I completed the HoHoHo Read-A-Thon hosted by Bookshelfery and Caffeinated Book Reviewer (Nov. 12-17) and did better than I expected. Despite the pressure of a freelance project deadline and some sad personal news, I finished 3 books of short stories/novellas, 2 individual novellas, and 2 novels. Yay! I got to participate in one of the challenges but sadly,… Read more »
I’m signing up for the HoHoHo Read-A-Thon hosted by Bookshelfery and Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It runs Nov. 12 through 17, and the rules are easy: Read winter- or holiday-themed books and participate in one challenge during the readathon. I’ll be pretty darn busy that weekend with real-life stuff, but I should be… Read more »
I’m doing well with some of my challenges and not so well with some others. Here’s where things stand as of August 31: Basically done. Besides the 16 books I’ve reviewed, I’ve read another 15 books which I haven’t yet reviewed (or the review hasn’t posted yet.) By Sept. 4,… Read more »
I participated in the Clean Sweep ARC Challenge hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. I kept my challenge level pretty low at just 5 ARCs during the month of May, and I made it! I haven’t posted most of the reviews yet because of when the books come… Read more »
I’m signing up for the COYER Scavenger Hunt, the Summer 2014 COYER challenge hosted by Berls of Fantasy is More Fun, Michelle of Because Reading, and Stormi of Books, Movies, Reviews.Oh My! COYER stands for Clean Out Your E-Reader, but last summer, they opened the challenge up to other books… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 – 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 »
