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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
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Theme week: snow
Book: The Winter Ghosts
Author: Kate Mosse
Pages: 220
Date Read: 1 January
Rating: 5
Justification: snow on cover, & page 41 “…the snow was twisting & spiralling…”
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 1

Theme week: Snow
Book: Santa Cruise
Author: Fern Michaels
Pages: 368
Date Read: 1-2-22
Rating: 3
Justification: Snow on the cover

Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 4

Book Completion - Kate

Theme week: Snow
Book: The Secret History
Author: Donna Tartt
Pages: 559
Date Read: 01-01-2022
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: In the prologue, Bunny (the character that the group kills) is covered in snow which is why it takes people so long to find him after he is reported missing.
Book Points: 5 points
Team Total points: 9

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: Top Secret Twenty-one
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 352
Date Read: 1/2
Rating: 3
Justification: "You're gonna need a snow shovel to get that up." Pg 234
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 12

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: Angelfall
Author: Susan Ee
Pages: 288
Date Read: 1 Jan
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Character named Snow
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 13

Theme Week ~ Snow
Deadly Decisions
Author: Kathy Reichs
Pages: 368
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: pg 29 "...sidewalks glistened with ice and snow."
Book points: 3

Team total points: 16

Theme week: Snow
Book: Carry On
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Pages: 520
Date Read: January 3rd
Rating: 3
Justification: Main protagonist is called Simon Snow
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 21

Theme week: Snow
Book: The Dutch House
Author: Ann Patchett
Pages: 337
Date Read: 01/02/2022
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: snow appears 19 times in the text (via kindle)
Book Points: 3 points
Team Total points: 24 points

Theme week: Snow
Book: Eight Winter Nights
Author: Liz Maverick
Pages: 125
Date Read: 01/01/2022
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: snow on cover
Book Points: 1 point

Team Total points: 25 points

Theme week: Snow
Book: Will
Author: Will Smith
Pages: 418
Date Read: 1/3/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: page 81' I ran a full block, butt naked, back to my house, in the snow .'
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 28

Theme week: snow
Book: Greenmantle
Author: John Buchan
Pages: 352
Date Read: 5 January
Rating: 4
Justification: Chapter 17 onwards, including “into a snow blizzard” & “a hinterland of snowy peaks”
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 31

Theme week: Snow
Book: In a Holidaze
Author: Christina Lauren
Pages: 304
Date Read:1/4/22
Rating:4
Justification: p. 6 'Lets drunkenly go for a walk in the snow...'
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 34

Theme week: Snow
Book: Murder on the Orient Express
Author: Agatha Christie
Date Read: 6th January
Rating: 4
Justification: Snow drift stops the train
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 35

Theme week: Snow
Book: The Secret Place
Author: Tana French
Pages: 529
Date Read: 5th January
Rating: 3
Justification: Snow 11 times in book - "Don't eat the yellow snow" (25%)
Book Points: 5
Team Total Points: 40

Theme week: Snow
Book: The Snow Child
Author: Eowyn Ivey
Pages: 423
Date Read: 6th January
Rating: 5
Justification: The name of the book has the word "Snow" in it.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 43

Theme week: Snow
Book:Merry Ex-Mas
Author:Sheila Roberts
Pages:336
Date Read:1/6/21
Rating:3
Justification: Snow on cover
Book Points:3
Team Total points:46

Theme week: Snow
Book:Snowstorms & Sleigh Bells
Author:Kelley Armstrong
Pages:116
Date Read:1/7/21
Rating:3
Justification: snow on cover
Book Points:1
Team Total points:47

Theme week: Snow
Book:The Mistletoe Promise
Author:Richard Paul Evans
Pages:251
Date Read:1/7/21
Rating:4
Justification: snow on cover
Book Points:1
Team Total points:48

Theme week: Snow ❄️
Book: The Reindeer Falls Collection Vol 2 (4-6)
Author: Jana Aston

The Reindeer Falls Collection: Volume 2

Pages: 378
Date Read: 01/07/22
Rating: 3
Justification: ❄️Snow on the cover including a snow globe
Book Points: 3
Team Total points:51

Theme week: Snow
Book:The Mistletoe Inn
Author:Richard Paul Evans
Pages:300
Date Read:1/7/21
Rating:4
Justification: snow on cover
Book Points:1
Team Total points:52

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: Living Proof
Author: Hank Williams, Jr.
Pages: 229
Date Read: 1/2
Rating: 3
Justification: While climbing Ajax Peak on the continental divide (Idaho border) west of Jackson, the snow beneath him collapsed and he fell almost 500 feet onto rock below.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 53

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: The King
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
Pages: 198
Date Read: 1/4
Rating: 3
Justification: "...as if I were laying in a mound of fallen snow." pg 74
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 54

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: Shadows
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
Pages: 188
Date Read: 1/6
Rating: 3
Justification: "Melted snow dripped off their parkas and pooled on the scuffed floor." pg 17
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 55

Theme Week ~ Snow

Book: The Crucible
Author: Arthur Miller
Pages: 143
Date Read: 1/7
Rating: 3
Justification: "I do not think I saw you at Sabbath meeting since the snow flew." pg 27
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 56

Theme week: Fireplace
Book: The Cricket on the Hearth
Author: Charles Dickens
Pages: 168
Date Read: 1/9/22
Rating: 2
Justification: “hearth” in title & numerous mentions in story
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 57

Theme week: Fireplace
Book: Ambush or Adore
Author: Gail Carriger
Pages: 164
Date Read: 1/9/22
Rating: 2
Justification: fireplace mentioned multiple time is story as sitting in front of the fire is what the two MCs do ("thick rug in front of his fireplace" 86%)
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 58

