Hooked on Books discussion

Check-in your completed books here

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Rating:
Justification:
Book Points:
Team Total points:

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.
Standard Rules Apply

Themes
January 1-7 Snow
January 8-14 Fireplace
January 15-21 Hot Chocolate
January 22-31 Winter Sports

Book Points


Poll
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Theme Week: Snow


Author: Patti Callahan
Pages: 320
Date read: 01/Jan/2022
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Snow on cover
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 3

Theme week: Snow

Book: Snowfall at Moonglow
Author: Deborah Garner
Pages: 110
Date Read: 1/1
Rating: 4 ⭐️
Justification: Snow in the title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 4

Author: Tom Henderson
Pages: 352
Date Read: 1/1
Rating: 3 ⭐️
Justification: Snow in the title
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 7

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Theme week: Snow
Book:
Author: Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
Pages: 336
Date Read: 1/2/22
Rating: 3
Justification: Snowglobe on cover
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 10

Theme Week: Snow
Book: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1)
Author: Stieg Larsson
Pages: 480
Date Read: Jan 2, 2022
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 146: it was covered with a foot and a half of snow
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 13

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Theme week: Snow
Book:Cold Wind
Author:Paige Shelton
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/2/2022
Rating: 4
Justification: Snow flakes on cover; set in Alaska, the word snow used twice on the first page
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 13

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Theme week: Snow
Book: Hide
Author: Nell Pattison
Pages: 400
Date Read: 1/2/2022
Rating: 2
Justification: Snow on cover, book set during a snow storm
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 16

Theme week: Snow

Book: The Obsidian Chamber
Author: Douglas Preston
Pages: 560
Date Read: 1/2
Rating: 3⭐️
Justification: 100% “Snow began to fall as the Rolls Royce pulled away…”
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 24

Theme week : Snow
Book If Only
Author: Angela marsons
Pages: 259
Date read 3/1/22
Justification: The word snow used in book
Book points 1

Team points
22

Correction:
Total Team Points: 25

Carrie's post (#7) should have a total of 16 points.

Theme Week: Snow
Book: Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 214
Date Read: Jan 3
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 48: Snow on the Desert’s Face - that is the title of my new book.
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 26

Theme week: snow
Book: Silver Thaw
Author: Catherine Anderson
Pages: 423
Date Read: 1/2
Rating: 2*
Justification: Snow on cover and takes place in winter storm
Book Points: 3
Team Total points 29

Theme Week: Snow
Book: The Chicken Sisters
Author: K.J. Dell'Antonia
Pages: 344
Date Read: 3/1/2021
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: pg 83 Making a Snow Angel in the rug
Book Points: 3

Total Team Points: 32

Theme Week: Snow
Book: House of Bastiion
Author: K.L. Kolarich
Pages: 486
Date Read: 1/3
Rating: 4
Justification: Pg. 274, "Amber against snow, their noses almost touched."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 35

Theme Week: Snow
Book: To Break a Covenant
Author: Alison Ames
Pages: 320
Date Read: 1/3
Rating: 3
Justification: 33%, "Snow. No sound."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 38

Theme Week: Snow
Book: Killer Content
Author: Kiley Roache
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/4
Rating: 2
Justification: Pg. 63, "...like the mean witch in Snow White."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 41

Theme Week: Snow
Book:
Author: George Orwell
Pages: 141
Date Read: 1/5
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Pg. 84 "The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow..."
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 42

Theme Week: Snow
Book: The Last House on Needless Street
Author: Catriona Ward
Pages: 335
Date Read: 1/5
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: 9% "As I watch, the sky gives and snow starts to fall..."
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 45

Theme Week: Snow
Book: Horns
Author: Joe Hill
Pages: 370
Date Read: Jan 6
Rating: 3
Justification: Pg. 52: …a storm of black snow.
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 48

Them: Snow
Book: Zero Zero Zero
Author: Roberto Saviano
Pages: 416
Date read: 6 Jan
Rating 3
Justification: is about cocaine trade,and snow is a nickname for cocaine
Points: 3

Total points: 51

Theme week: snow
Book: Chill Factor
Author: Sandra Brown
Pages: 534
Date Read: 1/6
Rating: 3.5*
Justification: Takes place in snow storm. Snow everywhere and on cover
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 56

Theme week: Snow

Book: Cold Wind
Author: Paige Shelton
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/6
Rating: 3.5*
Justification: Snow on cover and word in text many times
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 59

Book: City of Secrets
Author: Victoria Thompson
Pages: 304
Date Read: 1/6/21
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Justification: Snow on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 62

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Theme Week: Snow

Author: Glenn Meade
Pages: 526
Date Read: 01/07/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Snow in title
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 67

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Theme Week; Snow

Author: Louise Penny
Pages: 313
Date Read: 1/4/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Snow in text page 5
Book Points: 3

