So Many Precious Books, So Little Time: 2012 Challenges

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

The 6th Annual Canadian Book Challenge

John of The Book Mine Set hosts this wonderful challenge and you do not have to be Canadian to join. It is my favorite book challenge out there and I have been participating every year from the beginning. I'm not about to quit now. The challenge started on July first, so I a little late signing up.

The challenge is the same as before, to read and review 13 Canadian books. Each participant gets to decide if a book qualifies for the challenge or not but basically if it's by a Canadian author, is about a place in Canada, or takes place somewhere in Canada, it qualifies.

I will keep track of the books I read for the challenge below:

1. Elusive Dawn by Gabriele Wills

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Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:49 PM 4 comments

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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Historical Fiction Challenge 2012

We are hosting it this year over at Historical Tapestry again for 2012. I am only signed up for 4 challenges this year and this is one of them.

In an effort to diversify the genres I read, I am aiming for "Struggling the Addiction: 10 books". I may up going up one level, if I find it impossible to stay away from that many historical fiction novels, they are my favorite, after all!

If you haven't done so already, go over to Historical Tapestry and join the challenge!

Here's a start to my list for this challenge:

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Posted by Teddy Rose at 1:08 PM 1 comments

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Friday, December 23, 2011

2012 ARC Reading Challenge

This is the original ARC Challenge That I created in 2010,I hope all of you ARC Readers will join me again in 2012 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. The only change this year is with the levels.

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 30 ARCS

Level Platinum: Read 35 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 Can join this challenge at anytime throughout the year.

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.

HAVE FUN!

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:57 PM 26 comments

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2012 Books Won Challenge

January 1-December 31, 2012

I created this challenge in 2010 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 hope you will join me! As an extra incentive, you get extra entries for all of my book giveaways if you join this challenge!

The Levels are:

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, Goodreads, etc.

2.Crossovers with other challenges are okay and you can join this challenge anytime throughout the year.

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!

Posted by Teddy Rose at 10:43 PM 22 comments