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

Themes
July 1-7 Rings
July 8-14 War
July 15-21 Orcs
July 22-31 Fantasy

*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...



This month if you use a book here AND in the Water Balloon War you will get bonus points. Don't forget to tell me what team you are on!
✨ 2 bonus points if a book is used in both challenges


Water Balloon War

Theme: Ring
Book: The Devil's Flute Murders
Author: Seishi Yokomizo
Pages: 256
Date Read: 7/2
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: page 61 "She extended the index, middle and ring fingers"
Book Points: 2
Team Total points: 2

Theme: Ring
Book: The Salt Grows Heavy
author: Cassandra Khaw
pages: 106
Date Read: 7/3
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: Ring shaped O on the cover
Book Points: 1

Team Total Points: 3

Theme week: Ring
Book: The Collected Regrets of Clover
Author: Mikki Brammer
Pages: 320
Date Read: 7/3
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: @5% / Loc 227 "sift through keys on a ring"
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 6

Theme: Ring
Book:The Tees Valley Killings
Author: C.J. Grayson
Pages: 396
Date read: 1/7/23
Justification: After two rings, the emergency operator picked up.
Points: 3 points
Team total points:9

Completion Post:

Theme week: Rings
Book:
Author: Michael Cecch-Azzolina
Pages: 304
Date Read: 07/03
Rating: 3
Justification: Rings page 195
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 11

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: Rings
Read: 7/01/23
Pages: 340
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: "Amelia is still wearing the ring" (loc. 313).
Book Points: 3 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)


Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: Rings
Read: 7/01/23
Pages: 336
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: "Angela fiddled with the wedding ring on the chain around her neck" (12).
Points: 3 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Team Total points: 22
*Note: error in message 6 - should say 12 points

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: Rings
Read: 7/02/23
Pages: 532
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: There is a circle (ring) in the fire on the cover
Points: 5 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Team Total points: 29

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Buddy: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Theme: Rings
Read: 7/04/23
Pages: 320
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: "I mean, can we get a ring?" (168).
Points: 3 + 4 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Team Total points: 36

Updated total: 34

Theme: Ring
Book: Fourth Wing
Author: Rebecca Yarros
Pages: 528
Date read: 7/4/23
Justification: locaction 424 "He kisses the ring and puts it back"
Points: 5 points + 2 Team Full of Hot Air =7

Team points: 40 points

Completion Post:

Theme week: Rings
Book:
Author: James Cain
Pages: 116
Date Read: 07/04
Rating: 3
Justification: Rings in title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 41

Theme: Rings
Book: What Happens in Dubai
Author: Sophie Gravia
Pages read: 354
Date read: 6/7/23
Rating: 5*
Justification: My phone began ringing loudly from the table
Points: 3 points
Team total points: 44

Theme week: Ring
Book: The Plot
Author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
Pages: 320
Date Read: 07/05
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 168 "I mean, can we get a ring?"
Book Points: 3 (+2 bonus points - Team: Full of Hot Air) = 5 points

Total Team Points: 49

Completion Post:

Theme week: Rings
Book:
Author: Elena Favili/Francesca Cavallo
Pages: 212
Date Read: 07/07
Rating: 3
Justification: R-I-N-G-S letters in title
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 50

Theme Week: Rings


author: Elle Marr
pages: 314
read: 7/6
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 53 "his gaze shifts to the ring"
Book points: 3 (+2 for team Full of Hot Air)


author: Andrea Hannah
pages: 320
read: 7/7
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: page 73 "tried not to look too hard at the ring"
Book points: 3 (+2 team Full of Hot Air)

(have a question in Full of Hot Air team thread, then I will post the books)

Total points this post: 10

Total Team Points: 60

Theme: War
Book: Good Girls Die Last
Author: Natali Simmonds
Pages: 365
Rating: 3*
Date read: 9/7/23
Justification: I was normally the faceless temp or serving behind the bar, not the one being handed a free, warm glass of Chardonnay. War is within the word Warm
Book points: 3
Total team points: 63

