Romance Readers Reading Challenges

message 1: by Jane (PS), Moderator (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:09AM

PASS THE PARCEL - Round 19
THEME - Black & White

Start date - FRIDAY 9 September
Sign up - now through to FRIDAY 2 September 4pm US EST
Teams assigned by 2 September after sign ups close
Last theme call - 18 November

If you sign up for this challenge, you must be prepared to:
* Read roughly one book each week
* Follow the format for the selection and completion posts.
* Post your selection book BEFORE the next theme is called, or you will be eliminated
* Technically be able to put links to other threads/bookshelves/lists, and insert book links and book covers in your posts. (These are not difficult but you MUST be able to do these links; they don't have to look pretty, but they do need to go to the intended location).

PLEASE READ THE RULES OF THE CHALLENGE CAREFULLY.

IF YOU HAVEN'T POSTED EACH WEEK WITHIN THE TIMELINES ABOVE AND YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY TOLD TEAM-MATES OR A MODERATOR - no questions - YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM YOUR TEAM and the challenge.

FURTHER, if you have dropped out of this challenge without explanation in the past or have been removed for lack of attendance, and you sign up and wish to play again, I will be PMing you...

This does not include those players who have PMd me or their Captain and dropped out due to real-life issues... We all understand that sometimes life throws curve-balls that mean you can't continue playing with us 🧡

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message 2: by Jane (PS), Moderator (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:09AM

This is a team challenge to encourage members to meet new friends and find new books.

PLEASE READ EVERY LINE OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS

I will be referring members back to this post if you ask me something already outlined here.

For this challenge we will have teams of roughly 6 players. The group will have a team captain who will track the completion of books for their team and remind their fellow team-members about compliance to the rules. Teams will be allocated before the reading starts. This will be done randomly.

Members signing up need to be prepared TO READ APPROXIMATELY ONE BOOK EACH WEEK.

Each week a theme will be randomly selected from the list posted in msg 4. This theme will be posted in the Discussion/Q&A thread between 3pm and 6pm US EST each Friday. (Feel free to prompt me if I forget :)

PLEASE NOTE THE TIMES for the theme announcements. I cannot guarantee I will post by the 3pm mark since that is 6am for me.

Each member in the group has the following options:

1. Read a book that matches the theme (the parcel)

OR

2. Select a book from the 'READ' list of a team-mate that they read in the last 6 months AND that the team-mate rated at least 3 stars. (This essentially passing on a recommendation.)
If the book is in a series but does not match where you are up to, you may read another book from that same series.

OR

3. 'Pass' on reading a book that week.

BUT each team member can only select option #3 once each 5 (five) weeks. AND each team may only have ONE person 'passing' for the round each week. It is up to the team as to how they manage a 'pass'. (Yes - this means that one or two team-mates per group can't claim a pass in a 5 week block.)

Each team member must post their selection (option 1, 2 or 3) in the week that the theme is announced. Please follow the format provided in msg 3. You can only change your book selection in its posting week. So choose carefully.

Each team member must return to their team thread and post a short review of the book that they read. This review should be enough to indicate that the member DID read the book. A couple of sentences is sufficient. "I liked it" is not.

Key information is required in both the selection and completion posts. Please ensure that you and your team-mates follow the format set out in msg 3 below. You and your Captain cannot claim to have completed your book until the post holds all the required information.

This challenge will run for 11 weeks. The winning team is the one that completes the challenge first; they win bragging rights :)

No-one can use the 'pass' option in the last week of the challenge.

Rules:
* Each team member MUST post their selection book into their team thread each week or they will be removed from the challenge. It isn't fair on your team-mates if you are not committed to participant each week.
* You MUST post your selection book in the week of the announced category. If you miss selecting your book (or pass) in that week, you will be removed from the challenge. The only exception is if you have contacted your team, team captain or one of the Mods with a valid reason. The decision to not remove you is solely up to the moderator running the game.
* You can only change your nominated theme book in the week that the theme is announced. You CANNOT change your book once a new theme is announced.
* '5 weeks' will be counted in blocks of five, with a new count starting in week 6.
* No-one can use the 'pass' option in the last week of the challenge.
* To qualify for a theme, the book's eligibility must meet the rules for the theme as posted each week (eg tagged, in the précis, MPG or found on an official list as contained in the theme announcement). Refer to the Q&A thread for more clarification on this rule.
* You can change your nominated book only during the week that it's theme is called.
* Books must be at least 100 pages in length.
* Anthologies and bundled books are fine, but you must read the full set.
* You must quote the page numbers for your selected book each week. Please quote the goodreads page numbers (any edition of the book is fine).
* The 'series' rule for Option 2 only applies to Option 2. The same book can be used under option 2 for multiple weeks so long as that book remains within the 6 month timeframe.

