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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 and you may be creative with your links to the themes.
Standard Rules Apply

Themes
June 1-7 Guns
June 8-14 Horses
June 15-21 Cowboys
June 22-30 Saloons

*Theme Start & End times are based on your time zone. So the Guns theme will end on June 7th at midnight in the time zone that you live in.*

Book Points


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

Theme week: Guns
Book: Vanilla Vengeance
Author: Molly Maple
Pages: 256
Date Read: 6/1/22
Rating: 4
Justification: word gun in text page 184-"Logan backs up, his hands raised as if I have a gun aimed at his chest."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 1

Theme week: Guns
Book: Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Pages: 305
Date Read: June 3
Rating: 4.5
Justification: pg 89: James held the gun in his lap as they rode through the forest. The last time he'd held one was five years before, in 1819, for his twelfth birthday. His father had taken him out into the woods to shoot at swaths of fabric he had tied to various trees in the distance. He told James that a man should learn to hold a gun the same way he held a woman, carefully and tenderly.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 4

Theme week: Guns
Book: Untamed
Author: Delta James
Pages: 166
Date Read: 6/4/22
Rating: 2
Justification: gun on cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 5

Theme week: Guns
Book: The Night Shift
Author: Alex Finlay
Pages: 312
Date Read: 64/2022
Rating:5 stars
Justification: Gun used on page 282 - "Mr. McKenzie had brought a gun."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 8

Theme week: Guns
Book: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Pages: 254
Date Read: 6/4/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Gun on page 34 - "Dad's cremated ashes could be sent into space or tamped into bullets and shot out of a gun."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points - 9

Theme week: Guns
Book: Desolation Mountain by
Author: William Kent Krueger
Pages: 337 Pages
Date Read: 6/7/22
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: pg. 191 - "The barrell of the gun clipped his face and he went down."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 12

Theme week: Guns
Book: Annihilation
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Pages: 195
Date Read: June 6 2022
Rating: 4
Justification: pg 21 Bullets would probably stop a seven-hundred-pound pig or perhaps not. We did not feel confident taking our attention from the boar to untie the container of handguns from our gear and open its triple locks.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 13

Theme week: Guns
Book: Unicorn Western
Author: Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant
Pages: 132
Date Read: 6/7/22
Rating: 4
Justification: main character is a gunslinger
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 14

Theme week: Guns
Book: Notes on an Execution
Author:Danya Kukafka
Pages: 306
Date Read: 6/7/22
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: gun used in text - The gun will be waiting on the floor beneath the front seat - page 139
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 17

Theme week: Horses
Book: Ash
Author: Jaymin Eve
Pages: 232
Date Read: 6/9/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Horse on page 124 - "I managed to fight her off and in the struggle my horse took off dragging the plow over here.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 18

Theme week: Horses
Book: All the Horses of Iceland
Author: Sarah Tolmie
Pages: 112
Date Read: June 8
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Horses in title, on cover and can be found in author name
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 19

Theme week: Horses
Book: Pleasantview
Author: Celeste Mohammed
Pages: 288
Date Read: June 11
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Loc 2427(85%) - He'd helped her mount the new horse, Paraclete, then jumped up behind and yelled "Ya!" and the faster the horse went, the faster he'd made it go, until she'd thought she would fall off, she thought she would be trampled and die that way....
Book Points:1
Team Total points: 20

Theme week: Horses
Book: Don't Look
Author: Alexandra Ivy
Pages: 393
Date Read: 6-9-22
Rating: 3
Justification: Ch. 28 "held a dozen horses and several mules"
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 23

Theme week: Horses
Book: Overnight Sensation
Author: Sarina Bowen
Pages: 341
Date Read: 6-9-22
Rating: 4
Justification: Ch. 16 "Hold your horses"
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 26

Book: Lightning Strike
Author: William Kent Krueger
Pages: 6/10/22
Date Read: 6/11/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Oscar ManyDeeds works with horses
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 29

