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PtP - Thunder Ducks
1. Introduce yourself to your team. Definitely let your team members know where you are from. This is a 'nice to know' when categories are announced and when team-mates can expect other members to post their book choices.2. Pick a Team Captain. The team captain will track the books read by the team and double-check that your book selection complies with the rules - eg make sure that the selection and completion posts are as per the formatting and information requested below (msg 3).
Anyone is free to ask questions in the Q&A/Announcement thread - here. If you are unsure, please ask.
Once a Captain has been decided, the Team Captain should reserve a couple of posts in this thread to track their team's book selection and completion.
3. Name your team. This is not mandatory, but it is fun. Given we are an open/public group with no age limit, so please make sure any chosen name is smart, not smutty ;)
Please PM your name to me by 28 May.
4. If you have a private profile, please 'friend' your team-mates. This is really important, because without this, your team-mates can't see your shelves to select a books under option 2.
5. Please post your book selections/completions in the format provided below. (This format is also posted in both the Q&A and Sign-Up threads.) We need to know the week that each book corresponds to, the page numbers, and how the book qualifies (where applicable), etc. I can't stress this enough.
You don't want to start reading a book and then find it doesn't meet the requirements because some information (eg page count or theme link) was missing from your original post.
I will be monitoring this and your book will not be considered complete until I am satisfied that your selection and completion posts comply.
Remember - you can ONLY change your book selection in the week that the theme is called. This is different from Round 1.
6. You MUST check in with your team each week, ideally once the theme is announced. Please let your team know if you except to have spotty communication or are on holidays or having an operation.
7. When you post the completion of your book, you must post a review; enough for us to know you have actually read the book. Please don't link to a review. You must post the review in this thread.
8. Re-reads are allowed but you can't read the same book twice within this challenge.
9. There is no prize for the winning team - bragging rights only :)
10. Each week, the theme will be announced in the Q&A/Announcement thread. The full list of past themes will be maintained in msg 1.
The Rule on the Pass Option
* Each team can only have ONE member using their pass each week.
* Each member can only use that pass once each 4 weeks.
* This means that two team members will miss using a pass in each 4 week block.
* No-one can use the pass option in the last week of the challenge.
Posting formatFor the initial selection post I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
How the book qualifies
For the completion post I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Rating (1-5)
Review
Please DO NOT CHAT in the post. It needs to be super clear.
As a change from the last round, I will maintain the final tracking of each team's completed books in a separate thread.I still need the Team Captain to track for their team as I will be using this list to check with my list :)
Please be patient while you wait for me to update each team and their books. I am sometimes out of internet range, so it can take time to manage this process. As the modbot though, I'm hoping to rope in some of the other moderators sometimes ;)
Team #5Week 9: Mega-Wealthy
Katie - Magic Bites, 260 pages/GR
✔Sassafrass - Lockout, 133 pages/GR, Review Post 487
Brianne
Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Knowing his Secret, 177 pages/GR
✔Shannon pokey - The Zebra Striped Shirt, 148 pages/GR, Review Post 491
✔Elizabeth - In Flight, 263 pages/GR, Review Post 494
Week 8: Book that takes place on an island.
✔Katie - To Tame A Highland Warrior, 366 pages/GR, Review Post 464
✔Sassafrass - Once Upon a Winter's Eve, 113 pages/GR, Review Post 438
Brianne - Saved By You, 160 pages/GR
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - ******Pass******
✔Shannon pokey - Follow The Sun, 114 pages/GR, Review Post 437
✔Elizabeth - Silence of the Grave, 280 pages/GR, Review Post 436
Week 7: Book mentioned in 2014 'What are you reading?' topics
✔Katie - Slide, 274 pages/GR, Review Post 397
✔Sassafrass - Reaper's Legacy, 368 pages/GR, Review Post 379
✔Brianne - Playing to Win, 320 pages/GR, Review Post 432
Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Cinder, 390 pages/GR
✔Shannon pokey - Cross & Crown, 225 pages/GR, Review Post 384
✔Elizabeth - Caught Running, 236 pages/GR, Review Post 378
