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Theme week:Air Book & Author: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Suzy K. Quinn
Pages: 357
Justification: As peals of hyena-like laughter rang through the air, I repeatedly pressed the buzzer.
Points: 3 points
Total points: 3 points
I'll just put these here for now:Theme Week: Air
Book: Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
Date: 1/6 3.5�
Pages: 288
Justification: MC is an AIRhead
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 4
Theme Week: Air
Book: Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson
Date: 1/6 3�
Pages: 303
Justification: MC has SPACEY traits
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 7
Theme Week: Air
Book: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Date: 2/6 3�
Pages: 353
Justification: "he's worried about the air quality" p.127
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 10
Theme Week: Air
Book: Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 3/6 3�
Pages: 465
Justification: MC represents the SCALES of justice
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 13
Theme week: AirBook: The Family Remains
Author: Lisa Jewell
Pages: 452
Date Read: 6/3
Rating: 4*
Justification: SCALES of justice at work finding 2 killers/unraveling mystery
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 16
Theme Week: AirBook: Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts
Date: 4/6 3�
Pages: 480
Justification: "into the high open air" p.33
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 19
Theme week: AirBook: Under Pressure
Author: Allie Winters
Pages: 294
Date Read: 6-2-23
Rating: 3
Justification: Ch. 1 "the chill in the January air"
Book Points: 1
Theme week: Air
Book: Made for Romeo
Author: Natasha Madison
Pages: 254
Date Read: 6-3-23
Rating: 5
Justification: Ch. 2 "my hands up in the air"
Book Points: 1
Theme week: Air
Book: Up in Smoke
Author: Kate Meader
Pages: 326
Date Read: 6-3-23
Rating: 4
Justification: All the MC's are firefighters and air fuels fires.
Book Points: 3
Theme week: Air
Book: In the Woods
Author: Tana French
Pages: 612
Date Read: 6-4-23
Rating: 4
Justification: Ch. 2 "dropped from thin air"
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 29
Theme Week: AirBook: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Date: 4/6 3.5�
Pages: 475
Justification: "Harry's brass scales" p.96
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 32
Theme Week: AirBook: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Date: 5/6 3�
Pages: 869
Justification: "from an airborne broomstick" p.28
Book Points: 7
Team Total: 39
Theme Week: Air
Book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Date: 6/6 2�
Pages: 965
Justification: "he vanished into thin air" p.12
Book Points: 10
Team Total: 49
Theme week: AirBook: Nine Perfect Strangers
Author: Liane Moriarty
Pages: 453
Date Read: 6/6
Rating: 4*
Justification: Includes meditation - breathing air
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 52
Theme Week: AirBook: Buttons and Bones by Monica Ferris
Date: 7/6 3�
Pages: 261
Justification: "clean, sharp-scented air" p.23
Book Points: 1
Team Total:53
Theme Week: AirBook: You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry
Date: 7/6 3�
Pages: 368
Justification: Poppy definitely has SPACEY traits
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 56
Theme Week: Water
Book: Barrenjoey Road by Neil Mercer,Ruby Jones
Date: 8/6 3.5�
Pages: 320
Justification: a number of abductions took place at Avalon Beach
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 59
Theme week: WaterBook: How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Pages: 272
Date Read: 6/8
Rating: 3*
Justification: Includes facts on many sea creatures including fish (pisces)
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 60
Theme Week: WaterBook: The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
Date: 10/6 2�
Pages: 576
Justification: Ali turns out to have an affinity for water magic
Book Points: 5
Team Total: 65
Theme week: WaterBook: A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh
Date: 9.6.23
Pages: 384
Justification: All Ryan has with him are the clothes he was wearing when he left camp; no shelter, no food or water.
Book points: 3 points
Team points: 68
Theme Week: WaterBook: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
Date: 11/6 5�
Pages: 193
Justification: "I love to look out over water" p.112
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 69
Theme Week: WaterBook: Children of Time
Pages: 609
Finished: 6/11/23
Justification: page 135: "the water channelling through it"
Book points: 5 +2 bonus points for Zodiac challenge
Team total: 76
Theme Week: WaterBook: Salonika Burning by Gail Jones
Date: 12/6 3�
Pages: 256
Justification: Salonika is a seaside town & fishing port
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 77
Theme Week: Water
Book: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Date: 12/6 2.5�
Pages: 373
Justification: water on cover
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 80
Theme week: WaterBook: The City of Brass
Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Pages: 532
Date Read: 6/12
Rating: 3*
Justification: The city is surrounded by a magical lake where Ali gets special powers after falling in the water.
