October - Shades of Orange

[TerryJane, Challenges]

SHADES OF ORANGE
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

For October's theme of Orange, this open challenge invites you to read books with orange covers, orange shades in their titles, or by authors with orange names. Some orange words are shown below, but you are not limited to these particular shades. Orange you glad it's October?


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Examples:


To join, post a message telling the challenge leader how many books you plan to read. If you are new to our group and/or our group challenges, you can learn more about how they work in this thread.

Many thanks to Lisa for suggesting this challenge, and to Anshika for offering to lead it.

[Anshika]

Hello and welcome to the Shades of Orange Challenge!

To have your challenge updated on the participants list, please post an update comment. Be sure to include both your original message number and progress:

Example: Updated msg #10: 2/8

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don’t delete your original sign-up post. Just update and let me know. Thanks!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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Orange represents creativity and the willingness to embrace new beginnings. Here's to a month filled with the same!

[Anshika]

Participants:

🍊Lisa- 0/3
🍊🧡Amy- 3/3
🍊🧡Karin- 3/3
🍊🧡SarahKat- 5/5
🍊🧡Rachael- 4/4
🍊Caraina- 0/10
🍊🧡Carmen- 21/16
🍊🧡Carrie- 6/6
🍊🧡TerryJane- 17/13
🍊🧡Sheila- 12/10
🍊Ciara- 0/5
🍊🧡JennH- 3/3
🍊🧡Shari- 3/5
🍊Sarah- 0/4
🍊ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)- 0/3
🍊🧡Ashly- 3/3
🍊🧡Jordan-1/1

Updated till msg- #53

[Lisa]

Reserved

[Lisa]

If my reading history tells me anything, it's that I don't really read many orange cover books, but I guess I could surprise myself this month. I'll join for 3, please😊

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I love color hunts. I'm up for 3.

Possibilities:


Actualities:


3/3

[Karin]

Darn, I couldn't get the full chart so I could see it here, but since any orange counts, so be it and I'll copy the word names from the missing ones.
plus words marmalade, amber, sandstone, yam

I'll start with a goal of 3 and see how the month goes.

3/3

1.
2.
3. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

5/5

📙The Priory of the Orange Tree
📙 📙 📙 📙

[Rachael]

Please sign me up for 4 books.


COMPLETED: 4/4

1. Maker's Curse finished 11 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Dragon Mountain finished 14 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
3. The Sentence finished 19 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
4. The Wise Woman finished 24 October, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Caraina]

SHADES OF ORANGE
Duration: October 1, 2024 - October 31, 2024

*Read books with orange covers, orange shades in their titles, or by authors with orange names.

Completed: 3/10

1. The Bee and the Orange Tree - Melissa Ashley 10/15/24
2. When the Apricots Bloom - Gina Wilkinson 10/22/24
3. The Amber Photograph - Penelope J. Stokes 10/25/24
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9.
10.

[Carmen]

Hola!
Sign me up for 16, please

PROGRESS: 26/16
My Orange TBR

1. El camino
2. Ember
3. Cider With Rosie
4. Quicksand
5. Redención
6. Shadowdance
7. Piel
8. Naranjas y cuchillas en Bagdad
9. Los destiladores de naranja
10. Púa
11. Where the Wind Blows
12. Sleeping Tiger
13. La familia Medeiros
14. A Fall of Marigolds
15. Cuanta más gente se muere, más ganas de vivir tengo
16. A Peach of a Murder
17. Sovereign
18. Circe
19. While My Pretty One Knits
20. The Bronze Bow
21. The Tailor of Panama
22. Nunca estuvimos allí
23. The Brutal Telling
24. October, October
25. Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
26. El beso del infierno

[Carrie]

I would like to attempt this! Trying for 6 but we will see how it goes.

🔶SHADES OF ORANGE🔶
Duration: October 1, 2024 - October 31, 2024

*Read books with orange covers, orange shades in their titles, or by authors with orange names.

COMPLETED: 6/6

1. Remarkably Bright Creatures Completed
2. When We Had Wings Completed
3. The Mountains Sing Completed
4. The Seven Year Slip Completed
5. Meadow Falls Completed
6. Wrong Place Wrong Time Completed

The Priory of the Orange Tree paused reading-will not finish for this challenge

[TerryJane, Challenges]

📙 SHADES OF ORANGE - Monthly Challenge
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024
Progress: 17/13 -- COMPLETE





📙 James
📙 The Chalk Man
📙 Restart
📙 Furia
📙 Held
📙 The Shape of Darkness
📙 The Death of Ivan Ilych
📙 Chess Story
📙 Bunner Sisters
📙 The Orange Houses
📙 The Kreutzer Sonata
📙 The Castle of Otranto
📙 The Burnt Orange Heresy
📙 Hunger
📙 The House on the Borderland
📙 The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories
📙 The Ninth Hour

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC n for 10 books. None paced out yet though

[Ciara]

I will go for 5 books! I definitely have more orange books than that on my TBR, but five is what I feel like I can commit to, not knowing what the month holds.

