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  The Challenged Reader's Next Reality Book Star - 4th Check In

  It's time for our next check in!
  
  Count up all those books you've read, or rearranged since that last check in and post them here. Don't forget, this challenge is retroactive so you can count books from earlier in the challenge that you didn't use, AND you may rearrange your books if you need to.
  
  Please post below the books you've completed since our last check in, or, any books you wish to rearrange.
  
  (Sample)
  Title: Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove Cookbook
  Author: Debbie Macomber
  Show Number: G-4
  Why are you using this book for this show: This is a cookbook inspired by the characters in Macomber's popular Cedar Cove series.
  Have you rearranged any books? If so, which ones? N/A
  Did you participate in the bonus? No
  
  Keep reading! There is still time to come out on top and be one of our amazing and talented reading stars!

  Not Rory Gilmore started this discussion 2 months ago. ( reply )

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  Nicole R 

  Did we ever get the results from the last check in? Are there going to be any new categories? I've been checking in but it feels like it's been a couple weeks since new ones have been posted....

  posted 2 months ago. ( reply )

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    Not Rory Gilmore 

    I am posting the results tonight. I decided with some books being moved around I wanted to double and triple check the totals which I am doing now. So sorry about the delay. =(

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  JudithAnn 

  I added new categories last week. However, because I always edit existing posts, it does not show up as "X-many Unread Posts" in the discussions list. I should have written a separate discussion to let people know, but ... I forgot!

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    Nicole R 

    No worries, Judith...thanks for letting me know! I have some random books floating around and I am going to see if they fit in a new category then I'll give my update! Thanks :)

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  clockstein 

  Title: One Imperfect Christmas
  Author: Myra Johnson
  Show: A-6
  Reasoning: The couple in the book has one child, after losing one in a car accident.

  Title: The Sound of Sleigh Bells
  Author: Cindy Woodsmall
  Show: F-3
  Reasoning: The main character runs a store for tourists.

  Title: Leaving Yesterday
  Author: Kathryn Cushman
  Show: D-2
  Reasoning: The main character is on a quest to discover whether her son really commited a murder.

  Title: The Last Word
  Author: Kathy Herman
  Show: D-3
  Reasoning: THe main character is a police sheriff.

  Title: Forgiven
  Author: Shelley Shepard Gray
  Show:F-1
  Reasoning: The main character was the nanny to her brother's children until he gets married and then she's not sure what to do with her life.

  Title: Love is a Battlefield
  Author: Annalisa Daughety
  Show: A-2
  Reasoning: The story takes place at a national park during the summer season.

  Title: Double Cross
  Author: James David Jordan
  Show: D-1
  Reasoning: The main character runs her own security company and has to track down who stole the funds from a client.

  Title: Watch Over Me
  Author: Christa Parrish
  Show: E-4
  Reasoning: The main character struggles with her weight, using laxatives and still putting on pounds.

  Title: The Fence My Father Built
  Author: Linda S. Clare
  Show: I-3
  Reasoning: The main character ends up moving into her father's old trailer which is ramshackle, lots of additions and falling apart.

  Title: Baby Mouse: Queen of the World
  Author: Jennifer Holm
  Show: C-4
  Reasoning: It's a graphic novel

  Title: Wisdom Hunter
  Author: Randall Arthur
  Show: B-3
  Reasoning: The main character ends up traveling from Cyprus to Israel onboard a ship.

  Title: Last Breath
  Author: Brandilyn & Amberly Collins
  Show: A-5
  Reasoning: The main character's mother is a rock star and they are on tour.

  Title: The Broken Teaglass
  Author: Emily Arsenault
  Show: G-3
  Reasoning: The story takes place at a business office.

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  Tenia F 

  Night Whispers
  Judith McNaught
  A-2
  Family gets together at a summer beach house in Florida for a reunion with a lost daughter.

  Practical Magic
  Alice Hoffman
  A-6
  One of the main character's get married, has two children.

  American Massacre The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows Septmber 1857
  Sally Denton
  B-4
  Members of a wagon train was Massacred in Utah

  The Honey Thief
  Elizabeth Graver
  C-2
  Daughter gives mother advice on her new 'boyfriend'

  Rage Factor
  Chris Rogers
  D-1
  Dixie Flannagan is a bounty hunter.

