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Randomised
There were 12 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Judy (OoooA) extra entry
Jenny (ESB)
Lisa AG (Sky extra entry)
Tammie (CNT)
Judy (OoooA)
Kaley (Liz)
Alyana (Icono)
Logan (Lotus)
Fiona (3P)
Catherine (Burj)
Catherine (Burj) extra entry
Lisa AG (Sky)

Timestamp: 2025-05-29 16:04:26 UTC

Volunteers

Nominator: Judith (Belem)

Jenny (ESB)
Kaley (Liz)
Fiona (3P)
Cat (Liz backup)
Lisa AG (Sky)
Lisa AG (Sky extra entry)
Lexi (Belem backup)
Angie (ESB backup)
Preeti (Sky backup)
Logan (Lotus)
Alyana (Icono)
Judy (OoooA)
Judy (OoooA) extra entry
Catherine (Burj)
Catherine (Burj) extra entry
Lousie (3P) backup
Tammie (CNT)
Melissa (Burj) backup

Chapter Breakdown

Date		Chapters 	Pages		MPDQs
2 Jun		1 - 7		18%		Judith (Belem)
3 Jun		The Story - 13	36%		Judy (OooooA)
4 Jun		14 - 20		55%		Jenny (ESB)
5 Jun		21 - The Story	71%		Lisa AG (Sky)
6 Jun		26 - The Story 	88%		Tammie (CNT)
7 Jun		32 - end	100%		Kaley (Liz)

Guidance for DQ setters
Aim for a reasonable number of questions: 4 - 5 is typical. Please don't post too many - any more than 7 gets unwieldy!
Use consecutive numbering of the DQs for your days. So, for example, if Day One is posted as questions 1-4, Day Two should start at number 5 etc.
Don't worry too much about your questions: you aren't being tested on how clever your questions are!
Hints and tips:
- Is there a quote that jumped out at you? Use that in a question.
- What about the characters - do they generate strong feelings? No feelings? - either way, we can explore that!
- What about that plot twist?!
- Explore the writing style: is there an unusual structure being used? what's the tone of voice like? or the point of view?

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Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.

Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years--or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.

When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.

One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.

Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication

Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.

But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.

And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.

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nominator: Judith
official page count: 420 pages

Days have been allocated.

As we are in a challenge, you can't horse-trade your day amongst other teams, but if you have a backup member listed from your team you can swap them in.

If you don't have a backup, or they can't do your allocated day, we'll move to the next team on the randomised list

Enjoy!

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Seasonal Challenges ~ Citrine Coin

Earn your Citrine Coins with Seasonal Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn a Citrine Coin:
One Coin upon reaching "The Bug Catcher" Level.

Learn about Gem coins here

Summer: Design an amazing wedding



The first item on the agenda is to decided who is getting married.

Are you acting as the wedding planner/match maker for this event or one of the actual participants?

Are you creating the wedding of the century for you or for two of your favorite book characters whom if they only had the same author writing them would surely have gotten together.

Read 1 or more books which include your favorite romance hero and/or heroine (depending on your role in this ceremony) or do an optional spell-it-out of the character's name (first, last, or full). Sorry guys this one only gets two participants in the ceremony since well, bigamy is illegal.



The second item on the agenda is to pick the oh so important wedding dress/Tux.

- You may pick one or more books that have a 'to die for' dress/suit you fell in love with on the cover, or the title has a dress/outfit in the title or do a spell-it-out challenge using the color of your dress, name of the color you choose, etc.



The third item on you agenda is to pick your rings.

- read one or books depending on how you'll do this portion. You may read a book with wedding bands on the cover or do a spell-it-out challenge of the material that make up your rings-- G*O*L*D, S*I*L*V*E*R, etc



The fourth item on the agenda is to pick out the color scheme for your wedding. You may want to keep in mind the color you want for your flowers, the color you want for your bridal party's dresses, or the color of one of the couple's eyes.

- For this read one or more books with the colors in the title or one or more books that correspond to the colors in your scheme or do a spell-it-out of your colors.



