The Challenge Factory discussion

Austen family:
✅: checked in
🕹️ Prinzess – Captain ✅
https://www.goodreads.com/?ref=nav_home
🏏Agnieszka - Scorekeeper ✅
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3...
🎯 Jess ✅
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...
📚Paula Leblanc ✅
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8...
🍿Sue ✅
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2...

How to Play:
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웃 Each family member will need to read one book a week.
웃 The book must be selected from that week's survey prompts.
웃 Do not start reading your book before Monday morning.
웃 Post a link to the book, finish date, and which survey answer you choose.

Family Size and Family Leave:
If your family (team) is smaller than the other families (teams), you can have a family member read an extra book each week. Also, for emergencies or arranged absences, an extra book can be read.

Sample Survey
Name something specific that might make a blind date not go very well.
Answers:
Nothing in Common - read a stand-a-lone book
Body Odor - read a book that someone else DNF
Male shorter than Female - read a book that is between 140 - 175 pages
Arrives Late - read a book published in 2022
Car Trouble/Accident - read a book with a vehicle on the cover
Personality Clash - read a book from a genre that you don't normally read
Sloppy Attire - read a self-published book that might have typos
Bad Breath - listen to an audio book
Date is a Bore - read a non-fiction book
Ugly Date/Bad Looking - read a book with a cover that you consider ugly

Qualifying Books:
웃 Books must be a minimum of 140 pages.
웃 Cookbooks and poetry books ARE NOT allowed.
웃 Graphic novels must be 250+ pages.
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🌟Any questions can be posted here for a Mod: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...🌟

Important:
🍭game begins on Monday, Oct. 24, at 12:01 a.m. (your local time)
👻Saturday Morning: survey posts
🦇Sunday night: each family member must declare (make a Selection Post) which answer they will read a book for
🎃Monday morning : start your book, books must be a minimum of 140 pages
💀Sunday night (11:59 p.m., your time) must complete your book and report it on your family's thread
🚨Please have your completion posts posted below by Sundays at 11 AM (your time) so that i have time to post them on time. Sundays are busy days and evenings for me...🚨
🧟‍♀️Tuesday morning: answers points will be revealed. (your local time)

Family Time Zones-
Prinzess: PST
Agnieszka: Germany, 8-9 hrs ahead
Paula: PST
Sue: PST
Jess: CST

🌟Any questions can be posted here for a Mod: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...🌟

sample Selection or Completion post:

Book and Author: Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 298
Date Read: 10/21/2022
Survey Answer: Arrives Late - read a book published in 2022
How it Fits: the book was published in 2022

🐲 PrinzessBookDragon's Completion posts: 🐲

Week 6:
Book and Author: A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
Pages: 480
Date Read: 12.11.22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
Survey Answer: mouth: listen to an audio book
How it Fits: This book is read on audio by one of my favorite narrators, Bahni Turpin

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Week 5:
Book and Author: Wicked Fall by Sawyer Bennett
Pages: 305
Date Read: 11.28.22🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
Survey Answer: 15 - read a book published in 2015
How it Fits: was published in 2015

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Week 4:
Book and Author: The Anti-Boyfriend by Penelope Ward
Pages: 329
Date Read: 11.20.22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
Survey Answer: Pasta - read a book with a title that begins with a letter in PASTA (you can use 'A', An', "The")
How it Fits: has the word Anti in the title, starts with an A

Week 3:
Book and Author: Over Him by Shantel Davis
Pages: 171
Date Read: 11.13.22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
Survey Answer: Money - read a book that you purchased
How it Fits: i purchased this book

Week 2:
Book and Author: The Slob by Aron Beauregard
Pages: 146
Date Read: 11.5.22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 /5🌟
Survey Answer: Superman - read a science fiction book
How it Fits: labeled 'sci-fi' on pg 3: https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...

