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Theme week: Chocolates and ChampagneBook: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Author: Joanne Fluke
Pages: 436
Date Read: February 1
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: Chocolate on cover/ in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 3
Theme week: Chocolates and ChampagneBook: Cocoa Beach
Author: Beatriz Williams
Pages: 376
Date Read: February 2
Rating: ⭐⭐
Justification: word Cocoa in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 6
Theme Week - Chocolates and ChampagneBook: The Maid
Author: Nita Prose
Pages: 304
Date Read: 2/2/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification - Bottle of champagne used for celebration on page 251 and on page 267 box of chocolates are left as little gifts
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 9
Theme Week- Chocolates and ChampagneBook: This Close to Okay
Author: Leesa Cross-Smith
Pages: 311
Date Read 2/2/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: chocolate, "...knew to bring her flowers, or chocolate or wine.". And this sentence for champagne, "Emmett smiled politely, drank his champagne".
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 12
Theme week: Chocolates and ChampagneBook: A Week from Sunday
Author: Dorothy Garlock
Pages: 384
Date Read: February 3
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification: "Champagne was chilling in tubs of ice." audiobook time 1:34:50
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 15
Theme week: Chocolates and ChampagneBook: The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Author: Dorothy Gilman
Pages: 204
Date Read: 2/04
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification:
Chapter 5 "...a pocket knife for her grandson's birthday, two chocolate bars, a package of...." audiobook 1:16:20
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 16
Theme week: Chocolates and ChampagneBook: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Author: Joanne Fluke
Pages: 436
Date Read: Feb 1-7
Rating: 4.5
Justification: Chocolate in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 19
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Book: I Choose You
Author: Gayle Curtis
Pages: 262
Date Read: 2/2
Rating: 2
Justification: "A foil-wrapped chocolate from a Chinese restaurant...." Pg 170
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 20
Theme Week ~ Chocolates & ChampagneBook: In a Holidaze
Author: Christina Lauren
Pages: 307
Date Read: 2/4
Rating: 2
Justification: "I ate four chocolate chip pancakes once and threw up...." Pg 106
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 23
Theme Week ~ Chocolates & ChampagneBook: Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Author: Elle Cosimano
Pages: 355
Date Read: 2/6
Rating: 5
Justification: "Pizza goes better with fancy champagne anyway...." Pg 341
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 26
Theme week: Chocolate and Champagne Champagne Girl
Book: Champagne Girl
Author: Diana Palmer
Pages: 384
Date Read: 2/7/22
Rating: 3
Justification: ‘Champagne� in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 29
Theme week: Chocolate and Champagne Champagne Kisses
Book: Champagne Kisses
Author: Amanda Brunker
Pages: 322
Date Read: 2/7/22
Rating: 3
Justification: ‘Champagne� in Title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 32
Theme Week: Chocolates & ChampagneBook: We Never Asked for Wings
Author: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Pages: 320
Date Read: 2/5/22
Rating: ☆☆�
Justification: (word "Chocolates" in text) "While it was popping she grabbed a box of chocolates from somewhere within their bedroom." pg. 62
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 35
Theme Week: Chocolates & ChampagneBook: Fast Ice
Author: Clive Cussler
Pages: 416
Date Read: 2/6/22
Rating: ☆☆☆☆
Justification: (word "Champagne" in text) "Reaching the bar, Kurt placed his champagne glass down and requested a tumbler of whiskey". pg. 124
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 38
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Book: Born in Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Pages: 364
Date Read: 2/4
Rating: 3.5
Justification: Champagne and chocolate served at baby shower
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 41
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Book: Witch Summer Night's Cream
Author: H.Y. Hanna
Pages: 465
Date Read: 2/5
Rating: 3
Justification: Bewitched by Chocolate series / chocolate truffles and cocoa on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 44
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Book: Hidden
Author: M.M. Crumley
Pages: 233
Date Read: 2/6
Rating: 3
Justification: "Chocolate? Strawberries? Wine?...." pg 41
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 45
Theme Week- Hearts & KissesBook: A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Pages: 151
Date read: 2/8
Rating: 5 stars
Justification: page 40 "Bless his heart..." and for kiss on page 30 "I wouldn't kiss that woman goodbye.."
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 46
Theme Week- Hearts & KissesBook: Beautiful Country
Author: Qian Julie Wang
Pages: 320
Date read: 2/8
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 107 "My heart glowed as MaMa and I walked hand in hand." and page 21 "...I saw them exchange a kiss."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 49
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Disguise
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 100
Date Read: February 10
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "Heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 50
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Obsession
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 100
Date Read: February 10
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "Heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 51
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Danger
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 100
Date Read: February 10
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "Heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 52
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Betrayal
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 100
Date Read: February 12
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "Heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 53
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: Sweet Bitterness
Author: Tricia McGill
Pages: 163
Date Read: 2/12
Rating: 3.5
Justification: "His heart began to beat faster when she..." Location 48
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 54
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: The Witch and the Dreamwalker
Author: Victoria Rogers
Pages: 121
Date Read: 2/12
Rating: 3.5
Justification: "she smiled and leaned over to kiss him..." Location 898
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 55
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: The Maid
Author: Nita Prose
Pages: 304
Date Read: 2/12
Rating: 4
Justification: "the very thought catapults my heart into..." Page 124
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 58
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: Why We Swim
Author: Bonnie Tsui
Pages: 288
Date Read: 2/14/2022
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Pg 85 "...your heart rate drops like crazy."
