Winter Challenge

Hello to all!

                      As you could have seen the blog has been quite silent lately due to health problem...that affected my reading a lot more that i would have liked and i fell behind in my challenge objctive.
The situation is far forsettled but it's slowly improving ( except my hand) so when i saw Stephanie from Cover2Cover offering us some motivation to try to reach our challenge goal for 2013 i couldn't miss this opportunity and i joined the Winter Challenge

I'm trying not to overdo it because i still have a lot of Christmas preparation to do and i have some rest long overdue but i want to try to finish what i can ( i hate failing!) . So for stephanie we only have to read not to review which will help my goodreads challenge but i will try to review those entering other challenges.

i don't have any specific titles in mind but i want to read 6 books and/or novellas if possible and i need to review 3 sports romances as well as at least one paranormal one so that's what i will set as my goal and if achieve that i will be really happy^^

i will perhaps update this post as i advance in the challenge so don't hesitate to participate or to encourage me a little^^ i'm sure i will need it

Update: goals reached 5/6

22th: Unicorn Keep read, reviewed

25th: Offside : read- reviewed

26th: josey's Christmas Cookie: read- reviewed

27th: Buying Trouble: read - reviewed

29th Backfield in Motion: read and reviewed

31th: Lucky Charm: read ( reviewed on goodread)

Happy Holidays!

update 31th december 2013: Challenge completed! Meaning that a few hours only before we reach 2014 i completed my challenge goals! i don't think i would have managed without this little push so a big thank you to all participants!

Challenge 2013 part 5: YA/MG fantasy Challenge

Hello to all,

While participating in the Bout of Books read-a -thon, i've come across new bloggers, as well as one i follow already, one of them is Erica from The Book Cellar.


While checking her blog, i've discovered she was hosting a reading challenge too.... for this one the goal is to read YA/MG fantasy books. The kind of fantasy doesn't matter and the number of books needed is 10.

To be honest, i'm not sure i have that many books of this genre on my shelves but it's possible so i've decided to enter this challenge too ( that's start to make a lot i know), i hope it can cross with other challenges too.

This is the info Erica has posted on her blog and you can sign up HERE :

This will be the central hub of information for the 2013 YA/MG Fantasy Challenge. In case you haven’t heard about the challenge, the goal is to read and review 10 YA/MG fantasy books throughout the year. Some changes from last year:

• Books can be any YA or MG fantasy, they do not need to be specific to 2013. I will still be doing roundups  of releases each month just to keep news up on new releases.
• Giveaways are no longer just for reviews – they will be for all challenge participants. Reviews will be worth the most entries and each giveaway will be run bimonthly, so there will be 6 prize packs available throughout the year.

[...]The challenge runs January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. Sign-ups will end Oct 15, 2013. As always, all types of fantasy are included in the challenge, not limited to urban, high, epic, general fantasy, etc.

I don't have a specific list of books in mind yet but i got one already and if i can add the other Elemetal books published it would be great ( i just need to get Spark quickly^^), i also got or will get some of the lux series and the covenant series by jennifer L armentrout and i will perhaps discover Cassandra Clare too. I will see. You will be able to keep track of my progress on the Challenges 2013 page

So are you interested in this challenge too? Do you read that kind of books? Some recommendation perhaps?

2013 Challenge part 1: 2013 TBR Reading Challenge

 It's the time of the year when we try to take some resolutions, one of those i decided to take was to enter again some challenge and to continue to do my best in each one i enter so for that i need to be selective and reasonnable.

I entered the 2012 tbr reading challenge hosted by evie and while i read more than expected ( i started at the first level and in the end read 91 books) i was a bit disappointed in some part of the organisation, Evie isn't to blame at all and the challenge is really motivating for me so i decided to trust her again and participate in the 2013 edition where some rules have changed but not the essential.

I won't list my books in adavance because i mostly find them when i look on my shelves for other challenges too^^;; but you will find them in my list of challenge like this year. To be cautious, this time again i will start at the first level ( and move up if i can) A firm Handsake and that means between 1-10books

Here are the info you need to join us:

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

Schedule:

January 20th: Evie @Bookish (www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com)

February 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (http://www.fiktshun.com)

March 20th: Justin @Justin's Book Blog (http://www.justinsbookblog.com/)

April 20th: Tiffany @Escaping.. One Book At A Time (http://escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com/)

May 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca/)

June 20th: Justin @Justin's Book Blog (http://www.justinsbookblog.com/)

July 20th: Emily @Doodle's Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com/)

August 20th: Tiffany @Escaping One Book At A Time (http://escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com/)

September 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (http://www.fiktshun.com)

October 20th: Emily @Doodle's Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com/)

November 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca/)

December 20th: This one will be posted on all the blogs. There will also be a huge BOX OF BOOKS giveawayand this time you can link up ALL YOUR TBR Pile REVIEWS you wrote for the entire month!

See it can be fun so don't hesitate, you can move up the level too so if you are like me a little afraid and wanting to be sure  of what you are doing start low ^^