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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Wrap up- 2011 ARC Reading Challenge

Thank to everyone who participated in the challenge! If you did a wrap up post of the challenge on your blog, please leave the links in the comments.

Here's how we did:

Working Towards Bronze Level:

Debbie-5

Jessica-5

Bronze Achieved:
TGFTG-12
Yvonne -12

Working on Silver:

Amused-22

Freda-15

Silver Achieved:

CMash- 24

Jo-Jo- 24

Level Gold:

Donna -25
Teddy-26

Level Platinum:

Andrea-98

Beth-30

Heather -29

Julie-95

Nicola-143

Sarah- 30

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:47 PM 2 comments

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Wrap up- 2011 Books Won Reading Challenge

Thank to everyone who participated in the challenge! If you did a wrap up post of the challenge on your blog, please leave the links in the comments.

Honorable Mentions: Read 1-3 books won:
Bev- 3
Tea-1

Bronze: Read 4-6 books you won:

Jessica- 5
Julie-6
Teddy-4

Gold: Read 10 or more books you won.
LuAnn-26

Have you joined again for 2012 yet? If not please click here to join.

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:37 PM 0 comments

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Friday, January 28, 2011

Themed Reading Challenge 2011

February 15- August 15, 2011

The Themed Reading Challenge is a challenge that was thought up and hosted by Wendy at Caribousmom. She was looking for someone to take over hosting it and I jumped at the chance.

This is a six month challenge designed to help readers clear books from their to-be-read stacks which center around a common theme or themes.

Rules

Readers may join at ANY TIME between now and August 15th.
Books should be chosen from the reader’s TBR pile (this may be an actual physical pile or a virtual pile).
The goal is to read AT LEAST 5 books linked by theme and review them.
Overlaps with other challenges are allowed.
Readers may change their list of books OR their theme(s) at any time.

Readers may choose from three different levels of participation:

Read at least 5 books which share the same theme.
Read at least 5 books which share TWO themes.
Read at least 5 books which share MORE THAN TWO themes.

Themes can be geographic, genre, author, subject matter, or anything in between! Last year’s themes were wonderfully creative and varied…check out the sign up links from the 2010 challenge to get an idea of what others have chosen for themes.

To sign up, please create a post on your blog about this challenge and the themes you will use and then sign up in Mr. Linky below, linking back to your post about the challenge. Please post all of the books you have reviewed for this challenge in Mr. Linky, below, as well. (If you don't have a blog, you can still join this challenge. Post your book review on any book review site such as Good Reads, Library Thing, or Amazon, etc. Then post in the comments.)

Posted by Teddy Rose at 9:37 PM 18 comments

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Historical Fiction Challenge 2011

January 1-December 31, 2011

I am really cutting down on the number of challenges I am doing in 2011 in an effort to have more time to actually read, rather than blog. However, I can`t pass up this challenge. First of all, we are hosting it this year over at Historical Tapestry and second of all, I read lots of historical.

The Levels are:

Severe Bookaholism: 20 books
Undoubtedly Obsessed: 15 books
Struggling the Addiction: 10 books
Daring & Curious: 5 books
Out of My Comfort Zone: 2 books

I did 20 books last year but this year I am going to shoot for 15, in an effort to expand my reading repertoire.

My Progress:

1.Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna

2.Threads West by Reid Lance Rosenthal
3.The Arrow Chest by Robert Parry
4.To Defy a King by Elizabth Chadwick
5. The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird
6. Deadly: How to Catch an Invisible Killer by Julie Chibbaro
7. The Beauty Chorus by Kate Lord Brown
8. Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
9. Lady of the English by Elizabeth Chadwick
10.Catherine by Sigrid Weidenweber
11.Stranger Here Below by Joyce Hinnefeild
12.Madame Tussaud by Michelle Moran
13.Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
14.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
15.Oregon Trail: The Road to Destiny by Frank young, Illustrated by David Lasky
16.The King's Grace by Anne Easter Smith
17. Mothers & Daughters by Rae Meadows

Posted by Teddy Rose at 5:00 PM 0 comments

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Friday, December 24, 2010

Books Won Challenge 2011

January 1-December 31, 2011

I created this challenge last year to challenge myself and others that have won books, to read and review some of them. The reason publishing companies supply books for book bloggers to give away is to get word out about the books and create buzz. I didn't do very well with this challenge in 2010, I only read one won book. However, 2011 is a New Year and a fresh start. I feel bad that I haven't read many of the book I have won and want to make an effort to read them in 2011.

If you would like to join me, here are the levels:

Honorable Mention: Read 1-3 book you won.

Bronze: Read 4-6 books you won.

Silver: Read 7-9 Books you won.

Gold: Read 10 or more books you won.

The Rules:

1. You must write a review for each book that you read for it to count. If you do not have a blog you can write your reviews on a place like Amazon, Powell's, Chapters, etc.

2.Crossovers with other challenges are okay.

3. Audiobooks and ebooks count, as long as you won them.

4. You can change up levels but cannot go back down a level.

5. You don't have to make a list ahead of time for this challenge but you can if you want to.

To sign up, leave a direct link to your blog post about this challenge , using Mr. Linky below. Please leave a comment as well.

Please subscribe to my blog, as I will be doing a monthly post with MR Linky. Please add your reviews for each month in MR Linky in the monthly post. For your Name, please use this format Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author's Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader). Please be sure to use the direct link to your review, not just to your blog. Then please leave a comment.

Let's have fun!
1. House Arrest by Ellen Meeropol
2. Deadly: How to Catch an Invisible Killer by Julie Chibbaro
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
4. The Road to Destiny by Frank young, Illustrated by David Lasky

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:58 PM 32 comments

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Thursday, December 23, 2010

ARC Reading Challenge 2011

January 1-December 31, 2011

I hope all of you ARC Readers will join me again in 2011 for the ARC Reading Challenge. I welcome old and new participants. I don't know about you, but my ARC pile is way too big. That is why I am making one big change to this challenge. For 2011 you don't have to list all of the ARCs that you have. That's right, no more "wall of shame." LOL! Although you can list them if you want to.

Note: I use the term "ARC" loosely,any book a publisher or author gives you with the expectation that you review it, counts for this challenge.

The Levels

Level Bronze: .a. All of us who have or will have less than 12 ARCS must read all of the ARCS we have. Note, that if you have 11 ARC's and then receive a 12th one you will be bumped up to catagory b.

b. All of us who have or will have 12 or more than 12 ARCS must read and review at least 12.

Level Silver: Read 24 ARCS

Level Gold: Read 25 ARCS

Level Platinum: Read 30 or more ARCS

Rules:

To sign up, leave a direct link to your blog post about this challenge. Please leave a comment as well.

You don't have to make a list of which ARC's you plan to read, but you can if you want.

If you choose a lower level, you can always change it to a higher level if you like. However, you cannot go from a higher level back down to a lower level.

Crossovers with other challenges are allowed and Audio-books and ebooks are allowed as long as they are ARC's.

Read the books and review them on your blog. If you don't have a blog, you can post your review on sites like Powells, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.

Please subscribe to my blog, as I will be doing a monthly post with MR Linky. Please add your reviews for each month in MR Linky in the monthly post. For your Name, please use this format Name: (Your Name, Book Title and Author's Name) for example: (Teddy, Obsessive Reading by Helen Reader). Please be sure to use the direct link to your review, not just to your blog. Then please leave a comment.