The Rainbow Reading Challenge - Sign up & Questions

[Abbie]

Rainbow Reading!

This is a month long challenge, running from the 1st of May until the 31st.

The aim of the challenge is easy - Read books with different coloured covers!

Ways to earn points:

• Reading a book with a blue cover (or any other colour) will get you one point. (Covers must be at least 50% of the selected colour.)

• Read a rainbow! (Red, blue, orange, yellow, green, purple) Reading one each of those colours will earn you 5 bonus points, as well as the usual one point for each book.

• Reading 5 books with the same colour, will get you 5 bonus points, as well as the usual one point for each book.

******* Please note, books with black or white covers count, but they won't count towards bonus points.
You'll get the one point for the book, and one point for a buddy read, but you won't get 5 bonus points for reading 5 of that colour. *******

• For every 2000 pages you read, you will get a further 5 bonus points.

• As usual, if you buddy read the book in our group, you get one point.

********** All bonus points will be added at the end. **********

Rules:

• Books must be read between the 1st of May until the 31st of May to count.

• Books must have at least 50% of the selected colour on the cover to count.

• Buddy read must be in our group to count.

• Books must be over 100 pages to count.

• 1 reread allowed.

• For all other rules, including what we expect for a review or buddy read to count, please take a quick look here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Prizes:

• One winner for the most points.

• One winner drawn at random.

Please submit your reviews like this in the the review thread:


Colour: Purple
Number of pages: 326
Review: (Review link)
Buddy read: (Buddy read link if yes, No if not)

[Tati]

I'm in!

[Mei]

So in! :)

[Abbie]

Great! :)

[Connie]

I'm in!

[Rachmi]

Count me in, Abbie!

[Kamille]

I'll join!

[Jenni]

I'll be in, but I can't buddy read the week beginning the 5th. Or read at all that week! But I'll have a go :D

[Jenni]

Oh, I have a quick question : What if I read a book on my e-reader? Mine doesn't have colour, so should I use the usual Goodreads colour instead or not get anything?

[Abbie]

Jenni wrote: "Oh, I have a quick question : What if I read a book on my e-reader? Mine doesn't have colour, so should I use the usual Goodreads colour instead or not get anything?"

You can use any edition on goodreads. :)

[Tati]

I know it's probably a bit early to be asking this, but would these count?

- Yellow
- Blue
- Yellow
- Pu

[Jenni]

I'm planning to read this as I have a free copy:

What colour does it count as?

[Tati]

Jenni, I'm afraid this one wouldn't count, as it is too short, and there is no predominant color in the cover.

[Jenni]

Oh, ok! Know any good books that you can get for free/cheaply on a kindle? I've read the majority of my local library :)

[Rachael]

YES YES YES! I love this challenge already, sign me up :)

[Rachael]

I love the bonus points for RAINBOW and SAME COLOR! Thanks Abby :))

[Abbie]

Tatiana wrote: "I know it's probably a bit early to be asking this, but would these count?

I'd say let the sky fall is more pink, but if you;re going for "read a rainbow" you could use this edition -
for orange.

The rest are fine too. :)

[Tati]

Yay! Thanks, Abbie!

[Abbie]

Jenni wrote: "Oh, ok! Know any good books that you can get for free/cheaply on a kindle? I've read the majority of my local library :)"

Which amazon site do you use? (Co.uk/.Com ect) I've read a few decent amazon freebies, but a few of them are only free in the UK.

[Jenni]

I'm from the UK, so I assume that it's co.uk for Amazon...I'm not that keen on horror, paranormal or overly romantic books but otherwise I'm fine...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

there's some 'read now' titles on netgalley you could use -
Blue https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...
https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...
Red https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...

[Jenni]

The thing is, I'm still confused about how to download off of netgalley! My computer starts to hate me and displays error messages if I try :(

[Sarah Elizabeth]

you have a kindle though? if you have a kindle the easiest way to do it is to select the 'send to kindle' option (you will have to tell them your kindle email address, and approve their email address on your amazon account). that way you don't have to download stuff to your computer, and can read the books wherever you want on your kindle ☺

[Jenni]

I'm not allowed to send things to my kindle unless it is guaranteed safe...

[Sarah Elizabeth]

it's guaranteed by netgalley. I think there would be big trouble if it wasn't!

[Jenni]

Ok, I'll try that...

[Rachael]

acceptable as Blue for Gone Girl?

[Abbie]

Rachael wrote: " acceptable as Blue for Gone Girl?"

Yes :)

[Alley]

I'm in for sure!

[Abbie]

Alley wrote: "I'm in for sure!"

Great! :)

[Rachael]

orange?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I think I'd say this one is more orange -

[Rachael]

Okay even better :)

[Rachmi]

Rachael wrote: "Okay even better :)"

I really want to read it too, would you like to buddy read it?

[Rachelle]

I'm in!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Rachmi wrote: "Rachael wrote: "Okay even better :)"

I really want to read it too, would you like to buddy read it?"

I think there's a buddy read for it already scheduled for the 7th? ☺

[Sarah Elizabeth]

yep - the 7th - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Cheyenne]

I'm in:)

[Rachmi]

Sarah wrote: "yep - the 7th - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

I haven't check on May BR thread yet, thanks Sarah! :D

[Abbie]

Everyone is added. :)

[Rachael]

Orange??

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I really don't think that is 50% orange Rachael. It needs to be roughly half the cover, so I don't think that would count ☹

[Rachael]

Yahhhh I didn't think so either.. Oh well

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I'm sure you'll enjoy it regardless!

[Rachael]

Sorry to be annoying but
yellow?

[Abbie]

Sorry Rachael, That only looks about 20% orange. :(

[Abbie]

Rachael wrote: "Sorry to be annoying but
yellow?"

I'd say that's about 40% orange and about 10% yellow, but if you use it would count as red. :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I've just been trying to work out what the heck colour that one was I couldn't decide if it was red or orange!

[Rachael]

Okay thanks!

[Abbie]

Sarah wrote: "I've just been trying to work out what the heck colour that one was I couldn't decide if it was red or orange!"

It took me a while to work out if it was red or orange as well!

If anyone plans to read the 5th wave for the GBR, you can count it for either red or orange.