2022 March Monthly Challenge

[LaurLa]

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

[LaurLa]

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[LaurLa]

March Monthly Challenge
March 2022

My Monthly Challenge (msg 3)

Books Read ➺ 10



☑️1. Happy March Birthday!
🔹Read a book published in March
🔹Me & Mr. Write ➺ 03.05 ★★★

☑️2. Baby Names!
🔹Read a book written by an author with one of the following popular baby names: Ivy
🔹Hunt the Darkness ➺ 03.11 ★★★★

☑️3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
🔹Read a book that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹Whiskey Flick ➺ 03.03 ★★★★

☑️4. Irish American Heritage Month
🔹Read a book featuring characters of Irish descent
🔹Golden in Death ➺ 03.10 ★★★★

☑️5. National Craft Month
🔹Read a book with all the letters of CRAFT in the title
🔹First Comes Scandal ➺ 03.20 ★★★★

☑️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week)
🔹Read a book with a name in the title
🔹Guarding Kelsey ➺ 03.19 ★★★

☑️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
🔹Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹No One Like You ➺ 03.17 ★★★★

☑️8. March 6: Dentist's Day
🔹Read a book with double letters in the title
🔹Prelude to a Wedding ➺ 03.29 ★★★

☑️9. March 21: World Poetry Day
🔹Read a book that includes a poem or verse in the story
🔹Phantom Kiss ➺ 03.17 ★★★★

☑️10. Reader's Choice
🔹Read any book of your choice!
🔹Kept at the Argentine's Command ➺ 03.25 ★★★

[Heather]

I'm in!
10/10 - COMPLETE, 10 March 22

✔ Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
published in March
The Astronaut and the Star, Jen Comfort (published 1 March 22)

✔ Baby Names!
Read a book:
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, Ashley Herring Blake

✔ Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
Written by Lucy Lennox - 1 March 22
Fakers, Lucy Lennox & May Archer

✔ Irish American Heritage Month -
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)
Beneath an Irish Sky, Isabella Connor (fits all three)

✔ National Craft Month -
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
About Last Night, Ruthie Knox (knitting)

✔ Celebrate Your Name Week
featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
For Better or Worse, Lauren Layne (Heather)


✔ March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -
Read a book:
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read)
I Temporarily Do, Ellie Cahill

✔ March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
Cupids Anonymous, Lila Monroe

✔ March 21: World Poetry Day
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
Truly, Ruthie Knox

✔ Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
One Night on the Island, Josie Silver

[Elaine]

March Monthly Challenge

10/10 completed

1. Published in March: The Treasure of Love Meara Platt 5☆ 12/3/22
2. Baby names: Jackson Cynthia Dees 5☆ 5/3/22
3. Children in story: The Scandalous Vixen Tracy Sumner 3☆ 7/3/22
4. Green cover: Taking the Spinster Samantha Holt 3.5☆ 10/3/22
5. CRAFT in title: That Matter of Mischief Aileen Fish 5☆ 4/3/22
6. Character on title: Sutton's Surrender Scarlett Scott 4☆ 6/3/22
7. Fave author: Jess Michaels: To Kiss a King 5☆ 9/3/22
8. Double letters in title: Duke in Search of a Duchess Jennifer Ashley 5☆ 1/3/22
9. POEM in title: Along Came a Prince Jennifer Ashley 5☆ 2/3/22
10. Reader's Choice: Slightly Wicked Alyssa Clarke 5☆ 5/3/22

[Bookchaser]

🍀🇮🇪🍀2022 March Monthly Challenge🍀🇮🇪🍀



10/10 Completed



01. Happy March Birthday!: 🎂Read a book published in March or with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
Blush for Me by Kristen Proby 03/16/22
02. Baby Names!: 👶🏻Read a book featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them. This month's names: Amelia/Emilia, Ivy, Felix, and Jack.
Butternut Summer by Mary McNear 03/04/22
03. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) ~ Lucy Lennox : 👩🏻‍💻Read a book written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Or Read a book published in 2016, featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life, that features a character that is LGBTQ+, or with a mom character or has children in the story.
Her Holiday Man by Shannon Stacey 03/18/22
04. Irish American Heritage Month: 🍀🇮🇪Read a book with a mostly green cover, featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent or set in Ireland (any portion).
I Want to Hold Your Hand by Marie Force 03/12/22
05. National Craft Month: 🧶Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation), with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity, with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined, or featuring a character who learns something new.
To Be Loved by You by Debbie Burns 03/22/22
06. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week): 🎉Read a book with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story, featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own, or first published in the 1990s.
Emma And The Outlaw by Linda Lael Miller 03/23/22
07. National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day (March 1): 🥜Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER, where a characters eats a meal, you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read) or that is by a favorite author.
Till I Kissed You by Laura Trentham 03/14/22
08. Dentist's Day (March 6): 👨🏽‍⚕️Read a book with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal), with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH or with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text.
Snowfall and Mistletoe by Michelle Pennington 03/24/22
09. World Poetry Day (March 21): 📕Read a book featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count), with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined, includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.) or with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.).
It Must Be Your Love by Bella Andre 03/29/22
10. Reader's Choice: 📚Read any book of your choice!
Squeeze Play by Aven Ellis 03/11/22

[Jennie-Lee~abookishwonderer~]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
Read: 4/10

✔️1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
🌷Scoring With the Wrong Twin by Naima Simone▪️3/19/2022▪️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
This month's names:
Amelia/Emilia (Work),
Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant),
Felix (Happy and Prosperous),
Jack (God is Gracious)..
🌷 Baby, It’s Cold Outside by Kait Nolan (Ivy Blake)▪️3/8/2022▪️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
🌷Winter Waites by Lucy Lennox

