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The Amazing Race Team Challenge - Team 19
The Amazing Race Team ChallengeApril 11, 2020 through June 9, 2020
8 Week Dash For the Win!
Tracking:
Task 1 - 1. Each player reads a book by the same author, teams decide author - no pass for this task. Assigned 4.12.2020 / Completed 4.19.2020
Task 2 - 29. Read 4 books rated over 4.5 on GR. Assigned 4.19.2020 / Complete 4.30.2020
Task 3 - 11. Read 4 books first published within the last year. Assigned 4.30.2020 / Completed 5.3.2020
Task 4 - 69. Read over 750 pages in books about the same profession, teams decide which profession. Assigned 5.3.2020 / Completed 5.12.2020
Task 5 - 43. Each teammate reads a book that has been read by one of the RRRC moderators. No pass for this task. Assigned 5.12.2020 / Completed 5.17.2020
Task 6 - 31. Read 4 books written by a male author. Assigned 5.17.2020 / Completed 5.23.2020
Task 7 - 6. Each player reads a book by a new to you author - no pass for this task. Assigned 5.23.2020 / Completed 5.28.2020
Task 8 - 14. Read 4 books with fewer than 500 reviews. Assigned 5.28.2020 - 6.1.2020
Task 9 - 48. Read a minimum of 750 pages in books featuring shifters. Assigned 6.1.2020
The Amazing Race Team ChallengeApril 11, 2020 through June 9, 2020
8 Week Dash For the Win!
Challenge Dates:
Signups open until April 11, 2020 at 9 PM US EDT.
Remaining Teams Assigned after signups close on April 11, 2020.
First Task Assigned April 14, 2020 at 6 PM US EDT.
Challenge Ends on June 9, 2020 at Midnight US EDT, tasks will not be accepted after this time.
Each team will work together to complete tasks. Once complete, you will be given another task to complete. After the first task, teams will be on different paths with tasks randomly assigned. The same tasks may be assigned to different teams at different times, but no task will be used more than once by the same team. Each team works at their own pace and the team that completes the most tasks at the end of 8 weeks will be the winner!
After the first task is given to everyone, when a team finishes their task they will need to report their completion in the Tracking/Q&A thread. I will confirm the completion and assign their next task. New tasks will not be assigned more frequently than every other day. I will attempt to respond quickly to confirm completion and assign new tasks, but please allow up to 24 hours. If I am unavailable, another mod will assign the task.
Each teammate will need to participate in each task, but may take a pass for one task during the course of the challenge. For some tasks, no passes will be allowed. Completions posts will need to be made when finishing each book for a task, similar to the PtP and Bachelor Challenges. A player will be removed if they make no comment for 5 days after a new task is assigned or 3 days after the rest of the team completes the task (whichever is later), despite attempts to make contact.
Information required when posting your completion/s:
Task
Book/cover link
Page numbers with source
How book qualified, with links or cover as necessary.
Date Completed.
There is a 150 page minimum for books, rereads and audios ok. Books may only be used once per player during the challenge. Players may read the same book for a task unless otherwise specified. Books do not have to be romance, but must be fiction.
**For this challenge, use the GR Kindle first edition page count if available. Ebook page count will be acceptable if no Kindle page count available. The acceptability of other page counts will be made on an individual basis**
I think most of you know each other, at least a little, but feel free to introduce yourself again. Please give any relevant information, especially time zone as that helps know when it is best to communicate. 😊Please select a team leader to help keep track of where your team is in any given task. And as necessary guide discussions for task decisions. Any teammate can report your completions though.
PS - If you want to be known as anything other than Team 519, you are free to come up with a team name. 😉
Hi, I'm beppy.I live in northern British Columbia, in Canada, so I'm on Pacific Time.
I'll let you know that I should be able to read at least one book per task, but since I am working FT for a Health Authority doing staffing for our nurses and cleaners and food service workers, if things get busy, that's all I'll be able to read.
I read a variety of genres, with a definite focus romance and all the subgenres, including m/m.
Hi! I'm Becky. I live in Indianapolis, which is in Eastern. I'm hiding out at home with my mother these days, which isn't all that different from my pre-corona life, considering I'm on disability with a wonky immune system. I read a lot of m/m, some m/f, and the occasional f/f. I will sometimes pick up a mystery, fantasy, or science fiction, but the vast majority of what I read is romance.