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 85
Theme week:WaterBook: : Two Victims by Helen H. Durrant
Pages:232
Date read: 13.96.23
Rating: 3*
Justification: Ere will do.� Terry stopped and they parked the trolley against the wall. “Hot water’ll be along in a bit. Anyone wants tea, tell ’em to hang on.�
Book points: 1
Team total points : 86
Theme Week: WaterBook: Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic
Date: 13/6 4.5�
Pages: 310
Justification: MC cruises the harbour on a yacht
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 89
Theme Week: WaterBook: The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Date: 14/6 3.5�
Pages: 314
Justification: MC is EMPATHETIC with her clients
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 92
Theme Week: FireBook: Even Money by Dick Francis, Felix Francis
Date: 15/6 3�
Pages: 400
Justification: MC is independent
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 95
Theme Week: Fire
Book: Money from Holme by Michael Innes
Date: 15/6 2.5�
Pages: 176
Justification: MC is artistic
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 96
Theme week: FireBook: Symbiont
Author: Mira Grant
Pages: 608
Date Read: 6/15
Rating: 4*
Justification: Trait: brave; MC has to be brave to get out of many difficult situations (including capture)
Book Points: 5
Team Total points: 101
Theme Week: FireBook: The Rake's Retreat by Nancy Butler
Date: 16/6 3�
Pages: 224
Justification: MC is all this - Brave/ Artistic/ Confident/ Passionate/ Independent
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 102
Theme Week: Fire
Book: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
Date: 16/6 3.5 �
Pages: 224
Justification: author is all this - Brave/ Artistic/ Confident/ Passionate/ Independent
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 103
Theme Week: FireBook: Retribution by Sarah Barrie
Date: 17/6 4�
Pages: 384
Justification: MC is brave & independent
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 106
Theme week: FireBook: Little Red House
Author: Liv Andersson
Pages: 320
Date Read: 6/17
Rating: 4*
Justification: House fire (with someone dying inside) is a major plot point.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 109
Theme Week: FireBook: Jemima J by Jane Green
Date: 18/6 3�
Pages: 450
Justification: "the flickering light of the log fire" p.255
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 112
Theme Week: Fire
Book: Watchers in the Night by Jenna Black
Date: 18/6 3�
Pages: 296
Justification: "a crackling wood fire burned merrily" p.17
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 113
Theme Week: FireBook: Judi Dench: With A Crack in Her Voice by John Miller
Date: 19/6 4�
Pages: 368
Justification: Judi is sagittarius (b.9/12)
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 116
Theme: Fire Book: Pucked Up by Helena Hunting
Date: 20/6/23
Pages: 353
Justification: Page 85 “Sure Fire away�
Book points: 3 points
Team total: 119
Theme Week: FireBook: Holiday in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 20/6 3.5�
Pages: 330
Justification: MC is brave, passionate & independent
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 122
Theme week: FireBook: Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison
Pages: 324
Date Read: 6/20
Rating: 4*
Justification: MCs chore is to start and tend the fire, used for heat and to cook.
Book Points: 3
Team Total points: 125
Theme week: FireBook: 10:04
Author: Ben Lerner
Pages: 256
Date Read: 6/21
Rating: 4*
Justification: Artistic - MC is a writer on a retreat; another MC runs a show of damaged art.
Book Points: 1
Team Total points: 126
Theme week: FireBook: Give Up the Ghost
Author:Jenn Burke
Pages: 280
Date Read: 6/21/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: Hudson's house goes on fire and is destroyed.
Book Points: 1 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
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Team Total points: 129
Theme Week: EarthBook: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Date: 22/6 3�
Pages: 607
Justification: "he's a hard-working, down-to-earth sort of person" p.78
Book Points: 5
Team Total: 135
Theme Week: EarthBook: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Date: 24/6 3�
Pages: 831
Justification: "deeper into the hard, cold earth" p.478
Book Points: 7
Team Total: 142
Theme Week: EarthBook: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall,Per Wahlöö
Date: 25/6 4�
Pages: 224
Justification: MCs are Detail-oriented/ Down-to-Earth/ Grounded/ Practical
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 143
Theme Week: Earth
Book: Six Feet Under by Dorothy Simpson
Date: 26/6 3�
Pages: 192
Justification: title - Six Feet Under the earth
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 144
Theme Week: EarthBook: A Stone’s Throw Away by Karly Lane
Date: 27/6 3.5�
Pages: 368
Justification: title - a stone is part of the earth
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 147
Theme week: EarthBook: A Glasgow Kiss by Sophie Gravia
Date: 23.6.23
Rating: 4*
Pages: 303
Justification: ‘What’s up?� I asked, disheartened, slowly bringing my glass back down to earth
Book points: 3 points
Team points: 150
Theme week: EarthBook: After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley
Author: Rob Reid
Pages: 576
Date Read: 6/26
Rating: 3*
Justification: The AI considers the earth her body.
Book Points: 5 pts
Team Total points 155
Theme week: EarthBook: Stalking Jack: The Hunt Begins...
