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message 1: by Anushka, Founder (new)

Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 637 comments Mod
Please log in your books as you read them in the following format:

Cover of the book
Number of pages
Points based on pages ( See the sign up thread for respective points)
Extra Points ( See the sign up thread )
Prompt (Mention which prompt the book fits)
Total points (Calculate your total)


message 2: by Anushka, Founder (new)

Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 637 comments Mod
Maddie you can add the cover by clicking on "add book/author " above the comment box.


message 3: by Leah (new)

Leah | 22 comments The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Pages: 155 - 2 pts
Prompt: A book recommended by the community

Love in Colour Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
Pages: 288 - 3 pts
Prompt: Read a book featuring romance between two black characters or a black character and a person of color
Extra Points: Review 5 pts

Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1) by Talia Hibbert
Pages: 366 - 4 pts
Prompt: Read a book starring an intersectional black character (black & LGBT, black & neurodivergent, black & disabled, etc)

The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Pages: 288 - 3 pts
Prompt: Read a book where the main character is African/black

What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
Pages: 213 - 3pts
Prompt: A book no one talks about

In 1940, Hattie McDaniel was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind. - 1 pt

Total Points: 21


message 4: by Anushka, Founder (new)

Anushka (bookish_swiftie) | 637 comments Mod
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) by Angie Thomas

Pages: 444
Page points: 5
Prompt: Read a book recommended by the community
Extra Points: Review (+5)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(It's not complete yet, but I'll do that by tomorrow)

Fact: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on friend Maya Angelou's birthday, on April 4, 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King's widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta's death in 2006. (+1pt)

Total points: 11


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