Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members


Captain Deep
✔Kira

REMs
✔R~wka
✔Kat
✔Shandrea
✔Jill
✔Vi

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 ONE - Charlotte Bronte
✅Completed ✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 28/MSG 29✅
R~wka: MSG 26/ MSG 35✅
Kat: MSG 24/ MSG 48✅
Shandrea: MSG 27/ MSG 33✅
Jill: MSG 30/MSG 31 ✅
Vi: MSG 25/ MSG 38✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK TWO - 1/3 Of Adults Fail to Sleep Enough
✅Completed ✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 47/ MSG 61✅
R~wka: MSG 50/ MSG 69✅
Kat: MSG 40/ MSG 104✅
Shandrea: MSG 51/ MSG 55✅
Jill: MSG 46/ MSG 49✅
Vi: MSG 42/ MSG 52✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK THREE - Until recently, medical science was unable to consistently and fully explain why we sleep.
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 75/ MSG 86✅
R~wka: MSG 81/ MSG 88✅
Kat: MSG 65/ MSG 115✅
Shandrea: MSG 76/ MSG 85✅
Jill: MSG 67/ MSG 68✅
Vi: MSG 63/ MSG 64✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK FOUR - Sleep regenerates both the mind and body.
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 98/ MSG 108✅
R~wka: MSG 91/ MSG 124✅
Kat: MSG 90/ MSG 119✅
Shandrea: MSG 92/ MSG 111✅
Jill: MSG 96/ MSG 100✅
Vi: MSG 93/ MSG 94✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK FIVE - Plants generate their own internal time.
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 109/ MSG 181✅
R~wka: MSG 110/ MSG 145✅
Kat: MSG 105/ MSG 141✅
Shandrea: MSG 112/ MSG 118✅
Jill: MSG 113/ MSG 114✅
Vi: MSG 116 / MSG 117✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK SIX - Nodding off while you read
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 130 / MSG 173✅
R~wka: MSG 125 / MSG 135✅
Kat: MSG 122 / MSG 134✅
Shandrea: MSG 133 / MSG 192✅
Jill: MSG 126 / MSG 127✅
Vi: MSG 128 / MSG 129✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK SEVEN - Circadian Rhythm
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 152 / MSG 153✅
R~wka: MSG 151 / MSG 157✅
Kat: MSG 137 / MSG 164✅
Shandrea: MSG 148 / MSG 165✅
Jill: MSG 139 / MSG 147✅
Vi: MSG 149 / MSG 160✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK EIGHT - Early Birds
✅Completed✅
(view spoiler)[Selections✅/Completions✅
Kira: MSG 166 / MSG 168✅
R~wka: MSG 156 / MSG 158✅
Kat: MSG 174 / MSG 198✅
Shandrea: MSG 169 / MSG 172✅
Jill: MSG 159 / MSG 176✅
Vi: MSG 162 / MSG 163✅
(hide spoiler)]

WEEK NINE - Olympic Records
Selections✅/Completions
Kira: MSG 184 / MSG 186✅
R~wka: MSG 178 / MSG 201✅
Kat: MSG 179 / ***
Shandrea: MSG 185 / MSG 197✅
Jill: MSG 177 / MSG 180✅
Vi: MSG 187 / MSG 194✅


WEEK TEN - Every Animal Sleeps
Selections✅/Completions
Kira: MSG 206 / MSG 207✅
R~wka: MSG 205 / MSG 209✅
Kat: PASS✅
Shandrea: MSG 208 / ***
Jill: MSG 200 / ***
Vi: MSG 203 / MSG 204✅

RESERVED

Oops. Sorry for the delay team! I didn't realize threads were going up ahead of team allocation.

I'm Kira. I'm in Alberta Canada. I will read anything once. I love love, so if it's romance, I'm happy.

This round's prompts look quite fun! I do love sleep.
And I'm looking forward to creeping all of your shelves for option 2.

I've sent you all friend requests (except those I've been on teams with before: Hi R~wka & Jill!)
We have 5 days to pick a name related to this rounds theme of SLEEP. Any Ideas?

Hi everyone, I’m Vi. I live in Netherlands.

I love reading, Romance and Fantasy are my favourite sub genres with a very rare foray out into the other genres. I think this is my first or second time with this game and I’m really looking forward to playing with you all.

I’m not very creative so I’ll wait for your suggestions for the team names.