Total Team Points: 70

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Breakup (Kate Shugak #7)
Author: Dana Stabenow
Pages: 256
Date Read: Jan 8
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 93: They drank, and in the absence of a fireplace to hurl the glasses into, thumped them all down onto the table and raised a ragged cheer.
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 71

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Protection of The Pack
Author: Heather G. Harris
Pages: 228
Date Read: Jan 8
Rating: 4
Justification: loc 954 It had a fireplace which was currently banked
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 72

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book:
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 341
Date Read: Jan 8
Rating: 4
Justification: pg. 48 "Or you might well fall out of the wrong fireplace-"
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 75

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Theme week: Fireplace
Book:
Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Pages: 569
Date Read: 01/09/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Fire on cover place in text page 8
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 80

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: The Mysterious Mr. Quin (Harley Quin #1)
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 396
Date Read: Jan 9
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 241: Gillian was sitting there in a tall chair by the fireplace.
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 83

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: The Toll
Author: Neal Shusterman
Pages: 625
Date Read: Jan 9
Rating: 4
Justification: 72 %; "But the farmhouse had a fireplace, and Jerri found some chamormille tea to brew."
Points: 5

Team Total Points: 88

Preeti wrote: "Correction:
Total Team Points: 25

Carrie's post (#7) should have a total of 16 points."

Thanks Preeti for catching that!

Completion Post

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: The Last Thing He Told Me
Author: Laura Dave
Pages: 320
Date Read: 01/09/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Fireplace used on pages 120, 122, 254
"photographs of Elenor's family are lined up on the fireplace"
Points: 3

Total Team Points: 91

Carrie wrote: "Preeti wrote: "Correction:
Total Team Points: 25

Carrie's post (#7) should have a total of 16 points."

Thanks Preeti for catching that!"

You're very welcome, Carrie. I think you and I were both posting our completions at the same time.

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter #6)
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 652
Date Read: Jan 10
Rating: 5
Justification: Pg. 2: It was a handsome room, with a fine marble fireplace facing the long sash windows, firmly closed against the unseasonable chill.
Points: 5

Team Total Points: 96

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Author: Anna Quindlen
Pages: 252
Date Read: Jan 9
Rating: 4
Justification: Page 152 "He poked the logs in the fireplace." Fireplace also mentioned on a few other pages also.
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 97

Theme week: Fireplace

Book: The Seven Dials Mystery
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 375
Date Read: 1/10
Rating: 4 ⭐️
Justification: Pg. 120 "...on either side of the fireplace..."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 100

Theme week: Fireplace
Book: A Winter Haunting
Author: Dan Simmons
Pages: 371
Date Read: 1/10
Rating: 4*
Justification: Chapter 20: "They chopped wood and sat close to the wide fireplace in order to stay warm."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 103

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Theme Week: Fireplace

Author: Louise Penny
Pages: 433
Date Read: 01/10/21
Rating: 4
Justification: Fireplace in text page 31
Book Points: 3

Total Team Points: 106

Theme week: Fireplace

Book: Immortal Born
Author: Lynsay Sands
Pages: 384
Date Read: 1/12
Rating: 4 ⭐️
Justification: Pg. 375 "...glanced towards the fireplace..."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 109

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: The Silent Patient
Author: Alex Michaelides
Pages: 325
Date Read: Jan 12
Rating: 4
Justification: loc 2% Alicia was discovered standing by the fireplace.
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 112

Rosina, please update your total. It's 112

Theme week : Fireplace
Book Safe at Home
Author: Lauren North
Pages: 369
Date read 13/1/ 22
Justification: The word fireplace used in book
Book points 3

Team points:
115

Theme week: fireplace
Book: The Hawaiian Discovery
Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter
Pages: 256
Date Read: 1/10/22
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Justification: the word in text - "He saw a fireplace with two chairs on either side. pg. 241
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 116

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Theme week: Fireplace
Book:
Author: Kathi Daley
Pages: 170
Date Read: 1/14/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Fireplace on cover
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 117

Theme: Fireplace
Book: The Shadow Sister
Author: Lucinda Riley
Pages: 682
Date Read: 14 Jan
Rating: 3*
Justification: constantly having cosy chats in front of fires in fireplaces; choice of new premises is sold by presence of fireplace
Book Points: 5

Team Total Points: 122

Theme Week: Fireplace


Author: Elizabeth Fair
Pages: 235
Date read: 13/Jan/2022
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: lots of mention of fires in the fireplaces
Points: 1

Team Total Points: 123

Theme Week: Fireplace


Author: Katherine Arden
Pages: 360
Date read: 14/Jan/2022
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: lots of mention of fires in fireplaces
Points: 3

Team Total Points: 126

Namita wrote: "Rosina, please update your total. It's 112"

thanks for checking