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December: Baby, It's cold outside!
♦Baby, It's cold outside! December Challenge Read 0/11
S: A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story by Sister Souljah
N: TBA
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G: Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
G: The Darkest Pleasure by Gena Showalter
L: Her Italian Aristocrat by Louise Reynolds
E: Edge of Dawn
S: Storm Front
T: Tigers and Devils
E: Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep
A: A Most Scandalous Proposal by Ashlynn MacNamara
Lisa,I didn't see your sign of the times Saggitarius list. Go back over there and put it up. you know I have to check out your book list every month!!
Baby, It's cold outside! December Reading Challenge Duration: Dec 1/12 - Dec 31/12
Level: Burning Up - 7 or more books
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Ezinwanyi wrote: "Lisa, I didn't see your sign of the times Saggitarius list. Go back over there and put it up. you know I have to check out your book list every month!!"Me? I haven't started that one yet, Ezinwanyi. I've been meaning to...wanted to start it in September, but the house remodel has thrown me for a loop.
ok. you get a pass this month. January and you gotta jump back in
Spell it out7/7
Wicked Jealous: A Love Story FINISHED 12/22
In My Enemy's House FINISHED 12/11
Nielson-Ellie Nielsen-Buying a Piece of Paris FINISHED 12/17
Emma-The Postmistress FINISHED 12/19
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Ty-Stolen: A Letter to My Captor FINISHED 1/8
Emmeline-The House At Riverton FINISHED 1/12
Astor-Rachel Astor-Bridesmaid LottoFINISHED 12/30
I'm in! :)December Reading Challenge:Baby, It's cold outside!
Duration: Dec 1/12 - Dec 31/12
Level: Burning Up - 7 or more books
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I am in too! I am hoping for some more reading time this month. I hope I don't bite off more than I can chew. December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
Level: Burning Up -7 or more books
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December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
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S Scrooge in A Christmas Carol 12/20/12
W Where We Belong 12/20/12
E Emily in The Christmas Wedding 12/7/12
A Age of Miracles 12/5/12
T The Language of Flowers 12/11/12
E Ellie in Mistletoe and Mayhem 12/19/12
R Rachel Cohn's Dash Lily's Book of Dares 12/17/12
Finished!! loved this one!
A perfect day on cold weather would be in the kitchen, baking a tray of chocolate chip cookies, and then snuggle on the couch, with a plate of cookies, a mug of steamy hot cocoa, fuzzy warm socks, a blankie, a book and my purring cat. Since there is no way I can read enough books to spell all these, unless I intend on finish next year, I choose my cat :o)
December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
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K:The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
I: Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder
S: Dark Side of the Moon by Sherrilyn Kenyon
S:Decadent by Shayla Black
I'm going for my favourite thing to do :)S - Devils Gate - Thea Harrison (Seremela)
N - Now and Forever - Julia Templeton
U - Unmasqued - Colette Gale
G - Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter
G - 50 Ways To Hex Your Lover - Linda Wisdom (Nikolai Gregorivich)
L - Outcast - Cheryl Brooks (Lynx)
E - How To Drive Your Dragon Crazy - G.A. Aiken (Eibhear)
Duration: Dec 1/12 - Dec 31/12Burning Up
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NbRC December Challenge - Baby It's Cold OutsideDuration: Dec 1 - 31
Level: Burning Up
Completed: 7/7
❅B - 2 Bodies For The Price Of 1 - Stephanie Bond 12/3
❅L - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend - Victoria Laurie 12/10
❅A - Aunt Dimity's Good Deed - Nancy Atherton 12/4
❅N - Bonds of Justice - Nalini Singh 12/6
❅K - City of Ghosts - Stacia Kane 12/12
❅E - Three to Get Deadly - Janet Evanovich 12/10
❅T - Them Bones - Carolyn Haines 12/26
DONE!!!!Baby It's Cold Outside
Levels:
Burning Up - Read 7 or more books
Fireplace
F - Firelight - 12/18
I - Larissa Ione - Ecstasy Unveiled - 12/16
R - Rafael - 12/19
E - Evangeline Anderson - Sought - 12/4
P - Passion Unleashed - 12/14
L - The Lady is a Vamp - 12/10
A - Argeneau series - Born to Bite - 12/24
C - Gail Carriger - Timeless - 12/30
E - Evangeline Anderson - Revealed - 12/6
I keep coming back to this challenge thinking I'll do it and then getting all caught up in what word I would "read" and the other book challenges I'm doing. I think I'm thinking about it too much ;)
I'm in, but think I'll go for books that warm me up inside. Too many other to finish from earlier in the year to spell things out.
