Christian Fiction Bloggers discussion

Team Evening
Katrina
S.K.
Staci
Emily
Megan
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🌟Please make sure to post your finished books on your team's score thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Hi team!

Hi! I’m excited to start a new challenge with you all :)

Hello team!

Hi everyone, excited to be on your team! Happy Easter!

First category called!

Round 1: April 10th-23rd

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: Table

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Horse

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date
Called: 9

Any books started on/after April 10th and finished by the end of this round are eligible for the bonus points + page points if they work for one of the called categories. All other books finished will just earn page points.
Please post your finished books in your team's score thread as soon as possible.

This will show what categories are remaining...

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
🌟Items:
Heart, Grass, Hat, Dress, Dog, Snow, Book, Mode of transportation (car, plane, wagon, ship, etc.), House, Stars/Moon, Shoes

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)
🌟Words:
flower, tree, fence, chair, key, water, bridge, umbrella, love, home, forever
🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date
🌟Numbers:
2, 19, 8, 4, 18, 7, 15, 11, 16, 10, 3,

What are your reading plans for this week? Any suggestions for books that meet the called categories for April 10-23?

I’ve been scouring my tbr lists for books that meet the requirements. So far I have:
The Case for Christ (pub 1998)
The Horse and his Boy (horse)
The Telling of the Beads by Avellina Balestri (299 pg)
The Hunter by Hannah E Carey (249 pg)
The Snow Wolf by Amberlyn Holland (219 pg)
Whitehorse Peak by PG Badzey (horse)

We’ll see how many I get done. I’m also curious if my co-workers at the library will have any suggestions.

I also used some filters on Amazon to find Christian horse books. I hope this link works: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Horse&...

I am planning to read the following books for the categories:

The Last Chance Cowboy (horse)
Foremost (published 2019)
A Place at Our Table (table)

Body of Evidence (do you think this would count for a table? It is a coroner's table.)

Katrina wrote: "I am planning to read the following books for the categories:

The Last Chance Cowboy (horse)
Foremost (published 2019)
A Place at Our Table (table)
..."

I'll take autopsy/coroner's table for table.

As a reminder, you can read as many books as you want, books only need to work for one of the called categories to earn the bonus points, and any books read that don't work for any category will still earn page points.

Great, thanks, Melanie. I will probably read Body of Evidence then rather than A Place at Our Table, but if I get them both done.... just more bonus points.

Next categories called! These go through May 7:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: Grass

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Bridge

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 19

I will do my best over the next two weeks to get some books read, but this particular Round (Round 2) will be tricky as my son is getting married on May 5, so I will be busier than usual!!

Things are a little crazy for me too right now. I’ll be moving houses in two stages, so basically two moves a month apart. I will be doing my best to listen to audiobooks as I pack and things like that.

Katrina wrote: "I will do my best over the next two weeks to get some books read, but this particular Round (Round 2) will be tricky as my son is getting married on May 5, so I will be busier than usual!!"

Congratulations to you and your son! How exciting!

Emily wrote: "Things are a little crazy for me too right now. I’ll be moving houses in two stages, so basically two moves a month apart. I will be doing my best to listen to audiobooks as I pack and things like ..."

That a lot! Moving is SO much work. I pray all goes great with both moves.

My family has a lot going on right now too. My daughter will soon graduate from college - hooray! My son is a college freshman and we'll need to get both of them moved out of their dorms the same weekend as graduation. Fortunately, their schools are only an hour apart.

Good luck with all your moving, Emily, audiobooks are a great way to get reading done when busy.

Congrats to your daughter, Staci, that is wonderful! Good luck with moving out of the dorms. Our son who is getting married graduated college last year, and I know how busy it gets with both moving and grad ceremonies.

May 8-21 has been announced. I think this will be easier to find. The word "tree" is likely to be found in most books.

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: Dog

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Tree

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 16

How is everyone’s reading going? Has anything been really good that you read so far?

Busy weekend so not much reading time. How did we get to Monday so quickly?

Next category called.

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: Shoes

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Chair

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 10

Emily wrote: "How is everyone’s reading going? Has anything been really good that you read so far?"

I just finished A Heart Adrift by Laura Frantz and loved it!! I found the bonus word "tree" in the story. It could have been used for grass on the cover, but I didn't read it during that called week.

For this new round I am hoping to get the following books with shoes on the cover:



I will look for the word chair in the books I read.

Anyone have any suggestions for the number 10?

Katrina wrote: "Emily wrote: "How is everyone’s reading going? Has anything been really good that you read so far?"

I just finished A Heart Adrift by Laura Frantz and loved it!! I found the bonus word "tree" in t..."

Good finds on shoes! This is a favorite with shoes.

Round 5: June 5th-18th
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This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: Dress

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Umbrella

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 7

Lots of books with dresses on the cover. Umbrella may be a little harder to find than chair was.

Happy reading all!

I found umbrella... it is in the book at least 4 or 5 times in the first chapter!

Katrina wrote: "I found umbrella... it is in the book at least 4 or 5 times in the first chapter!"

Awesome! I hope to read that same book during this two week window.

Next round! This one will be a little more challenging than the last.

Round 7: July 3rd-16th

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
Called: House

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Key

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 11

Do you think these covers would count for house?

I think Jen's would, but not sure about Liz' book.

Katrina wrote: "Do you think these covers would count for house?

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Liz's book has "key" in its text - page 45.

Great, thanks ladies!

Next round called! I think this will be easier than the last one. Shouldn't a flower be mentioned in every book? :-)

Round 8: July 17th-30th

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
• Called: Mode of transportation (car, plane, wagon, ship, etc.)

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Flower

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 18

Sorry, team. I haven’t been on top of this challenge at all this time around. I moved, got a new puppy, and am starting to plan a wedding and a second move. It’s hard to read when I’m so busy and so happy daydreaming about and living my real life. I have read some books, though, and I just updated what I read over the past month. When I do read, I’ll try to keep it updated more often.

Life happens Emily. Enjoy these special moments. This is just a game so not a big deal at all.

Round 9: July 31st-August 13th

This round's called IT items are:

Cover | must be found on the cover of the book
• Called: Hat

Words | can be found in title, author's name, series' name, or even in the book's text (if using text, please list the sentence where it is found)

Called: Fence

🚨Plurals allowed, but otherwise must be exact (i.e. flowers is okay, but cannot use a type of flower [rose] for the word flower).

Numbers | can be found in the title/series/name, page count, or publication date

Called: 2

This should be easy with the number "2" so long as you are reading a book written in 2000 something.

That was fun! Special thanks to Jenn for joining late and going back to add her reads back to the beginning. That's a lot of work.

I almost finished two books last night, but I was too tired. Glad to know they wouldn't have made a difference for us. :-) First place was well ahead of the others.

I ejoyed being a part of your team even if it was only for a short time! I had a couple of books that I had intended to finished yesterday, but suddenly it was very late after a busy day. I was too worn out to finish them, also. Good job, you guys :)

Great game team! Thanks, Jenn, for joining us. You did do a lot of work to post all your books back to the beginning. Thanks so much! It was a lot of fun, and I think I read books I may not have read if not for the challenge. It will seem strange not looking for a word in the text when reading a book for the next little while... lol. :)

Yes! The word "home" kept jumping out as I finished a book this afternoon.