Week 1:
Book and Author: Her Big Neighbor by Penny Wylder
Pages: 172
Date Read: 10.30.22 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5🌟
Survey Answer: Baseball- read a book with an author's name that has double letters (Sally, Emmett, Briggs, Woolf)
How it Fits: Penny's name has a double N

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Completion Posts & Scores:

♒Audacious Austen Family Week 6 🖤🎂
📚 Prinzess: Mouth

💃🏽 Agnieszka: Box

🎶Jess: Box

😶‍🌫️ Paula: Gifts

🧧 Sue: Mail

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🧇🥞 Audacious Austen Family Week 1 🍑🍉
🍀Prinzess: Baseball- read a book with an author's name that has double letters (Sally, Emmett, Briggs, Woolf), msg: 4

🌴Agnieszka: baseball, Msg 43

🌾Jess: Top - read the first book of a series, msg: 54

🌿Paula: top, msg 68

🍂Sue: Fedora - read a book by a male author, msg: 51

🚘🚍 Audacious Austen Family Week 2 🚛🚄
📚 Prinzess: Superman

💃🏽 Agnieszka: Hercules

🎶Jess: Paul Bunyan

😶‍🌫️ Paula: Hercules

🧧 Sue: Hercules

♓♒Audacious Austen Family Week 3 ♉♊
📚 Prinzess: Money

💃🏽 Agnieszka: Life

🎶Jess: Consumer Reports

😶‍🌫️ Paula: Money

🧧 Sue: New Yorker

♒Audacious Austen Family Week 4 ❄️🌀🌡️
📚 Prinzess: Pasta

💃🏽 Agnieszka: Bread

🎶Jess: Italians

😶‍🌫️ Paula: Pasta

🧧 Sue: Pasta

♒Audacious Austen Family Week 5 ❄️🌀🌡️
📚 Prinzess: 15 - read a book published in 2015

💃🏽 Agnieszka: 14 hours - read a book published in 2014

🎶Jess: 17 - read a book published in 2017

😶‍🌫️ Paula: 12- read a book published in 2012

🧧 Sue: 12- read a book published in 2012

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Survey Posts:
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🦄🦄 Survey #1
🎓 Name a kind of hat.⛑️
Baseball - read a book with an author's name that has double letters (Sally, Emmett, Briggs, Woolf)
Beret - read a book with a 5 word title (includes articles)
Cowboy/Stetson - read a book where the main character rides a horse
Derby - read a book within 24 hours (the Kentucky Derby is fast!)
Easter Bonnet - read a book set during the springtime
Fedora - read a book by a male author
Panama - read a book with the word "canal" in the text of the book
Straw - read a book where the mc spends a lot of time outdoors
Top - read the first book of a series

🏍️🏍️ Survey #2
💪🏾Name someone of fact or fiction with enormous strength. 🦵🏾🏋🏾
Answers:
Atlas - read a book where the mc travels to a different country
Arnold Schwarzenegger - read a book set in Europe
Charles Atlas - read a book with a main character whose first name begins with C
Goliath - read a giant book (400+ pages)
Hercules - read a mystery book (in honor of Hercule Poirot)
Incredible Hulk - read a book from the 5 Stars list:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
Paul Bunyan - read a book set in the United States
Samson - read a historical book
Superman - read a science fiction book
The Hulk - read a book where the author uses a pseudonym

🛍️🛍️ Survey #3
🏫 Name a magazine you consider to be intelligent. 📖🧾
Answers:
Consumer Reports - read a book that you can report to another challenge than this one
Good Housekeeping - read a book that someone on your team rated 3 stars (the book was good, but not great)
Life - read a biography, autobiography, or a memoir (can be fictionalized)
Money - read a book that you purchased
National Geographic - read a book set in a country different than where you live
New Yorker - read a book set in New York
Newsweek - read a book published in 2022
Reader's Digest - read a book that has between 140 - 175 pages
Time - take 120 hours (5 days) or more to read a book
Wall Street Journal - read a book from the Epistolary Fiction list

