The Challenge Factory discussion

Captain ~ Grace

Jenne
Nay Nay
Shelby

Dice Roll (1 die Thursdays & Sundays US Central Time)
Discussion Thread
Time Zone Converter
Post Your Spot
R6: Spreadsheet

★Publication years, any edition so long as it is published in the given year.
★Covers must be at least 50%
★Locations as long as the book takes part in the given location at some point in the book.
★Author letters, first, middle, or last name must start with the given letter.
★Title letters, must be the first word in the title excluding the, a, and.
★Cover Item, must have the given item on the cover.
★The alternates with links are for shelves, your book must be on the given shelf.
★New item - Text item, your book must contain the given word and need to include the sentence with it and location when posting your review. Plurals will be ok to use.
★ Please link the proper edition when using publication year, cover item, and cover color.

The Alternates:
1. Mexico
2. White
3. 1999
4. Need to Buy
5. Title D
6. Cover Item Weapon
7. Author M
8. Text Item Garage
9. California
10. Purple
11. 2001
12. Read 2014
13. Title L
14. Cover Item Shoe(s)
15. Author J
16. Text Item Broom
17. Spain
18. Gray/Silver
19. 1995
20. Interesting
21. Title W
22. Cover Item Hat
23. Author H
24. Text Item Ambulance
25. China
26. Orange
27. 2000
28. Done
29. Title T
30. Cover Item Water
31. Author Z
32. Text Item Sidewalk
33. Nevada
34. Red
35. 2007
36. Made Me Cry
37. Title B
38. Cover Item Building(s)
39. Author K
40. Text Item Envelope
41. Tennessee
42. Brown
43. 2011
44. Ereader
45. Title E
46. Cover Item A Dress
47. Author I
48. Text Item Sink
49. New York
50. Pink
51. 2002
52. Favorite Author
53. Title R
54. Cover Item 2 People
55. Author S
56. Text Item Thunder
57. France
58. Black
59. 2014
60. Beautiful Covers
61. Title G
62. Cover Item Fire
63. Author B
64. Text Item Lace
65. Australia
66. Green
67. 2012
68. Cute
69. Title S
70. Cover Item An Animal
71. Author L
72. Text Item Midnight
73. Oregon
74. Multi-Colored (3 or More Colors)
75. 2009
76.Set Aside
77. Title C
78. Cover Item No People
79. Author A
80. Text Item Butterfly
81. Scotland
82. Yellow
83. 2006
84. Four Star
85. Title M
86. Cover Item Moon
87. Author F
88. Text Item Gloves
89. England
90. Blue
91. 2010
92. Priority Reads
93. Title G
94. Cover Item Flower(s)
95. Author E
96. Text Item Mountain
97. Illinois
98. Purple
99. 2013
100. Read Me
(view spoiler)[101. Purple
102. Author A
103. 2001
104. Author K
105. Set Aside
106. Text Item Ambulance (hide spoiler)]

Hi Teamies! So excited to start =]
I'll try to think of some name ideas. Any volunteers for captain?

Hi everybody! Jenne I have to say I'm really excited to actually play on a team with you this time around. :) Yay!

I'll try and think of some team names here shortly...ok admittedly probably tomorrow when it's not 1:30am. Hehehe.

As for captain I'd really prefer not to. I have so many other balls in the air right now I'd rather just have the free range to check in and read. :)

Hi Ladies...looking forward to another round. For team Captain, I have a lot going on, and will be traveling soon.

Names:

Sassy Divas
The Bookies
Bookmarkers
Novel Characters
As The Page Turns

I can be captain if Grace doesn't want to. With Shelby being on the west coast and Grace being across the pond it's to our advantage to have one of y'all roll the dice if you want to. The weekend roll isn't a problem I'm up. It's the Thursday roll I'm not, I could roll as soon as I get up though.

That's right Shelby, we've never been on the same team. Nay Nay and I were last round. I'm pretty sure this is Grace's first time to play.

Hi just seeing this. If me being in this part of the world helps I can do captain. I haven't done Captain for anything like this before so you will have to keep me right to start with.

I suck at names I like NayNay's As the page turns or the Boomarkers.

My pathetic ideas

It's all about the books
Better Read than Dead
Beyond Words
Chapter and verse
Serial Slayers

Jenne wrote: "That's right Shelby, we've never been on the same team. Nay Nay and I were last round. I'm pretty sure this is Grace's first time to play."

Yes my first time playing this one. Shelby and I are on the same team for M/M bingo.

Hey Grace!!! I love Better Read than Dead lol :)

If you want the captain job it's all yours :)

If you want me to do the captain stuff the first roll or 2 so you can see I'm more than happy to. Or I'm happy to explain it all. You're call =]

I'm easy either way. What time on Thursday and Sunday do we make the rolls ? I have to go pick up my monsters from school. Thank goodness tomorrow is Paddy's Day so a nice day off :)

As long as all of the reviews are in the earliest we can roll is at midnight central time. I think that would be like 5am for you, so no need to get up early for it. Just whenever you get a moment too.

We just finished Spring Break last week and I'm glad to have my minions back at school!

Looks like Grace will be our fearless leader :)
Any preferences on our name? Better Read than Dead gets my vote, reminds me of the walking dead lol.

Grrr Gr has eaten my post like 3 times now....

