Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Ill check that.
Ive also posted on the MM boards.

9000 books. Alot of them arent love triangles but are really poly.
I found one at about 20 pages. The Best Man.

Are you in Shannons team! If so you could pick a book off of her shelves.

I can't help you Lisa. Those were the appropriately named lists and shelves. I don't audit the lists :)

Option 2 must be looking good!

Is there a way to search the Love Triangle Shelf? There are 8,953 books shelved there! I'm not a big fan of love triangles but I think I found one I can work with (Here with Me). It's clearly a love triangle & other readers have shelved it as such, but I don't know if it's on this official "Popular Love Triangle Shelf". Help! :-)

If you have a specific book, it's easier to search that books shelves. From the books main page, over on the right where the genres are listed it says 'see top shelves' (at the bottom of the genre list). Click on that and hit Ctrl+F and type in your search word. It narrows it down quite a bit!

Anyways, I found a shelf listed as Love Triangle Hell for that book.

Angela wrote: "Is there a way to search the Love Triangle Shelf? There are 8,953 books shelved there! I'm not a big fan of love triangles but I think I found one I can work with (Here with Me). It..."

It's on page 7. I don't know if there is an easier way but I look through more shelves in the book page to see what it's been shelved as.

Oh yeah, it's been shelved 21 times as Love Triangle. By the way, when searching for a shelf make sure you put the hyphen in, lol!

Jane,
I thought if the book is on the shelf specified it qualifies, whether the relationship was two couples or poly.

Teresa wrote: "Jane,
I thought if the book is on the shelf specified it qualifies, whether the relationship was two couples or poly."

that was my understanding as well.

Nichole wrote: "If you have a specific book, it's easier to search that books shelves. From the books main page, over on the right where the genres are listed it says 'see top shelves' (at the bottom of the genre ..."

So if a book has been shelved by any user it would qualify? Just clarifying for future reference?

And thanks, Danielle! Looks like I'm all set for this week now. :)

If it's on her list of optional lists/shelves it's automatically approved. Regardless of being mishelved or not.

Other lists have 'optional' in front of them simply to help people. I won't question books that come from those lists. But you can also choose books that fit the theme via the blurb, through bookshelves or other lists not provided. You just need to state how it fits and where the information came from.

But this is not an optional list theme. It must come from her lists. But one list is the Love-triangle shelf

Teresa wrote: "But this is not an optional list theme. It must come from her lists. But one list is the Love-triangle shelf"

Yes, since it must come from those list of shelves, if it is on the shelf, then it qualifies.

I made a list for myself as I went through the giant, 9,000 entry shelf, of books I might want to read for this challenge and what page of the list they're on. I noted a handful of M/M titles, and I'm happy to share the info if anyone is still looking. (Note: these aren't *all* the M/M titles on the list by a long shot- just the ones I haven't read yet and was open to reading sometime in the next few days.)

I just wanted to apologize for mucking things up with my 'helpfulness' , lol. My internet went out right after the theme was posted and then when it came back I got distracted by the lists. So, I didn't even notice the "For this week, you MUST select a book from the theme's lists/shelves included in this post" part of the announcement. I'm an idiot sometimes. Sorry!

If the book is on the mandatory (or optional) lists/shelves in the theme post it qualifies whether it meets the theme or not :)

I'm pretty sure this is in the Q&A post/s but I'll make sure it is updated if not...

(On my phone at the moment.)

And just to be clear, if you search a specific book's "genre" aka shelves and find it shelved as "love triangle" by a user, then it's on the mandatory "love triangle shelf" since that is just every single book ever shelved as "love triangle" if I understand how it works correctly.

Week 4

Option 1 Theme:
13. A book with a title starting with 'P'

Option 2 Key Date:
14 November 2014

Please ensure you follow the format shown in msg 3 of your team threads.

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Remember team captains, all your members should have posted last week's theme (by 6pm US EST today). Everyone should have completed at least one book by now.

I'll be going through all the threads tomorrow, but please PM me today if you have any team questions. I'll be on my phone :)

Another early post - I'm off to a horse sale and wanted to get this off :D

I'll be monitoring this thread on my phone for questions as well.

Thank you, Jane for the early announcement!!