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)
🌷The Promise of Breeze Hill by Pam Hillman

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week)
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s
🌷January Ice by Jenny Plumb▪️3/16/2022▪️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author
🌷The Raven Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt

8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
🌷Steel King by Devney Perry

✔️9. March 21: World Poetry Day -
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
🌷House of Darken by Jaymin Eve ( grief from the loss of a parent)▪️3/21/2022▪️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5

10. Reader's Choice~
🔹Read any book of your choice.
🌷Second-in-Command by Melanie Moreland

[Tiki]

🍀🍀🍀2022 March Monthly Challenge🍀🍀🍀
🏳️‍🌈☘️☘️6/6 COMPLETED!!☘️☘️🏳️‍🌈 10/10


🍀1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March-published in March 1st 2018
Guardian by: Emmy Chandler (03/05/2022)


🍀2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Taken as Theirs by: Kryssie Fortune (03/14/2022)

🍀3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story
Champagne Spiced Omega by; Susi Hawke (03/19/2022)

🍀4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)
Pleasure's Fury by: Mari Carr (03/12/2022)

🍀5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation) Artist- The Anatomist's Wife by: Anna Lee Huber (03/03/2022)
(view spoiler)[🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new (hide spoiler)]

🍀6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story- Adam by: Jennifer Ashley (03/07/2022)
(view spoiler)[🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s (hide spoiler)]

🍀7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author
How to Rattle an Undead Couple by: Hailey Edwards (03/06/2022)

🍀8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹 with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH-
Hell on Wheels by: Julie Ann Walker (03/10/2022)
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

🍀9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story- this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.) (view spoiler)[ "Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of violence, or at least they coexisted with these states… Hence the necessity and prevalence of sex appeal for people who were wild and on the edge." Author: Lorrie Moore (hide spoiler)]
Red, White & Royal Blue by: Casey McQuiston (03/16/2022)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

🍀10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
You Only Love Twice by: Bec McMaster (03/02/2022)

[Susan]

I'm in

10/10

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
☘️published in March
☘️a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
Bride for a Day - Carolyn Brown (Sourcebooks - Apr 2022) (light blue cover) - Mar 13

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
☘️featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
☘️a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
The Bluebonnet Battle - Carolyn Brown (Montlake - Mar 2022) (Amelia) - Mar 3

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
☘️written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
☘️published in 2016
☘️featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
☘️that features a character that is LGBTQ+
☘️with a mom character or has children in the story
First Responders on Deadly Ground - Colleen Thompson (HRS #2149 - Sept 2021) (career change) - Mar 5

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
☘️with a mostly green cover
☘️featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
☘️set in Ireland (any portion)
Half Moon Harbor - Donna Kauffman (Kensington - May 2014) (Irish MC) - Mar 25

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
☘️featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
☘️with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
☘️with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
☘️featuring a character who learns something new
What Happens on Vacation... - Brenda Jackson (HD #2863 - Apr 2022) (dogsledding) - Mar 8

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
☘️with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
☘️featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
☘️first published in the 1990s
Highland Wolf - Lynsay Sands (Avon - Jan 2022) - Mar 8

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
☘️where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
☘️where a characters eats a meal
☘️you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
☘️that is by a favorite author
Silver Creek Bodyguard - Lindsay McKenna (Zebra - Apr 2022) (meals eater/favorite author) - Mar 7

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
☘️with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
☘️with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
☘️with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
The Heiress and the Baby Boom - Lauri Robinson (HH #1634 - Feb 2022) (SS and OO) - Mar 1

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
☘️featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
☘️with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
☘️includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
☘️with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
A Blues Singer to Redeem Him - Elle Jackson (HH #1604 - Sept 2021) (singer/songwriter) - Mar 11

10. Reader's Choice -
☘️Read any book of your choice!
Deadly Days of Christmas - Carla Cassidy (HI #2036 - Nov 2021) - Mar 10

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

Completed 10/10

✔️1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book 🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

The Way You Look Tonight by Bella Andre - 03/03/2022

✔️2. Baby Names!
Read a book🔹featuring a character named Amelia

Ultimate Sins by Lora Leigh - 02/03/2022

✔️3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book: 🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+ (Ethan & Trey are both Bi)

Outsider by Olivia Cunning - 01/03/2022


✔️4. Irish American Heritage Month
Read a book🔹featuring characters that are Irish (Ronan)

The Hooker and the Hermit by L.H. Cosway - 07/03/2022

✔️5. National Craft Month
Read a book🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)

Once in a Lifetime by Jill Shalvis - 08/03/2022

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week)
Read a book🔹with a name in the title

Until July by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 03/03/2022

✔️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Read a book:🔹where a characters eats a meal

The Stud Next Door by Kendall Ryan - 02/03/2022

✔️8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH

My Brother's Roommate by Kendall Ryan - 01/03/2022

✔️9. March 21: World Poetry Day
Read a book🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

Until Jax by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 04/03/2022

✔️10. Reader's Choice
🔹Read any book of your choice!

Staged by Olivia Cunning - 02/03/2022

[Angie]

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

[Patrizia]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
5/5 ROMANCE

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
K-9 Cold Case by Elizabeth Heiter 9 March; 5☆


2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Jack- Ritorno a Virgin River (=Return to Virgin River) by Robyn Carr 13 March; 4 1/2☆


3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author
Deadly Connection by Lenora Worth 4 March; 4 1/2☆


8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
Chasing Secrets by Heather Woodhaven 2 March; 4☆


9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Alla scoperta di noi (=What We Find) by Robyn Carr 18 March; 4 1/2☆

[Frankie]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

10/10 Completed. Finished


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
Only One Love-Natasha Madison 3/17

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
This month's names:
Amelia/Emilia (Work),
Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant),
Felix (Happy and Prosperous),
Jack (God is Gracious).

