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January's Let it Snow! Mini Challenge
January 1 - 31, 2014

For those of us living in cold, northern climates during this time of year, it can be very snowy indeed. Let's do a snow-inspired challenge!

1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s.

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover.

3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number. (For example, The Golem and the Jinni has 486 pages.)

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages).

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Brian will be the leader for this challenge. Thank you, Brian!

Changing my challenge to three books

2. Whiteout - The Divorce Papers: A Novel by Susan Rieger - completed

3. Six - And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini - completed

4. Long book - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - completed

3/3 - Challenge completed!

I would like to do all 4 but I will most likely only get 2 done but I will try for 4.


1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s.
The Catcher in the Rye 1945

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover.
Whispers

3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number.
Much Ado About Russian 306

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages).
Final Scream 530

I'll see how many I can get while I am laying by the pool in Mexico! Maybe 2?

I'll try for all 4!

I'll try for a measley 1. Sorry.

Sign me up for 3 :)

I will try for 3.

January's Let it Snow! Mini Challenge
January 1 - 31, 2014

For those of us living in cold, northern climates during this time of year, it can be very snowy indeed. Let's do a snow-inspired challenge!

1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s.

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover. The Cat's Table


3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number. (For example, The Golem and the Jinni has 486 pages.) We Are Water

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages). Xenocide

Completed 3/3

I'm going to try 2 books.

January's Let it Snow! Mini Challenge
January 1 - 31, 2014

4/4 COMPLETED!

For those of us living in cold, northern climates during this time of year, it can be very snowy indeed. Let's do a snow-inspired challenge!

1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s.
The Pearl Completed 1/16/2014 copyright 1945

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover. In the Woods Completed 1/6/2014

3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number. (For example, The Golem and the Jinni has 486 pages.) A House of Pomegranates Completed: 1/6/2014 106 pages (other versions have different page numbers, and I can't find mine on here, so I am just going to go with what my actual copy has.

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages). Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 846 pages Completed: 1/2/2014

Sign me up for two, please

Still thinking on the others. Can 206 Bones work for the snowflake one since it has "6" in the title?

4.

Daphne wrote: "January's Let it Snow! Mini Challenge
January 1 - 31, 2014

0/4

For those of us living in cold, northern climates during this time of year, it can be very snowy indeed. Let's do a snow-inspired ch..."

Daphne, In the Woods and Jonathan Strange are both on my TBR shelf. I hope to get these read too.

I'll do two.

Jodi wrote: "Daphne wrote: "January's Let it Snow! Mini Challenge
January 1 - 31, 2014

0/4

For those of us living in cold, northern climates during this time of year, it can be very snowy indeed. Let's do a s..."

I've already started Jonathan Strange. It's the book I keep in the car with me for downtime at work, and I'm about 200 pages in. So far, the plot and writing style has kept me interested. I can at least recommend 1/5th of it so far!

Jodi wrote: "If no one else wants to lead, I can do it."

Jodi, I wouldn't mind leading this challenge to give you a break!

You have led and kept track of SO many members' challenges over the past few months, and you are always so engaging, enthusiastic, and encouraging! (agh unintentional alliteration there).

I realized I have never even offered to lead one, so it would be my first :] I'm signing up for 3 and I'll go ahead and edit my next post to keep track of everyone's goals.

January 'Let It Snow!' Mini Challenge Official Tracker

(Duration: Jan 1st, 2014 - Jan 31st, 2014)

I'm keeping the list of participants here in Post #18 and will update it through edits as more people sign up and as people start to make progress once we hit January.. Just let me know your goal (1-4 or ?) and I'll add your name and goal to the list - most of you know the drill :]

Please let me know if I miss your name. And when we get into January, don't hesitate at all to pester me about updating your progress if it's been like more than a day - it probably means I've somehow overlooked it or was about to update and got distracted by something. I promise I'm not ignoring you and will check in often!

