Blogger Shame Review Challenge

Blogger Shame

Review Challenge

2017

hosted by herding cats and burning soup and Addicted to Happily Ever After

for more information and to sign up, click here 

Facebook: closed group

This one is all about dusting off the review books (any format) that are four months (or longer) past due. There are prizes and requests for quarterly reports so decide how many books you'll get reviewed from your back log.

I'm going to go for . . . TWELVE . . . books read and reviewed, from this list during 2017, starting with the marked (*) titles. I've also three more recent titles to review before starting on the remaining titles



Gertrude and Toby Meet the Wolf
A Dog Like Sam
Disaster Falls
*I Have a Voice
*Pumpkinflowers
*Caught Up in Raine
*The Study of Seduction
*The Fairy Tale Girl
*What Happens Under the Mistletoe
*Revenge of the Chili Queens
*Ever After
*The Art of Sinning
*Before I Fall
*Tastes Like Murder
*The Right Bitch Trio

Anchored
Rooville
Worthy
9 Essential Weight Loss Blogs
Win Friends and Customers

~ Books Read - Reviewed ~

Gertrude and Toby Meet the Wolf by Shari Tharp (review goes live 1-7)

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RC - Blogger Shame (review challenge)

Blogger Shame

Review Challenge

2016

hosted by herding cats and burning soup and Addicted to Happily Ever After

for more information and to sign up, click here 

Facebook: closed group

This one is all about dusting off the review books (any format) you've had for six months or longer. There are prizes and requests for quarterly reports so decide how many books you'll get reviewed from your back log.

I've got two overflowing shelves and working on the third!

~ 2016 ~
Apr: I Have a Voice
Apr: Pumpkinflowers
Jan: Caught Up in Raine
Jan: The Study of Seduction

Oh, man, I have way more than I thought that are dusty! I'm going for 6 or more and should really go for 50+!

~ 2015 ~
Oct: The Fairy Tale Girl
Oct: What Happens Under the Mistletoe
Aug: Anchored
Aug: Tastes Like Murder
Aug: The Prince Who Was Just Himself
Jul: Revenge of the Chili Queens
Jun: Rooville
May: Worthy
May: Ever After
May: The Art of Sinning
Apr: 99 Essential Weight Loss Blogs
Feb: Before I Fall
Jan: Win Friends and Customers

let's not embarrass me with a list from 2014 or earlier (edit: except now I'm curious!)

~ Books Read - Reviewed ~

The Prince Who Was Just Himself by Silke Schnee - review

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RC: ARCs :-) . . . Review Pile Reading Challenge!

Review Pile

Reading Challenge

2014

hosted by Rachel at Fiktshun and Reanna at Phantasmic Reads!

For more information and to sign-up, click here or here.

Basic Requirements: Read your "please review this" pile. There are five levels, you can move up but not down. Rachel and Reanna will alternate which blog to post reviews at. THERE ARE PRIZES! Read the info post to find out more about that.

 I know I should go for Adept but I'm trying to be realistic here . . . I'm going for

  Journeyman 

. . . and hope to review 11-20 ARCs.

I'm not going to list all my book possibilities but I can start with the ones sitting by my reading chair and add to the list  ;-)

• What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
• Marilyn Monroe: On the Couch by Alma H. Bond, Ph.D.
• In Mint Condition: 2013 anthology
• Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

~ Books Read ~

Ten Busy Brownies by Talia Haven  ~ review
Cure for the Common Breakup by Beth Kendrick  ~ review
Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan  ~ review
For All Time by Jude Deveraux  ~ review
Arlo's Epiphany by Jane Oldaker  ~ review coming
The Possible Police by Wylde Scott ~ review

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A Timely Challenge!

Better Late Than Never

ARC Challenge

Oct 1 - Dec 31

Hosted by The Windy Pages, Nite Lite Book Reviews and The Reader's Antidote


Sign ups and more information, here



Does looking at your ARC pile stress you out? Do you suffer from NetGalley Guilt? Have you gotten so behind in your ARC reading that older ARCs have gotten pushed aside? Well then this challenge is for you.

The rules are simple.

• Read as many older review books as you can, making way for the new year and new books!
• Books may be physical ARCs or digital ARCs.
• For book to qualify, release date must be at older than 6 months (release date earlier than May 1, 2013)
• Please do a wrap up post at the end of each month so we can check your progress.
• And if you are participating, there will most likely be a chance at a prize at the end so keep a look out!

I don't know if I want to tell you how many books I have that are that old! I've got two print and four ebooks that are newish and they also need to be reviewed before the end of the year. I think I'll just list as I go. . . (unless I get upstairs to my shelf)

~ Books Read ~

1.
2.
3.

