Romance Readers Reading Challenges discussion

Mary wrote: "I am also a big Feehan fan.

Do we need a Feehan support group?"

Within RRRC? Otherwise just come and join us over in the Christine Feehan Fans group Mary!! Not that there has been a lot of activity lately... ;)

D.G. ~Saucy Vixen~ wrote: "Thanks Lizz. I'll use Jeremiah for CoB then.

Even without that one, I still have 11 names I can use in TFC. So far I've been finding some of the difficult boy ones.

Not many luck with the women t..."

Samehere i'm finding more boy names then girl

Diane ~Firefly~ wrote: "Sandra wrote: "

Xavier is the hero."

great book!"


JAK is probably a good place to look for some of the "old-fashioned " names; she uses them quite a lot. I know she has an Oliver in .

I found an Alexia...not Alexa...stupid i!!!

D.G. ~Saucy Vixen~ wrote: "I know, Dee!

Right now I'm reading a book where the heroine's name is Alix. I mean c'mon! Why couldn't she be Alexa, Alexandra, Alexis, Allison or Alyssa?

I also have an 'Audriana' on a book from..."

I could have sworn that Jillian was on the list.

Dee wrote: "I found an Alexia...not Alexa...stupid i!!!"

LOL, Dee! These women's names are getting stupid. It's like the books I read have almost no women on purpose.

i know!! lol!!

I mean, is it said alex-i-a...or is it just alexa spelt in a funky way...lol!

but I guess Braden and Brayden are the same right??

D.G. ~Saucy Vixen~ wrote: "Dee wrote: "I found an Alexia...not Alexa...stupid i!!!"

LOL, Dee! These women's names are getting stupid. It's like the books I read have almost no women on purpose."

I feel they same way, but i'm reading a lot of YA right now and they have a lot of the names

i guess i could check out some more YA then...lol!

Those female A names are killers - 20 of them (20% of the girl's list)!! It's like the parents want their kids to be first on roll-call...

I'm just about even on the names. Only 2 less female names than males. Although I've had a few male names more than once. It seems like every book I read has a Sam in it. The only Sam I ever knew in real life was our dog when I was a kid.

I just started a book and the woman's name is Acadia. I have never heard that name before. It's not even a paranormal.

When I finish The Fiery Cross, I'll have 3 male names for every female one.

I'll have to read some YA too, I guess. :)

LOL, Dee! These women's names are getting stupid. It's like the books I read have almost no women on purpose."

I KNOW! And I'm trying to do this with just my normal reading (i.e. no hunting out books just for a name). It's going okay so far, but I predict issues when I get towards the end.

And don't get me started on the number of characters who are one letter out. Alexia, Elle, Eve, Jade, Marie, Ripley...

And WHO NAME'S THEIR KID SADIE!!!!! In the land of Oz you would get your a#s kicked.

And now I have that stupid song stuck in my head...

What? ♬"Sadie, Sadie, married lady?"♬ That song?

I think Tania means 'Sadie, the cleaning lady...' sung by Johnnie Farnham... Yes? ;)

Jane (PS) wrote: "I think Tania means 'Sadie, the cleaning lady...' sung by Johnnie Farnham... Yes? ;)"

Stupid song... and it's still stuck in my head.

It's a shocker Tania - you've got to find another annoying song to replace it!

Tania wrote: "I KNOW! And I'm trying to do this with just my normal reading (i.e. no hunting out books just for a name). It's going okay so far, but I predict issues when I get towards the end.

And don't get me started on the number of characters who are one letter out. Alexia, Elle, Eve, Jade, Marie, Ripley..."

LOLOLOL, Tania! I'm doing the same...I'm not hunting books for the challenge either but but I'm bumping books with lot of names up my TBR and would consider reading books that sound interesting if I know they have a name I need. Otherwise, I will NOT read a book just for the names. :)

Oh, not fair bringing up "Sadie, the cleaning lady" how the heck am I supposed to get that out of my head now. Tania, that's just cruel to your fellow Aussies.

Poor kids who really have some of the names on this list.
When I do have kids and it is a girl I was going to name her Aislinn (Ashlyn) but now i'm rethinking it.

my friends daughter is ashlynn

If anyone is into YA, I'm reading Shiver with my daughter. So far there's: Isabelle, John, Jack, Sam/Samuel, Grace/Gracie, Olivia and William.

"Gracie" is only mentioned once but I used it since her father refers to her effectionately as "Gracie". William is also mentioned once as the 1st name of a cop who is in the story again but just referred to as Officer so and so.

Dee wrote: "my friends daughter is ashlynn"

I really love the name

Ashlyn is a really pretty name. Aislinn - they're going to spend their lives having their name mispronounced. Trust me - I've spent my life being called Tanya instead of Tania.

Tania wrote: "Ashlyn is a really pretty name. Aislinn - they're going to spend their lives having their name mispronounced. Trust me - I've spent my life being called Tanya instead of Tania."

Yeah my mom's is Tanya t AH n y uh
and she gets called Tanya t ah n ee ah

Tania wrote: "I've spent my life being called Tanya instead of Tania."

Those are pronounced exactly the same in Spanish so I don't have a clue what you mean. :)

I confess I too don't know the pronunciation difference between Tania and Tanya.

And this is why this game is so much fun. One letter makes all the difference. Not that I'm suggesting Jane go to this much detail with the names on our list or we'll never get finished.

Tanya - Tahn-yuh
Tania - Tah-NEE-a

The difference is so slight normally only those who have a family member or friend with the name would know the difference.

And even then it's normally if only if you know the origins of the names that you understand the difference:

Tanya is Russian and is short form of Tatiana (comes from a Roman family name - Tatius and is also linked to a third century saint/matyr)

Tania is English is short version of Titania (Shakespeare's - Midsummer Night's Dream fairy queen). Original origins of Titania are greek I believe (coming from Ovid) and linked to the Titans meaning giant.

