Second Chance Challenges discussion

goodness, look at the the people who've joined since I have. welcome newer than me comers

thanksfor the welcome Cherie

Pat wrote: "goodness, look at the the people who've joined since I have. welcome newer than me comers

thanksfor the welcome Cherie"

I'm a little surprised myself! lol I'm so thankful to everyone who has invited their friends!

sent 100+ invites so lets see what happens.

Hi my name is Angie! I was invited to this group by Sarajayne! Thanks for the invite Sara! I'm a mother of three teenage girls as well as a homemaker.

Where am I from? I live in Central PA in a very small town called Houtzdale

What do I like to read? I read pretty much any genre with a few exceptions such as biographies and how to manuals

What are your favorite challenges? I don't have a particular favorite challenge honestly. I do a monthly reading challenge in Gotta Have Kick. I recently finished my first scavenger hunt challenge in The Lost Challenges Group.

What other groups do you belong to on GR? Gotta Have Kick, The Lost Challenge, Urban Aficandos, Dresden Files, Shut Up and Read, Making the Connections, and few other groups.

Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "Where am I from? I live in Central PA in a very small town called Houtzdale."

OK, I'll admit, I ran to GoogleMaps to look up Houtzdale. I've never been there, but I've driven through Phillipsburg countless times :) We're not too far about, Angie, I live just west of Harrisburg.

It's nice to meet you!

My name is Gennesse (genn). I am a SAHM. I have a 18 mo son. I take advantage of his nap times to read. Favorite thing.

Where are you from?: Idyllwild, Ca. A little mountain town in Southern California.

What do you like to read?: A little bit of everything. But I'm really into UF and PNR.

What's your favorite kind of challenge?: Spell it out!

Were you invited here by someone else?: Rachael!!

What other groups do you love here on Goodreads?: Challenge Factory, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Kickass Chicks, and many more!

I'm Mello from Maryland and I was invited by Jenne. =]

I love reading UF and PNR mostly whether it's adult or YA. I do enjoy some straight high fantasy books as well and will try just about anything. Angels are my favorite paranormal followed closely by vamps, then demons (including incubi and succubi), fae and then shifters.

Sherrilyn Kenyon and Gena Showalter are my favorite authors with Nalini Singh real high up there, too.

I'm not sure what kind of challenges I like best. Other than themes monthly ones, I still feel pretty new to the challenge world, but I do love them.

Barb wrote: "Angie ~aka Reading Machine~ wrote: "Where am I from? I live in Central PA in a very small town called Houtzdale."

OK, I'll admit, I ran to GoogleMaps to look up Houtzdale. I've never been there, b..."

Nice meeting you too!

Hi everyone. This looks like an awesome group. Thanks to Adele for inviting me.
I am Gail, and I live in Manchester UK. I am the mother of three children aged 24, 21 and 16.
I am a writer of paranormal thrillers, but enjoy reading forensic crime, mysteries, legal thrillers. I grew up reading my mothers Mills and Boon books, as they were the only books in the house, until I was old enough to discover libraries, then the whole world opened up.
I belong to quite a few groups on GR, but am not as active here as I would like. By the time I put my writing down long enough to participate, the challenges or topics are finished, so this group is a brilliant idea.
I have a kindle keyboard and its my baby, I love it to bits and it never leaves my side. I have had it for a year and a half now, and I don't think I have picked up a paperback since.

Thanks Barb for inviting me to join. Just what I need MORE challenges. I'm Sheila and I see a lot of familiar names here. I have joined many of the challenge groups here on Goodreads and am currently working on 5 or 6 of them with several more starting in September.

I would say the Seasonal Reading Challenge is my primary challenge group with the Crazy Challenge Connection running a close 2nd. That group has sucked me into 5 challenges the very first month with several more calling my name. I am looking forward to my first team challenges on both CCC and TCF starting in September.

I am a married mom of 2 and grandma of 2. I have recently retired after 37 years as a respiratory therapist. I have always loved reading but read more now than ever before. I have poor eyesight (my eyes are 61 years old after all) so I listen to a lot of audiobooks via my iPod. I am my local libraries best customer. I prefer reading large print books but if not avaiable I will use my kindle in order to get the larger font.

I live in Moline, Il. Our claim to fame is being home to John Deere. Everywhere you turn there is JD. If you think of an US map I am located where the Mississippi River runs east to west with Iowa being north. We will be on the national news tomorrow as the president will be here in Davenport, Iowa (right across the river from us.)

Have I mentioned that I absolutely LOVE being retired yet?

Hello to Angie, Genn, Mello, Brianna and Gail! Welcome to the group!

Hi! I'm Martha, a 64 yr old wife, mother & grandmother who cannot remember ever not knowing how to read. I can't answer that question (what was the first book you read?) because I can't remember not reading. :-)

I'm from central Illinois near Springfield & Decatur ... Abraham Lincoln country. Ashley, my best friend lives in Carbondale and it is a beautiful area.