Week #6: MC is a musician or singer
✔Katie - Revelations, 406 pages/GR, Review Post 361
✔Sassafrass - Before He Was Famous, 279 pages/GR, Review Post 342
✔Brianne - No Apologies, 274 pages/GR, Review Post 363
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Jack Who?: Perfect Storms, 185 pages/GR, Review Post 486
✔Shannon pokey - Being Sawyer Knight, 256 pages/GR, Review Post 346
✔Elizabeth - Lick, 304 pages/GR, Review Post 339
Week #5: Set on a ranch/property which uses/raises horses
✔Katie - Bite Me, 375 pages/GR, Elizabeth Read 3/31/14, Review Post 310
✔Sassafrass - Hard to Love, 226 pages/GR, Katie Read 6/4/14, Review Post 284
✔Brianne - When You Fall, 340 pages/GR, Review Post 345
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Dream Kisses, 166 pages/GR, Review Post 368
✔Shannon pokey - Let It Go, 205 pages/GR, Review Post 285
✔Elizabeth - Half Broke Horses, 272 pages/GR, Review Post 318
Week #4: Read a book where MC has a pet
✔Katie - Axel, 328 pages/GR, Option 2: Sassafrass shelf 3/25 4 Stars, Review Post 258
✔Sassafrass - Animal Attraction, 293 pages/GR, St.Bernard and Kitty, Review Post 233
✔Brianne - Hard as It Gets, 368 pages/GR, MC rescues German Shepard puppy, Review Post 282
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend, 282 pages/GR, Review Post 344
✔Shannon pokey - Sub for Hire, 125 pages/GR, Black lab named Satchel, Review Post 232
✔Elizabeth - The King, 573 pages/GR, Dog named George, Review Post 244
Week #3: Read a book with 450+ pages
✔Katie - The Witness, 534 pages/GR, Review Post 195
✔Sassafrass - The King, 544 pages/GR, Review Post 183
✔Brianne - Miranda's Big Mistake, 475 pages/GR, Review Post 208
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Who Got Liz Gardner, 522 pages/GR, Review Post 283
✔Shannon pokey - Fall Apart, 482 pages/GR, Review Post 192
✔Elizabeth - The Witness, 488 pages/GR, Review Post 184
Week #2: Author first or last name the letter 'J'
✔Katie - The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shavis, 348 pages/GR, Review Post 135
✔Sassafrass - Animal Magnetism by Jill Shavis, 320 pages/GR, Review Post 139
✔Brianne - Surrender to You by CS Janey, 214 pages/GR, Review Post 170
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Star Struck by JS Taylor, 241 pages/GR, Review Post 203
✔Shannon pokey - Fall Hard by JL Merrow, 237 pages/GR, Review Post 130
✔Elizabeth - Tangled Threads by Jennifer Estep, 357 pages/GR, Review Post 144
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Passes Used
Week 1: None
Week 2: None
Week 3: None
Week 4: None
Week 5: None
Week 6: None
Week 7: None
Week 8: Katie
Hey Shannon - you chat away in this thread as much as you like - in fact it is encouraged !!But I need the selection post when you tell us here what you will read for the theme, and the completion post when you have finished and review yr book to just contain that info. If you chat away in either of those posts, I could miss your book selection/completion. It just makes it clearer for the Captain and me :)
Hey Shannon, waving handsHave you got a MM reader in your team?
I lucked out with Breann, so hopefully I'm all set.
//edited.
Duh! I see you have Katie, so yeah I guess you have an MM reader as well...lol.
So all of us MM readers have at least 1 other MM reader on the team, in case we need to raid their shelves.
Week #1: Read the First book in a new to you series ✔Katie - The Will, 375 pages/GR, Magdalene #1, Review Post 77
✔Sassafrass - Hard as It Gets, 368 pages/GR, Hard Ink #1, Review Post 66
✔Brianne - Chasing Beautiful, 257 pages/GR, Chasing #1, Review Post 81
✔Carrie (ICanHasBooks) - Fire Mage, 178 pages/GR, Blacklight Chronicles #1, Review Post 131
✔Shannon pokey - Cold, 215 pages/GR, Cold #1, Review Post 71
✔Elizabeth - Flat-Out Love, 391 pages/GR, Flat-Out Love #1, Review Post 79
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Lisa - President of Challengeaholics Anon and Challenge Enabler wrote: "Hey Shannon, waving handsHave you got a MM reader in your team?
I lucked out with Breann, so hopefully I'm all set."
Dude, I have Katie on my team. I'd say yes. lol. Plus I think Elizabeth and Sassafrass read m/m too.
Note to self....open group, no cursing or porn!!
Yeah, all right it's early here in the UK. I just realized it was our Katie. Lol
Carrie (ICanHasBooks?) wrote: "Hello all :)"Hey Carrie!
Lisa - President of Challengeaholics Anon and Challenge Enabler wrote: "Yeah, all right it's early here in the UK. I just realized it was our Katie. Lol"Coffee first, computer second. :D
I know this isn't what you want to hear but I'm an American who doesn't drink coffee...lol
Lisa - President of Challengeaholics Anon and Challenge Enabler wrote: "I know this isn't what you want to hear but I'm an American who doesn't drink coffee...lol"Aaaack!!
Hi teammates!I live in Greece and I'm addicted to coffee! I also love wine!
