Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Here is where we post our official lists and update our progress.

Special thanks to the members who regularly stop by at the Suggestions Thread and share their input. It definitely helped me a lot when I put together the monthly categories. Thanks, guys.

1. January: Read a book which title starts with “J”.

2. Birthday: Read a book from a January B-day celebrant’s GR bookshelf whose “day” falls on the same “day” as yours. If no one has the exact same day, then go for the closest date. (http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2...)

3. Geography: Read a book whose author, setting or character is from Delaware.

4. New Year Read a book by an author that is 'new' to you.

5. Beginnings Read a book that is the first book in a series, or a debut novel by an author.

6. Appreciate your Dragon Day Read a book that has dragons in it.

7. National Take Back Your Time Week Read a book with time travel, or has an element of time as part of its title (midnight, noon, evening, etc).

8. Rose Parade: Read a book that has flowers on its cover or as part of its title.

9. January Weather Depending on where you are, January can be a 'cold' month or a 'hot' month. Read a book that is set in a place that has the opposite weather to where you currently are.

10. Reader's Choice

Challenge Duration: January 1 – January 31, 2011

You can choose 3, 5, 8 or all 10 categories depending on your reading speed, books availability and/or time commitment.

When posting your challenge progress, please make sure to put the date/s when you finished your book/s. It will really help us with the group updates.

Here to another year of great reading!

yay i'm in!!

1. January: Jacob - Jacquelene Frank (also a new to me author)
2. Birthday: The Kite Runner (from Steph's shelf)
3. Geography: Are You Scared Yet? - Hunter Morgan (set in Delaware)
4. New Year: something Georgette Heyer (yes, I admit, never read anything by her!)
5. Beginnings: Skye's Trail - Angelini Bk 1
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Father of Dragons
7. National Take Back Your Time Week: One Night With You
8. Rose Parade: The Rose of Sebastopol
9. January Weather: Its cold-ish in DC right now, so I guess I gotta go with a warm book
10. Reader's Choice: Warrior

I'm in :)

1. Starts with J - Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey
2. Bithday(Valorie) - Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning (reread)
3. Delaware - This Fierce Loving by Judith E French
4. New Author - Black Wings by Christina Henry
5. First in series - Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning (reread)
6. Dragons - Dragon Actually by G.A. Aiken
7. TimeTravel - A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
8. Flowers - Seduced by Virginia Henley
9. Hot Month - Ain't She Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
10. My choice - Faefever by Karen Marie Moning (reread)

Of course I'm in. I'll post as I go.

I'm in again! Will post my list later.

I'm in!! I'll post later :)

i'm in list to follow

I'm in. I'll post as I go.

0/10

1. January: Jovah's Angel by Sharon Shinn

2. Birthday: The Darkest Passion byGena Showalter (My birthday is September 21, so I picked Shannon who's is the 22nd of January. Closest I could get. Happy birthday Shannon!)

3. Geography: Read a book whose author, setting or character is from Delaware.

4. New Year: Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

5. Beginnings: Covet by J.R. Ward

6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis

7. National Take Back Your Time Week: Read a book with time travel, or has an element of time as part of its title (midnight, noon, evening, etc).

8. Rose Parade: Read a book that has flowers on its cover or as part of its title.

9. January Weather Depending on where you are, January can be a 'cold' month or a 'hot' month. Read a book that is set in a place that has the opposite weather to where you currently are.

10. Reader's Choice Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda

I'm in for at least 5. List to be posted later.

I am in for all 10

I'm in. Let me get my list together :)

0/10 DONE

1. "J": Just the Way You Are - Christina Dodd
2. B-Day(Angie): Skin Trade - Laurel K. Hamilton
3. Delaware: TBD (possible skip)
4. New Year/New Author: Night's Rose - Annaliese Evans
5. Beginnings: Bloodring (Rogue Mage series) - Faith Hunter
6. Dragon: Naked Dragon - Annette Blair
7. Take Back Your Time: In the Midnight Hour - Kimberly Raye
8. Rose Parade: So Into You - Sandra Hill
9. January Weather (NJ): Blue Bayou - JoAnn Ross
10. Choice: Lover Mine - J.R. Ward

[TBD]

I've got a question for you all. What sources do you use to find out what state a book is set in? Is there a search you can do to find out? I don't have a clue about Delaware books

I'm in. Going for all ten again. Here is my list - so far:


1. January: Just Toying Around... by Rhonda Nelson
2. Birthday: (Katherine) Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
3. Geography: The Reluctant Bride by Barbara Bretton
4. New Year: In the Master's Bed by Blythe Gifford
5. Beginnings: Rakes and Radishes by Susanna Ives
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Loch Dragon's Lady by Christine McKay
7. National Take Back Your Time Week: Highland Fling by Jennifer LaBrecque
8. Rose Parade: Black Rose by Nora Roberts
9. January Weather: Hot Island Nights by Sarah Mayberry
10. Reader's Choice: Ride the Fire by Jo Davis

I'm in! I'll post as I go. :)

I am in!