I'm Madelyn, Pacific Time Zone. I'm bored at home with my parents, and have about 222 unread books on my Kindle. I'm so ready to knock out some challenges!
I'm eneli and i live in Sweden with my boyfriend and our cat seymour i read mostly mm romance have any of you guys watched the amazing race my favourite team are charla and mirna
Emeli wrote: "I'm eneli and i live in Sweden with my boyfriend and our cat seymour i read mostly mm romance have any of you guys watched the amazing race my favourite team are charla and mirna"I watched the first season or two, and even talked with a friend about applying for the show before I got sick, but I haven't watched the show in years. I think the concept will translate into a fun reading challenge!
Did everyone see that MKat is talking about giving the first task early? She's just waiting for everyone to check in on their team threads.
Task 1 - ALL TEAMS!!1. Each player reads a book by the same author, teams decide author - no pass for this task.
Ready, Set, GO!
First task! Woo hoo!OK, it looks like we all read at least some m/m, so I'm just going to throw out some names of some m/m authors I enjoy who have a good number of titles available. Let me know if any of these sound good to anyone. Or kick in other names if there's someone else you think we should all read!
Josh Lanyon
Lucy Lennox
Marie Sexton
Annabeth Albert
JL Merrow
KJ Charles
Adriana Herrera
my suggestions are tara lain, andrew grey and jayda marx
I've got some Tara Lain and Andrew Grey in my TBR. I'm not familiar with Jayda Marx, but it looks like she's in KU, so it would be easy to give her a try.
I'm good with all the authors that Becky suggested. I own a couple Tara Lain and Jayda Marx, so I'm good to go on those, too. I also have a couple of authors to throw in to the mix for more options if they're needed.
May Archer
Eden Finley
Eli Easton
Keira Andrews
Riley Hart
Most of them are on KU, which might be good for people who have it and don't have a lot of money to buy books.
Are we going to go with majority rules? Or total consensus? Whichever, we should probably decide fairly soon.
It's 7:30 pm here in Indianapolis right now, which means it's 4:30 pm for those on the west coast and 1:30 am in Sweden. (I think.) Our best bet might be to narrow it down to a couple of choices, and then let Emeli make the final pick tomorrow morning. It's not ideal, but with the time differences and work schedules, it could be this time tomorrow before we all get a chance to do a regular vote.Madelyn hasn't weighed in yet, so I'm going to drop her a PM, just to be sure she knows the first task has been announced.
Well, I'm good with all the authors mentioned except Andrew Grey.
UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "Well, I'm good with all the authors mentioned except Andrew Grey."I would have gone along if everyone else wanted Grey (I've got something of his that would work for another challenge I'm doing too), but his stuff isn't my favorite.
It seems we're all okay with Keira Andrews. I have Beyond the Sea, A Taste of Midnight and Voyageurs if anyone needs to borrow a book
I'm good with Keira Andrews. I'm not generally a zombie person, and it might be a little on the nose right now, all things considered. But I remember enjoying Kick at the Darkness and the sequel Fight the Tide. I've been keeping an eye out for a third book, but nothing so far.
Becky wrote: "UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "Well, I'm good with all the authors mentioned except Andrew Grey."I would have gone along if everyone else wanted Grey (I've got something of his that would work for a..."
I'm all right with Grey as an author, although he wouldn't be my first choice. I just don't own anything by him, and don't have KU.
I don't have KU either, but I do have a lot of unread books on my Kindle. I have books by Josh Lanyon, Lucy Lennox, Annabeth Albert, JL Merrow, KJ Charles, Keira Andrews, Riley Hart, and Andrew Grey.
So, I took a look at other tasks that have to have a team agreement/decision, and thought that it might be better if we started talking about things now.Sub-genre: examples: historical, contemporary, fantasy, mystery, romantic suspense, paranormal, urban fantasy, science fiction, m/m (I guess, although all of the ones prior to m/m are a sub-genre of m/m romance, so...)
book in a series: we would have to decide the series, I believe
published in the same month and year (for example, June 2018)
same sub genre with different authors (we have to decide the sub-genre)
cover colour
published in a year prior to 2018
decade of teammate's birth - pretty sure none of us want to read a book published in the 1970s (for me), so maybe someone else has a better decade to offer?
book set on the beach or mountains (we decide which)
1500 pages by same author (so like the first task, except with a page count requirement)
title starts with the same letter
country outside of the US
book from a list with over 100 romance books on it (we decide the list)
item of cover (like jewelry, dog, etc)
profession (doctor, cowboy, construction, police, dancer, etc)
published in the year one of us joined RRCC (I'm 2013)
trope
Are we settled on Keira Andrews? I've started one of hers, but I'm only on chapter two, so I'm not that committed yet.
