl's Guide to Vampires by Katie MacAlister
Date: 27/9 2★
Pages: 374
Justification: "quieting the beast that howled within" p.46
Page Points: 3
Spider Web Challenge Link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Spider Web Points: 2
Team Total: 209
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Completed Book requirements:
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Date Read:
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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
Sept 1-7 Treasure
Sept 8-14 Mythology/Fantasy
Sept 15-21 Fire
Sept 22-30 Beast
*Theme Start & End times are based on your time zone. So each theme will end at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*
Book Points
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Buddy Read Bonus (New rules)
✨Tier one: Buddy read with one friend
Minimum 300 pages
1 point = doesn't fit the theme
2 points - does fit the theme
✨Tier Two: Buddy read with 2 or more friends
Minimum 300 pages
3 points = doesn't fit the theme
5 points = does fit the theme
✨Tier Three: Read the Formal Buddy Read led by a HOB Mod.
6 points = doesn't fit the theme
10 points = fits the theme
Read the Formal Buddy Read here
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Request an Informal one here
This month if you use a book here AND in the Spider Web Reading Challenge you will get bonus points. Don't forget to link to your Spider Web thread when you check-in your completed book!
✨ 2 bonus points if a book is used in both challenges
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