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Jenny 70
Sammy 138
Catsalive 65
Angie 100
Sharon 0
Michelle 54
bamaace83 12
LaurLa 102
Tru 75.5
Ez 6
Running total 791. Reamde 10pts
2. Horror Movie 1pt
3. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe 3pts
4. Divinity 36 3pt
5. All the Colors of the Dark 5pt
6. None of This Is True 3pt
7. Fear the Survivors 5pt
8. Poisoned 3pt
9. Beautyland 3pt
10. Little Rot 1pt
11. Prophet Song 3pt
12. The Curator 3pt
13. The Extinction of Irena Rey 3pts
14. Mr. Monster 1pt
15. Lost Ark Dreaming 1pt
16. City of Last Chances 3pts
17, Atalanta 3pts
18. The Book That Wouldn’t Burn 5pts
19. Comfort Me with Apples 1pt
20. The Book of Doors 3pts
21. The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer 7pts
22. Letters From An Astrophysicist 1pt
23. The Book of Elsewhere 3pts
24. Dr. No 1pt
25. Sleeping Giants 1pt
26. Tracking 3pts
In! - Only books I added before 2024Total points: 138
1. The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts - 3 points
2. The Guilty Couple - 3 points - MC regains her freedom after being released from prison + 2 points
3. The Anatomy of Ghosts - 3 points - character gains his freedom when released from a mental institution + 2 points
4. The End of All Things - 3 points + Rafe escapes from the people who turned him into a brain in a jar. + 2 points
5. Defiant - 3 points + all the slugs are set free! + 2 points
6. The Lighthouse - 3 points + woman gains her freedom by divorcing her husband and moving away + 2 points
7. The Big Four - 1 point + MCs are captured by the bad guys several times, but get free each time + 2 points
8. The Amityville Horror - 3 points + charcters eventually gain their freedom from the evil house + 2 points
9. Peril at End House - 1 point
10. A Winter Grave - 3 points + character is released from prison + 2 points
11. Amerika - 3 points - After some difficulty character escapes from a house he had been held in + 2 points
12. The Black Prince - 3 points - woman uses MC get get away from her abusive husband + 2 points
13. Made in Scotland: My Grand Adventures in a Wee Country - 1 point
14. My Darling Daughter - 3 points + character is freed after being locked in a room + 2 points
15. On Beauty - 3 points - much discussion on freedom for Haiti + 2 points
16. Our Emily - 3 points
17. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character - 3 points
18. Cold Granite - 5 points - several characters are arrested and set free again + 2 points
19. What Now? - 3 points - character is arrested and released + 2 points
20. We Know by Gregg Hurwitz - 3 points - character is arrested and released + 2 points
21. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - 7 points - characaters are captured and escape several times + 2 points
22. Holding - 3 points
23. Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? - 3 points
24. A Change of Climate - 3 points - a woman goes to prison and is released + 2 points
25. Poison Study - 3 points - MC is released from prison + 2 points
26. Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy - 3 points
27. The Mad Ship - 9 points
28. Freedom - 5 points + 2 points for the title!
29. Lone Wolf - 3 points
30. Shards of Earth - 5 points
Seems simple enough :0)TBR Busters
July
Points: 65
Theme: Freedom (2 bonus pts)
1. The Little Flower Shop by Lori Foster 1/7 2★ - 336p - 3pt
2. Origin in Death by J.D. Robb 2/7 3★ - 347p - 3pt
Bonus: all those cloned women & children are finally free of their gaolers/creators - 2pt
3. At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie 3/7 4★ - 320p - 3pt
4. Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie 4/7 3★ - 235p - 1pt
5. No Job for a Girl by Meredith Appleyard 7/7 4★ - 356 - 3pt
Bonus: MC has the freedom to work in a previously male-only environment - 2pt
6. Three Little Truths by Eithne Shortall 8/7 3★ - 400p - 3pt
Bonus: the truth can set you free :0) - 2pt
7. The Sands Of Windee by Arthur W. Upfield 9/7 3.5★ - 329p - 3pt
Bonus: because he's so good at his job, Bony is free to choose his cases - 2 pt
8. Althea's Grand Tour by Emily Hendrickson 11/7 3★ - 224p - 1pt
9. The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman 15/7 5★ - 400p - 3pt
Bonus: writing the radio play gives the MC the freedom to make herself heard - 2pt
10. Kill for Me by Tom Wood 17/7 4★ - 480 - 3pt
Bonus: MC has the freedom to work for only those he wishes to - 2pt
11. River Marked by Patricia Briggs 18/7 3★ - 351p - 3pt
Bonus: MC has the freedom to run with the wolves - 2pt
12. The Scottish Rebel by Emma Lange 19/7 3★ - 224p - 1pt
Bonus: MCs have the freedom of wealth - 2pt
13. You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark 21/7 3★ - 388p - 3pt
Bonus: MC has the freedom to choose her clients & date who she wants - 2pt
14. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro 23/7 2★ - 468p - 3pt