1500 pages by same author (so like the first task, except with a page count requirement)I'm thinking we should save Josh Lanyon for this one. She probably has a larger backlist than any of the other authors mentioned.
I'm all right with Keira Andrews (and not because I suggested her). In fact, I only thought about her because I had just started one of her books, but I can find another one I haven't read.
Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same authorBook/cover link: Valor on the Move by Keira Andrews
Page numbers with source: 274 pages per first Kindle edition https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
How book qualified: by Keira Andrews
Date Completed: 4/15/20
Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same authorBook/cover link: Beyond the Sea by Keira Andrews
Page numbers with source: 264 pages per first Kindle edition https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
How book qualified: by Keira Andrews
Date Completed: April 18 2020
How is everyone doing? How's the reading going?My thoughts on the tasks that require us to agree:
Sub-genre Jane asked in the Q&A thread if m/m counts. If it does, that's easy peasy. If not, contemporary or fantasy are probably the best options for me.
book in a series Forever Wilde by Lucy Lennox, #gaymers by Annabeth Albert, Bend or Break by Amy Jo Cousins. Or there's non-m/m stuff like the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews or the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. I'd be open to a lot of suggestions here. I don't sort my shelves by series, so I've got lots of series that I'm reading, but it's hard to name them off the top of my head.
published in the same month and year I can easily do any month from November 2019-April 2020, but between my TBR and KU, I can probably dig up something for any month, if someone else has a strong preference.
same sub genre with different authors (we have to decide the sub-genre) Again, m/m would be a slam dunk for us if approved, but fantasy or contemporary would be the easiest categories for me.
cover colour I can probably dig up a cover for any color. Maybe we could use a randomizer for tasks with a set number of options, if no one has a strong preference.
published in a year prior to 2018 2016 or 2017 would be best for me.
decade of teammate's birth - pretty sure none of us want to read a book published in the 1970s (for me), so maybe someone else has a better decade to offer? I'm a 70s baby, too.
book set on the beach or mountains (we decide which) Beach is probably better for me.
1500 pages by same author Josh Lanyon has a large backlist to choose from.
title starts with the same letter As long as it's not Z or X, I can probably come up with something.
country outside of the US England would probably be the easiest, but I'm open to suggestions.
book from a list with over 100 romance books on it This list has 3,000+ titles on it. The Best of Gay Romance
item of cover (like jewelry, dog, etc) Another team got this for their second task, and they used a white shirt, which should be easy enough. Jewelry or a hat would probably be pretty easy, too.
profession (doctor, cowboy, construction, police, dancer, etc) here's a giant list of Best Gay Cops/ Security Guards/P.I.'s or Best Gay Cowboys or Best Gay Athletes, but I'm open to other suggestions, too.
published in the year one of us joined RRCC I joined in 2010.
trope friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, fake relationship, marriage of convenience
Becky wrote: "How is everyone doing? How's the reading going?My thoughts on the tasks that require us to agree:
Sub-genre Jane asked in the Q&A thread if m/m counts. If it does, that's easy peasy. If not, con..."
For the decade task the choice will be between 70s or my decade 80s i was born 1989
Unless someone really want to read a book published in the 70s can we all agree on the 80s for the decade task im fine with either
MKat confirmed that m/m counts as a sub-genre, so those will be easy.
Task 1: read a book by the same authorValor on the Move
Pages: 274 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
How books qualifies: written by Keira Andrews
Date Completed: Apr 16/'20
Becky wrote: "How is everyone doing? How's the reading going?My thoughts on the tasks that require us to agree:
Sub-genre Jane asked in the Q&A thread if m/m counts. If it does, that's easy peasy. If not, con
country outside of the US England would probably be the easiest, but I'm open to suggestions. England and Australia are probably the two easiest countries to find books for.
item of cover (like jewelry, dog, etc) Another team got this for their second task, and they used a white shirt, which should be easy enough. Jewelry or a hat would probably be pretty easy, too. I like white shirt or hat. That should be really easy.
