Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Team Members

* Team Captain

Stacie Mass-D
Maritza
Danielle
Mai
Gea
* Amy (greenfairy)
Pam

1. Introduce yourself to your team. Definitely let your team members know where you are from. This is a 'nice to know' when categories are announced and when team-mates can expect other members to post their book choices.

2. Pick a Team Captain. The team captain will track the books read by the team and double-check that your book selection complies with the rules - eg make sure that the selection and completion posts are as per the formatting and information requested below (msg 3).

Anyone is free to ask questions in the Q&A/Announcement thread - here. If you are unsure, please ask.

Once a Captain has been decided, the Team Captain should reserve a couple of posts in this thread to track their team's book selection and completion. (Alternatively they could convert one of their chat comments to the tracking post/s.)

3. Name your team. This is not mandatory, but it is fun. Given we are an open/public group with no age limit, so please make sure any chosen name is smart, not smutty ;)

Please PM your name to Jane(PS) by 9 September.

4. If you have a private profile, please 'friend' your team-mates. This is really important, because without this, your team-mates can't see your shelves to select a books under option 2.

5. Please post your book selections/completions in the format provided below. (This format is also posted in both the Q&A and Sign-Up threads.) We need to know the week that each book corresponds to, the page numbers, and how the book qualifies including links to lists/shelves (where applicable), etc. I can't stress this enough. When in doubt - link it*!

* please don't link to your review in your completion post - reviews in your completion posts should be included in full in that post.

You don't want to start reading a book and then find it doesn't meet the requirements because some information (eg page count or theme link) was missing from your original post.

I will be monitoring this and your book will not be considered complete until I am satisfied that your selection and completion posts comply with the format rules of the challenge.

Remember - you can ONLY change your book selection in the week that the theme is called.

6. You MUST check in with your team each week, ideally once the theme is announced. Please let your team know if you expect to have spotty communication or are on holidays or having an operation.

7. When you post the completion of your book, you must post a review; enough for us to know you have actually read the book. Please don't link to a review. You must post the review in this thread.

8. Re-reads are allowed but you can't read the same book twice within this challenge.

9. There is no prize for the winning team - bragging rights only :)

10. Each week, the theme will be announced in the Q&A/Announcement thread. The full list of themes announced during this round will be maintained in msg 1 of that thread.


The Rule on the Pass Option
* Each team can only have ONE member using their pass each week.
* Each member can only use that pass once each 5 weeks.
* This means that one or two team members (dependent upon the size of your team) will miss using a pass in each 5 week block.
* No-one can use the pass option in the last week of the challenge.
* In the final week Option 2 has altered and I will be allocating each team another team from which their book selection must be chosen :)

Key selection and completion post information. You must have ALL elements in your book posts.


For the initial selection post Option 1 I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
How the book qualifies - please insert a link to the qualifying bookshelf/list.
If the theme is based off the bookcover or a letter in the title etc, please just repeat the theme.

For the initial selection post Option 2 I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
Name of the team-member, their star rating, the date they read the book.


For the completion post I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Rating (1-5)
Review


Please DO NOT CHAT in these selction/completion posts. It needs to be super clear.

If you 'waffle' about your decided book - please REPOST your selection once you decide. DO NOT go back and edit your waffling post.

I'll be tracking each team's progress separately, using the Captain's summary in each team's thread to check for accuracy.

A summary chart will be posted in the last week to let teams know their progress against other teams :)

Good morning, team! Okay, it may not exactly be good...yet. I'm up about 2 hours too early and I have no clue why.

This is one of my favorite challenges. I've been doing this one since the very first one when Jane introduced it. And I was one of the ones that bugged her to keep going for it.

I typically read A LOT. I do it for enjoyment but it's also my job. I love challenges like this but it helps me get through my TBR, find new authors/books, and make new friends. Jane will tell you that I can be chatty. Can't help it. If I get annoying just tell me to shush. I won't be offended.

If no one else is interested, I don't mind being a captain.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... (tracking posts)

Hi team!

