Mini Challenges

Hmm had two ideas 1)titles with numbers, numbers can be 1, 2 etc, one, two etc, once, twice etc, first, second etc.

2) books with one word titles eg. Snowbound, Release etc

We could do an ABC challenge to see who can find those hard to find letters :) The A, B, C, etc. could be either author or title.

I think we could have that one twice a year ..... it's great to find new authors .... well, great for the reading experience but not so great on my pocket book as once I find a great author I need her backlist!  LOL 

Lorie, I liked some of your challenges last year .... though some were hard for my head  ... I liked your hero and heroine ones, those were fun  ..... and I appreciated that you were co-ordinating the mini-challenges to match the month's theme in the book store 

could we have a "cowboy/rancher/country" theme? .... I have a ton of country/cowboy books and a little umph in that direction would be nice   ...

one of the mini-challenges from 2006 that I think all most every Challenger enjoyed was Pet's "one word leads to another" ..... we did this one in August and it really brought up the reading totals that month ..... basically, that one word or name in the title or author matches .....  so "The Visiting Surgeon by Lucy Clark"  leads to "The Sheikh's Reward by Lucy Gordon" leads to "Sheikh's Honor by Alexandra Sellers"  ..... that was alot of fun .... I think I read 27 books that month  because I had lined up my reading order!  .... though I suppose it would be hard to follow on the main book challenge page .... but we could make sure the link from book to book is written up in our review 

Lorie, maybe it was you that gave us that Challenge? .... when did you take over from Pet?  .... I remember is was sometime in 2006  ..... so it could have been your mini-challenge   ..... we didn't do that one last year

I participated for the first time in the challenge last year and I don't remember this one at all.  It sounds interesting though.

Lorie, yes the same Merri. And the Deborah a certain Deborah we all know and love too.

I just love the topics that Lorie came up with that had a creative edge to inspire blogging. The Secrets one worked well for all genres from suspense to romance. I would like topics that have some room to have that creativity.... last year the mini-challenge topics all had that and they just guided my reading but also made my reading so much fun. I guess that is vague but I enjoy that more than topics I have seen in other reading groups leave me a bit uninspired (alphabet soup, reading authors by letters).  I guess an alphabet could be fun and unexpected but somehow the kind oftopics we had last year had that creative space good for breaking out of reading slumps.

Hi there.

OK. I know this kind of strange: a challenge idea from someone who didn't actually participate in any of the challenges last year.

I'm actually the opposite of Merri. I don't like having "different things to think about" when I'm reading. For me, it's enough that I have to think about how I'm going to blog the book.

What I think might be interesting though would be a challenge to read as many lines or genres as possible in a month. We all tend to get stuck in a rut sometimes when it comes to our reading choices and a challenge like that might just give us a push to expand our boundaries.

Just a thought.

That's funny teachtoreach. 

I hope you enjoy it after going through all that. 

Lorie, I know it will be in the email with the coupon code ... however, I was hoping you could post what the February mini-challenge is ..... I need a boost to get reading and sure could use some inspiration

thanks!

     .... I'm going to have fun lining up my books tonight!  .... awesome 

so it will be a minimun of one word / name of the book with the exception of "the, of, a, and" etc  ?   ... I hope this pulls me out of my slump! 

Lorie,

Would it be ok to take the topic and do something more loose with it by looking inside of the book rather than using the cover? I have been noticing the weirdest thing about a detail in one book leading to another book. I'd like to use that with your topic and be a little creative and have fun with the topic. 

I think this is allowed, but I thought I'd double check ... and if it is, maybe others can use this to help with their lists

If the name sounds the same but is spelt differently, is it allowed?  ex  Janet Dailey, Margaret Daley, Barbara Daly   .... or is part of?  ex. Anne McAllister, Ann Evans, Anna Adams

Lorie- since we put a whole bunch of Spice Briefs together do they all have to lead to one another or only one. Eg The Perfect Stranger by Terry McLaughlin, Soul Stranger by Eden Bradley, Getting rid of Bradley by Jennifer Cruisie

thanks Lorie now if I need more than the 11 I have set aside I can keep going