Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 8
September 23, 2023 through November 19, 2023
Run Like There's a Hot Guy in Front of You and a Creepy One Behind You.

Team:
✓ Darkness
✓ Princess
✓ Shifa
✓ Shandrea
✓ Noor

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 8
September 23, 2023 through November 19, 2023
Run Like There's a Hot Guy in Front of You and a Creepy One Behind You.

Tracking:
Task 1 - 0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide. 9.23.2023 - 10.10.2023
Task 2 - 5. Read 4 books first published within the last year 10.10.2023 - 10.20.2023
Task 3 - 10. Read 4 books by authors who write under more than one name (Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb). 10.20.2023

Information required when posting your completion/s:

Task
Book/cover link
Page numbers with source
How book qualified, with links or cover as necessary.
Date Completed.
Rating/Review.


**Remember to use the first edition Kindle page count only! If your page count comes from a Kindle edition published on the initial publication date on the editions page, it will count. If your page count comes from a Kindle edition labeled '1st edition', it will count. If your page count comes from the earliest dated English language Kindle edition, it will count. I am looking for one of those three things when confirming your books! As long the page count you list is correct, I will accept any link to the book. Ebook page count will be acceptable if no Kindle page count available. The acceptability of other page counts will be made on an individual basis.**

Please note that a rating is now required in your completion posts! A small review is also welcome. 😊

I think most of you know each other, at least a little, but feel free to introduce yourself again. Please give any relevant information, especially time zone as that helps know when it is best to communicate. 😊

Please select a team leader to help keep track of where your team is in any given task. And as necessary guide discussions for task decisions. Any teammate can report your completions though.

Remember, it is the team's responsibility to notify the host (me) if a teammate fails to complete the task in a timely manner or otherwise goes missing! I am not checking all the team threads regularly to notice and may only check when notified a task is complete.

PS - If you want to be known as anything other than Team 15, you are free to come up with a team name. 😉

I have you as a team of 5 - please let me know if anything changes. I will be adjusting your tasks as needed to reflect the extra player. I am absolutely certain that I WILL forget to adjust your task at least once! Please let me know if I do and I will correct as soon as possible - ideally contact me in the Q&A thread or by PM as I do not check the team threads until prompted in this challenge

Hi, I'm Ena (she/her), Please just call me Darkness. I live in Croatia, a small country in Europe. I am 22/23(soon) years old, have a dog and a cat. I read, play video games and watch anime

Hi i’m Princess!! I’m 22 and i’m from California but for now i’m in South korea so if i respond late it’s probably because of the time difference hehe! Ima o excited for this challenge !!

I've sent messages to the team members who haven't checked in yet asking them to do so as soon as possible.

Hi i’m shifa. I’m 19 and i am from Mauritius, a small island. Nice to meet you all. I’m so excited for this challenge!!!

Hello, I'm Shandrea :)
I am from Idaho, USA - MST time.
I don't usually read very much paranormal, historical, or MM romance. But I am trying to branch out more.

I've done this challenge a few times and really enjoy it!
I'm excited to be a part of this team! :)

Hi.. I’m Noor!! I’m 26 year old and currently living in Dubai, UAE. So there’s a bit of confusion regarding the time zones but I’ll try to keep up from now on.
Looking forward to the challenge.

I guess we need to decide who will be the captain and the name of the team

First Task - All Teams!

Task 1 - 0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide.

which one are we doing? Family or holiday or we get to choose?

We need to choose as team

I'd say 'family'

I am okay for both

Both works for me

We need to decide on this so we can get going

We have :
Family - Shandrea, Shifa, Darkness, Princess - 4/5
Holiday - Shifa - 1/5

I say Family

So I guess family it is

Completion Post - Task 1
0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide.


Love Unexpected by Louise Bay

Qualification - Team decided on 'family' - tagged 'Family' buy 1 person, on page 1 https://www.goodreads.com/work/shelve...
Pages - 292
Read - 10/03
Rating - 4 Stars

Just checking in here - how are things going?

Other than Shandrea's completion, there haven't been any comments in a week.

MountainKat wrote: "Just checking in here - how are things going?

Other than Shandrea's completion, there haven't been any comments in a week."

Honestly, I'm not even sure what the deadline is for this one. There was no mention of it. The only thing mentioned was the challenge and even that wasn't given enough details.