More ideas for series:Dominion by Lissa Kasey
Irons and Works by E.M. Lindsey
Darkest Court by M.A. Grant
F-Word by E. Davies
Beacon Hill Sorcerer by S.J. Himes
THIRDS by Charlie Cochet
Wytch Kings by Jaye McKenna
Mind + Machine by Hanna Dare
Porthkennack by various authors
Tooth and Claw by Amelia Faulkner
Hot Off the Ice by A.E. Wasp
Men of Halfway House by Jaime Reese
Spectr by Jordan L. Hawk
Psycop by Jordan Castillo Price
Diversion by Eden Winters
Non M/M:
Tufa by Alex Bledsoe
Charley Davidson by Darynda Jones
Psy-Changeling or Angel's Guild by Nalini Singh
Others by Anne Bishop
For the other categories, it doesn't matter to me what we go with. I just thought that it might save a little time if the categories get called for us to have them set ahead of time, especially since we don't all live on the same continent.
UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "More ideas for series:Dominion by Lissa Kasey
Irons and Works by E.M. Lindsey
Darkest Court by M.A. Grant
F-Word by E. Davies
Beacon Hill Sorcerer by S.J. Himes
THIRDS by Charlie Cochet
Wytch Kin..."
I have the first Hot Off the Ice book in my TBR, and several of the Porthkennack books. The Bluewater Bay series would work for me, too. I'd be down for SPECTR, but not all of those meet the 150 page requirement, and the new one doesn't have a page count listed anywhere yet, so we'd have to be careful with that one.
Madelyn wrote: "Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same authorBook/cover link: Beyond the Sea by Keira Andrews
Page numbers with source: 264 pages per first Kindle edition https://www.goodre..."
Madelyn, it looks like you left off the date completed. Was that a goof, or are you still reading?
Becky wrote: "Madelyn wrote: "Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same authorBook/cover link: Beyond the Sea by Keira Andrews
Page numbers with source: 264 pages per first Kindle edition ht..."
I actually haven't even started it. I was going to add the date when I completed it, but I've been so busy the past couple days. I can delete the post of I should. I'll read all day today.
UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "More ideas for series:Dominion by Lissa Kasey
Irons and Works by E.M. Lindsey
Darkest Court by M.A. Grant
F-Word by E. Davies
Beacon Hill Sorcerer by S.J. Himes
THIRDS by Charlie Cochet
Wytch Kin..."
I have the first books of F-Word and Hot off the Ice, and I'm only a few pages into Spectre.
Madelyn wrote: "Becky wrote: "Madelyn wrote: "Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same authorBook/cover link: Beyond the Sea by Keira Andrews
Page numbers with source: 264 pages per first Kin..."
Maybe post again when you finish it? That way it doesn't get missed.
ETA: Ha! You already finished it.
Emeli, how's it coming? As soon make your completion post, we'll be ready to move on to our second task!
Completion Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same author
A Forbidden Rumspringa
Keira Andrews
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
231 pages
Finished 17/4
Written bh keira andrews
Yay! I posted over in the tracking thread. We should have task #2 in the next 24 hours!
Emeli wrote: "Completion Task #1: Each player reads a book by the same author
A Forbidden Rumspringa
Keira Andrews
https://www.goodre..."
Emeli - please correct to the Kindle edition page count, 225 for this book. It doesn't matter as much for this task, but it does for others. Thanks!
Yay, you've finished Task 1! Here is Task 2:29. Read 4 books rated over 4.5 on GR.
You can see the overall rating on the GR main book page. Use the rating as your qualification.
This is 4 books as a group, right? One each? Or is it 4 each?*Edit* 4 total as a group
Madelyn wrote: "This is 4 books as a group, right? One each? Or is it 4 each?"One each unless someone passes and then one player would need to read two.
Wow. Who knew it would be so hard to find a 4.5 rated book? I've only got one on my currently reading list. I mean, even "Wolfsong" and "Pride and Prejudice" don't have a 4.5 rating.
UnusualChild{beppy} wrote: "Wow. Who knew it would be so hard to find a 4.5 rated book? I've only got one on my currently reading list. I mean, even "Wolfsong" and "Pride and Prejudice" don't have a 4.5 rating."I know! I was really surprised, too. I finally settled on the next book (for me) in the Kate Daniels series. Not really what I was in the mood for, but it's drawing me in anyway.
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April 11, 2020 through June 6, 2020
8 Week Dash For the Win!
Team 19:
✓ Becky
✓ UnusualChild{beppy}
✓ Emeli
✓ Madelyn