Bonus: MCs have all the freedom they have earned as independent career women - 2pt
15. The Night Whistler by Greg Woodland 28/7 4.5★ - 385p - 3pt
Bonus: kids are on long summer hols - freedom! - 2pt
16. The Colonel's Lady by Patricia Oliver 29/7 3★ - 224p - 1pt
Bonus: Waterloo, fight for freedom - 2pt
17. Double Deception by Patricia Oliver 30/7 3.5★ - 224p - 1pt
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TBR Busters
Duration: July 1 - 31, 2024
Theme: Freedom (2 bp)
Books Read | Total Points: 100
1. The Never Game | 544 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 5pts
2. A Fever in the Heartland | 428 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 3pts + 2bp
3. Echo Road ~ 7/4 | 332 pgs | TBR Jan 2024 | 3pts + 2bp
4. The Familiar | 387 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 3pts + 2bp
5. Flashback | 317 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts
6. Dead Aim | 352 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts + 2bp
7. Killing Time | 461 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts + 2bp
8. Inferno | 578 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5pts
9. Winter Lost | 416 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts + 2bp
10. The Boy Who Cried Bear | 343 pgs | TBR Jan 2024 | 3pts + 2bp
11. Keepsake | 431 pgs | TBR 2022 | 3pts + 2bp
12. 2 Sisters Detective Agency | 416 pgs | TBR Mar 2024 | 3pts + 2bp
13. Network Effect | 346 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
14. The Book That Wouldn't Burn | 571 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 5pts + 2bp
15. Kitty Goes to Washington | 361 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
16. The Amish Wife | 387 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 3pts
17. Undone ~ 7/27 | 168 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 1pts
18. Faithless in Death | 400 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3pts
19. Thunder with a Chance of Lovestruck | 554 pgs | TBR 2022 | 5pts + 2 bp
20. Riptide | 361 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 3pts + 2 bp
21. The Tale of the Young Witch | 551 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5pts
22. Gideon the Ninth | 479 pgs | TBR 2020 | 3pts + 2 bp
TBR Busters: July 2024Book - My Brother's Keeper
Author - Mary Pope Osborne
Date Read - 7/1/24
Page Count - 112
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Set in Gettysburg, PA in 1863 during the Civil war
Book - The Devil Crept In
Author - Ania Ahlborn
Date Read - 7/3/24
Page Count - 386
Points - 3
Bonus Points 2
How Freedom fits - Otto finally gets his freedom when he kills his mother
Book - The Hollow Places
Author - T. Kingfisher
Date Read - 7/5/24
Page Count - 337
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How Freedom fits - Kara is finally free from a man she never really loved by getting divorced and moving all the way across the country.
Book - Cruel Summer by
Author - Wesley Southard
Date Read - 7/7/24
Page Count - 290
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - In the end, Melissa finally gets complete freedom from her abusive ex boyfriend after she kills him the 2nd time
Book - The Unkindest Tide
Author - Seanan McGuire
Date Read - 7/10/24
Page Count - 368
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How the bonus fits - Dianda is finally freed from where her brother arrested her for treason
Book - Zulu War: Jabulani, Africa, 1879-1882 by
Author - Vince Cross
Date Read - 7/11/24
Page Count - 160
Points - 1
Book - What Not to Were
Author - Dakota Cassidy
Date Read - 7/14/24
Page Count - 157
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Nash gains his freedom back after Kirby placed a spell on him that made him forget the true love of his life
Book - Dead Case in Deadwood
Author - Ann Charles
Date - 7/14/24
Page Count - 405
Points - 3
Book - The Great Alone
Author - Kristin Hannah
Date - 7/15/24
Page Count - 450
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Leni's family moves to Alaska to live off the grid and freedom to do what they want to do.
Book - The Hollows
Author - J.S. Beck
Date read - 7/18/24
Page Count - 107
Points - 1
Book - Manhunt: A Bigfoot Thriller
Author - Eric S. Brown
Date Read - 7/20/24
Page Count - 107
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - The serial killer, Dearil gets his freedom, when he ambushes the guards that were driving him to the prison where he was going to be executed.
Book - Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
Author - Kathryn Lasky
Date Read - 7/21/24
Pages - 238
Points - 1
Book - The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
Author - Lauren Tarshis
Date Read - 7/22/24
Pages - 117
Points - 1
Bonus Points - 2
How it fits - Marcus and his dad receive there freedom from slavery when the volcano erupts and kills his father's master.
