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Individual Competitive Challenge
May 2024

Welcome to the 1st monthly competitive individual TBR Busters. This is a relatively simple challenge. You will just read books from your TBR. The competitive aspect comes from the fact that you are competing against other members. Each book will be worth points. See the chart below for the point value. There will be badges for the top 3 highest scorers. I will award them at the end of the month. Make sure you update your scores. I will give you an extra day to update your scores. Now go work on those TBRs!

Sample tracking post
Total Points: 4 pts

1. Fortune's Fool / 5/3/24 / 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All / 5/4/24 / 1pt
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Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Please use the default GR book for page numbers. If the default is a large print version, use the next most popular edition.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Point System


Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: May Flowers
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Badges of Honor

1st place:


2nd place:


3rd place:


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Participants

Jenny 37
Michelle 38
Angie 57
Cobwebby Reading Reindeer 0
Risa 0
Sammy 59
Heather 16

Oh yes.
My spot.

Running total 37

1. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 209pg, 3 May (1pt)
2. Checkout 19 288pg 5 May (1)
3. Project Hail Mary 476pg 6 May (3)
4. The Forever War 278pg 6 May (1)
5. Moon of the Crusted Snow 213pg 7 May (1)
6. Call Me Cassandra 224pg 8 May (1)
7. Murder Road 341 pg 8 May (3)
8. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories 272pg 12 May (1)
9. Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling 358pg 12 May (3)
10. The Brides of High Hill 115pg 13 May (1)
11. Chasm City 694pg 18 May (5)
12. Redemption Ark 694 pg 23 May (5)
13. Insidious Intent 448pg 30 May (3)
14. Generation Ship 608pg 24 May (5)
15. Archangels of Funk 384pg 30 May (3)

TBR Busters
May 2024

Book's Read

Book - Artificial Condition
Author - Martha Wells
Date Read - 5/2/24
Pages - 158
Points - 1

Book - The Divide by
Author - Erica Stevens
Date Read - 5/3/24
Pages - 364
Points - 3

Book - A Fall of Marigolds
Author- Susan Meissner
Date Read - 5/5/24
Pages - 370
Points - 3
Bonus - 2


Book - River Sing Me Home
Author - Eleanor Shearer
Date Read - 5/8/24
Pages - 322
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2


Book - Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
Author - Joanna L. Stratton
Date Read - 5/9/24
Pages - 520
Points - 5

Book - Rogue Protocol
Author - Martha Wells
Date Read - 5/10/24
Pages - 159
Points - 1

Book - GRANDMA?
Author - J.A. Konrath
Date Read - 5/12/24
Pages - 246
Points - 1

Book - The Night It Got Out
Autyhor - Patrick James Ryan
Date - 5/13/24
Pages - 220
Points - 1

Book - The Last Days
Author - Rhiannon Frater
Date Read - 5/18/24
Pages - 262
Points - 1

Book - Reunion in Death
Author - J.D. Robb
Date Read - 5/18/24
Pages - 371
Points - 3
Bonus - 2


Book - Witched at Birth
Author - Dakota Cassidy
Date Read - 5/21/24
Pages - 167
Points - 1

Book - Yeager's Getaway
Author - Scott Bell
Date Read - 5/25/24
Pages - 304
Points - 3

Book - Aces Wilde
Author - Jenn Stark
Date Read - 5/29/24
Pages - 346
Points - 3

Book - South of the Buttonwood Tree
Author - Heather Webber
Date Read - 5/30/24
Pages - 336
Points - 3

TOTAL POINTS - 38

TBR Busters
Duration: May 1 - 31, 2024

Theme: May Flowers (2 bp)