Book Points: 1 point
Team Total Points: 59
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: In the Shadow of the Banyan
Author: Vaddey Ratner
Pages: 322
Date Read: 2/14/2022
Justification: Pg 120 "To want something so bad your heart hurts." and Pg 83 "...and planting kisses on her own chubby palm."
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 62
Theme Week: Hearts & KissesBook: Class Act
Author: Stuart Woods
Pages: 336
Date Read: 2/11/22
Rating: ☆☆
Justification: (word "Kiss" in text) "There was a perfunctory good-night kiss, and she was gone". p. 176
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 65
Theme Week: Hearts & KissesBook: The Four Winds
Author: Kristin Hannah
Pages: 464
Date Read: 2/12/22
Rating: 3.5 ⭐⭐�
Justification: (word "Kisses" in text) " Elsa couldn't see any teenages, but they were here somewhere, probably sneaking stolen kisses in shadowy corners." p. 28
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 68
Theme Week: Hearts & KissesBook: The Constant Heart
Author: Dilly Court
Pages: 547
Date Read: 2/14/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification: word "Heart" in title
Book Points: 5
Team Total Points: 73
Theme Week: Hearts & KissesBook: Kill Creek
Author: Scott Thomas
Pages: 416
Date Read: 2/14/2022
Rating: 4.5 stars
Justification: love in title - pg 100 "Baby thinks she's in love" kissing in text pg 191 - She was kissing him now
Book points: 3
Team Total Points: 76
Theme week: Hearts and Kisses Book: Kisses and Croissants
Author: Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
Pages: 320
Date Read: 2-14
Rating: 4.5
Justification: Kisses in title
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 79
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Book: Final Magic
Author: Adam J. Wright
Pages: 207
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 3
Justification: "My heart began to race." pg 142 / "We kissed with an urgency..." pg 187
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 80
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Book: Biting Bad
Author: Chloe Neill
Pages: 368
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 3
Justification: "...a heart-shaped box of mediocre chocolates." pg 10 / "I pressed a kiss to his lips." pg 10
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 83
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Book: Into the Heartless Wood
Author: Joanna Ruth Meyer
Pages: 448
Date Read: 2/14
Rating: 3
Justification: Heart on cover / "She gives Father four slimy kisses...." pg 14
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 86
Theme week: Hearts & KissesHold Me Closer, Toni Danzig
Book: Hold Me Closer, Toni Danzig
Author: Laura Henry
Pages: Audible 3 hours
Date Read: 2/11/22
Rating: 3
Justification: “kiss her, I think�. Chapter 5 @ 13:44
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 87
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: Special Delivery
Author: Lauren Blakely
Pages: Audible 3 hours 17 Min
Date Read: 1/14/22
Rating: 4
Justification: “it was melting me, my heart, my resolve�. Chapter 3 @ 8:49.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 88
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Promise
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 100
Date Read: 2/13/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 89
Theme week: Hearts & KissesBook: A Heart's Home
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 102
Date Read: 2/13/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: "heart" in title
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 90
Theme week: Hearts and KissesBook: So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix
Author: Bethany C. Morrow
Pages: 304
Date Read: 2/14/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: page 32 " The worst times were when all four of her daughters were heart sore."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 93
Theme week: Hearts and KissesBook: The Hazel Wood
Author: Melissa Albert
Pages: 359
Date Read: 2/14/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: page 31 "I stayed still as she dropped a kiss on my cheek,..."
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 96
Theme week: Hearts and KissesBook: Smitten
Author: Colleen Coble
Pages: 421
Date Read: 2/13/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification: hearts on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 99
Theme week: LoveBook: Accidentally Married
Author: Victorine E. Lieske
Pages: 314(paper back edition) I read the kindle edition
Date Read: 2/15/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: romance genre
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 102
Theme Week: LoveBook: Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Pages: 128
Date Read: 2/17/2022
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Justification: Love found in text: pg 21 - "But what is this exactly?" said Faiz, ever meticulous when love was a mandrel in his deliberations."
Book Points: 1
Total Team Points: 103
Theme week: LoveBook: Night Shift
Author: Nora Roberts
Pages: 336
Date Read: 2/16/22
Rating: ⭐⭐�
Justification: romance genre
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 106
Theme week: LoveBook: Working Stiff
Author: Annelise Ryan
Pages: 336
Date Read: 2/17/22
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Justification: MC fell out of love with cheating husband and is falling in love with a new man.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 109
Theme week: LoveBook: The Kindest Lie
Author: Nancy Johnson
Pages: 336
Date Read: 2/17/22
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: MC loves the son she gave up for adoption and wants to get him back. Also novel explores the love of family for the MC and also the love she has for her husband.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 112
Theme week: LoveBook: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Author: Milan Kundera
Pages: 320
Date Read: 2/18/22
Rating: 1 star
Justification: The entire book is a philosophical rant about the love between the two MCs.
Book Points: 3
Team Total Points: 115
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*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.
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February 1-7 Chocolates & Champagne
February 8-14 Hearts & Kisses
February 15-21 Love
February 22-28 Soulmates
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