Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

We will be reading Brandon's Laughter and An Adventure In Beginnings for our March m/m buddy read.

Both are free! Come join us!

Yay! I think these will be cute.

I read Brandon's Laughter today - loved it! It made me teary at times, made me laugh and was very sweet! So glad we picked it!

I have previously read An Adventure In Beginnings and really enjoyed it. It was a sweet slow building romance between older guys. We don't see many that explore this age range. Even though it was short, I felt like I had a whole experience with them.

I plan on reading Brandon's Laughter.

I read An Adventure In Beginnings and I agree with Dawn, a sweet romance that builds. I really liked it.

I finished An Adventure In Beginnings EARLY this morning. I thought it was sweet too - a nice beginning to a love story. Definitely simple, but very enjoyable. I liked the other one better though, it touched me more. Probably should have read them in the reverse order...

I read both books today, and enjoyed both very much. I thought both did a very good job of creating real, fleshed out characters that we could care about, even though they were both very short. I did like Brandon's Laughter a little better I think, it had more of an emotional pull. My only (very minor) complaint about it was I thought it ended rather abruptly - I would have liked to see a little more at the end, an epilogue or something. I agree with everyone else that An Adventure In Beginnings was very sweet, and I enjoyed reading about more mature characters, something we don't see very often.

I finished Brandon's Laughter and it was really good! I really liked both Brandon and Richie, and that song at the end.....awww

Awesome! I can't wait to get to them. Hopefully, this weekend.

MountainKat wrote: "I read Brandon's Laughter today - loved it! It made me teary at times, made me laugh and was very sweet! So glad we picked it!"

I was teary too!

Hey guys! Since the M&G signups just went up, Kat and I were chatting and wondered how the rest of you would feel about picking books a little earlier than usual, and picking for the next 2 months instead of just next month so we can put them on our M&G lists. it wouldn't need to be right away, but before the M&G signups close. What do you think?

You know I think it is a good idea! =P

Sounds good to me :)

Great idea!

Suits me as well :D

Obviously I still have to read our March picks ;) Hope to get to them by next weekend...

Does anyone have any ideas for the next couple of months? The only freebie I have on my radar I know at least some of you have already read (You Get Full Credit For Being Alive).

~KarenH~ wrote: "Does anyone have any ideas for the next couple of months? The only freebie I have on my radar I know at least some of you havTreasuree already read (You Get Full Credit For Being Alive)."

That was a good one!

Here's a couple more. I don't think any of us have read these:
The Idiots' Tango
The Lonely Drop
Treasure

Any of those sound good to me. I don't have any really on my radar except the upcoming Cut & Run book, but I know Fran doesn't read those anyway.

These are the ones highest rated stories from Love's Landscapes that I've haven't read yet:

Bird Meets Cage
Guarded
The Court of Lightning
An Old-Fashioned Love Song
A Point of Honour

I read You Get Full Credit for Being Alive, Treasure and The Lonely Drop. I liked The Lonely Drop most.

I read Brandon's Laughter and I did enjoy it. I would have liked them to get back together sooner, but it was a nice read.

I finished both last night and they were really good.

I wish there was more couple-time in Brandon's Laughter. Just a few more pages would have been nice. I was still a blubbering mess, nonetheless.

Adventure in Beginnings was so super cute! I really loved it and would have (again) loved a bit more length.

Great picks this month!

Are there any DSP freebies we all have? I'm pretty sure I have all of them from the last tweetaway.

Dawn wrote: "These are the ones highest rated stories from Love's Landscapes that I've haven't read yet:

Bird Meets Cage
Guarded
The Court of Lightning
[book:An ..."

Have you read The Idiot's Tango? It has pretty high ratings. And it's tagged as GFY & YA & Sports... ;D

I got a lot of the last round of tweetaways, so most of those would be good choices too. I will say, I'm not opposed to paying now and then for a book either. It is great that we use the freebies, but not always a requirement - at least for me. =)

MountainKat wrote: "I got a lot of the last round of tweetaways, so most of those would be good choices too. I will say, I'm not opposed to paying now and then for a book either. It is great that we use the freebies..."

I don't mind either. But how do we even begin to choose one? LOL

So, so true!!

I have not read Idiot's Tango, it looks good.

From DSP, I have Not Just Friends and these that are 2nd in series so maybe not good for everyone, Wrestling Demons and The Only Guy

I have no problem buying a book occasionally either, but I actually really like that we use the freebies from the m/m group. There are so many wonderful reads out there that I know I'd never come across otherwise! That's not to say I think we should limit it to exclusively those, but I'm happy with that being the main focus...

As far as the books that have been mentioned so far, I haven't read any of them, so any would be fine with me.

Should we go with The Idiots' Tango for next month? I don't think any of us have read it.

Breann wrote: "Should we go with The Idiots' Tango for next month? I don't think any of us have read it."

That sounds good to me Breann!

How about An Old-Fashioned Love Song for May?

Both sound great to me and I'm really glad we got it together before M&G and PIFM!!

Works for me!

Works for me, too...both downloaded and added to my M&G shelf! :D

I've just finished Brandon's Laughter.

I didn't love it as much as the rest of you. It was an emotional short story that hits the spot at the end but was a little confounding at times during the early/mid-section. (view spoiler)[It seems that Richie pretty much hated Brandon but with no better reason than that he laughed, especially as a young whipper snapper. To me their personalities were so totally different I couldn't really believe the attraction. (hide spoiler)]

Happy with both those books lined up for next month and May :) Have put them on my TBR...

Somewhat random question for you ladies... have you listened to Cut & Run in audio? Are they good? I want to reread soon-ish and am thinking about doing it in audio.

Breann wrote: "Somewhat random question for you ladies... have you listened to Cut & Run in audio? Are they good? I want to reread soon-ish and am thinking about doing it in audio."

I enjoy them. Sean Crisden reads them - can't remember if he's the same narrator all the way through to book 5. No audios past book 5 though :(

I think it is him in all the books. I enjoyed them too and really wished the audiobooks continued after that.

I like Sean Crisden. Can't believe they stop at book 5, though!

Had to do with the change in publishers, still stinks.

The new publisher - Riptide - put out book 5 but they won't do any more... :(

I finished An Adventure In Beginnings earlier - still 31 March in your time :) 2.5 stars. The whole story felt rushed where a little more time would have produced a more cohesive and readable story. I like the plotline, but there wasn't enough substance for me...