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PtP R24 - Wedding Between the Lines (3)
1. Introduce yourself to your team. Let your team members know where you are from. This is a 'nice to know' when categories are announced and when team-mates can expect other members to post their book choices.2. Wedding Planner (Captain) - reserve a couple of posts in this thread tracking your team's book selection and completion. (Alternatively they could convert a chat comment to the tracking post/s.)
3. Name your team. Using this round's theme, come up with a fun name. Given we are an open/public group with no age limit, so please make sure any chosen name is smart, not smutty ;)
Please PM your name to Jane(PS) by 16 April
4. If you have a private profile, please 'friend' your team-mates. This is really important, because without this, your team-mates can't see your shelves to select a books under option 2. (It will also help with one of the categories in this round!)
5. Please post your book selections/completions in the format provided below. (This format is also posted in both the Q&A and Sign-Up threads.) We need to know the week that each book corresponds to, the page numbers, and how the book qualifies including links to lists/shelves (where applicable), etc. I can't stress this enough. When in doubt - link it*!
* don't link to your review in your completion post - reviews in your completion posts should be included in full in that post.
You don't want to start reading a book and then find it doesn't meet the requirements because some information (eg page count or theme link) was missing from your original post.
I will be monitoring this and your book will not be considered complete until I am satisfied that your selection and completion posts comply with the format rules of the challenge.
Remember - you can ONLY change your book selection in the week that the theme is called.
6. You MUST check in with your team each week, ideally once the theme is announced. Please let your team know if you expect to have spotty communication or are on holidays or having an operation, etc.
7. When you post the completion of your book, you must post a review; enough for us to know you have actually read the book. Please don't link to a review. You must post the review in this thread.
8. Re-reads are allowed but you can't read the same book twice within this challenge.
9. There is no prize for the winning team - bragging rights only :)
10. Each week, the theme will be announced in the Q&A/Calls thread. The full list of themes announced during this round will be maintained in msg 1 of that thread.
The Rule on the Pass Option
* Each team can only have ONE member using their pass each week.
* Each member can only use that pass once each 5 weeks.
* This means that one or two team members (dependent upon the size of your team) will miss using a pass in each 5 week block.
* No-one can use the pass option in the last week of the challenge.
* In the final week Option 2 has altered and I will be allocating each team another team from which their book selection must be chosen :)
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 information in a NEW post, particularly when the request is more than a day old. Its difficult to find older posts when going backwards in the threads.
💒💍Weddings💍💒We are a romance group and so ... time for a wedding based challenge!! Weddings have many different variations but are ultimately centred on love and commitment... So here we go, off into wedded bliss ;)
**Please note the tasks below are generalised; not all weddings, traditions, social groups or cultures follow the norms outlined below. Variations not included on these tasks are both acknowledged and accepted.**
The usual bookcover, precis, main page, tag or list will need to be provided to show how the book qualifies.
1. A wedding unites 2 people
Read a book from a 2 book series (duology) or read the 2nd book in a series. A series that has only 2 books to date may be used.
Please link to the series page.
2. Rings are exchanged
Read a book with a ring on the cover. Any type of ring ~ eg wedding ring, smoke ring, donut. It must be round and have a clear empty middle.
Read a book with punctuation in the title and/or series name.
These are: full stop (aka period), question mark, exclamation mark, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophe, quotation mark and ellipsis.
A combined 'title: series' name will work. The proof can be on the main page of GR or on the bookcover. It must be limited to the actual title and/or actual series name. Tangential sentences to the title or series will not work.
4. Music is played ~ before, during or after
Read a book with an MC who is a musician.
Read a book with the MPG 'Magic'.
This must be on the main page and not after you extend the genres to a full page list.
6. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly across cultures, religions and social groups
Read a book set in a country outside the USA.
The country must be stated in the precis or on the main page.
7. A wedding takes extensive planning
Read a book with a character who is a wedding planner or from a series of more than 5 books.
Please link to the series page.
Read a book with a main character who is a lawyer.
