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Over in a Flash - hopefully will be a reoccurring challenge.

I stole this idea (with permission) from the SOS: Serious Overload of Series group.

Over in a Flash ~ Cover Hunt & Theme Challenge ~

Duration: May 1st – May 31, 2012

Rules: Read 2 books with the following items found on their covers; choose 2 of the 3 options below. Be sure to post your book covers, dates read, and star ratings. If you want, you can do this at the end of the month after you reviewed your covers. Feel free to do all three if you want.

Member Choosing: This month's choices have been selected by Sherin . She is from Bangalore, India, and has been a member of GoodReads since October, 2010 and Happily Ever After Café since since Feb, 2012. Besides Reading, she likes Cooking, Music, Quizzes, Movies, and Dancing. According to her GoodReads bookshelves, her top five authors are Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nora Roberts, Judith McNaught, Agatha Christie, and J.K. Rowling.

Color: Red - read a book with a predominately red cover.
Holiday Theme: Labor Day - read a book that has the word “Unity/United” in the title. Or a character that is a mother - or a female who raises children (Mother’s Day). Or is a laborer, Social Worker, Revolutionary, or is of South-Asian origin (South Asian Heritage Month). **See Posts #11 & #12 for definition and a helpful suggestion with these.
Items: Emerald (May’s birthstone), Lily of the Valley (May’s flower). Also work tools, Moon (Buddha Poornima/Buddha’s birthday), Smileys (National Smile week in UK), Eagle (Cinco de Mayo), Towel (Towel Day), or a Bicycle (Bicycle Week).

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Pamela			2/2 - Done!
Rebecca			2/2 - Done!
Sandy			2/2 - Done!
Sandra			2/2 - Done!
Susan			2/2 - Done!
AnneOK			2/2 - Done!
Dhestiny		0/2
Cheryl (OH)		2/2 - Done!
Sherin			0/2 - Done!
BJ Rose			2/2 - Done!
Cheryl A.		1/2
Erika			0/2
Hayley			2/2 - Done!
Nikki			2/2 - Done!
Leslie			1/2
Lisa Kay		1/2 - Done!

Cool. No promises but I'll try ☺

Great, Pamela!

I'll try it,too.

Wonderful, Rebecca! Welcome to the challenge.

A great "towel" on the cover book is

OK, I think I can handle this!

Red Cover:The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
About a Mother:Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner

Those look good, Sandy! Welcome to the challenge.

I don't know much about geography. What countries are considered south asia?

I guessing Japan doesn't work. It's more east than south

Amy, according to Wiki:

According to the United Nations geographical region classification, Southern Asia comprises the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. By other definitions and interpretations (see below), Burma and Tibet are also sometimes included in the region of South Asia. South Asia is home to well over one fifth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and most densely populated geographical region in the world.

Amy, going here and typing in the country name might be helpful!

HEA Cafe May 2012 Challenge

0/2 Completed

1. Red: Lawe's Justice
2. Mother: Because Your Vampire Said So

I'll see what I can find :)

Sandra! You are going to join us!?! Super neat. ☺ Love your Mother's Day book. LOL!

Lovely, Susan! Welcome back to the challenge.

HEAC: Over in a Flash ~ Cover Hunt & Theme Challenge ~

Duration: May 1st – May 31, 2012

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Color: Red - read a book with a predominately red cover.
Seduce Me at Sunrise, by Lisa Kleypas (OCD)
Items: Lily of the Valley (May’s flower)
Amazon Lily, by Theresa Weir (Kindle)

This challenge intimidates me.

LOL! Why, Dhes? It is just two tiny little books.

Count me in! I'll be back with my choices after I've done a little book hunting. Lots of fun choices for May's Challenge from Sherin! Thanks!

Lisa Kay wrote: "LOL! Why, Dhes? It is just two tiny little books."

Most all I read are e-books so all the covers are gray.