Date Read: 6/24/23
Rating: 4 stars
Justification: page 57 "I may be of some use on this earth"
Pages: 352
Book Points: 3 + 2 =5 for use in Zodiac
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Team Total Points: 160
Theme Week: EarthBook: An Alluring Deceit by Melissa Lynn Jones
Date: 29/6 2�
Pages: 316
Justification: cultivated & down-to-earth MCs
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 163
Theme Week: Earth
Book: The Skeptical Heart by Teresa DesJardien
Date: 29/6 2�
Pages: 256
Justification: HEART is an anagram of EARTH
Book Points: 1
Team Total: 164
Theme Week: EarthBook: Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
Date: 30/6 5�
Pages: 314
Justification: MC is Detail-oriented/ Down-to-Earth/ Cultivated/ Grounded/ Practical
Book Points: 3
Team Total: 167
Mod
Book: Hidden Spark
Author: Al K. Line
Pages: 307
Date Read: 6/1
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "Look, we all need air to breathe..." pg 10
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: About Time
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 470
Date Read: 6/2
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: Oh so many! Witty characters/book, Jane is a bit spacey
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Reckoning
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 100
Date Read: 6/2
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "There was a faint, residual energy in the air..." Ch 1
Book Points: 1 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Harvest Moon
Author: Robyn Carr
Pages: 400
Date Read: 6/4
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "...she's fourteen, she hates air right now." Ch 2
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: The City of Brass
Author: S.A. Chakraborty
Pages: 569
Date Read: 6/5
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: Magic carpet ride through the air / Nahri is good listener
Book Points: 5 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: More Than Meets the Eye
Author: Iris Johansen / Roy Johansen
Pages: 321
Date Read: 6/6
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: MCs are Intellectual / "...sound of escaping air." pg 94
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
All books used in Zodiac challenge
My Zodiac Challenge
My points for Air - 30
Team Total points: 197
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Book: Shades of Midnight
Author: Lara Adrian
Pages: 402
Date Read: 6/8
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: ..."ice-jammed, crystalline water..." pg 12
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Night Shift Witch
Author: Cate Lawley
Pages: 6/14
Date Read: 190
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "Something about being immersed in water..." pg 178
Book Points: 1 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
All books used in Zodiac challenge
My Zodiac Challenge
My points for Water - 8
Team Total points: 205
Mod
Book: 11/22/63
Author: Stephen King
Pages:1,121
Date Read: 6/21
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: "I set them on fire." pg 830
Book Points: 10 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: The Complaints
Author: Ian Rankin
Pages: 496
Date Read: 6/21
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "...like a house on fire..." pg 9
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
All books used in Zodiac challenge
My Zodiac Challenge
My points for Fire - 17
Team Total points: 222
Mod
Book: Ball & Chain
Author: Abigail Roux
Pages: 308
Date Read: 6/22
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "The weight of the earth pressed down from above." pg 231
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Crash & Burn
Author: Abigail Roux
Pages: 419
Date Read: 6/22
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: "...the thought of the earth crumbling over him..." pg 171
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Magical Midlife Invasion
Author: KF Breene
Pages: 362
Date Read: 6/23
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "...the luckiest man on earth." pg 80
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Witching for Clarity
Author: Deanna Chase
Pages: 246
Date Read: 6/24
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "Gigi felt a connection to the earth and the magical plants she produced." pg 50
Book Points: 1 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Calculated in Death
Author: JD Robb
Pages: 401
Date Read: 6/25
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: MC is detail-oriented and down-to-earth
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: The Good, the Bad and the History
Author: Jodi Taylor
Pages: 512
Date Read: 6/28
Rating: ★★★★�
Justification: "What on earth happened to you?" Ch1 / Max and company travel the earth to witness history.
Book Points: 5 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Arrivals and Arrests
Author: Diana Xarissa
Pages: 258
Date Read: 6/8
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "..why on earth would she want to speak to me?" pg 36 / Set on Earth
Book Points: 1 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
Book: Magical Midlife Love
Author: KF Breene
Pages: 428
Date Read: 6/29
Rating: ★★★☆�
Justification: "His roar shook the earth." pg 292
Book Points: 3 + 2 bonus points for Zodiac Challenge
All books used in Zodiac challenge
My Zodiac Challenge
My points for Earth - 38
Team Total points: 260
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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
June 1-7 Air
June 8-14 Water
June 15-21 Fire
June 22-30 Earth
*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
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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: /topic/group...
This theme fits the Zodiac year-long challenge perfectly. So let's give some bonus points if you participate in both this & the Zodiac challenge. Please link to your post in the Zodiac Challenge.
� 2 bonus points if a book is used in both challenges
2023 Zodiac Year-Long Challenge