(Jack Ryder)
Slip Out the Back Jack-Willow Rose 3/18

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
Rake's Redemption-Chantal Fernando 3/17

4. Irish American Heritage Month -
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
Juniper Hill-Devney Perry 3/03

5. National Craft Month
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who learns something new
Tattered-Devney Perry 3/09

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) -
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title
Seducing Sela-Tianna Xander 3/15

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
Tarnished Soul-Beth Flynn 3/04

8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
Gone But Knot Forgotten-Mary Marks 3/20

9. March 21: World Poetry Day
Read a book:
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
A Love Letter to Whiskey: Fifth Anniversary Edition-Kandi Steiner 3/06

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Hot Secrets-Lisa Renee Jones 3/16

[Aoife]

I'm in! Going to try for 8 this month :)

7/8

1. Read a book with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone Paris is Always a Good Idea Audiobook Finished 07/03

2. Read a book with a plot that somehow represents the name's meaning Emilia (work) The Deeper I FallKindle Finished 25/03

3. Read a book where someone has some sort of new start in life Touch of Night Kindle Finished 22/03

4. Read a book set in Ireland The Winter Guest Physical Book

5. Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft The Oysterville Sewing Circle Audiobook

6. Read a book featuring an author/character with the same name as you All These Perfect Strangers

7. Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER (A) Abigail's Shop Kindle finished 13/03

8. Read a book with double letters in the title or author's name The Party Crasher: The escapist and romantic top 10 Sunday Times bestseller Audiobook finished 14/03

9. Read a book featuring poems in some way Three Dark Crowns Audiobook Finished 08/03

10. Reader's Choice The Cat Who Saved Books Kindle Finished 25/03

[Emily]

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March Quiche of Death by MC Beaton 3.5

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Pigeon by Lola Wright 3.5-IVY MC
"3. Read a book:
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story Executioners Enthrallment by Ciara St James 3.9"

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover Until December by Aurora Rose Reynolds 3.14



5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined Sins Enticement by Ciara St James 3.8 sins enTiCement (tenillo guARdians: ares inFidels mc)

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
Shadow by J. E Daelman 3.1
7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where a characters eats a meal Whisky by JE Daelman 3.2

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text PG 1288 Rick clenched his TEETH. Girl, Alone by Blake Pierce 3.8

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.) Pitbull's Enslavement by Ciara St James - 3.12 (terror)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Singe by Chelle Bliss 3.11

[Connie N.]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
Timeframe: 3/1/22 to 3/31/22
10/10

1. Happy March Birthday! - Light blue cover - The Inn at Eagle Point by Sherryl Woods - 3/13/22 ♥♥♥♥


2. Baby Names! - Featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) with one of the following popular baby names: Ivy - Heartbreak Cove by Lily Everett - 3/14/22 ♥♥♥♥

Ivy is the dispatcher at the sheriff’s office where Andie is the sheriff.

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox - Has children in the story - The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis - 3/12/22 ♥♥♥

Both Shasta and Aravis are called children, even though they go on dangerous adventures.

4. Irish American Heritage Month - Green cover - Kiss Me at Christmas by Valerie Bowman - 3/26/22 ♥♥♥♥


5. National Craft Month - Character who learns something new - Home for Christmas by Lily Everett - 3/20/22 ♥♥♥♥

Libby has to learn how to cook in time to make Christmas dinner.

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - First published in the 1990s - Lush Life by Dallas Murphy - 3/16/22 ♥♥♥

Pub 10/1/92

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER - B - The Bride Who Got Lucky by Janna MacGregor - 3/4/22 ♥♥♥♥


8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Double letters in the title or author's name - Breakable by Tammara Webber - 3/21/22 ♥♥♥♥

MM in Tammara and BB in Webber

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - With all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined - First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost - 3/6/22 ♥♥♥♥

P and O in Drop, E in Jeaniene, M in Crimson

10. Reader's Choice - Any book - The Soldier's E-Mail Order Bride by Cora Seton - 3/7/22 ♥♥♥♥


******CHALLENGE COMPLETE 3/26/22*****

[JoAnne]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
Read 10/10 DONE!

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery 3/12/22 5stars (3/15/22)

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
I Wish... (The Wishing Tree Series #2) by Amanda Prowse 3/3/22 4stars (Jack - Verity and Sophie's neighbor in VT)

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story
A Family for the Rugged Rancher by Donna Alward 3/4/22 4stars (Emily is mom to Sam; Luke's sisters both have kids; Emily was a stay at home mom switched to being a housekeeper to survive and wants to go back to school)

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover

This Little Piggy: Kappy King and the Pig Kaper by Amy Lillard 3/30/22 4stars

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
The Bluebonnet Battle by Carolyn Brown 3/9/22 4.5stars (Amelia and Nick jog/run)

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title
Sandy, Breaking the Pattern #2 by P.D. Workman 3/2/22 4stars

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
The Perils of Paris: a Provence Cozy Mystery (Julie Cavallo Investigates #5) by Ana T. Drew 3/5/22 4stars (T The or P Perils; Julie and Cat eat together and with grandmother and father separately; good flow to story)

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with the word 'teeth' in the text
Kindle location 1674 - I unclenched my teeth so I could speak.
Saving La Familia (La Familia #1) by Donna Del Oro 3/8/22 4stars

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
Wish You Were Here (The Wishing Tree Series #3) by Kay Bratt 3/11/22 4stars (Greta and Henry are scared due to Greta's illnesses)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Front Page Murder (A Homefront News Mystery #1) by Joyce St. Anthony 3/13/22 4stars

[Anne Boleyn's Ghost]

