Christian Fiction Bloggers discussion

Team Daisy
Andrea
Hannah
Abigail
Monique
Maria

Review Thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Section 1:]

#1-This requires one book.
Read a book: first in its series, with 100-199 pages, that is a debut novel, published in Jan. or Feb., or with "1(one)" in the title

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#2-This requires one book.
Read a book: second in its series, with 200-299 pages, with two people on the cover, published in Mar. or Apr, or with "2(two)" in the title

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#3-This requires one book.
Read a book: third in its series, with 300-399 pages, with trees on the cover, published in May. or Jun., or with "3(three)" in the title

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#4-This requires one book.
Read a book: fourth in its series, with 400-499 pages, with a four-wheeled vehicle on the cover (i.e. a car -- a motorcycle will not work), published in Jul. or Aug., or with "4(four)" in the title

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#5-This requires one book.
Read a book: fifth in its series, with 500-599 pages, with a hand on the cover, published in Sept. or Oct., or with "5(five)" in the title

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#6-This requires one book.
Read a book: sixth in its series, with 600-699 pages, with a ship on the cover, published in Nov. or Dec., or with "6(six)" in the title

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If the total number of points earned from the first section (above) is at least 27, the team will receive a bonus of 5 points!

[Section 2:]

Three of a Kind-This requires three books to be read (doesn't have to be done by the same person).
Read three books that go together in one of these ways: same genre, published same year or in the same month, same author, same number in its series, same number of pages (rounding to the nearest hundred: so 198 would be 200 and 212 would also be 200).

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Four of a Kind-This requires four books to be read (doesn't have to be done by the same person).
Read four books that go together in one of these ways: same genre, published same year or in the same month, same author, same number in its series, same number of pages (we're rounding to the nearest hundred: so 198 would be 200 and 212 would also be 200).

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Full House-This requires one book.
Read a book that has an author whose first or last name contains either two consonants and three vowels OR three consonants and two vowels (i.e. Karen Witemeyer, Ronie Kendig, etc.)

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Small Straight (1,2,3,4 OR 2,3,4,5 OR 3,4,5,6)-This requires four books to be read (doesn't have to be done by the same person).

Read a book with the number 1, 2 or 3 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 2, 3, or 4 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 3, 4, or 5 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 4, 5, or 6 in its page count or publication date
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Large Straight (1,2,3,4,5 OR 2,3,4,5,6)-This requires five books to be read (doesn't have to be done by the same person).

Read a book with the number 1 or 2 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 2 or 3 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 3 or 4 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 4 or 5 in its page count or publication date
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Read a book with the number 5 or 6 in its page count or publication date
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Yahtzee-This requires five books to be read (doesn't have to be done by the same person). Each task must be completed once to get a Yahtzee! :)

Read a book that has an average rating of 4 stars or higher on Goodreads
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Read a book that a teammate rated 5 stars (or that a mod rated 5 stars)
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Read a book whose title begins with a Y, A, H, T, Z, or E
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Read a book with a red cover (when you see the cover, you think "red")
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Read a book with a white or black cover (when you see the cover, you think "white" or "black"
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Chance-This is a freebie, max one book per teammate :)

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This is so exciting! I’m really excited to be on this team!

Our current tracker (most up to date)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Card four: 18/33 complete
Completion summary: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Card three: 33/33 complete; 147 points
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Card two: 33/33 complete; 146 points
Completion summary: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Card one: 33/33 complete; 149 points
Completion summary: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Me too! Can't wait to start this challenge on Tuesday morning! :)

I'll post my upcoming reads here tomorrow, along with what tasks they'll work for. :)

Okay! My first hopefuls are and .

Wives and Daughters would work for 2 or 6 and Broad Highway would work for 1 or 5.

Hey, team Daisy! So happy to be on the team. I think the only gal I don’t know well is Maria. Looking forward to chatting with ya, friend. Ladies, I think this is going to be a blast.

Any preference on the straights? We need to choose which straights number sequences we’re going for before we work on those categories.

For section one, we want to get enough points for the bonus as well, so let’s plan on a few large books for that.

I have an audio of Wives and Daughters, so I can take whichever of those two numbers you don’t want, Hannah.

Happy planning and reading, team!

No preference on the small straight. Does anyone else have a preference?