🦝🦝 Survey #4
🍝🧀 Name something you see in almost every Italian restaurant.🧄🥖
Bread - read a book written by an author mentioned on the How to Bake Bread reading challenge thread *
Candles - read a book set before electricity was commonly available in homes (1930-ish)
Cheese - read a book with over 1,000 ratings *
Italians - read a book with a character of Italian descent in the story
Pasta - read a book with a title that begins with a letter in PASTA (you can use 'A', An', "The")
Pizza - get a 'round' to reading a book that has been on your TBR list for over a year
Red and white checkered tablecloth - read a book with red or white letters on the cover
Singing waiter - read a book with "ING" intact in the title
Wine - read a book with 2 or more publication dates *

* You can scroll through all the posts, or click on the "More..." button of the "Authors mentioned in this topic", which is to the right of Message 1. This list is not complete. This list only has authors that are included in a post. To get all the authors, you will have to look through all the posts.
* Wikipedia says that there are over 1,000 types of cheese.
* I googled "how long does it take to make wine" and the general answer is 2 months. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it gave me an idea for a reading task, so I'm using it :)

🐙🐙 Survey #5 Books must be completed by 12.4! not 11.27
🐕🐶 Name how many hours a day a dog sleeps.🐕‍🦺🐩
Answers:
6 - read a book published in 2006
8 - read a book published in 2008
10 - read a book published in 2010
12 - read a book published in 2012
14 - read a book published in 2014
15 - read a book published in 2015
16 - read a book published in 2016
17 - read a book published in 2017
18 - read a book published in 2018
20 - read a book published before 2000
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🎂🎂 Survey #6
🚪Besides doors and windows, name something people open. 🪟
Answers:
Bottle - read a book with double consonants in the title (bottle, message, still)
Box - read a book from a series that has at least four books in it
Cans - read a book with something plural in the title
Drawers - read a book that is (or should be) on the Inside Your Wardrobe list
Gifts - read a book that was given to you (a gift)
Jar - read a book where the main character is or was in the military (Jarhead)
Mail - read a book by a mail (or male :) author
Mouth - listen to an audio book
Purse - read a book that you purchased
Refrigerator - read a book set during the wintertime

Survey Choices
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🧏🏽‍♀️ Survey #1🙅🏽‍♀️
Sun., 10.23.22
🦮Prinzess: baseball
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: baseball, top
🐩Jess: baseball, derby
🐕Paula: baseball, top hat
🐈Sue: baseball, derby, fedora

🤷🏽‍♀️ Survey #2🙅🏽‍♀️
Sun., 10.30.22
🦮Prinzess: superman
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: Hercules, Paul Bunyan
🐩Jess: Paul Bunyan
🐕Paula: Hercules and Incredible Hulk
🐈Sue: hercules

🤷🏽‍♀️ Survey #3🙅🏽
Sun., 11.6.22
🦮Prinzess: money
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: consumer reports
🐩Jess: Consumer Reports, Reader's Digest
🐕Paula: Money, Time
🐈Sue: Newsweek, New Yorker

🤷🏽‍♀️ Survey #4🙅🏽
Sun., 11.13.22
🦮Prinzess: pasta
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: bread
🐩Jess: italian
🐕Paula: pasta
🐈Sue: pasta

🦴 Survey #5💞
Sun., 11.20.22
🦮Prinzess: 15 - read a book published in 2015
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: 16 - read a book published in 2016
🐩Jess: 15 - read a book published in 2015
🐕Paula: 12- read a book published in 2012
🐈Sue: 12 - read a book published in 2012
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🦭 Survey #6🐳
Sun., 12.4.22
🦮Prinzess: mouth
🐕‍🦺Agnieszka: gifts
🐩Jess: refrigerator
🐕Paula: mouth
🐈Sue: mail

Week 1:
Prinzess: Baseball = 17
Agnieszka: Baseball = 17
Jess: Top = 20
Paula: Top = 20
Sue: Fedora = 3
Team: 77
Current Place: 5 (#1 - Wolf family has 97)
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Number of points per answer:
Baseball: 17
Beret: 2
Cowboy/Stetson: 20
Derby: 18
Easter Bonnet: 3
Fedora: 3
Panama: 2
Straw: 5
Top: 20

