The lovely ladies from Colorimetry and Tressa’s Wishful Endings hosted The Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon from September 8th to September 21st. Here’s my wrap up post so you can see how I did. Julie’s Read-A-Thon Results: My goal was to read 8 books. I actually read 9 books. Below is a breakdown of when I finished each of these books. September 8: […]
The lovely ladies from Colorimetry and Tressa’s Wishful Endings have come up with this great Read-a-thon to help reduce our TBR pile. The Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon begins September 8th and ends September 21st. You do not have to be a blogger to sign up – so check out their sign up pages and join in the fun! They will be using Twitter hashtag […]
Read. Sleep. Repeat. hosted a challenge called ARC August. Here is our wrap up post. Julie’s ARC Challenge: ARCs and review copies read during ARC August: Fall of Sky City by S. M. Blooding (part of review tour) [Completed 8/1/2013] Shudder by Samantha Durante (part of review tour) [Completed 8/24/13] Elysian Fields by Suzanne Jonhson (part of review tour and from […]
The Beat the Heat Read-a-thon ran from July 29th through August 18th (it was originally August 11th but they extended it!). It was organized by Auntie Spinelli Reads or Phantasmic Reads. Here is our wrap-up post to show how we did. Did we read all the books we planned to read? Did we read more? Did we end […]
The Beat the Heat Read-a-thon runs from July 29th through August 11th. What does this read-a-thon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for two weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal! There […]
It’s Day 15 of the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, started up by Good Books and Good Wine. Rose’s Blogger Mentors: I really do not have a blogging “mentor.” Perhaps I should have one? I have certain blogs that I read and take note of the way they handle things and try to model myself (and this blog) […]
It’s Day 14 of the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, started up by Good Books and Good Wine. Rose’s Deal Breakers: The number one deal breaker for me is messing with my HEA. Yes, I am looking at you, Jessica Sorensen. Just don’t do this. I can deal with heartache and heart break and tragedy and sadness, but not […]
It’s Day 13 of the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, started up by Good Books and Good Wine. One Two underappreciated books Rose thinks EVERYONE should read: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick. A simple coming of age love story. Simple as in, no melodramatic teenaged angst, no love triangle, etc. However, this book is not fluffy […]
It’s Day 12 of the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, started up by Good Books and Good Wine. How Rose fights blogger fatigue: I like to schedule all of my reading a month in advance. I know that sounds boring and tedious, but it seriously helps me stay focused on what I need to be reviewing on my blog. I […]
It’s Day 11 of the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, started up by Good Books and Good Wine. 1. Launching our very own meme, That’s what HE said Thursday! – Because we rock and are so excited! We are hosting our very own meme, That’s what HE said Thursday. Check it out and join us this Thursday for […]