  Killer's Wife
  Bill Floyd
  D-3
  Police help find the missing son of a witness.

  Resistance
  Daniel Kalla
  D-3
  Police and Hospital Workers work together to find out whose killing people.

  Forever Lily
  Beth Nonte Russell
  F-3
  Main character goes on vacation to China with a friend

  Trace Evidence
  Elizabeth Becka
  I-2
  Trace Evidence expert spends alot of time in her lab

  Steve and Me
  Terri Irwin
  K-1
  Terri Irwin chronicles her life with Steve Irwin.

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  Cora R 

  I have two more shows to add to the three I already reported. So it is five total.

  Title: I am the Messenger
  Author: Markus Zusak
  Show: B-2 Outback House
  Why: The book took place in Australia

  Title: Death Masks
  Author: Jim Butcher
  Show: D-2 Boot Camp
  Why: Main character was on a mission to find and return the stolen Shroud of Turin

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  Rachel H 

  Title; The Dilbert Principle
  Author: Scott Adams
  Show: G3
  why: Shelved in the business section at the library.

  Title: Remember me?
  Author: Sophie Kinsella
  show: J2
  why: tagged as chick lit and fits the definition

  Title: Dracula
  author: Bram Stoker
  show: K2
  why: vampires are mythical creatues.

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  Nicole R 

  Check-In 4
  Title: The Reef
  Author: Nora Roberts
  Category: B-3 - Cabin Fever
  Reasoning: The book centers around treasure diving in the Caribbean Ocean

  Title: Bed of Roses
  Author: Nora Roberts
  Category: C-3 - The Bachelorette
  Reasoning: The book focuses on Emma finding love.

  Title: The Lost Symbol
  Author: Dan Brown
  Category: I-2 - My big Fat Obnoxious Boss
  Reasoning: Roberts job as an expert in symbolism (symbology? I'm have flashes of Boondock Saints) and career as an educator is the foundation for this book.

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  Mary B 

  Title: Espresso Tales
  Author: Alexander McCall Smith
  Show Number: A-6
  Why are you using this book for this show: Most of the book features Stu, Irene, and their son Bertie

  Title: House of Mirth
  Author: Edith Wharton
  Show Number: B-1
  Why are you using this book for this show: published 1905

  Title: In a New World, Or, Among the Gold Fields of Australia
  Author: Horatio Alger
  Show Number: B-2
  Why are you using this book for this show: most of the book takes place in Australia

  Title: Treasure Island
  Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
  Show Number: B-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: Voyage and pirates

  Title: North and South
  Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
  Show Number: C-1
  Why are you using this book for this show: male and female character insult each other and eventually end up together

  Title: Dexter by Design
  Author: Jeff Lindsay
  Show Number: D-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: Dexter works as a forensics expert for the police; much of the action takes place in the station
  PREVIOUSLY IN ANOTHER CATEGORY - I-2

  Title: Auschwitz: A New History
  Author: Laurence Rees
  Show Number: E-1
  Why are you using this book for this show: I didn't want to use this book at all, but I'm having issues with this category. The book focuses on the organization and re-organization of people. A lot of personal accounts are from people working in "Canada", organizing valuables.

  Title: A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte vonder Pfalz
  Author: Elborg Forster
  Show Number: E-4
  Why are you using this book for this show: Liselotte discusses her weight frequently. She was predisposed to plumpness and embraced it in her elder years.
  PREVIOUSLY USED IN ANOTHER CATEGORY - A-3

  Title: Love Over Scotland
  Author: Alexander McCall Smith
  Show Number: F-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: Bertie take a field trip to Paris which becomes a holiday

  Title: Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
  Author: Joseph D. Pistone
  Show Number: G-1
  Why are you using this book for this show: title says it all - memoir about working undercover

  Title: The Jungle
  Author: Upton Sinclair
  Show Number: G-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: about the meat-packing business specifically and critical of capitalism and business practices as a whole

  Title: The Year of the Flood
  Author: Margaret Atwood
  Show Number: H-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: dance club is object of fascination and horror for girls when younger - later come to work there. I'm hoping erotic dancing counts...

