Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Completion
Task #8

Hot and Badgered
Date completed: 5/20/20
Pages: 433 pages/GR (kindle edition)
Task: Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters.
How it fits: "Shapeshifters" is MPG (131 users)

Hey CB, you haven't checked in for a few days. How you doing?

How about you Nikk? How are you doing?

Been working a lot of hours the last few days, but am looking forward to a long holiday weekend where I can relax. Am working on my book, may finish it this evening.

Glad you are ok! I'm freakin' paranoid when people go silent now. *sigh*

Do you have any plans for the weekend? We are going to grill at home and watch movies since there's little else we can do at this point.

Yup sorry - had a couple of challenges due yesterday that I needed to read for first - I have started my book and should be done later today or early tomorrow

Sassafrass wrote: "Glad you are ok! I'm freakin' paranoid when people go silent now. *sigh*

Do you have any plans for the weekend? We are going to grill at home and watch movies since there's little else we can do a..."

Restrictions have eased here so send Miss 8 off to Nana so I can have some time to myself. I plan to do not much more than east, exercise and read :-)

Sassafrass wrote: "Glad you are ok! I'm freakin' paranoid when people go silent now. *sigh*

Do you have any plans for the weekend? We are going to grill at home and watch movies since there's little else we can do a..."

Restrictions have eased here a bit as well - I’m actually planning to go out to a restaurant with a couple of close friends this weekend and am greatly looking forward to it. It’s the simple things these days. Other than that, I plan to eat, exercise and read like Nikk! 😁

Grilling sounds great, that’s always the classic, fun thing to do around Memorial Day weekend.

We don't normally do anything for Memorial Day/Weekend because I work at a casino and we work every weekend and there are no holidays. The only holiday I consistently get off is our Thanksgiving in the States because it's on a Thursday and no matter what schedule changes have occurred over the last 14 years of me working here I've been lucky enough to have all of them off. The other holidays that are on specific dates (not day of the week) since they rotate every year I will eventually get Christmas Day, New Years Eve, Independence Day off.

Sass I'm with you when I don't hear from people I consider a friend from here for a few days I get worried.

I'm glad I'm not the only paranoid one, Christina!

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Task #8: 48. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters.


Guardian's Mate by Jennifer Ashley
Pages: 334 (GR)
Date Completed: 5/24/20
How it qualifies: “Shifters” in series name

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Task #8: 48. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters.


The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper
Pages: 355 (GR)
Date Completed: 5/25/20
How it qualifies: “werewolf” in title + MPG shapeshifters

Apologies for the delay. I got sucked in to the black hole that is seasons 2 & 3 of stranger things on the weekend watching both seasons in the space of 48 hours LOL

No worries - I myself on Saturday got sucked into working in the yard all day - yours sounds much more fun though! I have not watch that show yet, but I keep hearing good things about it.

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Sassafrass wrote: "Glad you are ok! I'm freakin' paranoid when people go silent now. *sigh* "

I know right?! I get so concerned and worried. It's there normally, but so much worse right now! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sassafrass wrote: "Completion
Task #8

Hot and Badgered
Date completed: 5/20/20
Pages: 433 pages/GR (kindle edition)
Task: Read a minimum of 750 pages in books fe..."

Did you enjoy this one? I love the Pride series and am looking forward to this one, but haven't started it yet.

I did enjoy it MK. What is it about all these books where the heroines are completely certifiable! LOL

Anyway, I haven't read all the pride books so I'm going back to do that now because I didn't get all the nuanced relationships in this book because of that. But yeah it was definitely entertaining.

MountainKat wrote: "Sassafrass wrote: "Glad you are ok! I'm freakin' paranoid when people go silent now. *sigh* "

I know right?! I get so concerned and worried. It's there normally, but so much worse right now! 🤷🏻‍♀️"

It's so true! I think this will be with me for some time now.

And finally, here is your next task:

45. Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs.

I'll be nice and let you know who they are so you don't have to go searching. 😉

January - Tessa Bailey
February - Jeaniene Frost
March - T.J. Klune
April - Julia Quinn
May - Sarina Bowen
June - Nora Roberts

And yes, you can use June too. 😊

Sassafrass wrote: "I did enjoy it MK. What is it about all these books where the heroines are completely certifiable! LOL

Anyway, I haven't read all the pride books so I'm going back to do that now because I didn't ..."

I thought the audios were quite good of those books! In fact, grabbed the one you read during a sale, just haven't gotten to it yet. Kind of waiting for more so I can read them closer together. But I think you will enjoy the Pride series if you liked this one!