Hi everyone. I’m Kat from Glasgow in Scotland. I love reading especially thrillers. I’m in this group to help get my romance tbr down. This is my second time playing this game. Wish we knew the prompts ahead as I like to plan.

I’m in a few challenges so I’m trying to make most of them join together


Mark billigaham has a book called sleepyhead - what about that?

Captain Kira at the helm again, lol. Hi all I'm Jill from NYC. I read all things romance, I do have a partiality to secret babies/pregnancies, but most tropes are fine except hardcore MC books. I like my loving with as little violence as possible.
Possible team names, I won't be offended if none are liked 😊
•Reading in Slumberland
•To Read perchance to Dream
•Sleepwalking Readers
•The Sleepyheads
•The Dreamers
•Snoozers-R-Us
•The Night Owls
•The Restless Readers
•The Insomniacs

Hi, I'm Raluca. I'm from Romania (Europe). I did played this game before And I love it. I love Romance books with happy end. I tend to skip love triangle, rectangle or other geometric shape.

Regarding the name of the team I like:
The Night Owls and Sleepwalking Readers

Because I am a sleepy person (but I can lost a night because of a book)

And as a last mention, is possible that I make some grammar errors in my reviews, because English is a second language 😅

Nice to meet you all!

Great team names, Jill! I liked:
Sleepwalking Readers
Reading in Slumberland

Hello everyone!

My name is Shandrea, I am from Idaho (USA). I am so excited to be in a group with such diversity!

I read all types of romance. Not very much historical romance or paranormal. I don't read very much MM romance either - but am not impartial to it. :)

I am a very busy mom of 4 and my husband is deployed. I do my best to read more than one book a week but usually I only get one book done.

Team names - I like The Night Owls

Me and my fiancé were discussing it and we came up with a few names,

Book dozer
Book insomniacs
Read in my sleep
Dream readers
Reading v sleeping
Read read, sleep repeat

I'm open to whatever the majority wants, however I'm partial to Sleepwalking Readers.

I guess we need to decide soon on the team names. Let’s do a majority poll and decide?

I like sleepwalking readers

That's a majority for "Sleepwalking Readers"! I've pm'd Jane with our decision.

Jane announced the first task last night:

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

Selection post

Week # 1 - An author whose last name starts with C or B
Bookcover/link: The Silent Bride by Shalini Boland
Page numbers: 267
Justification: Author surname starts with B

Week 1 Selection Post



Week #: 1
Book: Lady Violet Finds a Bridegroom by Grace Burrowes
Number of Pages: 264
How it Fits: MPG Historical and Author Last Name starts with B

Selection post ~ Option 1

Week #1
Book: On the Way to the Wedding
Page numbers: 371
How the book qualifies: MPG Historical

Week 1 - Selection Post


Give Me More by Sara Cate

Pages - 358
Qualification - Author's last name starts with 'C'

WEEK 1
SELECTION
Option 1

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Page Count: 304
Qualifies: Author last name starts with B

WEEK 1
COMPLETION

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Review: This book is full of messy feelings. I might have found it a little convoluted and overwritten if I wasn't in the mood. But I was. Aldo and Regan were captivating, though the conflict made them less likeable and the resolution wasn't enough to entirely repair my opinion of them. Either way, pieces of this will probably occupy space in my thoughts for some time to come. There were some very pretty and thoughtful bits of prose."Everything would be as it was, only very slightly different."

📦Week 1- Selection Post📦
📦Option 1: *Read a book with MPG Historical
📦Book: Absence
📦Pages: 546
📦How it qualifies: MPG Historical

📦Week 1- Completion Post📦
📦Option 1: *Read a book with MPG Historical
📦Book: Absence
📦Pages: 546
📦Completed: 03/31/23
📦How it qualifies: MPG Historical
📦Rating/Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I really enjoyed the story. (view spoiler)[ to see slave/servant Madeline become queen of England was heart warming (hide spoiler)] This book gets a lot of flack for too many sex scenes but it did not detract from the story for me. King Alex and his "dolcezza" deserve an HEA

I just realized we're the only team of 6. Does that make us special? 🤣😂

Week 1 - Completion Post


Give Me More by Sara Cate

Pages - 358
Qualification - Author's last name starts with 'C'
Rating - 5 stars
Review - I went into this book blind and was surprised to find out it was the first MMF/bi book that I've ever read. I gave it 5 stars because the writing was good and I liked the first two books in the series. But the book; overall, was not mind blowing.. but still enjoyable. On to the 4th book :)