This is my first participation in this challenge and I'm quite excited :)

A little bit about myself: I'm Mai, I'm 38 yrs old and live in Hamburg, Germany (info when to expect my posts: I'm on MET time). Like Amy, I read a lot. A book or two per day is very normal to me. While it is my third language, I still read most books in English (I hate waiting for translations and prefer the original text).

Since I'm new to this challenge, I'd rather not want to be captain.

Hello, Mai! Welcome to a really fun challenge. I have yet to have one that wasn't.

Our of curiosity, what is the time difference to the US? Right now it's 5:12 am for me. And if English is your third language, what is your second?

LOL Amy!!!

Welcome Mai :)

Well it's true, Jane! LOL

Amy wrote: "Well it's true, Jane! LOL"

Still made me laugh :D

I consider that a good thing. Between all the work you do here and as busy as you get away from here, you need to laugh! Cause if you're having fun then it's not work.

Amy wrote: "I consider that a good thing. Between all the work you do here and as busy as you get away from here, you need to laugh! Cause if you're having fun then it's not work."

True true :) I love these challenges; its part of my social schedule ;)

Hey team!

Love this challenge. I'm from Wales. I read a lot too, but I don't think it's help me get through TBR as I'm always adding to it.

I don't mind being captain.

I'm no good at coming up with team names, so I hope one of you do.

Hello team :) My name is Anja, I come from Slovenia and I believe I'm in the same time zone as Mai, which means we're six hours ahead of you Amy :)

I participated in this challenge before but it's been a while, somehow I always managed to miss sign ups so I'm looking forward to playing again

Hi!!! Amy, I can be chatty too! Anyway, I'm Stacie, I live in MD so right now it's 9 am for me. I'm a huge reader as well. Right now I'm on track to hit 735 books for the year (because I'm crazy). Love challenges and this is my second time in this one. Looking forward to getting to know everyone!

Well, gee thanks, Stacie, I feel like an underachiever now LOL I average 200-300 published books a year. But I also read for a living because I'm a freelance editor/beta reader/reviewer. So that number goes up a bit. I love books...reading, writing, anything at all about them. I'm in NY.

Ah okay. Thank you Gea. I have a few friends in UK and Ireland so I'm used to them being ahead of me. Typically meeting someone in my own time zone throws me off LOL

Anyone have suggestions for team name or captain?

I'm the kind of person that will go with the majority on things.

Stacie Mass D-Struction wrote: "Hi!!! Amy, I can be chatty too! Anyway, I'm Stacie, I live in MD so right now it's 9 am for me. I'm a huge reader as well. Right now I'm on track to hit 735 books for the year (because I'm craz..."

I'm not going to hit that high a number at the end of the year, probably in the 650 range. I have read nearly 450 so for this year.

Amy wrote: "Anyone have suggestions for team name or captain?

I'm the kind of person that will go with the majority on things."

I don't really mind our name, will go with the majority. As I said I don't mind being captain.

Amy wrote: "Ah okay. Thank you Gea. I have a few friends in UK and Ireland so I'm used to them being ahead of me. Typically meeting someone in my own time zone throws me off LOL..."

I'm always used to being between 6-8 hours ahead of most, unless of course of the ones in Australia etc.

I just checked and the theme will be posted between 6pm and 9pm US EST each Friday. So that's 11pm - 2am my time. It might be better for someone in an earlier time to be captain, especially if the theme is called to the later end.

Brazen Book Blasters
Peachy Publication Perusers

I'm really bad at this

During the spring I coach softball games on Friday nights. In the last round I was captain and one of my teammates made sure it got posted in here. At least fall softball is on Saturday mornings.

Hi everyone! Nice to meet/read you!

@all: I'm bad at naming - I'll go with whatever you choose.

@Amy: I'm sorry, I wasn't online the past hours - my family was visiting. Six hours sounds about right :) My second language is Low-Saxon (in a heavily Danish- influenced dialect, it's a local minority language and my mother's first language - who is part of the Danish minority in Northern Germany. It's what we spoke at home). I also know a little "real" Danish and French.

