NEW Reading Challenge ~ Harlequin's 60 Connections!

Books must be read / reviewed progressively though they need not be read one right after the other, so if you have other books you'd like to read in between that apply to other Challenges or personal pleasures, you may.

This means you can not backtrack through your reads to make connections ....

for example:  I read a Presents on Sunday it connects to the Presents I read on Tuesday but on Monday I read a Desire that doesn't connect ... that's okay, you may make the connection to Tuesday's Presents  ... you have read and reviewed the books progressively

The reason why I've asked you to create comments spots in your blog is that after 60 connections you can imagine how huge your original blog would be!   ... plus by separating out each month this helps to keep your progress on track and easy to see ... (who knows what may trigger a surprise to be sent out!)  ... also, by setting the comment spots right from the beginning it helps to keep your Reading Challenge entries paramount in your blog and all other spots there after free for community member comments and cheers :)

I DO want you to link the last May read to your first June read and so on ..... your Harlequin Connections must all connect no matter how you display them on your blog

ok I emailed you and here is my link http://community.eharlequin.com/content/harlequins-60-connections-reading-challenge-christa

I'm gonna try. I love a good challange

What if the location is very specific like Houston, Texas can one or both be used or what if there is more than one location like the book reading now started in Edinburgh, Scotland then moved to London, England and back to Scotland. So can either Edinburgh, Scotland, London, England be used?

and my blog is

http://community.eharlequin.com/content/harlequins-60-connections-reading-challenge-kalyko

 This is gonna be fun!

Here's my blog: Debbie's blog

Not sure I completely understand or will do even remotely well at this but....and my email was sent.

I've never tried the one name leads to another games, but this sounds intriguing.  Are our 'points' tallied by the total number of connections we make?  Are we striving to make a minimum of 60 connections between now and Sept 7?  This sounds like a great way to but dents in the TBR!

 http://community.eharlequin.com/content/harlequins-60-connections-reading-challenge-lynne-rc#comment-171387

And I've just sent my email.

What if the location is very specific like Houston, Texas can one or both be used or what if there is more than one location like the book reading now started in Edinburgh, Scotland then moved to London, England and back to Scotland. So can either Edinburgh, Scotland, London, England be used?

Regarding locale ...

if the book setting is Edinburgh in book #1  but it's vague in book #2 as just Scotland .. make a note on book #1 that you are matching Scotland  (this is ONE connection)  

if the book is with jetsetters and is several locations ... pick the dominant location or if too difficult, pick ONE location ... 

only ONE locale can make a connection 

does that make sense?

What about anthologies?  Or any multi-author book?

For anthologies or for the book reviews where you are grouping short stories .... as in our other monthly challenges, pick ONE of the stories to showcase ... so for an anthology/group of four short stories only ONE of the stories may be used in this reading challenge ...  each book connections can only have one title, one author, one series/imprint, one hero, one heroine, one locale

I'd like to draw to your attention ... mini-series or themes DO NOT count for connections .. so in the HPs The Greek Tycoons cannot be used as part of your connection .... in SDs The Hudson's of Beverly Hills cannot be used as part of your connection .... the ONLY time a series may apply is if it's published as a Continuity Collection .. ie Mediterranean Night, Thoroughbred Legacies, Crystal Creek  

I have some Mills and Boon books that are Modern Romance Extra, Modern Extra,and Modern Heat.  Do these correlate or line up with any other lines?  Not sure how to count them.  They are all the same author but I'd like to work them in as imprints or match them up as imprints if possible.  Hope I'm making sense!

So Rogue Angel counts as part of the title but not as a continuity?  Sorry, I just know I'll have a thousand questions as I've never actually TRIED this challenge before!

You are messing with my mind as I now have to figure out how my books will fit three ways instead of two.  I usually review 10 books at once but will try to do  5 at a time. I can't promise to keep to this but I will try. I haven't set up my link yet. Just to let you know I have four books that I read prior to today and I read a great book today. I won't be reviewing them until the weekend as tomorrow is another travel day. I will set up my link on the weekend as well. Now I have to figure out what books link with each other. Since the book I read today was Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife With Sela as a Heroine and Vikar as a hero set in Norway I won't be able to link it in many ways. Oh well I am trying to read HH so that will have to be the link.

So Rogue Angel counts as part of the title but not as a continuity?

This ones a tough one ... I certainly don't want the Rogue Angel to be used twice ... so for the purposes of this reading challenge, "Rogue Angel" will be the "series/imprint"  and NOT part of the title as I have allow for the monthly puzzles 

does that sound fair?

And Debbie .. ask away!  ;)    ... actually, I stepped up this reading challenge abit ... in the past when we did the "One word, One name leads to another"  it was titles and authors only ... here I'm giving other opportunities to "make connections"  .... and I think it will be really fun to see the creative ways you all connect the books!    

I know you're on the road alot, so post as best as you can when you can .... there's no rush to get your blog set up ... just be sure when you do that you post the URL here and you email me as well with the URL and your snail mail addy

Wow .. for the first day, I'm really pleased with the responses! 

Thanks to control c and control v I've copied Katherine's entry.

Harlequin"s 60 Connections Reading Challenge (Kaelee)

I have a couple of questions:

Does Ann match with Anne?

Does Sheikh match with Sheikh's?

Does the four clue limit apply to location also? I'm thinking England for May and United States of America for June. If you could switch from England to London England and then unite by London for a clue and then go back to England would that work?

PS I did this backwards as I've just sent off my email to Katherine saying I've joined the challenge. My brain is tired this morning.

So would Jennifer Taylor connect with Tara Taylor Quinn?

Would Everlasting Love as a series connect to Everlasting Love under the Superromance line?

Would Everlasting Love as a series connect to Everlasting Love under the Superromance line?

As "Everlasting Love" in the SuperRomances are a theme, and in light of Christa's question .. I think we'll say that the "Series / Imprint" connection has to be a direct one  ... SuperRomance to SuperRomance ... Everlasting Love to Everlasting Love

Could Nocturne Bite be connected to Nocturne, Spice Brief to Spice?

Christa,  same as above ..... Nocturne Bite to Nocturne Bite .... Spice to Spice  ... direct links please :)

I can't have the connections too easy!  

took me a while to figure this out but every book you read doesn't have to go into challenge like say the next 3 Harlequin books you read don't fit into connection challenge but the fourth one you read does, so connect #4. just you can't work in the other 3 later

Katherine- I hope it's ok to chime in. I got nothing better to do on this windy, on again off again trying to rain Saturday

what happens if we get stuck???

Well, this is quite easy!  ... there are three answers ... 1 > don't get stuck!       2>  on your list of already connected books, erase the last entry, or as many of the last entries as needed until you've gotten to a book you can connect  ... but remember we're reading progressively so you can't repost a book you've erased      and there's   3>  as Christa said, read until you do get a match 

 
ROFL, Kathy ... yep! 

oh don't be frustrated  

And YES absolutely!  ... if the book fits in other reading challenges great!  

http://community.eharlequin.com/content/harlequins-60-connections-readin...

Given that May is the featured Historical month, I've got at least 14 Historical books to read, and will probably read them before side tracking to any of the other imprints.

How specific is the link for the imprint - can I only connect 4 Harlequin Historicals, or can we be specific and go to the type of historical - ie Harlequin Historical Western?  Am I making sense?   Can I connect more than 4 historicals in a row, if no more than 4 are Westerns, or Regency, or Roman?

Thanks,

not sure if asked and answered. Since we need to read a combination of 4 Undones/Briefs/Bites/minis to make a book and we are using one in the Masquade Ball puzzle, Do we have to use the same one here?

not sure if asked and answered. Since we need to read a combination of 4 Undones/Briefs/Bites/minis to make a book and we are using one in the Masquade Ball puzzle, Do we have to use the same one here?

No you don't ... if another mini / brief / bite etc in the grouping of your review fits in with the connections challenge, go for it ... you read it .. and it's your choice which of the stories you use for the challenges