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Scoring Example

Here's an example of how it will look when reported:

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
#15 spot - 15 points
664 pages - 6 points
HF - 5 point
Date added: Jan 1, 2014: 15 pts
Total - 41 points



Scoring Primer:
Initial points is the spot on your list.

Bonuses for:
Historical Fiction
# of pages
Summer Task
How long it's been on your TBR

Any questions you have make sure to post them in the Rules.

I am going to try this year to be on top of checking scores. Fingers crossed.

Good luck everyone!

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
#42 spot - 42 points
304 pages - 4 points
Date added to TBR, Jan 2019 - 2 points
Summer challenge b - main character takes a trip - 5 points

Book total: 53 points
Challenge total: 53 points

This was such an engrossing read.

The Night Country by Melissa Albert
#50 - 50 points
331 pgs - 4 points

Book Total: 54 points
Challenge Total: 54 points

#34 The Matchmakerby Elin Hilderbrand
357 pages-4 pts
On tbr list since March 2018-4 pts
Book total: 42
Grand total: 42

The First Horseman by John Case
#40 - 40 pts
384pp - 4pts
Bonus f -5pts
Book Total: 49 pts

Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
#49 spot - 49 points
246 pages - 2 points
Summer challenge d. Read a book set in a different country than where you live - 5 points

Book total: 56 points
Challenge total: 109 points

Mortal Fear by Greg Iles
#50 = 50 pts
552 pgs = 6 pts
Date added: 2-17-2014 = 15 pts

Book Total: 71 pts
Challenge Total: 71 pts.

Alone by Lisa Gardner
#41 = 41 pts
451 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 11-25-2014 = 10 pts

Book Total: 55 pts
Challenge Total: 126

The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas
#3 = 3 pts
329 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Summer bonus d = 5 pts
Date added: 1-6-2019 = 2 pts

Book Total: 19 pts
Challenge Total: 145

Home by Marilynne Robinson
#21 = 21 pts
325 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 6-2-2015 = 8 pts
Summer bonus e = 5 pts

Book Total: 38 pts
Challenge Total: 183

Gosh Donna, you must be a voracious reader to have completed those four books in 7 days!! I assume the Iles was the exception book. Yea you!! And Kathleen also. I am in awe. If I can get one book a week, I think i'm doing great!!

Three Hours In Paris by Cara Black
#44 = 44pts
360 pgs = 4pts
Summer bonus d (set in France) = 5pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 58pts

The Dutch Wife by Ellen Keith
#50 = 50pts
400pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Summer bonus e (author's initial in word Summer) = 5pts
Book total = 64pts

The War Widow by Tara Moss
#45 = 45pts
352pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 54pts

Come from Away by Genevieve Graham
#37 = 37pts
256pgs = 2pts
HF = 5pts
Summer bonus c (summer scene on cover) = 5pts
Book total = 49 pts

Challenge total = 225pts

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
#50= 50 points
648 pages = 6 points
Dated added March 2016 = 8 Points
Book Total = 64 points

The River by Peter Heller
#40- 40 points
253 pgs- 2 points
Date Added May 15, 2019 - 2 points
Bonus A -5 points

Book Total: 49 points
Challenge Total: 103 points

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
#50 - 50 points
653 pages - 6 points - Exception Book
HF - 5 points
Bonus E - Author Initial - 5 points
Date added: May 22, 2019 - 2 points

Book Total - 68 points
Challenge Total - 68 points

Love You More by Lisa Gardner

#45 = 45 pts
368 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 11-5-2014 = 10 pts

Book Total: 59
Challenge Total: 242

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
#43 - 43pts
653 pages - 6pts
HF - 5pts
TBR (Dec 2016) - 6pts
Bonus: Author Initials - 5pts

Book total: 65pts
Challenge total: 65pts

Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky
#46 - 46 pts
Date added 1 Jun 17 - 6pts
403 pp - 4 pts
Book Total: 56 pts

Challenge Total: 105 pts

In the Hand of the Goddessby Tamora Pierce
#48 - 48 pts
265pps-2 pts
Summer bonus- someone goes on a trip-5 pts
Book total:55 pts
Grand total: 97

Feedback by Mira Grant
#15 = 15 pts
512 pgs = 6 pts
Summer bonus f = 5 pts
Date added: 12-26-2015 = 8 pts

Book Total: 34 pts
Challenge Total: 276

24 Hours by Greg Iles
#49 = 49 pts
448 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 2-17-2014 = 15 pts

Book Total: 68
Challenge Total: 344

Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
#50 - 50 pts
674 pp - 6pts
Date Added : Oct 2011 -15 pts
HF - 5pts
Book Total 76 pts

Challenge Total: 181 pts

Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
#50 on list=50 points
HF----------- 5 points
704 pages---6 points
Added 1/13 15 points
Bonus e (one of author's initials in word SUMMER-5 points
Book total--81 points

Challenge total-81 points

Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner
#31 = 31 pts
386 pgs = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts
Summer bonus "B" = 5 pts
Date added: 3-8-2015 = 10 pts

Book Total: 55 pts
Challenge Total: 399

Camino Island by John Grisham
#48 spot - 48 points
290 pages - 2 points
Summer challenge a. Read a book set in summer - 5 points

