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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
April 1-7 Sci-Fi
April 8-14 Weapons
April 15-21 Space
April 22-31 Tyranny

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


Book Points



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



Formal Buddy Reads bonus
✨If you can make it fit a theme and read it during the theme week & participate in the discussion, you get 4 bonus points plus page points. (book must be completed during theme week to get the 4 points)
✨If you can't make it fit a theme but still read & participate you get 2 bonus points plus page points. Just mark the theme as "Bonus" and add the bonus points to your completion post. (book may be completed during any week of the challenge to get the 2 points)

You can find the buddy read here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

Theme week: (example: Family Dinners)
Book: Glass Sword
Author: Victoria Aveyard
Pages: 444
Date Read: 4/4/2023
Rating: 4 Stars
Justification: MPG Science Fiction
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 3

Theme Week: Sci-fi
Book: The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Date Read: 4/3/2023
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 240
Justification: There is a debate as to whether werewolves are real or not. One believes and the other doesn't. They discuss aliens. Pg. 200 - "Frankly, I think all we can conclude from that is that Angel is interested in paranormal nonsense. Plenty of people are. Aliens and ESP and all that stuff. People lap it up."
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 4

Theme week: Sci-Fi
Book:
Author: Ilona Andrews
Pages: 456
Date Read: 04\05
Rating: 3
Justification: MPG Science Fiction
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 7

Theme week: Sci-Fi
Book: More than a Little Warped
Author: Annette Marie
Pages: 126
Date Read: 4/6/2023
Rating: 5 Stars
Justification: Captain Blythe has telekinesis >> considered a superpower >> considered science fiction
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 8

Completion Post:

Theme week: Sci -Fi
Book:
Author: Lillian Jackson Braun
Pages: 240
Date Read: 04/07
Rating: 3
Justification: Cats have supernatural abilities to help solve a murder
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 9

Completion Post:

Theme week: Sci-Fi
Book:
Author:Timothy Zahn
Pages: 467
Date Read: 04\07
Rating:3
Justification: Hugo Award winning author
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 12

Theme week: Sci-Fi
Book: The Awakening
Author: Caroline Peckham
Pages: 436
Date Read: 4/6/2023
Rating: 5 Stars
Justification: Takes place in a parallel world to Earth.
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 15

Completion Post:

Theme week: Weapons
Book:
Author: Deanne Raybourn
Pages: 365
Date Read: 04/09
Rating: 4
Justification: Knife on cover
Book Points: 3

Team Total points:18

Theme Week:
Book: Have You Seen Her: A Novel
Author: Catherine McKenzie
Date Read: 4/10/2023
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 336
Justification: A gun plays a large part in this book. Page 308 - “Where did you get the gun?” Eric asks.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 21

Completion Post:

Theme week: Weapons
Book:
Author: Steve Alten
Pages: 208
Date Read: 04/07
Rating: 3
Justification: Weapons in text page 103
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 22

Completion Post:

Theme week: Weapons
Book:
Author: Ellis Peters
Pages: 214
Date Read: 04/12
Rating: 3
Justification: Letters W-E-A-P-O-N-S on cover
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 23

Theme Week: Weapons
Book: One Last Stop
Author: Casey McQuiston
Pages: 475
Date Read: 4/12
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: August uses her uncle's pocketknife for protection while living in New York just like the Sith and Jedi have their light sabers.
Book Points: 3
Total Team Points: 26

Completed Book:
Theme week: Weapons
Book: Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Author: Rupert Holmes
Pages: 389
Date Read: 4/14/2023
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Pg 104 - Cliff has to take take a class - "Weaponry Around You" ( a weeklong seminar within Principles of Deletion) focused on ordinary objects that could serve as deadly weapons..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 29

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Theme week: Space
Book:
Author: John Scalzi
Pages: 318
Date Read: 04/17
Rating: 3
Justification: MC works on space ship
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 32

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Theme week: Space
Book: The London Séance Society
Author: Sarah Penner
Pages: 352
Date Read: 4/19/2023
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Pg 107 - ... and a smoky haze hung in the air, lending the SPACE a bright, dreamy feel."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 35

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Theme week: Space
Book: The Golden Spoon
Author: Jessa Maxwell
Pages: 288
Date Read: 4/20/2023
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Space is used 1 times in book - Example - page 30 - "I guess she wanted her own space during filming."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 36

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Theme week: Space
Book: Soren
Author: Jasper Thorne
Pages: 184
Date Read: 4/20/2023
Justification: MC travels through space to another planet
Book Points: 1
Team Total Points: 37

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Theme week: Space
Book:
Author: Brad Magnarella
Pages: 310
Date Read: 04/21
Rating: 3
Justification: Space in text page 77
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 40

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Theme week: Space
Book:
Author: Timothy Zahn
Pages: 488
Date Read: 04/21
Rating: 3
Justification: MPG Space Opera
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 43

Theme week: Tyranny
Book: House of Cotton
Author:Monica Brashears
Pages: 304
Date Read: 4/22/2023
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Tyranny is an oppressive or unrestrained abuse of power - The MC is sexually assaulted by her landlord because he knows she is not in a position to do anything about it or she will end up homeless.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 46

Theme Week: Tyranny
Book: Cat Among the Pigeons
Author: Agatha Christie
Pages: 352
Date Read: 4/23/2023
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Prince Ali Yusuf trys to flee his country during a revolution by an oppressive regime.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 49

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Theme week: Tyranny
Book:
Author: Chris Westcott
Pages: 243
Date Read: 04/26
Rating: 3
Justification: Tyranny in title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 50

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Theme week: Tyranny
Book:
Author:Dacre Stoker
Pages: 512
Date Read: 04/27
Rating: 4
Justification: Tyrant page 273
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 55

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Theme week: Tyranny
Book:
Author: Brad Maganella
Pages: 300
Date Read: 04/28
Rating: 3
Justification: Werewolf has a tyrannical hold on pack - despotic and violent page 159
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 56

Theme Week: Tyranny
Book A Court of Wings and Ruin
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Pages: 705
Date Read : 4/29
Rating: 5
Justification: Feyre and the Night Court find themselves battling against a tyrannical group of Fae just like the Jedi battle against the Sith.
Book Points: 7

Team Total Points: 63

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Theme week: Tyranny
Book:
Author: Nick Ryan
Pages: 176
Date Read: 04/30
Rating: 3
Justification: T-Y-R-A-N-N-Y on the cover including the promo blurb
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 64

Theme Week: Tyranny
Book: Ice Planet Barbarian
Author: Ruby Dixon
Pages: 188
Date read: 4/30
Rating: 4
Justification: Georgie is abducted by an alien race along with other human females. They are treated poorly and abused; kept for selling off like cattle. Georgie and the other girls work together to fight against the aliens.
Book Points: 1

Team Total Points: 65

Final Updated score: 67