Do we count "The"? For example, would "The Princess Affair" work as a P title? Goodreads seems to skip A and The when alphabetizing titles, but I know not all organizational systems do.

Becky, I think that we do ignore words like "a" and "the" when looking at titles. In most other challenges, that's how it works.

Yes, obviously Jane has the last word, but I don't think I've ever had a challenge in this group that doesn't ignore them, except for title word counts, and often those can go either way...

Thank you, ladies! That helps.

Ignore the 'a', 'an' and 'the' in titles where applicable.

After driving 3 hours, I'm now watching baby horses being sold (for training in camp drafting and other stock-horse disciplines) :D

Yay baby horses!!!

Yay baby horses!!!

ROFL!!! If we are luck we'll go home with a filly called Dare Devil :)

Love the name! Love horses but can't have them, living in a city and all. It's been so long since I've gone riding :(

Love the name! Love horses but can't have them, living in a city and all. It's been so long since I've gone riding :(

Sorry about the double posts, stupid phone app!

Fingers crossed that you get the one you want, Jane! :D

Should know in another 30 mins :)

She sold for $11,000 - way more than we were prepared to pay!! :(

Jane (PS) wrote: "She sold for $11,000 - way more than we were prepared to pay!! :("

Aw bummer. sorry Jane!

Doesn't it blow your mind to see that much money spent on a horse? Our drill team helped out with a local sale a couple times a year and I got the pleasure of seeing a two year old QH stud sell for almost $500,000. He was gorgeous and has some amazing bloodlines, but I kept seeing a house (a NICE one), or automobiles for the rest of my life, or feeding a small country, or....

Totally Becky!!!

Wow - $500k is ludicrous. All it takes is one accident/ fence break and they can't compete.

Right! It's a world that I can't comprehend.

There was a question in one of the team threads on whether they can see the overall progress of all the teams.

I keep a spreadsheet that tracks each team's progress in a very simplistic fashion. I generally start posting in the last few weeks of the game so that everyone can see where they are at comparatively, but I'll start put it up after I've gone through all the threads tomorrow after the theme call :)

I'll post a link to a google spreadsheet in the first message in the Q&A thread down the bottom:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Seriously, waiting for themes is hard. can I just pick a theme for myself???

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Seriously, waiting for themes is hard. can I just pick a theme for myself???"

Yes please!!! I think this every week. Can't I just pick the theme? I promise I'll be nice!

Stacie D-Struction wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Seriously, waiting for themes is hard. can I just pick a theme for myself???"

Yes please!!! I think this every week. Can't I just pick the theme? I promise I'..."

Stacie, (view spoiler)[ so I peaked at page one of the , LMAO. Every woman knows you have to take tissue with you into a stall because once you sit down, it's game over, LOL! Before I settle in a stall, I check for toilet paper first. I mean what will you clean the seat with?
I am hoping to start the audiobook today (hide spoiler)]

Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Stacie D-Struction wrote: "Ezinwanyi~the Impish Angel wrote: "Seriously, waiting for themes is hard. can I just pick a theme for myself???"

Yes please!!! I think this every week. Can't I just pi..."

Eheheh. I'm hoping to start it soon too! Maybe I'll start it next after the book I'm about to start. Hmmm. SO MANY CHOICES!

Need a theme.

Week 5

Option 1 Theme:
18. Author's name has an initial in it

Option 2 Key Date:
21 November 2014

Please ensure you follow the format shown in msg 3 of your team threads.

Please make sure that you include the Author's name in the selection post.

Woohoo! Thanks, Jane :)

Thanks Jane!

If anybody is looking for a recommendation for this week's theme(Week 5) here are a few books I really enjoyed:

(view spoiler)[MF:
Playing for Keeps
Taint
BEING BARRON
Obsidian
Whispers of the Dead(I have this available to loan for the kindle)
Anything by J.R. Ward
Wait for You
To Kill A Warlock(kindle freebie)
Naked in Death
Marked
The Hooker and the Hermit(I have not read this one but I hear good things)


MM:
Violence Begets...(extremely angsty and I have it available to loan for kindle)
Curious
Widdershins
Bear, Otter, and the Kid
Second Chances
Tell Me It's Real(hilarious)
The Magpie Lord (hide spoiler)]

great list, Krissy!

Sassafrass wrote: "great list, Krissy!"

Thanks :)