It’s time for Blog Ahead again, and wow, do I need it! I’ve pretty much used up any cushion I had, and I’m scrambling to get even a few posts a week up. But there’s too much else going on in my life to feel comfortable with that, so… Blog… Read more »
Category: Challenges

Make Me Read It! (a read-a-thon)
The Make Me Read It Read-A-Thon is hosted by Ely @ Tea and Titles and Val @ The Innocent Smiley and runs July 9-16, 2016 I’m joining the Make Me Read It Read-A-Thon! Basically, this is a readathon where you, gentle reader, get to choose what I will read. So how does this work? Look… Read more »

COYER Summer Vacation Is Here Again!
Hosted by Berls @ Fantasy Is More Fun, Michelle @ Because Reading, and Stormi @ Books, Movies, Review! Oh My! It’s COYER Challenge time again, and the hosts are planning another “Summer Vacation” like last summer’s challenge. That means that any book counts: ARCs, books you bought, borrowed books, regardless of… Read more »

Monthly Challenge Wrap-Up — April 2016
Challenges Title links go to reviews. Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge I’m rockin’ this!!! I read 25 books in April toward my year-end goal of 180 books. I’m currently at 57% of my yearly goal, or a total of 102 books — 43 books ahead of schedule! This month’s total includes 10 ARC or review copies,… Read more »

Blog Ahead Mini-Challenge (sign-up & goals)
The Blog Ahead Mini-Challenge is hosted by Anna of Herding Cats, Burning Soup, on her “The Herd Presents” website. It’s an opportunity to “blog ahead and up your number of scheduled blog posts.” Why I’m doing it. I may be deluding myself, because the next few weeks are crazy busy for me,… Read more »

May Clean Sweep ARC Challenge
I’ve signed up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge in May, hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer and Addicted to Happily Ever After: For the fourth year in a row during the month of May we will be challenging you to get those advanced reading copies read! These can be e-arc’s, finished copies, audio and… Read more »

Monthly Wrap-Up – March 2016
Challenges Title links go to reviews. Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge I read 21 books in March toward my goal of 180 books. I’m currently at 42% of my yearly goal, or a total of 76 books — 31 books ahead of schedule! Full disclosure: this month’s total includes a picture book, a coloring book,… Read more »

Monthly Wrap-Up — February 2016
Challenges Title links go to reviews. COYER Going Back To Basics – read in February To Scotland with Love (Patricia Griffin) – $1.99 ‘Til Death Do Us Part (Amanda Quick) – ARC What We Find (Robyn Carr) – ARC Death and the Brewmaster’s Widow (Loretta Ross) – ARC Restoree (Anne McCaffrey) – $1.99 Switcheroo (Aaron Elkins) – ARC… Read more »

Monthly Wrap-Up – January 2016
I’m going to try to do a monthly or bi-monthly wrap-up showing my challenges and my personal and blog goals. I hope it will keep me focused on my goals and make me more accountable for reaching them, too! Challenges The progress bars and lists show only books I’ve… Read more »

Take Control of Your TBR Pile — challenge sign-up
I’m joining Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer‘s March Take Control of Your TBR Pile challenge. This one goes really well with my own The Backlist Reader challenge. Basically, for the month of March you concentrate on reading from your TBR pile. Kimba doesn’t specify, but she implies that the TBR… Read more »



































