Happily Ever After Cafe discussion

As you can see by the picture above, the Mods have the two annual challenges that appear on our Home Page for Happily Ever After Café all set up and ready to go in our Mods Group.

You won’t be able to sign-up for these until January 1st, so we haven’t posted them yet. We’ll do so towards the end of December.

Nevertheless, here is some info on them:

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~ Heroes Around the World ~

Let’s go international this year and choose heroes from different countries all around the world. Be sure you don’t have any duplicates!

What if the hero is from Scotland, living in the US, you ask? You may count him; he’s Scottish.

We’ll start a new thread.

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~ Brides...Grooms...Weddings ~

A shortened version of our annual challenge, just find books with “bride,” “groom,” or “wedding” in the title. (Or the plural or a derivative of those words.) The discussion thread continues in the same place. You may use the same bookshelf name as last year; the date parameters have been changed. ☺ We’ll start a new thread.

If you need to know how to join on of these, check out Join a Featured Group Challenge.

Links go to participant's challenge. If your bookshelves are 'private,' only your friends may see them.


Participants - Heroes Around the World
(20)
Bookish - Private
Christa
Deb
Hanita
Ipshita
Kritika
Joeera
June
Lindy
Lindy-Lane - Private
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Lisa Kay
❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥
Melissa (MO)
Michelle T.
Nichole
Nikki♥
Pamela(AllHoney)
Poongothai A
Susan (susayq)
❀Tea❀ - Private







Brides...Grooms...Weddings
(15)
Asya
Deb
Hanita
Ipshita
Kritika
June
Lindy-Lane
Lisa Kay
❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥
Nichole
Nina
Pamela(AllHoney)
Poongothai A
Zeee (I Heart Romance)

Heroes around the world sounds fun!

WOOHOO! Fun, fun, fun!!!

Glad you like it, Melissa! It was a group effort... but mostly Dhes's idea.

heroes around the world sounds fun! I can't wait!

Yes! I'm going to attempt that one too. I think it's tricker than it looks however...

I agree Lisa, the more I look through my books the trickier it seems!

I'all give a try as well sounds interesting

Welcome to the fun, Susan, Lisa, and Joeera!

I'm going for both the challenges!

can't wait I might try both

I'm in for both! Sounds fun! :D

Welcome to the challenges, Ipshita, Lizz, and Hanita!

Yearly Challenges posted:

Heroes Around the World
Brides...Grooms...Weddings
Fairy Tell Retelling 2014

Challenge will begin at 00:01 January 1, 2014 PST.

Thanks, LK!

do we have a thread for the heroes around the world challenge?

Susan (susayq) wrote: "do we have a thread for the heroes around the world challenge?"

No, I thought we could just post them both here. Unless you want a separate one.

Nope. Here is fine. I was just making sure :)

I am going to try and read 15 books for Heroes Around the World and 15 books for Brides...Grooms...Weddings.

Neat, Lizz. Welcome to the challenges.

I'm doing Heroes Around the World and am aiming for 8.

I don't know how many books I will read yet. Quick question do we pick our own books

yes, Joeera, you pick your own books ☺

I'll do Heroes Around the World I think I'll go for 8 as well.

Welcome participants!

Participants - Heroes Around the World
Christa
Hanita
Ipshita
Lisa (Aussie Girl)
Lisa Kay
❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥
Melissa (MO)
Nikki♥
Pamela(AllHoney)
Susan (susayq)


Brides...Grooms...Weddings
Ipshita
Lisa Kay
❥☪LIZZ NEILL☪❥
Hanita
Pamela(AllHoney)
Zeee (I Heart Romance)

please add me.



aiming for 15 on brides...grooms...weddings.

aiming for 15 on heroes.

I added you Lindy-Lane, however, I don't know the name of your daughter, so I am unable to add you as a friend and therefore can not add your challenge link. Also, you'll have to "refresh" yourself to keep your number current. Unless you add me. ☺

Yay, finished my first Hero.

Dax from is a Carpathian from the mountains in Romania.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yay, finished my first Hero.

Dax from is a Carpathian from the mountains in Romania."

sounds yummy! I've never read anything by her before. At least I don't think I have.

I finished my first hero...James Glossup is British and he's the hero in

Susan (susayq) wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Yay, finished my first Hero.

Dax from is a Carpathian from the mountains in Romania."

sounds yummy! I've never read anything by her ..."

Do you read paranormals, Susan? Christine Feehan is one of the original paranormal writers, started in the 90's before the fad hit. This is one of her long running "Dark" series, it's a bit dated by some of the brilliant more recent paranormal standards but I think this was book 23 in the series and I guess I will read to the end for nostalgia.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Do you read paranormals, Susan? "

yes, I do read them. I just haven't tried her before. I'll have to move her up my list :)

Yay, Lisa and Susan!

I never could resist a good reading challenges *shakeshead*. Sign me up both, I'm going to aim for 12 each :)
Question, can I use same book for both challenges? Like if the groom happens to be a hunky Greek billionaire?

June wrote: "Question, can I use same book for both challenges? Like if the groom happens to be a hunky Greek billionaire?"

Definitely!

I have a question. Can we use a title with married/wife in it for the Brides...Grooms...Weddings challenge?
And what about the word fiance?
And would you please update my name in the participants list?

Kritika, usually just:

bride, brides, bridegroom, bridegrooms, bridesmaid, bridesmaids, groom, grooms, groomsman, wed, weds, wedding, wedded...

But feel free to 'tweek' it, if you desire.

Added you. Welcome!

Thanks for clarifying:)

Finished 2/8. Heroes around the World

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Jeremy Maubrey, 10th Duke of Ainsworth. English (of course!)

But, of course! LOL!

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Finished 2/8. Heroes around the World

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Jeremy Maubrey, 10th Duke of Ainsworth. English (of course!)"

did you like that book?

Yes, I was pleasantly surprised. It was a first book from a self published author. After the hook at the beginning,(The Duke being tattooed by unknown persons) the rest of the book flowed nicely in a modern Regency style. No obvious grammatical or spelling errors either.

Wow, I'm on a roll. 3/8 finished.

. Finn MacGowan is from Northern Ireland. Finished 1/9. 4.5 stars.

Neat, Lisa. Love it when I get on a roll. ☺

Another one done - 4/8.

Brandt McKay . American. Finished 1/12 3.5stars

Goodness, Lisa, you're halfway done and January isn't even half over! LOL!

Yes, but I fear I'm going to come to a screaming halt shortly...

I've read several American heroes, just haven't listed them cause I know American guys will be easy to get LOL

Is there a hidden meaning in that sentence, Susan? LOL!