Amy wrote: "Well, gee thanks, Stacie, I feel like an underachiever now LOL I average 200-300 published books a year. But I also read for a living because I'm a freelance editor/beta reader/reviewer. So that nu..."

LOL, I'm good at that. Don't mind me, I have no life ;)

All I do is read and coach softball. But I have a very active teenage daughter. She plays softball for 3 teams and now she wants to add soccer. I don't mind though. She makes me proud.

And I just realized that feel MNGers are here! That's another favorite of mine.

Good morning team. It is now 08:41 am in NYC. Getting ready for Church. Not to brag but I was on winning team last round and I loved this challenge. No pressure.

name suggestions :

International Book Lovers as we are in so many different time zones
Or five readers plus a fairy in keeping with numbers theme,
Five ladies and a fairy.
Five country readers.
Five gals and a fairy.
I don't mind about captain.


oops i misspoke i was not on any winning team for this challenge. i did not brag for nothing. my conscious is now clear jajajaj

Hahahaha... Okay, here's a funny story. And why Jane put GreenFairy after my name.

I have two best friends. One lives in England, the other is in Michigan. I live on Long Island. Well, we're always doing something together and people online started to call us the Three Musketeers. Well, as that is so over used we renamed us the Three Fairies.

So in one of the PTP challenges we tried to come up with a name. We ended up going with 3 Goddesses and a Fairy!

Love your thinking, Maritza! I've been on two winning teams, captain of one. So I can be a little competitive...in a fun way.

I like International Book Readers.

okay back from Church. I just sent everyone a friend request. I see other teams are following the name based on their team number trend. i have included my suggestions but will go with majority.

i'm here for the challenge but i love team challenges as a way of sharing with other book / reading lovers.

Thank you for the friend request, Maritza! Those group names are great :)

Morning everyone! Hope everyone is getting ready for the start on Friday. We still need a name and a captain though.

The only name I can think of is Five Little Peppers because of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

I vote Amy for captain since she's done it before.

Amy, how do you feel about captaining?

Both Danielle and Amy have said they were happy to captain - rock paper scissors?? ;)

And you need to settle on a name :) Perhaps the captain can make an executive decision on this, since there are quite a few options out here...

I have no problems being captain at all. I've done it a few times here.

Amy wrote: "I have no problems being captain at all. I've done it a few times here."

Great! I guess now we just need the name ;)

List of Suggested Team Names

Brazen Book Blasters
Peachy Publication Perusers
International Book Lovers
five readers plus a fairy
Five ladies and a fairy.
Five country readers.
Five gals and a fairy
Five Little Peppers

Hi everyone! I've added Pam to your group - she was upset to have missed the sign-ups so I was just waiting to see if everyone checked in prior to allocating Pam to a group.

You were the lucky ones!!

I've PM'd Pam, but it may take time for her to see it :)

Thanks, Jane! I'll be sure to give her a warm welcome when she does. It's a bummer to miss sign ups. But as usual, you try to make it work. :)

Hi Pam!!

I like Brazen Book Blasters!

Thanks Danielle and Amy for taking on captain duties.

name suggestion

More than Five.

Pentabulous Book Lovers.
Fifth degree perusers.
Reading to the 5th degreee

Thank you thank you thank you Jane. I was so sad I missed signups. It was a combination of the end of the summer, being away and going back to work last week with the final day of sign-ups on my anniversary so it totally slipped my mind. Sorry to mess up the numbers.

I'm Pam. I live in Northern Virginia, right outside of Washington DC. Amy, my teaching partner coaches softball. I am comfortable with whatever name works for you guys. I'm going to be grateful to just be a part of your group. This will be my third PtP challenge and I begged because it's my favorite.

Pam wrote: "Thank you thank you thank you Jane. I was so sad I missed signups. It was a combination of the end of the summer, being away and going back to work last week with the final day of sign-ups on my ..."

Hey fellow DC area person!

Thanks Stacie. Where in MD are you?

In College Park but I work in Arlington.