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: Rings
Read: 7/06/23
Pages: 267
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: "That bitch has got a rind on her finger" (67).
Book Points: 1 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Total team points: 66

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: War
Read: 7/07/23
Pages: 272
Rating: 5 stars
How it Fits: "I'm worried about them because they keep talking about the war with Iraq..." (257)
Book Points: 1 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Total team points: 69

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: War
Read: 7/08/23
Pages: 305
Rating: 3 stars
How it Fits: "Bellatrix, a star on Orion's belt. It's Latin for female warrior" (28). Brenna was fighting her own personal war and was called a warrior for that reason. Warriors fight in wars.
Book Points: 3 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Total team points: 74

Theme week: War
Book: The Puzzle Master
Author: Danielle Trussoni
Pages: 384
Date Read: 7/8
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: @37% "There is a war happening right here"
Book Points: 3 points (+2 points Team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 79

Theme week: War
Book: Ascension
Author: Nicholas Binge
Pages: 344
Date Read: 7/9
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 117 "You're not at war anymore."
Book Points: 3 (+2 for Team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 84

Completion Post:

Theme week: War
Book:
Author: Polly Holmes
Pages: 366
Date Read: 07/09
Rating: 3
Justification: War in text page 125
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 87

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Theme: War
Read: 7/09/23
Pages: 367
Rating: 4 stars
How it Fits: "All it'll do is put Cody in the middle of a tug-of-war that he doesn't deserve" (loc. 3604)
Book Points: 3 + 2 Bonus (Team Waterloggers)

Team Total points: 92

Theme week: War
Book: The Heist
Author: Janet Evanovich
Pages: 320
Date Read: 7/9/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Page 97 "..was shaped by cold war spy movies"
Book Points: 3 +2 Bonus water balloon fight Team Full of Hot Air
Team Total points: 97

Completion Post:

Theme week: War
Book:
Author: Erin Carlson
Pages: 304
Date Read: 7/10
Rating: 3
Justification: W-A-R in title/subtitle
Book Points:3

Team Total points: 100

Theme: War
Book: Cold Case
Author: M.A. Comley
Pages: 174
Date read: 11.7.23
Rating: 3*
Justification: “Jordan, I want everything you can find on Warren Dean by the end of tomorrow.War within the name Warren
Book points: 1
Total team points: 101

Theme: War
Book: Lost Gods
Author: Brom
Pages: 496
Date read: 7/11/2023
Rating: 4*
Justification: The demons are at war with the old gods
Book points: 3 + 2 bonus (Team Waterloggers)
Total team points: 106

Completion Post:

Theme week: War
Book:
Author: Dr. Terry Brooks
Pages: 253
Date Read: 07/12
Rating: 3
Justification: Set during war
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 107

Theme: War
Book: The Arrangement
Author: Kiersten Modglin
Pages: 209
Date read: 12.7.23
Rating: 5*
Justification: What had he done to warrant my intense worry that the kids would see. War is within the word Warrant
Book points: 1 point
Team total points: 108

Theme: War
Book: A History of Burning
author: Janika Oza
Pages: 400
Read: 7/11
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: page 37 "He wouldn't survive a war."

Points: 3 (+2 on Team Full of Hot Air)

Total Team Points: 113

Theme: War
Book: Perpetual West
author: Mesha Maren
Pages: 384
Read: 7/12
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: the letters to WAR in title

Points: 3 (+2 on Team Full of Hot Air)

Total Team Points: 118

Theme week: War
Book: What Have We Done
Author: Alex Finlay
Pages: 358
Date Read: 7/13
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 58 "feed him some war stories"
Book Points: 3 (+2 for Team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 123

Theme: War
Book: The Blame Game
Author: Sandie Jones
Pages: 256
Date read: 7/13/2023
Rating: 3*
Justification: (view spoiler)[A couple is at war with one another over the death of their child (hide spoiler)]
Book points: 1 + 2 bonus (Team Waterloggers)
Total team points: 126