Andrea and I will be able to cover tasks 2 and 6 for a total of 14 points (600 pages each plus 2 task points). That means we’ll need 13 more points in section 1 to get to 27 and get the 5 point bonus. If I can also finish The Broad Highway for task 1 or 5 that’s another 6 points. This is totally doable!

Anyone else have possibilities for 1, 3, 4, or 5?

I’m sure I can find a book in my vast collection for almost anything.

For the three and four of a kind categories, which option do we want to do?

I was thinking it would be neat to do the same author or genre, but I am open to the other options as well.

Three of a kind is going to be easy. For four of a kind, I think it would be fun to catch up on my stack of Kim Vogel Sawyer books...anyone else with me? She often has books of 300 or so pages.

I’ll gladly read another Kim Sawyer book.

Still, we must decide something on the three of a kind, even if it will be easy. What genre does everyone like?

For me:
Historical
WWII
suspense
Contemporary
Time split

I’m reading A Woman’s Place by Lynn Austin soon. It works for #4 (446 pages) and #12 (rating 4.16). Does anyone mind if I take #4 on this one? It will help us with the page points for the bonus.

Sounds good to me.

Tracker post.

Section One

1. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Reader: Monique
Pages: 179
Points: 2


2. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Reader: Andrea
Pages: 649
Points: 7


3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Reader: Monique
Pages: 358
Points: 4


4. A Woman’s Place by Lynn Austin
Reader: Andrea
Pages: 446
Points: 5


5. The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol
Reader: Hannah
Pages: 518
Points: 6


6. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Reader: Hannah
Pages: 649
Points: 7


Subtotal: 31
Bonus: 5
Section One Total Points (once read and posted): 36

Section Two

Three of a Kind: Same Genre: Christian Fiction
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Reader:
Pages:
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Reader:
Pages:
3.
Reader:
Pages:

Four of a Kind: Same Genre: Christian Fiction
1. Ours for a Season by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Reader: Andrea
Pages: 352
2. Courting Miss Amsel by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Reader: Hannah
Pages: 352
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Reader:
Pages:
4.
Reader:
Pages:


Full House: (author's first or last name has either 2 consonants and 3 vowels OR 3 consonants and 2 vowels)
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Reader:
Pages:

Small Straight: (must choose sequence first: 1,2,3,4 OR 2,3,4,5 OR 3,4,5,6)

Large Straight: (must choose sequence first: 1,2,3,4,5 OR 2,3,4,5,6)

YAHTZEE
1. average GR rating of 4 stars or higher
The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels
Reader: Andrea
Pages: 384
Rating: 4.70
2. a teammate or mod rated 5 stars
Reader:
Pages:
Teammate or mod:
3. title begins with a Y, A, H, T, Z, or E
You Belong with Me by Tari Faris
Reader: Andrea
Pages: 368
4. red cover
Reader:
Pages:
5. white or black cover
Vanishing Point by Lisa Harris
Reader: Hannah
Pages: 320


Chance (freebie)
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Reader: Andrea
Pages:
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Reader: Hannah
Pages:
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Reader: Abigail
Pages:
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Reader: Monique
Pages:
5.
Reader: Maria
Pages:

Section Two Total Points (once read and posted): 15

Since 5 will probably be the harder category to find, let’s pencil in The Broad Highway for 5 and then change it if someone has a book they’d prefer to read for it. My edition has 518 pages.

Done

Hannah, did you have a particular KVS book you wanted me to mark down for you, to start?

And does anyone else have one of hers they want to read for the Four of a Kind category?

Reading begins at midnight tonight! Who's excited?!
*raises hand*

Yes! I'm starting with

Andrea wrote: "Reading begins at midnight tonight! Who's excited?!
*raises hand*"

ME!!

Got that book marked down in the tracker post.

Glad to know I'm not alone in excitement!

Definitely!

should work for black cover for Yahtzee

Got that one logged, Hannah.

I have two review books coming (which means I must fit them in ASAP), so I'm slipping them into the Y for Yahtzee category and the average rating category (also in the Yahtzee section).

Great idea! I have Politano's newest but am not sure where it will fit in best. I'll be reading it this week or next.

Awesome! I'm a few chapters in, so it won't work for me for the game. But I have a feeling you're going to adore it. It sucked me in so fast! I was almost sad to celebrate my birthday this past weekend because that stole my reading time. Haha!!!

