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I am a Tiger, and will start this challenge in February 2012.


Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12

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Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

1. Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12

1/5 Completed

✔T - Through the Grinder/Cleo Coyle==02.17.12****
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right so im a dragon so would snake come after i have done dragon? sorry new to this.

Yes, if you're a dragon than that's your month one and snake would follow the next month.

This would be your monthly order:
Month 1 = Dragon
2 = Snake
3 = Horse
4 = Sheep
5 = Monkey
6 = Rooster
7 = Dog
8 = Pig
9 = Rat
10 = Ox
11 = Tiger
12 = Rabbit

thank you for your help angie

I somehow forgot to post my January and February for this year.

JANUARY - DRAGON DONE
D Denying Dare, Aber Kell JAN 16
R Bloodlines, Richelle Mead JAN 7
A Magic Bleeds, Ilona Andrews JAN 2
G Fathers and Sons, Gordon Andrews JAN 3
O Origins, Ilona Andrews JAN 11
N Angels Wolf, Nalini Singh JAN 11

A Sign of the Times Reading Challenge: Chinese Zodiac
February 1 - 28, 2012

S-N-A-K-E-S 6/6 DONE!

S Shadow Heir, Richelle Mead FEB 1
N The Cannibal Princess, Nalini Singh FEB 21
A How to Archer: Ultimate Guide to Espionage, Cocktails Ever Written, Sterling Archer FEB 8
K Still Sucks to be Me, Kimberly Pauley FEB 6
E Ex Games, Jennifer Echols FEB 2
S Summer Knight, Jim Butcher FEB 11

Theresa wrote: "thank you for your help angie"
No problem. If it wasn't for your post, I wouldn't have noticed that I forgot to post mine for this year.

Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

February 2012
1. Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12

5/5 Completed

✔T - Through the Grinder/Cleo Coyle==02.17.12****
✔I - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town/John Grisham==02.20.12****
✔G - The Greatest Knight/Elizabeth Chadwick==02.25.12***
✔E - Elie Wiesel/Night==02.21.12
✔R - Her Royal Spyness/Rhys Bowen==02.24.12***

Tiger (February 2012) - Completed 02/25/12
Rabbit (March 2012)

A Sign of the Times Reading Challenge: Chinese Zodiac
March 1 �� 31, 2012

H-O-R-S-E



H How to Cook Meat, Christ Schlesinger MAR 13
O One For the Money, Janet Evanovich MAR 2
R Succubus Revealed, Richelle Mead MAR 7
S Succubus Shadows, Richelle Mead MAR 6
E Spider’s Revenge, Jennifer Estep MAR 11

Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

1. Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12

5/5 Completed

✔T - Through the Grinder/Cleo Coyle==02.17.12****
✔I - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town/John Grisham==02.20.12****
✔G - The Greatest Knight/Elizabeth Chadwick==02.25.12***
✔E - Elie Wiesel/Night==02.21.12
✔R - Her Royal Spyness/Rhys Bowen==02.24.12***

2. Rabbit
03/01/12 - 03/31/12

1/6 Completed

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✔B - Birds of a Feather/Jacqueline Winspear==03.04.12****
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TIGER COMPLETED 02/25/12
RABBIT

Woo Hoo Final Month!!!!

DURATION: March 2012
READ: 5/5

H: Carolyn Hart - Merry, Merry Ghost 3/10
O: One Bite With A Stranger - Christine Warren 3/13
R: A Red Herring Without Mustard - Alan Bradley 3/10
S: Maggie Stiefvater - Linger 3/4
E: (Emerald) - Ghost of a Chance - Yasmine Galenorn 3/11



February - Snake - 5/5 Complete

JANUARY - Dragon - 6/6 Complete

DECEMBER - Rabbit - 6/6 Complete

NOVEMBER - Tiger - 6/6 Complete

OCTOBER: Calm Ox - 6/6 complete

SEPTEMBER: Shrewd Rat - 9/9 complete

AUGUST: Gallant Pig 10/10 complete

JULY: Loyal Dog 8/8 complete

JUNE: Rooster - 7/7 complete

MAY: Monkey - 6/6 Complete

APRIL: Gentle Sheep - 11/11 complete

Great, Barbara! So close. ��

That's awesome, Barbara!

Seems like it's been forever but I guess only a year. lol

A Sign of the Times Reading Challenge: Chinese Zodiac
March 1 �� 31, 2012 DONE!