Book - Uck It List
Author - Jimmy Tudeski
Date Read - 7/24/24
Pages - 135
Points - 1
Book - A Killing Frost
Author - Seanan McGuire
Date Read - 7/27/24
Pages - 368
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How Bonus fits - Simon finally wins his freedom when he is granted a divorce from Amandine.
Book - The Law
Author - Jim Butcher
Date Read - 7/28/24
Pages - 102
Points - 1
Book - Megashark
Author - Viktor Zarkov
Date Read - 7/30/24
Pages - 134
Points - 1
Book - The Secret Side of Empty
Author- Maria E. Andreu
Date Read - 7/31/24
Points - 3
Bonus Points - 2
How Bonus fits - MT finally gets her freedom from her abusive father when she moved out of her house and in with her best friend.
Total Points - 54 (Completed)
Points: 121. The One You Fight For 7-3-24 3 stars 386 pgs 3 points + 2 points
Bonus: Shaw earns freedom from always being cast in a bad light from his brother's sins
2. Red, White & Royal Blue 7-4-24 2 stars 425 pgs 3 points
3. Winter Lost 7-12-24 4 stars 416 pgs 3 points
4. Meant for Love 7-27-24 4 stars 291 pgs 1 points
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Donna wrote: "New faces. Just don't forget to update. You can't beat Sammy if you don't update."😆
Donna wrote: "New faces. Just don't forget to update. You can't beat Sammy if you don't update."Ha - I know Sammy. I'm not sure it's attainable but a worthy goal!!
TBR Busters
July 2024
My TBR Busters Challenge (msg 15)
Theme🚦Freedom
🚥The Pride of Jared MacKade🚦07.01 ★★★★🚦242 pp🚦1 point
🚥Lost in Her🚦07.02 ★★★★🚦302 pp🚦3 + 2 points 🚦Bonus: K2 team frees Russian defector from Russia
🚥The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog🚦07.04 ★★★★🚦358 pp🚦3 + 2 points🚦Bonus: Emerson is freed from his kidnapping and assault
🚥Love Me for Me🚦07.04 ★★★🚦304 pp🚦3 points
🚥Hard To Handle🚦07.06 ★★★★🚦353 pp🚦3 points
🚥Tempted🚦07.07 ★★★★🚦418 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: Demetrius and Isadora are freed from the island where they were held prisoner
🚥Raw Redemption🚦07.07 ★★★★🚦272 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Ailish escapes her 'protective' detail at the safe house
🚥Lost and Found Pieces🚦07.08 ★★★🚦109 pp🚦1 point
🚥Kiss Me🚦07.08 ★★★★🚦140 pp🚦1 point
🚥Isn't It Bromantic?🚦07.09 ★★★★🚦350 pp🚦3 + 2 points🚦Bonus: Elena is kidnapped and escapes on her own
🚥The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry🚦07.10 ★★★★🚦272 pp🚦1 + 2 points🚦Bonus: A.J. was able to break free of his grief when Maya came into his life
🚥Below Zero🚦07.10 ★★★★🚦139 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Hannah is freed from being trapped in a crack in an iceberg
🚥Funny Story🚦07.11 ★★★★🚦395 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: the process of breaking up with Peter actually frees Daphne from the constraints she put on her life
🚥Addy And The Smart Guy🚦07.12 ★★★★🚦277 pp🚦1 point
🚥Fractured Love🚦07.13 ★★★★🚦205 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Landon escapes from the group home where he was being abused
🚥Hearts Awakened🚦07.15 ★★★★🚦304 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: Tori overcomes and frees herself from her fears after the attack on her years ago
🚥A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel🚦07.15 ★★★★🚦336 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: Luke is trapped and freed from the alter in the undercroft of the manor
🚥Undead and Unpopular🚦07.16 ★★★🚦284 pp🚦1 point
🚥You Can Die🚦07.17 ★★★★🚦354 pp🚦3 points
🚥Twice Tempted🚦07.18 ★★★🚦169 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Cynthia used her mother's inheritance to break free from her father's dominance
🚥State of Grace🚦07.19 ★★★★🚦338 pp🚦3 points
🚥Only Her🚦07.22 ★★★★🚦290 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Riley is kidnapped and is rescued by Cody
🚥Before🚦07.22 ★★★🚦162 pp🚦1 point
🚥Loose Ends🚦07.23 ★★★★🚦283 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Mary helps free ghosts from being tethered to earth and moving on
🚥One Hot Italian Summer🚦07.24 ★★★★🚦384 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: Grace is finally able to break free of her grief once she finishes her book
🚥A Hard Day for a Hangover🚦07.25 ★★★★🚦416 pp🚦3 points
🚥Stolen Secrets🚦07.26 ★★★🚦309 pp🚦3 points
🚥Engaging the Boss🚦07.26 ★★★★🚦218 pp🚦1 point
🚥Finding Kate Huntley🚦07.28 ★★★🚦282 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Kate is freed from having to hide from the world
🚥Blame it on the Bikini🚦07.28 ★★★🚦175 pp🚦1 point + 2 points🚦Bonus: Mya is freed from her self-imposed pressure to be the best and be the one to take care of her family
🚥Hideaway🚦07.30 ★★★★🚦464 pp🚦3 points + 2 points🚦Bonus: Cate, as a child, escaped when her kidnappers locked her in a room