Woolf family: 97
Steinbeck family: 94
Twain family: 91
Dumas family: 88
Austen family: 77
Dickens family: 76
Tolkien family: 75
Stoker family: 74
Dahl family: 62
Verne family: 62
Hugo family: 63
Christie family: 60
Hemingway family: 59
Shakespeare family: 57
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Week 2:
Prinzess: Superman = 14
Agnieszka: Hercules = 24
Jess: Paul Bunyan = 4
Paula: Hercules = 24
Sue: Hercules = 24
Team: 90
Place (current week): 2
Current Total: 167
Current Place: 3 (#1 - Steinbeck family has 194)
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Number of points per answer:
Atlas: 8
Arnold Schwarzenegger: 7
Charles Atlas: 4
Goliath: 4
Hercules: 24
Incredible Hulk: 3
Paul Bunyan: 4
Samson: 26
Superman: 14
The Hulk: 2

Steinbeck family: 94 + 100 = 194
Dumas family: 88 + 81 = 169
Austen family: 77 + 90 = 167
Tolkien family: 75 + 89 = 164
Twain family: 91 + 73 = 164
Dickens family: 76 + 79 = 155
Christie family: 60 + 79 = 139
Woolf family: 97 + 40 = 137
Hugo family: 63 + 71 = 134
Shakespeare family: 57 + 70 = 127
Stoker family: 74 + 49 = 123
Verne family: 62 + 50 = 112
Dahl family: 62 + 42 = 104
Hemingway family: 59 + 37 = 96
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Week 3:
Prinzess: Money = 3
Agnieszka: Life = 4
Jess: Consumer Reports = 5
Paula: Money = 3
Sue: New Yorker = 4
Team: 19
Place (current week): 14
Current Total: 186
Current Place: 7 (#1 - Steinbeck family has 251)
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Number of points per answer:
Consumer Reports: 5
Good Housekeeping: 3
Life: 4
Money: 3
National Geographic: 12
New Yorker: 4
Newsweek: 8
Reader's Digest: 5
Time: 32
Wall Street Journal: 3

Steinbeck family: 194 + 57 = 251
Dickens family: 155 + 64 = 219
Christie family: 139 + 73 = 212
Tolkien family: 164 + 48 = 212
Dumas family: 169 + 42 = 211
Twain family: 164 + 40 = 204
Austen family: 167 + 19 = 186
Woolf family: 137 + 35 = 172
Dahl family: 104 + 59 = 163
Shakespeare family: 127 + 39 = 166
Hugo family: 134 + 27 = 161
Verne family: 112 + 43 = 155
Stoker family: 123 + 31 = 154
Hemingway family: 96 + 31 = 127
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Week 4:
Prinzess: Pasta = 32
Agnieszka: Bread = 7
Jess: Italians = 3
Paula: Pasta = 32
Sue: Pasta = 32
Team: 106
Place (current week): 6, together with the Verne family
Current Total: 292
Current Place: 8 (#1 - Steinbeck family has 359)
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Number of points per answer:
Bread: 7
Candles: 9
Cheese: 6
Italians: 3
Pasta: 32
Pizza: 4
Red and white checkered tablecloth: 16
Singing waiter: 2
Wine: 12

Steinbeck family: 251 + 108 = 359
Dickens family: 219 + 132 = 351
Shakespeare family: 166 + 160 = 326
Dumas family: 211 + 112 = 323
Woolf family: 172 + 140 = 312
Christie family: 212 + 88 = 300
Twain family: 204 + 90 = 294
Austen family: 186 + 106 = 292
Tolkien family: 212 + 61 = 273
Verne family: 155 + 106 = 261
Hugo family: 161 + 88 = 249
Stoker family: 154 + 92 = 246
Dahl family: 163 + 81 = 244
Hemingway family: 127 + 57 = 184
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Week 5:
Prinzess: 15 = 4
Agnieszka: 14 = 7
Jess: 17 = 2
Paula: 12 = 25
Sue: 12 = 25
Team: 63
Place (current week): 10
Current Total: 355
Current Place: 7 (#1 - Steinbeck family has 440)
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Number of points per answer:
6: 10
8: 6
10: 17
12: 25
14: 7
15: 4
16: 7
17: 2
18: 7
20: 6