OF COURSE IM IN! I've been waiting for this for days! :D
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RRRC 2011 January Monthly Reading Challenge
Challenge Duration: January 1-31, 2011

10/10 Done!

1. January: Jacob (Nightwalkers #1) by Jacquelyn Frank 01/11 ★★★★☆
2. Delitealex’ Birthday: Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #6)by Charlaine Harris 01/14 ★★★★☆
3. Dover, not Delaware, but UK: His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire #1) by Naomi Novik 01/21 ★★★★★
4. New Year: Forgive My Fins (Fins, #1) by Tera Lynn Childs 01/04 ★★★★☆
5. Beginnings: Hex Hall (Hex Hall, #1) by Rachel Hawkins 01/09 ★★★☆☆
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Light My Fire (Aisling Grey: Guardian, #3) by Katie MacAlister 01/14 ★★★★☆
7. National Take Back Your Time Week: The Fiery Cross (Outlander, #5) by Diana Gabaldon 01/30 ★★★★★
8. Rose Parade: As You Desire by Connie Brockway 01/16 ★★★★★
9. January Weather (UK): Mine Till Midnight (The Hathaways #1) by Lisa Kleypas 01/18 ★★★★★
10. Reader's Choice: Lady Isabella's Scandalous Marriage (Highland Pleasures, #2) by Jennifer Ashley 01/03 ★★★★★



*list still subject to change

I'm coming clean. I cheated the geography category. I was looking up shelves under Dover and saw His Majesty's Dragon. It's a really amazing book, however, due to my ignorance, I didn't know that there's also a Dover in UK. I just realized it when I was already in the middle and engrossed with the book. I was supposed to set things right, but I'm afraid there's no more time for me to do so. It's already January 31 here in the Philippines, and I just finished 1443 pages of The Fiery Cross. But still, His Majesty's Dragon was a pretty neat discovery. There's almost no regrets for me. I just wish I had more time.

I'm in, and this is what I have so far and I will post the rest later!


1.January:

2.Birthday: Sweet Talk, by Susan Mallery - taken from Maria's bookshelf :)

3.Geography:

4.New Year: A Hopeless Romantic by Harriett Evans

5. Beginnings:

6. Dragons:

7. Time Travel:

8. Rose Parade: Roses Will Bloom Again by Lori Copeland

9. January Weather Depending on where you are, January can be a 'cold' month or a 'hot' month. Read a book that is set in a place that has the opposite weather to where you currently are.

10. Reader's Choice

Wait. How does the birthday thing work?

I'm in but i'll post later!

I'm in!

0/10

1. January: Jewels of the Sun
2. Birthday: (Happy Birthday Sarah) Crave
3. Geography: Bound by Honor
4. New Year: Tall, Dark & Hungry
5. Beginnings: A Kiss of Shadows(Meredith Gentry #1)
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Heart of the Dragon
7. National Take Back Your Time Week: Midnight Angel
8. Rose Parade: Forever and the Night
9. January Weather: Brides to Be
10. Reader's Choice: Men of the Otherworld

I'm in. This may be one where I post as I go.

I'll go for 5 this month: I think I have books for all of them (except for maybe Deleware) but whether I'll have time is the question.

0/5:

1. January: Read a book which title starts with “J”.

2. Birthday: (My Bday is Feb 25): Have books in common with Miss Kate, Sherry, Jennifer

3. Geography: Read a book whose author, setting or character is from Delaware.

4. New Year Read a book by an author that is 'new' to you.

5. Beginnings Read a book that is the first book in a series, or a debut novel by an author.

6. Appreciate your Dragon Day Read a book that has dragons in it.

7. National Take Back Your Time Week Read a book with time travel, or has an element of time as part of its title (midnight, noon, evening, etc).

8. Rose Parade: Read a book that has flowers on its cover or as part of its title.

9. January Weather Depending on where you are, January can be a 'cold' month or a 'hot' month. Read a book that is set in a place that has the opposite weather to where you currently are.

10. Reader's Choice

For the Bday thing: you read a boook that someone on the bday list has on their goodreads list somewhere. Preferably someone who was born on the same day of the month as you. My bday is Fed 25 and was lucky that 3 of the Jan 25 people have books in common with me.