I'm new in mm reading but always open to recs!
I hope we have people willing to be captain, because I'm not!
Any ideas for team names??
Hey guys! I also do not drink coffee...I know, wtf, right? This was a lot of fun last round. Looking forward to this one! Btw...I'm crap at names (this is why I threaten the random generator in bingo...). I'm good with whatever anybody else throws out there.
*gasp* Katie! You have a baby...you must drink coffee. How do you survive?!? lolI'm in Oregon on the west coast of the US and I live on coffee, like waaaay too much coffee.
I don't mind being team captain but I haven't done this particular challenge before so if someone else is itching to do it, I'm good with that too. :D
Names, names, wait...clean names, clean names. Crap, this may take some work.
Just waiting for Sass and Brianne :) I'm sure they will visit soon.
Lol...sometimes I wish I drank coffee, but alas.I'm good with Shannon as team captain. I fired up the generator:
Trigger Happy Bunnies
Thunder Ducks
Pink Fluffy Monsters
Dynamite Divas
I could go on, but I'm thinking nobody wants that...
Shannon wrote: "Names, names, wait...clean names, clean names. Crap, this may take some work..."It crossed my mind that this might be your biggest challenge in this group Shannon - LOL ;)
Jane (PS) wrote: "Shannon wrote: "Names, names, wait...clean names, clean names. Crap, this may take some work..."It crossed my mind that this might be your biggest challenge in this group Shannon - LOL ;)"
Well, I never!! (yeah, I totally have)
I'm liking Thunder Ducks for some reason. I don't know why. I was also thinking something with "package" in it since it could be kinda dirty. Like Package Pushers....or would that make us pimps? Hmmmm, I need to think more, obviously! :D
I kinda like Thunder Ducks, too. I don't know...Thunder in front of an animal tends to make a good team name. They make me chuckle.
(I have to admit that Thunder Ducks caught my eye as well, but I'm not a team-member so ignore my input ;)
I like Thunder ducks and Trigger happy bunnies!
Shannon wrote: "I'm liking Thunder Ducks for some reason. I don't know why."Hi guys! I'm not playing this round and just lurking, but I couldn't resist commenting...Shannon, you live in Oregon and you don't know why Thunder Ducks strikes a chord with you??? =P
I like Trigger Happy Bunnies and Dynamite Divas.
Hi everyone, I'm sorry to be so late to the game. Someone quit on my job this week while everyone but she and I were on vacation so I am doing EVERYONE's job. I'm looking forward to this week being over so I can come play!
Well that just sucks. At least it's Friday!!Welcome Sassafrass!!! :D
Just Brianne missing? I'll PM her now...
Hi all,Sorry for the late reply, I have had an unusually busy week! I am from the beautiful province of British Columbia in Canada, a mother of three children and I too am addicted to coffee!
Can't wait to start this fun challenge with you!
Hi Brianne! Yay, we're all checked in and accounted for. Now we can kick some challenge
I think we're deciding betweenThunder Ducks
Trigger Happy Bunnies
Dynamite Divas
Lol oops nvm.
Shannon wrote: "I think we're deciding betweenThunder Ducks
Trigger Happy Bunnies
Dynamite Divas"
I like the ducks and the bunnies.
Sweet, we have a name! I'll tell Jane. :D
Hi, just crashing your thread.Any MM readers, please don't forget to update the May, what are you reading thread with your reads for this month. You never know if we are going to need them in this challenge.
Ok, I think I'm human again...Hello all! I'm super excited to be here. I'm Sassafrass, and I am a challenge addict.
I live in the Philadelphia area, and I read pretty much anything. I prefer it to be on the spicier side though. And yes, I read M/M. :)
You guys ready for today's category? Anything you're hoping for or dreading?I'm not looking forward to royalty...think I'd have to raid your shelves if that one came up. I think I can handle the rest of them. :)
Katie wrote: "You guys ready for today's category? Anything you're hoping for or dreading?I'm not looking forward to royalty...think I'd have to raid your shelves if that one came up. I think I can handle th..."
I'm not really in the mood for historicals the last months but I think you can read a book about someone Alpha for royal category.
Oh, an alpha shifter counts? Cool. I haven't read many shifter books lately, but maybe that could work out for me. :)
Katie wrote: "Oh, an alpha shifter counts? Cool. I haven't read many shifter books lately, but maybe that could work out for me. :)"Edit: It needs to be a ruler! The King woulf fit, I believe and I plan to read this soon!
Elizabeth wrote: "Katie wrote: "Oh, an alpha shifter counts? Cool. I haven't read many shifter books lately, but maybe that could work out for me. :)"Maybe and a KA book with an alpha male could count ??
Edit: ..."
That's true! I haven't read that one yet. Perfect!
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