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Over in a Flash - May 2013
Angi 2/2 - Done! Congrats!
Anna 0/2
BJ Rose 3/3 - Done! Congratulations!
Brenda 1/3
Brandilyn 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
Cassie♥ 4/4 - Done! Congrats!
Creative_Mii 0/2
Chris 0/4
Julie (Mom2lnb) 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
Lindy 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
Lisa (Ausie Girl) 5/5 - Done! Congrats!
Lou 2/3
Mary 2/4
Melissa (ladybug) 2/2 - Done! Congrats!
Melissa (MO) 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
Nichole 2/2 - Done! Congrats!
Nikki 2/2 - Done! Congrats!
BJ Rose 2/3
Sandra (AU) 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
ShoSho 3/3 - Done! Congrats!
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Lisa Kay 0/2
in for 3Color: (Blue) What We May Be
Holiday (Teacher) Tattoos & Teacups
Items: (Ocean) Follow The Sun
**waves** Hi, Brandilyn! You're first again! ☺
Lisa Kay wrote: "**waves** Hi, Brandilyn! You're first again! ☺"I should be asleep, but I am reading (well listening to) a book and I don't want to stop.
Yeah, I understand, Brandilyn; I'm listening to a book while I pick pictures for OiaF. ☺
I'm in too. Maybe 4 this time. I'm at the end of a difficult challenge and down to some weird things that I need to complete it. Thanks ladies!!
Completed
Blue:
♥♥♥♥♥
Mother's Day: Extreme Exposure by Pamela Clare♥♥♥
Mother Goose Day:Catch Me by Lisa Gardner♥♥♥♥
Item: Hot Hero
A Family SecretJean Brashear ♥♥♥
4/4
Completed
Blue:
♥♥♥♥♥Mother's Day: Extreme Exposure by Pamela Clare♥♥♥
Mother Goose Day:Catch Me by Lisa Gardner♥♥♥♥
Item: Hot Hero
A Family SecretJean Brashear ♥♥♥
4/4
Okay, Cassie♥, I put you down for four, but you can always change it. ☺
I'm going to do 5 this month.COLOURS: 3
HOLIDAY: 1
ITEM: 1
Just in case you missed it, this is my favourite challenge... LOL.
In for 4 (at least). I'll probably have to read about some hotties and maybe with blue covers :-)Thanks, Lisa Kay!
Great, Lisa, ShoSho, Anna, & Chris! Added you.
Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Just in case you missed it, this is my favourite challenge... LOL."That makes me smile!
I'm in for 4; cover color, horses, and mother.
This sounds so fun, and I am super impressed by the people who are going to read 4+! I generally only make it through one book a month, but I guess that's why it's called a challenge.I'm going to do Mirror Image (but to be fair, the cover on my Kindle has one of the items, plus it has a flight theme) and Risky Business (again, on my Kindle, the cover is predominately blue and has a hot hero on it).
Just in case I don't make it through both of these, I will also include the book I just finished (Right as Rain) because it fits all three categories--blue cover, teacher heroine, and garden on the cover. I look forward to reporting back!
I'm in! :)I'll do 3
1/3 read
Colors (green) Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Holiday (Mother Goose Day) The Devious Book for Cats: A Parody
Holiday (Mother's Day) Cover of Night 5/15/13 ★★★★★
Neat, Lou, Julie, Nichole, Brenda, & Angi! Added you.Lou, I put you down for 2...let me know if you really want 3.
Hi Lisa - Please put me down for 2. Thanks.
HEA May 2013 Challenge0/3 Completed
Blue: The Darkest Kiss
Green: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
Mother: Alien in the House
I'm in - probably for 2, have to check my books to see what I have - I know I have a funny one on tap, and I should be able to find a blue or green cover.
Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Just in case you missed it, this is my favourite challenge... LOL."
I love this challenge as well. But I HAVE to do one and only one from each category. I am anal that way.
I'm going for three:Blue/Green:
Amelia Earhart:
Airplanes:
I also have
(hot hero)on my stack, so I may actually end up with 4 but I'm going to say 3 for now.
Gotcha, Nikki & Melissa!
Still got me showing as 2; should be 3 Lisa Kay ;)
**facepalm** Sorry, Sandra. Why is it always you?
I'm listing 3 books, bur sticking with my goal of 2:Green cover:
Blue cover:
Mother Goose Day: humorous:
It's the Moderator's Curse Lisa Kay ;)I'm just glad you've got it and not me. LOL.