Important!!! If a team member falls behind by more than 2 books, they WILL be removed from the challenge. The team who loses that member will continue with the lower number of team-mates. This rule is to ensure that ALL participants are committed to their team and the challenge.

PLEASE NOTE - I will not remove, nor accept retirement from, any players in the last two weeks of the challenge. This will mean that the team cannot win if their players are MIA in the last two weeks.

IMPORTANT:
In the last week of the challenge, Option 2 will be altered. Book selections under option 2 will have to be taken from a different team's members' bookshelves. I will allocate the teams out on posting the final theme (week 11).

For example (and this allocation will be randomly done on the day of the last theme call)
Option 2 for Team 1 must come from the bookshelves of Team 4.

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For those of you who didn't play this growing up, a 'parcel' is passed from one person to another. ...When setting this game up, a prize (or 'gift') is wrapped in a large number of layers of wrapping paper. Smaller prizes may be placed between some or all other layers of wrapping.

During the game, music is played as the parcel is passed around. Whoever is holding the parcel when the music stops removes one layer of wrapping and claims any prize found under that layer. The music is then restarted and the game continues until every layer is removed and the main prize claimed.

This is the RRRC version of the game with a few more options and rules than we may remember from our childhood ;)

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message 3: by Jane (PS), Moderator (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:10AM

Key selection and completion post information. You must have ALL elements in your book posts.

For selection post Option 1 you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
How the book qualifies - please note which qualifying bookshelf/list you are using or the tags that justifies that it works.
If the theme is based off the bookcover, post the cover. If there is a letter count in the title, publication date etc, please note these details.

For selection post Option 2 you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Page numbers
Name of the team-member, their star rating, the date they read the book.

For selection post Option 3 you must have:
Week #
PASS

For the completion post you must have:
Week #
Bookcover/link
Rating (1-5)
Review

Please DO NOT CHAT in these selction/completion posts. It needs to be super clear.

If you 'waffle' about your decided book - please REPOST your selection once you decide. DO NOT go back and edit your waffling post.

IF YOU NEED TO CORRECT A POST FOR MISSING INFORMATION or because the didn't qualify etc, please REPOST this inforamtion in a NEW post. I don't want to have to keep going backwards in the thread.

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message 4: by Jane (PS), Moderator (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:11AM

Pass The Parcel Team - Round 19
Black 🖤 & White 🤍

We are keeping it simple for this round with a basic theme of Black & White.

1. Opposites attract ⚤

* Read a book from one of the following lists:
Best enemies to lovers
Best gay enemies / rivals / opposites become lovers
Hate at first sight
YA star crossed /forbidden enemy love
Enemies to lover trope in fantasy / PNR

2. Mixed race 👩👨🏾

* Read an interracial romance from one of the following lists:
Best interracial reads
Best interracial PNR
Best interracial and multicultural MM romances
Non-causasian protagonists in scifi, fantary, horror or PNR
Interracial romance ebooks / print

3. Zebra, Border Collie, Holstein Cow, Panda 🦓🐩🐮🐼

* Read a book with an animal on the cover.

4. Night sky 🌃

* Read a book with the night sky on the cover

5. Monochrome 📷

* Read a book with that is predominantly black, grey, white on the cover. Additional colours must tone in and not dominate.

6. Chessboard ♟️🏁

* Read a book with a smart MC:
Brainy Romantic Heroes
Nergasms
Gay Bookish, Nerdy, Geeky Characters
Nerdy Geeky Heroines of Romance

7. Soccer ball ⚽

* Read a book from one of the following Sports romance lists:
Love on the Pitch - English Football / Soccer
Sports Romances
Romance with hero/heroine that is a an athlete
Best Gay Athletes
Best books about being in love with a pro-athlete

8. Birds - Penguin, Magpie, Peewee, Jabiru (Black Necked Stork), Pelican, Stilts, Seagulls etc 🐧
Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs (source: Wikipedia).

