The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

30.1 Sheila/Kathy G's task- It's Spring Cleaning Time!

We may live in opposite parts of the country but we both have the dreaded spring cleaning ahead of us. Please help us accomplish our goal by completing 2 different options from the list below. Oh and thanks for helping!

Option 1: Let's start by sorting and decluttering. Sort your To Be Read/Want to Read list by date added and read one of the 25 books that has been on the list the longest. Optional: How long has the book been on the list?

Option 2: Clean up a series that you are wanting to finish by reading any book that is part of a series. The series must be identified on Goodreads. For this task, a series is defined as at least 3 published books in the series as of March 1, 2013

Option 3: Sweep things under the rug where they can't be seen. Read a book with mystery listed on its homepage.

Option 4: We DO Windows - read a book with a window on the cover. Required: Post the cover.

Option 5: We need help! We wish we could hire a maid. Read a book that is "maid for love" and has romance listed on its homepage.

Option 6: Now that the patio furniture is out and cleaned up it is time for a well deserved break. Put on a light jacket, grab your favorite drink and go outside and enjoy that warm spring sunshine while you read any book that you choose.

Required: Please identify the options when you post.

Reserved

Let's start cleaning!

This help thread is open!

I love tasks that make me read old books form the TBR. I have books from 2008 in there!

always good tasks when romance genre shows up on the list ;)

We thought you would like it Dee

In winter there weren't any just read what you want tasks and I wanted one of them this season.

man, I hate cleaning my windows, but yay, I found a book with windows on the cover ;)

and its been sitting on the pile for a while

Have fun reading it. :-) I don't like washing windows either!!!

This has a few windows to clean. ;)

Great windows! :-)

im a rookie here, this seems like a dumb question but when you go to a book's page where is the 'main' genre listed? I want to use the notebook for option 5. The top Genre listed is romance so is that counted as it's main genre??

Any of the genres listed on the notebooks main page would count as the genres. Romance is listed so it works fine but it would not have had to be listed in the number 1/top position. Clear as mud Kirsty? Oh by the way welcome to the SRC, you are going to love it.

thanks, yeah i kinda realised as i was writing that i'd already answered my own question in my head! I'm can tell im already addicted since its midnight and im still planning what im going to read instead of going to sleep since i have work at 7am!

Hi Kirsty-- You will LOVE the SRC. Sheila and I have been doing it a LONG time--- Sheila longer than I.
:-)

Kirsty wrote: "I'm can tell im already addicted since its midnight and im still planning what im going to read instead of going to sleep since i have work at 7am!"

Welcome to the club... ;-)

Would this work for a window? The window frame is supposed to be the edge of the cover.



Thanks :)

I would accept that as a window. It goes with the title. :-)

Sheila/Kathy,

Is the window sufficient in this cover?

Looks good Chaitra and btw congratulations on finishing.

Thanks Sheila! :)

This task is just not fair. I could read 4 of the 6 tasks this month!

Series, Romance, Oldest TBR, and then anything I want? Man, I wish this was two tasks.

Sorry about that April. I hate when that happens, lol

Would this count as a window?



There's no actual pane, so there's nothing to clean. But it's definitely an aperture in the wall meant to be looked out of. ??

Kathy G. wrote: "I would accept that as a window. It goes with the title. :-)"

Thank you! :)

Nick- that isn't clearly a window to me. It could be a doorway--- the way the title and deco blocks the bottom and top.

Sorry.

Kathy G. wrote: "Nick- that isn't clearly a window to me. It could be a doorway--- the way the title and deco blocks the bottom and top.

Sorry."

Thanks. There are plenty of places to put it.

Just want to make sure that this one is ok. There are plenty of windows and glad I'm not the one cleaning them lol especially in a diner.....grease,fingerprints,and who knows what else :/

I'd like to check that the cover of this book fits the criteria for Option 4, window on the cover. There is a house on the right which has two visible windows though the scene is deliberately made "cloudy" to go with the title, I suppose.

Robin and Andy---

Both of these books work for "windows" on the cover.

:-)

Thanks Kathy!!!!!

Kathy G. wrote: "Robin and Andy---

Both of these books work for "windows" on the cover.

:-)"

Thanks, Kathy

do those tiny windows count? if not is ok, I´ll just use it in another task.

Hey Penny, I would hate to be the person that has to wash those windows, but yes they look like windows to me.

Thanx Sheila, but I decided to used in another task sorry for the trouble. :-/

Is this o.k. for windows (the house on the right)?

Yes, I see some windows. Just be sure to indicate that this book was approved when you post. ;-)

Kathy G. wrote: "Yes, I see some windows. Just be sure to indicate that this book was approved when you post. ;-)"

Whew! Thanks, Kathy. I had to move this book, and was afraid I couldn't find a home for it!