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TBR Busters: September 2024Total Points: 79 pts
1.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 pts 01/09
2.
⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️ (Unsure)
3 pts 02/09
3.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 pts 04/09
4.
⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️ (unsure)
5 pts 05/09
5.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️
5 pts 06/09
+2 pts Bonus Theme Pirates (Ch. 18: "...Perhaps the savage old pirate won't feel..."
6.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️
1 pts 08/09
7.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75
10 pts 13/09
8.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 pts 13/09
9.
No Rating
1 pt 13/09
10.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 pts 17/09
11.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.⭐️
3 pts 18/09
12.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 pts 22/09
13.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
3 pts 24/09
14.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
10 pts 25/09
15.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
5 pts 27/09
16.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
10 pts 30/09
1-300 (1)301-500 (3)
501-700 (5)
701-900 (7)
901+ (10)
PIRATES
Running Total- 63
1. The Village Healer’s Book of Cures 1pt
2. Jaunten 1pt
3. The Planets 1pt
4. The Last Murder at the End of the World 3pts
5. Same Bed Different Dreams 5pts
6. Not Till We Are Lost 3pts
7. The Fury 1pt
8. Eyes of the Void 5pts
9. The Downloaded 1pt
10. The Maniac 3pts
11. The Last Astronaut 3pts
12. Breaking the Dark 3pts
13. Activation Degradation 3pts
14. The Hearing Trumpet 1pt
15. The Unwedding 3pts
16. The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal 3pts
17. The Mercy of Gods 3pts
18. The Runaway Jury 5pts
19. Long Live Evil 3pts
20. Bubble 3pts
21. Full Speed to a Crash Landing 1pt
22. Stars Uncharted 3pt
23. The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir 3pts
24. Noumenon Ultra 5pts
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TBR Busters
September 2024
My TBR Busters Challenge (msg 8)
Theme🚦Pirates
🚥Irish Thoroughbred🚦09.02 ★★★★🚦200 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Boy Who Sneaks in my Bedroom Window🚦09.02 ★★★🚦275 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Beginning🚦09.04 ★★★★🚦175 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Cursed🚦09.04 ★★★★🚦361 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: The plot is about trying to find lost treasure that was originally stolen (and lost) by pirates 100 years ago
🚥California Thyme🚦09.06 ★★★🚦361 pp🚦3 pp
🚥The Grisly Grizzlies: Caleb🚦09.06 ★★★🚦124 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Double Dipping🚦09.07 ★★★🚦248 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: Doug steals 'gold coins' from the festival vendors - pirates of old like to steal gold treasure/coins
🚥Justice Ascending🚦09.09 ★★★★🚦353 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: much like pirates, those left behind after the virus have turned to looting and violence for survival
🚥The Plan🚦09.10 ★★★★🚦260 pp🚦1 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: “Mmm, these pirate ones.” [loc 94.9]
🚥The Wedding🚦09.10 ★★★🚦260 pp🚦1 pp
🚥A Vampire’s Mate🚦09.11 ★★★★🚦144 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Awakening🚦09.14 ★★★★🚦436 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: Do you have a pirate fetish or something? [loc 455.3]
🚥My Single-versary🚦09.14 ★★★★🚦103 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Enraptured🚦09.15 ★★★★🚦386 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Random in Death🚦09.17 ★★★★🚦386 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Fractured🚦09.18 ★★★★🚦378 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: cover is black and white, colors associated with the jolly roger flag!
🚥Found🚦09.19 ★★★★🚦309 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: cover is black and white, colors associated with the jolly roger flag!
🚥One Night Stand After Another🚦09.20 ★★★★🚦212 pp🚦1 pp
🚥River Marked🚦09.21 ★★★★🚦337 pp🚦3 pp + 2 bp
🚥🚥Bonus: It looked like an invasion of pirates. [loc 383.6]
🚥Exit Strategy🚦09.21 ★★★★🚦163 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Never Quiet🚦09.22 ★★★★🚦415 pp🚦3 pp
🚥The Bravest Woman in the Town🚦09.23 ★★★🚦135 pp🚦1 pp
🚥SEAL the Deal🚦09.24 ★★★🚦239 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Tempt Me Eternally🚦09.25 ★★★🚦158 pp🚦1 pp
🚥Rock Chick Rematch🚦09.25 ★★★★🚦307 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Bet Me🚦09.26 ★★★★★🚦432 pp🚦3 pp
🚥Hurricane Force🚦09.28 ★★★🚦256 pp🚦1 pp
🚥The Veil🚦09.29 ★★★★🚦336 pp🚦3 pp
🚥State of the Union🚦09.30 ★★★★🚦336 pp🚦3 pp
RUNNING TOTAL🚦74
Donna wrote: "Or is that just clown challenges.?"Are you going to forgive me for that? Ever? Please?
