The Challenge Factory discussion

Team Name

Captain: Sunshine
Spreadsheet: Jane
Rachel (of the Summer Court)
Amanda L
Rosaline

Important Details

♥ The game will begin on January 24. at 12:01 a.m. (MST)
♥ The game will conclude February 14 at 12:59 p.m. (MST)
♥ If your profile is set to private, you will need to open it for the duration of the game. You may need to be contacted by your captain or a moderator.

How to Play:
♥ Each team member will need to go on 'dates'.
♥ Books need to be reported on your team's thread.
♥ Do not start reading your 'date' before the challenge begins.
♥ Post a link to the book, finish date, and which category you choose, and what number you rolled. Don't forget to include proof of the quality from the text of the book.

sample Selection or Completion post
Book: Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Pages: 298
Date Read: 2/2/18
Category: Location; rolled a 3 - live in the USA
proof: "I live in Finley, a rural area about 10 miles from my garage, which is in the older industrial area of Kennewick [Washington, USA]." p. 9

Qualified Books:
♥ Books must be a 150 page minimum.
♥ Re-reads are allowed.
♥ Graphic novels and poetry books ARE NOT allowed.
♥ Anthologies probably won't work for this challenge.

Roll 1 Die

Categories

Age
The main character must be:
1 - 12 and under
2 - a teenager
3 - in their twenties
4 - in their thirties
5 - 40 to 99 years old
6 - older than 100 or ageless/immortal

Vocation
The main character must be:
1 - a student
2 - in the military
3 - in a medical profession
4 - a detective/amateur sleuth/PI
5 - a business owner
6 - unemployed

Location
The main character must:
1 - live in Europe
2 - live on an island
3 - live in the USA
4 - live in a large city
5 - be traveling or visiting somewhere
6 - not live on Earth

Physical Attributes
The main character must:
1 - have blonde hair
2 - be very tall
3 - have a tattoo
4 - be able to change shape
5 - have scars
6 - have brown eyes

Hi Team! Ready to get started! :-D

Anyone have any team name ideas?

Captains, feel free to send a message to any of your team members who haven't checked in. I haven't been getting notifications from Goodreads. Maybe your teammate hasn't seen that teams have been posted.

You can start reading tomorrow!

Hi everyone! Just checking in! I'm Rosaline! :)
As for name ideas, well, I used to call all my stuffed lions Lion and stuffed bears Bear, and I named my dog Doggo, so not a very creative person over here. The best I can come up with is The Team!!!! Or Bookopaths, which is what I call myself on a regular basis. So. yeah! :^D

How about Dating Bibliophiles. That's all I got. Lol

I was wondering when this was going to pop up haha. Hey all!

As far as names goes, the only thing I could think of was The Hopeless Book Addicts. Kind of playing off “Hopeless Romantics”. But that’s a bit of a mouthful so I really don’t know haha.

Also played around with the phrase “Romancing the Stone” and tried to make it more bookish, like Romancing the Bookworm or...something...now I have run out of ideas haha.

I kind of like Romancing the Bookworm. :-)

I like Romancing the Bookworm.

Hi all! I’m Rachel - Romancing the Worm is pretty hilarious, I like it

My books starting 01-24-2018
Completed: 19

1. Finished
Book: Prairie Heat, by Tessa Layne
Pages: 271
Date Read: 01-24-2018
Category: Age; rolled a 4 ~ Male main character is in 30's
proof: That summer I was twenty; I have been keeping the family's disgracefulness secret for twelve years. (This makes Blake 32.)

2. Finished
Book: Her Secret Christmas Hero, Mallory Kane
Pages: 174
Date read: 01-24-2018
Catabory: Physical Attributes ~ rolled a 6 ~ Main Character has brown eyes
Proof: Her eyes were brown too, with glints of gold in their depths. (Allie McHale)

3. Finished
Book: Wind River Wrangler, by Lindsay McKenna
Pages: 342
Date Read: 01-24-2018
Category: Location ~ rolled a 5 ~ Character traveled.
Proof: Shiloh called Maud and asked to come to Wyoming from her home in New York City.

4. Finished
Book Back to the Heart, by Sky Corgan
Pages: 238
Date Read: 01-26-2018
Category: ~ rolled a 1 ~ Blonde hair
Proof: His blonde hair looks like Sunshine, so I gave him the nickname.