You don't have deadline, we need to fish as soon as possible, Then when we are all done we check i and got another task

Completion Post - Task 1
0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide. - Family



Book:Howl’s Moving Castle
Qualification - The team decided on 'family' - tagged 'Family' pg 5 by 41 ppl
Pages - 308
Read - 4.10
Rating - 5

Review:
I love this book so much. This is my 3rd time reading this book. And it never disappoints. Such a good story and with little romance.

I was going to message Shifa and Noor but they “aren’t accepting messages” so 🤷🏼‍♀️ Shifa hasn’t been active since September

This feels more 3 pp team than 5

Hello! I’m really sorry for not being active, i’m really busy with exams. But i’ll try to be more active. And Shandrea i did not receive any messages.

Right, Shifa. It wouldn’t let me message you.

Completion Post - Task 1
0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide. - Family

We Were Liars

Qualification - The team decided on 'family' - tagged 'Family'
Pages - 242
Read - 09/10
Rating - 3

Completion Post - Task 1
0. Each teammate reads a book tagged ‘family’ or ‘holiday’ - teams decide. - Family

The Unwanted Marriage by Catharina Maura


Qualification - The team decided on 'family' - tagged 'Family'
Pages: 364 (Kindle Edition)
Read: 10/07
Rating: 4

I am going to put us in as completed, we haven’t heard anything from Noor since her check in post so I’ll ask to have her removed so we can continue playing/reading.

On your completion posts you need to add how many times the books were tagged family and on what page of the tags you can find the tag “family”. I always post a link when quoting page numbers of tags

Here is your next task!

Task 2 - 5. Read 4 books first published within the last year.

To qualify for this task, the selected books need to have been initially published on or after October 10, 2022. If there is a date listed at the top of the editions page use it. Otherwise I will be looking for the earliest dated English language edition regardless of format as the qualification. Please include the initial publication date of your selected book in your completion post.

Princess wrote: "Honestly, I'm not even sure what the deadline is for this one. There was no mention of it. The only thing mentioned was the challenge and even that wasn't given enough details."

There are no deadlines in this challenge except when it it ends. You move forward at your own pace - as soon as you finish a task, I assign a new one.

If you ever have questions about a task, please ask in the Q&A thread or send me a PM.

I apologize for the typo that was in my original message. I inadvertently typed yesterday's date rather the date from a year prior. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Your books for the current task need to have been initially published on or after 10.10.2022.

MountainKat wrote: "I apologize for the typo that was in my original message. I inadvertently typed yesterday's date rather the date from a year prior. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Your books for the current task need to have been initiall..."

No problem. Accidents happens. 😄

Completion Post
Task 2 - 5. Read 4 books first published within the last year.


Breakaway by Grace Reilly

Pages - 422
Qualification - Published December 13th, 2022
Read - 10/16
Rating - 5 stars!

Completion Post
Task 2 - 5. Read 4 books first published within the last year.

Caught Up by Liz Tomforde


Pages - 508 -Kindle
Qualification - Published 10/10/23
Read - 10/13
Rating - 5 ⭐️

I am done but will update after work in few hours

How is everyone doing??

Completion Post - Task 1
5. Read 4 books first published within the last year.



Book:Falling for My Brother's Best Friend
Qualification - Published 2.10.2023
Pages - 256
https://www.amazon.com/Falling-Brothe...
Read - 18.10.2023
Rating - 3

Review:
I got this as an arc and I was a little disappointed for this book. Mc Ay was really strange and knew how to say manipulative but not. Jacob a the begging of the story was like I want somebody for me not for looks or my money and what does he do? He ends up with Amy who falls hor him the moment he becomes macho.,

Completion Post
Task 2 - 5. Read 4 books first published within the last year.

Love, Theoretically

Pages - 400 -kindle
Qualification - Published 13/06/2023
Read - 10/20
Rating - 4

Awesome!! I will check us in!

Here is your next task!

Task 3 - 10. Read 4 books by authors who write under more than one name (Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb).

Books selected for this task need to be written by authors who write under more than one name. Authors such as Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb or Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle would work for this task. Please include a link to the author’s profile or website showing both names in your completion posts.

Completion Post
Task 3 - 10. Read 4 books by authors who write under more than one name (Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb).


Vision in White by Nora Roberts

Pages - 325
Qualification - Written by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Read - 10/25
Rating - 5 stars

Just dropping a message to hopefully attract everyone back to this thread. I would love to give you all a new task!!

(I hope you all have notifications turned on as I suggested at the beginning of the challenge.)

Hey team! Checking in again, how are we doing?