Leprechaun Event: Dress Like A Leprechaun

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

                                                   Dress Like A Leprechaun

Dress your leprechaun up to earn Leprechaun Coins!

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Once you have completed your leprechaun you may repeat the challenge for additional coins. Challenge must be completed before starting another round.

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

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[Sophie, The other one]

For this one do we need to read different BOM for the beard and vest?

[Becky ♡The Bookworm♡]

Dress Like A Leprechaun
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Round One
Tasks Complete: 3 of 7
Coins Earned: 6

❑ 1. Hat:

✔︎ 2. Beard: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine |★★★★★| Mar 20
How it fits: Read a BOM

❑ 3. Vest:

❑ 4. Bow-Tie:

❑ 5. Coat:

✔︎ 6. Pants: Whisper No Lies by Cindy Gerard |★★★★★| Mar 2, 2016
How it fits: MC is shopping for pants for another MC after being rescued from kidnappers.

✔︎ 7. Boots: On the Edge by Ilona Andrews |★★★★| Mar 7
How it fits: Boot on the cover.

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Rules & Stuff: (view spoiler)[
Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Once you have completed your leprechaun you may repeat the challenge for additional coins. Challenge must be completed before starting another round.

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Leprachaun/Round Two

❑ 1. Hat:

❑ 2. Beard:

❑ 3. Vest:

❑ 4. Bow-Tie:

❑ 5. Coat:

❑ 6. Pants:

❑ 7. Boots:


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[Alison (Lady Coffin)]

I can pull off at least part of an outfit, so lets see how this goes.

☘ Dress Like A Leprechaun ☘


Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard: Read a March BOM
BOM > A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, #2) by V.E. Schwab Starts March 22

Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion
Books of the Month > Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine Starts March 12, 2016

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

√ Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")
Biting Cold by Chloe Neill ~ done 3-5-16
"Todd pointed at a gnome who was wearing a particularly garish pair of plaid pants."
~ or ~ "Clad only in his pants, revealing those lines of muscle at his hips and the flat of his abdomen, his golden blond hair falling across his face, he stretched beside me and ...."
~ or ~ "I checked the blade of my katana, ensuring the steel was clean and ready for action, then climbed into my battleworthy leather pants, a thin, longsleeved shirt against the chill, and my leather jacket."

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

[Marie (UK)]

Dress Like A Leprechaun

Dress your leprechaun up to earn Leprechaun Coins!

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Once you have completed your leprechaun you may repeat the challenge for additional coins. Challenge must be completed before starting another round.

[Natasha]

Dress Like A Leprechaun

Dress your leprechaun up to earn Leprechaun Coins!

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

[JessicaAnn]

Dress Like A Leprechaun:
Dress your leprechaun up to earn Leprechaun Coins!

-Beard:Read a March BOM


-Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion
Ink and Bone discussion

-Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.
(03/18/16)

-Pants:Read a book where a character is looking for some pants.
Visions of Heat/Nalini Singh (03/17/16)
Because shifting from a Jaguar into a man requires you to always be in need of a pair of pants.

-Boots: Read a book with a black cover.
(03/02/16)

[Jacki]

Dress Like A Leprechaun

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat (it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn)

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.

Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. Some Girls Bite-3/6/2016 ★★★★

[Eni]

Dress Like A Leprechaun
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Round One
Tasks Complete: 1 of 7
Coins Earned: 2

❑ 1. Hat:

❑ 2. Beard:

❑ 3. Vest:

❑ 4. Bow-Tie:

❑ 5. Coat:

❑ 6. Pants:

❑ 7. Boots: A Living Nightmare - 11th March - 272 pages

[Jo-Jo]

Dress Like A Leprechaun
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Round One
Tasks Complete: 0 of 7
Coins Earned: 0

☘ 1. Hat:

☘ 2. Beard:

☘ 3. Vest:

☘ 4. Bow-Tie:

☘ 5. Coat:

☘ 6. Pants:

☘ 7. Boots:

[Sonia]

Sophie wrote: "For this one do we need to read different BOM for the beard and vest?"