5. Finished
Book: The Abalone Shell, by Suzie O'Connell
Pages: 221
Date Read: 01-26-2018
Category: Location ~ rolled a 3 ~ Lived in USA
Proof: Setting Oregon Coast, USA

6. Finished
Book: The Wonder of You: The Love of You Family Saga--Book 2 & Prequel to the Beyond Redemption series, Laurie Kellogg
Pages: 255
Date Read: 01-27-2018
Category: Vocation #2 ~ In military
Proof: Dr, Katherine Grant, "I'm on temporary assignment to help repatriate the POW's," she told Rick.

7. Finished
Book: Always For You: A Small Town Georgia Romance, Tawdra Kandle
Pages: 230
Date Read: 01-29-2018
Category: Vocation #3 ~ Medical Field
Proof: "You're the vet driving the 'Vette. I see." Maureen said to her new partner, Smith in their Veterinarian practice.

8. Finished
Book: Highland Spring, Elizabeth Rose
Pages: 277
Date Read: 01-30-2018
Category: Rolled a 1 ~ Location #1 ~ Europe
Proof: "Scotland, Burnt Candlemas, 1356"

9. Finished
Book: Risking Love, by Brenda S. Anderson
Pages 300
Date Read: 01-31-2018
Category: Rolled a 3 ~ Location #3 ~ USA
Proof: "Corliss Morgan slapped the Minneapolis newspaper down on her cube mate's desk and pointed to the headlines."

10. Finished
Book: A Royal Christmas Gift, LuAnn Mclane
Pages: 232
Date Read: 02-02-2018
Category: Rolled a 5 ~ Vocation #5 ~ Business Owner
Proof: FBI Agent Dylan to the Prince, "She's renovating the house and converting it into a bed and breakfast."

11. Finished
Book: Kodiak's Claim, Eve Langlais
Pages: 240
Date Read: 02-04-2018
Category: Rolled a 4 ~ Physical #4 Change Shape
Proof: "Only dumb shifters with money to burn ripped through their wardrobe. Bones cracked and reformed as Reid took off running on four paws."

12. Finished
Book: Sweetly Scandalous, Jacqueline Winters
Pages: 497
Date Read: 02-06-2018
Category: Rolled a 3 ~ Vocation #3 Medical
Proof: "Ladies, this is Dr. Nick Bryant. He's Dr. Rowe's replacement."

13. Finished
Book: Instant Daddy, Carol Voss
Pages: 222
Date read: 02-07-2018
Category: Rolled a 5 ~ Physical #5 Scars
Proof: "My injuries...from the accident...I didn't tell you everything. I..didn't tell you.. I can never have a baby.

14. Finished
Book: Sweet Little Lies, Sierra Hill
Pages: 261
Date read: 02-08-2018
Category: Rolled 3 ~ Location #3 USA
Proof: "In the meantime, we had a brief honeymoon in Sodona right after I graduated with my degree from ASU (Arizona State University)."

15. Finished
Book: Carrying His Secret, Marie Ferrarella
Pages: 288
Date Read: 02-09-2018
Category: Rolled a 4 ~ Location #4 Big City
Proof: "His place in San Diego was closer and he regarded it as less of a sanctuary, do he gave the detective his address."

16. Finished
Book: Kiss a Girl in the Rain, Nancy Warren
Pages: 170
Date Read: 02-11-2018
Category: Rolled a 5 ~ Location #5 Traveling
Proof: "I'm going to tackle every item on Evan's Amazing Life List starting with Ride a Motorcycle Across the Country."

17. Finished
Book: Homecoming, Carolyne Aarsen
Pages: 278
Date Read: 02-13-2018
Category: Rolled a 1 ~ Physical #1 Blonde Hair
Proof: "A long swath of blonde hair hung down her back almost to the waistband of a tight, short skirt."

18. Finished
Book: Wolf Signs, Vivian Arend
Pages 156
Date Read: 02-13-2018
Category: Rolled a 4 ~ Physical #4 Shape Shifter
Proof: "All Right, don't get your fur in a knot. I'll shift, but you keep an eye on her."

19. Finished
Book: Mohawk Moon, N. Kuhn
Pages: 178
Date Read: 02-14-2018
Category: Rolled a 2 ~ Physical # 2 Very tall
Proof: "He is taller than me by almost a foot, if I recall correctly, even with stilettos on earlier."

Book 1 -Finished-
Book: A Little Yuletide Murder by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain
Pages: 290
Date Read:1/29/2018
Category: Vocation; rolled a 4 - a detective/amateur sleuth/PI
Proof: "What do you really think Jess? You write about murders and have ended up solving some real ones."

