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 »
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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 »
HoHoHo Read-a-thon Wrap Up
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 »