I love anything that is a good story, but my favorites are mysteries (anything from cozies to gory serial killer types), history, biographies, historical fiction, classics. I love touring old homes and just last week toured the Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, KY. Couldn't decide on which bio to get so I bought 2 of them! That's what I get instead of souvenirs when we travel. Feeds my addiction.

My absolute favorite challenge is the Bookshelf Bingo team challenge at CCC. I also love the spell ones from the monthly to unending, but those with a deadline I usually finish after they've been archived! LOL Challenges make my reading much more fun and I've been going through my bookcase at an astonishing rate since playing the bingo like one. I love it!

I think I was invited by Barb so thank you, Barb!! I hope I'm remembering correctly!

CCC is my favorite other challenge group. I'm in some others and have made some very good friends in most of them.

Shellbelle wrote: "Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: " Shellbelle wrote: "I'm currently living in Wichita, KS (and have lived here most of my life) but my Fiance has recently gotten a job in the Kansas City area so he's leavi..."

1st stop. Get to a grocery story and try some Shatto Root Beer Milk! It is the best stuff on earth. Only available in KC.

Welcome Sheila and Martha! It's nice to see boh of you here. :)

So cool to see so many familiar faces here!

Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: " Shellbelle wrote: "Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: " Shellbelle wrote: "I'm currently living in Wichita, KS (and have lived here most of my life) but my Fiance has recently gotten a job in the Kansas Ci..."

Root Beer Milk? I can't decide if that sounds disgusting or yummy. lol

Cherie wrote: "Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: " Shellbelle wrote: "Dawn (Kat N Hat) wrote: " Shellbelle wrote: "I'm currently living in Wichita, KS (and have lived here most of my life) but my Fiance has recently gott..."

It sounds odd I know, but think root beer float with out the chunks.

The cotton candy flavored milk now that is just gross.

Cherie wrote: "Hi Hettie, I'm glad you found your way here! Check out the Scavenger Hunt folder and the (Never Ending) Ben & Jerry's Challenge."

I'm heading there now! It was the challenge that made the decision to join easy.

Hi I'm Rebecca I'm married and live in Massachusetts. I like to read just about anything. I'm also fairly new to the Goodreads site but when I got the invite from Adele I decided to check out this group. Thank you Adele I think this will be a good group. I enjoy bird watching, reading[of course] football, soccer, hockey and baseball. I also enjoy traveling. My husband and I are planning a trip to Southern Illinois to see friends of his this fall. I can't wait to get started with the challenges.

Welcome to the group Rebecca! We're happy to have you. If you have any questions just let me know. :)

Thanks Cherie this looks like fun. I can't wait to go through the challenges and pick one.

Be careful - as someone else once said, "Challenges are like potato chips, you can't do just one!"

Yes Cherie with challenge groups just one more mouse click can be dangerous. haha

Thank you, Adele, for inviting me to this group! I have lived in the Boston area most of my life. I have three grown children and six terrific grandsons. I retired from the workforce 5 years ago and took in my elderly mother to care for her. She is now in a nursing home and am devoting (at least trying to) more of my time to writing. My first novel (The Shelter at Papa's Farm)was published in 3/12 and am working on its sequel. I'll read anything non-fiction and have recently developed a liking for Christian fiction. I love Joel Rosenberg's books. I don't really like challenges but I'll try!

Welcome to the group Elizabeth! There are a variety of challenges here so hopefully there's something here that you'll enjoy. :) Let me know if you have any questions!

Cherie wrote: "Welcome to the group Elizabeth! There are a variety of challenges here so hopefully there's something here that you'll enjoy. :) Let me know if you have any questions!"

Thanks, Cherie - I'm quite sure I will find something here to enjoy - maybe the challenges here will change my mind where the challenges are meant to be fun (not work or deadline types - lol). Also - I said in my intro that I'll read anything non-fiction and I will, but I mostly enjoy fiction.

Welcome Elizabeth. I also live in the Boston area and have been here most of my life. I, however, am still working. I haven't done too many challenges either but I can't wait to get started.

Hi all! I'm Olivia and I currently live in San Francisco, California. Much to my boyfriend's horror, I like to read anything that isn't serious although the past months it seems it's mostly urban fantasy with some YA mixed in there. He enjoys memoirs and political stuff... too boring!! I'm hoping to finally complete a challenge! Seems that in other groups they're over by the time I get my act together or they're too confusing. Thank you Rachael for inviting me here!

Welcome to the group Olivia! I hope you'll find a challenge you like. If you have any questions please feel free to ask!

Also, just a note to everyone - even though most of the challenges have a time-frame (1 month, 3 months, etc) you are more than welcome to continue a challenge even once that time-frame has passed. There's currently no archives folder here so you don't have to worry about a challenge disappearing.