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ARC August Challenge

 
ARC

Reading Challenge

August

hosted at Read. Sleep. Repeat.    Sign- up here

You really need to go to the sign-up page just to read the conversation Octavia has with us. Here's the basics.

If you’re like me you are probably up to your ears in ARC’s and review request. Scratch that. If you’re like me then at this point there is a giant pool somewhere filled with all the ARC’s and review request you currently have.

Type up a post just saying you’re participating then add your link in the linky below! The post can be as detailed (how many ARC’s you have, etc.) or as simple as you want just make sure your mention this post so other people can join! At the end of ARC August I’ll use Random.org to pick a winner. See! Easy peasy lemon squeezy! So go on! Start sorting through that review pile, get that post written, and sign up!

Yes, I've got a pile to go through but most of it is upstairs and dinner is on the stove. I have no idea how many I'll get to but my goal is four reviews posted. That winner she's mentioned? $20 gift card for more books!

Book Choices (small sample. . . Yikes!)

• What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
• Candy and the Cankersaur by Jason Sandberg
• 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman
• Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: An Insider's Look at the World of Flea Markets, Antiques, and Collecting by Maureen Stanton
• The Weight of Deeds by Eli Thorpe
• Cat and the Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard
  
• Finding the Voice Inside You by Jill Birth
• The Holder's Dominion by Genese Davis
• Howard's Gift by Eric C. Sinoway with Merill Meadow
• The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Duncan Whitehead
• The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett
• Benny & Shrimp by Katarina Mazetti
• A Circle of Souls by Preetham Grandhi
• Kekula by Jahcolyn Russell Neiman
• A Modern Witch by Debora Geary 
• The Right Side of the Tracks by Jaxx Steele
• Second Chance by Sandra J. Gerencher
• Spin the Plate Short Story by Donna Anastasi
• True North
• Whiskey Gulf by Clyde Ford

~ Books Read ~

1.
2.
3.
4.

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Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Wrap-Up

ARC Clean Sweep

Challenge Wrap-up

May 2013

hosted by Kimberly at The Windy Pages
and Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer


Results:
To read and review as many ARCs as we can - nope.
Fun challenges each Saturday - forgot about them.
Gather your ARCs and your brooms - somewhat.
and lets have some fun! - well, I like reading ;-)

~Books to Read~

I should have a wall of shame posted somewhere, I've got too many on my shelves, too many read but not reviewed, too many started but not finished and a couple (Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods, What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries-started) that I hope to have read and reviewed before this challenge starts! Let's start small with the most recent that can wait for May . . .

Cat and the Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard
Finding the Voice Inside You by Jill Birth
The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Duncan Whitehead
The Spirit of the Heart by Ismael N. Nuno, M.D.
Wind Chime Point by Sherryl Woods (started)
Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard

whew! That's a good start, wish me luck!

~Books Read~

Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods . . . reviewed

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ARC Challenge

ARC Challenge

2013

hosted at So Many Precious Books, So Little Time

Sign- up here

Any book a publisher or author gives you with the expectation that you review it, counts for this challenge.

I'm going for ... Bronze ... 

I should go for Platinum but hope to read/review 18 ARCs this year.

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 category 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

The 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!

~Books to Read~

I should have a wall of shame posted somewhere, I've got too many on my shelves, too many read but not reviewed and too many started but not finished. (edited to add: I'm starting a sort of wall of shame, see links under header. . . )

Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods
What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries
Cat and the Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard
Finding the Voice Inside You by Jill Birth
The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Duncan Whitehead (spotlight post)
The Spirit of the Heart by Ismael N. Nuno, M.D. (spotlight post)
Wind Chime Point by Sherryl Woods
Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard

whew! That's a good start, wish me luck! (why yes, that is the same list as the Clean Sweep ARC challenge for May!)

edited to add:
Sea Glass Island by Sherryl Woods

~Books Read~

Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods ~ review
Wind Chime Point by Sherryl Woods ~ review
Sea Glass Island by Sherryl Woods ~ review
Candy and the Cankersaur by Jason Sandberg ~ review

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Clean Sweep ARC Challenge

Clean Sweep

ARC Challenge

May 2013

hosted by Kimberly at The Windy Pages
and Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer

Sign- up here

Goal:

To read and review as many ARC's as we can. We will have fun challenges each Saturday hosted by some wonderful bloggers and a prize for two lucky participants at the end of the challenge. So gather your ARCs and your brooms and lets have some fun!

