I’m signing up for the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. I never seem to to very well with one-month challenges, so I’m going to go relatively easy on myself for this one, and challenge myself to read 5 ARCs during the month of… Read more »
Category: Challenges

Spring Bloggiesta goals
It’s almost time for Bloggiesta! What’s Bloggiesta, you ask? Well, here’s how the organizers describe it: Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon (sometimes over a weekend, sometimes four days and this time one week!) where we as bloggers gather together to help each other work on all sorts of blogging tasks, stuff… Read more »

COYER Winter 2014 – 2015 Wrap-up
I made my goal! I actually read more than the 15 books enumerated below – those are just the ones whose reviews have posted. So I’m feeling pretty good about this challenge! Also read ( * = review to come) Valiant, by Sarah McGuire * An Uncivilized Yankee, by… Read more »

January challenge update
Here’s what I read for various challenges in January: COYER – Winter 2015 Since this challenge actually started on Dec. 20, 2014, I’m including books I read since then. One Wish (Robyn Carr) – ARC Dogwood Hill (Sherryl Woods) – ARC The Crime at Black Dudley (Margery Allingham) – ARC… Read more »

Mini Bloggiesta wrap-up
These were my goals for Bloggiesta, with what I actually accomplished in blue. Clear off my desk so I can hook my computer back up to my external screen and ergonomic keyboard. (Computer hooked up; desk is still a mess.) Update About Me page and profile picture. (Done!) Clean up… Read more »

Mini Bloggiesta starts tomorrow!
I’ve seen Bloggiesta and Mini-Bloggiesta around, but this is the first time I’ve participated. In case you’re wondering what Bloggiesta is: In short, Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome… Read more »

2015 Historical Romance Reading Challenge (goals)
2015 Historical Romance Reading Challenge As if I didn’t have enough challenges already, I’m signing up for the Historical Romance Reading Challenge hosted by Anna at Herding Cats & Burning Soup. I love a good historical romance, and I used to read a lot of them, but have read fewer… Read more »

Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge – March 2015 (goals)
Take Control of Your TBR Pile – March 2015 I’m signing up for the Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge, hosted each March by Kimba at The Caffeinated Reviewer. As Kimba says, For the month of March you ditch the ARC’s and read books in your TBR pile released… Read more »

Personal Challenge: Top of the Hoard 2015
Top of the Hoard is my personal challenge for 2015. I decided to chose 20 books that have been on my TBR list for a year or more, and commit to reading them in 2015. This is the “must-read-in-2015 list” I’ve mentioned in a few previous posts. My choices were… Read more »

More Challenges for 2015
I’m adding two more reading challenges for the year. Yes, I know. I’ve probably taken leave of my senses. But one of them is obvious, and I’ve done it for several years now; I just haven’t announced it before: the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Last year I set my goal… Read more »



