List of Participants :

Allen: 3/3 Completed!
Amanda: 4/4 Completed!
Amanda P: 4/4 Completed!
Anisah: 0/4
Arra: 1/2
Ashley: 0/2
Audrey: 3/3 Completed!
Bobbie: 1/4
Brenda: 4/4 Completed!
Brian: 2/2 Completed!
Brianna: 2/4
Casey: 1/1 Completed!
Claire: 2/2 Completed!
Daisy: 2/2 Completed!
Danielle: 4/4 Completed!
Daphne: 4/4 Completed!
Erika: 4/4 Completed!
Erika K: 0/4
Heather: 0/1
Ian: 3/3 Completed!
Jackie: 0/2
Jaclyn: 3/3 Completed!
Janet: 2/2 Completed!
Jannene: 2/2 Completed!
Jennifer: 4/4 Completed!
Jessica: 4/4 Completed!
Jodi: 3/3 Completed!
Kaitlin: 4/4 Completed!
Kate: 1/2
Kelsi: 4/4 Completed!
KelsiK: 4/4 Completed!
Laura Jane: 0/2
Lilac: 0/4
Lois: 1/3
Lynn: 4/4 Completed!
Maiko: 4/4 Completed!
Martha: 0/4
Maureen: 3/4
Mave: 2/2 Completed!
Megan 3/3 Completed!
Nicole 1/2
Pat: 2/2 Completed!
Sam: 0/4
Sara: 2/4
Sarah: 2/2 Completed!
ScarlettMi: 4/4 Completed!
Sharon: 2/2 Completed!
Sibyl: 2/2 Completed!
SilverRaindrops: 3/3 Completed!
Sinead: 3/3 Completed!
Vanessa: 2/4
Zara: 0/1

Good luck everyone, and let it snow!!!
...but preferably only the kind of snow that keeps me inside just because it's so gorgeous that I don't want my tracks to ruin it so that i stay inside and take pictures like that time when:



anddd not the horribly dangerous and unforgiving kind that forces me inside by literally trapping there for days while encasing my car in its very own impenetrable ice fortress, like that time when:



Winter is coming...

In for all 4!

I'll try for all four.

2/3!

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover. - Fluke

3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number. (For example, The Golem and the Jinni has 486 pages.) - Temporary Arrangement - 46 pages

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages). -

Thanks Brian for leading this one! Where do you live where you get so much snow. We had quite a bit of snow last week but it is all gone now. We haven't had a white Christmas for years. It almost never happens.

Jannene wrote: "Still thinking on the others. Can 206 Bones work for the snowflake one since it has "6" in the title?"

@Jannene I didn't create the challenge, but I'll use my better judgment and say yes, 206 Bones definitely counts. The title itself has the number 6 in it - and in a 3-digit number no less! That's much less common than a book's total page number having a number 6, and the whole point is just to get at the 6 sides of a snowflake idea. Good find!

Did you say you were still deciding on your goal? It looks like you have 2 books listed, but you were still thinking, so for now I'll put you at 2. Just post if you change your mind or read something in January that fits the other 2 categories :]

I'm in for all 4. My book with a white cover has 524 pages. Can a single book answer two challenge criteria?

I will start my first challenge in this group with 2 books.

1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s. -Embers

2. Whiteout - Read a book with a predominately white cover - Three Men in a Boat

@Lynn Way to go and hope you reach your goal of all 4! I'm marking you down for 4 now and will follow up with an answer to your question next.

@Janet Welcome to your first challenge!!! Look around at other challenge folders too if you'd like - the 2 books you read for this one could very easily fulfill a category in the other monthly, quarterly, or yearly challenges too! Put you down for 2 here.

Please add me in for 2

Lynn wrote: "My book with a white cover has 524 pages. Can a single book answer two challenge criteria?"

It's hard when you find one that could fit more than one within a challenge! The way each of our challenges work is that one book can only 'officially' answer one of the criteria in a challenge.

This is just my answer to your question based on how we track everyone within each specific challenge in its particular thread, so I am in no way trying to limit how you want to track your goals at all. I think it's awesome you are reading a 500+ page book that also has a white cover :]

For the purposes of our group challenge threads though, I would only mark you 4/4 if you read 4 books, with each one matching one of the 4 criteria in some way (it can count for two but you'd still have to read 4 to get 4/4). Obviously your pick as to which one you'd like it to count this book for (probably go for 500+ pages - lots of white cover books out there ;D).

The idea is there is absolutely NO pressure and certainly no expectation for all participants to read four books, a separate one for each criteria here. We have so many challenges and so many different kinds of readers, some go for all of criteria in so many challenges - they are voracious readers that read crazy fast and go through books like machines. Others (like me) just pick and choose partial goals from multiple challenges and try to count a book I used in one challenge again in as many other challenges as I can. I set a goal of 3 for myself for this challenge, but it is very possible I will only get to do 2. That's perfectly okay too.

It's a neat way to think about your books in different ways by classifying and identifying different elements of the book since you you can definitely use that book again in as many other challenges it might fit, which is very likely for the yearly and quarterly challenges...it's just the official rule is one book per challenge, but one book can count once each for many challenges.

