Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 2
September 13, 2020 through November 8, 2020
It's Not a Sprint, It's a Marathon!

Team 7:
✓ Stacie
✓ Snowtulip
✓ Louise
✓ LaurLa

The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Round 2
September 13, 2020 through November 8, 2020
It's Not a Sprint, It's a Marathon!

Tracking :
Task 1 - 0. As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. No pass for this task. 9.13.2020 - 9.19.2020
Task 2 - 3. Each player reads a book by a new to you author - no pass for this task. 9.19.2020 - 9.22.2020
Task 3 - 12. Read a book recommended to you by a teammate - no pass for this task. 9.22.2020 - 10.1.2020
Task 4 - 9. Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task. 10.1.2020 - 10.10.2020
Task 5 - 29. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession. 10.10.2020 - 10.17.2020
Task 6 - 22. Read 4 books #5 or higher in a series. 10.17.2020 - 10.25.2020
Task 7 - 68. Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles. 10.25.2020 - 11.4.2020
Task 8 - 53. Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. No pass for this task. 11.4.2020 - 11.8.2020

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.

There is a 150 page minimum for books, rereads and audios ok. Books may only be used once per player during the challenge. Players may read the same book for a task unless otherwise specified. Books do not have to be romance, but must be fiction.

**For this challenge, use the GR Kindle first edition page count if available. 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 7, you are free to come up with a team name. 😉

Morning everyone!

Whoo hoo!! I'll stop by later this afternoon to read the rules, going to a haircut I desperately need :D

I’m here

Team name suggestions:

Booking it around the world
Racy, Racing Readers

Our first task is tonight!! Looking forward to it :D. I can do tracking if you'd like?

Team Tracking

COMPLETED- TASK 8: (53). Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. No pass for this task.
New Mexico-Snowtulip

✓LaurLa: Completion Post
✓Louis: Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: Completion Post
✓Stacie: Completion Post

COMPLETED-TASK 7: (68) Read a minimum of 1200 pages in books with one word titles.
TOTAL=1394

✓LaurLa: Rebel | Completion Post
✓Louise: Fractured | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: Buns | Completion Post
✓Stacie: Chased | Completion Post

COMPLETED-TASK 6: (22) Read 4 books #5 or higher in a series.
✓LaurLa: Bear Meets Girl | Completion Post
✓Louise: Omega | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: Storm Cursed | Completion Post
✓Stacie: Charming Like Us | Completion Post

COMPLETED- TASK 5: (29) Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession.
TOTAL PAGES = 1323 pages

✓LaurLa: Lover on Top | Completion Post
✓Louise: Can't Help Falling in Love | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: Chasing Fire | Completion Post
✓Stacie: Hero | Completion Post

COMPLETED-TASK 4: (9) Each player reads a book in the same series, teams decide. No pass for this task.
Spindle Cove Series
✓LaurLa: Do You Want to Start a Scandal | Completion Post
✓Louise: A Week to Be Wicked | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: A Night to Surrender | Completion Post
✓Stacie: A Lady by Midnight | Completion Post


COMPLETED-TASK 3: (12) Read a book recommended to you by a teammate - no pass for this task.
✓LaurLa: The Dating Proposal | Completion Post
✓Louise: Season for Love | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: Nuts | Completion Post
✓Stacie: Confessions of an Alli Cat | Completion Post

COMPLETED-TASK 2: (3) Each player reads a book by a new to you author - no pass for this task. Please include a link to your read shelf in your completion post.

✓LaurLa: Naughty in Norway | Completion Post
✓Louise: Firewall | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: A Ferry of Bones & Gold | Completion Post
✓Stacie: P.S. I Spook You | Completion Post

COMPLETED-TASK 1: (0) As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. No pass for this task.