9. A wedding is generally a pretty expensive event
Read a book with a wealthy character.
10. Popularised by Queen Victoria, the bride will often wear white.
Read a book with a character who is considered royal or rules a country, eg monarch, king, queen, emperor/ess, prince/cess, ruler of a country OR read a book with a mainly white cover (at least 50%).
Read a book with a cover model in a suit or a flowing/formal dress.
12. At the end of the vows, the couple will kiss
Read a book with a kiss on the cover by the models, or with the word 'kiss' in the title.
13. Traditionally parents paid for the wedding
Read a book tagged with 'parent'.
14. Family and friends are invited to attend the ceremony
Read a book from a series where each new book is centred on a different couple.
A couple may be repeated in another book in the series, but only once. A compilation catch up, eg a Christmas book with multiple couples is fine.
15. A honeymoon trip will generally mark the beginning of the couple's married life
Read a book tagged 'holiday' or 'vacation'.
16. And they lived happily ever after
Read a book tagged 'hea'.
💍💐Selection Post Tracking💐💍: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
Week 1 ~ 11. There is often a dress code chosen by the couple, with many selecting to have a formal or semi-formal event (view spoiler)
Week 2 ~ 5. The ceremony follows well established rituals: Read a book with the MPG 'Magic'.(view spoiler)
Week 3 ~ 8. Marriage is a legal contract: Read a book with a main character who is a lawyer.(view spoiler)
Week 4: 3. There is a public declaration by an official (Minister, celebrant etc.) Read a book with punctuation in the title and/or series name. (view spoiler)
Week 5: 7. A wedding takes extensive planning: Read a book with a character who is a wedding planner or from a series of more than 5 books. Please link to the series page. (view spoiler)
Week 6: 16. And they lived happily ever after: Read a book tagged 'hea'.(view spoiler)
Week 7: 10. Popularised by Queen Victoria, the bride will often wear white.
☑️Shan A: Option #1| Dance Upon the Air | 400 pgs | White Cover | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Michelle: Option #1 | Twisted Games | 456 pgs | "Regal, strong-willed, and bound by the chains of duty, Prin | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️LaurLa: Option #1 | Heir Untamed | 312 pgs | Based on the precis, the female MC works for the Latvala royal family and engages in a friendship/relationship with the prince | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Vicki: Option # | How to Ruin My Teenage Life | 281 pgs | White Cover | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Catsalive: Option #1 | Harriet | 221 pgs | Qualification: King George IV is a character - "whereupon His Majesty, taking her hand in the kindest fashion, said" p.208, "what she and King George had ultimately spoken of" p.209 | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Jamie TRR: Option #1 | Evergreen | Pa174 pgs | White Cover | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
💍💐Completion Post Tracking💐💍: Option # | Book | Pages | Rating | Link to Post
Week 1 ~ 11. There is often a dress code chosen by the couple, with many selecting to have a formal or semi-formal event ~ Done! (view spoiler)
Week 2 ~ 5. The ceremony follows well established rituals: Read a book with the MPG 'Magic'. ~ Done!(view spoiler)
Week 3 ~ 8. Marriage is a legal contract: Read a book with a main character who is a lawyer. ~ Done!(view spoiler)
Week 4: 3. There is a public declaration by an official (Minister, celebrant etc.) Read a book with punctuation in the title and/or series name. Done!(view spoiler)
Week 5: 7. A wedding takes extensive planning: Read a book with a character who is a wedding planner or from a series of more than 5 books. Please link to the series page. Done!<(view spoiler)
Week 6: 16. And they lived happily ever after: Read a book tagged 'hea'. Done!(view spoiler)
Week 7: 10. Popularised by Queen Victoria, the bride will often wear white. Done!(view spoiler)
Week 8: 1. A wedding unites 2 people
☑️Shan A: Option #1 | Only One Chance | 254 pgs | ★★★☆☆ | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Michelle: Option #1 | Beautiful Stranger | 345pgs | ★★★★★ | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️LaurLa: Option #1 | Strong, Silent Cowboy | 292 pgs | ★★★★☆ | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
🍾Vicki: Option #1 | So Not Meant To Be | 466 pgs | Rating | Link to Post