🚥Payback in Death🚦07.31 ★★★★🚦364 pp🚦3 points
🚥The Worst Best Man🚦07.31 ★★★★🚦370 pp🚦3 points
RUNNING TOTAL🚦102
To be fair, Jenny won this one last month 😆
I'm in!TBR Busters - July
Theme: Freedom
Total Points: 75.5
1. Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival by Peter Stark - 3 page points, 2 theme points (attempt at expansion of US in the name of freedom, and other things) - 7/1 - 5 points
2. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 3 page points - 7/1 - 3 points
3. Diana: My Graphic Obsession by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth - .5 page points, 2 bonus points (Diana gained at least partial freedom through her divorce, the author by coming out as trans) - 7/3 2.5 points
4. Down a Dark Road by Linda Castillo - 3 page points, 2 bonus points (character temprarily obtains freedom by escaping from prison) - 7/4 5 points
5. Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander by Victoria Goddard - 1 page point - 7/4 1 point
6. The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz - 3 page points, 2 freedom points (Dash gets free from his former companions, and Hermann from the shabti) - 7/5 - 5 points
7. A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds by Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal - 3 page points, 2 freedom points (young birds raised in captivity are freed) - 7/5 - 5 points
8. The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard - 3 page points, 2 freedom points (FW find his freedom from the throne) - 7/6 - 5 points
9. The Brides of High Hill by Nghi Vo 1 page point, 2 freedom points (the MC / cleric escapes the monsters) - 7/8 - 3 points
10. The Heart of Texas by R.J. Scott 3 page points, 2 freedom points (MC finds freedom from his family) - 7/8 - 5 points
11. The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold 3 page points, 2 freedom points (one of the assassins find freedom from coersion) - 7/11 - 5 points
12. Marrying Mr. Majestic by Lucy Lennox 3 page points, 2 freedom points (MC finds freedom from old wounds) - 7/12 - 5 points
13. I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 3 page points, 2 freedom points (MC find freedom in telling the world who thry really are) - 7/12 - 5 points
14. Crashing the Net by Samantha Wayland - 1 page point, 2 freedom points (MC find freedom by coming out to his family - and cutting some of them off) 7/18 - 3 points
15. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan 1 page point, 2 freedom points (there is freedom in understanding yourself) 7/20 - 3 points
16. What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera 3 page points and 2 freedom points (MC Ben finds freedom from old relationship) 7/24 - 5 points
17. Powder & Pavlova by Jay Hogan 3 page points and 2 freedom points (MC Tanner finds freedom from old fears and grief) 7/26 - 5 points
18. Love Me Tenor by Annabeth Albert 3 page points and 2 freedom points (MC Trevor find freedom by creaking with family) 7/30 - 5 points
Michelle wrote: "Can we be creative with "freedom"?"Goodness, I hope so. I've already been pretty creative....
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Donna wrote: "You can't beat Sammy if you don't update."Is that likely? 😃
actually, you have a good chance with this particular challenge, as I have set myself an additional restriction of only counting books that have been on my TBR since before 2024. It makes it a little more fun and competitive for me, because otherwise it would be pretty much every book I read :D
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Ez TrackingTotal Points: 6 Points
1.Her Vibrant Heart, 01/07/2024, 352 Pages - 3 Points
2. Icebreaker, 02/07/2024, 435 Pages - 3 Points
3. Not In Love, 07/07/2024, 384 Pages - 3 Points
4. Let's Pretend This Will Work, 08/07/2024, 347 Pages - 3 Points
Also Hi everyone, I'm Ez and I'm new to the group
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2. Uncle Sam: LaurLa
3. Yankee Doodle: Angie
You will just read books from your TBRTheme Bonus
Theme: Freedom
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Books read:4
Points earned:12pts
1. The Night Island-added 7/11/23-read 7/1/24 (336pgs)=3pts
2. Maybe Not-added 6/21/24-read 7/10/24 (160pgs)=1pt
3. The Awakening-added 5/4/22-read-7/13/24 (436pgs)=3pts
4. The Other Mrs.-added 3/5/24-read 7/25/24 (416pgs)=3pts + (MC gets free from killer)= 5pts
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July 2024
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 | 7/3/24 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 7/4/24 | 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: Freedom
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.