Monthly Challenges discussion

If you have any questions or comments for the FEBRUARY Tasks, ask them here.
Feel free to Chit - Chat here too!

For the 5 point task ~ can chocolates be used as a singular chocolate or does it have to be the plural form?

It can be both - I'll fix it. 😊

For HOUSE OF SWEETS - Candy Hearts

Are we looking for the word in the TITLE? or in the TEXT of the book?

Book Concierge wrote: "For HOUSE OF SWEETS - Candy Hearts

Are we looking for the word in the TITLE? or in the TEXT of the book?"

I intended it to be a title word.

Hooray! February Tasks is now completed!

Happy Reading Everyone! Thanks again to: The Adventures, Pat, Amber, and Mickslibrarian

Now I just need to get motivated to read a book. I'm having a struggle this month ... lots of real life distractions.

Horse show season has started - I had a show last weekend, then I have clinics scheduled the next two weekends, and I'm judging a show the following weekend. And that's February done.

And March is shaping up to be about the same.

I'm just hoping to just squeeze a book in here and there, and there's always audios, right?

Audio Books are lifesavers :D Hang in There Pat! Enjoy your Horses! 🐎
In Ag class, I remember learning, cows produce more milk listening to classical music. Maybe, your horses would like listening to a good cozy mystery or maybe a good horse story, like . :D I ♥️ horses!

I did a quick search in my library's catalog, and whattayaknow. There it is. And now it's in my hold queue.

Great! It was recommend to me by a GR friend, try to read last month but definitely this month. A good way to celebrate the kick off of opening weekend (next week) of the Rodeo.

PAT - Task # 2
Task B ~ Read a book that has at least 2 of the digits in Lincoln's birthday in its page count.
FEB 12, 1809 ~ 0, 1, 1, 2, 8, 9

(Same question re Washington's birthday)

So ... you are NOT using the number for the month of February at all? Only the day and year?

Thanks for the clarification ...

Me again for PAT ..

George Washington
FEB 12, 1732 ~ 1 , 1, 2, 2, 3, 7

Shouldn't this date be Feb 22, 1732 ~ 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 7?

Book Concierge wrote: "Me again for PAT ..

George Washington
FEB 12, 1732 ~ 1 , 1, 2, 2, 3, 7

Shouldn't this date be Feb 22, 1732 ~ 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 7?"

Book Concierge wrote: "PAT - Task # 2


So ... you are NOT using the number for the month of February at all? Only the day and year? ..."

Correct, only day and year.


Book Concierge wrote: "Me again for PAT ..

George Washington
FEB 12, 1732 ~ 1 , 1, 2, 2, 3, 7

Shouldn't this date be Feb 22, 1732 ~ 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 7?"?"

It should be! Yes! Copy paste is not my friend. ::sigh:: I double checked it about a bazillion times too.

Feb 22, 1732 ~ 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 7

Diana can you edit my task #2.3 to reflect the correction to GW's second birthday date?

Pat, is it just the date or do you care to rewrite the GW part of the task?

If that's the case, just rewrite it below and I'll add it to the task thread.
Will that work?

It's just the date part for the second date in the task...

Should look like
Feb 22, 1732 ~ 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 7

Thanks, D.

Ok will do

It's done 👍

Thanks, D.

DRATS ... I had picked my Lottery books in my spreadsheet, but apparently never posted in the thread.
Didn't notice till I went in this morning to check the picks and realized I didn't have a post listing my six books.

S*I*G*H

Book Concierge wrote: "DRATS ... I had picked my Lottery books in my spreadsheet, but apparently never posted in the thread.
Didn't notice till I went in this morning to check the picks and realized I didn't have a post..."

I'm happy to share my list with you. ;-)

I hate when I make a goof like that!

Thanks, Pat ... but I'll read my # 2 and # 5 and won't get credit for them. Not the end of the world.

Book Concierge wrote: "Thanks, Pat ... but I'll read my # 2 and # 5 and won't get credit for them. Not the end of the world."


That's disappointing. I'm struggling to get books read this month myself. ::sigh::

I read Love Medicine first book out of the gate this month, and I have decided to just give up on Louise Erdrich. I simply cannot connect to her writing in a meaningful way. I've read three of her novels and didn't really understand ANY of them.

Then I read French Braid, which felt kind of similar to the Erdrich book, in that there was a STORY there, but I just couldn't figure out what it was.

And then - OMG. The Great Believers. I haven't been able to pick up and get into a book since I finished it three days ago. I cried. I raged. I ended up emotionally and spiritually drained at the end of that, and I simply cannot get the story out of my head. I want to read and enjoy another book. I have a PILE of books that I need to read and enjoy, and I just cannot seem to move past the 1986 Chicago Boystown AIDS epidemic crisis.

I've had horse events every single weekend for the last three weekends, and another one every weekend in February, so I'm not finding a whole lot of reading time anyway, and to have a "finished" book stay stuck in my head isn't making me the most proficient reader this month.

(( O )) (( O )) <----- spinning my wheels

Book Concierge wrote: "DRATS ... I had picked my Lottery books in my spreadsheet, but apparently never posted in the thread.
Didn't notice till I went in this morning to check the picks and realized I didn't have a post..."

Oh no! I done that too in the past 🫤
But this month is read-a-thon, read them during that time and get points that way 🙂

🌹 Happy Valentine s Day 🌹
A TOAST 🍷 to You ALL!!! ♥️

I ♥️ Valentine's Day, because my birthday 🎂 is the day before, February 13, so it becomes a two- days celebration 🎊 😃

Happy Valentine's Day - enjoy what you love!

Oooo yummy!