Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members


Captain Deep


REMs

1. Introduce yourself to your team. Let your team members know where you are from. This is a 'nice to know' when categories are announced and when team-mates can expect other members to post their book choices.

2. Deep Sleeper - reserve a couple of posts in this thread tracking your team's book selection and completion. (Alternatively they could convert a chat comment to the tracking post/s.)

3. Name your team. Using this round's theme, come up with a fun name. Given we are an open/public group with no age limit, so please make sure any chosen name is smart, not smutty ;)

Please PM your name to Jane(PS) by 29 March

4. If you have a private profile, please 'friend' your team-mates. This is really important, because without this, your team-mates can't see your shelves to select a books under option 2. (It will also help with one of the categories in this round!)

5. Please post your book selections/completions in the format provided below. (This format is also posted in both the Q&A and Sign-Up threads.) We need to know the week that each book corresponds to, the page numbers, and how the book qualifies including links to lists/shelves (where applicable), etc. I can't stress this enough. When in doubt - link it*!

* don't link to your review in your completion post - reviews in your completion posts should be included in full in that post.

You don't want to start reading a book and then find it doesn't meet the requirements because some information (eg page count or theme link) was missing from your original post.

I will be monitoring this and your book will not be considered complete until I am satisfied that your selection and completion posts comply with the format rules of the challenge.

Remember - you can ONLY change your book selection in the week that the theme is called.

6. You MUST check in with your team each week, ideally once the theme is announced. Please let your team know if you expect to have spotty communication or are on holidays or having an operation, etc.

7. When you post the completion of your book, you must post a review; enough for us to know you have actually read the book. Please don't link to a review. You must post the review in this thread.

8. Re-reads are allowed but you can't read the same book twice within this challenge.

9. There is no prize for the winning team - bragging rights only :)

10. Each week, the theme will be announced in the Q&A/Announcement thread. The full list of themes announced during this round will be maintained in msg 1 of that thread.


The Rule on the Pass Option
* Each team can only have ONE member using their pass each week.
* Each member can only use that pass once each 5 weeks.
* This means that one or two team members (dependent upon the size of your team) will miss using a pass in each 5 week block.
* No-one can use the pass option in the last week of the challenge.
* In the final week Option 2 has altered and I will be allocating each team another team from which their book selection must be chosen :)

Key selection and completion post information. You must have ALL elements in your book posts.


For selection post Option 1 you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
How the book qualifies - please note which qualifying bookshelf/list you are using or the tags that justifies that it works.
If the theme is based off the bookcover, post the cover. If there is a letter count in the title, publication date etc, please note these details.

For selection post Option 2 you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
Name of the team-member, their star rating, the date they read the book.

For selection post Option 3 you must have:
Week #
PASS


For the completion post you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Rating (1-5)
Review


Please DO NOT CHAT in these selction/completion posts. It needs to be super clear.

If you 'waffle' about your decided book - please REPOST your selection once you decide. DO NOT go back and edit your waffling post.

IF YOU NEED TO CORRECT A POST FOR MISSING INFORMATION or because the didn't qualify etc, please REPOST this information in a NEW post. I don't want to have to keep going backwards in the thread.