**hee hee** Thanks, Sandra!
1/3 completeColor: (Blue) What We May Be finished 5/1 4*
Holiday (Teacher) Tattoos & Teacups
Items: (Ocean) Follow The Sun
Sure, Lindy! Welcome to the challenge.Updated you, Brandilyn.
emerald
HEAC ~ Over in a FlashDuration: 5/1 - 5/31/13
Completed: 2/2 On 5/8/13
1) Color: Blue
*** 5/8/132) National Teacher's Day: Edmund learns a lesson
***** 5/3/13
2/3 completeColor: (Blue) What We May Be finished 5/1 4*
Holiday (Teacher) Tattoos & Teacups
Items: (Ocean) Follow The Sun finished 5/2 4*
Super, Melissa! Glad to see you back. I'm on Kindle, so I'll have to owe you a pic & update you & Brandilyn later.
2/4 CompleteColor: Blue: Beauty and the Blacksmith
& Lord of Wicked Intentions
Both finished May 02/03
Done!3/3 complete
Color: (Blue) What We May Be finished 5/1 4*
Holiday (Teacher) Tattoos & Teacupsfinished 5/3 4*
Items: (Ocean) Follow The Sun finished 5/2 4*
Woohoo, Brandilyn! You're flying. Congrats!Gotcha, Mary!
Amelia Earhart
HEA May 2013 Challenge1/3 Completed
Blue: The Darkest Kiss
Green: Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet 6/5/13 ★★★★★
Mother: Alien in the House
2/3 Completed--I'm pretty proud of myself; maybe I need to do challenges more often to motivate myself! :)Flight Theme & Blue: Mirror Image 3* (I wanted to love it, but there were some plot holes that I just couldn't get over)
Blue: Risky Business Still Reading
Teacher & Blue: Right as Rain 5* (I found this book randomly on Amazon, and it was really good--I was pleasantly surprised because I don't normally read unknowns.)
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I stole this idea (with permission) from the SOS: Serious Overload of Series group.
Duration: May 1st through May 31st.
Rules: Read 2 books with the following items found on their covers; choose 2 of the 3 options below. Be sure to post your book covers, dates read, and star ratings. If you want, you can do this at the end of the month after you reviewed your covers. Feel free to do all three, or more, if you want.
Member Choosing: Melissa (ladybug) has been a GoodReads member since July 2009, and a participant of Happily Ever After Café since July, 2012. She is great multi-tasker and can read several books at the same time and not forget what she's reading. She can leave a book and come back to it months later and still remember what has gone on before. In most cases... LOL!
COLORS: Green...all shades of...
Blue...all shades of...
HOLIDAY THEMES: (1) Kentucky Derby Day: {May 4th} Read a book involving racing or horses or someone who works with horses (a vet, groom, etc...) (2) National Teacher's Day: {May 7th} Read a book with a teacher as the protagonist, where a "lesson" is learned or with something like a classroom or apples on the cover? Like a student gives an apple to a teacher? (3) Mother's Day: Read a book where the protagonist is a mother, or Mother's Day is celebrated, or where an adoption takes place. (4) Mother Goose Day: Read a book that has a humorous or silly story line, or the theme of the story is hidden behind something else. For example, a mystery where everything points to the butler as doing the deed, but it ended up being the maid. A surprise ending! (5) Amelia Earhart: {May 20, 1932; took flight five years to the day after Lindbergh flew solo over the Atlantic.} Read a book with a female pilot, as AE began the first solo flight by a woman across the Atlantic Ocean
ITEMS: May’s Birthstone is the emerald. Flowers are the Lily-of-the-Valley. Zodiac Signs are Taurus and Gemini. Other items are postage stamps, a red cross, airplane, forsythia, dogwood, violets, jack-in-the-box, birds, nests, eggs, gardens, school building/bus, ocean, Hot Hero/heroine!
Fun Facts: Other fun facts are that the first postage stamp was issued in England in May and Clara Barton founded what became the Red Cross in May.
Fun Facts: The Inverted Jenny (also known as an Upside Down Jenny or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp first issued on May 10, 1918 in which the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane in the center of the design appears upside-down; it is probably the most famous error in American philately. Because the center image was printed first, with the frame added second; it is actually the frame that is printed upside-down, not the center image of the Jenny.