5/5



1. Happy March Birthday!: The Worst Best Man Mia Sosa 03/15

2. Baby Names!: Like Lovers Do Tracey Livesay ✔️ 03/09

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC): Queen's Ransom Layla Reyne 03/31

4. Irish American Heritage Month:

5. National Craft Month:

6. Celebrate Your Name Week: Castor Jaclyn Osborn ✔️ 03/12

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day:

8. March 6: Dentist's Day:

9. March 21: World Poetry Day:

10. Reader's Choice: Archangel's Light Nalini Singh ✔️ 03/04

[AliciaJ]

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
3/21


2. Baby Names!
(Happy and Prosperous) 3/11

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox


4. Irish American Heritage Month -
3/1

5. National Craft Month -
(CRAFT in the title) 3/12

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) -
3/10

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -
3/13

8. March 6: Dentist's Day -
(Double letter O) 3/19

9. March 21: World Poetry Day -
3/20

10. Reader's Choice -
3/5

[Leigh]

Romance Readers Reading Challenges 2022 March Monthly Challenge

Completed: 9/10

1. Happy March Birthday! 3/3

2. Baby Names! 3/2 (Amelia/Emilia (Work) Alizeh works as a servant

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life 3/4

4. Irish American Heritage Month - 🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent 3/10

5. National Craft Month - 🔹with a character does some other stress-relieving activity 3/5 Ezra exercises to relieve stress

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - 🔹that is by a favorite author 3/21

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - 🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH 3/16

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - 🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined 3/23

10. Reader's Choice - 3/7

[Christine]

I'm in!

...10/10 Completed March 31

1. Happy March Birthday!: 🔹with a light blue cover: Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day March 22, 4 stars

2. Baby Names!: Jack: Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels March 4, 4 stars

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox:🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life: Lorie's Heart by Amy Lillard March 9, 3 stars

4. Irish American Heritage Month: 🔹with a mostly green cover: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich March 4, 4 stars

5. National Craft Month: 🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined: The Cluttered Corpse by Mary Jane Maffini March 12, 2 stars

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week):🔹with a name in the title: Just Plain Sadie by Amy Lillard March 19, 4 stars

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day:🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER: Payback by Fern Michaels March 13, 4 stars

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!": 🔹with double letters in the author's name: Duke with Benefits by Manda Collins March 20, 4 stars

9. March 21: World Poetry Day: 🔹includes a poem or verse in the story: Ready Set Rogue by Manda Collins March 16, 4 stars

10. Reader's Choice: Lover Mine by J.R. Ward March 31, 5 stars

[Sarena]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

9/10

1. Happy March Birthday!
🔹Read a book with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone
Abandoned in Death


2. Baby Names!
Read a book featuring a character or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation:
🔹Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
🔹Read a book with a mom character or has children in the story
Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny


4. Irish American Heritage Month
🔹Read a book with a mostly green cover
Secrets and Truths


5. National Craft Month
🔹Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft - heroine crochets
Xeni


6. Celebrate Your Name Week -
🔹Read a book: where a character's name is somehow important in the story - works under a pseudonym
Yes & I Love You


7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
🔹Read a book you consider to be smooth (easy to read)
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry


8. March 6: Dentist's Day
🔹Read a book with teeth showing on the cover
Gravity


9. March 21: World Poetry Day
🔹Read a book that includes a poem or verse in the story - music lyrics
Hook, Line, and Sinker


10. Reader's Choice
🔹Read any book of your choice!
When He's Sinful

[Sonja]

Count me in for 5 this month... Hoping for more though given the number of audiobooks on my list!
1/5 Read
1. Happy March Birthday! The Wedding Game (March pub)
🔹2. Baby Names! Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant) The Beast's Garden (ivy on the B in title)
🔹3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox Good Girl Complex (mom/children in story)
🔹4. Irish American Heritage Month Hatemates (green on cover)
🔹5. National Craft Month Spoiler Alert (learns something new)
🔹6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) Just Haven't Met You Yet (Sophie (Sophia) is a version of my name, and it's my daughter's name)
🔹7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day Bombshell (favorite author!)
🔹8. March 6: Dentist's Day Made in Manhattan
🔹9. March 21: World Poetry Day A Lot Like Adiós (POEM in series name)
🔹10. Reader's Choice Just Last Night

Books:


Read:

[Melissa]

7/10 Completed



01. Happy March Birthday!: 🎂Read a book published in March or with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine. -Ain't Burned All the Bright - Finished 3/27

02. Baby Names!: 👶🏻Read a book featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them. This month's names: Amelia/Emilia, Ivy, Felix, and Jack.

03. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) ~ Lucy Lennox : 👩🏻‍💻Read a book written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Or Read a book published in 2016, featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life, that features a character that is LGBTQ+, or with a mom character or has children in the story. Hour of the Witch- Finished 3/15

04. Irish American Heritage Month: 🍀🇮🇪Read a book with a mostly green cover, featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent or set in Ireland (any portion). -Currant Creek Valley Finished 3/14

05. National Craft Month: 🧶Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation), with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity, with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined, or featuring a character who learns something new.

06. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week): 🎉Read a book with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story, featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own, or first published in the 1990s.- The Spanish Love Deception Finished 3/29

07. National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day (March 1): 🥜Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER, where a characters eats a meal, you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read) or that is by a favorite author. - The Maidens- Finished 3/9

08. Dentist's Day (March 6): 👨🏽‍⚕️Read a book with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal), with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH or with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text.