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We'll see how far I get especially with so many A's haha!
Baby It's Cold Outside! December 1 - December 31Burning Up - 12/12 - COMPLETE!
V: Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut 12/16/2012
E: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 12/21/2012
G: The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti 12/1/2012
A: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 12/19/2012
N: Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey 12/11/2012
C: Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story by Wally Lamb 12/21/2012
U: In The Beauty Of The Lilies by John Updike 12/27/2012
P: Damned by Chuck Palahniuk 12/1/2012
C: By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham 12/19/2012
A: Amber in Sorta Like a Rock Star by Matthew Quick 12/8/2012
K: The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd 12/7/2012
E: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 12/9/2012
READ: 15/15
✔T: Ten Things I Love About You - Julia Quinn 12/13
✔R: Wake Up Dead: A Thriller - Roger Smith 12/22
✔O: On Ice - David Ramus 12/9
✔P: Tempest Rising - Nicole Peeler 12/31
✔I: I Kissed a Dog - Carol Van Atta 12/6
✔C: The Chief - Monica McCarty 12/7
✔A: The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler 12/21
✔L: The Year of Living Scandalously - Julia London 12/20
✔I: I Kissed a Dog - Carol Van Atta 12/6
✔S: Scrumptious - Amanda Usen 12/8
✔L: The Third Gate - Lincoln Child 12/5
✔A: Always Look Twice - Geralyn Dawson 12/18
✔N: A Notorious Proposition - Adele Ashworth 12/21
✔D: Dark Peril - Christine Feehan 12/29
✔S: The School - Ed Kelleher 12/17
CHALLENGE COMPLETE
Baby It's Cold Outside ChallengeStart: December 1st, 2012
End: December 31st, 2012
Level: Cold Feet - 1-3 Books Completed
Completed: 3/3
The Scorch Trials - 12/1/12 - ★★★★☆ - That scorching heats warms you inside and out.
The Name of the Wind - 12/27/12 - ★★★★☆ - Nothing like a good long story to warm the heart. Not to mention the excessive use of fire.
Steve Jobs - 12/31/12 - ★★★★☆ - Technology makes me warm and fuzzy. Nothing better then curling up with the laptop or the kindle or the phone or the whatever and playing games or reading books or whatever else you do. I thrive on it. This book also brought back fond memories of tech I played with as a kid.
Baby, It's Cold Outside! - December ChallengeDuration: 12/1/12 - 12/31/12
Level: Burning Up (7+ books)
Books Read: 2/9
Updated: December 2, 2012
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Warm & Cozy
This might seem strange but on the Iron Range of Minnesota there's a lot of people with Finnish blood and they are obsessed with saunas. Saunas are so sought after up here that you are more likely to find one in your home than a second bath or even a washer and dryer. So when I think of winter I think of saunas.S
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December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
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I'm going to try to do an option other than spell-it-out for this one since I always do that. LOLDuration: December 1, 2012 – December 31, 2012
Level: Burning Up - Read 7 or more books
Total Books: 7/7
Words in the title of things that warm you up
Heat
Visions of Heat (Psy-Changeling, #2) by Nalini Singh 12/13/2012
Heat Stroke (Weather Warden, #2) by Rachel Caine 12/16/2012
Books that warm you up inside
Romances, Christmas, and babies always give me the warm fuzzies. :)
The Rancher's Christmas Baby by Cathy Gillen Thacker 12/18/2012
Their Christmas Family Miracle by Caroline Anderson 12/18/2012
Harlequin Blaze and Desire titles are always good for warming you up. ;)
Yule Be Mine by Jennifer LaBrecque 12/25/2012
Awakening Beauty by Amy J. Fetzer 12/25/2012
Naughty but Nice by Jill Shalvis 12/30/2012
Completed: December 30,2012
Nothing but Reading ChallengesBaby, It's cold outside! December Reading Challenge
Duration: 12/1/2012 - 12/31/2012
For this you may use the first letter of a character's first or last name, the author's first or last name, the first letter of the first word of a book's title (you can the skip a, an, the, etc if the title begins with those and use the next word in the title).