  Title: Flashforward
  Author: Robert J. Sawyer
  Show Number: I-2
  Why are you using this book for this show: much of the book focuses on scientists working at CERN

  Title: Dead to the World
  Author: Charlaine Harris
  Show Number: I-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: discusses Jason's camping/hunting habits, and what book in this serious would be complete without a mention of a trailer park?

  Title: Dead as a Doornail
  Author: Charlaine Harris
  Show Number: K-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: Sookie hires an architect and does some construction after an incident at the house

  2 changes!
  Bonus previously claimed.

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  Jen M (edited)

  Eep! I'm late, I'm late. So sorry! I was slacking on getting my reviews written up for these books. None of the following are rearranged, so they are all new to my list. Also, I may have stretched G-2 in a direction you weren't intending, so let me know if you'll count it? Thanks!

  
  

  A-4: Chef School
  Reading Task: Read a cookbook or a fiction book that involve the kitchen in a big way.
  Book: Eat This Not That: Supermarket Survival Guide by David Zinczenko
  Reason: This whole book is about how to grocery shop wisely to better manage weight and health issues, including recommendations on the best products for an ideal pantry and fridge.

  C-3: The Bachelorette
  Reading Task: Read a book where a woman is the main character and the premise of the book is her finding love.
  Book: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
  Reason: Etsuko's best friend is completely obsessed with her American man and seems to make decisions about her life and her daughter's based on his changing whims, all in a desperate effort to be with him.

  D-2: Boot Camp
  Reading Task: Read a book in which the main character is on a mission for most of the book (to find something or someone, to solve a mystery, etc.).
  Book: Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark
  Reason: The nun, Hildegard, ends up on two missions during the book: one to gain permission to set up her own house, and one to solve the murder of a young man discovered during her journey.

  G-2: Big Brother
  Reading Task: Read a book in which the main character spends most of their time in one location (a house, prison, boat, etc.).
  Book: The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy
  Reason: Rather than a single indoor location, this book focuses on the citizens of a small town, Shancarrig, in Ireland. The entire book is about the residents of this small town, their struggles to live within it and, at times, their attempts to leave it, but the stories are told in such a way that it almost feels like Shancarrig IS the main character, and all the people in it the supporting cast.

  I-1: Parental Control
  Reading Task: Read a book where at least one set of parents are not please with the chosen boyfriend/husband or girlfriend/wife.
  Book: Tex by S.E. Hinton
  Reason: Though the mother in the story isn't really mentioned, the father of Tex's girlfriend is HIGHLY unhappy that she's seeing more of him, even going to the point of threatening Tex and his older brother with bodily harm if they continue to pursue it.

  K-3: Human Wrecking Balls
  Reading Task: Read a book that involves someone building a new house (or cabin) or hiring an architect to design one for them.
  Book: A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
  Reason: In the book, Meg meets two sets of neighbors, one who owns two falling down houses, and a couple that rents one of the houses with the agreement that part of their payment is to come from them fixing up and renovating the home. Part of the story involves efforts to have the land and buildings declared as historical sites to prevent the man's selfish (I think it was nephew?) from taking the land and selling it, and there are assorted scenes where the young couple is landscaping or repairing paint and furniture.

  (edit comment)--Oh yeah and forgot to mention that I claimed the bonus on the last check-in, so no bonus this time!

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    Not Rory Gilmore 

    That's okay! I'm running ridiculously behind on the last totals and want to make sure those are right before I do these!

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  kairilily (edited)

  Title: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
  Author: Philip K. Dick
  Show Number: D-3
  Why are you using this book for this show: The police force runs the entire country.

  Title: Slaughterhouse Five
  Author: Kurt Vonnegut
  Show Number: H-1
  Why are you using this book for this show: This book is tagged "humor".

  Title: Dexter by Design
  Author: Jeff Lindsay
  Show Number: A-6
  Why are you using this book for this show: Dexter has a wife and two stepkids.

  
  

  ***These are in addition to past check-ins. Nothing has been switched around.***

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