Sorry Sophie, only reading this now. No, for this challenge specifically, same book can be used for beard and vest.

[Sophie, The other one]

No worries, thanks for the response!

[Corinne]

Dress Like a Leprechaun
[6/7]

✓ Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat


✓ Beard: Read a March BOM


✓ Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion


✓ Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.


✓ Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.


Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.

✓ Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover.

[*Dawn]

NBRC, Dress Like A Leprechaun

Total LCs Earned: 6

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

Beard:Read a March BOM

Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie. When Day Breaks Maya Banks, #9 KGI, 3-15-16 (3*), review
=2LCs

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants. Kiss & Hell Dakota Cassidy, #1 Hell, 3-9-16 (3*), review MC is newly deceased, now a demon, who visits a medium to help him discover why he ended up in hell. Each time he "pops" in to meet with her, he is nude. He borrows her pink bathrobe but then later asks if she has any clothes he can borrow.
=2LCs


Boots: Read a book with a black cover. Base Instincts Larissa Ione, #11.7 Demonica, 3-17-16 (4*), review
=2LCs

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Once you have completed your leprechaun you may repeat the challenge for additional coins. Challenge must be completed before starting another round.

[Karen D]

Coins earned so far: 8

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

✔Beard:Read a March BOM - The Goldfinch

✔Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion - Ink and Bone - participation here

✔Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie. Slade House Nathan in the first chapter wears a bow-tie

✔Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads - Splintered, discussion here

✔Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first") Has Anyone Seen My Pants? - pretty obvious. There's a scene where she goes roaming around a hotel without any pants on.

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)

[Rebecca]

Dress Like A Leprechaun

LCs - 4

Completed:

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie. Mrs. Dalloway 3/10/16

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot) Ender's Game 3/9/16

[Kay Kay]

Ok...

Hat: Late See Me -- She is pledged to marry a leprechaun and is surprised when they do not wear little hats pg. 34

Beard: The Goldfinch

Vest:The Goldfinch

Bow-tie:The girl with the Dragon Tattoo in Chapter 11 the uncle wears a bow tie

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads. (Just finished Splintered late)

Pants: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Boots: Alice in Zombieland

[Jen]

I wasn't going to do yet another March challenge, as I am already overextended and overwhelmed, but I decided I might as well see if any of the books I've read so far - or will read - can count. So here goes. . .

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
(it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat)

Beard: Read a March BOM
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine. Finished 03/18/2016 = 2 LCs

Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion
Participated in the discussion of Ink and Bone: Day 1-6 are all on page 4 of the discussion and my first post is here = 2 LCs

Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.
Phineas Jones wears a bow tie (it's one of his trademarks) in Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop, which I read on 03/20/2016 = 2 LCs

Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
(It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")
Written In Red by Anne Bishop, in which Meg has hurt her leg and Tess, after bandaging her up, finds her something besides jeans to wear: "...she helped Meg into the loose fleece pants she found in the storage bins." (page 394). Finished 03/19/2016 = 2 LCs

Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)
No Quest for the Wicked by Shanna Swendson shows a woman in shoes on the cover. Finished 03/23/2016 = 2 LCs

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins:
Hat -- Beard -- Vest -- Bow Tie -- Coat -- Pants -- Boots
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Books:

[Jen]

Are there any page number requirements for this challenge? I read a book that I think can count for the Hat task, but it's a children's picture book (with some text for young children and sidebar text for older children/adults).

[Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief]

Jen wrote: "Are there any page number requirements for this challenge? I read a book that I think can count for the Hat task, but it's a children's picture book (with some text for young children and sidebar t..."

We'll stick with the 100 pages requirement.

[Jen]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "We'll stick with the 100 pages requirement."

