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
Sept 1-7 Treasure
Sept 8-14 Mythology/Fantasy
Sept 15-21 Fire
Sept 22-30 Beast

*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
Theme Wars: Dragons




Buddy Read Bonus (New rules)

✨Tier one: Buddy read with one friend
Minimum 300 pages
1 point = doesn't fit the theme
2 points - does fit the theme

✨Tier Two: Buddy read with 2 or more friends
Minimum 300 pages
3 points = doesn't fit the theme
5 points = does fit the theme

✨Tier Three: Read the Formal Buddy Read led by a HOB Mod.
6 points = doesn't fit the theme
10 points = fits the theme


Read the Formal Buddy Read here
OR
Request an Informal one here




This month if you use a book here AND in the Spider Web Reading Challenge you will get bonus points. Don't forget to link to your Spider Web thread when you check-in your completed book!
✨ 2 bonus points if a book is used in both challenges

Spider Web Reading Challenge

Theme week: Treasure
Book: Obsidian
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 333
Date Read: 9/1/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Daemon treasures his sister Dee.
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team Total points: 5

Theme week: Treasure
Book: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Pages: 531
Date Read: 9/2/23 to 9/5/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: A secret treasure- sea of flames- needs to be kept hidden
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 10

Theme week: Treasure
Book: The Alienist
Author: Caleb Carr
Pages: 498
Date Read: 9/5/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: "Well, it appears that opportunity has placed a treasure trove into our hands." pg. 197
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team Total points: 15

Theme week: Treasure

Book: Foul Line
Author:E.M. Moore
Pages:400
Date Read:01/09
Rating: 3.5/5
Justification: Tessa, the ballers and Tessa's dad all treasure basketball over most else

Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 20

Theme week: Treasure
Book: Journey of the Pharaohs
Author: Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Pages: 415
Date Read: Sept. 6, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Everyone is searching for lost Egyptian treasure
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 23

Theme week: Treasure
Book: River Marked
Author: Patricia Briggs
Pages: 290
Date Read: 9/7/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: "Pup," he said into the sudden silence, “today, I'm giving you one of my treasures. pg. 31
Book Points: 1 + 2
Team Total points: 26

Theme week: Treasure
Book: The Devil You Know
Author: Freida McFadden
Pages: 364
Date read: 7.9.23
Rating: 4*
Justification: I still have that Cracker Jack ring. It’s in the jewelry box on my nightstand. I actually treasure it more than the expensive diamond ring that Ben bought me a few days later.
Book points: 3 points
Team total points: 29

Theme week: Treasure

Book: Devil's Due
Author: Percival Constantine
Pages: 270
Date Read: 05/09
Rating: 3/5
Justification: Dakota treasures her pregnancy & faith

Book Points: 3

Book: Murder by Mocha
Author: Cleo Coyle
Pages: 384
Date Read: 06/09
Rating: 3.5/5
Justification: Claire treasures her daughter, the coffee shop,

Book Points: 5

Theme week: Fantasy/mythology

Book: The Grand Hotel
Author:Scott Kenemore
Pages: 378
Date Read: 08/09
Rating: 4/5
Justification: MPG fantasy

Book Points: 5

Book: The Farrier's Daughter
Author: Leigh Ann Edwards
Pages: 195
Date Read: 09/09
Rating: 2/5
Justification: Mpg fantasy

Book Points: 3

Book: Tell Me Lies
Author:J.P. Pomare
Pages: 257
Date Read: 09/09
Rating: 3.5/5
Justification: "Cormac represents his fantasy of coming from poverty..." T 29

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 48

Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book: Norse Mythology
Author: Neil Gaiman
Pages: 301
Date Read: 9/7/23 to 9/8/23
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: "Mythology" in the title and it's story is all about Mythology.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 51

Theme week: Fantasy
Book: Wrong Victim
Author: Helen H. Durrant
Pages: 222
Date read: 12.9.23
Rating: 3*
Justification: “You’ve been had, Mark. Leonora Blake didn’t help you, because she knows nothing. Whatever she told you was pure fantasy.
Points: 1
Team points: 52

Theme week: Fantasy/mythology

Book: The Traitor's Game
Author: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Pages: 384
Date Read: 12/09
Rating: 4/5
Justification: MPG fantasy

Book Points: 5

Book: A Master of Djinn
Author: P. Djèlí Clark
Pages: 438
Date Read: 11/09
Rating: 4.5/5
Justification: MPG fantasy

Book Points: 5

Book: The Farrier's Daughter
Author: Leigh Ann Edwards
Pages: 195
Date Read: 09/09
Rating: 1.5/5
Justification: MPG fantasy

Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 65

Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book: Cyclops
Author: Clive Cussler
Pages: 640
Date Read: Sept. 14, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Title 'Cyclops' is a mythological creature; pg. 67 "I'm always interested in a good fantasy."
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 70

Theme week: Fire
Book: Point Last Seen
Author: Christina Dodd
Pages: 512
Date Read: Sept. 18, 2023
Rating: 4
Justification: p.140: "I work with metal. I fire it, I pound it, I __" and other mentions of fire.
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 75

Theme week: Fire
Book: The Ghost Goes to the Dogs
Author: Cleo Coyle
Pages: 336
Date Read: Sept. 19, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Chapter 28: "...people were killed, and the fire was hellish."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 78

Theme week: Fantasy/mythology

Book: Hunted
Author: Mila Young
Pages: 252
Date Read: 13/09
Rating: 3.2/5
Justification: MPG fantasy

Book Points: 3

Theme week: Fire

Book: The Marriage Pact
Author: Michelle Richmond
Pages: 423
Date Read: 20/09
Rating: 2.75/5
Justification: "..fire burning in the fireplace.." 42%

Book Points: 5

Book: The Wolf and the Witch
Author: Claire Delacroix
Pages: 408
Date Read: 15/09
Rating: 3/5
Justification:

Book Points: 5

Book: The Hunting Party
Author: Lucy Foley
Pages: 401
Date Read: 18/09
Rating:4 /5
Justification: "..his glance flitting to the roaring log fire.." 13%

Book Points: 5

Total team points:96

Theme week: Fire
Book: The Stepsisters
Author: Susan Mallery
Pages: 432
Date Read: Sept. 20, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: p. 310: "Which all sounds great until you crash and die in a fiery explosion."
Book Points: 3

Team Total points: 99

Theme week: Fire
Book: Winter's Gifts
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Pages: 214
Date Read: Sept. 21, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: Chapter 11: FBI instructor teaches his class about when, where, and how to fire their weapons.
Book Points: 1

Team Total points: 100

Theme week: Fire
Book: Anchor
Author: Kandi Steiner
Pages: 465
Date read: 20.9.23
Rating: 4*
Justification: Slowly, I climb off the table, fixing my hair as I come face to face with deep, chocolate brown eyes — eyes that are absolutely on fire.
Points: 3 points
Team points: 103

Theme week: Mythology/Fantasy
Book: The Sea of Monsters
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 279
Date Read: 9/9/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Based on Greek mythology
Book Points: 1 + 2
Team points: 3

Book: The Trouble With Vampires
Author: Lynsay Sands
Pages: 370
Date Read: 9/10/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Fantasy MPG
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team points: 8

Book: How To Lose a Demon in 10 Days
Author: Saranna DeWylde
Pages: 320
Date Read: 9/12/23
Rating: 🐉🐉
Justification: Fantasy MPG
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team points: 12

Total Team Points: 115

Theme week: Fire
Book: Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Pages: 286
Date Read: 9/15/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Lots of candles are lit
Book Points: 1
Team points: 1

Book: The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pages: 180
Date Read: 9/17/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Gatsby and Daisy are old flames.
Book Points: 1 + 2
Team points: 4

Book: Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
Pages: 301
Date Read: 9/20/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Loki was the god of fire.
Book Points: 3
Team points: 7

Book: Dragon Shift - Clarissa Gosling
Pages: 295
Date Read: 9/20/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Birgith is a dragon shifter. Dragons breathe fire.
Book Points: 1 + 2
Team points: 10

Total Team Points: 125

Theme week: Beast
Book: 14 Ways to Die - Vincent Ralph
Pages: 400
Date Read: 9/22/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: The Magpie Man would be described as beastly.
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team points: 5

Book: The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion
Pages: 292
Date Read: 9/24/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Beast can mean large. Don takes on a large genetics project to find Rosie's real father
Book Points: 1 + 2
Team points: 8

Book: The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
Pages: 336
Date Read: 9/25/23
Rating: 🐉🐉🐉🐉
Justification: Loki was the god of fire.
Book Points: 3 + 2
Team points: 13

Total Team Points: 138

Theme week: Fire
Book: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Author: J.K. Rowling
Pages: 734
Date Read: 9/16/23
Rating: 5
Justification: fire gave out Harry's name
Book Points: 7
Team Total points: 145

Theme week: Beast
Book: Eragon
Author: Christopher Paolini
Pages: 503
Date Read: 9/28/23
Rating: 5
Justification: Saphira is a dragon
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 150

Theme week: Beast
Book: Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Author: Herman Melville
Pages: 549
Date Read: Sept. 30, 2023
Rating: 3
Justification: There are references to 'beasts' throughout the entire book
Book Points: 5

Team Total points: 155