Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

I'm running this thread to see who are interested for May.

Here are Tricia's instructions for this challenge:

Explanation:
Ever do a secret santa or xmas exchange?
This is JUST like that, except instead of a gift you will be giving the person, it will be the choice of BOOK they must read for the month.

We will be doing this via sign ups, then the names will be randomly done and assigned.
Whatever name you get, you choose the book they must read, preferably the book chosen should not be in their TBR list. This is the whole point of the challenge! ;)
After the book is read they will post that they are done as well as how they liked the book chosen, with a short or long review.

Post in this thread if you are interested please! Also post with questions if you are unsure.
(clearly mark that you are playing in your post please also!)

Signing up period will remain open until April 29. I'll announce the pairing on April 30. Then you have up to the third of May to choose your recommendation.

Yz => Adrienne (Yz has chosen for Adrienne: Eternal Pleasure by Nina Bangs)
Kasia => Mel (Kasia has chosen for Mel:Working for the Devil by Lilith St. Crow)
Lara => Glori (Lara has chosen for Glori:Hero Under Cover by Suzanne Brockmann)
Adrienne => Kristen (Adrienne has chosen for Kristen:Frenchman's Creekby Daphne Du Maurier)
Lori(metamorphosis) => Amanda (Lori has chosen for Amanda The Smoke Thief by Shand Abe)
Keyona => Lara (Keyona has chosen for Lara: Minion by LA Banks)
Annvelwis => Barbara (Annvelwis has chosen for Barbara: It Had to Be You by Susan Elizabeth Phillips)
Mel => Yz (Mel has chosen for Yz:Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder)
Kristen => Keyona (Kristen has chosen for Keyona: Impossible by Nancy Werlin)
Barbara => tosca (Barbara has chosen for tosca:Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian)
Sarah => Annie (Sarah has chosen for Annie: Storm Born by Richelle Mead)
Melissa => Tasha (Melissa has chosen for Tasha: Improper English by Katie MacAlister
Melody => Melissa (Melody has chosen for Melissa: The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Minda Webber)
tosca => Sarah (tosca has chosen for Sarah:Dark Thirst by Sara Reinke)
Amanda => Melody (Amanda has chosen for Melody:Heartbreaker by Julie Garwood)
Lori Rosenbrook => Kasia (Lori has chosen for Kasia: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende)
Glori => Lori(metamorphosis) (Glori has chosen for Lori: Running Wild by Sarah McCarty)
Valerie => Lori Rosenbrook (Valerie has chosen for Lori:Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur)
Annie => Sherrill (Annie has chosen for Sherrill:Always and Forever by Cathy Kelley)
Sherrill => Annvelwis (Sherrill has chosen for Annvelwis: A Version of the Truth by Jennifer Kaufman)
Tasha => Valerie (Tasha has chosen for Valerie:Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson)

To explain these are NOT pairs. One person chooses for another person in the group. All names have been chosen out of the virtual hat (so to speak)

The name after the arrow is who you are choosing the book for.

You have until the 3rd to post your recommendations.

I'm in.

I'm in.

I'm in!

I'm in

Count me in!

Welcome to the group, Keyona.

I would need you to either make your shelves public or be willing to invite as a friend your assigned partner/s, so they can take a peek at your books. Would that be okay with you?

Keyona, you'd have to make your profile public for this challenge... or at least add whomever is going to recommend a book to you as a friend... Otherwise it doesn't work. (And that's for everybody here)

And, welcome! ::big grin::

I'm in

I'm in!

Okay done.Thanks!

Thank YOU! & That was fast!!! You know why I asked, right? We need to know what's on your shelves to make a somewhat informed choice...

Glad to have you in the group Keyona ^_^ I love this challenge, you've picked the fun one for the start!

I'm in. :)

Count me in!

Count me in too!

I'm in.

i'm in

I'm in.

I want in this time. I was out in April because of surgery and now I'm feeling good again. I love this part of the group!

I'm in. :O)

Glad to have you back and feeling better, Melissa.