Olivia, I find some of the groups' challenges so confusing, too. Point systems as well as page numbers, etc. I'm waiting on those until I retire ... IF I ever do! LOL

Martha wrote: "Olivia, I find some of the groups' challenges so confusing, too. Point systems as well as page numbers, etc. I'm waiting on those until I retire ... IF I ever do! LOL"

RIGHT?!?! I'm just happy to have reading time.

That's one of the reasons I love the spell-it-outs so much. It's easy to find a book to fit a letter (usually) so I can read what I want and then plug them into the challenge later. I'd recommend Spell-It-Outs if you want a more laid-back challenge.

Thank you Cherie, I've been browsing and yes... that's where I will start. Plus it'll help me get through my TBR list... or add more to it. =)

Hi Cherie, thanks for inviting me to join, I am now officially a challenge slut. ;) I'm Deanna, 53, single, no kids and live in WA state, north of Seattle. I had to take an early medical retirement from nursing a few years ago so I have lots of time for reading. I have also worked as a bookkeeper and a baker/cook.

My reading tastes are just as eclectic as my career path - lol. I love to read mysteries, action/adventure, suspense, thrillers, romance, romantic suspense, romantica, chick lit, humor, a bit of sci-fi and fantasy, heck I even read cookbooks for fun. I am not really into horror, dystopia or much non-fiction.

I love spell it and scavenger challenges a lot. I have a Kindle so I get most of my books as ebooks now. I have found that calibre helps a lot with searching for books I already have to fit challenges. I am in CCC, SRC as well as a couple of smaller groups with niche challenges.

With my background in accounting, I have developed Excel spreadsheets and Word documents to track my challenges and that really helps to see what I already have planned for a month or quarter or even annually and if a book will fit into more challenges.

Welcome Deanna! I'm happy to see you here. :)

Olivia - my goal originally was to cut down on my TBR as well. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions... I think my TBR has tripled (and I mean that literally) since I started doing challenges. lol!

Deanna wrote: "heck I even read cookbooks for fun"

So glad I'm not the only one who does this LOL

Hello everyone. I am Kris and live in a small town in Minnesota. I am the mother of four. My 3 oldest are 19, 17, & 15 with the youngest at 1-1/2. My reading has really gone down with a toddler again.

I have been an avid reader all my life. I will read just about anything, but especially enjoy mystery, crime fiction, romance. I have just discovered the dysopian genre and really like that.

I am a member over at Crazy Challenge Connection and have become quite addicted to the challenges. I had never heard of the before but now can't go a day without checking on them. LOL. I really like the spell out challenges but also enjoy some of the more involved challenges that get me thinking.

Hi! I'm jaxnsmom (aka donna). I'm from VA, but currently living in Charleston, WV with my two dogs, Jackson and Callie. I change my avatar frequently, so you'll probably see their pictures at some point. I key numeric data for a bank, and the best perk is getting to listen to books between four and seven hours a day!

I like most genres, but don't really care for horror, or true crime. Lately I seem to be getting more into books set in the Middle East. Lucky for me, Charleston has an amazing library system.

The first challenge group I joined, The Hive, is a side group of another one. It's a year-long challenge with 100 tasks. It really got me looking into new genres and authors, and introduced me to the wonderful world of games with books. Now, a year later, I'm hooked on challenges, and get quite cranky if I don't get my daily dose ☺ I love scavenger hunt types of challenges the most - the planning is half the fun! My other challenge groups are CCC and You'll Love This One...!!

Barb invited me, and I haven't decided yet if I should thank her or un-friend her :p Sigh...but I have only myself to blame for joining.

Welcome Kris! I also have an 18 month old so I know what you mean. He's quite the little Tasmanian Devil! He'll be playing all nice a quiet and then as soon as I sit down to read a page or two he's into something again. :)

LOL! Welcome jaxnsmom. I'm glad you found your way here. Barb really is an enabler isn't she? I was just cursing her earlier for enticing me to add something else to my TBR.

I've met many people who are bad for me since I joined GR. And really, aren't challenges supposed to help get books OFF your tbr, not make new piles of them tottering everywhere?!?! Shame on everyone who has introduced me to a great book!

I think I joined six more CCC challenges Saturday and I haven't even checked out the requirements yet :~D

Cherie wrote: "Barb really is an enabler isn't she? I was just cursing her earlier for enticing me to add something else to my TBR."

I learned from the best *cough*Southpaw*cough* And Cherie, all I did was post the title of the book I'd just started. You didn't have to check it out :)

I know, I know. It's just easier to blame you than admit that I have a problem. lol

Problem, what problem?? Who has a problem??? Not ME!!!! And yes, I think we can take the blame all the way to SP! :D

My name is Sheila and I am a Challenge Addict --

And the group looks up from their books and says

"Hi Sheila"

LOL!

LOL Sheila

Sheila wrote: "My name is Sheila and I am a Challenge Addict --

And the group looks up from their books and says

"Hi Sheila""

Do I really have to look up from my book!!!!