Progress: 7 out of 7
BLANKET
B: Patricia Briggs; Fair Game - ***** - 12/9/2012
L: Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward - *** - 12/17/2012
A: Ilona Andrews; Magic Slays - ***** - 12/6/2012
N: Nicholas Flamel: The Alchemyst by Michael Scott - *** - 12/11/2012
K: Sophie Kinsella; Twenties Girl - ***** - 12/4/2012
E: Eduardo: Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh - *** - 12/20/2012
T: Trace Riley: The Inn At Eagle Point by Sherryl Woods - **** - 12/9/2012
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer wrote: "Sonia, I like your challenge! ...":o)
I like it too
December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
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Okay, I'm going to be ambitious and go for Burning Up - Read 7 or more books. And I've even gotten a start:3/7 Read
Warm up my Heart
Steel's Edge 12/4
All Seated on the Ground 12/6
A Virgin River Christmas 12/7
Warm up my Body
Every time this challenge pops up in the feed/email I get the song stuck in my head. Thanks :-P
DONE December Reading Challenge: Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Duration:Dec 1/12- Dec 31/12
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C - Charles, Nicky - The Finding 03.12.12
A - Andrews, Ilona - Magic Burns 08.12.12
T - Taylor, Laini - Days of Blood & Starlight 07.12.12
15/15Completed 27 Dec
T - Therese in Paul Auster - The Music of Chance, 4 Dec
R - Rick Riordan - The Battle of the Labyrinth, 8 Dec
O - The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman, 5 Dec
P - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 4 Dec
I - Hamid Ismailov - The Railway, 24 Dec
C - Carol Higgins Clark and Mary Higgins Clark - He Sees You When You're Sleeping, 5 Dec
A - Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha, 20 Dec
L - Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted, 6 Dec
I - Ivan is the main character in Enchantment by Orson Scott Card, 14 Dec
S - The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, 1 Dec
L - C.S. Lewis - The Four Loves, 16 Dec
A - Chingiz Aitmatov - The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, 7 Dec
N - Nino in Ali and Nino: A Love Story by Kurban Said, 2 Dec
D - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, 27 Dec
S - Susan Cooper - Over Sea, Under Stone, 12 Dec
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Burning Up - Read 7 or more books. I seem to be better at warming my heart...
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Warm up my Heart
Steel's Edge 12/4
All Seated on the Ground 12/6
The Siren Depths 12/8
Warm up my Body
A Virgin River Christmas 12/7
A Visit From Sir Nicholas 12/8
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With winter comes the cold weather so we thought it would be fun to do a challenge about things that warm your heart or body. For this challenge, read books that warm you up inside or that have items on the cover or words in the title of things that warm you up.
You may also opt for our ever popular Spell-It-Out type challenge. For this you may use the first letter of a character's first or last name, the author's first or last name, the first letter of the first word of a book's title (you can the skip a, an, the, etc if the title begins with those and use the next word in the title).
Example of a Spell-It-Out challenge:
W - A Cowboy for Christmas by Lori Wilde
I - Countdown by Iris Johansen
F - Finn from A Private Duel with Agent Gunn by Jillian Stone
E - Every Day by David Levithan
Levels:
Cold Feet - Read 1 - 3 books
Warm All Over - Read 4 - 6 books
Burning Up - Read 7 or more books
Examples of Words and/or items to look for or spell out:
Hug
Tea
Kiss
Coat
Hugs
Fire
Love
Soup
Wife
Wine
Socks
Coffee
Kisses
Summer
Hot Tea
Blanket
Hot Milk
Husband
Snuggle
Sweater
Sweetie
Hot Cider
Slippers
Camp Fire
True Love
Hot Toddy
Fireplace
Snuggling
Happy Endings
Bookie Nookie (aka Romances)
Hot Chocolate
Hugs and Kisses
Tropical Islands
Happy Holidays and Happy Reading!