Steinbeck family: 359 + 81 = 440
Dickens family: 351 + 68 = 419
Woolf family: 312 + 89 = 401
Dumas family: 323 + 71 = 394
Shakespeare family: 326 + 53 = 379
Christie family: 300 + 70 = 370
Austen family: 292 + 63 = 355
Verne family: 261 + 83 = 344
Twain family: 294 + 36 = 330
Dahl family: 244 + 78 = 322
Tolkien family: 273 + 48 = 321
Hugo family: 249 + 70 = 319
Stoker family: 246 + 71 = 317
Hemingway family: 184 + 37 = 221
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Week 6:
Prinzess: Mouth = 9
Agnieszka: Box = 5
Jess: Box = 5
Paula: Gifts = 4
Sue: Mail = 20
Team: 43
Place (current week): 5
Current Total: 398
Place: 7 (#1 - Steinbeck family has 508)
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Number of points per answer:
Bottle: 2
Box: 5
Cans: 17
Drawers: 9
Gifts: 4
Jar: 5
Mail: 20
Mouth: 9
Purse: 2
Refrigerator: 9

Steinbeck family: 68
Tolkien family: 61
Shakespeare family: 53
Dumas family: 51
Austen family: 43
Christie family: 43
Woolf family: 38
Dahl family: 34
Verne family: 31
Hugo family: 30
Stoker family: 30
Hemingway family: 27
Twain family: 25
Dickens family: 22

Steinbeck family: 440 + 68 = 508
Dumas family: 394 + 51 = 445
Dickens family: 419 + 22 = 441
Woolf family: 401 + 38 = 439
Shakespeare family: 379 + 53 = 432
Christie family: 370 + 43 = 413
Austen family: 355 + 43 = 398
Tolkien family: 321 + 61 = 382
Verne family: 344 + 31 = 375
Dahl family: 322 + 34 = 356
Twain family: 330 + 25 = 355
Hugo family: 319 + 30 = 349
Stoker family: 317 + 30 = 347
Hemingway family: 221 + 27 = 248

Cumulative Totals:
Austen family: 77 + 90 +19 + 106 + 63 +43 = 398
Christie family: 60 + 79 + 73 + 88 + 70 + 43 = 413
Dahl family: 62 + 42 + 59 + 81 + 78 + 34 = 356
Dickens family: 76 + 79 + 64 + 132 + 68 + 22 = 441
Dumas family: 88 + 81 + 42 + 112 + 71 + 51 = 445
Hemingway family: 59 + 37 + 31 + 57 + 37 + 27 = 248
Hugo family: 63 + 71 + 27 + 88 + 70 + 30 = 349
Shakespeare family: 57 + 70 + 39 + 160 + 53 + 53 = 432
Steinbeck family: 94 + 100 + 57 + 108 + 81 + 68 = 508
Stoker family: 74 + 49 + 31 + 92 + 71 + 30 = 347
Tolkien family: 75 + 89 + 48 + 61 + 48 + 61 = 382
Twain family: 91 + 73 + 40 + 90 + 36 + 25 = 355
Verne family: 62 + 50 + 43 + 106 + 83 + 31 = 375
Woolf family: 97 + 40 + 35+ 140 + 89 + 38 = 439
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Agnieszka wrote: "Hi everyone!

I love our family name as it is - I'm a Jane Austen fan.