Jill wrote: "I just realized we're the only team of 6. Does that make us special? 🤣😂"

Absolutely!!! 🌻

Completion Post: Week #1

On the Way to the Wedding
Rating: 5*
Review:
The last book in Bridgertons series. The author made me love this series and I'm sad because it's end... Gregory is the last in his family of 8 siblings to find his true love, and he is sure that his true love is Hermione Watson. Lucinda (Lucy) Abernathy, Hermione friend fall in love with Gregory, but she is already engaged to someone else. Is like a love triangle, especially because the book start with Gregory bursts into the middle of the wedding and confesses his love to the bride (the bride didn't have a name so you may think something different). Loved the ending. I'm sure I'll reread this series :)

Jane has said she'll announce the next task a day early! That means today between 3-6pm EST.
It's still okay to change books until the original deadline if needed.

I'm almost done with my book. I should have it done by tonight.

Week 1 Completion Post



Week #: 1
Book: Lady Violet Finds a Bridegroom by Grace Burrowes
Number of Pages: 264
Date Read: 6 April
How it Qualifies: MPG Historical and Author last name starts with B
Rating: 3 stars
Review: 3rd book in the series and we can see slowly the growth of Lady Violet. The mystery was weak but characterisations shine. One thing I liked about this is the effects of early, unhappy marriage in those times on Lady Violet. Of course, she still has the privilege of wealth and aristocracy. The love triangle is still there and progressing. I'm not a fan of it as I already peeked to the last book to see how it ends. I'm hoping there is a build it so justify the triangle. I'll mostly be continuing the series.

WEEK 2

Option 1
2. More than a third of adults fail to get enough sleep each night.
Read the third book in a series OR any book from a trilogy.
You must specify which option is used.

Option 2
Key date: 7 October 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. This format is also in msg 3 of your team threads.

Selection Post

Week 2 #
Option 2 - Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*
Book cover/link: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
Pages: 316
Justification: Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*

Kat wrote: "Selection Post

Week 2 #
Option 2 - Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*
Book cover/link: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
Pages: 316
Justification: Read ..."

I warn you, you need a lot of handkerchiefs.

Week 2 Selection Post



Week #: 2
Book: The Heretic Royal by G.A. Aiken
Number of Pages: 304
How it Fits: #3 in a trilogy

R~wka wrote: "Kat wrote: "Selection Post

Week 2 #
Option 2 - Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*
Book cover/link: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
Pages: 316
Justific..."

I’ve been told this! Thanks for warning

Kat wrote: "R~wka wrote: "Kat wrote: "Selection Post

Week 2 #
Option 2 - Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*
Book cover/link: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
Pages..."

Good to know. I wasn't warned 🥺

R~wka wrote: "Kat wrote: "R~wka wrote: "Kat wrote: "Selection Post

Week 2 #
Option 2 - Read by R-Wka on 8th October and rated 4*
Book cover/link: A Thousand Boy Kisses by [author:Tillie Cole|70..."

Oh no, u read any her others

📦Week 2- Selection Post📦
📦Option 1: *Read the third book in a series
📦Book: Lucky Cowboy
📦Pages: 144
📦How it qualifies: Book 3 of Whiskey Ridge Creek series

WEEK 2
SELECTION
Option 1

Dead Drop by Tate James
Page Count: 559
Qualifies: Book 2 in The Guild Series, which is a trilogy.

Week 1 completion post

The Silent Bride by Shalini Boland
Page count: 267
Date read: 7.04.23
How it qualifies: Author surname starts with B
Review: This was really good. I was surprised at the twists and turns and kept changing my mind about the culprit. The MC Alice did my head in, she was so whiny. And she had someone at work that I wanted to slap. To find out why you’ll need to read it and find out.

📦Week 2- Completion Post📦
📦Option 1: *Read the third book in a series
📦Book: Lucky Cowboy
📦Pages: 144
📦Date completed: 04/08/23
📦How it qualifies: Book 3 of Whiskey Ridge Creek series
📦Rating/Review ⭐⭐ This was actually more along the lines of a 3.5 star story but the myriad of spelling, and grammar errors ruined it. I loved Harper "Market Girl" and her "Lucky Cowboy" Dean's story. They were sweet, no fuss, no mess. Really enjoyed them as a couple.

WEEK 2 ~ SELECTION ~ Option 1

Every Last Breath by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Page Count: 378
Qualifies: Book 3 in The Dark Elements #3, which is a trilogy