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Pass The Parcel Round 8 - PLAYING
This is a team challenge to encourage members to meet new friends and find new books.PLEASE READ EVERY LINE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS
I will be referring members back to this post if you ask me something already outlined here.
For this challenge we will have teams of roughly 6 players. The group will nominate a team captain who will track the completion of books for their team and remind their fellow team-members about compliance to the rules. Teams will be allocated before the reading starts. This will be done randomly by me :)
Members signing up need to be prepared TO READ APPROXIMATELY ONE BOOK EACH WEEK.
Each week a theme will be randomly selected from the list posted in msg 4. This theme will be posted in the Discussion/Q&A thread between 6pm and 9pm US EST each Friday.
Each member in the group has the following options:
1. Read a book that matches the theme (the parcel)
OR
2. Select a book from the 'READ' list of a team-mate that they read in the last 6 months AND that the team-mate rated at least 3 stars. (This essentially passing on a recommendation.)
If the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series.
OR
3. 'Pass' on reading a book that week.
BUT each team member can only select #3 once each 5 (five) weeks. AND each team may only have ONE person 'passing' for the round each week. It is up to the team as to how they manage a 'pass'. (Yes - this means that one or two team-mates per group can't claim a pass in a 5 week block.)
Each team member must post their selection (option 1, 2 or 3) in the week that the theme is announced. Please follow the format provided in msg 3. You can only change your book selection in this initial week. So choose carefully.
Each team member must return to their team thread and post a short review of the book that they read. This review should be enough to indicate that the member DID read the book. A couple of sentences is sufficient. "I liked it" is not.
Key information is required in both the selection and completion posts. Please ensure that you and your team-mates follow the format set out in msg 3 below. You and your Captain cannot claim to have completed your book until the post holds all the required information.
This challenge will run for 11 weeks. The winning team is the one that completes the challenge first; they win bragging rights :) No-one can use the 'pass' option in the last week of the challenge.
Rules:
* Each team member MUST post their selected book into their team thread each week or they will be removed from the challenge. It isn't fair on your team-mates if you are not committed to participant each week.
* You MUST post your selected book in the week of the announced category. If you miss selecting your book (or pass) in that week, you will be removed from the challenge. The only exception is if you have contacted your team, team captain or one of the Mods with a valid reason. The decision to not remove you is solely up to me.
* You can only change your nominated theme book in the week that the theme is announced. You CANNOT change your book once a new theme is announced.
* '5 weeks' will be counted in blocks of five, with a new count starting in week 6.
* No-one can use the 'pass' option in the last week of the challenge.
* To qualify for a theme, the book's eligibility must be apparent in the title or the goodreads summary (anywhere on the book's goodreads page will count), or must appear on another GR member's shelves appropriately and transparently entitled. The source of the eligibility must be specified at the time of the book selection. Refer to the Q&A thread for more clarification on this rule.
* You can change your nominated book only during the week that it's theme is called.
* Books must be at least 100 pages in length.
* Anthologies and bundled books are fine, but you must read the full set.
* You must quote the page numbers for your selected book each week. Please quote the goodreads page numbers (any edition of the book is fine).
* The 'series' rule for Option 2 only applies to Option 2. The same book can be used under option 2 for multiple weeks so long as that book remains within the 6 month timeframe.
Important!!! If a team member falls behind by more than 2 books then they WILL be removed from the challenge. The team who loses that member will continue with the lower number of team-mates. This rule is to ensure that ALL participants are committed to their team and the challenge.
IMPORTANT:
In the last week of the challenge, Option 2 will be altered. Book selections under option 2 will have to be taken from a different team's members' bookshelves. I will allocate the teams out on posting the final theme (week 11).
For example (and this allocation will be randomly done on the day of the last theme call)
Option 2 for Team 1 must come from the bookshelves of Team 4.
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For those of you who didn't play this growing up, a 'parcel' is passed from one person to another. ...When setting this game up, a prize (or 'gift') is wrapped in a large number of layers of wrapping paper. Smaller prizes may be placed between some or all other layers of wrapping.
During the game, music is played as the parcel is passed around. Whoever is holding the parcel when the music stops removes one layer of wrapping and claims any prize found under that layer. The music is then restarted and the game continues until every layer is removed and the main prize claimed.
This is the RRRC version of the game with a few more options and rules than we may remember from our childhood ;)
Key selection and completion post information. You must have ALL elements in your book posts.For the initial selection post Option 1 I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
How the book qualifies - please insert a link to the qualifying bookshelf/list.
If the theme is based off the bookcover or a letter in the title etc, please just repeat the theme.
For the initial selection post Option 2 I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
Name of the team-member, their star rating, the date they read the book.
For the completion post I need:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Rating (1-5)
Review
Please DO NOT CHAT in these selction/completion posts. It needs to be super clear.
If you 'waffle' about your decided book - please REPOST your selection once you decide. DO NOT go back and edit your waffling post.
IF YOU NEED TO CORRECT A POST FOR MISSING INFORMATION or because the didn't qualify etc, please REPOST this inforamtion in a NEW post. I don't want to have to keep going backwards in the thread.