We choose: September 2019

✓LaurLa: Well Met | Completion Post
✓Louise: The Day We Meet Again | Completion Post
✓Snowtulip: The Mystery of the Bones | Completion Post
✓Stacie: A Crown of Iron & Silver | Completion Post

Team Tracking

Team Tracking

Team Tracking

Team Planning:

64. Read 6 books not set on a continent of a teammate. Space does not count - must be a real continent.

Looks like we're going to Australia for this one

53. Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. No pass for this task.
LaurLa: Indianapolis, IN, Brownsburg, IN (KA Burg Series)
Louise: Bangor, North Wales The Devil's Cliff Killings
Snowulip: Albuquerque, NM
Stacie: This would be College Park, MD or Poolesville, MD.

58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
LaurLa: 2013
Louise: 2017
Snowtulip: 2020
Stacie: 2017

91. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. No pass for this task.
LaurLa: 1969
Louise: 1978
Snowtulip: 1973
Stacie: 1978
298 pages

74. Read 6 books published in a teammates' birth month, you may not use your own month.
LaurLa: February
Louise: March
Snowtulip: February
Stacie: September

93. As a team, pick a Romance List from GR Listopia with less than 100 books on it, each teammate reads a book from that list. No pass for this task.
Link to Stacie's post

99. Each teammate lists 5 favorite books. Select books from 2 different teammates and read them.
LaurLa:

Louise:

Snowtulip:

Stacie:

I like Racy Readers!

I see Snowtulip is going to act as the team leader - thanks!

Still waiting for LaurLa. I will send her a PM shortly.

Stacie wrote: "I like Racy Readers!"

👍🏼

HERE WE GO!

Task 1 for all teams!

0. As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. No pass for this task.

For this task we are using the initial publication date. If one is listed at the top of the editions page, use that. Otherwise I will be looking for the first published date of an English language edition. Remember to use the first English language Kindle edition for your page count and ensure that your completion posts contain all the required information listed in message #3 of your team thread.

LaurLa, are you good with Racy Readers?

Not sure about favorite month, might be January before everything started going into lockdown?

Favorite month of 2019? May or September

Duoh! 2019 :D

Agree with September...fall colors...

I’m good with September

Snowtulip wrote: "LaurLa, are you good with Racy Readers?"

I'm Racy! ;-)

I like September or October. Lots of releases in October for holiday season, so that could be a good month. But I love Fall and we get our best color here in October.

Sorry I'm late. It's been a busy weekend!

Sounds like we all have September in common :D

Yay, happy to see you here LaruLa!

This clarification was posted in the Q&A:

Quick clarification. The first task is to chose a book initially published in your chosen month of 2019.

So we’re going for September?

So September 2019 then just to go with the clarification? Off to the TBR!

The Day We Meet Again One of the books I picked up from the library works 😊

I think I'm going to read A Crown of Iron & Silver

Crap. I have 3 Sept 2019 books. And they are all series books where I'm not close to getting to yet. Oy. Guess I'm off to go hunting a free book somewhere. I did not think I was picking a 2019 book... just a month. Not a fun start :-(

That's what I thought too, so glad she gave a clarification before we got too far into reading!

I'm going with The Mystery of the Bones

I'll probably add both Stacie and Louise books to my tbr! Just waiting to see if they are any good...

I found this relatively cheaply on Amazon - I had some credit so only paid 50 cents. I was hoping for something shorter though.



ETA - Berit gave it 5 stars so I'm hoping that means it's good and easy to read!

LaurLa wrote: "I found this relatively cheaply on Amazon - I had some credit so only paid 50 cents. I was hoping for something shorter though.



ETA - Berit gave it 5 stars so I'm ho..."


It is a good and easy read :)

Snowtulip wrote: "I'll probably add both Stacie and Louise books to my tbr! Just waiting to see if they are any good..."

The other two in the series have been great. Fun premise, lots of banter.

LaurLa wrote: "I found this relatively cheaply on Amazon - I had some credit so only paid 50 cents. I was hoping for something shorter though.