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TBR Busters
Duration: September 1 - 30, 2024
Theme: Pirates (2 bp)
Books Read | Total Points: 74
1. Ninth House | 476 pgs | TBR Jul 2024 | 3pts
2. Her Guardian Angel | 208 pgs | TBR 2021 | 1pts
3. The Last Murder at the End of the World | 368 pgs | TBR Jun 2024 | 3pts
4. The 24th Hour | 400 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts
5. The Pirate | 197 pgs | TBR 2016 | 1pt + 2bps
6. The BFG | 208 pgs | TBR Jul 2024 | 1pt
7. The Obsession | 464 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts
8. The Tethering | 208 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pt
9. The Liar | 512 pgs | TBR 2023 | 5pts
10. Lost | 299 pgs | TBR Aug 2024 | 1pt
11. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 108 pgs | TBR 2023 | 1pt
12. Close to the Bone | 109 pgs | TBR 2018 | 1pt
13. A Bone to Pick | 116 pgs | TBR 2018 | 1pt
14. Whisper of Bones3 | 111 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pt
15. Bred in the Bone | 101 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pt
16. Below the Bones | 105 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pt
17. A Broken Bone | 104 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pt
18. Buried Bones | 104 pgs | TBR 2021 | 1pt
19. The Lost Bones | 116 pgs | TBR 2021 | 1pt
20. Bone Deep | 118 pgs | TBR 2022 | 1pt
21. The Wrong Bones | 119 pgs | TBR 2022 | 1pt
22. The Serpent and the Wings of Night | 504 pgs | TBR Jul 2024| 5pts
23. Divine Rivals | 357 pgs | TBR Aug 2024| 3pts
24. Jumper | 146 pgs | TBR 2019 | 1pts
25. Grim and Bear It | 368 pgs | TBR 2021 | 3pts
26. Breaking the Dark | 384 pgs | TBR Jul 2024 | 3pts
27. Discord's Apple | 368 pgs | TBR 2023 | 3pts
28. Desperation in Death | 368 pgs | TBR 2021 | 3pts
29. Black Wings, Gray Skies | 259 pgs | TBR 2022 | 1pts
30. Sealed With a Tryst | 180 pgs | TBR 2023 | 1pts
31. Girl, Taken | 218 pgs | TBR 2023 | 1pts
32. Speak the Dead | 352 pgs | TBR 2019 | 3pts
33. Hour of Need | 338 pgs | TBR Jul 2024 | 3pts
34. Salem's Cipher | 412 pgs | TBR Mar 2024| 3pts
35. 3:46 a. m. | 166 pgs | TBR 2020 | 1pts
36. Nona the Ninth | 502 pgs | TBR Jul 2024 | 5pts
TBR Busters: September 2024 - COMPLETEDDuration: September 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
📗Books must be a minimum of 100 pages
Point System
Points: 37
1. On the Edge - Ilona Andrews (309 pgs. - 3pts)
2. Winterkill - C.J. Box 9/4/24 (432 pgs. – 3pts.)
3. Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris (291 pgs. – 1 pt.)
4. Club Dead - Charlaine Harris 9/7/24 (292 pgs. – 1 pt.)
5. A Death in Vienna - Daniel Silva (432 pgs. – 3 pts.)
6. The Women - Kristin Hannah (471 pgs. – 3pts.)
7. Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott 9/9/24 (326 pgs. – 1pt.)
8. Bayou Moon - Ilona Andrews 9/10/24 (447 pgs. – 3 pts.)
9. Collateral Damage - Lynette Eason 9/12/24 (320 pgs. -1pt.)
10. The Art Forger - Barbara A. Shapiro The Art Forger 9/13/24 (355 pgs. – 1pt.)
11. For You and Only You - Caroline Kepnes 9/14/24 (448 pgs. – 3 pts.)
12. Stella Bain - Anita Shreve 9/15/24 (272 pgs.- 1 pt.)
13. Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich 9/16/24 (310 pgs. – 1pt.)
14. Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga 9/17/24 (212 pgs.- 1 pt.)