Wonderful!

are some others I’ll be reading soon. Haven’t checked to see where they will fit yet.

I'm very excited to start this challenge! :)

My upcoming reads...

I'll be starting this book at midnight tonight and finishing it either tonight or tomorrow:
<-- This book works for section #1, task #1 (it has 179 pages), #3 (it has trees on its cover), #5 (it has a hand on its cover and was published in Oct.).

I'll be reading these books next, in this order:

<-- This book works for section #1, task #2 (it has 261 pages), #3 (this ed. was published in May and has trees on its cover), and #6 (it was originally published in Dec.).

<-- This book works for section #1, task #3 (it has 384 pages and trees on its cover), #5 (it has a hand on its cover), and #6 (it was published in Dec.).

These three books I have to finish for another challenge by the end of this month.

Then I'll be onto these books for the month of September:

<-- This book works for section #1, task #3 (it's the 3rd book in its series and has 336 pages and trees on its cover) and #4 (it was published in July).

<-- This book works for section #1, task #1 (it was published in Feb.), 2 (it's the 2nd book in its series), #3 (it has 369 pages and trees on its cover), and #5 (it has a hand on its cover).

<-- This book works for section #1, task #1 (it is a debut novel), #3 (it was published in Jun. and has trees on its cover), and #4 (it has 496 pages).

<-- This book works for section #1, task #3 (it has 320 pages), #4 (it was published in July), and #5 (it has a hand on its cover).

These books can also work for many of the section #2 tasks. :)

Hannah wrote: " "

Hannah, I'll hold off on plugging these in until you let me know where you want them (and also after we hear from Maria and Abigail, as you and I already have a few categories, and Monique just gave us some books to plug in).

I'd like for post for section #1, task #1 tomorrow with my Bridge to Terabithia read. It has 179 pages and will be worth 3 points. :)

Yes! Nice stack!

Monique, I have you down for:

Bridge to Terabithia for section one, task one
The Secret Garden for section one, task three

That finishes up our planned books for section one, and we'll get the bonus points for sure.

I'm still looking through your other books and figuring out where they fit in section two.

Let's talk straights. Is everyone okay with doing:
small straight 1,2,3,4
large straight 1,2,3,4,5
My thinking on this: 1s and 2s are easy to get because anything published 2010 or after has each of those numbers in them. The others will be fairly easy in page counts.

Monique, Secret Garden and Witch of Blackbird Pond are some longtime top favorites of mine! Secret Garden does have some Eastern religion stuff in it which my mom marked out (I was 8). So my unique copy has them holding a prayer meeting. :)

If you figure out where the other books fit in section two, please let me know.

To see what spots are available, please see message 16. I'm updating as we figure things out.

I'd love the "Three of a Kind" section to be set to the children's genre, which I/we could easily fill. :)

Also, if the "Four of a Kind" section is set to the Christian fiction genre, it would fit many of our books, including what is already planned. :)

Do you have some kids books that are over 300 pages for three of a kind, if we do the children's genre? I don't have any kids books that will net us enough points to be worth it.

The other teams are talking about making all of their books 300+ or 400+, so we'll definitely need to get as many page points as we can.

Changing the our of a kind to same genre, Christian fiction. Thanks for the idea, Monique!

How does the point system work for Section #2?

Page Points: 1 point per 100 pages
Task Points: 1 point per task completed

Example: for Four of a Kind, all four books have to be finished and reported before we get the 1 task point, but we get each set of page points (per book) as each book is finished/reported.

So, the more pages in the book, the more points we acquire.

Three of a kind could also be suspense or ww2 and might be easier to find longer books for. Unless you’ve got some children’s novels already picked out that are longer!

Maybe it would be better to have the "Three of a Kind" section set as the Christian fiction genre as well... It would be more likely that we would read books longer in length that fit this genre. This genre is really flexible. :)

The only exception (as I understand it) is the Chance section. Every teammate earns page points AND a task point on that one.

Hannah, does Christian Fiction work for you for both 3/4 of a kind? Most suspense and WWII we both read fit that, right? Do your review books that you're thinking of fit that, or did you need something different?

Monique, I like how you're getting the broadest category that will fit a TON of books. Great thinking!

Yes, it would. I can put WW2 nonfiction in another slot, such as chance or straights.