Book - The Secret of the Seventh Scarab
Author - Nathaniel Burns
Date Read - 6/12/22
Rating - 3 stars
Justification - tHe secret Of the SevEnth ScaRab - Hoses can be found in the title
Book Points - 1
Team total - 30

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: Horses
Book: The Children on the Hill
Author:Jennifer McMahon
Pages: 342
Date Read:6/13/2022
Rating: 3
Justification: Page 21 - The stables, which hadn't held horses in fifty years...
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 33

Theme week: Horses
Book: Dead Silence
Author: Brenda Novak
Pages: 448
Date Read: 6-13-22
Rating: 3
Justification: Ch. 20 "his only experience with horses"
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 36

Theme week: Horses
Book: A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
Author: Sophie Irwin
Pages: 352
Date Read: 6/14/22
Rating: 4
Justification: location 224 - With soot everywhere, smoke billowing from chimneys high above, horse droppings left in the street.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 39

Theme week: Horses
Book: The Horse Mistress: Book 1
Author: R.A. Steffan
Pages: 216
Date Read: 6/14/22
Rating: 4
Justification: Horse in cover
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 40

Theme week: Horses 🐎
Book: The House in the Cerulean Sea
Author: T.J. Klune
Pages: KE 394
Date Read: 6/13/22
Rating: 5
Justification: HORSE in title: The HOuse in the CeRulean SEa
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 43

Theme week: Horses 🐎
Book: The Shore
Author: Katie Runde
Pages: 304
Date Read: 6/14/22
Rating: 4
Justification: Shore is an anagram of Horse
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 46

Theme Week : Cowboys
Book: Bluebird, Bluebird
Author: Attica Locke
Pages: 318 pages
Date Read: June 18
Rating: 3.25
Justification: Set in Texas - the number 1 cowboy state
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 49

Theme week: Cowboys
Book: I Thought You Said This Would Work by
Author: Ann Wertz Garvin
Pages: 6/19/22
Date Read: 6/19/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: cowboy on page 173 - "We need to adopt some animals," she said with the intensity of a parched cowboy approaching a barkeep and demanding a shot of whiskey."
Book Points: 3 Points
Team Total points: 52

Theme week: Cowboys
Book: The Good, the Bad, and the Pugly
Author: Celia Kinsey
Pages: 376
Date Read: 6/21/22
Rating: 4
Justification: Pug in a cowboy hat on the cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 55

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: Cowboys
Book: The Fervor
Author: Alma Katsu
Pages: 320
Date Read: 6/21/2022
Rating: 4
Justification: Page 114 - "...not the farmers and cowboys she'd imagined lived there."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 58

Theme week: Cowboys
Book: Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West by
Author: Chris Enss
Pages: 160
Date Read: 6/21/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: pg.5 - "Why should snow or cowboys frighten me any more than others who will be traveling the same way.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 59

Completed Book requirements:
Theme week: Saloons
Book: The Nesting
Author: C.J. Cooke
Pages: 416
Date Read: 6/25/2022
Rating: 3
Justification: According to the Oxford dictionary, a saloon is a public room or building used for a specific purpose. In The Nesting, Tom and Clive build Basecamp which is a "showstopper of a piece for our company. The centerpiece of our portfolio."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 62

Theme week: Saloons
Book: Exile
Author: Shannon Messenger
Pages: 576
Date Read: June 25
Rating: 4
Justification: Letters in Series name and author name: keeper Of the LOSt Cities and ShANnon messenger - spell out SALOONS
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 69

Theme week: Saloons
Book: The Lawman
Author: Lily Graison
Pages: 138
Date Read: 6/27/22
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: "And now mistaken for a whore at the Diamond Back Saloon" pg 4
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 65

Theme week: Saloons
Book: Remnant Population
Author: Elizabeth Moon
Pages: 336
Date Read: June 29
Rating: 4
Justification: remnant pOpulatiON and MC - Sera ofeLiA falfurriaS spell out saloons
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 73

Total team points : 71