Theme: War
Book: Dark Corners
Author: Megan Goldin
Pages: 352
Date read: 7/14
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: @ 68% "Zoe's been on the war path all day."
Points: 3 (+2 for Team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 131

Theme: Orcs
Book: The Amendment
Author: Kiersten Modglin
Pages; 223
Rating: 4*
Justification: Both characters are humans but their monsters in everything they do
Points: 1 point
Team points: 132

Theme week: Orc
Book: Little Eve
Author: Catriona Ward
Pages: 271
Date Read: 7/15
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: O-R-C all found in author's first name
Book Points: 1 (+2 for Team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 135

Theme Week: Orc
Book:
Author: Victoria Helen Stone
Pages: 331
Date: 7/16
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: O-R-C in author's first name
Book Points: 3 (+2 for Team Full of Hot Air)

Team total points: 140

Completion Post:

Theme week: Orcs
Book:
Author: Paul Krueger
Pages: 288
Date Read: 07/16
Rating: 3
Justification: Mc fights hairless, aggressive and ugly mythical creatures
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 141

Completion Post
Theme Week: Orcs
Book: The Orc from the Office
Author: Kate Prior
Pages: 143
Date Read: 7/18/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Kent is an Orc
Book Points: 1+2 (Team Full of Hot Air) = 3

Team Total Points: 144

Completion Post
Theme Week: Orcs
Book: Carrie Soto Is Back
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 384
Date Read: 7/19/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Title has all the letters to spell out the word ORCS
Book Points: 3+2 (Team Waterloggers) = 5

Team Total Points: 149

Theme week: Orcs
Book: What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Author: Claire Jiménez
Pages: 240
Date Read: 7/19
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Cover has all letters to ORC
Book Points: 1 (+2 bonus for Team Full of Hot Air)

Theme week: Orcs
Book: The Newcomer
Author: Mary Kay Andrews
Pages: 448
Date Read: 7/18
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: all letters to Orc in title
Book Points: 3 (+2 bonus for team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 157

Completion Post:

Theme week: Orcs
Book:
Author: William F. Love
Pages: 254
Date Read: 07/20
Rating: 2
Justification: O-R-C-S on cover: title and author name
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 158

Theme week: Orcs
Book: Cassandra in Reverse
Author: Holly Smale
Pages: 368
Date Read: 07/20
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: all letters in ORC on cover (title and author name)
Book Points: 3 (+2 for team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 163

Theme week: Orcs
Book: The Broken Places
Author: Blaine Daigle
Pages: 240
Date Read: 7/21
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: O R C in the title
Book Points: 1 (+2 for team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 166

Theme week: Orcs
Book: Chase
Author: Chantal Fernando
Pages: 314
Date Read: 7/20
Rating: 2 stars
Justification: O R C in author's first/last name
Book Points: 3 (+2 for team Waterloggers)

Team Total points: 171

Theme week: Orcs
Book: A Long Stretch of Bad Days
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Pages: 368
Date Read: 7/21
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: O R C in title
Book Points: 3 (+2 for team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 176

Completion Post
Theme Week: Fantasy
Book: The Night House
Author: Jo Nesbø
Pages: 256
Date Read: 7/22/23
Rating: 3 stars
Justification: Richard fantasizes that he and Karen will become a couple
Book Points: 1+2 (Team Waterloggers) = 3

Team Total Points: 179

Theme week: Fantasy
Book: All the Dangerous Things
Author: Stacy Willingham
Pages: 328
Date Read: 7/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 5 "and drown themselves in fantasy"
Book Points: 3 (+2 points for team Full of Hot Air)

Team Total points: 184

Theme: Fantasy
Book: Ghosted
Author: Rosie Mullender
Pages: 390
Date read: 23.7.23
Rating: 3*
Justification: But because of the things she’d wrongly believed to be true, she’d ruined her relationship with Zoe, the best friend who had stuck with her through thick and thin, and hurt a man she loved to chase a fantasy
Book points: 3 points
Team total points: 187