Tag: reading challenges

Joining COYER Quarantine Edition

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 »

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News & Notes – 1/25/2020

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 »

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2019 Challenge Wrap-Up

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 »

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News & Notes – 12/07/2019

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 »

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COYER Winter 2019 sign-up

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 »

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November 2019 Challenge Update

November 2019 Challenge Update

November 2019 Challenge Update With two months left in the year, it’s time to check in and see how I’m doing on my challenges. (TLDR answer: Not great.) 2019 Reading Challenge Lark of The Bookwyrm’s Hoard has read 183 books toward her goal of 190 books. hide 183 of 190… Read more »

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#ReadForGrace on Oct. 14

#ReadForGrace on Oct. 14

Lauren at Bookmark Lit blog is starting the #ReadForGrace challenge to remember and honor Grace from the Rebel Mommy Book Blog. For those of you who didn’t know or follow her, Grace was a shining light in the book blog community: kind and supportive, positive and courageous. She died in… Read more »

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Adding Another 2019 Challenge… Or Two

Adding Another 2019 Challenge… Or Two

I’m signing up for two more challenges! I know… I’m crazy. I said I was going to keep the challenges simple this year. But these two were just too tempting.   My Goals for the 2019 Library Love Challenge The 2019 Library Love Challenge is hosted by Angel’s Guilty Pleasures. The challenge… Read more »

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News & Notes – 12/29/2018

News & Notes – 12/29/2018

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff   Worth Reading/Viewing Unplugged: what I learned by logging off and reading 12 books in a week (Lois Beckett, The Guardian) 2018 Proved Black Kids Read (And White… Read more »

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