2014 Challenges!

Hey everyone! Happy New Year! I hope that this year is a great one for each of you and that we all get to read some awesome books while we're at it! I've been in a serious reading slump lately, so I thought that joining a couple of reading challenges might help get me out of it. Plus - who doesn't need to read more of their review piles? I know I do! Here are the challenges I'm participating in this year: 

The Review Pile Reading Challenge is being hosted by Rachel @ Fiktshun - and Reanna @ Phantasmic Reads. There's still time to sign up, so click on the image above to be taken to Fitshun's page for the challenge. 

The truth is that I am WAY behind on my review pile. Like SEVERELY behind. It's embarrassing and overwhelming. I need to make a huge dent in this monster, so I decided to sign up for this challenge to help keep me on track. I honestly don't have any specific book goals for this one - as long as they're from my review pile, I'm a happy camper. I'll mostly be using this challenge for my print review copies since the other challenge I'm signing up for is...

  

The 2014 Netgalley & Edelweiss Reading Challenge is being hosted by Falling For YA and there's still time to sign up for this one too. Click on the image to sign up for the event.

Like many of my fellow bloggers, I love Netgalley and Edelweiss. BUT - I tend to go "click happy" when I see all the awesome titles coming out. I honestly don't even know how many ebooks I have on my Kindle from these two sites, but it's huge. Again - I'm embarrassed and overwhelmed if I think about it. For this challenge, like the first, I'll be focusing not on specific titles but just general titles for review from both Netgalley and Edelweiss. I really hope to take a chunk out of this enormous digital pile, and I'm hoping this challenge will keep me going on that front.

What about you guys? Are you signed up for any challenges for the year? Leave a comment below or link me up!

 

ARC August!

The awesome Octavia behind the book blog Read. Sleep. Repeat. has come up with a fun challenge to help us tackle our ARC pile! Thus, ARC August was made! I don't know about the rest of you, but my review pile is WAY out of control!! What better way to read some fabulous review books while having fun and meeting other bloggers? This is the third read-a-thon/challenge that I'm participating in within the next month! Obviously, my review pile is ginormously huge and I really want (and need!) to get some serious reading done!

Want to join in on the fun? It's easy to sign up! The rules are simple: 1. Make a blog post stating that you will be participating in ARC August. 2. Add your post to the linky located on the site HERE. 3. Read as many ARCs during the month of August as you want! As a super awesome bonus, Octavia will be giving away a $20 gift card to the favorite book dealer of your choice - one lucky participant will be chosen at the end of the month to win the prize!

As for my goals for this challenge/read-a-thon, it is super simple: I plan on reading AS MANY ARCs AS POSSIBLE during the month of August. I have an obscene amount of them steadily piling up, so I really don't know which books I'll pick to read. To me, it's more quantity than genre - I SERIOUSLY need to tame the review pile! When I post a review that was an ARC in August, I'll include the graphic at the bottom of the post, so you know that it was a part of the challenge. That is, if I remember to! 

So what are you waiting for? Head on over and sign up! I hope to see you there! :)

If you are going to participate in ARC August, leave me a comment or a link to your goals post!

 

2013 TBR Pile Reading Challenge!

Welcome to 2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge!!!

6 BLOGGERS, 12 MINI-CHALLENGES, 24 BOOKS TO WIN!!! 

We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us.. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up..

Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you've been telling yourself you'll read next time you'll get a chance.. This is your chance!  And we've got PRIZES!!! :D

Challenge Guidelines:

1. This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2013.
2. Anyone can enter! You don't have to be a blogger, as long as you review the book you've read! (On your blog, Amazon or Goodreads/Shelfari!)
3. Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2012 and earlier! NO  2013 ARCs and 2013 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!
4. You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.
5. When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge. (If you don't have a blog, post about it on Facebook or Tweet!)
6. You can move up levels, but no moving down.
7. Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2013, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
8. On the 20th of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will have it's unique theme, a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from this month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of choice from Book Depository. It's open to INTERNATIONALS. The giveaway will be open until the next wrap up post goes up! (i.e. the entire month)
9. If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking ;) 
10. December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you'll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway - a box of books. 
11. You don't have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in giveaways!

Levels:
(how many books you're planning to read for this challenge in 2013)

1-10 - A Firm Handshake
11-20 - A Friendly Hug
21-30 - A Sweet Kiss
31-40 - Love At First Sight
41-50 - Married With Children




**All this information was taken straight from the challenge sign-up page on Bookish**

I have such a GINORMOUS TBR pile that I just couldn't resist signing up for this challenge. It's the first real book/reading challenge I've participated in, so I'm really excited! I am definitely aiming on reaching the Married With Children level! I don't have a list of books that I'm planning on reading - I just hope to read as many as I possibly can!

What are you waiting for? Head on over to Bookish and sign up now!