Historical Fictionistas discussion

Example of scoring:


Must be HF:

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I- Iggulden, Conn - Genghis: Birth of an Empire
Page Points: 560 pgs- 6 pts
HF Points: 2 pts
Review linked here: 5 pts
Total pts: 13 pts

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G


Any Genre:

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Bonus Round: Can only be completed once the SPRING portion of the challenge is completed:

Read any 2 books by a Goodreads author.


If you have questions about the challenge please ask them in the Q & A Thread

Must be HF:

S - Solomons, Natasha - The House at Tyneford
Page points: 368 pages = 4 points
HF points = 2
Total points: 6

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S Paullina Simons The Bronze Horseman
656 pages 6 points
HF 2 Points
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
5 points
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G Philippa Gregory The Red Queen
382 pages 4pts
HF 2pts
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
5 pts


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g Neil Gaiman American Gods
656 pages 6 pts
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
5 points


challenge total 35 pts

Must be HF:


Sepetys, Ruta Between Shades of Gray
368 pages - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Total - 6 pts

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Must be HF:

Smith, Joan, Behold, A Mystery!
246 pages = 2 pts
HF = 2 pts
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts
TOTAL - 9 pts

Petit, Caroline - The Fat Man's Daughter
276 pages = 2 pts
HF = 2 pts
Review = http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts
Total = 9 pts


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Nemirovsky, Irene - Suite Francaise
431 pages - 4 pts
HF = 2 pts
Total - 6 pts

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SPRING CLEANING MAY CHALLENGE

May 1, 2012 - MAY 30, 2012



Must be HF:

S After the Fog by Kathleen Shoop
426 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5pts.
Total = 10 pts.P

R The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
275 pgs. = 2 pts.
HF = 2 pts.
Review = http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.
Total = 9 pts.

Must be HF:

S - Solomons, Natasha (already claimed)

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R - Richman, Alyson - The Lost Wife
Page points: 352 pages = 4 points
HF points: 2 points
Total points this book: 6 points

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Any Genre:

C - Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games
Page points: 374 pages = 4 points
Total points this book = 4 points

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N

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N

G

Total points this post: 10
Total for challenge: 16

S - Steven Saylor Last Seen in Massilia
288pgs=>2pts
HF=>2pts
Reviewed=>5pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Total=>9pts

G in CLEANING

One Breath Away by Heather Gudenkauf

400 pgs. = 4 pts.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 9 pts.
Challenge total = 28 pts.

I in SPRING

Operation Napoleon by Arnaldur Indridason

327 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 2 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 11 pts.
Challenge total = 39 pts.

P in SPRING

The Reeducation of Cherry Truong: A Novel

354 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 2 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 11 pts.
Challenge total = 50 pts.

L in CLEANING

Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht

296 pages = 2 points

Total challenge points: 18

G in Spring

by Philippa Gregory

Bonus +4 (497pp)
HF +1
Review +5
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Total Points: 10

SPRING

P - Peters, Elizabeth - The Curse of the Pharaohs
HF - 1pt
285 pts - 2 pts

Book total - 3 pts.
Challenge total - 9 pts

P in SPRING



Sharon Kay Penman Cruel as the Grave

272 Pages=>2pts
HF=>2pts
Reviewed=>5pts

Total Book Pts=>9pts

Challenge pts=>18pts

A in CLEANING

The Crocodile's Last Embrace by Suzanne Arruda

400 pages = 4 points
HF = 2 points

Total this book: 6 points
Challenge total: 24 points

Must be HF:

S Shaara, Jeff The Glorious Cause
704 pages = 8pt
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5pt
HF=2pt
Book total = 15pt

P Parkinson, Shayne; The Promises to Keep trilogy (I'm going to count this for 8 pts, but if you want to back it out to 4, that's ok. I explained in my review that this reads like one book - not 3!) = 8 pts
A Sentence of Marriage = 414 pages
Mud and Gold, 576 pages
Settling the Account = 604 pages
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts
HF = 2 pts
Book total = 15

R Rogan, Charlotte, The Lifeboat
278 pages = 2 pts
HF= 2pt
review http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... = 5pt
Book total = 9pt

I- Iles, Greg, Black Cross
Page Points: 556 pgs- 6 pts
HF Points: 2 pts
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 5 pts
Total pts: 13 pts

N

G Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Rena's Promise
240 pages = 2pt
HF = 2pt
total = 4pt

Any Genre:

Cornwell, Bernard, Sharpe's Havoc
342 pages = 4pt
HF = 2 pts
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5pts
total= 11pt

L Landay, William; Defending Jacob
421 pages = 4pts
HF = 2pt
Review http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11... = 5pt
Total = 11pt

E Erskine, Barbara, Whispers in the Sand
496 pages = 4 pts
review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/..., 5pts
HF = 2pt
Book total = 11pts

A Austen, Jane; Sense and Sensibility
409 pages = 4pt
(I thought this was a re-read, until I started and realized that I'd only ever seen the movie, but hadn't indeed read the book - it was quite enjoyable


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Challenge total = 93*

*I edited this post on June 1. We returned to US waters on our boat last night, and wasn't able to get on until this AM. Hope this is ok.

