COYER now runs all year, and has built a whole community of readers and bloggers. For 2021, it has become 2 separate but connected challenges: COYER Seasons and COYER Community (the latter takes place mostly within the Facebook group.) I am participating in both all year. The Spring Season runs from… Read more »
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The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020: Wrap-up Posts Linky
The 2020 Challenge ended on December 31, 2020, at midnight in your time zone. Click here to sign up for the 2021 Backlist Reader Challenge. The Backlist Reader Challenge 2020 is over! Time to link your wrap-up post! 2020 is over (thank goodness!) and so is The Backlist Reader Challenge… Read more »
My 2021 Reading Goals and Challenges
Full rules and sign-up linkups can be found at the link for each challenge. The quarantimes had a significant impact on my reading habits in 2020. There were times when I couldn’t focus on reading at all, times when I reread voraciously but couldn’t face reading anything new (or new… Read more »
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2021: Rules & Sign-up
The Backlist Reader Challenge 2021 Is your TBR pile threatening to topple over? Does your Goodreads to-read shelf have hundreds of books on it? Then join the club — or rather, the challenge! I don’t know about you, but my Goodreads to-read shelf has over a thousand books on it,… Read more »
Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon 2020
Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon starts today! The Ho-Ho-Ho Readathon, hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer, runs from 12:01 am Thursday, November 19th through Monday, November 30th at 11:59 pm (your time zone.) Read or listen to “holiday themed books or books with winter settings. Any genre, any format.” Readathon Rules Link-up! It is not… Read more »
Joining COYER Quarantine Edition
COYER is now year-round! That’s right! Michelle and Berls at Because Reading have decided to make the COYER (Clean Out Your E-Reader) Challenge a year-round challenge, with special events throughout the year. They have just rolled out COYER Quarantine Edition, which will run through August 31. The basic, all-year COYER… Read more »
News & Notes – 1/25/2020
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Courtney Milan sent RWA a letter formally ” offering to settle all claims it holds against [her] in exchange for complete transparency.” It’s brilliant…. Read more »
2019 Challenge Wrap-Up
2019 Challenge Update 2019 Reading Challenge Lark of The Bookwyrm’s Hoard has read 183 books toward her goal of 190 books. hide 183 of 190 (96%) view books Goodreads Reading Challenge: I aced my Goodreads Challenge this year! I set my goal for 2019 at 190 books. Counting the books… Read more »
News & Notes – 12/07/2019
Bookish News ‘We Wanted Our Patrons Back’ — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity (NPR) Worth Reading/Viewing Sister act: how Little Women has come of age on the big screen (Aida Edemariam, The Guardian) TV and Movie News Beverly Jenkins Is Trailblazing Her Way onto Television (Book Riot)… Read more »
COYER Winter 2019 sign-up
I debated long and hard over whether to do the Winter COYER (Clean Out Your E-Reader) challenge this year. I’m behind on some of my challenges already, and I’ve been such a mood reader this year that it’s been hard to stick to challenges. But then I looked at how… Read more »