Books Read | Total Points: 57

1. Connections in Death | 382 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3 pts
2. The Cabin at the End of the World | 336 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3 pts + 2bp (💐on cover)
3. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known | 149 pgs | TBR 2022 | 1 pts
4. The Quarry Girls | 332 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3p + 2bp (💐on cover)
5. Project Hail Mary | 549 pgs | TBR 2021 | 5 pts
6. How Can I Help You | 256 pgs | TBR Mar 2024 | 1 pts
7. Body of Lies | 400 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3 pts
8. Phantom Kiss | 113 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1 pts
9. Stings and Stones | 251 pgs | TBR 2023 | 1 pts
10. Blade Bound | 380 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3 pts
11. The Sleepwalkers | 304 pgs | TBR Mar 2024 | 3 pts
12. Lady in Black | 184 pgs | TBR 2023 | 1 pts
13. The Red Pyramid | 529 pgs | TBR 2021 | 5 pts
14. On Her Watch | 312 pgs | TBR 2022 | 3 pts
15. Identity | 505 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5 pts
16. Hell's Spells | 372 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3 pts
17. Mermaid Mimosa | 252 pgs | TBR 2022 | 1p + 2bp (flower on cover)
18. Othersphere | 320 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3 pts
19. Salt & Broom ~ 5/26 | 282 pgs | TBR Mar 2024 | 1p + 2bp (💐on cover)

Definitely needed😊:
TBR Busters May '24:

Oooh just what I need!


TBR Busters
May 2024



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I'm obviously not doing enough challenges yet! 😆

Because I read an insane amount, I am limiting myself to books that have been on my TBR for more than a year

Theme: May Flowers (+2 points)

Total points: 59

1. Together We Will Go - 3 points
2. Final Heir - 3 points
3. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist - 1 point
4. Victory City - 3 points + flowers on the cover + 2 points
5. The History of Mr. Polly - 1 point - Some of the book is set during the month of May, and the MC comments that early May isn't much like May at all + 2 points
6. The Leper of Saint Giles - 1 point
7. Midnight Mass - 3 points
8. Saint - 1 point
9. Empire of the Damned - 7 points
10. All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye - 3 points
11. Star Maker - 3 points
12. What If? - 3 points
13. Keeper of Enchanted Rooms - 3 points
14. Sharpe's Command - 3 points & set in May 1812 + 2 points
15. The Vacation - 3 points
16. The Gallows Curse - 5 points
17. The Plague - 3 points
18. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - 1 point
19. Salt & Broom - 1 points & flowers on the cover - 2 points

Am I the only one who has just 0-3 TBR books?

Quite probably!

I have hundreds. And that's just the ones I own!

Jazzy wrote: "Am I the only one who has just 0-3 TBR books?"

That's amazing self-control you've got there. My TBR is in the thousands. My husband says I will never read them all before I die. My response is that I will have fun trying.

I've got zero at the moment. :)
I hope you all catch up!

I will never have 0. There will always be books I want to read!

Pages:
100-300-1 pt
301-500-3pts
501-700-5pts
701-900-7 pts
901 + 10pts

I am doing TBR for anything outside of this month.

Graphic Novel Points
Page Count Limit: 100 (Actual page count)
Please use this formula to find your adjusted page count (for points):
#Pgs x 1/4 = Adjusted Page Count
❀If your adjusted page count is less than 100, you will get 0.5 points for the book. If it is 100 or higher see the page point chart above for points.

Theme Bonus
Theme: May Flowers
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.

Books read: 10/?
Total Points: 28 pts

1. Terms and Conditions-added 1/2/24-read 5/2/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (494 pgs)=3 pts
2. The Alchemist-added 9/18/23-read 5/14/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (182 pgs)=1 pt.
3. A Touch of Malice-added 7/22/23-read 5/17/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (466 pgs)=3 pts
4. Murder of Crows (370pgs)-added 4/5/2024-read 5/19/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=3pts
5. The Coworker (362 pgs)-added 9/1/23-read 5/20/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=3pts
6. Because of Miss Bridgerton (375pgs)-added 5/24/23-read 5/22/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
7. The Final Girl Support Group (352pgs)-added 1/9/22-read 5/25/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=3 pts
8. The Invited-(353pgs)-added 4/15/24-read 5/28/24 ⭐️⭐️⭐️=3pts
9. Vision in Silver (400pgs)-added-4/5/24-read 5/29/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=3 pts
10. Tinderbox (302pgs)-added 2/6/22-read 5/31/24⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️=3 pts

Don't forget to update your posts!

Is everyone updated?

yep

Believe it or not, mine is updated! Lol

1. Royal: Sammy
2. Noble: Angie
3. Scribe: Michelle