15. By Book or By Crook - Eva Gates 9/19/24 (327 pgs. – 1 pt.)
16. The Queen of the Tearling - Erika Johansen 9/19/24 (434 pgs. – 3 pts.)
17. You Were Always Mine - Christine Pride 9/21/24 (336 pgs. – 1 pt.)
18. P is for Peril - Sue Grafton 9/22/24 (352 pgs. – 1 pt.)
19. The Game You Played - Anni Taylor 9/24/24 (434 pgs. – 3 pts.)
20. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - Julia Alvarez 9/26/24 (291 pgs. – 1 pt.)
21. The Vessel - Taylor Stevens 9/28/24 (105 pgs. – 1 pt.)
TBR Busters: September 2024Duration: September 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
Book - A Deadly Education
Author - Naomi Novik
Date Read - 9/3/24
Pages - 323
Points - 3
Book - Three-Inch Teeth
Author - C.J. Box
Date Read - 9/6/24
Pages - 378
Points - 3
Book - A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906
Author - Judy Blundell
Date Read - 9/7/24
Pages - 304
Points - 3
Book - The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Author - Dan Gemeinhart
Date Read - 9/8/24
Pages - 344
Points - 3
Book - I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018
Author - Lauren Tarshis
Date Read - 9/8/24
Pages - 111
Points - 1
Book - Hiding Edith
Author - Kathy Kacer
Date Read - 9/10/24
Pages - 152
Points 1
Book - The Resurrection of Tess Blessing
Author - Lesley Kagen
Date Read - 9/11/24
Pages - 386
Points - 3
Book - Cursed
Author - J.A. Cipriano
Date Read - 9/12/24
Pages - 193
Points - 1
Book - The Hike b
Author - Susi Holliday
Date Read - 9/13/24
Pages - 266
Points - 1
Book - The Moonshiner's Daughter
Author - Donna Everhart
Date Read - 9/17/24
Pages - 370
Points - 3
Book - Winter Lost
Author - Patricia Briggs
Date Read - 9/21/24
Pages - 416
Points - 3
Book - Tangled Threads
Author - Jennifer Estep
Date Read - 9/24/24
Pages - 384
Points - 3
Book - Girls' Night Out by
Author - Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke
Date Read - 9/25/24
Pages - 323
Points - 3
Book - The Night Whistler
Author - Greg Woodland
Date Read - 9/26/24
Pages - 400
Points - 3
Book - North of Boston
Author - Elisabeth Elo
Date Read - 9/28/24
Pages - 400
Points - 3
Total Points - 37
TBR Busters: September 2024Duration: September 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024
Theme: pirates
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Are you going to forgive me for that? Ever? Please?"
I will think about it.
In! I'm going for books added before march 2024.Theme: Pirates
Total points: 53
1. The Downloaded - 1 point
2. The Bell - 1 point
3. The Calling - 3 points
4. Not Till We Are Lost - 3 points + characters discuss pirates! + 2 points
5. Eyes of the Void - 5 points + "hunting pirates, you know" ch 2 + 2 points
6. The Restaurant - 3 points
7. The Cut - 3 points
8. Aurora Rising - 3 points - characters spend time on a pirate space station + 2 points
9. Murder Most Royal - 3 points
10. Magic Bites - 1 point
11. After the Forest - 3 points
12. The Dragon Republic - 5 points
13. Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction - 1 point
14. Ex-Purgatory - 3 points
15. Ex-Isle - 3 points + character refers to himself as a pirate king + 2 points
16. Magic Burns - 1 point
17. Magic Study - 3 points
Pirates might be hard for the bonus points... definitely not as easy to be creative! Does pirate in the text count?
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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.Theme Bonus
Theme: Pirates
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.
Books read:8
Total Points: 24
1. The Selection (336pgs)-9/1/24-3pts
2. Deadly Gift (395pgs)9/5/24 3pts+ pirates=5pts
3. The Elite (336pgs)-9/7/24=3pts
4. The One (323pgs)-9/14/24=3pts
5. The Unquiet Past -9/15/24-(264pgs)=1pt
6. Funny Story-9/15/24 (395pgs)=3pts
7. Holiday in Death-9/29/24 (308pgs)=3pts
8. Love, Theoretically-9/30/24 (389pgs)=3pts
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3rd Jenny
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September 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 | 9/3/24 | 3 pts
2. Give and Hazard All | 9/4/24 | 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: Pirates
Read books that fit the bonus theme and earn 2 bonus pts for each book that fits.