You'll love this one...!! A book club & more discussion

The colour of a rose is significant.

- 1. RED - stands for love. They also represent respect and courage.
- 2. WHITE - is for someone you adore. They also represent reverence, humility, innocence, and purity.
- 3. YELLOW - Celebrates life and joy, perfect for a new mom.
- 4. CORAL or ORANGE - expresses enthusiasm or desire.
- 5. PINK - Grace and gentility. Light pink = admiration, Medium pink = "you're lovely", Deep pink = Thankyou.
-6. ALL PALE COLOURS signify friendship.

Pull the petals off your rose to determine what book you'll read for this challenge. You could base your read on the colour or the meaning. Maybe you want to read a book where the cover is 75% red, or the title contains "red". Maybe the theme will be about about motherhood if you pick the yellow rose. Let your imagination grow wild.

General Rules:

1. The book may be in any format - paperback, ebook, audiobook.
2. The book may be combined with the Year Long Challenge and the Group Themed Read.
3. The book must be read between June 1 and June 30, 2022 (based on your local time zone).
4. The challenge is for one book. You may read more books if you chose but you may only report one.
5. The book must be 175 pages or more determined by the issue you read.

In the case of ebooks & audiobooks, use the hardcover or paperback edition to determine page length. From the book page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide. If reading an ebook and there is no paper edition, the ebook book must be at least 250 pages. If reading an audiobook and there is no paper edition, your book must be a minimum of 6 hours long.

Report your finished books in the reporting thread using your WoF name. Also tell us:
- what task you chose and how it relates to the rose colour you picked
- link to the book
- tell us what your think of the book.

Please be analytical in your presentation, and not just that you liked it or didn't. We want to know details.)

Great challenge, Janice! I will need to do some gophering!!

This might take some thinking!

I think I have my read down to two books:

76% yellow
or
79% orange

Will see which one strikes my fancy in June - great challenge, Janice! I think I may have been sending the wrong color roses lol!

I have two books on my TBR list that may work and .

Janice - do the colors on the covers need to be percentage? Thanks.

we'll use the 75% guideline

Janice wrote: "we'll use the 75% guideline"

Thanks Janice!

Excellent! I already had Red Azalea on my June TBR!

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories 88,5% yellow

I may go with red and using the love meaning read a romance novel. I've been reading some more contemporary romances and humor novels recently after several heavier books and I'm enjoying them.

Red:
MPG romance - The Bodyguard or Something Wilder

red cover - or maybe

or for white cover: , which also fits our themes.

I haven't checked any of my covers for % yet. Just my first thoughts. Stay Awake looks like it might not be red enough because it's a bit shadowy.

I found another - Red Island House - sounds interesting!

I’m not sure…
I have narrowed it down to either red for love:Letters from Skye which also fits yearly challenge OR

Willa's Grove or The Lighthouse for pale colors for friendship…

I want to read something out of the yearly challenge so I may read . I watched the drama and want to refresh my memory.

As I was reading through the meanings of the colors, 4. CORAL or ORANGE - expresses enthusiasm or desire reminded me of . I've been wanting to read it for quite a while now. It sounds like this month is the time to get it done (and off my TBR list :)

And the colors on the cover represent the Coral/Orange roses so well.

Lanelle wrote: "As I was reading through the meanings of the colors, 4. CORAL or ORANGE - expresses enthusiasm or desire reminded me of . I've been wanting to read it for quite a while..."

That colour seemed popular a couple of years ago. I thought of and . The second one doesn't have enough coverage, but I'm super slow with reading print books right now and I don't have them on audiobook. Instead, I'm going with the "desire" part and read Seduction in Death, The audiobook doesn't have the orange flower on the cover but seduction is all about desire.... and in this case, death.

Excited to participate this month! I'm thinking I'll go with 6. ALL PALE COLOURS signify friendship and read a book from the Best Friendship Books list. Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses sounds interesting and my library has it available. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

I'm going to go with either

or

depending on how my other challenges fall this month.

Oh, I love roses! I'm going to go with my favourite colour rose.. Red.
I will read for this challenge.

I'm a bit picky and slow about my reading lately so I wasn't sure if I would join. But I just returned an audible book and picked up another that I also happen to be in the mood for:

So I guess I'll join after all :) No idea if I'll finish in time though..

WoF Almeta

3. YELLOW - Celebrates life and joy, perfect for a new mom.

The Ardent Swarm: A Novel

I'll set up the report thread, Almeta and you can transfer this message ove.

I chose to read for Red (Red cover)!

I'm going to finish my book tomorrow. I don't think I ever cut it so close, lol!

You can do it, Peggy. Have a mini toppler to yourself. :)

Only 30 minutes of listening left, so it should be alright :)

I do that all the time, Peggy! I even do it with my real life book clubs. Last month, I literally read the last page and a half of the book while sitting at the table during book club waiting for the discussion to start. That was the closest I've ever cut it. lol

Lol Kristie! That would so stress me out!