THEMES
We have a specific theme for this round - We're Going on a Bear Hunt:
! The themes are based around hunting in a fairly relaxed fashion; your team names should reflect the theme.Books must be selected from the lists provided if I don't have "(stated in the precis or shown on listopia or shelf)". Where I have noted "(stated in the precis or shown on listopia or shelf)", if a book is chosen from one of the optional lists, it is automatically approved.
If you think that the book may struggle to meet the stated theme requirement then I'm likely to think the same thing and NOT allow it :)
1. Mystery book. Read a book from one of the following lists:
Best Novels with a Gay Romance and Crime Solving Plot
If You Like Books by Janet Evanovich You May Also Like
Christian Crime Fiction
Gothic Romantic Suspense
2. Read a book starting with the letter H for Hunt
3. Blood will be spilled - read a book where its title has been written in RED
4. Read a book with one of the following words included in the title, series or author's name: 'where', 'look', 'hunt', 'seek', 'find', 'keep', 'net', 'trip' or 'trap'. Expansions on those words, eg 'hunter', is allowed along with the word being found within another word, eg Trip in stripes.
5. Seeker. Read a book published for the first time in the last 6 months.
6. Treasure. Recommend a book to another member in your team that they haven't read but that you think they should. It may be new to them or already on their TBR. Multiple rec's may be made, but only one book is to be selected and read.
7. Cozy sleuths. Read a book from one of the following lists:
Kiss Ass Female Sleuths
Victorian/Regency Female Sleuths/Mysteries
Cozies with Romantic Subplots
Dysfunctional Sleuths
Best Gay Cozy or Amateur Sleuth Mystery
8. Ray Hunt was a well-known horse-trainer. Read a book featuring a cowboy from the following lists:
Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
Favorite Western Cowboy Romance Novels
Saddle Up: Rodeo Romance MF
Healing Horses: Romances with Horse Whisperers, Rescues Horses or Therapy Horses
Best Gay Cowboys
Best Gay Cowboy Westerns - Renegades and Ranchers
9. Found during the hunt for this challenge. Read a book from one of the following amusing list names:
Dude, Where's My Forehead?
Over Used Cheesy Stock Photo Man and Man Chest Free (MM Romance)
Gay Romance w an MC You'd Like to Punch... in the Face... Hard
Books That Sound So Much More Interesting If One Removes the Last Letter of the Title
Monogamy's DNA: Monogamy is Genetic & Impossible to Avoid it Romance Novels
10.
is a well-known children's book. Read a book featuring kids/children from one of the following lists:Best Gay Books Dealing With Children
Children in Romance
Best Romance with Children Characters
Romance with Kids in Tow
Historical Romance with Children in the Plot
PNR Urban Fantasy Books w Kids (not YA)
11. Your own 'bear' hunt! Read a book with a male MC who is a bear, not necessarily a shifter from one of the following lists. (In contemporay romance, a 'bear' is a big tall male, possibly hairy.)
I'll Be Goldilocks: WereBears and Bear Shifters in Romance
Gentle Giants in Contemporary Romance
Petite Heroine/Big Hero
Gay Romance with Big Ugly Grizzly Bear MCs
Gay Bear Stories
12.
has a lot of rhyming and repetition in it. Read a book where the title has at least two words in a row starting with the same letter (excluding A, An and The). Eg Power Play, Red River etc.13. Fairytales are generally based on quests and hunts. Read a book from one of the following lists:
Beauty and the Beast
Gay Cinderfellas
Best Retellings of Fairytales, Legends and History
Fairytale: Clean Romances
14. Cover Hunt. Find one of the following items on a bookcover and read that book:
* Hat, Jewellry, Watch, Dog tags, Badge, Glasses (reading or sunglasses), Knife, Sword, Gun
15.
has a predominantly white cover. Read a book with a mostly white cover (at least 50%).16. Our theme book won a number of children's book awards. Read a book that has won or been nominated for an award. Optional lists to get you started:
MM Romance Members Choice Awards 2016, 2015, 2014
Goodreads Choice Awards 2016 Also has links to awards back to and including 2009
RITA Award Winners 2016 - 1982
Golden Heart Award Winners 2016 - 1981
Romantic Time Reviewers' Choice Best Book Awards
Feel free to add books to lists that you KNOW qualify for the theme. Please DO NOT add books that you are not certain comply with the list requirements.