Thank you PrinzessBookDragon for your willingness to be head of the family!
I've done it in my previous challenge and am awar..."

you're welcome, send luck <3🤣

all: i am open to changing the name or keeping it--

Hi everyone

you all can post a intro too if you choose, here's mine:

Hi all 👋🏽
💊💉📚🔖🍭🍦🍨📖👩‍👧☕🥔🍟🥖💰🍔🧀(view spoiler)[
legal drug dealer on hiatus, current mini casino hostess, book sniffer, single mom, pathetically faithful urban fiction, romance/ dark romance/ erotica/ monster romance fan (I'm shameless with no triggers, don't bully me), ice cream lover, book club owner, blogger, huge music fan, bookish AF (yay for team challenges & book signings) and an 'abibliophobic polygamist book-reading ProcrastiReader' (I am NEVER just reading 1 at a time).
I'm always open to more romance reader friends..... Since it's such a 'sinfully taboo genre' 😘 these days- feel free to friend request me
THOUGH if you're still here after that big run on, 😜😅 I do also enjoy psychological mindfuck thrillers, historical fiction, horror, true crime & some others.......but coffee first!
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let me know any name suggestions for our family or would you rather keep the current one??

Hey guys I’m Jess! I like our team name. I love romance/ dark romance/ monster romance is my new thing.

Hi everyone!

I love our family name as it is - I'm a Jane Austen fan.

Thank you PrinzessBookDragon for your willingness to be head of the family!
I've done it in my previous challenge and am aware you'll have a lot on your plate for the next seven weeks :-D
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Hi guys, I'm Agnieszka! I was born in Poland, spent most of my life in Germany and started reading English about ten years ago when the publisher announced they won't continue translating my favorite series at that time and realising in that process books in English are available for free or on sale (legally impossible in Germany) so by now I read more than 90 percent in English, as much as I can in Polish (is my family has something interesting) and the reminder in German (depending on what's available in my local/online library).
My favorite genre is romantic suspense and anything that combines at least two of the following: mystery/thriller, humor, romance, unique plots, well crafted Christian elements, indies.
I'm tired typos and plot holes very strongly.

I love languages and anything to do with numbers and maths. Can live without meat but not without cheese (despite highly developed lactose intollerance) and carrots :-D

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "you all can post a intro too if you choose, here's mine:

Hi all 👋🏽
💊💉📚🔖🍭🍦🍨📖👩‍👧☕🥔🍟🥖💰🍔
legal drug dealer on hiatus, current mini casino hostess, book sniffer, single mom, pathetically faithful urban..."

LOL! I love people so creative with words :-D

BTW what's AF and monster romance?

Agnieszka wrote: "PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "you all can post a intro too if you choose, here's mine:

Hi all 👋🏽
💊💉📚🔖🍭🍦🍨📖👩‍👧☕🥔🍟🥖💰🍔
legal drug dealer on hiatus, current mini casino hostess, book sniffer, single mom, ..."

glad you liked my intro ;) I'm also a cheese lover!
bookish AF: (*as fuck*)
monster romance is an updated possibly offensive to some, dirty spin on fantasy sci fi romance- that's the only way i can describe it

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "...bookish AF: (*as fuck*)
monster romance is an updated possibly offensive to some, dirty spin on fantasy sci fi romance- that's the only way i can describe it"

Thanks. It explains why all the possibilities I found online didn't match the context of the AF I've seen in a novel - this one fits perfectly :-D

I still don't get the monster part of the monster romance - is it romance
a) where one of the MCs is an actual monter (creature) like the shifter in a shifter romance or alien in the alien romances or
b) more like a 'sub-genre' of the dark romance with a 'human monster' (mafioso, assassin, psychopath ...; perhaps even captivity elements) or
c) kind of like a modern take on the Beauty and the Beast with a disfigured/disabled/awfully looking MC?

a, b and c--ALL of that-- you've got it!! 👍🏽

Week 1's survey has been posted in the Survey Says thread. Have fun deciding which answer might score the highest points.

Family members can read for the same answer.

Yay cool!
Ok family, which do you think would have the most points?? do we want to settle on 2-3 maybe as a group and read for those prompts??
ideas??

