Shut Up & Read discussion

This Challenge is all about May flowers, their color and meaning.


Blue Flowers
The pale blue hues of a hydrangea or the deep blues of an iris can calm worries and preoccupation representing peace, openness, and serenity, fresh floral arrangements filled with blue flowers offers a cooling antidote to anxiousness. Choose a book with a blue cover, blue flowers on the cover or MC dealing with anxiety.


Pink Flowers
Think pink and you think of grace, gentility, and happiness. Regardless of the shape of the flower – from the tight, small buds of a pink garden rose to the delicate, open petals of a pink caellia in full bloom – pink blossoms convey youth, innocence, and joy. Choose a book with a pink cover, pink flowers on the cover, a book that makes you happy or a YA book

Purple Flowers
With its origins tied to royalty and ceremony, purple flowers represent dignity, pride and success. Whether grouped alone in a bold range of rich hues or mixed in with other colors to provide depth and contrast, an arrangement filled with purple blooms represents accomplishment and admiration. Choose a book with a purple cover, purple flowers on the cover, a book with king, queen, duke or lord in the title or in the story.

Red Flowers
There’s an indisputable energy to the color red – an energy that has the power to transform an otherwise unassuming flower into the essence of desire, strength, and passionate love. With beauty, courage and heat as its symbolism, it’s no surprise that a bouquet filled with rich, red blooms knows no restraint. Choose a book with a red cover, red flowers on the cover, a book with love in the title or a couple in love.


White Flowers
Often associated with innocence, humility, and reverence, white flowers evoke simple beauty. Whether they take their shape as the luxurious, silk petals of fragrant gardenias, the small, white bells of a lily of the valley, or the quiet drama of a dozen white roses, fresh floral arrangement dominated by white blossoms conveys modesty and elegance. Choose a book with a white cover, white flowers on the cover, a book with white in the title or MC who is a virgin.


Yellow Flowers
There’s a good reason why it can feel all but impossible to refrain from smiling when you spot a bouquet of bright daffodils or a pot filled with sun-drenched chrysanthemums–the color yellow evokes feelings of joy and lightheartedness. Also a symbol of friendship, a bouquet bursting with yellow blooms sends a message of new beginnings and happiness. Choose a book with a yellow cover, yellow flowers on the cover, a book with yellow in the title or a book about friends.

Happy Reading!

I'm in.

Shut Up & Read May 2016 Flower Challenge

This Challenge is all about May flowers, their color and meaning.


Blue Flowers
5/13


Pink Flowers
5/24


Purple Flowers
5/18

Red Flowers
5/9


White Flowers
5/19


Yellow Flowers
5/16

Blue Flowers
The pale blue hues of a hydrangea or the deep blues of an iris can calm worries and preoccupation representing peace, openness, and serenity, fresh floral arrangements filled with blue flowers offers a cooling antidote to anxiousness. Choose a book with a blue cover: Primal Instinct by Tara Wyatt 5/1 - 3.75stars

Pink Flowers
Think pink and you think of grace, gentility, and happiness. Regardless of the shape of the flower – from the tight, small buds of a pink garden rose to the delicate, open petals of a pink caellia in full bloom – pink blossoms convey youth, innocence, and joy. Choose a book with a pink cover, a book that makes you happy Divide & Conquer by Madeleine Urban 5/20 - 3.75stars

Purple Flowers
With its origins tied to royalty and ceremony, purple flowers represent dignity, pride and success. Whether grouped alone in a bold range of rich hues or mixed in with other colors to provide depth and contrast, an arrangement filled with purple blooms represents accomplishment and admiration. Choose a book with a purple cover Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep 5/14 - 3.5stars

Red Flowers
There’s an indisputable energy to the color red – an energy that has the power to transform an otherwise unassuming flower into the essence of desire, strength, and passionate love. With beauty, courage and heat as its symbolism, it’s no surprise that a bouquet filled with rich, red blooms knows no restraint. a couple in love. Wolf Trouble by Paige Tyler 5/9 - 4stars

White Flowers
Often associated with innocence, humility, and reverence, white flowers evoke simple beauty. Whether they take their shape as the luxurious, silk petals of fragrant gardenias, the small, white bells of a lily of the valley, or the quiet drama of a dozen white roses, fresh floral arrangement dominated by white blossoms conveys modesty and elegance. MC who is a virgin. Fire And Ice by Ann Stuart 5/10 - 4stars (Jilly)

Yellow Flowers
There’s a good reason why it can feel all but impossible to refrain from smiling when you spot a bouquet of bright daffodils or a pot filled with sun-drenched chrysanthemums–the color yellow evokes feelings of joy and lightheartedness. Also a symbol of friendship, a bouquet bursting with yellow blooms sends a message of new beginnings and happiness. Choose a book with a yellow cover, a book about friends.Unbinding by Eileen Wilks 5/6 - 3stars

I'm in:

BLUE FLOWERS:
The Insects of Love by Genevieve Valentine

PURPLE FLOWERS:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

RED FLOWERS
Landfall by Ellen Urbani

YELLOW FLOWERS
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood