2011 August Monthly Challenge: Suggestion Thread

[Debbie]

It's time to get ready for the August Monthly Challenge!

Special thanks to the members who regularly stop by at the Suggestions Thread and share their input. It definitely helped me a lot when I put together the monthly categories. Thanks, guys!

This thread will be for suggestions and helpful hints.

The participants thread can be found here:

August Monthly Challenge: Participant Thread

1. "A" is for August: Read a book which title or authors name starts with "A".

2. Happy Birthday!: Read a book from a August birthday celebrant's GR bookshelf whose "day" falls on the same "day" as yours. If no one has the same day, choose someone with the closest day to yours.
(August Birthday Celebrant list)

3. Geography: Read a book whose author, character or setting is from New Jersey.

4. Kiss and Make up Day: Read a book with the word kiss in the title, with kissing on the cover or has a couple that spend the book making up.

5. National Thriftshop Day: Read a book you bought at a thrift shop, got from the library or paid $1 or less for.

6. Frankenstein Day: Read a horror book or a book with a "monster" in it.

7. Lazy Day: Read a book that you have had on your reading list for some time or a book that you would be able to finish in a day (if you had all day to read it).

8. Back to School: Read a book that takes place in school or a young adult book.

9. Romance Awareness Month: Read a book from the first 8 pages of the
Popular Romance Books Shelf

10. Reader's Choice: Read a book, any book. It is your call which one.

Challenge duration: August 1 - August 31

August Monthly Challenge: Participant Thread

[Debbie]

Books set in New Jersey

Authors from New Jersey

[Katharina]

Challenge 4. Kiss and Make up Day

Here is a list of books that features Troubled Marriages

[Joanne]

Help! I am totally stuck on no 6. Frankenstein Day. I don't read horror and can't think of a book (pref romance with HEA) with a monster in. The closest I can come up with is Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward would this do? If not suggestions needed :)

[Fran, Moderator]

Joanne, I am hoping we can use the term "monster" to also mean a horrible person, someone who does bad things. I want to use The Body Finder for this task; she is trying to find the serial killer tormenting her town. It's YA, and I don't think there's anything too graphic in it.

[Vi]

Joanne, if you'd wish to start on horror, then you could check out Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell. It's mild, YA, so you're bound to have some kind of HEA. I haven't read it yet though.

[Penney]

Joanne, I'm also hoping/thinking books with a 'Beauty and the Beast' theme like When Beauty Tamed the Beast (Happily Ever Afters, #2), Beauty Tempts the Beast, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, Beastly and sooooo many others.

[Fran, Moderator]

Also thinking of Lucifer's Daughter for the "monster"- the devil himself!

[Lacy]

Do zombies count as monsters?
What does HEA stand for?

[Desperado]

HEA=Happily Ever After=The Hero & The Heroine "do it". Preferably many many times.

[Debbie]

All of those sound like great interpretations of "monster". I would say any and all of them would work just fine.

[Debbie]

LethalLovely~No Sex In The Champagne Room wrote: "HEA=Happily Ever After=The Hero & The Heroine "do it". Preferably many many times."

1 - many many times?! :)
2 - loving the name today ;)

[MountainKat, Moderator]

LethalLovely~No Sex In The Champagne Room wrote: "HEA=Happily Ever After=The Hero & The Heroine "do it". Preferably many many times."

LOL!!

I'm glad about the wide definition of monster, I don't want to read a horror story either!

[Lacy]

LethalLovely~No Sex In The Champagne Room wrote: "HEA=Happily Ever After=The Hero & The Heroine "do it". Preferably many many times."

LOL! Thanks! I'll remember that description!

[Desperado]

Hehehe! Thanks, Debbie!

You're very welcome, Lacy.

[Joanne]

Thanks everyone, some great suggestions. My reading list has just got longer! :)

[taita]

This is probably a stupid question but if my Birthday is in August then could I mark one of my own TBR selections as meeting the Happy Birthday! item? ;-)

[Penney]

No question is ever stupid and I happen to know the answer to this one. Yes!
Happy Birthday to You!

[Lynne]

A suggestion for monster is a book that a friend just gave me The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein by Minda Webber. The reviews at GoodReads are that great, but the friend had good things to say about it.

[Fran, Moderator]

This one is free right now on Amazon, looks like a short Erotica- Lights, Camera...Monsters (in case anyone wants to use hot demons for the monsters!)

[taita]

Penney wrote: "No question is ever stupid and I happen to know the answer to this one. Yes!
Happy Birthday to You!"

Thanks Penney!

[Nairabell]

I'm not sure if a book I'm waiting for would count as a Thriftshop one. I used my loyalty points to pay for it so it didn't technically cost me anything, but it did use nearly £4 of points. What do you guys reckon?

[Katharina]

Nairabell wrote: "I'm not sure if a book I'm waiting for would count as a Thriftshop one. I used my loyalty points to pay for it so it didn't technically cost me anything, but it did use nearly £4 of points. What do..."

Works for me since you paid with points and no actual money.

[Nairabell]

Katharina wrote: "Nairabell wrote: "I'm not sure if a book I'm waiting for would count as a Thriftshop one. I used my loyalty points to pay for it so it didn't technically cost me anything, but it did use nearly £4 ..."

Thanks Katharina :)

[Vi]

Angie, I think you posted it in the wrong thread. It should be the participant's thread.

[Angela]

Thanks, That's probably why I couldn't find my original post

[Larissa]

Completed: 2/5

1. "A" is for August: Clockwork Angel 8/5

7. Lazy Day: Read a book that you have had on your reading list for some time or a book that you would be able to finish in a day (if you had all day to read it).

8. Back to School:The Truth about Forever 8/11

9. Romance Awareness Month: Read a book from the first 8 pages of the
Popular Romance Books Shelf

10. Reader's Choice:Read a book, any book. It is your call which one.

[Jane (PS), Moderator]

Wrong thread Erin and Larissa ;)

Try posting your updates here: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...

[Debbie]

good catch Jane, thanks for adding the link too.

[Wan]

I will not be able to finish the challenge. Irene hit and been losing power since Saturday and don’t know when it’ll come on. Once the daylight is gone, my reading time is up. I will probably finish the book I’m currently reading and ended up with 7/10 but well. Better luck next time.

[Debbie]

Just be safe Wan, that is the important thing.