09. World Poetry Day (March 21): 📕Read a book featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count), with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined, includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.) or with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.). - The Paris ApartmentFinished 3/30

10. Reader's Choice: 📚Read any book of your choice! -Dial A for Aunties - Finished 3/7

[Barbara ★]

March Monthly Challenge


READ: 10/10

✔ 1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
All the Murmuring Bones - Angela Slatter (pub Mar 9, 2021) 3/25

✔ 2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Chilled to the Cone - Ellie Alexander 3/31
(MCs revamp a storefront that is covered in ivy which needs to be torn down)

✔ 3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
Steel Crow Saga - Paul Krueger (Princess Xiulan & Lee) 3/7

✔ 4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
Dead in Dublin - Catie Murphy 3/28

✔ 5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
Family Practice - Charlene Weir 3/8

✔ 6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story Lucia in Love - Heather Graham Pozzessere 3/15

✔ 7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹you consider to be crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
Ascendant - Michael R. Miller 3/20

✔ 8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name
The Deepest of Secrets - Kelley Armstrong 3/17

✔ 9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
Crowbones - Anne Bishop (scared) 3/14

✔ 10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon 3/5



CHALLENGE COMPLETE

[Jonquil]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

10/10 DONE

01. Happy March Birthday!: published in March Neanderthal Seeks Human Penny Reid 3/8
02. Baby Names!: featuring a character named: Jack. -- Jack Rye Murder on the Brighton Express Edward Marston 3/20
03. Featured Author Challenge -has some sort of new start in life, AND with a mom character AND has children in story Zin Mignon and the Secret of the Pickled Pigs' Feet Michael Daswick 3/20
04. Irish American Heritage Month: green cover J.D. Robb 3/5
AND featuring characters of Irish descent - Roarke

05. National Craft Month: CRAFT in the title and author name Forbidden City James Ponti 3/14
06. Celebrate Your Name Week : name in title Mrs. Morris and the Ghost Traci Wilton 3/2
07. National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day: title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER, AND a character eats a meal Put Out to Pasture Amanda Flower 3/21
08. Dentist's Day: 'tooth' in text "tooth and claw" loc 3502 Diablo Mesa Douglas Preston 3/2
09. World Poetry Day: letters of POEM in title A Three Book Problem Vicki Delany 3/1
10. Reader's Choice: High Jinx Kelley Armstrong 3/3

[mikaela]

Completed 10 / 10

1. Happy March Birthday! Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

A Brush with Love 3/24

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World 3/25

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC)- Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

A Stroke of Malice 3/12

4. Irish American Heritage Month - Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

How High We Go in the Dark 3/24

5. National Craft Month - Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

The Cocoa Conspiracy 3/5

6. Celebrate Your Name Week - Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

The Ace of Hearts 3/19

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

A Regrettable Proposal

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

Any Fair Interference 3/3

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

Mistaken 3/1

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

The Captain's Confidant 3/20

[MountainKat, Moderator]

In for the usual!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March A Gentleman in Moscow 03/21/2022

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹 published in 2016 Murder in an Irish Village 04/12/2022

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover 04/07/2022

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation) Photo Finished, Laura Childs...03/05/2022 (Carmella owns a scrapbooking shop in New Orleans)

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen 03/13/2022

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH Blood Cross 03/07/2022

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

[=MYSTIQUE=]

💟📚📖ROMANCE READERS READING CHALLENGES📖📚💟
2022 March Monthly Challenge
March 01 - March 31, 2022

Progress: 17/17

✅1. Happy March Birthday! Read a book:
published in March
✔️with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
- Interlude: First Noel 3/4/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 2. Baby Names! Read a book:
✔️ Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious).
- Felix and the Prince 3/16/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Books by Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
✔️ written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
- Wilde Fire 3/16/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
published in 2016
featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
that features a character that is LGBTQ+
with a mom character or has children in the story

✅4. Irish American Heritage Month Read a book:
with a mostly green cover
featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
✔️set in Ireland (any portion)
- Hudson's Luck 3/17/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅5. National Craft Month Read a book:
featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
✔️with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
- Road of No Return: Hounds of Valhalla MC 3/22/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
featuring a character who learns something new

✅6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) Read a book:
with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
first published in the 1990s
✔️M - Mirand Ellis Firelight 3/14/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️Y - Yuri Royally Screwed: A Tale of Two Princes 3/21/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️S - Sara Burns Pestilence 3/18/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️T - Tooth The Devil's Ride: Coffin Nails MC 3/8/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️I - Iris Iris 3/9/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️Q - Quentin Armiston The Curse of the Blue Scarab 3/1/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️U - Urho Chase Alpha Heat 3/20/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
✔️E - Ethan Reichenbach Enemy Within 3/12/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day Read a book:
where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
where a characters eats a meal
you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
✔️that is by a favorite author
- Enemies of the State 3/3/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 8. March 6: Dentist's Day Read a book:
with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
✔️with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
- The Devil's Ride: Coffin Nails MC 3/8/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✅ 9. March 21: World Poetry Day Read a book:
featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
✔️with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
- Pumpkin Spiced Omega 3/7/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.

✅ 10. Reader's Choice:
✔️Read any book of your choice!
- Ascendent 3/27/22 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Aminko]

March Monthly Challenge
1 March to 31 March, 2022

5/10 Completed

1. 🔹Happy March Birthday! Roccanti's Marriage Revenge by Lynne Graham (29/3/2022) 🔹🔹🔹

2. 🔹Baby Names! Burn for You by J. T. Geissinger (9/3/2022) 🔹🔹🔹🔹

3. 🔹Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox Law Man by Kristen Ashley (27/3/2022) 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹

4. 🔹Irish American Heritage Month - Seduced by a Devil by Wendy Vella

5. 🔹National Craft Month - The Naked Alien by Honey Phillips (5/3/2022) 🔹🔹🔹🔹

6. 🔹Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - Axelby Samantha Whiskey

7. 🔹March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Toxic Dust by Eve Langlais (27/3/2022) 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹

8. 🔹March 6: Dentist's Day - Bombshell by Sarah MacLean

9. 🔹March 21: World Poetry Day - Vengeance Road by Christine Feehan

10. 🔹Reader's Choice -Knight Awakened by Coreene Callahan

[Julianna]

I'm in for seven this month.