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Lisa Kay wrote: "LOL! Why, Dhes? It is just two tiny little books."

Most all I read are e-books so all the covers are gray."

LOL :D

I want to shout I'M IN! but I'm not out from the April's challenge, yet ;P

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Most all I read are e-books so all the covers are gray."

You can use the cover from the paperback, even if you read the e-book, Dhes.

Great, AnneOK!

Erika wrote: "I want to shout I'M IN! but I'm not out from the April's challenge, yet ;P "

Okay, I'll be patient. ☺

Okay put me down for 2 books and I'll try.

**Lisa Kay picks herself up off floor** You will! ... I mean, great, Dhes! Yippee!

I'm in and I will post my picks soon.

Super, Cheryl! I'll add you.

Got my first one picked out...

I maybe have my first picked out. Decided to order from PBS so I got my red cover.

May 2012 Over In A Flash Challenge

0/2 Completed

Holiday Theme (Single Mom): Crazy On You

Item (Lily of the Valley): Lily of the Valley

Yay! Pamela is going to start the In Death series! Woo hoo!

You hit the nail on the head with your second book, AnneOK!

What I want to know is how you changed the participants font and got the 0/2s to line up so neatly.

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "Lisa Kay wrote: "LOL! Why, Dhes? It is just two tiny little books."

Most all I read are e-books so all the covers are gray."

LOL.. Find how they really look like in goodreads.. :D

Lisa Kay wrote: "Over in a Flash - hopefully will be a reoccurring challenge.

I stole this idea (with permission) from the SOS: Serious Overload of Series group.

Over in a Flash ~ Cover Hunt & Theme Challenge ~ ..."

Thank you :) :)

AnneOK wrote: "Count me in! I'll be back with my choices after I've done a little book hunting. Lots of fun choices for May's Challenge from Sherin! "

Thank you,Anne :)

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "This challenge intimidates me."

Hehe.. It's not really as scary as it looks ;)

Lisa Kay wrote: "You hit the nail on the head with your second book, AnneOK!"

Exactly!

Obviously,I'm in too :)

1.
Colour : Red / Character :of south-Asian Origin

: Read
Rating 3.5/5.


2.

The Twentieth Wife

Colour : Red, Character: Mother ,Character :of South Asian Origin - Read


Rating : 4/5

Just a second, Dhes. As you can see, GRs is acting up tonight (that is why the books are appearing in one long line...) so I'm doing some screen prints. Just hang on. ☺

LOL! Of course, Photobucket has gone live with a new software tonight! Just a couple more seconds.

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "What I want to know is how you changed the participants font and got the 0/2s to line up so neatly."


Dhes, I went to Glitter Graphics Text Generator and, after generating the code, changed the beginning and ending (before the first " and after the last " – noted in bold) from



To get things to line up, read about columns under Spaces & Columns

A few other books which will fit in..

Mother :

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Red :

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Laborer (Of course,some of them might be filthy rich :p) :

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Moon:

Lisa Kay wrote: "Yay! Pamela is going to start the In Death series! Woo hoo!"

Figured it was about time. Plus I got like 15 credits on my PBS account and decided to use one ☺

Thanks for the instructions on lining things up, Lisa Kay. That's amazing you can do that. I tried to figure it out and this is what I came up with:

[-&havelisakayfollowyouaroundanddoitforyou*&(*^]

Did I do it right? ;)

lol @ Dhes. Great idea! Let's clone her and you can have one and I can have one....

UniquelyMoi *~*Dhestiny*~* wrote: "I tried to figure it out and this is what I came up with:

[-&havelisakayfollowyouaroundanddoitforyou*&(*..."

LOL! Aww, Dhes! I'd walk you through it step by step, but GRs is acting weird right now... all the aligements are off.

Do you want me to do one for you for another group and send you the html code?

I just feel bad because the Lisa Kleypas participants list always looks so messy, but to be honest, I have so many other things going on that I don't have time to try and make it nicer.