✅Week 1 - 3. Charlotte Bronte once wrote: "a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow".
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✔Teresa: The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting | | Msg 29 | | Msg 49
✔Darkness: A Lady for a Duke | | Msg 30 | | Msg 48
✔Jamie: Taste | | Msg 32 | | Msg 33
✔Misericordia: May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir | | Msg 36 | | Msg 42
✔Shannon: Gravity | | Msg 35 | | Msg 44
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 2 - 2. More than a third of adults fail to get enough sleep each night
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✔Teresa: TripleMate | | Msg 52 | | Msg 58
✔Darkness: The Russian | | Msg 59 | | Msg 92
✔Jamie: Fire & Water | | Msg 53 | | Msg 56
✔Misericordia: The Ice Orphan | | Msg 55 | | Msg 75
✔Shannon: Stick Shift | | Msg 54 | | Msg 57
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 3 - 5. Until recently, medical science was unable to consistently and fully explain why we sleep.
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✔Teresa: Soren | | Msg 64 | | Msg 73
✔Darkness: Prince and Assassin | | Msg 81| | Msg 93
✔Jamie: I'm Glad My Mom Died | |Msg 65 | | Msg 66
✔Misericordia: I'm Glad My Mom Died | | Msg 76 | |Msg 77
✔Shannon: Charlie's Doctor | | Msg 72 | | Msg 80
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 4 - 7. Sleep regenerates both the mind and body.
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✔Teresa: Maniac | | Msg 83 | | Msg 95
✔Darkness: Change of Heart | | Msg 87 | | Msg 109
✔Jamie: Scarlett Fever | |Msg 84| | Msg 86
✔Misericordia: PASS | | Msg 100
✔Shannon: Abandoned But Not Alone | | Msg 85 | | Msg 94
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 5 - 13. In 1927 a French geophysicist discovered that plants generate their own internal time.
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✔Teresa: How to Save a Life| |Msg 104 | |Msg 108
✔Darkness: A Torn Paige | |Msg 112| |Msg 124
✔Jamie: Dreaming of Home | |Msg 98| |Msg 105
✔Misericordia: The Namaste Effect: Expressing Universal Love Through the Chakras| |Msg 102| |Msg 103
✔Shannon: The Barbarian's Vow | |Msg 106| |Msg 107
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 6 - 10. The author states that he would be delighted if you found yourself nodding off as you read his book.
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✔Teresa: The Underdog | |Msg 117 | |Msg 122
✔Darkness: My Best Friend's Sister | |Msg 121| |Msg 146
✔Jamie: Starting Over | |Msg 119| |Msg 120
✔Misericordia: Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H2O | |Msg 131| |Msg 132
✔Shannon: By the Numbers | |Msg 118| |Msg 141
(hide spoiler)]

✅Week 7: 14. In the absence of sunlight (days/nights) humans continue to maintain the circadian rhythm of roughly 15 hours awake and 9 hours asleep.
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✔Teresa: Gary of a Hundred Days | |Msg 127| |Msg 136
✔Darkness: Power Exchange | |Msg 143| |Msg 157
✔Jamie: Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure | |Msg 128| |Msg 137
✔Shannon: Five Night Stand | |Msg 142| |Msg 147 (hide spoiler)]

✅Week 8: 15. About 40% of the population are Early Birds
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✔Teresa: Johann | |Msg 155| |Msg 156
✔Darkness: The True Love Experiment | |Msg 158| |Msg 170
✔Jamie: The Hues of Me and You | |Msg 149| |Msg 152
✔Shannon: Colin | |Msg 153| |Msg 154 (hide spoiler)]

Week 9: 12. The likelihood of breaking an Olympic record has been tied to the time of day, being at the maximal peak of the circadian rhythm in the early afternoon.

✔Teresa: Pickup Men | |Msg 163| |Msg 164
Darkness: The Chase | |Msg 169| |Msg
✔Jamie: Edge of Glory | |Msg 161 | |Msg 165
✔Shannon: Between the Pipes | |Msg 176| |Msg 178

Week 10

✔Teresa: Dangerous | |Msg 175 | |Msg 179
Darkness: | |Msg | |Msg
✔Jamie: PASS | |Msg 173
✔Shannon: Confetti Hearts| |Msg 177 | |Msg 181

Final week:
Teresa: | |Msg | |Msg
Darkness: | |Msg | |Msg
Jamie: | |Msg | |Msg
Shannon:| |Msg | |Msg

Welcome All!!!

🔖First things first - please read all rules and note the format for posting.

🔖Next - Introduce yourself!

My name is Teresa, I live in southern Alberta, Canada with my husband, two teenage children, and four cats! I love to crochet, do diamond dot paintings, and read :D

I read mostly MM Romance - just about all genres - as well as some MF PNR, sci-fi, and fantasy.

🔖Last suggest some Team Names :D I'm not always very original but some ideas are:

Lucky Number Seven
The Seven Readers
Seven Silver Selkies
Odds are Even
Read, Read, Read your Books

Let's all have fun!!!

Hi, team! I'm Jamie. I'm from Texas and I mainly read F/F romances of all genre with the occasional M/F romance here and there. I'm also really into horror. I'm looking forward to this round of PtP!