H-O-R-S-E



H How to Cook Meat, Christ Schlesinger MAR 13
O One For the Money, Janet Evanovich MAR 2
R Succubus Revealed, Richelle Mead MAR 7
S Succubus Shadows, Richelle Mead MAR 6
E Spider’s Revenge, Jennifer Estep MAR 11

Mini congrats, Angie!

Entire Challenge Complete!

March - Horse - 5/5 Complete

February - Snake - 5/5 Complete

JANUARY - Dragon - 6/6 Complete

DECEMBER - Rabbit - 6/6 Complete

NOVEMBER - Tiger - 6/6 Complete

OCTOBER: Calm Ox - 6/6 complete

SEPTEMBER: Shrewd Rat - 9/9 complete

AUGUST: Gallant Pig 10/10 complete

JULY: Loyal Dog 8/8 complete

JUNE: Rooster - 7/7 complete

MAY: Monkey - 6/6 Complete

APRIL: Gentle Sheep - 11/11 complete

Thanks Lisa Kay!

Woohoo, Barbara! Congrats! (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

Barbara,

Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

1. Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12
5/5 Completed
✔T - Through the Grinder/Cleo Coyle==02.17.12****
✔I - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town/John Grisham==02.20.12****
✔G - The Greatest Knight/Elizabeth Chadwick==02.25.12***
✔E - Elie Wiesel/Night==02.21.12
✔R - Her Royal Spyness/Rhys Bowen==02.24.12***

2. Rabbit
03/01/12 - 03/31/12
6/6 Completed
✔R - Robards, Karen/One Summer==03.13.12****
✔A - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet/M.C. Beaton==03.17.12****
✔B - Birds of a Feather/Jacqueline Winspear==03.04.12****
✔B - Bray, Libba/A Great and Terrible Beauty==03.18.12**
✔I - If Books Could Kill/Kate Carlisle==03.15.12***
✔T - To Tempt A Scotsman/Victoria Dahl==03.30.12**


TIGER COMPLETED 02/25/12
RABBIT COMPLETED 03/30/12

Mini congrats, Southpaw!

Start: April 2012
Completed: 3/12 signs

April - Horse
H Home at Rose Cottage by Sherryl Woods 4/9/12 ♥♥��
O Oliver, Lauren Pandemonium 4/29/12 ♥♥♥♥
R Return to Rose Cottage by Sherryl Woods 4/9/12 ♥♥��
S Stephanie Bond Baby, Drive South 4/4/12 ♥♥��
E Elisabeth Naughton Stolen Seduction 4/3/12 ♥♥♥♥

May - Shy Sheep
S Silence by Jan Costin Wagner 5/6/12 ♥♥��
H Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises 5/9/12 ♥♥��
Y Your Mouth Is Lovely: A Novel by Nancy Richler 5/28/12 ♥♥��
S Sandy Tolan The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East 5/7/12 ♥♥��
H Home Front by Kristin Hannah 5/28/12 ♥♥♥♥��
E Ekman, Kerstin Under the Snow5/21/12 ♥♥
E Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms 5/23/12 ♥♥��
P Parrish, Leslie Cold Touch 5/2/12 ♥♥��

June - Monkey
M Marcia Clark Guilt by Degrees: A Novel 6/2/12 4��
O Once Smitten, Twice Shy by Lori Wilde 6/1/12 3��
N Nicole Young Kiss Me If You Dare 6/27/12 3��
Kinsella, Sophie I've Got Your Number 6/17/12 4��
E Eason, Lynette When the Smoke Clears 6/24/12 4��
Y Young, Nicole Kill Me If You Can6 /14/12 3��

July - Rooster

Start: April 2012

6/6 completed

��April: OX

C - Cat Adams - The Isis Collar - 4/13
A - Anya Bast - Fury - 4/11
L - Larissa Ione - Desire Unchained - 4/9
M - Stephanie Morris - Staking His Claim - 4/6
O - On The Edge - Jamie Hill - 4/18
X - Xakara - Shifting Passions - 4/15



��May: Tiger
T - Timeless - Gail Carriger
I - Inescapable - Amy A. Bartol
G - Gena Showalter - The Darkest Pleasure
E - Evangeline Anderson - Claimed - 5/16
R - Brooklyn Reede - L.A. Lifestyle



��Jun = Rabbit
☐Jul = Dragon
☐Aug = Snake
☐Sep = Horse
H - Bound For Christmas by Yvette Hines - 9/6
O - One Deadly Sister
R - A Dragon's Honor by Dahlia Rose - 9/5
S - My Cherie Amour by Shara Azod - 9/2
E - A Night to Remember by Eve Vaughn - 9/1



☐Oct = Sheep
☐Nov = Monkey
☐Dec = Rooster
☐Jan = Dog
☐Feb = Pig
☐Mar = Rat

Okay...I gots a problem. I didn't get "dragon" finished for April. I got all but the "N" done. I missed the gift card deadline too. I know...right?!