* Read a book with a mythical/extinct creature, eg dinosaur, elf, fae, vampire. Shifters that change into a modern creature (eg lion) will not count, nor will witches/warlocks.

9. Black tie suit (formal wear) 🤵‍♂️

*Read a book with a cover model in a suit or formal wear.

10. Taxis and Pedestrian crossing 🛣

* Read a book where one or both MCs travel. To be stated in the precis - moved towns, states, countries etc.

11. Yin and Yang ☯

* Read a book written by two authors. May be separately listed, or a duo who write under one name.
Eg Romance Duo Authors

12. Grey hair - silver fox 🧓

* Read a book with an age difference between the MCs from one of the following lists.
Favorite MM romances with an age difference between partners
Younger woman / older man
Mentor / Apprentice and/or age differences
MM books with a big age difference between partners
Forbidden love - age gap

13. Clear cut ©

* Read a stand alone book.

14. Text print abc

* Read a book available in paperback.

15. Police car (USA) 🚓

* Read a book with an MC in law enforcement.

16. Piano keys - the piano was invented around 1700. 🎹

* Read a book with page numbers ending in '00'. Eg 100, 200, 300 pages etc...

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message 5: by Jane (PS), Moderator (last edited Aug 31, 2022 03:53AM) (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:15AM

Sign Ups

If you are happy to be Captain, please let me know in your sign up post.

I'd really appreciate that bit of extra help from anyone who is happy to take on this fairly minor role :D

Salty Captains - 9
Diane D
Lisa
Ariel
MKat
LaurLa
Carmen
Louise
KarenH
MN Lisa

The Peppercorns - 51
Sally906
Ashleigh (new)
Sarah (TBK)
Jill
Georgia (newbie)
Heather (prefer no to Capt)
Stacy (new) - Capt?
Cheryl P
Kayleigh (newbie)
JL
Amanda
Iliana
Sexyladi
C (newbie)
Fran
KathyD
Jill (new)
Michaele
One Sentence Audio (newbie)
Emeli
UC [beppy]
Krissy
Heather (newbie)
Liza
Maddie
Alicia
Trio
CB
Paris (newbie)
R~wka
Kat (bookworm)
Bailey
Helke
Aoife (new)
Jean (new) - Capt?
Pranjal (newbie)
Alyssa
Laura (new)
Shandrea
Jane (only Capt if necessary)
Sassafrass
Lilliana Passions
Sherece
Allie
♛Vanessa♛
Melody (newbie)
Vanessa (newbie)
Shelby
Karen ♐
Milica
Ladybug

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message 6: by Jane (PS), Moderator (last edited Sep 03, 2022 02:47AM) (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:15AM

Teams Allocated

Team 1
MN Lisa
Melody
Ladybug
Lilliana Passions
Jill(jorox)
Liza

Team 2
Louise
Georgia
Allie
Sally906
R~wka
Jean

Team 3
LaurLa
One Sentence Audio
Jane
Emeli
Krissy
Laura
JL

Team 4
MKat
Paris
Sexyladi
Alicia
Shandrea
Kat (bookworm)

Team 5
KarenH
Pranjal
♛Vanessa♛
Cheryl P
Shelby
Ashleigh

Team 6
Diane D
Heather
Trio
Michaele
KathyD
Alyssa

Team 7
Ariel
C
Fran
CB
Maddie
Aoife

Team 8
Lisa
Sherece
Bailey
Helke
Stacy
Iliana

Team 9
Carmen
Kayleigh
Milica
Sarah (TBK)
Karen ♐
Jill B

Team 10
Heather
Vanessa (UK)
Amanda
Sassafrass
UC [beppy]
Dhanvi

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message 7: by Jane (PS), Moderator (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:15AM

As you read through this round's themes, please think of adding books that qualify to our lists in the theme post. This will help everyone with their selections :D

This thread is now open for sign-ups!

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message 8: by Sally906 (last edited Aug 23, 2022 04:45AM) (new)

Aug 23, 2022 04:44AM