As for team names I really like Seven Silver Selkies. That gets my vote. :)

Hello everyone! Jeez Teresa, I just can't shake you!! :p

I'm Shannon. I live in the Portland Oregon area. I have to young adult girls, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a sister living with me. Good times. Never a dull moment!!

I only read M/M but will read any genre.

I also like the Seven Silver Selkies!!

Checking in. I'm Misericordia, I read a lot of decidedly eclectic stuff.

Selkies go!

Shannon wrote: "Hello everyone! Jeez Teresa, I just can't shake you!! :p..."

Welcome all! We are just waiting on Darkness but it seems everyone else is good with Seven Silver Selkies so I think we'll go with that!!

Any categories you all are looking forward to? any you're not?

I am not looking forward to 4. Too little sleep swells a hormone that makes you feel hungry. Read a book with food or drink on the cover. - I have a hard time finding anything on my shelves!!

Honestly, I'm not looking forward to any of the ones that you have to read from lists. None of them feature F/F books which is unfortunate and annoying but I'll make it work.

Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) wrote: "Honestly, I'm not looking forward to any of the ones that you have to read from lists. None of them feature F/F books which is unfortunate and annoying but I'll make it work."

Mb you can add it before its called?? If you find one who could fit

Hi, I'm Ena (she/her), Please just call me Darkness. I live in Croatia, a small country in Europe. I am 22 years old, have a dog and a cat. My hobbies are reading, playing video games and watching anime.

LGBTQ book's mainly and fantasy romance

Welcome Darkness!

Darkness wrote: "Mb you can add it before its called?? If you find one who could fit"

I never thought to do that but I definitely will be looking through them and see what I can add. That's a really good idea, thanks!

I'd recommend that everyone take a look at the lists and add what you can! A lot of them are out of date with older books...

I've added to a few MM lists.

Teresa wrote: "I'd recommend that everyone take a look at the lists and add what you can! A lot of them are out of date with older books..."

That's the beauty of these challenges - getting the lists updated!

I always add to the lists in the challenges I play :)

Week 1

Option 1
3. Charlotte Bronte once wrote: "a ruffled mind makes a restless pillow".
*Read a book with MPG Historical or by an author whose last name starts with either C or B.
You must specify which option is used in your qualification.


Option 2
Key date: 30 September 2022
*Team mate read on or after this date and rated at least 3 stars
Series rule applies:
If the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series.


Option 3
*Pass


A selection post must be made for whichever option you choose - INCLUDING A PASS
Refer msg 3 for formatting of all 3 options.

**Though not asked for above, please include a broken link so I can more easily keep track :D

Week 1: Option 1 - Selection Post

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
Pages: 288
How the book qualifies: MPG Historical (and Author last name starts with C)

[*book:The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting|56239247]

Week 1: Option 1


A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Pages: 481
How the book qualifies: MPG Historical

[*book:A Lady for a Duke|57007967]

Week 1: Option 1

Week 1 Selection: Option 1

Taste by Kris Bryant
Pages: 240
How the book qualifies: Author's last name starts with B

[*book:Taste|28695729]

Completion Post: Week 1 - Option 1

Taste by Kris Bryant
Rating: ★★★
Review: Kris Bryant is so hit or miss with me and this one was ultimately a miss. It wasn’t awful, hence the three stars, but it just felt empty. While the sexual chemistry between Ki and Taryn was definitely there I didn’t feel any romantic chemistry which made the romance a fail for me. It also didn’t help that we don’t really get to know the characters as they are very one dimensional and underdeveloped. I was hoping it was going to be a bit more taboo since Ki was Taryn’s student but there really wasn’t.

As for what I did enjoy about this I do like Bryan’t writing and this was a quick read. Also, the smut was great and I did like the ending. Also, all the cooking stuff was interesting but overall this was just fine. Nothing amazing or memorable but it was okay.

[*book:Taste|28695729]

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Week 1 Selection Post
Option 1 - Author B


Gravity by Tal Bauer
Pages: 273
Qualification: Tal Bauer

[*book:Gravity|61848341]

Week 1 Selection Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Brooke Siem
[*book:May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir|60262759]

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Brooke Siem"

Misericordia, Did you mean for this to be a selection post or a completion post? If Completion - could you go back to msg 31 and put in a selection post as per msg 3, please? We need both a selection and completion post. Please include a broken link (just put an * in a copy of the link (eg [*book:The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting|56239247]) Also a completion post needs both the date read and a review.

