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Completion Post:Theme week: Sci-Fi
Book:
Author: Frederick Pohl
Pages: 336
Date Read: 8/2
Rating: 4
Justification: Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 3
Theme week: Sci FiBook: Fourth Wing
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Pages: 528
Date Read: 8/2/23
Rating: 👽👽👽👽
Justification: The way some of the magic systems work are based on science.
Book Points: 5 + 2 = 7
Team Total points: 10
Theme week: Sci-fiBook: Confluence
Author: S.K. Dunstall
Pages: 402
Date Read: 8/2/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: MPG Science Fiction
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 15
Theme week: Sci-fiBook: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Author: Nghi Vo
Pages: 122 per GR
Date Read: 8/3/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Tagged Sci-Fi-Fantasy 38x.
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 18
Theme week: Sci-fiBook: Trouble with Lichen
Author: John Wyndham
Pages: 252 per GR
Date Read: 8/4/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: MPG Science Fiction
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 21
Theme week: Sci-fiBook: The Year of Magical Thinking
Author: Joan Didion
Pages: 242 per GR
Date Read: 8/4/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Joan Didion and her late husband whom she's mourning (John Gregory Dunne) both wrote fiction, and and nonfiction (often about science or social science.)
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 24
Theme week: Sci-fiBook: Dark Matter
Author: Blake Crouch
Pages: 352
Date Read: 8/6/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: MPG Sci-fi
Book Points: 3 + 2 (bonus last task) = 5
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Total Team Points: 29
Theme week: Sci-FiBook: Signal to Noise
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pages: 272 per GR
Date Read: 8/6/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Tagged sci-fi-fantasy, scifi-fantasy, and fantasy-scifi mutliple times.
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 32
Theme week: Sci FiBook: Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Author: Rupert Holmes
Pages: 389
Date Read: 8/7/23
Rating: 👽👽👽👽
Justification: MC works in STEM and the book is fiction.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 37
Theme week: Sci FiBook: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Author: Rebecca Skloot
Pages: 370 per GR
Date Read: 8/7/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: It a nonfiction book largely anout science, but which often reads like fiction.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 42
Theme week: Sci FiBook: Untrue Love
Author: Amy Crook
Pages: 108 per GR
Date Read: 8/7/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: It's a work of fiction tagged 'science in my paranormal.'
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 45
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: How to Be a Normal Person
Author: T.J. Klune
Pages: 306 per GR
Date Read: 8/8/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: MC Gus discoveres he doesn't have to be 'normal.'
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 50
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: The Firekeeper’s Daughter
Author: Angeline Boulley
Pages: 494
Date Read: 8/9/23
Rating: 👽👽👽👽👽
Justification: Daunis discovers who is selling meth.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 53
Completion Post:Theme week: Discovery
Book:
Author: Chuck Wendig
Pages: 366
Date Read: 8/10
Rating: 4
Justification: Character discovers a secret Imperial meeting that must be revealed to the Republic.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 56
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: How to Be a Movie Star
Author: T.J. Klune
Pages: 422 per GR
Date Read: 8/10/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: So many discoveries...everyone discovers they can be happy.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 61
Completion Post:Theme week: Discovery
Book:
Author: Mike Brown
Pages: 290
Date Read: 08/11
Rating: 3
Justification: Tagged discovery
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 62
Theme week: discoveryBook: Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Author: Andrea Lankford
Pages: 352
Date Read: 8/11
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: The whole book is about trying to discover what happened to the missing hikers (but also making new discoveries in finding techniques)
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 65
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: Gamechanger
Author: L.X. Beckett
Pages: 576 per GR
Date Read: 8/11/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: p317 "Such the cool discovery from Rubi, via @Interpol!"
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 70
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: The Ferryman
Author: Justin Cronin
Pages: 538
Date Read: 8/12/23
Rating: 👽👽
Justification: Proctor discovers (view spoiler)
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 75
Completion Post:Theme week: Discovery
Book:
Author: Ann Leckie
Pages: 397
Date Read: 08/13
Rating: 3
Justification: Discovery page 96
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 78
Completion Post:Theme week: Disvovery
Book:
Author: Michael J. Fox
Pages: 280
Date Read: 8/14
Rating: 3
Justification: Discovery in about book blurb
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 79
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: Someone Else's Shoes
Author: Jojo Moyes
Pages: 438
Date Read: Aug. 14, 2023
Rating: 4
Justification: Discovering betrayal and discovering strength
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 82
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: Tea with the Black Dragon
Author: R.A. MacAvoy
Pages: 138 per GR
Date Read: 8/13/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: p73 "...had depended on fear of discovery to make his opponent stingy with his fire."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 83
Theme week: DiscoveryBook: Into the Riverlands
Author: Nghi Vo
Pages: 100 per GR
Date Read: 8/14/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Cleric Chih is alwas on a journey of discovery, but this time they specifically discover a bit of the truth behind a legend.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 84
Theme week: WarBook: People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Author: Richard Lloyd Parry
Pages: 454 per GR
Date Read: 8/14/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: people Who eAt daRkness - war WAR in title
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 89
Theme week: WarBook: Icing the Kicker
Author: Ajay Daniel
Pages: 368 per GR
Date Read: 8/15/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: p112 "Slurred war cries follow his declaration."