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Dragonfly
Author: Leila Meacham
Pages: 563
Date Read: 11th January
Rating: 3
Justification: "When they arrived, a fire blazed in the great stone fireplace"
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 63

Theme week: Fireplace
Book: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Pages: 249
Date Read: Jan 11
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: On page 162 the characters settled in by the fire and the drawing shows a fireplace
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 64

Theme week: Fireplace
Book: The Last Thing He Told Me
Author: Laura Dave
Pages: 320
Date Read: 1-14-22
Rating: 3
Justification: Section 16. Little White Churches "all lined up on the fireplace mantel"
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 67

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Howl's Moving Castle
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Pages: 303
Date Read: 14th January
Rating: 4
Justification: Calcifer is a fire demon who lives in a fireplace in the moving castle.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 70

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Under the Whispering Door
Author: T.J. Klune
Pages: 373
Date Read: 14 Jan
Rating: 5
Justification: pg 43 "...glancing at the fireplace."
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 73

Theme Week: Fireplace
Book: Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures
Author: Stephen Fry
Pages: 457
Date Read: 14 Jan
Rating: 4
Justification: Story of Atalanta centres around a log at the centre of the hearth
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 76

Theme Week ~ Fireplace

Book: Starry Night
Author: Debbie Macomber
Pages: 370
Date Read: 1/14
Rating: 3
Justification: "...and her fireplace mantel displayed a wooden nativity scene." pg 202
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 79

Theme Week ~ Fireplace

Book: Choppy Water
Author: Stuart Woods
Pages: 331
Date Read: 1/14
Rating: 3
Justification: "After dinner they took chairs by the fireplace and Stone poured them brandy." pg 214
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 82

Theme Week: Hot Chocolate
Book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Pages: 190
Date Read: 16 Jan
Rating: 3
Justification: Talks of a chocolate palace with taps that run with hot chocolate
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 83

Theme Week: Hot Chocolate
Book: The Power
Author: Naomi Alderman
Pages: 341
Date Read: 1-17-22
Rating: 3
Justification: Location 46% "on a mug of hot chocolate"
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 86

Theme week: hot chocolate
Book: Like Water for Chocolate
Author: Laura Esquivel
Pages: 224
Date Read: 1/19/22
Rating: 4
Justification: “hot chocolate” at 59% & several times at 70%
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 87

Theme Week: Hot Chocolate
Book: The Hygge Holiday
Author: Rosie Blake
Pages: 230
Rating: 4
Justification: "She sat drinking hot chocolate from her Thermos flask..."
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 88

Theme week: Hot Chocolate
Book: Bonfires & Hot Chocolate at The Little Duck Pond Cafe
Author: Rosie Green
Pages:188
Date Read:01/21/22
Rating: 1 star
Justification: Hot Chocolate is in the title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points:89

Theme Week ~ Hot Chocolate

Book: Sharpest Sting
Author: Jennifer Estep
Pages: 366
Date Read: 1/21
Rating: 3
Justification: "....and some hot chocolate for Gin" pg 304
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 92

Theme week: winter sports
Book: Crossed Skis: An Alpine Mystery
Author: Carol Carnac
Pages: 224
Date Read: 1/23/22
Rating: 5
Justification: “skis” in title, “winter sporting” & “ski-ing” at 2%, plus numerous other mentions throughout book
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 93

Theme week: winter sports
Book: Anthem
Author: Noah Hawley
Pages: 448
Date Read: 24 Jan
Rating: 5
Justification: pg 31 "His father took him to Switzerland to ski."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 96

Theme Week: Winter Sports
Book: Beartown
Author: Fredrik Backman
Pages: 415
Date Read: Jan 25th
Rating: 5
Justification: Whole story centres around ice hockey
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 99

Theme Week: Winter Sports
Book: A Favor for a Favor
Author: Helena Hunting
Pages: 301
Date Read: 1-23-2022
Rating: 4
Justification: NHL hockey player as MC
Book Points: 3

Theme Week: Winter Sports
Book: A Secret for a Secret
Author: Helena Hunting
Pages: 298
Date Read: 1-28-2022
Rating: 3
Justification: NHL hockey player as MC
Book Points: 1


Team Total Points: 103

Theme week: winter sports
Book: Angel Maker
Author: Morgan Greene
Pages: 444
Date Read: 01/28/22
Rating: 4
Justification: “she wanted to be a figure skater” & “Biathlon. Skiing & shooting. Her father had loved the biathlon.” at 67%
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 106

Theme Week ~ Winter Sports

Book: Down by the River
Author: Robyn Carr
Pages: 400
Date Read: 1/23
Rating: 4
Justification: "...that place is like a hockey game in progress."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 109

Theme Week ~ Winter Sports

Book: Sweet Masterpiece
Author: Connie Shelton
Pages: 224
Date Read: 1/25
Rating: 3
Justification: "...the ski runs of Angel Fire...."
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 110

Theme Week ~ Winter Sports

Book: Puck Me Secretly
Author: Odette Stone
Pages: 404
Date Read: 1/28
Rating: 3
Justification: Book feature hockey player / hockey team
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 113

Theme Week ~ Winter Sports

Book: Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves
Author: Meg Long
Pages: 368
Date Read: 1/28
Rating: 3
Justification: Main focus is dog sledding
Book Points: 3

Book: The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
Author: Rob Chaney
Pages: 288
Date Read: 1/28
Rating: 4
Justification: Entire chapter on snow mobiles and mentions of skis
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 117

Theme Week ~ Winter Sports

Book: Turbo Twenty-Three
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 344
Date Read: 1/30
Rating: 3
Justification: "...watching Monday Night Football..." pg 223 - Football is considered a Late Autumn/Early Winter sport
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 120