Thanks!! :D

Teresa wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Bro..." Completion. Why would we need double posts?

Added another, selection section to it. Just not sure why we need all the extra posting.

God, there even are 'waffling' posts. That's so weird.

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "God, there even are 'waffling' posts. That's so weird."

You just need two posts - selection and completion. The completion post does need a rating and review though, so could you add that above?

The only time you need more than two posts is if you change your mind on your book mid week, then you would need to make a new selection post.

The reason is you can only select the book during the week the theme is called, but you can finish reading the next week if you don't get it done on time, hence, you need both the selection and completion. As well it gives time to check the verification so that a player doesn't get stuck reading a book that doesn't qualify for the theme.

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "God, there even are 'waffling' posts. That's so weird."

Hi M - in the past, some ppl typed all over their posts as they work out what they want to read. Its too easy to miss the actual post for both the Captain and me when we are tracking their progress. hence the request for no 'waffling' in the selection/completion posts.

And two posts are required as per Teresa's explanation. It just easier for us to track over multiple weeks.

You have an empty selection post in msg 31. Just transfer your selection details to that post and leave msg 36 as your completion.

Thanks.

Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Brooke Siem
[*book:May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir|60262759]
Rating: 5
Review:
I cannot begin to say how much I loved this one. It's one of those rare psychology memoirs that didn't feel like a rant on the topic 'parents did it to me'. While parents do a lot of stuff both for and to us, it's rarely up to just their frivolous decisions how we turn out. Anyway, no matter how we grow up we'll have stuff to scare our psychologist into going to theirs. LOL!
A great read. A lot of cooking. An interesting take on prescriptions and on 'Eat, pray, love' (or maybe 'cook, love, travel?')

Jane (PS) wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "God, there even are 'waffling' posts. That's so weird."

Hi M - in the past, some ppl typed all over their posts as they work out what they want to read. Its too easy to miss..."
Frankly, I'm still not sure why anyone would track people's progress and retyping and changing one's mind on books but I'll take your word for that.

Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B


Gravity by Tal Bauer
Pages: 273
Qualification: Tal Bauer
Read: 4/2/23
Rating: ★★★★★

Tal Bauer just does it for me. The stories and characters and emotions all hit me right in the feels. Every. Single. Time. This book was no exception. The pain, the joy, the sex....all magical. Loved it!!

[*book:Gravity|61848341]

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Jane (PS) wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "God, there even are 'waffling' posts. That's so weird."

Hi M - in the past, some ppl typed all over their posts as they work out what they want to read. It..."

We don't track their options. But we miss the real posts if ppl comment all over their selection posts.

☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Brooke Siem
[*book:May Cau..."

Hi M - you need to add your rating and a small review to your completion post. See Shannon's completion post above.

Jane (PS) wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ wrote: "Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Author B
May Cause Side Effects: A Memoir
Pages: 256
Qualification: Bro..." ok

Week 1 Completion Post
Option 1 - Historical

A Lady for a Duke
Pages: 481
How it fits: MPG Historical
Rating: 4
Review:
I love historical romances but I was afraid of how will this book portray trans people in 19 century. Violet was not open about being trans. The only people who know are her family and later her childhood friend found out. What it boders me is how he found out. And I fully understand why he reacted the way he reacted the moment he found out. When he got a clear mind he apologized to Violet. She was almost all in when he didn't know she is his dead bff but she closed herself off the moment he found out. He didn't care that he have feeling for her even though she was a guy before which we like. Especially during that time period

[+book:A Lady for a Duke|57289483]

Week 1: Option 1 - Completion Post

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
Pages: 288
Read: 03/03
★★★★★
Loved it
Robin was a delightful character! There are a lot of good points made about the behaviour in the wealthy that isn’t accepted by the poor. I loved Hart and how his character grew. Alice and Marianne were great as well. As always with Ms Charles, the writing is superb and the story engaging!

Well, we're all done for this week! Hopes for the next task?