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📚 - Read-a-thon
MOST POINTS
📚 🍅🌽 Mickslibrarian - 13 +1= 14
Bethany - 1
📚 📝 Diana S - 1+5 = 6
📚 📝Amber - 5+1 = 6
Marilyn - 2
📚 🌞🌡️🌞 Linda C - 14 +2 = 16
MOST PAGES
🍅🌽 Mickslibrarian - 3121
Bethany - 230
Diana S - 341
📝Amber - 1957
🌞🌡️🌞 Linda C - 4335
Marilyn - 709
1.5 READ THE ALPHABET: LETTER H - Read a book that starts with the LETTER H (exclude A, An, or The) -OR- Author's FIRST/LAST name starts with the LETTER H Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus! by Atinuke 8/2/2024 112 p.
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 112
Total Points: 1
Total Pages: 112
1.9 (Marilyn"s Task) Reading Jar #1--Summer doldrums - Read a book in which a main character gets sick and has to seek treatment.You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger 8/4/2024 112 p.
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 112
Total Points: 2
Total Pages: 224
1.3 (8/30) FRANKENSTEIN DAY - In honor of Author Mary Shelley born August 30, 1797, read a book with the MPG: HORROR/GOTHIC Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco 8/7/2024 327 p.
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 327
Total Points: 3
Total Pages: 551
5.1 MODY DICK: A FAVORITE SUMMER READLEG - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells ("The MedUnit was finished so I rolled my pants leg down and said, 'I have to meet Dr. Mensah now.'" pg. 155) 8/3/2024 168 p.
AFRICA - Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke ("Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa." pg. 29) 8/1/2024 112 p.
CAPTAIN - System Collapse by Martha Wells ("He was on the Preservation responder, sitting with the captain on the bridge." pg. 241) 8/6/2024 245 p.
VESSEL - Network Effect by Martha Wells ("Dr. Arada, we're being approached by a potentially hostile vessel." pg. 41) 8/5/2024 350 p.
ADVENTURE - In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation by Alexandra Vasti ("...to Margo it was one more adventure in a lifetime of them." pg. 34) 8/13/2024 120 p.
Task Points: 5
Task Pages: 995
Total Points: 8
Total Pages: 1546
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Him - S. A. Cosby
All the Sinners Bleed (8/8/24) 341 pp ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Points Earned: 1
Pages Read: 341
1.2 CELEBRATE THE AUTHOR: HIM VS HERThis month it's S.A. Cosby vs Lisa Jewell
Read a book by one of these Authors
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell 08.14.24
Task points 1
Task pages 416
1.4 (8/4) SISTERS DAYRead a book with sisters that are the Main Characters.
Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke 08.16.24
Task points 1
Task pages 418
Total points 2
Total pages 834
1.5 READ THE ALPHABET: LETTER HRead a book that author's FIRST/LAST name starts with the LETTER H
Funny Story by Emily Henry 08.14.24
Task points 1
Task Pages 395
Total points 3
Total pages 1229
3.2 (Bethany's Task) Treble Harmony Brigade: 1. I Love Jazz Medley - Read a book set in the south.
Murder in the Book Lover’s Loft by Ellery Adams (set in North Carolina and Virginia) 8/14/2024 304 p.
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2. Mr. Blue Sky - Read a book with a blue cover.
In Which Matilda Halifax Learns the Value of Restraint by Alexandra Vasti 8/17/2024 196 p.AND
3. It's You - Read a book that features a love story.
Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco 8/12/2024 448 p.
Task Points: 3
Task Pages: 948
Total Points: 11
Total Pages: 2494
1.1 NATIONAL BOOK LOVER'S DAY - CELEBRATE by reading a book that you been wanting to read for awhile. Trouble Is Brewing by Vicki Delany 8/16/2024 288 p.
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 288
Total Points: 12
Total Pages: 2782
5.1 MOBY DICK: A FAVORITE SUMMER READVESSEL - Releasing Maladek (Clecanian, #5.5) – Victoria Aveline (3 stars) 8/18/24 [228] - p. 28 – “These weren’t sections of the Endrolfen vessel.”
