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Melissa wrote: "Yay Stephanie! If you look over to where you add the book, there is a thing that says (some html is ok) Click on that and it will tell you all of the codes for strike through etc. :)

There is also..."

Thank You!

Your welcome :-)

Three down and one monster to go. Just in case you guys keep track of that stuff- I have just been editing my original post.

Snowflakes.

S Soulless by Gail Carriger
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Well, there is not a whole lot of time left in this month, so I'm going to go with something easy. I choose:

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Whew! I finished mine. I was wondering if I would there for a minute since I got into a book slump and dealing with some issues! 0_0

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas! And congratulations to Melissa!

I just started on "The Three Muskateers" yesterday. Crossing my fingers that I make it by the end of the month. Once done with that, I will have finished my tiny word :)

I was looking at some of the past posts- SNOWFLAKES and MERRY CHRISTMAS seem absolutely daunting. Good luck to everyone who is still doing it! (Whatever your word may be).

Thank you Stephanie! :-) I know you will get yours done too. The only reason I just "had" to pick snowflake is that I love snowflakes. :-D I know, I'm silly. But thank goodness I got them done!

I love this challenge, even though this was my first time!

Good luck ��

Next December I will attempt Snowman- I feel like I will be more prepared for it then :) Might be another year after that before I attempt the Snowflake. Still, I am super impressed. December is crazy.

It sure is and the weather here is wiping people out :-( it doesn't even seem like Christmas! We are going to have rains and storms all week and the weather going back up to the 70's. I just want my cold weather and a real Christmas. There was a mention of possible tornadoes!! It's Winter people please. I just hope me and the fam can have a good Christmas together and not sitting in the dark or wiped out by a tornado :-/

It was a fun challenge, although I got a reading slump right and the end and thought I wouldn't finish. Whew :-)

Congrats Melissa!

Thank you Tea :-)

Melissa wrote: "It sure is and the weather here is wiping people out :-( it doesn't even seem like Christmas! We are going to have rains and storms all week and the weather going back up to the 70's. I just want m..."

My cousin lived in Tennessee for a while and tornadoes suck. So, hopefully you don't get one. That would be awful! In Eastern Washington, we definitely have snow and super strong winds to boot (like strong enough to blow over our snowman). So, it very much feels like winter. However, we have a car trip planned for the day after Christmas, so I am hoping we don't slide out on the way over. Either way, weather-wise, I think there are down sides. Hopefully you have a good Christmas anyway.

You have a good Christmas Stephanie! Don't slide or blow away!

I'm going to move in with Santa where it's cold all year and you get presents every day :-D

I did it! Today was the last day I could, and I did! Take that holidays! :)

WAHOOO! I knew you could do it :-) ��

By the way, in case you were wondering, "The Three Musketeers" is a LONG book. 700 pages of antiquated language does not make for quick reading. I feel better though. I hate leaving challenges unfinished.

I love Big Books, but whew, not for the end of the year challenge! Congrats to you. I have a ton of big tome books on my challenges for this coming year, well tomorrow. LOL I don't know what I was thinking putting all of those on there, they are from 400 to over 1000 page books. 0_0

Hey Guys, I am not sure where else to post this. But, I just signed up for this group today. Interested in starting a reading challenge, will there be some options posted for starting in the new year soon?

Well done Stephanie!

You know, The Three Musketeers is my guilty pleasure book �� Probably because first few times I've read it, it was translation (Croatian) so there was no problem with language. Now, when reading in English, it does take me longer.

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Allecyn wrote: "Hey Guys, I am not sure where else to post this. But, I just signed up for this group today. Interested in starting a reading challenge, will there be some options posted for starting in the new ye..."

Welcome to the group, Allecyn!
If you need help with the group, you might check our Start Here part.
As for challenges, there is a list of them (here). Only yearly challenges are getting new threads each year. But you can join all challenges whenever you want. For example, even if this one says December in it's title, if you like it and want to do it, you can play it in any other month.