Book 2-
Book: Godblind by Anna Stephens
Pages: 396
Date Read:
Category: Vocation, Rolled 2 - in the military
Proof:

Book 1 - Finished
Book: Undead and Unwed by MaryJanice Davidson
Pages: 288
Date Read: 2/1/18
Category: Vocation, Rolled 6 - unemployed
Proof: "I was undead and unemployed, and couldn't live off Jessica's charity forever. Loc 2063

Book 2 - Finished
Book: Elven Blood by Debra Dunbar
Pages: 332
Date Read: 2/6/18
Category: Physical Attributes, Rolled 4 - be able to change shape
Proof: Two steps and I was on him - transformed from cockroach back to human as I emerged from under the ber. Loc 9059

Book 3 - Finished
Book: Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin
Pages: 314
Date Read: 2/9/18
Category: Age, Rolled 3 - in their twenties
Proof: I’ve seen more horror than I care to remember in my twenty-five years. Loc 378

Book 4 - Finished
Book: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Pages: 399
Date Read: 2/12/18
Category: Location, Rolled 2 - live on an island
Proof: "It's my opinion that this island is too dangerous." Loc 6925

Book 5 - Finished
Book: Demon Night by Sara Bourgeois
Pages: 174
Date Read: 2/13/18
Category: Vocation, Rolled 5 - business owner
Proof: He could keep her sane and grounded while she ran her business. Loc 4093

I picked the age category and rolled a 3 for "in their twenties" - will find and hopefully start something today

Dates Completed: 5

Book 1 - Finished
Book: Beguiling by Alex Lucian
Pages: 300
Date Read: 1/25/2018
Category: Physical Attributes; rolled a 6 - have brown eyes 
Proof: "And she sounded sincere, the dark brown of her big eyes looking honest enough."

Book 2 - Finished
Book: Shut Out by Kody Keplinger
Pages: 273
Date Read: 1/26/2018
Category: Vocation; rolled a 1 -  a student
Proof: "It was Monday, my first day back at school since I’d caught Randy with The Blonde... " (She's a senior at high school.)

Book 3 - Finished
Book: Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Pages: 292
Date Read: 1/28/2018
Category: Age; rolled a 6 - older than 100 or ageless/immortal
Proof: "When people ask how old I am, I just tell them twenty-one, and if they assume I mean years instead of decades or centuries, then that can‘t be my fault, can it?" (He's 2100 years old.)

Book 4 - Finished
Book: Split by Swati Avasthi
Pages: 280
Date Read: 2/9/2018
Category: Location; rolled a 3 - live in the USA
Proof: "I try to think up a good lie, but nothing comes to mind. “I was in the neighborhood”? Yeah, right. It’s nineteen hours from Chicago to Albuquerque."

Book 5 - Finished
Book: Force of Gravity by Kelly Stevenson
Pages: 422
Date Read: 2/11/2018
Category: Vocation; rolled a 1 - a student
Proof: "He doesn’t want an eighteen-year-old senior in high school—he just got caught up in the moment." (She is the eighteen-year-old senior in high school.)

Book 6
Book: Wicked Ties by Shayla Black
Pages: 341
Date Read:
Category: Vocation; rolled a 5 - a business owner
Proof: "He owns a personal security company and has been bodyguard to senators..."

Does anyone know if the characters in A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue are in their 20’s?

Rachel wrote: "Does anyone know if the characters in A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue are in their 20’s?"

Monty, the MC, is 18, and I think the rest of the important characters are teens as well.

Rosaline wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Does anyone know if the characters in A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue are in their 20’s?"

Monty, the MC, is 18, and I think the rest of the important characters are teens as ..."
Ah too bad, I'll keep looking! Thanks, I kept digging through reviews but was afraid I'd hit a spoiler.

Rachel wrote: "Rosaline wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Does anyone know if the characters in A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue are in their 20’s?"

Monty, the MC, is 18, and I think the rest of the important charact..."

The girl in Her Baby, His Love is age 26. I have already read it.

I found one on my TBR, Ink & Bone by Lisa Unger

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Rachel wrote: "Ah too bad, I'll keep looking! Thanks, I kept digging through reviews but was afraid I'd hit a spoiler."

No problem at all :^)

Romancing the Stone Spreadsheet

Guys, do any of you have any suggestions for a book with an immortal MC?