[JennH, Cheerleader]

This seems hard to me, so I'm going to go for 3.

SHADES OF ORANGE
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

3/3

1. Closely Harbored Secrets by Bree Baker 10/6/24

2. Triple Cross by James Patterson 10/12/24

3. Halloween Party Murder by Leighann Dobbs 10/25/24

[Shari]

I will join for 5 books

SHADES OF ORANGE
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

Progress: 3 / 5

Sugar Birds
Worst Case Scenario

The Little Liar

[Carrie]

Does the cover need to be mostly orange or does it count if it has some orange on it?

Here are a few that I am questioning:

[Sarah]

Sign me up for 4 books

4/4-COMPLETED

✅1. Mallee Boys (13/10/24)
✅2. Wild & Chance (14/10/24)
✅3. Double Dutch (22/10/24)
✅4. Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective (15/10/24)

[Anshika]

Carrie wrote: "Does the cover need to be mostly orange or does it count if it has some orange on it?

Here are a few that I am questioning:

[bookcover:Hot Pursuit|..."

The book cover must have orange as the main color, or atleast 50% color should be orange.
Remarkably bright creatures can be counted for it.

[Anshika]

The Challenge has officially started

Good luck everyone! 😊

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

I'm in for 3!
SHADES OF ORANGE
Duration: October 1 - October 31, 2024

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Carrie wrote: "Does the cover need to be mostly orange or does it count if it has some orange on it?

Here are a few that I am questioning:...

Carrie, for The Dry, I would suggest using this cover instead:

[Carrie]

TerryJane wrote: "Carrie wrote: "Does the cover need to be mostly orange or does it count if it has some orange on it?

Here are a few that I am questioning:...

Carrie, for The Dry, I would suggest using this cover..."

Thank you for the suggestion! I saw that one, but on my phone it looked red. It does have more of an orange tone on my computer.

[Ashly]

I'm in for 3



3/3 Read

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Updated msg #6: 1/3

[Mary]

I'll read 1.



This edition's cover uses shades of orange: about 50% of the cover is a rust spiral and marigold words, with the remaining being a red spiral and white words.

[Carmen]

Update to message-#11

PROGRESS: 8/16

[Anshika]

added everything up to here
happy reading ☺

[Carrie]

updated message #12 - Progress: 1/6

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Updated msg #6: 2/3 (See new update below.)

[Carmen]

Update to message-#11

PROGRESS: 16/16 🧡

I reached my goal but I'm not done yet

[Rachael]

Updated message 9: 1/4 🔸🔶🔸

[Carrie]

Update to message #12: 2/6

[Rachael]

Updated message 9: 2/4 🔸🔶🔸

[SarahKat, Buddy Reads]

Update to Message 8:

5/5

📙The Priory of the Orange Tree
📙 📙 📙 📙

[Mary]

Message #27 update: read 1/1

[Rachael]

Updated message 9: 3/4 🔸🔶🔸

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Updated msg #6: 3/3 to finish. I'd up my challenge goal, but I have a lot going on the rest of the month. If I manage to squeeze another in, I'll just update the overage.

[Carmen]

Update to message-#11

PROGRESS: 21/16🧡

[Anshika]

Added everything upto here
Happy Reading

Congratulations Carmen, SarahKat, Amy, Jordan for completing the challenge 🥳📙🧡

[Karin]

Update to Message 7
2/3

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC posting, 12/10.

1. Keys to the Demon Prison Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
2. Orange Animals-https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
3. Blood Orange-China Bayles, -#24,Blood Orange by Susan Wittig Albert
4. Booktown Mystery, #2- bookmarked for Death, Bookmarked for Death by Lorna Barrett
5. the Peach seed- The Peach Seed by Anita Gail Jones
6. Peach Clobbered-Peach Clobbered by Anna Gerard
7. Summers End , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

8.When life gives you Lemons, make Peach Pie, When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing
9.Death on the Nile-Hercule Poirot, #18, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
10. The Candymakers-The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
11.outcasts United, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
12.Carrot Cake Murder, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... When life gives you Lemons, make Peach Pie, When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Peach Pie by Erin Soderberg Downing
11. Death on the Nile-Hercule Poirot, #18, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
12. The Candymakers-The Candymakers by Wendy Mass
13. outcasts United, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
14. Carrot Cake Murder, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... outcasts United, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
14. Carrot Cake Murder, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[TerryJane, Challenges]

Update to Message #13 : 16/13

I'm hoping to get a few more orange books read during the final week of October. Thanks, Anshika! 🧡

[Rachael]

Updated message 9: 4/4. Challenge completed thanks! 🔸🔶🔸

[Carrie]

update to message #12: 3/6

[Karin]

Updated message #7

Finished 3/3

Thanks :)

[Carrie]

Updated message #12: 4/6

[JennH, Cheerleader]

Update to message #16

3/3

Challenge completed.

[Shari]

Update msg #17:

Progress: 3 / 5

Bummer!