[Shelley]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

1. Happy March Birthday! - Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names! - Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses).
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox - Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

[Romanticbookworm]

I'm in

2022 March Monthly Challenge


1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.
Link to Lucy Lennox's backlist - https://www.goodreads.com/author/list...

Fun Facts about Lucy Lennox:
-- Lucy didn't write her first novel until she was over 40 years old.
-- Her debut book BORROWING BLUE was published in 2016 and won her the A.C. Katt Gay Debut Novel Award
-- Lucy had a degree from Vanderbilt University in English Literature but it was the years and years of romance reading (many all night long) that most influenced her to begin writing.
-- Lucy writes gay romance with heart, humor, and heat!
-- She is married with three children and lives in the US.

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!

[Mary!]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1 - 31, 2022
10/10


1. Read a book published in March
The Club by Ellery Lloyd 03/07/2022 (March)

2. Read a book featuring a character with one of the following popular baby names
This month's names: Jack (God is Gracious)
Die Noon by Elise Sax 03/31/2022

3. Read a book with a mom character or has children in the story
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder 03/28/2022

4. Read abook with a mostly green cover
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton 03/12/2022


5. Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
The Love Con by Seressia Glass 03/02/2022 (makes cosplay costumes)

6. Read a book featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma 03/24/2022

7. Read a book that is by a favorite author
Nothing to Lose by J.A. Jance 03/04/2022

8. Read a book with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan 03/01/2022

9. Read a book featuring poems in some way
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 03/30/2022

10. Read any book of your choice!
The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich 03/30/2022

[Lacy]

I'm in for 10!

[Marta]

2022 March Monthly Challenge: 2/10

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.

Read a book:
🔹published in 2016
🔹featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+
3/6
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)

5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author

8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
3/2 Fall

9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice

[Lacy]

2022 March Monthly Challenge
4/10 finished


1. Happy March Birthday! - 🔹 published in March
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner - HB

2. Baby Names! - 🔹 Jack (God is Gracious)
Alaskan Holiday - Debbie Macomber

3. Featured Author Challenge - 🔹 featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
The Apple Orchard - Susan Wiggs

4. Irish American Heritage Month - 🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
Creation in Death - J.D. Robb

☑️5. National Craft Month - 🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
Neanderthal Seeks Human - Penny Reid - 3/27 - 4 Stars

☑️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - 🔹first published in the 1990s
Unspeakable - Sandra Brown - 3/24 - 4 Stars

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - 🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
Prodigal Daughter: A Family’s Brave Journey through Addiction and Recovery - Rob Koke - PB

☑️8. March 6: Dentist's Day - 🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in
the Es in TEETH
Once a Cowboy - Linda Warren - 3/19 - 3 Stars

☑️9. March 21: World Poetry Day -
🔹Just a Taste - Crystal Kaswell - 3/9 - 3 Stars

10. Reader's Choice - 🔹Read any book of your choice!
TBD

[Daisy]

March challenge 2/10
2) baby names stars of mithra series by Nora roberts
10) both were of my choice😀

[Suzanne]

Romance Readers Reading Challenges
2022 March Monthly Challenge
Duration: March 1st, 2022 - March 31st, 2022

Progress: 7 out of 7

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March:
Untamed by Glennon Doyle - **** - 3/9/2022 - 333 Pages - Published March 10, 2020



2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
🔹written by Lucy Lennox, or any author with her first or last name.

4. Irish American Heritage Month - celebrated by proclamation of the President and Congress in the United States to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the United States. It was first celebrated in 1991. The heritage month is in March to coincide with Saint Patrick's Day, the Irish national holiday on March 17.
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover:
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave - ***** - 3/1/2022 - 320 Pages
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)



5. National Craft Month - Learning a craft offers many benefits. Expressing one’s creativity provides stress relief and can lower blood pressure much like meditation. There’s natural positive reinforcement from learning a new skill. With each new step learned, the satisfaction from gaining the skill is rewarding. Most crafts require fine motor skills. Crafts teach young children these skills as well keep ours sharp as we age.
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation):
Ghost of a Chance by Yasmine Galenorn - ***** - 3/7/2022 - 354 Pages - WITCHcraft
🔹with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity
🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹featuring a character who learns something new



6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - established in 1997 by American onomatology hobbyist Jerry Hill. Hill prescribed the first full week in March as a week for everyone worldwide to embrace and celebrate his or her name. It's also a week for appreciating names in general, and to have fun getting to know more about names. This week is set aside to participate in names-related hobbies, activities, and to take part in entertaining and enlightening names-related events.
Read a book:
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
🔹first published in the 1990s

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day! This day salutes America's favorite sandwich spread. What kid didn't grow up loving a PB&J sandwich? Smooth Peanut Butter is by far the most popular. Crunchy peanut butter is also on the market, and is enjoyed by many. Peanut Butter is popular on crackers, celery and other "peanut butter" holders. It is also used in recipes for cookies and snacks. And, don't forget peanut butter candies, too!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
Curse on the Land by Faith Hunter - ***** - 3/8/2022 - 328 Pages
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author



8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - ***** - 3/2/2022 - 338 Pages - Double LL
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text