I want to do the challenge. Can I come back to it in a couple of months or so and sign up again, and start over?

Of course you can, southpaw. Or, just finish the "n" when you can and plug it in to April. Whatever you would like to do. Congrats on making that far. I don't even make it far enough to even do a challenge most of the time! *hangs head*

I don't see why you can't apply the Extention Gift Card to your April challenge, Southpaw. Yes, the card expires then... but I would think, since it is April you are talking about...

Sashana? What do you say?

Go ahead and use the Extention Gift Card, southpaw. It's fine with me. Good luck!

Sashana wrote: "Go ahead and use the Extention Gift Card, southpaw. It's fine with me. Good luck!"

Oh thank you, Sashana. That is wonderful! I can't seem to copy the html code though.

Using gift card extension to complete "Dragon".

3. Dragon
04/01/12 - 04/30/12
5/6 Completed
✔D - Dunant, Sarah/In the Company of the Courtesan==04.15.12*
✔R - A Rogue By Any Other Name/Sarah MacLean==04.08.12****
✔A - Anne of Green Gables/L.M. Montgomery==04.10.12
✔G - Ghost a la Mode/Sue Ann Jaffarian==04.24.12***
✔O - Over the Edge/Suzanne Brockmann==04.26.12**
N - The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern


TIGER COMPLETED 02/25/12
RABBIT COMPLETED 03/30/12

Yeah, southpaw, the html code went away with the last update. It is driving me CRAZY b/c it is missing on all the "GoodReads How To..." posts I did. **sigh**

Lisa Kay wrote: "Yeah, southpaw, the html code went away with the last update. It is driving me CRAZY b/c it is missing on all the "GoodReads How To..." posts I did. **sigh**"

I'd be pissed! I know you put a lot of work into those, LK. The HTML bug is driving me loco.

I just keep hoping it will come back... but who knows what it will look like...

I finally got my "dragon" finished, thanks to the gift card extension. Now on to "snake".

Southpaw's NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

1. Tiger
02/01/12 - 02/29/12
5/5 Completed
✔T - Through the Grinder/Cleo Coyle==02.17.12****
✔I - The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town/John Grisham==02.20.12****
✔G - The Greatest Knight/Elizabeth Chadwick==02.25.12***
✔E - Elie Wiesel/Night==02.21.12
✔R - Her Royal Spyness/Rhys Bowen==02.24.12***

2. Rabbit
03/01/12 - 03/31/12
6/6 Completed
✔R - Robards, Karen/One Summer==03.13.12****
✔A - Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet/M.C. Beaton==03.17.12****
✔B - Birds of a Feather/Jacqueline Winspear==03.04.12****
✔B - Bray, Libba/A Great and Terrible Beauty==03.18.12**
✔I - If Books Could Kill/Kate Carlisle==03.15.12***
✔T - To Tempt A Scotsman/Victoria Dahl==03.30.12**

3. Dragon
04/01/12 - 04/30/12
6/6 Completed
✔D - Dunant, Sarah/In the Company of the Courtesan==04.15.12*
✔R - A Rogue By Any Other Name/Sarah MacLean==04.08.12****
✔A - Anne of Green Gables/L.M. Montgomery==04.10.12
✔G - Ghost a la Mode/Sue Ann Jaffarian==04.24.12***
✔O - Over the Edge/Suzanne Brockmann==04.26.12**
✔N - The Night Circus/Erin Morgenstern==05.08.12**


TIGER COMPLETED 02/25/12
RABBIT COMPLETED 03/30/12
DRAGON COMPLTED 05/08/12 - Gift Card Extension

Mini congrats, Southpaw! Glad it worked out. ��

4. Snake
05/01/12 - 05/31/12
5/5 Completed
✔S - Shakespeare's Landlord/Charlaine Harris==05.07.12**
✔N - Nalini Singh/Slave to Sensation==05.27.12
✔A - Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener/M.C. Beaton==05.10.12****
✔K - Kiss an Angel/Susan Elizabeth Phillips==05.06.12**
✔E - Evanovich, Janet/To the Nines==05.03.12****

Mini congrats again, Southpaw!

