Showing posts with label 2014 challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014 challenges. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2014

Read Your Freebies 2014 Reading Challenge


2014 Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge

A challenge I definitely need to take part in that I just found last night.  Here is the information for it and you can go and join yourself at The Book Vixen.

Reading Challenge Details:
  • Runs January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014 (books read prior to 1/1/2014 do not count towards the challenge). You can join anytime before 9/30/2014. Sign up on The Book Vixen’s blog.
  • The goal is to read at least twelve (12) free ebooks. While twelve is the minimum, there is no maximum limit. See the different levels below and pick the one that works best for you. You can move up a level as often as you’d like but no moving down.
  • This reading challenge is for LEGALLY obtained FREE ebooks. We do not condone ebook piracy. These can be books offered through bigger sites, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or smaller sites, such as Smashwords and All Romance Ebooks. Ebooks offered through author or publisher websites are acceptable as well, provided they are available free to everyone at the time of download.
  • Any ebook format will work for this challenge (azw, EPUB, iBooks, mobi, PDF, etc.). You DO NOT need to have an ereader to participate in this challenge. You can read ebooks using Amazon’s Free Kindle Reading Apps, which you can download for your iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, Blackberry and more. Free audiobooks also count towards this challenge provided they are free to the public. They can't be free as a condition of signing up for a service and they can't be provided by the publisher for review.
  • Only ebooks and audiobooks that were available free, in a legal manner, to the public will count towards this challenge. eARCs, library books, ebooks free through Amazon Prime, and/or books won or gifted are not eligible for this challenge.
  • Books can be any genre (fiction, nonfiction, romance, fantasy, mystery, thriller, horror, etc.).
  • Crossovers from other reading challenges are allowed, however, re-reads are not eligible for this challenge. The goal is to read the freebies you’ve legally acquired so that they are off your TBR pile.
  • To join this challenge, grab the 2014 Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge button and post this reading challenge on your blog to track your progress. Please include a link back to this sign-up post so others can join the reading challenge too. You do not have to be a book blogger to participate; you can track your progress on Goodreads, LibraryThing, BookLikes, Libib, etc., so as long as you have a dedicated shelf for the 2014 Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge and your profile is not private. The point of linking up is to have a place where people can see what you’re reading.

I have decided to forgo the review link-up for 2014. If you plan to review the books you read for this challenge, link them up in your 2014 Read Your Freebies! Reading Challenge post.

Levels:
     Coupon Clipper: read 12 books
     Penny Pincher: read 24 books
     Buying in Bulk: read 36 books
     Super Saver: read 50 books
     Extreme Couponer: read 100+ books



I'm going to go with Coupon Clipper and aspire to Penny Pincher.  I'll list books and reviews here as I finish them.

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***I received this book from the publisher for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any other way except receiving the book for free.  ***

Sunday, February 2, 2014

2014 Rewind Challenge


I haven't signed up for any challenges this year mainly because I didn't know where my reading or my blog was taking me.  However last night I came across this one and this one really fits with my reading goals for the year.  Simply read books  I received before 2014!  It's an easy challenge.  You propose a goal on a post and then post reviews for the books you read that qualify for the challenge and there is a giveaway each month for those that post reviews to the linky.  You can find out all the details and sign up by clicking the link in the button above or this one: Coffee Bean Bookshelf.

Since my reading is spotty at best lately I'm going with 3 per month as an official goal (I still have new review books, new Kindle books and library books to tempt me so I'm trying to be reasonable).  I am going to hope for 5 books per month but we'll have to see.  So that puts me at 36 books for the year.  I'll list them here and link to my reviews.

  1. A Little Too Much by Lisa Desrochers (review book from 2013)
  2. Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb (bought for Kindle in Sept. 2013)
  3. A Life Without Limits by Chrissie Wellington (bought for Kindle in Dec. 2013)
  4. Caress (The Dining Club #6) by Marina Anderson (review book from 2013)
  5. Hopeless by Colleen Hoover (bought in 2013)
  6. Fallen Too Far by Abbi Glines (bought in 2013)
  7. The Evolution of Mara Dyer (bought before 2014)
  8. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (bought before 2014)
  9. Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker (bought before 2014)
  10. One Tiny Lie by K.A. Tucker (bought before 2014)
  11. The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken (review book from 2013)
  12. Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia (bought before 2014)
  13. Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (won in 2013)
  14. Breaking Nova by Jessica Sorenson (review book from 2013)
  15. A Little Too Much by Lisa Desroches (review book from 2013)
  16. Trust in Me by J. Lynn (review book from 2013)