9. March 21: World Poetry Day - UNESCO declared World Poetry Day at their 30th meeting in Paris in 1999. Poetry makes the world go round, making it a much better place in which to live. Poetry is an extremely important and powerful art form. When we think about poetry, romance and love is what first comes to mind for most people. But, poetry is so much more. Poetry is a linguistic expression of just about anything: feelings, emotions, values, hopes, dreams, messages, and more. It addresses, war, peace, sickness, health, fear, happiness, anxiety, to name just a few. Yes, poems are written about any subject you can imagine.
Read a book:
🔹featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.):
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult - ***** - 3/16/2022 - 440 Pages - Heartbreaking



10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Gimme Some Sugar by Molly Harper - ***** - 3/10/2022 - 304 Pages

[Hayley]

2022 March Monthly Challenge COMPLETED 3.16.22
10/10

1. Happy March Birthday!
🔹published in March The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem Alice Winters


2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them
Jack (God is Gracious).. MC brother is named Bobby Jack
White Trash Warlock David R. Slayton

3.
🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+ Dead Reckoning Pandora Pine


4
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire


5. 🔹with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author or series name, may be combined The Best Corpse for the Job Charlie Cochrane

6.
🔹with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story Kidnapped by the Pirate Keira Andrews


7.
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER The Priory of the Orange Tree Samantha Shannon


8. 🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
Punching the V-Card Leta Blake
“You’re demanding,” he muttered between chattering teeth. “We were just supposed to kiss for now.”
Excerpt From: Leta Blake. “Punching the V-Card.” Apple Books.

9.
🔹includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.) Beneath the Sugar Sky Seanan McGuire

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice! Down Among the Sticks and Bones Seanan McGuire

[Avigail]

March Monthly Challenge

6/10 completed


🍀01. Happy March Birthday!: Work in Progress by B.J. Harvey - April, the female MC, is a single mom to Axel.
Read on 2/3/22 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀


02. Baby Names!: 👶🏻Read a book featuring a character (doesn't need to be an MC) or an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them. This month's names: Amelia/Emilia, Ivy, Felix, and Jack.

🍀03. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) ~ Lucy Lennox:
🍀 A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus There are orphan siblings and a librarian who is a mother figure. Read 3/6/22 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

🍀04. Irish American Heritage Month: 🍀 Love Like This Sophie Love The premise of the book is set in Ireland and the male main character is Irish. Read on 3/18/22 🍀🍀🍀.5

05. National Craft Month: 🧶Read a book featuring a character who does any activity considered a craft (your interpretation), with a character who meditates or does some other stress-relieving activity, with all the letters of CRAFT in the title, author, or series name, may be combined or featuring a character who learns something new.


06. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week): 🎉Read a book with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation) or is given a name or nickname in the story, featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own, or first published in the 1990s.

07. National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day (March 1): 🥜Read a book where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER, where a character eats a meal, you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read) or that is by a favorite author.

🍀08. Dentist's Day (March 6):
🍀 The Ugly Duckling by Annabelle Costa
Read 3/3/22 🍀🍀

🍀09. World Poetry Day (March 21): 🍀 Cake by J. Bengtsson. The main character is a singer and songwriter. Read on 3/19/22 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀

🍀10. Reader's Choice: The One by John Marrs read 3/16/22 🍀🍀🍀🍀


Books I Read:
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[Chantal]

March Monthly Challenge
Read: 5/10

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book published in March
Read a book with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

2. Baby Names!
Read a book featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
Read a book with a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..

✔️3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book featuring a character who has changed careers or has some sort of new start in life
- Bet The Farm by Staci Hart - 3/13/22

4. Irish American Heritage Month
Read a book with a mostly green cover
Read a book featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
Read a book set in Ireland (any portion)

✔️5. National Craft Month -
Read a book featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
- Friends With Benedicts by Staci Hart - 3/24/22

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week) - Read a book with a name in the title or where a character's name is somehow important in the story (your interpretation)
- By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate - 3/6/22

✔️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -
Read a book you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
- For Love or Honey by Staci Hart - 3/27/22

8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
Read a book with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
Read a book with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text

9. March 21: World Poetry Day
Read a book featuring poems in some way - could be a poetry book or where a person writes poetry (musical lyrics count)
Read a book with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
Read a book includes a poem or verse in the story - this could include musical lyrics or the use of a verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.)
Read a book with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

✔️10. Reader's Choice - Read any book of your choice!
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh - 3/5/22

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Completed

2022 March Monthly Challenge

Completed 10/10

✔️1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book 🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.

The Way You Look Tonight by Bella Andre - 03/03/2022

✔️2. Baby Names!
Read a book🔹featuring a character named Amelia

Ultimate Sins by Lora Leigh - 02/03/2022

✔️3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book: 🔹that features a character that is LGBTQ+ (Ethan & Trey are both Bi)

Outsider by Olivia Cunning - 01/03/2022


✔️4. Irish American Heritage Month
Read a book🔹featuring characters that are Irish (Ronan)

The Hooker and the Hermit by L.H. Cosway - 07/03/2022

✔️5. National Craft Month
Read a book🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)

Once in a Lifetime by Jill Shalvis - 08/03/2022

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week)
Read a book🔹with a name in the title

Until July by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 03/03/2022

✔️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day
Read a book:🔹where a characters eats a meal

The Stud Next Door by Kendall Ryan - 02/03/2022

✔️8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH

My Brother's Roommate by Kendall Ryan - 01/03/2022

✔️9. March 21: World Poetry Day
Read a book🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)

Until Jax by Aurora Rose Reynolds - 04/03/2022

✔️10. Reader's Choice
🔹Read any book of your choice!