Even most baby name sites get it wrong and link them both together so you sites saying the name is Russian and means fairy queen. I just happen to have a grandmother who was very clear about the differences.

I'm still not sure I know what you mean. I get the second one (that's how it's pronounced in Spanish) but I'm not sure how the first one sounds different.

I'll have to ask my husband. He probably knows.

In Spanish the vowels have pretty much ONE pronunciation so the really subtle differences of English pronunciation still elude me.

Well then, I've been pronouncing your name the wrong way. I didn't know about the second way. Well, I learnt something new today.

So I found a female Regan in a book I'm reading. According to one of the sites Jane posted in the front, it's another spelling of Reagan and can be pronounced either of 3 ways!
r ee g ih n
r eh - g uh n
r ai - g uh n

Reagan on the other hand can be pronounced either:
R AI g uh n
r ee g eh n

I'll leave it to Jane to decide if I can use this one. :)

I asked about Regan/Reagan already and was told yes.

Some names, the one letter doesn't alter it like Mackayla/Makayla. Others it changes it totally: Ava/Eva or Eva/Eve.

But then you get people (in real life) who change the pronunciation themselves: I knew a "Tamra" or that's how I thought she spelled it: tam-ra. But she spelled it Tamara, which to me is prounounced Ta-mare-a. And I've known a lot of Tamara's over the years and she was the only one to pronounce it Tam-ra.

So I'm actually reading a book over 500 pages (not my norm) and it's really low on the names. It's probably the only book I'll get in where I can get an extra name and it appears it won't even give me 4. 1 of the names it gave me, I already had in another book. And another of the names-the character has pulled a disappearing act and I may not be able to use it afterall.

Oh well.

Mary wrote: "I asked about Regan/Reagan already and was told yes.

Some names, the one letter doesn't alter it like Mackayla/Makayla. Others it changes it totally: Ava/Eva or Eva/Eve.

But then you get peo..."

Thanks, Mary.

I know what you mean. I used to work with a woman named Rachel ( spelled like that) but she pronounced it Rayshell. She had to keep correcting people as to the right pronunciation and sometimes she would get mad when people pronounced it the usual way. I thought it was very tiresome. How are people supposed to know that your name has a special pronunciation? People say may name all sorts of ways and it doesn't bother me as long as it's close enough. :)

D.G. ~Saucy Vixen~ wrote: "Mary wrote: "I asked about Regan/Reagan already and was told yes.

Some names, the one letter doesn't alter it like Mackayla/Makayla. Others it changes it totally: Ava/Eva or Eva/Eve.

But the..."

That's why I don't get mad about my name in real life - only people who know the difference are going to understand the difference in pronunciation and that's not many :)

I do get a little upset when my own family misspell it though :)

I.m interstate but it sounds as if everyone has sorted out the pronounciations... (i would have said yes to both tania/tanya spellings as interchangeable...)

Tania wrote: "I do get a little upset when my own family misspell it though :) "

LOL, I know what you mean! One of my aunts mangles my name in such a way that it's not even close (she adds several letters to it...the equivalent of somebody calling you Tarnila). And she's not joking...that's just the way she says it. I'm always like...you've known me for 30+ years and you cannot pronounce my name?

Tania wrote: "LOL, Dee! These women's names are getting stupid. It's like the books I read have almost no women on purpose."

I KNOW! And I'm trying to do this with just my normal reading (i.e. no hunting out b..."

Hah, I know 3 Sadies. It's so funny, the names going around now.

The only Sadie's I've ever met have been dogs-just like with Sam. And Molly.

Can I use Evylin for Evelyn?

To plead my case: my Meme's name was Evelyn. She pronounced it Ev-i-lyn not Eve-lyn. And I take Evylin as Ev-i-lyn as well.

Hi Mary. How do the two web links pages in the FAQs pronounce it? To be fair, we really need to stick to their guidelines, remembering I disallowed madelyn/madeline despite local variations... I don.t have access to more than mobile internet, so checking out these websites are beyond me for a few days.

Well one website doesn't have Evylin at all. The other says it's pronounced eh-vi-lyn. Which is how my grandmother and everyone in our family pronounced her name Evelyn. The other website has several ways to pronounce Evelyn-one which looks like eh-vi-lyn.

To me it's not the same as Madelyn/Madeline or Carolyn/Caroline. The "e" on the end of Madeline changes how the "i" is pronounced. If it was Madelin then it could be the same a Madelyn. The e on the end changes the "I" from "ih" to "I". Like it would if you spelled it Eveline or Evelyne.

Oh man! I was so excited I had found a Levi in a book I was reading...but he showed up once never to be seen again! Drat!

if you haven't - everyone should read Lamb - the gospel according to Biff - it has a Levi in it (in fact, Biff is Levi) and he's through out the whole book

I read that one already.

I will probably use: Charming Jo or I'm Your Santa for Levi. Unless it pops up in another book that I'm not expecting. I'll go add those to the list.

OK I was bored at work today and added a bunch of names to the male list. Including some with few options like Jayden, Jonathan, Justin and Levi.

Thanks, Mary. I don't have any of those names.

Okay, I found a "Sadie" -- -- in a hardbook I was given as a gift and never read. Cool!

YouTube link to: Sadie the Cleaning Lady by John Farnham!

Never heard of this guy b/f this challenge, now I can't get the song out of my head either, LOL! Fun!

Sigh. I have a "Drew" but doing the Amazon search it's never confirmed as short for Andrew.

And another Sean in Crunch Time by Diane Mott Davidson which also has a Julian. Julian is a regular character and they don't have to be read in order.