Fifthly, choose your bridal bouquet.

- Read one of more books which
* include the color(s) or names of the flowers in your bridal bouquet
* opt for a spell-it-out of what you'd like
* opt to read a book with a picture of what you'd like for your bridal bouquet on the cover



The sixth item on the agenda is to choose your wedding cake.

-Read one of more book that
* describes the color and/or flavor of your cake
* with a cake you like on the cover or the word 'cake' in the title
(Spell-it-outs are as always, acceptable)



The seventh item on your agenda is to select a keepsake for the bridal couple. (e.g. wine glasses, wedding cake, cloth)

- Read a book with a picture of it on the cover or in the title.



The eighth item on the agenda is to pick your mode of transportation.

- Read 1 or more books which contain some means of transportation on the cover on in the book that you'd like to ride away in after the wedding. You may, if you like, do a spell-it-out challenge.



The ninth item on the agenda is to pick your song for the first dance.

- You may choose one or more books with couple dancing on the cover, have dancing or opt to do our ever popular spell-it-out challenge of your favorite song.


The tenth item on the agenda is to pick an entree or restaurant for the reception.

- You may choose one or more books
* with a restaurant, feast, dinner item, or food item on the cover (pizza, chicken kiev, ham, etc)
* that have pictures of sit down dinners on the covers
* which will be used to do a spell-it-out of your favorite food entree.



Lastly, pick your honeymoon destination.

- You may pick a book with
* your honeymoon destination on the cover
* the name of your destination in the title
* do a spell-it-out challenge.

(You can add additional items as well like a garter, something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, or anything else you might like to. You can even, if you like, include vows. Just have fun with it.)


Duration June - August

Levels
Nuptials - 1-5 books
Matrimony - 6-10 books
Wedding party - 11-15 books
Ring Bearer - 16-24 books
Happily Ever After - 25+ books


Originally posted by Lisarenee in 2012 here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Seasonal Challenges ~ Citrine Coin

Earn your Citrine Coins with Seasonal Challenges joined on or after April 1, 2016.

To Earn a Citrine Coin:
One Coin upon reaching "The Bug Catcher" Level.

Learn about Gem coins here

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Originally posted by Lisarenee for a June challenge in 2013 here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

June bugs and Summer Jitter Bug Reading Challenge

TO PLAY

Option 1
-- Do a traditional spell-it-out challenge by
selecting a word or words from the following bug or dance lists. Then spell out the word(s) using the first letter in the book's title, the first letter in the author's first or last name, or the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name. As always, if the first letter of a title starts with 'A', 'An', 'The', etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word. FYI, you can opt to do a combination of any of the above

Example of a Spell-it-out:
T - Tom Clancy author or Patriot Games
I - Irreconcilable Differences by Kiki Howell
K - Knight, Theta in The Diviners by Libba Bray

Option 2
-- Read books which have covers with different bugs or people dancing different dances
Hint: tattoos of butterflies and other insects count

Option 3
-- Read books with plots or titles that relate to bugs or dancing (your interpretation)
For example:
- characters participate in different dances
- there is talk of bugs--say ants at a picnic, a person being stung by a bee, a person being bugged by a fly, etc.
- the name of a dance or a bug or the word bug or dance in the title

Option 4
Mix or Match any of the above!

Duration
June - August

Levels of Play:
- The Bee Bop; Read 1 - 5 books
- Ants in your pants; Read 6-10 books
- The Fly Swatter; Read 11-15 books
- The Mashed Mosquitoes; Read 16-24 books
- The Bug Catcher; Read 25+ books

Monthly Challenges ~ Spessartite Coin

Earn your Spessartite Coins with the Monthly Challenges. Must Join a Monthly Challenge on or after April 1, 2016. May date back to April 1st until June 1st 2016. After that, you must start from date joined for coins.

To Earn a Spessartite Coin:
One Coin upon reaching highest book level (Gale Force Winds)

Learn about Gem coins here

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