Staged by Olivia Cunning - 02/03/2022

[LillianaPassions]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

I’m late but in !
Done : 10/10

✔️1. Happy March Birthday! Read a book:
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
One Moment Please by Amy Daws
☀️☀️☀️🌤

✔️2. Baby Names! Read a book:
🔹This month name : Felix
What You See by Cherise Sinclair
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

✔️3. Read a book:
🔹with a mom character or has children in the story
Wait for It by Mariana Zapata
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

✔️4. Irish American Heritage Month - Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
Lure of Oblivion by Suzanne Wright
☀️☀️☀️🌤

✔️5. National Craft Month - Reaf a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
Now You See Her by Linda Howard
☀️☀️☀️☀️

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name - Read a book:
🔹featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
Soar High by Cherise Sainclair
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

✔️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
Puppy Love and Peanut Butter by Heidi Hutchinson
☀️☀️☀️

✔️8. March 6: Dentist's Day - Read a book:
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
The Saber Tooth Tiger's Mate by Zoe Chant
☀️☀️☀️

✔️9. March 21: World Poetry Day - Read a book:
🔹with all the letters of POEM in the title, author or series name, may be combined
Promise Me Forever by Layla Hagen
☀️☀️☀️

✔️10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
High Meadow by Freya Barker
☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

[Heather]

10/10 - COMPLETE 10 March 22

✔ Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
published in March
The Astronaut and the Star, Jen Comfort (published 1 March 22)

✔ Baby Names!
Read a book:
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, Ashley Herring Blake

✔ Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox
Read a book:
Written by Lucy Lennox - 1 March 22
Fakers, Lucy Lennox & May Archer

✔ Irish American Heritage Month -
Read a book:
🔹with a mostly green cover
🔹featuring characters or author that are Irish or of Irish descent
🔹set in Ireland (any portion)
Beneath an Irish Sky, Isabella Connor (fits all three)

✔ National Craft Month -
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character who does any kind of activity considered a craft (your interpretation)
About Last Night, Ruthie Knox (knitting)

✔ Celebrate Your Name Week
featuring a character or author with a version of YOUR name OR a name you like and could see as your own
For Better or Worse, Lauren Layne (Heather)


✔ March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day -
Read a book:
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read)
I Temporarily Do, Ellie Cahill

✔ March 6: Dentist's Day - Open your mouth and say "Aaaah!" This is a day to display a big, toothy grin. Your Dentist plays a role in that big, bright smile. He's an important person in keeping your smile bright, and your teeth and mouth healthy.
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
Cupids Anonymous, Lila Monroe

✔ March 21: World Poetry Day
🔹with an emotional component - any emotion (happy, sad, amused, scared, etc.)
Truly, Ruthie Knox

✔ Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
One Night on the Island, Josie Silver

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Finished challenge on post 5.
Enjoyed it! Thanks.

[Patrizia]

Finished!

2022 March Monthly Challenge
5/5 ROMANCE

1. Happy March Birthday!
Read a book:
🔹published in March
🔹with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine.
K-9 Cold Case by Elizabeth Heiter 9 March; 5☆


2. Baby Names!
Read a book:
🔹featuring a character (doesn't need to be a MC) or is written by an author with one of the following popular baby names, or any variation or nickname of one of them (example using Robert: Robert, Rob, Bob, Roberta, Bobbie, Robertson, etc).
🔹with a a character, plot, scene or cover art that somehow represents the name's meaning (in parentheses). Some of the meanings are pretty obscure, so feel free to be creative!
This month's names: Amelia/Emilia (Work), Ivy (Climbing Vine Plant), Felix (Happy and Prosperous), Jack (God is Gracious)..
Jack- Ritorno a Virgin River (=Return to Virgin River) by Robyn Carr 13 March; 4 1/2☆


3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox

4. Irish American Heritage Month.

5. National Craft Month.

6. Celebrate Your Name Week (first week).

7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day - Today is a sticky day!
Read a book:
🔹where the title starts with a letter in PEANUT BUTTER
🔹where a characters eats a meal
🔹you consider to be smooth (easy to read) or crunchy (takes extra energy to read)
🔹that is by a favorite author
Deadly Connection by Lenora Worth 4 March; 4 1/2☆


8. March 6: Dentist's Day
Read a book:
🔹with teeth showing on the cover (human or animal)
🔹with double letters in the title or author's name, as in the Es in TEETH
🔹with the word 'teeth' or 'tooth' in the text
Chasing Secrets by Heather Woodhaven 2 March; 4☆


9. March 21: World Poetry Day.

10. Reader's Choice -
🔹Read any book of your choice!
Alla scoperta di noi (=What We Find) by Robyn Carr 18 March; 4 1/2☆

[Tiki]

Original Post #8 COMPLETED

[Elena]

2022 March Monthly Challenge

Read: 10/10

✔️1. Happy March Birthday! Read a book with a light blue cover in honor of the March birthstone, the Aquamarine. Sea of Ruin by Pam Godwin 04.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️2. Baby Names! Read a book featuring a character named Bobbie. Try by Ella Frank 10.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) - Lucy Lennox. Read a book
that features a character that is LGBTQ+ Tease by Ella Frank 14.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️4. Irish American Heritage Month. Read a book with a mostly green cover. Taming the Tiger: Kindred Tales 42 by Evangeline Anderson 21.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️5. National Craft Month. Read a book featuring a character who learns something new. Mortal Skin by Lily Mayne 06.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️6. Celebrate Your Name Week. Read a book with a name in the title. Tate by Ella Frank 16.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️7. March 1: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day. Read a book where a characters eats a meal All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes 20.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️8. March 6: Dentist's Day. Read a book with double letters in the title or author's name Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch 19.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️9. March 21: World Poetry Day. Read a book includes a poem or verse in the structure of the book (epigraph or beginning of each chapter, etc.) True by Ella Frank 17.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

✔️10. Reader's Choice - Read any book of your choice! Bonded by Two by Evangeline Anderson 20.03.2022 ⭐️⭐️⭐️