Anyway, these are totally just meant to be fun, motivational, and creative ways of figuring out what your next book will be - and maybe branching outside your comfort zone and finding something new.

If you have a Member Corner and/or Personal Challenge folder, you can track your challenges however you'd like and say what you want about what you have read - e.g., you could write that for this challenge, you read 3 books but one fulfilled 2 out of the 4 criteria and personally record yourself as having read 3 books and meeting all 4 criteria if that's how you want to do it. We don't 'disqualify' people or call anyone out for how they want to challenge themselves. This group is about readers first - to motivate by providing the framework for setting goals, to suggest and discover new books to read from each other, to make connections and keep track of all of the books we've read and feel proud and accomplished, to interact and engage with each other and make new friends, and overall to get everyone pumped about reading.

Long-winded answer but I hope it helped! Good luck and happy holidays (and happy reading!)

Pat wrote: "Please add me in for 2"
Welcome, Pat! You are now on the list.

Brian, thanks for clearing it up for me. It makes sense for the rules to work that way. I will read 4 for the 'Let It Snow' challenge but I'll choose a smaller book for my white cover. It really is a fun way to plan my reading. I will use a book from my '2014 Around the World' challenge as the book with a six in the page number so that I can get something going on that effort as well. I feel like this group is a list maker's dream come true :-)

Lynn wrote: "Brian, thanks for clearing it up for me. It makes sense for the rules to work that way. I will read 4 for the 'Let It Snow' challenge but I'll choose a smaller book for my white cover. It reall..."

Indeed it is! I have so many updates that I have to add now to my Member Corner after joining 2 quarterly and 2 monthly challenges - my yearly are I think all set up. I want them set up and ready to go by January so that I can easily cross-reference them!

Put me down for 3 as I add Bloodstream to my 500+ pages. Paperback has 512.

@Jannene Sure thing, updated!

Entering for three. Might do four, if I can find one from the 1940's. :).

I'll aim for 2.

I'm in for 2

I'm going to go for one (1).

I just want to get back into the swing of doing (and finishing) some challenges, so we'll start small with this one.

UPDATED - COMPLETE

(4/1)

1. Let it Snow! is a song written in 1945. Read a book written in the 1940s.

(originally published: 1943)

2. Whiteout. A whiteout is a weather condition where visibility is severely reduced due to snow. Read a book with a predominantly white cover.


3. All snowflakes have six sides. Read a book with the number 6 in its page number.


(216 pages)

4. Is winter over yet? Read a long book (a book with 500 or more pages)

Hello all! Welcome Silver, Laura Jane, Daisy, and ScarlettMi. I was away for a few days and with little access to a computer - you are all added! Or rather you will be after I post this and add you ;)

Going to just try for one for this challenge.

Great and welcome to the challenge Heather! Excited to see what you read.

I am going to definitely do 1 but I will attempt 2. :)

George Orwell - 1984

Okay Kate, awesome! I put you down for 2. Welcome!

I'm in for 2

I'll try all 4. Thanks! (I see there's another Erika in the group--I'm Erika K.)

I'm in for 2

Welcome Mave, Erika K, and Jackie - adding you all! Good luck!

Book 1 of 3 read :)

I think you've got me down for four rather than three, I'm not going to manage all of them I don't think, sorry!

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I think you've got me down for four rather than three, I'm not going to manage all of them I don't think, sorry!"

Okay, no problem! Got you for 1/3 Claire, congrats!

Daphne wrote: "Just finished the last 600 pages of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell today. It was absolutely, splendidly in the vein of Victorian fiction/fantasy. Totally recommend this one to anyone th..."

Ohh!! That sounds lovely...I think I will add it to my TBR list. Nice going Daphne - you are updated :)

Can you add me in for 2 please? I'm not sure what will be for what yet....as the book I am currently reading meets the criteria for 3 or 4.....so i'll decide once I pick my next book :). Thanks.

@Ian welcome to the challenge and just added you! I have no idea which ones to pick yet either - this one is actually proving harder than I anticipated to fulfill and I may drop to 2.

@ ✵❇❅❄ⓗⓘⓒⓒⓤⓟ+ⓑⓡⓔⓝⓓⓐ❇❅❄✵ I'm pretty sure the '6' can be any of the digits - I think it just has to be any part of the total page count (e.g., 612, 346, 162, etc.)

One member was reading a book that had the number '6' in the title itself, and I didn't design the challenge at all but figured that should count too.