Important Details:

• Must be read between May 1st and May 31st, 2013
• Starts and ends at midnight in your local time zone
• Physical and digital ARCs are eligible, in any length and genre!
• Linky will close on May 15th so sign up before you miss out!
• When you join, please add the challenge button to your blog. When you post your goals be sure add button and links back to hosts.
• Challenges will be hosted each Saturday with a chance to win additional prize
• Grand Prize- TWO winners will be chosen to pick a book of their choice from The Book Depository. (Up to $15 value per book)
• Please post your recap by June 3rd. This is the day that the Rafflecopter will close. Recap post should include a link to the review or Goodreads review with date it will be posted on your blog. (This is for readers who may be reading books way ahead of schedule and don't want to post a review yet!)
• Rafflecopter entries will be awarded for each book review linked, posting about challenge, recap post, participation in challenges, and following.
• Challenge Schedule and Rafflecopter will post on April 30^th at 4pm (EST) Rafflecopter will close on June 3 at 11:59 (EST)

~Books to Read~

I should have a wall of shame posted somewhere, I've got too many on my shelves, too many read but not reviewed, too many started but not finished and a couple (Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods, What the Duke Desires by Sabrina Jeffries) that I hope to have read and reviewed before this challenge starts! Let's start small with the most recent that can wait for May . . .

Cat and the Lady Killer by Lisa Orchard
Finding the Voice Inside You by Jill Birth
The Gordonston Ladies Dog Walking Club by Duncan Whitehead
The Spirit of the Heart by Ismael N. Nuno, M.D.
Wind Chime Point by Sherryl Woods
Camelot & Vine by Petrea Burchard

whew! That's a good start, wish me luck!

~Books Read~

Sand Castle Bay by Sherryl Woods

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Multiple Challenges at The Eclectic Bookshelf

2012 Reading Challenges from

Jamie at The Eclectic Bookshelf has several reading challenges that I'm going to participate in. Quick look at the rules and levels below..... challenges have been moved as follows:

Moved to different post with another ARC challenge.

Moved to a different page with another ebook challenge, here

Romance & Romantic Suspense Reading Challenges have been moved to (link later) with other romance challenges.

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Read & Review

Challenge 1: Read and Review personal/library books

Time Frame: 2012

Basic requirements: Read and review at least as many personal/library books in 2012 as 2011. That would be 13.

1. Christmas Haven by Hope White (1st book of the year!)
2. Great Short Poems edited by Paul Negri
3. Tails of Love edited by Lori Foster
4. The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae by Stephanie Laurens (Mar)
5. The Unlikely Wife by Debra Ullrick (Apr)
6. Quinn by R. C. Ryan (Apr)
7. Pieces of a Rainbow (Apr)
8. The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser (May)
9. Dragonsinger by Anne McCaffrey (Jun)
10. Copycat Killing by Sofie Kelly
11. Devil's Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
12. Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn
13. Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery
14. Mile Markers by Kristin Armstrong


Challenge 2: ARC at The Eclectic Bookshelf

Time Frame: 2012

Basic requirements: Any book that you have been asked to review but not books that you've asked to review (netgalley). Tour books count.

Sign up here

There are several levels (4, 10, 20, 20+) and I'm going for 10 and hope to read all the ARCs I've already read but not reviewed that qualify, plus however many more to make 10.

1. Benny & Shrimp
2. A Circle of Souls
3. Kekula (read in 11)
4. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
5. A Modern Witch (read in 11)
6. The Right Side of the Tracks,
7. Second Chance
8. Spin the Plate, short story (read in 11)
9. True North,
10. Whiskey Gulf


Challenge 3: Personal ARC Read and Review

Time Frame: 2012

Basic requirements: Read 20 ARCs and review them this year.

This is my print shelf! So, there is a duplicate books, I've added a couple since I took the picture so it even outs. And yes, that second shelf is double deep. This is just my print shelves, I've got just as many, if not more, ebooks to review.

1. Nitt Will Hill by Sebastian Gibson (reviewed 1-25)
2. Time Slice by Kerry Downing (reviewed 2-9)
3. Ancient Awakening by Matthew Bryan Laube
4. Bodyguards in Bed by anthology
5. Raising Dragons by Bryan Davis
6. Midnight Promises by Sherryl Woods
7. Catching Fireflies by Sherryl Woods
8. Where Azaleas Bloom by Sherryl Woods
9. 'Twas the Night After Christmas by Sabrina Jeffries
10. Alex Van Helsing Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson
11. Perfect Bait by Michael Fowlkes
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17,
18.
19.
20.

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Reading Challenge ARC

ARC*
Challenge

hosted by Teddy Rose at
So Many Precious Books, So Little Time
*any book a publisher or author gives you with the expectation that you review it, counts for this challenge.