S - Shaffer, Mary Ann
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
294 pages - 2 points
HF - 2 points
Review: 4 stars - 5 points
Total: 9 points

G in SPRING
Gunning, Sally
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
288 pages = 2 points
HF = 2 points

Total this book = 4 points
Challenge total = 28 points

N in SPRING

Nagger, Jean
Sipping from the Nile
352 pages = 4 points
HF = 2 POINTS

Total for this book = 4 pts.
Challenge Total = 4 points

S
The Last Time I Saw Paris by Lynn Sheene
368 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

P
Tamar: A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal by Mal Peet
432 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

R
Witch Child by Celia Rees
304 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

I
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
410 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

Challenge total - 44 pts

S-Seton, Anya Katherine
500 pgs- 4 pts
HF- 2 pts
Total: 6

G in CLEANING
Grahame, Abby
Wentworth Hall
276 pgs - 2 pts
HF- 2 pts
Review- 5 pts
http://bippityboppitybook.blogspot.co...
Total: 9

Challenge Total: 15

A in CLEANING

Lyrics Alley: A Novel by
Leila Aboulela

310 pgs. = 4 pt.
HF = 2 pts.

Total = 6 pts.

Challenge total = 56 pts.

Must be HF:

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Any Genre:

C

L - Landay, William - Defending Jacob
Page Points: 421 pgs- 4 pts
Total pts: 4 pts

E

A

N

I

N

G

Challenge total = 4 pts.

P in SPRING
Paige, Robin
Death at Glamis Castle
352 pages = 4 points
HF = 2 points

Total this book: 6 points
Challenge total: 34 points

Total = 10 pts.

N in SPRING
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark

368 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 10 pts.

Challenge total = 66 pts.

I in spring

Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Birth of an Empire
560 pages 6 points
HF 2 points
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 5 points
task 13 points
Challenge total 48

SPRI previously reported
N
The Sandalwood Tree by Elle Newmark
368 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

G
A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger
320 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

Bonus task
Goodreads Authors

Among the Departed by Vicki Delany
250 pgs - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Task pts - 10 pts
Book total - 17 pts


The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
256 pgs - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Task pts - 10 pts
Book total - 17 pts

Challenge total - 100 pts

N in CLEANING

Nights of Awe by Harri Nykanen

252 pgs. = 2 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.
Total = 7 pts.

G in SPRING Should be all of spring.

Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey

336 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 2 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.
Total = 11 pts.

Challenge total = 84 pts.

E in cleaning

George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss
579 pages 6 points
review
total 6

challange total 54

G in Spring
Days of Splendor, Days of Sorrow by Juliet Grey
336 pgs-4 pts
HF-2 pts
Review- 5 pts http://bippityboppitybook.blogspot.co...
Total: 11

Challenge total: 26

G in CLEANING

George, Jessica Day - Princess of the Midnight Ball
272 pages = 2 points

Total this book: 2 points
Challenge total: 6 points

R in Spring

Edward Rutherfurd The Princes of Ireland
776pgs=>8pts
HF=>2pts
Reviewed=>5pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Book Total=>15pts
Challenge Total=>33pts

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C - Gail Carriger, Soulless
Pages 373 - 4 points
HF - 2 points
Total- 6 points

C in CLEANING

A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell

336 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 2 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 11 pts.
Challenge total = 95 pts.

C in Cleaning
Darcie Chan
The Mill River Recluse
314 pages 4 pints
review
HF2points
6 points
challenge total 60 points

G in CLEANING
Gudenkauf, Heather
These Things Hidden
337 pages = 4 points

Total this book = 4 points
Challenge total = 38 points

C in CLEANING

Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games
374 pages = 4 points

Total this book: 4 points
Challenge total: 10 points

BONUS TASK

The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller (Goodreads author)

374 pgs. = 4 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.
Task pts. = 10 pts.
Total = 19 pts.

Challenge total = 114 pts.

C
Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter
294 pgs - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 7 pts

L
A Spy in the House by Y.S. Lee
335 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

E
The Cuckoo's Child by Marjorie Eccles
256 pgs - 2 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 9 pts

A
The Dressmaker: A Novel by Kate Alcott
306 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

Challenge total - 138 pts

N in CLEANING

Hour of the Wolf by Håkan Nesser

441 pgs. = 4 pts.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 9 pts.
Challenge total = 123 pts.

BONUS READS

The Fever Tree by Jennifer McVeigh

346 pgs = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.
Bonus = 10 pts.

Total = 20 pts.
Challenge total = 143 pts.

L in CLEANING



The Flower Reader by Elizabeth Loupas

408 pgs. = 4 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 10 pts.
Challenge total = 153 pts.

CLEA previously reported

N
Going Going by Naomi Shihab Nye
240 pgs - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 7 pts

I
A Song for Summer by Eva Ibbotson
416 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 2 pts
Review - 5 pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Book total - 11 pts

Challenge total - 156 pts

SP already posted

R - Rivers, Francine As Sure as the Dawn
520 pgs - 6 pts
HF - 1 pt

I - Ironside, Lavender The Sekhmet Bed
343 pgs - 4 pts
HF - 1 pt

G - Gortner, CW The Last Queen
400 pts - 4 pts
HF - 1 pt

Previous total - 9 pts.
Final Total - 26 pts

E in CLEANING

Tracks by Louise Erdrich

226 pgs. = 2 pts.
HF = 1 pt.
Review http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... = 5 pts.

Total = 8 pts.
Challenge total = 164 pts.

So close and yet so far!

I in Spring
Conn Iggulden Genghis: Birth of an Empire

560pgs=>6pts
HF=>2pts
Reviewed=>5pts
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Book Total=>13pts
Challenge Total=>46pts

I in Cleaning
Conn Iggulden
Genghis: Lords of the Bow
400 pages 4 pts
HF 2 pts
total 6

Grand total 66 points

I'm going to shut this thread down now that the challenge is officially over. I apologize for not weekly updating the points. May was just a shitty month. This weekend I'll put up the final tallies.