🦄🦄 Survey #1
Name a kind of hat.
Baseball - read a book with an author's name that has double letters (Sally, Emmett, Briggs, Woolf)
Beret - read a book with a 5 word title (includes articles)
Cowboy/Stetson - read a book where the main character rides a horse
Derby - read a book within 24 hours (the Kentucky Derby is fast!)
Easter Bonnet - read a book set during the springtime
Fedora - read a book by a male author
Panama - read a book with the word "canal" in the text of the book
Straw - read a book where the mc spends a lot of time outdoors
Top - read the first book of a series

🌟We CANNOT start reading until Monday--10.24🌟

I'm so bad at this guessing the highest points game (usually my picks were in most cases those with the lower # of points) and hope you're better at it.
Here I'd tip it's either Derby (if you go for a full lengths novel, that's not an easy task) or Panama (even using the search in book option, it's not that easy to find) but what do I know :-D
I can immagine both options we go for the 2-3 task we think will reach the most points, or spreading it in case we are wrong.


I checked the books I want read/start next week if they fit a task (first group of books) and then done the same with books I'd like to read this year. I left page numbers (in brakets) and added the task(s) it fit(s). I found books for all of them :-D

Baseball Damaged Shadows by Kathleen Brooks (298)
Cowboy/Stetson; Straw; Easter Bonnet The Fairest Beauty book 3 in Fairy Tale Romance Collection by Melanie Dickerson (321)

Fedora Preisgeld=Back Spin by Harlan Coben (378?)
Fedora; Panama; Top Lost in Fuseta: Ein Portugal-Krimi (subtitle: A Portugal Mystery) by Gil Ribeiro (396) Lost in Fuseta #1
Cowboy/Stetson; Derby; Easter Bonnet; Straw? Flash Flood by DiAnn Mills (170)
Beret; Fedora; Straw W pustyni i w puszczy=In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz (320) *w = in; pustynia = desert; i = and; puszcza = jungle, wilderness is possible though if I remember the story correctly (read it in school about 30 years ago) the primary meaning is the better option*
Top A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia by Clara Benson (263) (Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures #1)
Derby; Straw? Prey by Lisa Phillips book 5 in Pursued (175)
Fedora; Top The Yada Yada Prayer Group by Neta Jackson (416) (The Yada Yada Prayer Group #1)
Cowboy/Stetson; Fedora; Panama; Straw; Derby? Brazil, An Adventure: On the threshold of the 19th century by Cornelio Ridel (189)

BTW: I really hate the new GR book pages: no ASIN/ISBN to copy&paste, no easy way to change editions and no more showing my notes (use it a lot for challenge purposes and similar stuff)

Sorry I'm late checking in. I'm here tho.

I'm thinking Baseball and Derby will have the most points.

Maybe baseball and Top

Agnieszka wrote: "I'm so bad at this guessing the highest points game (usually my picks were in most cases those with the lower # of points) and hope you're better at it.
Here I'd tip it's either Derby (if you go fo..."

Thanks for sharing your book suggestions, that's cool! I too don't like the new GR pages either- i was so comfortable with the old page layout. 🙄😬

ALL:
Im going to read for ⚾️🎆 baseball hats, im considering one of these on Monday:


Jess, Paula- sounds good! 🐲

Sue :) wrote: "Sorry I'm late checking in. I'm here tho."

thanks sue, can you answer msg 6 today pls?? 💞

hi all 👋🏽
in reference to your completion posts: i noticed in some of the other family threads some people have reserved 3-4 spots in a row in the thread to post their completion posts.
check them out to see what i mean: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...
SO you can either do that OR update 1 post every time after each completion on Sundays.
THEN when i go to add your details to msg 4 at the end of the week, it's easy for me to find.

PS: with family feud the most popular survey answers have the highest points

I'm based in Germany which means I'm ahead of PST 9 hours for another week, afterwards only 8 hours. Right now we have Central European Summer Time (CEST), from Sunday, 30th Central European Time (CET).