Okay. I guess my Leprechaun will have to go without a hat, then. :-(

lol ;-)

[Audrey Jane]

☘ Dress Like A Leprechaun ☘

*Books read: 4
*LC earned: 10 LC

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat. It can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

✔ Beard: Read a March BOM: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine - March 19 - 2 stars

✔ Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion: Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine: some of my posts here

✔ Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie: Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop - March 25 - 3 stars --> "He wore an off-the-rack suit [...] little tight over his rounded belly and one of the bow ties that were his trademark." (28%)

Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

✔ Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants: Written in Red by Anne Bishop - March 13 - 4 stars --> "Then she helped Meg into the loose fleece pants she found in the storage bins." (81%)

✔Boots: Read a book with a black cover: A Dissection of Murder by Felicity Young - March 5 - 2 stars



Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

[Angie ☯]

Dress like a Leprechaun
LC - 10

Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat (it can be on the cover, in the text - just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat)

✔ Beard: Read a March BOM - Ink and Bone - 3/18

✔ Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion
Mar 12 Discussion Questions
Mar 13 Discussion Questions
Mar 14 Discussion Questions
Mar 15 Discussion Questions
----- Break Mar 16 ------
Mar 17 Discussion Questions
Mar 18 Discussion Questions

✔ Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.
51 Shades of Maggie, Dublin Style: A Dublin parody of Fifty Shades of Grey by Leesa Harker - 3/17

Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

✔ Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first") – Special Offers by M.L. Ryan - 3/13

✔ Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot) – Naked in Death by J.D. Robb - 3/23

[Daphne]

Dress your leprechaun up to earn Leprechaun Coins!

Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat
it can be on the cover, on the text, just mentioned or worn. It has to be a Leprechaun hat.

✔Beard:Read a March BOM
The Goldfinch

✔Vest:Participate in a March BOM discussion
The Goldfinch

✔Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.
The Goldfinch
page 68 "A bespectacled curator in tweed jacket and BOW TIE"

Coat:Join one of the March Buddy Reads.

Pants:Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants.
It may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless (example: "let me put some pants first")

✔Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)


Prizes:
- For each item completed: 2 Leprechaun Coins.
- When the Leprechaun is all dressed up: An additional 3 Leprechaun Coins.

[Ray (user2637)]

Dress Like a Leprechaun
(view spoiler)[Bow-tie: 2

Pants: 2

Boots: 2
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Subtotal: 6 coins

[Cathy M.]

Dress Like A Leprechaun Challenge


Receive 2 Leprechaun Coins for each item completed, and 3 add'l Leprechaun Coins when the Leprechaun is all dressed up. (You may repeat this challenge for add'l coins but it must be completed before starting another round.

✰ Hat: Read a book with a Leprechaun hat on cover, in text, just mentioned or worn.
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✰ Beard: Read a March BOM.
- Ink and Bone (Great Library 1) | Rachel Caine | 03.19.16 | ★★★★

✰ Vest: Participate in a March BOM discussion.
- Day 1 DQ, Day 2 DQ, Day 3 DQ, Day 4 DQ, Day 5 DQ, Day 6 DQ

✰ Bow-tie: Read a book with a bow tie on the cover or title, or where someone wears a bow tie.
- Promises | Marie Sexton | 03.04.16 | ★★★★ | 69% "Of course he was wearing a bow tie."

✰ Coat: Join one of the March Buddy Reads.
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✰ Pants: Read a book that has pants on the cover, in the title, or where a character is looking for some pants (may be shopping for pants, looking for a specific pair, pants/jeans being misplaced or being currently pantless - ex let me put some pants first)
- Straight To You | Liwen Y. Ho | 03.14.16 | ★★


✰ Boots: Read a book with a black cover. In alternative, read a book with shoes or boots on the cover (it can be just one shoe/boot)
- A Dirty Job | Christopher Moore | 03.23.16 | ★★★★



Earns: 10 Leprechaun Coins

[Cathy]

Bowtie: What You Need 3/8/16

Pants: Outtakes from the Grave 3/27/16

Boots: Black Wolf's Revenge 3/2/16

Earns 6 coins