☑️Catsalive: Option #1 | Flying Too High | 173 pgs | ★★★★★ | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Jamie TRR: Option #1 | Longing for You | 212 pgs | Book 2 in the Wild for You series | ★★★★☆.5 | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
💍💐Selection Post Tracking💐💍Week 8: 1. A wedding unites 2 people
☑️Shan A: Option #1 | Only One Chance | 254 pgs | 2nd in the Only One series | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Michelle: Option #1 | Beautiful Stranger | 345pgs | #2 in Beautiful Bastards Series | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️LaurLa: Option #1 | Strong, Silent Cowboy | 292 pgs | #2 in Moving Violations series | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Vicki: Option #1 | So Not Meant To Be | 466 pgs | #2 Cane Brothers series | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Catsalive: Option #1 | Flying Too High | 173 pgs | Phryne Fisher #2 | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
☑️Jamie TRR: Option #1 | Longing for You | 212 pgs | Book 2 in the Wild for You series | https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Week 9:
🔔Shan A: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
🍾Michelle: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
🍾LaurLa: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
🍾Vicki: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
🍾Catsalive: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
🍾Jamie TRR: Option # | Book | Pages | Qualification | Link to Post
Pass used ~ Wk 2 by Michelle
Team Members ~ Read Shelf
💍Shan A: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...#
💍Michelle: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
💍LaurLa: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
💍Vicki: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
💍Catsalive: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
💍Jamie TRR: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
Hi Team! My name is Shan and I'm from Louisiana, which makes my time zone CST. I'm a challenge addict. I figure I'd admit that first. I'm excited for this game and to play it along with you all.
My favorite genre is Romance; however it's not the only genre I read. I'm starting to believe I'm more of a mood reader, but when I'm doing challenges, especially team challenges, it helps to focus my reading. Reading for a purpose makes it easier to decide what to read next.
Anyway, does anyone have any fun/creative team name ideas?
Possible Names *The Wedding Crashers or The Wedding
*Bridal Read-gade
*Reading the Banns
Checking in. :) I like this for our name...it's cute: The Wedding I'm Vicki from California and I'm on PST.
Ditto what Shan said because I am also a challenge addict and need a 12-step program or a therapist or help from above! lol
Regarding team name ideas, I really do like the one you came up with that I posted above. Everyone knows of that movie and the allusion is perfect.
I've played this challenge most times it's been offered so I'm very familiar with it.
Hey all - I think I know most of us on the team from around GR! Nice to 'see' familiar faces! I'm from Indiana which makes me Eastern time zone. I read Romance almost exclusively unless a challenge For team names, I like Reading the Banns.
A couple other ideas: The Read-zillas, Three Readings and a Wedding or similarly Three Weddings and a Book, My Best Book's Wedding.
Hi Laurla & Vicki. Laurla, I was trying to think of a way to use both Four Wedding and a Funeral and My Best Friend's Wedding and my mind was just blank, so thank you for that.
Hello, team! I'm from Texas. Just checking in. Super excited to start, I love this challenge.
Hi Team, I'm from Australia.Wedding Between the Lines?
Groomed for Success?
Hi Team, Michelle (new to game) here from Illinois. I'm a reading addict so I won't let you down in that department. I may, however, need some guidance on the posting. I'm a fast learner, not new to Goodreads, just new to groups, discussions and challenges. I'll follow how you all do it, but please call me out if I'm doing something incorrectly, something isn't linking or I'm missing anything. Excited to start the challenge!I'm liking Wedding Between the Lines Catsalive!
It looks like we are all checked in, so let's get the naming ceremony out of the way. Team Name Vote (I like them all) ~ The are the ones that someone besides the person who originally posted it mentioned. (My Best Book's Wedding was one that I forgot to mention by name but liked).
Now we need to narrow down the following: You go, readers!!!