ETA - Berit gave it 5 stars so I'm ho..."

50 cents is a screamer deal!

Stacie wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "I'll probably add both Stacie and Louise books to my tbr! Just waiting to see if they are any good..."

The other two in the series have been great. Fun premise, lots of banter."

Ohh, I love banter, it's so hard to find sometimes.

Completion Post

Task: TASK 1: As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. (September)


Page numbers with source: 200 pages, GR
How book qualified: Published September 24, 2019
Date Completed: 9/15/20
Rating: 4 stars

Review: This is the last in the series, that I've really enjoyed. Seb is an amateur sleuth that you fall in love with because of the hijinks that seem to follow him around...then you have his stoic detective partner...just makes me happy. I also love their relationship, it's a great romance with sweetness.

Completion Post

TASK 1: As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. (September)

A Crown of Iron & Silver by Hailey Turner
Pages: 368 per GR
How the book qualifies: Published September 10, 2019
Date: 9/16
Rating: 3.5 stars

Review:
Another fun adventure with Jono and Patrick. This one was a little slow but I still enjoyed it. I kind of wanted to smack Wade a few times but he's a teenager. Books like this with the Fae in them make me want to do a bunch of research on the origins of the queens (summer and winter) and other things like that. I've really enjoyed this series so far, I think there's one left.

I'm starting tonight so I should have mine done sometime tomorrow, hopefully.

I was looking through the tasks and wanted to point out some that might take a little bit of discussion so we had the info all in one place at the time the task is called (if it's called).

64. Read 6 books not set on a continent of a teammate. Space does not count - must be a real continent. Looks like we're going to Australia for this one

53. Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. No pass for this task. This would be College Park, MD or Poolesville, MD. So I'm probably out LOL.

58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate. 2017 for me

91. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. No pass for this task. 1978 for me

74. Read 6 books published in a teammates' birth month, you may not use your own month. September


93. As a team, pick a Romance List from GR Listopia with less than 100 books on it, each teammate reads a book from that list. No pass for this task.
Here are some I found
December 2018 Most Anticipated Romances
2016 Paranormal Romance Urban Fantasy January - June
July/August 2014 Romance Release
November 2017 Recommended Romances
2016 Paranormal Romance Urban Fantasy July to December
Romance Debuts 2014
YA Celeb Romance
Best Male Escort Romance
September 2017 Recommended Romances on USAT's Happy Ever After
May June 2014 Romance Releases
Historical BDSM Romance
Best Hot Romances of 2011
Holiday Romances 2018
Favorite Single Dad Romances in 2018
2014 Must Read Romance
2018 Contemporary Romance Romantic Suspense January June

I'm kind of surprised you found so many lists with less than 100...seems the lists are always 25 pages long (seems to be when looking for genre books ;)

Another good one to plan for is this task:

99. Each teammate lists 5 favorite books. Select books from 2 different teammates and read them.

I've added a tracking post the for list Stacie posted and this one, so that we can have quick access.

Team Planning

My list:

53. Each teammate reads a book set in one of your teammates' home town (born in, raised in, currently live in - all work), teams decide. No pass for this task.
Albuquerque, NM - I only know of m/m romance books that take place in my town.

58. Read 6 books published in the year one of the teammates joined RRRC, teams decide which teammate.
2020

91. Add up the years of the teammates' births and each teammate reads a book with that minimum number of pages. For example, teammates were born in 75, 83, 87 and 94 - each teammate reads a book at least 339 pages long. No pass for this task.
1973

74. Read 6 books published in a teammates' birth month, you may not use your own month.
February

99. Each teammate lists 5 favorite books. Select books from 2 different teammates and read them.

Stacie wrote: "Completion Post

TASK 1: As a team select your favorite month of 2019 (because 2020 basically SUCKS!) and each player reads a book initially published in that month. (September)
[bookcover:A Crown ..."

Just saw that these are KU...might start this series sooner than later!