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 »
Tag: challenges
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 »
Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies 2016 – sign-up post
As I have for the last three or four years, I’m signing up for the Cruisin’ Thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2016 hosted by Yvonne at Socrates’ Book Reviews. I know I said I’m cutting back on challenges this year, but I’ve done this one for several years now, and I… Read more »
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2016
When I went looking for a TBR list challenge for this year, all I could find were TBR pile challenges. Each of them required that I read only books I already owned. While I do own a lot of unread books, there are plenty of others I don’t own, but also… Read more »
2015 Year-End Challenge Wrap-Up
As usual, I did really well with some of my year-long challenges but failed a couple of them pretty badly. Here’s where things stand as of Dec. 28, 2015: I passed the challenge! My goal was 12 books. I read and reviewed 14, and read several others that I haven’t reviewed yet (but will try… Read more »
Blogger Shame Review Challenge (2016)
If you’ve been blogging for a while chances are you have a few (or more than a few lol) review books that have slipped through the cracks. Eeps! The Blogger Shame Review Challenge–cohosted by herding cats & burning soup and Addicted to Happily Ever After– is all about dusting off… Read more »
COYER Going Back to Basics – Goals
I’m signing up for the COYER Going Back to Basics challenge, which runs Dec. 19 through March 5 (I think.) It’s hosted by Fantasy is More Fun, Because Reading & Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! COYER is a challenge to work on your virtual pile (um, mountain) of free and bargain ebooks… Read more »