I would say anything with Gods or vampires or demons....

Or vampires or fae

Thank you guys! :^)

Dates Completed: 1

Book 1 - Finished
Book: Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger
Pages: 352
Date Read: 1/28/2018
Category: Age; rolled a 3 - in their twenties
Proof: "For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future." From the blurb

Book 2
Blackfin Sky by Kat Ellis
Date Read: 1/29/18
Pages: 304
Category: Vocation; rolled a 1 - be a student
Proof: "Just like any other morning, Skylar Rousseau is late for school, but when she is greeted by a blanket of silent stares upon entering Blackfin High, she discovers that the whole town thought she fell from the pier and drowned on her sixteenth birthday three months earlier." from the blurb

Book 3
The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons
Date Read: 1/30/18
Pages: 334
Category: Age; rolled a 2 - be a teenager
Proof: From the blurb: "In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide."

Book Four
Rapture in Death by JD Robb
Date Read: 2/6/18
Pages: 253
Category: Vocation; Rosaline's date - 4, be a detective, amateur sleuth or PI
Proof: "A homicide detective who wears her shoulder harness as another woman might an heirloom necklace wasn't my conception of Roarke's choice."

Book 5 -
Book: Ceremony in Death by JD Robb
Pages: 261
Date Read: 2/13/18
Category: Location; rolled a 4 - live in a large city
Proof: "Peabody took a cleansing breath, pleased to be back in the midst of the arrogant and crowded New York she understood." Page 125 - Eve and all characters live in NYC

Is anyone interested in switching with my roll? :(

Rosaline, I could take it

I requested access to the spreadsheet, my email starts with the name Rachel

Rosaline wrote: "Is anyone interested in switching with my roll? :("
I don't completely get the rules - are you allowed to roll again until I am done with your roll? If not, I apologize I'm not the fastest reader and it could be up to Tues/Wed before I finish (depending on how exciting the book is and how much I want to ditch my other life duties for it, haha)

Message # 23 is the spreadsheet. We currently have 16 books read. I know of one group ahead of us but I haven't checked in two or three days.

If Rosaline takes Rachel's roll then Rachel can't roll for another book until Rosaline finishes the book she took for Rachel. That is the way I read the rules.

Hi Team.

Yes, as I understand it too, Rachel can't read for another date until her current date is read for, whether by her or someone else.

Ok since I haven't heard otherwise from Rosaline, I'll get crackin on her roll and try my best to finish quickly :)

Jane - when I click on that link it tells me that I need permission to view the spreadsheet, no big deal if I can't, but was curious to look at it. I clicked on "request permission to view"

I’ve had to return the book I was currently reading back to the library. My renewal didn’t take or something and someone else wants it now.

I’ve got a hold on the ebook copy but I’m 3rd in line so I doubt I’ll get it back again before the end of the challenge.

So I guess I’m tapping out for this, which sucks but I don’t have access to another copy for now. If I manage to get the ebook I’ll continue reading it but I’m not holding my breath.

It’s been fun while it lasted though haha.

Rachel wrote: "Rosaline, I could take it"

Thank you so much, Rachel! :)

Rosaline wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Rosaline, I could take it"

Thank you so much, Rachel! :)"

Finished!

The only way to open the spreadsheet I can figure out is to use your email address. If you want to send them to me in a message, I will not share but put it into the spreads sheet.

I tried something different on the spreadsheet, see if it will work for you now. I use spreadsheets all the time but this is the first one I have used that is online.

Rachel wrote: "Rosaline wrote: "Rachel wrote: "Rosaline, I could take it"

Thank you so much, Rachel! :)"

Finished!"

Yayyyyy thank you so much Rachel! I will start rolling again. :):)

Rosaline, you can't read for your next date until Rachel finishes the book for that date.

Sunshine✰✰✰ wrote: "Rosaline, you can't read for your next date until Rachel finishes the book for that date."

Oh, I thought she finished it!!

I did.

Oh, I'm sorry! I totally missed the Finished part! :-D

One more week guys! I took my kids to Target to buy their friend's valentines today, it's coming up fast!

As of 02-09-2018 we have 26 books read!

2 More days! We're doing great!

Finished my last book for this challenge, thanks for the fun everyone!

I tried to update the spreadsheet but I have "view only" access

I have posted another thread in this folder about a possible team challenge in the future. Could everyone please take a look and give me some feedback?