Sweet - count me in lovely peoples :)

I'm in.

I'll play.

I'm in.

Sorry, will have to pull out of this challenge. Life just happened! See you in June's challenge hopefully.

No problem, Moss. Hope things are okay.

I'm in.

I'm in

I also have to pull out just started school to get my bachelors don't know when I will be on next and i don't want to leave someone without a pick.

That's okay, Jael...no problem.

I'm in! :)

i'm in

Last chance to sign up!!! It's gonna be May soon, so. Anybody else up for it?

Okay the list is up. Everybody has until the third to submit their recommendations.

For Keyona - Impossible

I noticed you had some YA books, so I chose one that wasn't on your list that involves romance and paranormal elements. I loved it so I hope you do as well.

Adrienne: I really wanted to chose a book with angels in it, but the ones that I knew you have either already read or is already in your TBR shelf.

However, I noticed that you are a fan of Ward's BDB series, so maybe you will enjoy another series that has warriors in them.


I recommend Eternal Pleasure by Nina Bangs, the first of a series that involves a group of warriors called upon to save the world based upon an ancient Mayan prediction. I had fun reading this book, and I hope you will too.

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Yz: What a tough choice. You have so many books on your tbr.

For you I recommend Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder. It's about a girl named Yelena who is about to be excuted and has to choose between a quick death or slow poison. I really enjoyed it, I hope you do too.

Tosca: you seem to love paranormal romance so I choose Lara Adrian's Kiss of Midnight which is the first book in her series. I really enjoy this one and hope you do too.

I am also recommending the following books that you might enjoy based on your shelves.

Dark Obsession A Novel of Blackheath Moor by Allison Chase (ghosts)
Cast in Shadow by Michelle Sagara (urban fantasy)
Angels' Blood by Nalini Singh (archangels)

Annie,

You like fairy tales and rated several fantasy books pretty high on your list, so I'm recommending [image error]

If you have already read that, I recommend any of these as backup: Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning, Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu, or Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin.

Amanda, since you like paranormal and historical books, my pick for you is The Smoke Thief. I hope you like it!

Thanks Kristen! I look forward to reading it.Lara, I picked Minion for you because of your interest in J.R. Ward and the Twilight series.I hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)

Valerie, you seem to be a fan of paranormal, so I chose for you Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson.

Melissa, hi from upstate! :O)

You've totally outread me! But it looks like you enjoy the same somewhat silly authors as I do, and I'm hoping you'll enjoy Minda Webber's The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein.



If she seems just too silly, you might read Tara Janzen's Crazy Hot which I see in you TBR pile. She's great! Especially for us MI gals who love our men even more when clothed in smokin' hot cars! :O)

My pick for Annvelwis is:

[Book: A Version of the Truth] by Jennifer Kaufman

I thought of this book as it is a light read which I recently enjoyed. I hope you will too.

Kristen......so many books:: but none by J R Ward::so for you ::Dark Lover by J R Ward::hope you enjoy:) if by chance this is on your bookshelf and i missed it please let me know::

Yz wrote: "Adrienne: I really wanted to chose a book with angels in it, but the ones that I knew you have either already read or is already in your TBR shelf.

However, I noticed that you are a fan of Ward..."

Thank you Yz:: Mayan theme appeals to me::all that 2012 stuff:: read a non-fiction book about it years ago::makes you think::

Sherrill wrote: "My pick for Annvelwis is:
[Book: A Version of the Truth] by Jennifer Kaufman
I thought of this book as it is a light read which I recently enjoyed. I hope you will too."

Thank you for a pick. I think I will enjoy it.
Thing is... there's a very little chance I can get it in a month, so I really would like to ask for patience.

Sarah - omg firstly YAY I had such fun going through your bookshelves! What a treasure trove. There were so many books I wanted to recommend that you'd read LOL In the end I decided on a choice of 3 books Dark Thirst by Sara Reinke (vampire/romance), Storm Front by Jim Butcher (urban fantasy) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (general fiction). I checked that you hadn't listed them as read and they weren't BUT if you have just let me know :)