There are five levels and while I have enough books to go for Platinum, I'm going for Bronze b - review at least 12!

The biggest change is that we don't need to list our review books on a "wall of shame" but I wanted to keep track online so I made my own Wall of Shame however I'm not going to embarrass myself any further by telling you when I received the book. ;)

Title by author, date read, review date (link)
(Jun 7: date read and review date? that didn't work!)

Drawn to the Land - reading
The Gathering Storm - reading
1. Any Witch Way, Mar 22, April 8 ~ reviewed
2. If a Dog could Blog by Princess Lola ....aka Killer, Apr 1, Apr 1 (reviewed)
Kekula by Johcolyn Russell Neiman, Apr 2, needs review
A Modern Witch by Debora Geary, Apr 12, needs review
3. The Misfit of Supernatural High by Schawn C. Sproatt, Jun 1 ~ reviewed
4. Red in the Flower Bed by Andrea Nepa ~ reviewed
5. Repairing Rainbows by Lynda Fishman, 8-1 - review goes live 8-25
6. The Tallest of smalls by Max Lucedo ~ reviewed
7. Miracle in Sumatra by Jeanne McNaney ~ reviewed
8. White Sleeper
9. Telling Lies
10. Nine Things Nathan Noticed at Night
11. Eyewall by H.W. "Buzz" Bernard
12. Yellow Moon by Jewell Parker Rhodes
13. P.A.C.E. by Al Sears, MD

~Challenge Completed~
October 9

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ARC Reading Challenge

I know I said I was going to be more selective in what challenges I joined but this is reading my review books and I'm doing that anyways! The scary thing for this one is seeing how far behind I am on my reviews!

This challenge is being hosted by

Teddy Rose at

So Many Precious Books, So Little Time.
Challenge information and sign-ups are here.
Challenge runs from Jan 2 to Dec 30.

List ALL the ARCs you have right now then add to the list as you receive them. Cross off the ones you've read & reviewed. There are three levels based on how many you do, I'm going for the Gold. There's more but that's the basics.

Q: Some of the books sent to me for review are final copies. Do they count? I hope so, they're on the list. - all of them count, see comments =)

Books arrive from authors, GoodReads, LibraryThing, publicists, publishers and for blog tours.

Books as of November 29, 2009
1. The Hole in Our Gospel
2. Falling into the Sun - finished Dec 1-09
3. the Lie
4. Only in New York, Darling!
5. Possible Futures
6. Dirty Little Angels
7. Whiskey Gulf
8. Playing House
9. Health Beyond Medicine
10. Your Legacy of Love
11. Defenders of the Scroll
12. The Hunt for Atlantis
13. The Art of Meaningful Living
14. The Masonic Myth
15. A Songbird in My Heart
16. Across the Endless River
17. Nibble and Kuhn
18. Raising Dragons
19. Children of Dust
20. Prince Harming Syndrome
21. Agony Hill
22. The Brimstone Murders
23. Solace
24. The Recipe Club
25. Thirsty
26. The Lost Child
27. Stepmonster
28. But Then Again I Could Be Wrong
29. The Manufactured Identity
30. The Cost of Dreams
31. When Mermaids Sing
32. Yellow Moon
33. The Alphabet Challenge
34. The Silent Gift
35. The Gathering Storm
36. Conflicts with Interest
37. Miracle in Sumatra
38. Life after 187
39. Janeology
40. Rainbow in the Night
41. The Little Known
42. Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart
43. On the Edge
44. 18 Billion
45.
46.




waiting for:
Flying Free: 1/21 still waiting


Blog Tours:
Moonstone
The Culture of Excess
By the Time You Read this I'll be Dead
Out of the Pumpkin Shell
Gateway
Unity
When the Whistle Blows
Shadowed Summer
Forget-Her-Nots
Dark Divine
Princess For Hire
The Male Factor - progress report 1-15
Whisper
Of All the Stupid Things
The Mark


Behind in reviews:
Benny & Shrimp
A Circle of Souls
A Sportscaster's Guide to Watching Football
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The Tallest of smalls
Second Chance
Nine Things Nathan Noticed At Night
Red in the Flower Bed
True North
The Right Side of the Tracks

In my mailbox!

What do you think of when someone says "soft spot"? A baby's head? Pillow? Mossy spot? Fellow Marine? What!

Yes, stepping on what remains of one your buddy's is "stepping on a soft spot". I received an ARC from St. Martin's Press (thank you Library Thing!) of "Soft Spots A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder". One man's maddening journey through an indifferent system that promises to care for veterans, but in fact abandons many of them.

Review to follow...