Hope that helps :)

Awesome, thank you!!!

Omg @ the options!!!! Gonna spend my little one's nap time looking through all these. How is a girl supposed to choose??

Allecyn wrote: "Omg @ the options!!!! Gonna spend my little one's nap time looking through all these. How is a girl supposed to choose??"

You don't choose. You sign up for everything :P
(and that's how new addict is born - CAA)

❶İձ�❶� wrote: "Allecyn wrote: "Omg @ the options!!!! Gonna spend my little one's nap time looking through all these. How is a girl supposed to choose??"

You don't choose. You sign up for everything :P
(and that'..."

Lol that's what I am figuring out!!!!

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Well done Stephanie!

You know, The Three Musketeers is my guilty pleasure book �� Probably because first few times I've read it, it was translation (Croatian) so there was no problem with language...."

Thanks! I really enjoyed the back half of it and a section in the first third. The antiquated language is the whole reason i challenged myself with reading it in the first place (I kind of wish I could read French the way I can read Spanish, it is probably super fun in the original language)- I fell like it stretches my brain. Now when I go back to more modern books it will go that much faster.

Besides, it was on the Boxall's List and I am determined to read at least most of those books (if not all of them) over my lifetime. As I have only read 36 of them and I am 31 years old, I better get cracking :)

Allecyn wrote: "Hey Guys, I am not sure where else to post this. But, I just signed up for this group today. Interested in starting a reading challenge, will there be some options posted for starting in the new ye..."

Also you can look into things like the Pop Sugar Challenge (google it and it will come up, or some other discussion groups are doing it). The Pop Sugar Challenge is good because it actually tries to stretch your reading interests. I definitely recommend it.

Melissa wrote: "I love Big Books, but whew, not for the end of the year challenge! Congrats to you. I have a ton of big tome books on my challenges for this coming year, well tomorrow. LOL I don't know what I was ..."

Right? I have on my to read list for 2016: Little Women (which hopefully will be quick reading, I know people who read that when they were in third and fourth grade), Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind, the Bell Jar and Jurassic Park. I'm sure there are others I am forgetting, but I read "The Three Musketeers" and suddenly began to doubt myself in adding those particular books. I think Gone with the Wind is 1400 pages or something ridiculous.

Technically, my goal is to read 52 books this year. However, to complete all of the challenges I have set for myself, I need to read at least 125. I can imagine that will be more difficult with the giants in there, but I like the challenge. I write a lot (I am actually trying to get published), so it makes sense that I would read a lot too, and I never feel like I read as much as I should. Sigh. Conundrums. Still, I am looking forward to trying even if I fail spectacularly. :)

18/18 ~ finished Dec 28th


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Sloan Parker - More Than Most ~ 12/28/17 ~ 3.5��
Tried & True by Charlie Cochet ~ 12/15/17 ~ 5��
Anything Could Happen by B.G. Thomas ~ 12/27/17 ~ 3��
Red Fish, Dead Fish by Amy Lane ~ 12/18/17 ~ 4��

ANGEL
Angel in Black Leather Pants by Lisa Oliver ~ 12/13/17 ~ 3.5��
N.R. Walker - Best of Both Worlds ~ 12/4/17 ~ 3.5��
Gummy Bears & Grenades by Charlie Cochet ~ 12/2/17 ~ 4��
Eli Easton - Desperately Seeking Santa ~ 12/5/17 ~ 3.5��
Leo Loves Aries by Anyta Sunday ~ 12/8/17 ~ 4��

CHRISTMAS
Cranky Christmas by Annabeth Albert ~ 12/1/17 ~ 3.5��
Herc & Pyotr by Atom Yang ~ 12/6/17 ~ 3.5��
Raleigh Ruebins - Your Fallen Star ~ 12/22/17 ~ 4��
Ice, Snow, & Mistletoe by Jocelynn Drake ~ 12/3/17 ~ 3.5��
Simone, Kay - The Duet ~ 12/1/17 ~ 3��
Third Rail by Santino Hassell ~ 12/2/17 ~ 4��
Meg Harding - Finding Home ~ 12/24/17 ~ 3.5��
Andrews, Keira - In Case of Emergency ~ 12/3/17 ~ 3.5��
Sebastian, Cat - The Lawrence Browne Affair ~ 12/21/17 ~ 4��

****finished 12/30/17

W Where the Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau
I I, Eliza Hamilton
N The New Countess
T Tragic Toppings
E Eaves of Destruction
R Relatively Dead

W Witch Slapped
O Off The Record: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources
N The Night Bird
D The Deader The Better
E Epitaph
R Rum Runner
L Long Live the King
A The Astronaut Wives Club
N No Mallets Intended
D A Deadly Dealer

Winter Wonderland
W - „The warlord wants forever�� by Kresley Cole (Read Dec 26)
I - „Blood huntress�� by Izzy Shows (Read Dec 12)
N - „Asara zirnekļa tīklā�� by Nora Roberts (Read Jan 16)

T - „To trap a temptress�� by Jane Cousing (Read Dec 19)
E - „Polar bared�� by Eve Langlais (Read Dec 11)

R - „Room�� by Emma Donoghue (Read Jan 17)

W - „Draconians�� by Juno Wells (Read Dec 5)

O - „The wolf king’s mate�� by Olivia Arran (Read Dec 23)

N - „Come sundown�� by Nora Roberts (Read Jan 23)
D - „Dollhause asylum�� by Mary Gray (Read Dec 8)
E - . „Propositioned by the billionaire moose�� by Eve Langlais (Read Dec 10)

R - „Undaunted�� by Ronnie Douglas (Read Jan 30)
L - "The light between oceans" by M.L. Stedman (Read Dec 3)
A - „An abundance of Katherines�� by John Green (Read Dec 9)
N - „Glory in death�� by Nora Roberts (Read Jan 29)
D - „Dare me�� by Joanna Blake (Read Jan 18)

I'm in! I'll go for a Moderate level, just enough to help me exceed my Reading Challenge goal.

S - Sweat
N - No Gentleman for Georgina
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M - A Marquis for Mary
A - Alias Grace
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A - Secret Tutor: A Football Romance Story by Amber heart read 4/12/17
N - Dead Stop by Barbara Nickless
G - Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine (character, Gina Royal) read 5/12/17
E - The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls by Emilie Autumn read 4/12/17
L - Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout read 8/12/17

A - Angelfall by Susan Ee
N - The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
G - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
L - The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli
E - Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

December: Reading in a Winter Wonderland

Spell-out: Christmas Tree

Cedar Cove Christmas (A) by Debbie Macomber (12/2/17) 3.5 ★★��
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Mary Alice Monroe's A Lowcountry Christmas (12/4/17) ★★★★
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Welcome everyone!

December: Reading in a Winter Wonderland
December 2023 - January 2024

My Reading in a Winter Wonderland Challenge (msg 137)

Level �� Difficult �� 8+ books �� 16 Books read

WINTER WONDERLAND




W �� When Shadows Fall �� 12.05 ★★★★
I �� In the Likely Event �� 12.27 ★★★★
N �� The Naughty, The Nice and The Nanny �� 12.11 ★★★★
T �� There is Always Love �� 12.20 ★★��
E �� Exposed �� 12.22 ★★★★
R �� Rescued by a Rogue �� 12.01 ★★��

W �� Window Shopping �� 12.08 ★★★★
O �� One Week With You �� 02.04 ★★★★
N �� The Natural �� 12.09 ★★��
D �� Dirty Little Secrets �� 01.14 ★★★★
E �� Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper �� 01.06 ★★��
R �� Rules of Engagement �� 01.13 ★★★★
L �� Love, Magic & Misfortune �� 01.31 ★★★★��
A �� Axel �� 01.22 ★★��
N �� No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished �� 02.09 ★★★★
D �� Destiny �� 12.10 ★★★★