Yeah, I making my way through those now. They are on audible escape so it's even better!

I'm going to read: Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen for this one because it works for 2 other challenges!

Sassafrass wrote: "I'm going to read: Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen for this one because it works for 2 other challenges!"


I highly enjoyed that one, Sass! I too am going to read a Sarina Bowen book - I’m picking Man Cuffed

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Task #9: 45. Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs.


Man Cuffed by Sarina Bowen
Pages: 254 (GR)
Date Completed: 5/25/2020
How it qualifies: Author was FAC in May 2020

Completion
Task #9

Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen
Date completed: 5/26/20
Pages: 341 pages/GR (kindle edition)
Task: Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs.
How it fits: Sarina Bowen was FAC May 2020

I have my book chosen just need to complete my current read + one other due in the next 24 hours than I will start it

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Task #9: 45. Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs


The Beautiful Ashesby Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 384 (GR)
Date Completed: 5/27/2020
How it qualifies: Author was FAC in February 2020

I hope we'll be able to get one more book done. I would love for it to be fun one!

Sassafrass wrote: "I hope we'll be able to get one more book done. I would love for it to be fun one!"

I wouldn't mind one of these....
42. Read 4 books #5 or higher in a series.
43. Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task.
44. Read 6 books on RRRC's bookshelf, the books can not be added by anyone on your team.

I kind of wish this game was going longer. It's so much fun.

Well I was looking at some of the teams and they have really completed a lot of tasks. We have taken a more leisurely route, but some of them are 30 tasks in already!

ETA: one of the teams has 39 tasks! WOW!!!

39...wow! I knew whatever team I was on probably wouldn't win because my reading is around 2-3 books a week and there are a lot of people who finish a 300 page book in 2 hours. Learned that from the last romance challenge I did. I try to read books I already own to help whittle down my massive TBR.

I have just loved this challenge.

I do think this has been one of my favorite challenges I’ve participated in here, this was a great concept.

Sassafrass wrote: "Well I was looking at some of the teams and they have really completed a lot of tasks. We have taken a more leisurely route, but some of them are 30 tasks in already!

ETA: one of the teams has 39 ..."

Not sure where you are seeing this, but the furthest teams are getting Task 25 this morning. 😊 Some teams are really speedy though! Most are more like this one and just enjoying themselves and having fun!

CB wrote: "I do think this has been one of my favorite challenges I’ve participated in here, this was a great concept."

This makes me so happy! 🥰

Oh. I guess it was task #39? Not the actually number completed??

I guess I just misread the post.

Sassafrass wrote: "Oh. I guess it was task #39? Not the actually number completed??

I guess I just misread the post."

I had to go look up what task was #39... 🤦🏻‍♀️ Yes, I've assigned that one recently. But as usual, some teams are more competitive, I only hope everyone has fun! 😊

I haven't been peeking at the other teams to see their feedback but from our group this challenge is a big thumbs up and social distancing high fives. This is one challenge I will jump on always from now on. I love that I can read any fiction book (providing the prompt doesn't say romance only of course) for this challenge. I often read cozy mysteries and thrillers and such so having that option is a huge bonus...although I have been only using romances this round...it's nice to have the option of other genres.

Thanks for all the hard work MKat!

Christina T wrote: "I haven't been peeking at the other teams to see their feedback but from our group this challenge is a big thumbs up and social distancing high fives. This is one challenge I will jump on always fr..."

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Hi Nikk, any update on your book? It would be fun to get at least one more task in before the challenge ends. Thanks!

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Task #9: 45. Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs


Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost
Pages: 384 (GR)
Date Completed: 6/1/2020
How it qualifies: Author was FAC in February 2020

Apologies about the delay. Had family commitments over the weekend which prevented me starting it earlier but all done now :-)

No worries! I’ll post this and we should be able to get at least one more task in - yay! Will be fun

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Task #9: 45. Read 4 books by one of the 2020 FACs.

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Here is your next task:

43. Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task.

There is no date requirement for this task. Your chosen book just needs to be on a moderator's shelf marked as read and rated. Please provide a link to the moderator's shelf or review in your completion.

I picked KarenH's read shelf because she read Love Me to Death and it's on my June plan. I also wanted to see if my link would work as I sorted her shelf by Allison Brennan's name. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Oooh this will be a good one. MK, KarenH, and Jane(PS) are some of my favorite shelves to raid!!

Awesome I get to read the next book in the series of the book from my last completion as MountainKat has reviewed it :-)

I like this task as well. Jane, MKat, and KarenH all have great shelves.