Wedding Between the Lines
The Wedding
Reading the Banns
My Best Book's Wedding
Among the 4 above, my two favorites would be: The Wedding
My Best Book's Wedding
Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) wrote: "Hello, team! I'm from Texas. Just checking in. Super excited to start, I love this challenge."I'm also from Texas, born in Dallas but raised in California. Once a Texan, always a Texan! My grandparents owned a chicken farm (197 acres) in Liberty Hills, I think it was about 20-30 miles from Georgetown.
Catsalive wrote: "Hi Team, I'm from Australia.Wedding Between the Lines?
Groomed for Success?"
I have ALWAYS wanted to see/visit Australia. We currently have a trip planned for early January...fingers crossed that nothing prevents it from coming to fruition!
I thought I was already friends on here with everyone, but some of you had me fooled! lol I friend requested the 3 of you who I thought I was already friends with. TBH the only one I wasn't "sure" about was Shan, but I double checked everyone. Michelle and Jamie, you have had you ID's stolen on GR! (JK)
Wedding Between the Lines is my vote :)
Vicki wrote: "I thought I was already friends on here with everyone, but some of you had me fooled! lol I friend requested the 3 of you who I thought I was already friends with. TBH the only one I wasn't "sure" ..."Vicki, I'm the same with assuming I'm friends on GR with all the people I see all the time in our Groups. Then we have I challenge where we may need to see one another's shelves or something and I realize how wrong I am.
Hi Catsalive & Michelle!!I just realized I never said that. I'm going to blame my current bout of insomnia.
Shan ~A~ wrote: "Vicki wrote: "I thought I was already friends on here with everyone, but some of you had me fooled! lol I friend requested the 3 of you who I thought I was already friends with. TBH the only one I ..."Misery loves company. I feel "normal" now! lol
Vicki wrote: "Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) wrote: "Hello, team! I'm from Texas. Just checking in. Super excited to start, I love this challenge."I'm also from Texas, born in Dallas but raised in California. Onc..."
I'm from Dallas as well! It's a bit overcrowded but I still love it. LOL.
Oh, and Wedding Between the Lines gets my vote. I really like that one.
Vicki wrote: "Catsalive wrote: "Hi Team, I'm from Australia.Wedding Between the Lines?
Groomed for Success?"
I have ALWAYS wanted to see/visit Australia. We currently have a trip planned for early January...f..."
Excellent! I wish you a fabulous time.
Can I vote for my own suggestion? 😂I like these 2 best:
Wedding Between the Lines
Reading the Banns
Hi all - my votes for team name:My Best Book's Wedding
Wedding Between the Lines
The Wedding My Best Book's Wedding
Wedding Between the Lines
My Best Book's Wedding
Wedding Between the Lines
Wedding Between the Lines
Reading the Banns
My Best Book's Wedding
Wedding Between the Lines
Looks like our team name is Wedding Between the Lines
Week 1Option 1
11. There is often a dress code chosen by the couple, with many selecting to have a formal or semi-formal event
Read a book with a cover model in a suit or a flowing/formal dress.
Option 2 - Key date: 18 October 2024
Week 1 selection - option 1
Book: The Irish Rogue by Emma Jensen
Pages: 216
Qualification: cover models in formal wear - suit & gown
Selection Post - Week 1
Book: The Second Chance Summer by Olivia Hampton
Pages: 175
Qualification: Model wearing flowing dress on the cover.
Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) wrote: "Selection Post - Week 1Book: The Second Chance Summer by Olivia Hampton
Pages: 175
Qualification: Model wearing fl..."
This only just works :) Still looks a bit casual but I can see someone wearing it to a semi-formal day time wedding...
Shan ~A~ wrote: "Selection PostWeek #1
Book: Nero by S.J. Tilly
Page numbers: 368
How it fits: Man in suit
"Hi Shan - sorry, this one doesn't work. I specified no open shirts in the post :)
I will be looking for tuxedos or suits (with tie/bowtie), organza, silk and flow/long dresses. Pant suits are also acceptable, along with military dress etc. per above. Men in shirts that are open-necked/undone will not work.