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 94
Theme week: WarBook: Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
Author: Susan Jonusas
Pages: 345
Date Read: 8/15/23
Rating: 👽👽👽
Justification: The events take place right after the American Civil War.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 99
Completion Post:Theme week: War
Book:
Author:A.J. Hackwith
Pages: 384
Date Read: 8/15
Rating: 3
Justification: MC has to war with demons to save the library.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 102
Completion Post:Theme week: War
Book:
Author:Margarita Montimore
Pages: 329
Date Read: 8/16
Rating: 3
Justification: War page 65
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:105
Completion Post:Theme week: War
Book:
Author: Weston Ochse/Yvonne Navarro
Pages: 368
Date Read: 08/17
Rating: 3
Justification: War in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 108
Theme week: WarBook: The Hemingses of Monticello
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed
Pages: 1096 per GR
Date Read: 8/18/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: The time frame covered in the book includes many wars including the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the War of 1812.
Book Points: 10 + 2 = 12
Team Total points: 120
Theme week: WarBook: Me Before You
Author: Jojo Moyes
Pages: 369
Date Read: 8/18/23
Rating: 👽👽👽👽
Justification: WAR can be found in the MC's name, Will Traynor.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 125
Theme week: WarBook: The Arctic Incident
Author: Eoin Colfer
Pages: 398
Date Read: 8/19/23
Rating: 👽👽👽
Justification: He could smell a war story. pg. 80
Book Points: 3
Theme week: War
Book: The Woods Are Always Watching
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Pages: 228
Date Read: 8/19/23
Rating: 👽👽👽
Justification: WAR can be found in the title.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 129
Theme week: WarBook: Interior Chinatown
Author: Charles Yu
Pages: 288 per GR
Date Read: 8/19/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MC Willis Wu is at war with himself over his ethnic identity.
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 132
Completion Post:Theme week: War
Book:
Author: Timothy Zahn
Pages: 480
Date Read: 08/19
Rating: 3
Justification: Part of the Star Wars series
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 135
Theme week: WarBook: The Paris Secret
Author: Karen Swan
Pages: 416
Date Read: Aug. 20, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Art found in an apartment in Paris which had been abandoned since World War 2.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 138
Theme week: WarBook: Mayday
Author: Clive Cussler
Pages: 369
Date Read: Aug. 21, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: World War 1 bi-plane attacked and destroyed the force of jets at Brady Air Force Base.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 141
Theme week: WarBook: Think of England
Author: K.J. Charles
Pages: 239 per GR
Date Read: 8/20/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: MC Archie was wounded in the Boer War.
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 144
Theme week: WarBook: Us
Author: Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
Pages: 328 per GR
Date Read: 8/21/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: WAR in author name: sARina boWen
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points: 149
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
Author: Eddie Robson
Pages: 288 per GR
Date Read: 8/24/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: The MC is a translator for a diplomat.
Book Points: 1 + 2 =
Team Total points: 152
Completion Post:Theme week: Diplomacy
Book:
Author: Garrett M. Graff
Pages: 485
Date Read: 8/24
Rating: 3
Justification: D-I-P-L-O-M-A-C-Y in all letters on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 155
Completion Post:Theme week: Diplomacy
Book:
Author: Steven A. Sund
Pages: 451
Date Read: 08/27
Rating: 3
Justification: A current and a former U.S. Ambassador are mentioned.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 158
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: The Bandit Queens
Author: Parini Shroff
Pages: 352
Date Read: 8/28/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Due to cultural and religious differences, diplomacy is a must between the women who are part of the micro loan group.
Book Points: 3 + 2 (bonus last task) = 5 - /topic/show/...
Total Team Points: 163
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: Red, White & Royal Blue
Author: Casey McQuiston
Pages: 425 per GR
Date Read: 8/27/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Lots of diplomats (and diplomatic incidents ensue.
Book Points: 3 + 2 = 5
Team Total points:168
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Author: Paul French
Pages: 278 per GR
Date Read: 8/28
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Many charcters are diplomats - British in China.
Book Points: 1 + 2 = 3
Team Total points: 171
Completion Post:Theme week: Diplomacy
Book:
Author: Mary Higgins Clark/Carol Higgins Clark
Pages: 320
Date Read: 8/29
Rating: 3
Justification: MC has to negotiate with kidnappers and negotiation is a critical skill in diplomacy.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 174
Completion Post:Theme week: Diplomacy
Book:
Author: Kate Andersen Brower
Pages: 290
Date Read: 8/31
Rating: 3
Justification: Takes place in the house of the Chief Diplomat a.k.a The President
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 177
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: Protect the Prince
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 448
Date Read: Aug. 31, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Queen must use diplomacy with the nobles of neighbouring countries as well as her own.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 180
Theme week: DiplomacyBook: Born of Blood
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Pages: 142
Date Read: Aug. 31, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: No amount of diplomacy can save a prince who has a death warrant on his head.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 181
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The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House (other topics)
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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.
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Themes
Aug 1-7 Sci-fi
Aug 8-14 Discovery
Aug 15-21 War
Aug 22-31 Diplomacy
*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.*
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