I'd like to join and I'm going to start June 1. I'm a sheep so:

***Updated 6/23/12***

June: ShySheep
S - Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi = 6/21/12
H - Here's the Deal: Don't Touch Me by Howie Mandel = 6/23/12
Y - Ysabel by Guy Gavriel Kay = 6/8/12
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Super, Cherie! Welcome to the challenge.

I like the spell it out challenges. So I will join this as well. Starting with book read from June 1st.

Duration: Approx. one year
start date: June 2012-June 2013
1/12


Dragon
Snake
Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit

6/6

D: The Maze Runner/James Dashner(6/11/12)
R: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist/Rachel Cohn(6/7/12)
A: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie/Alan Bradley (6/19/12)
G: Graciela Jones in Diary of a Mad Fat Girl/Stephanie McAfee (6/25/12)
O: Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/Jonathan Foer (06/01/12)
N: North in Maybe This Time/Jennifer Crusie (7/15/12)


1/5

S: Between Shades of Gray/Ruta Sepetys (7/1/12)
N:
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Terrific, Jessica! Welcome to the challenge.

Updated

5. Horse
06/01/12 - 06/30/12
5/5 Completed

��1. H - Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/Jamie Ford==06/02/12
��2. O - O'Donohue, Clare/Missing Persons==06.21.12***
��3. R - Robert Graves/I, Claudius==06.12.12****
��4. S - Storm Watch/Jill Shalvis==06.23.12****
��5. E - Eleven on Top/Janet Evanovich==06.16.12****

Mini congrats again, Southpaw!

I am an ox

I will do all the spell it out words one at a time but will just run on is I finish one word early as for the short signs I have chosen some long verbs. Also I am jumping into this challenge very late.

MY list is as follows

Logical ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Creative Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Open-minded Dog
Understanding Pig
Industrious Rat

Am I allowed to do this or do I have to work through the words individually?
Starting Date 22/7/2012

Starting word - Logical ox 3/9
Dragon - 1/6

Larsson Stieg, The Girl Who Played With Fire, 3 Aug 2012
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G (George) A Friend Like Ben, Julia Romp - 06 Aug
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Cheryl Bentley, Petronella and the Trogot - 08 Aug 2012
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Tiger
Rabbit

Dragon 1/5
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Nettie Parker's Backyard by C V Smith 14 Aug 2012

Great, Adele! Welcome to the challenge.

NBRC Sign of the Times: Chinese Zodiac Edition
Duration: One Year

6. Sheep/Artistic
07/01/12 - 07/31/12
13/13 Completed

��1. S - Sliver of Truth/Lisa Unger==07.01.12***
��2. H - The Heir/Grace Burrowes==07.28.12***
��3. E - Elly Griffiths/The Crossing Places==07.08.12****
��4. E - Emma/Jane Austen==07.13.12
��5. P - Postmortem/Patricia Cornwell==07.19.12****

��6. A - Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist/M.C. Beaton==07.24.12***
��7. R - Revolutionary Road/Richard Yates==07/03.02***
��8. T - Twelve Sharp/Janet Evanovich/==07.07.12****
��9. I - I'll Walk Alone/Mary Higgins Clark==07.06.12***
��10. S - Shanghai Girls/Lisa See==07.05.12****
��11. T - Track Of The Cat/Nevada Barr==07.20.12***
��12. I - Ishiguro, Kazuo/Never Let Me Go==07.09.12***
��13. C - The Color of Magic/Terry Pratchett==07.27.12
*SHEEP COMPLTED 07/28/12

TIGER COMPLETED 02/25/12
RABBIT COMPLETED 03/30/12
DRAGON COMPLTED 05/08/12 - Gift Card Extension
SNAKE COMPLETED 05/27/12
HORSE COMPLETED 06/23/12
SHEEP COMPLETED 07/28/12

Congrats, Southpaw!

I'm a little late with the last one but...

July: Monkey
M - Richelle Mead / Vampire Academy = 7/18/12
O - Lauren Oliver / Delirium = 7/19/12
N - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith = 8/7/12
K - Lene Kaaberbøl / The Boy in the Suitcase = 7/16/12
E - Tess Evans / Book of Lost Threads = 7/5/12
Y - The Year of Living Scandalously by Julia London = 7/30/12


Now working on Rooster

Well done, Cherie!