Sign upsCaptains denoted with *
Lekshmy
*Lisa
Emelie
Poongothai
*Calila
PepperP0t
*LaurLa
MountainKat
Kait
Camille
Sassafrass
Shannon (wckdktty)
*Katie
Krissy
Leisha
*Rachel C
❀~Amy~❀
*✼Danielle✼
*Tammie
Nichole
Nicole
Rosina
Sunshine
Wax
Chan
Nicole P
*Pam
fleurette
Tink Magoo
Breann
Shannon (pokey)
Becky ♡The Bookworm♡
*☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎
Plethora
Mariana
UnusualChild (Beppy)
Katherine
*GreenFairy (Amy)
Heather
Fran
Becky
BarbaraAnn
Debbie(Doc)
~Melissa~
Ezinwanyi~ThatEzi
Krista
☘KathyD☘
~KarenH~
Justme
Alexis
Berit☀️✨
Caipi
Tamika♥RBF MOOD♥
Shelby
Raine
Natalie
Sally906
Stacie
Anna Serene
Louise
Alternates:
Teams allocatedTeam 1
Captain: Carmen
Berit☀️✨
Chan
Kait
Rosina
Justme
Team 2
Captain: Danielle
Sunshine
Shelby
Mariana
PepperP0t
Debbie(Doc)
Team 3
Captain: Tammie
Nicole P
Nichole
Fran
Shannon (wckdktty)
Alexis
Team 4
Captain: Katie
Camille
Wax
Breann
Katherine
Ezinwanyi~ThatEzi
Team 5
Captain: LaurLa
❀~Amy~❀
Nicole
☘KathyD☘
Tamika♥RBF MOOD♥
MountainKat
Team 6
Captain: Lisa
Shannon (pokey)
Becky
Plethora
Caipi
~KarenH~
Team 7
Captain: Rachel
Louise
Anna Serene
Poongothai
Stacie
Becky ♡The Bookworm♡
Team 8
Captain: GreenFairy (Amy)
Raine
Natalie
Heather
UnusualChild (Beppy)
Krista
Team 9
Captain: Calila
~Melissa~
Emelie
Sassafrass
Leisha
Krissy
Team 10
Captain: Pam
fleurette
Sally906
BarbaraAnn
Lekshmy
Tink Magoo
If you are happy to be a Captain, please let me know in your sign up post.I'd really appreciate that bit of extra help from anyone who is happy to take on this fairly minor role :D
I am in .. last time when I joined couldn't complete as met with accident and had to take rest .. I was so eagerly waiting for this one again ...hope s second chance will be given.
Lekshmy wrote: "I am in .. last time when I joined couldn't complete as met with accident and had to take rest .. I was so eagerly waiting for this one again ...hope s second chance will be given."Hi Lekshmy - just make sure you keep your Captain and me updated on any issues, please.
Lisa wrote: "I'm in. I can captain."Thanks Lisa!
I want to play. it is my first time. so be gentle.
Can't pass up this challenge!! I can captain if need be.
I'm in again, last time was fun
PepperP0t wrote: "I want to play. it is my first time. so be gentle."You'll be fine PepperP0t :) Welcome to the game!
And welcome back everyone else!!
Themes have been posted in msg 4 if you are interested ;)
Yay, it's back! I'm definitely in! I'm willing to captain as well if you still need more captains :)
I'm in. Would rather not captain this round, but will if you really need me to. =)
I'm in...will captain if needed...would be my 1st time doing captain
Thanks Calila!And thanks to all the offers of Captaining!!
looking forward to this round......im in as well...forgot to add ...no captain this time around....
count me inThanks :)
oh yeah ...not a captain :)
Im going to give this game a shot. I read everything and still a little confused but im sure ill get the hang of it.
Newbie here but willing to give this a shot :) And like Chan, the rules are mind-boggling but I'm sure I'll figure it out.
I'm in. Willing to captain if you need me, otherwise happy to just participate
Welcome Chan and Nicole ~ it's actually pretty straight forward but there are some rules along the way to make it easier for me to track and to keep it fun for everyone :)
I'm in. That's my first time for this challenge, so I'm pretty excited :)
I'm in for the first time too, love a good book challenge
Welcome fleurette and Tink!! Can't believe you two haven't played before! :D
I think I've just missed it every time.Jane - there are two 13 tasks on the list, I wasn't sure if that was intentional
Oops - will fix it up tomorrow am. Thx!
Also, in the first theme the link to the 'If You Like Books by Janet Evanovich You May Also Like' list doesn't work
fleurette wrote: "Also, in the first theme the link to the 'If You Like Books by Janet Evanovich You May Also Like' list doesn't work"Thanks fleurette - I'll check that out now :)
Romance Readers Reading Challenges
Books mentioned in this topic
We're Going on a Bear Hunt (other topics)The Hooker and the Hermit (other topics)
We're Going on a Bear Hunt (other topics)
Start date - 10 March
Sign up - now through to Friday 3 March 9pm US EST
Teams assigned by 3 March after sign ups close
Last theme call - 19 May
If you sign up for this challenge, you must be prepared to:
* Read roughly one book each week
* Post your selected book BEFORE the next theme is called, or you will be eliminated
* Technically be able to put links to other threads/bookshelves/lists, and insert book links or book covers in your posts. (These are not difficult but you MUST be able to do these links; they don't have to look pretty, but they do need to go to the intended location)
* Follow the format for the selection and completion posts.
PLEASE READ THE RULES OF THE CHALLENGE CAREFULLY.
I AM GOING TO MUCH TOUGHER THIS ROUND.
IF YOU HAVEN'T POSTED EACH WEEK WITHIN THE TIMELINES ABOVE AND YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY TOLD TEAM-MATES OR A MODERATOR - no quesstions - YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR TEAM and the challenge.