Book total: 55 points
Challenge total: 164 points

A Plague of Angels by P.F. Chisholm
#49 spot - 49 points
268 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: Nov 30, 2019 - 0 points

Previous total 68
Book total 56
Challenge total 124

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
#17 = 17 pts
417 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 11-23-2015 = 8 pts

Book Total: 29 pts
Challenge Total: 428 pts

The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley
#45= 45 points
848 pages = 8 points
Date added 10/2019
HF = 5 points
Book Total 58 points

Challenge Total 122

The Coffee Trader by David Liss
#8 Spot - 8 pts
384 pgs = 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 10/7/10 - 15 pts
Book total - 32 pts

Cut Short by Leigh Russell
#13 Spot - 13 pts
352 pgs - 4 pts
Added 5/14/11 - 15 pgs
Book total - 32 pts

The Hanover Square Affair by Ashley Gardner
#9 Spot - 9 pts
262 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 11/11/11 - 15 pts
Book total - 31 pts

Post total - 95 pts
Challenge total - 95 pts

The Woman Who Rides Like a Manby Tamora Pierce
#49-49 pts
284pps-2 pts
Book total:51
Grand total: 148

First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn
#47 = 47pts
288pgs = 2pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 54pts

The King's Justice by Susan Elia Macneal
#43 = 43pts
352pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Book total = 52pts

And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephanie Marie Thornton
#41 = 41pts
488pgs = 4pts
HF = 5pts
Summer bonus b - characters takes a trip = 5pts
Book total = 55pts

Challenge total = 386pts

The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver
#5 =5 pts
416 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 5/11/2017 = 6 pts

Book Total: 15 pts
Challenge Total: 443 pts

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
#18= 18 points
453 pages= 4 points
Bonus E = 5 points

Book Total= 27 points
Challenge Total= 130 points

Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson
#48= 48 points
400 pages = 4 points
Date added 3/2017= 6 points
HF 5 points
Book Total 63 points

Challenge Total 185

SCORES UP TO #34

Donna 443
Kathleen 386
Maureen 185
Chris 181
Jayme 148
Jasmine 130
Peggy 124
Erica 108
Cheryl A 95
Linda 81
Ashley Marie 65
Gretchen 0
JC 0

A Murder of Crows by P.F. Chisholm
#48 spot - 48 points
250 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Bonus D - set in different country: England - 5
points
Date added: Dec 28, 2019 - 0 points

Previous total - 124 points
Book total - 60 points
Challenge total - 184 points

Dead Sleep by Greg Iles
#48 = 48pts
452 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 3/1/2014 = 15 pts

Book Total: 67 pts
Challenge Total: 510

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
#44= 44 points
480 pages= 4 points
Date added 11/14/18= 2 points

Book Total=50 points
Challenge Total= 180 points

Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
#11 - 11pts
468 pages - 4pts

Book total: 15pts
Challenge total: 80pts

The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
#50 spot = 50 points
672 pages = 6 points
Date added November 13, 2012 = 15 points
Summer Bonus (main character takes a trip) = 5 points
Book total = 76 points

Challenge Total = 76 points

Bonus Book found in Jasmine's TBR
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Bonus book = 50 pts
416 pages = 4 pts
HF = 5 pts

Book Total: 59 points
Challenge Total: 569

The Finisher by David Baldacci
#47 = 47 pts
497 pgs = 4 pts
Date added: 3/3/2014 = 15 pts

Book Total: 66 pts
Challenge Total: 635

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls by Emily Carpenter
#46= 46 points
312 pages = 4 points
Date added 8/2016 = 6 points
Summer Bonus C = 5 points

Book total 61 points

Challenge Total 246

Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
#49= 49 points
448 Pages= 4 points
Date Added July 22, 2018= 2 points

Book Total=55 points
Challenge Total=235 points

They Went Left by Monica Hesse
#50 Spot - 50 pts
384 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Book total - 59 pts

Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg
#19 Spot - 19 pts
226 pgs - 2 pts
Added 1/31/15 - 10 pts
Book total - 31 pts

Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry
#25 Spot - 25 pts
308 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 5 pts
Added 5/14/15 - 10 pts
Book total - 44 pts

Post total - 134 pts
Challenge total - 229 pts

The Mullah's Storm by Tom Young
#42 = 42 pts
288 pgs = 2 pts
Date added: 11/17/2014 = 10 pts

Book Total: 54 pts
Challenge Total: 689

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
#27 = 27 pts
511 pgs = 6 pts
Date added: 3/22/2015 = 10 pts

Book Total: 43 pts
Challenge Total: 732

First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer
#47=47 points
496 pages=4 points
Date added: 1/18/2013=15 points
Bonus d: set in a different country than my own=5 points
Book total=71 points

Challenge total=152 points

An Air of Treason by P.F. Chisholm
#40 spot - 40 points
250 pages - 2 points
HF - 5 points
Date added: Dec 28, 2019 - 0 points

Previous total - 184 points
Book total - 47 points
Challenge total - 231 points

Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly
#48 spot -48 pts
353pp -4pts
Date Added 7/17 - 4pts
HF -5 pts
Bonus d (set in another country) - 5pts
Book Total: 66 pts

Challenge Total: 247 pts