Ok we officially kick off tomorrow. Grace if you're on the same timezone as Dublin, anytime after 5am you're time we can roll. So just whenever you get a chance to in the morning. After you roll post it here on the team's thread and also on the post your spot thread. The link to the dice roller is in post 2 of our thread but you'll have to change it to 1 die.

Our potential first roll:
1. 1st in a series, a standalone, or a book set in Mexico
2. 2nd in a series or a book with a white cover
3. 3rd in a series or a book published in 1999
4. 4th in a series or any book on the Need to Buy shelf
5. 5th in a series or a title that starts with D
6. 6th in a series or a book with a weapon on the cover


Also peeps let's decide on our team name =]

Jenne yes I am on the same time zone as Dublin and London. I am usually up by around 7am my time. So I can post then.

I am trying to think of books for each of the numbers.

I like Better Read than Dead too. :) I'm a little crazy this week, but I'm trying to get all my links set up and organized to make my check ins easy. And Yay for Grace! You're going to be awesome.

I rolled the die and our first roll is a 4

So book 4 from a series or Need to Buy

Week one Thursday Roll
Rolled 4
Move to Spot 4

Book 4 Elemental Assassin series 357 pages

I forgot to say I am happy with the name Better Read that Dead

Off to raid my books =]

I'm gonna close out the Jane Jameson series

Grace the EA book was a good one!

Jenne I enjoyed that Jane Jenson one, I love her humour. I am at 47% with Gin, loving it so far. Took a break to go make a cottage pie fr dinner :)

I luuuuuuv Dick Cheney :)

I'm listening to this one, I think I'm 30% in or so.

Hello ladies, I am excited to start the game....

I will be reading from NEED TO BUY list PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (pg 3)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I'm about to run out the door, but I'll look through my books and post sometime this evening. :)

I should be done with mine in 2 hours if work cooperates lol.

NayNay wrote: "Hello ladies, I am excited to start the game....

I will be reading from NEED TO BUY list PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (pg 3)

Pride and Prejudice by [author:..."

One of my all time favourite books. I reread this at least once a year. I am done I just need to write a review which I really suck at.

It doesn't have to be fancy Grace.

Jenne wrote: "It doesn't have to be fancy Grace."

That's good I find it hard enough to be coherent. I am definitely a reader not a writer.

Mine are usually pretty blunt. Unless I just loved it or hated it...those I tend to write more about lol.

Spot 4 by Jennifer Estep
Read 19th March 2015

★★★★

I am enjoying this series more and more. Gin is such a great character and she shows her kick ass side to it's best in this one. I love all the supporting characters in these books, especially Finn and Sophia although Owen is growing on me. This one brings her closer to facing off with Mab. I can't wait to read the next one.

Fin is awesome! I'd love to have him as a brother.

Me too, he is a lot of fun and he can hold his own. Gin has a great extended family.

Week 1: Covet by J.R. Ward - 474pgs/GR
Shelved 6 times as Need to Buy - Pg. 45

Spot 4:
Read: by Molly Harper
Finished: 3/20/15
Rating: ★★★★★
Review:

4.75
This was awesome! I lol'ed quite a few times while listening to it. Lots of great Dick Chaney moments too! From my understanding this was the last one and that makes me sad. Jane is always a good pick me up when you want a quick, funny, and entertaining read. I'm not sure where the story arc could go from this point anyways though. Jane seemed to come to terms with a lot of things in this book. I'm happy with the way everything went down. Jane deserves a HEA.

Grace you'll also have to do a tracking post each roll.

Just a link to each person's review and the book they read.
Then when we roll again link that tracking post to the post your spot thread with the new roll.

Here's one I did from last round

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jenne How to I link to a specific post in a thread ?

Click on the time date stamp on the right side. Then just cut the URL from the address bar and paste it into the (a href="")name of link(/a)

Change any ( ) to < > and you're good to go.

Week 1 Thursday Roll SPOT 4

Jenne Review
Grace Review
NayNay Review
Shelby Review

Thanks Jenne, I can just about do links but hadn't tried to link to a specific post before. I think that is right so far.

They worked :)

Took me forever to figure out so much of that stuff. It's hard to show someone since showing the codes just does what you're trying to do. That's why I loaded pictures of the codes here in the handbook folder so people can actually see. Would of helped me learn a lot faster if I'd of had a visual reference lol.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Week: 1
Spot: 4
Alternate: Need to Buy
Read: 03.20.15
Rating: 5 stars

It is no mistake when you find a really good book, we are pulled towards it sometimes by it's cover, sometimes by the name of an author, sometimes by an unknown force that just leads us to that one shelf with that on amazing book on it!!! PRIDE AND PREJUDICE is that amazing book for me, I cannot tell you how many time I read this book and it is hard to believe but I do fall in love with it a little more each time. I mean how can you not love Mr. Darcy? He was my first book character crush, and I just realized today....HE STILL IS!!!

Swoon worthy moment of the book - "My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on...."

Woot woot 3 down, we rock :)

Shelby how's yours coming along?

I might be able to roll at midnight as DH has to work tomorrow and needs to be up at 5am. If I can drag myself up :)

Jenne I am ok to roll without Shelby's review or do I have to wait for it ?

We have to wait for it.

Jenne wrote: "We have to wait for it."

Thanks Jenne that is what I thought but just checking. I did get up at 5am to check for it then went back to bed. I tidied up my review post to look a bit neater for later. It is after 10 am and my boys have just got up. I heard my eldest reading his brother late last night. I should have told them to get to sleep but I hate to discourage reading :)