I'll pull that sentence out so that it is more obvious...
Selection PostWeek #1
Option 1
Book: Beauty and the Bachelor by Naima Simone
Page numbers: 234
How it fits: Man in suit
Completion Post - Week 1
The Second Chance Summer by Olivia Hampton
Finished: 4/19/25
Rating: ★★★
Review: I’m a fan of this author. She primarily writes sapphic historical romances and this was her first foray into contemporary and…I wasn’t impressed unfortunately. The passion between Tess and Aria was missing for me.
This is a second chance romance between the two and I didn’t understand what they thought was so special about each other. I didn’t find either of them that likable and the plot is a bit nonexistent for a good chunk of the book. I was bored. I will say though that things picked up towards the end. The drama that happened was good and I did like how this wrapped up. Overall, not a favorite by Hampton, I prefer her historicals but this was fine for something quick to read.
Week 1 completion
Book: The Irish Rogue by Emma Jensen
Date: 20/4 3★
Review:
A pleasant enough tale, highly improbable but not too farcical. I quite liked Ailis O'Neill & Christopher Moore, Earl of Clane, even though they both acted the idiot on occasion. There's more lust than love in evidence & the characterisation is a tad superficial, but I was reasonably entertained by this story of an Irish Robin Hood.
Selection Post ❱❱ Week 1 ❱❱ Option 1Call ❱❱ 11. There is often a dress code chosen by the couple, with many selecting to have a formal or semi-formal event
Task ❱❱ Read a book with a cover model in a suit or a flowing/formal dress
Book ❱❱ Love Thy Enemy
Pages ❱❱ 245 (GR kindle, linked edition)
How it fits ❱❱ female has on a fancy decorated dress (approved by Jane in Q&A)
Completion PostWeek #1
Option 1
Book: Beauty and the Bachelor by Naima Simone
Page numbers: 234
How it fits: Man in suit
Finished: 04/20
Rating: 3 stars
Review: Lucas is all about revenge, no matter the consequences. Even if it means ruining the good thing he's found in an unexpected place with Sydney.
Sydney is basically a pawn in everyone's game. Lucas uses her to get to her father, her father is using her to keep his business dealings going, but no one is looking out for Sydney. Not even her b*tch of a mother.
Once Lucas gets her where he wants her, he does start having her back when it comes to outside forces trying to tear her down. However, he still has plans to continue on with his revenge plot.
Underneath all of that, he's also dealing with other baggage that came along when the idea of revenge happened, and that's his trust issues. Which may get in the way more than the revenge plot.
In the end, I enjoyed the story, but I didn't buy that complete turnabout her father all of a sudden had after treating her like crap throughout this who book, and I wanted her mother to pay in some kind of tangible way as well, just for tearing her daughter down.
Selection PostWeek #1
Option 1
Book: Miles Ever After by T.L. Swan
Pages: 236
How it fits: Man in a suit
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Pages: 434
How it fits: Women in a silk dress
Hi Michelle, you may want to make sure your book works before proceeding or I can ask in Q&A to be sure. Unless you were planning to read it either way. If you already know, please disregard my statement.
Shan ~A~ wrote: "Hi Michelle, you may want to make sure your book works before proceeding or I can ask in Q&A to be sure. Unless you were planning to read it either way. If you already know, please disregard my s..."
Oh! OK. She's in a silk dress so I assumed. Whoops! I'll ask in the Q&A - Thank you!!
It may work, I just didn't want you to start a book and find out it didn't. Jane's good about checking the thread, which is good because I totally missed that the first book I posted didn't work. Crazy thing is the book I read was my first choice, but I picked the other instead when it didn't work anyway. 😜🤣
Michelle wrote: "Shan ~A~ wrote: "Hi Michelle, you may want to make sure your book works before proceeding or I can ask in Q&A to be sure. Unless you were planning to read it either way. If you already know, plea..."
Is it just those covers that are questionable that need approval? I'll scratch Honey Cut and read Miles Ever After
Should I delete my original post or edit it? I tired to
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