Prinzess, are we going the route where all of us try to read a book for the task we think will have the most points or rather spread over as many task as possible?
If I've not missed something it looks like there was not much reaction to your question regarding this point. For me both are fine. I'd just like to know if I should stick to my original plan or not :-D

Agnieszka wrote: "I'm based in Germany which means I'm ahead of PST 9 hours for another week, afterwards only 8 hours. Right now we have Central European Summer Time (CEST), from next Sunday (30th) on Central Europe..."

🔖oops, didn't mean to disregard the most important part of your first msg. 💞 i think you should read for the ones you picked. we can gauge how the game and points are dealt from there-- if that makes sense?? in other words, lets see where the highest points land....

thanks for your time zone, i am familiar with the European time zone. i used to live in England when i was in High School.... 📖📚

Somehow I overlooked the 'most popular' part of the survey description. Which means my answer is now Baseball or Top hat as the easiest tasks, sorry!

Prinzess, would you prefer I post the scores in one message (I could move the content from my first message to the second one and use it for that) or rather at the end of each week in a new message, or both :-D?

Yes I lived in CST

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "🔖oops, didn't mean to disregard the most important part of your first msg. 💞..."

No worries, happens to all of us.

Jess: cool, thx!
Agnieszka: I don't want anybody to feel like I'm forcing them to do a prompt they don't want to do. So, we'll see what kind of points we get-- 🎉🎊

Agnieszka wrote: "Prinzess, would you prefer I post the scores in one message (I could move the content from my first message to the second one and use it for that) or rather at the end of each week in a new message..."

Scores in your first msg would be great, then they'll be at the top of the page📚🍟🎉

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "Scores in your first msg would be great, then they'll be at the top of the page📚🍟🎉"

Great!

So here we go:

Selection post - Week 1
Book and Author: Damaged Shadows by Kathleen Brooks
Pages: 298
Survey Answer: Baseball - read a book with an author's name that has double letters
How it Fits: first name has double-E and last name has double-O in it

Additional information:
ASIN: B09MV37ZLN

To make life easier for you Prinzess, I'll add further details in a second section :-D

Agnieszka wrote: "Week 1:

Prinzess: Baseball
Agnieszka: Baseball
Jess:
Paula:
Sue:
Team:
Current pl..."

Thanks so much Agnieszka!! 🎊📚🦊 Looks wonderful!

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "Thanks so much Agnieszka!! 🎊📚🦊 Looks wonderful!"

Glad you like it :-D

We have a 'new' name. Noticed it only now. I like it, especially the alliteration :-D

hey fam,
please reread msg 3, reply with an emoji after you've seen it <3

i altered our name a little- if anyone is opposed, let me know.

Agnieszka, glad you like it 🙃💜

😀😻🐸

Completion post - Week 1
Book and Author: Damaged Shadows by Kathleen Brooks
Pages: 298
Date Read: 10/25
Survey Answer: Baseball - read a book with an author's name that has double letters
How it Fits: first name has double-E and last name has double-O in it
Additional informations:
ASIN/ISBN: B09MV37ZLN
Date Started: 10/24 (10:30 a.m. :-D)
Rating: 5*

hey fam,
please reread msg 3, reply with an emoji after you've seen it <3

thanks Jess!

I like the new name. I re read the rules I think that was the 3 post.

❤️

Selection post - Week 1
Book and Author: Along Came a Spider
Pages: 528
Survey Answer: Top - Read the first book of a series.
How it Fits: First Book in the Alex Cross Series.

Additional information:
ASIN: B000FA5Q40

Sue, Agnieszka
please reread msg 3, reply with an emoji after you've seen it <3

Thanks Paula!

PrinzessBookDragon wrote: "Sue, Agnieszka
please reread msg 3, reply with an emoji after you've seen it <3

Thanks Paula!"

:-D

thanks Agnieszka! <3

Complition Post
Selection Post : Week 1
Book and Author: First Born Book 1 in the Warlock Legacy by Ryan Attard
Pages: 234
Survey Answer: Fedora -Read a book by a male author
How it fits: Male author
Started 10/24
Finished: 10/25