January: The Judge by Steve Martini
B-Day: Crave by J.R. Ward COMPLETED 01.26.2011
Geography-Jan: Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
New Author: Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins COMPLETED 01.04.2011
Beginnings: Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison COMPLETED 01.20.2011
Appreciate Your Dragon: You Slay Me by Katie MacAlister
Nat'l Take Back Your Time: Night Myst by Yasmine Galenorn COMPLETED 01.17.2011
Rose Parade: Roses by Leila Meacham COMPLETED 01.21.2011
Jan Weather: The Nymph King by Gena Showalter
Reader's Choice: The Trouble With Magic by Madelyn Alt COMPLETED 01.16.2011

January 2011 Monthly Challenge
0/5 done

1. January: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
2. Birthday (Katherine): Scandal in Spring by Lisa Kleypas
3. New Year: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
4. Beginnings: Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead
5. Reader's Choice: Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

2011

I'm in. I'll post as I go.

I'm in!

Count me in!

I'm in. I'll post as I go.

I'm in.

Read: 0/10

1. J for January: Jane's Warlord by Angela Knight
2. Happy Birthday Macwolf01 [Elise]'s: Tall, Dark & Hungry by Lynsay Sands
3. Set in Delaware: One Night With A Rogue by Candace McCarthy
4. New Year, New Author: Vicious Circle by Linda Robertson
5. Beginnings: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews
6. Appreciate Your Dragon Day: Queen of Dragons by Shana Abe
7. Time Travel: An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
8. Rose Parade: Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb
9. Hot in January: Running Hot by Jayne Ann Krentz
10. Reader's Choice: Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh

Sheila wrote: "I've got a question for you all. What sources do you use to find out what state a book is set in? Is there a search you can do to find out? I don't have a clue about Delaware books"

Honestly, I've been going through my bookcase PRAYING I'll find something. I also go through the thread looking for ideas that hopefully suit me. Tonight I started making a spreadsheet, but I'm not sure it will help me this month.

I'm in!

I'm in. I'm not sure how many books I'm going for though, so I'll post as I go.

RRRC January 2011 Challenge
0/9 Completed

1. J - John Doe in The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance
2. Happy B'day Steph - Play of Passion
3. Delaware - no clue what to read for this one, so skipping
4. New2You Author - Kiss of Fire by Deborah Cooke
5. 1st bk - Stormwalker
6. Love Dragons - Last Dragon Standing
7. TimeTunnel - Iron and Hemlock
8. Flowers - Zinnia
9. Cold Weather - A Peyton Family Christmas
10. choice - Behold, Here's Poison

definitely in, will post list as I go.

I am in although I am still trying to find out how this works :) I will send my list soon and I will say 3 just to be on the safe side :)

1. January - Jane Eyre 01/17 *****
5. Beginnings - Vampire Academy 22/01 ***
8. Flowers - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan ***(1/2*)

I'm in!

Will post list later :)

For the state thing, which I never seem to fill on these-either because I just don't have anything or I don't it read in time. I usually end up just seeing what other people use and see if I have that book or author (if the author is from that state). I know I have PA books for the Dec one but it's a time thing now.

If you use paperbackswap and have your books logged into the TBR pile you can search that. I wonder if any books in PBS are tagged with Delaware. I'll have to look.

Hey would an Alex Delaware by Jonathan Kellerman count?
The only books that came up on PBS that are tagged Delaware are the Alex Delaware books, some Historical Society books, and:

true crime book: Above The Law by Brian Karem

and Harlequin Romance: (odd title for a little series romance) Death Spiral by Patricia Rosemore. It says it's part of the American Heroes series and is Delaware #8. So maybe there's more in that series. And thats all I've got.

I'm in, I'll post in a day or so:)

I have a lot of Native American themed romances. I wonder if I have any Delaware Warrior's in my collection.

searches I've done show Alex Delaware, Washington crossing the Delaware and the Delaware Indians. I was hoping there was a list someone had found that listed books by state.

Perhaps we could start such a list here in RRC. As people read a book they could add it to the list thread for each state or foreign locale. What do you folks think?

I'm in for 5.


2011 January Monthly Reading Challenge
Duration: January 1 - January 31

0/5 completed

4. New Year: Read a book by an author that is 'new' to you.
5. Beginnings: Hotter After Midnight by Cynthia Eden
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day: Highland Dragon by Kimberly Killion
9. January Weather: Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
10. Reader's Choice:

Sheila, there is already a group called Settings.

Only started a couple of months ago, but unfortunately they only have one Delaware book. I forget what it was now as it didn't appeal.

Don't want to duplicate all the work already done there though.

Lets see if this link works. I used it when I did a mileage challenge based in the US on paperbackswap last year.

http://www.bibliotravel.com/locale.ph...

well it still doesn't list many books for Delaware but it might help someone with other states in future challenges.

Question Yz,
6. Appreciate your Dragon Day Read a book that has dragons in it.

- does the dragon have to be a character or can a character be nicknamed a dragon or can it just be titled something to do with a dragon?