TATTOO(S) - An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) – Sabaa Tahir (5 stars) 8/6/24 [456] – p.414 “Her hand strays to the tattoo on her neck.”
WHITE - The Life She Was Given – Ellen Marie Wiseman (4 stars) 8/12/24 [356] – p.21 “She turned over a white mug in front of him.”
LEG - Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers – Jess Q. Sutanto (4 stars) 8/15/24 [339] – p.96 “To Julia’s surprise, Emma unwraps herself from around Julia’s leg.”
CHRISTMAS - Sanctuary (Roman’s Chronicles, #1) – Ilona Andrews (4 stars) 8/17/24 [152] – p.26 “The leader nodded at the half-finished Christmas tree.”
Task Points: 5
Task Pages: 1532
Total Points: 5
Total Pages: 1532
3.2 (Bethany's Task) Treble Harmony Brigade:1. I Love Jazz Medley
Read a book of short stories (medley).
The Shell Collector – Anthony Doerr (5 stars) 8/9/24 [240] – short stories
2. Mr. Blue Sky
Read a book with a blue cover.
Wulf (Mail-Order Brides of Crakair, #5) – Ava Ross (3 stars) 8/20/24 [246]3. It's You
Read a book that features a love story.
Assigned a Mate (Interstellar Brides Program, #1) – Grace Goodwin (2 stars) 8/19/24 [157] – MPG Romance
Task Points: 3
Task Pages: 643
Total Points: 8
Total Pages: 2175
1.9 (Marilyn’s Task) Reading Jar #1--Summer doldrumsRead a book in which a main character gets sick and has to seek treatment.
A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes, #2) – Sabaa Tahir (5 stars) 8/22/24 [452] – Elias is poisoned and needs a special medicine to control his seizures
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 452
Total Points: 9
Total Pages: 2627
2.1 THE LOTTERYRead 2 Books
#3 Milkman by Anna Burns--8/24/24--352 pages
#4 The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo--8/15/24--357 pages
Points this task: 2
Pages this task: 709
1.6 STEP BACK IN TIME: AUGUST 16, 1896 - Read a book with something GOLD on the cover. (show cover) 
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn 8/25/2024 339 p. (letters and stems in gold)Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 339
Total Points: 13
Total Pages: 3121
1.1 NATIONAL BOOK LOVER'S DAYCELEBRATE by reading a book that you been wanting to read for a while.
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1) – Katherine Applegate (5 stars) 8/25/24 [319]
Task Points: 1
Task Pages: 319
Total Points: 10
Total Pages: 2946
1.1 NATIONAL BOOK LOVER'S DAYCELEBRATE by reading a book that you been wanting to read for awhile.
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus 08.23.24
Task points 1
Task pages 329
Total points 4
Total pages 1558
1.3 (8/30) FRANKENSTEIN DAYIn honor of Author Mary Shelley born August 30, 1797. Read a book with the MPG: GOTHIC
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig 08.27.24
Task points 1
Task pages 399
Total points 5
Total pages 1957
2.1 THE LOTTERY Read 2 Books
#3 – The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton (4 stars) 8/29/24 [458]
#4 – Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk, #1) – Gail Tsukiyama (4 stars) 8/10/24 [278]
Task Points: 2
Task Pages: 736
Total Points: 12
Total Pages: 3682
2.4 (Linda C’s task) Tomatoes, Corn, Peaches1. Read a book with the author’s first name and last name initials are in the word TOMATOES
A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes, #3) – Sabaa Tahir (4 stars) 8/30/24 [458] – author initials ST in TOMATOES
2. Read a book with a Red or Yellow cover (more than 60% - show cover)
Ninja At First Sight (Knitting in the City, #4.75) – Penny Reid (5 stars) 8/31/24 [195]Task Points: 2
Task Pages: 653
Total Points: 14
Total Pages: 4335
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Ninja At First Sight (other topics)A Reaper at the Gates (other topics)
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