Challenge: Summer 2015 COYER (Clean Out Your E-Reads)

I feel like participating in this earlier this year really helped me get through some e-books and e-galleys on my Nook, and I even found some that had been on there for awhile that I then really enjoyed and I found a new author to love.  So I decided to participate in the summer one as well.  There are three hosts this time, Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun, Michelle @ Because Reading, and Stormi at Books, Movies, Reviews, Oh My!  This time it runs from June 20th until September 4th, and you can sign up HERE until August 8th.  This time there will be three different grand prize giveaways, one for the reviews, one for participating in the scavenger hunt activities, and one for being supportive of the other participants.

My goals:
I'll probably stick with my same goals as last time, although I will probably also try to read e-galleys that I got from Netgalley and were Kindle files that didn't expire, so I didn't rush to read them before they were published.  That should also help me to work on my percentage on Netgalley and help me out there as well.

• Read and review about 10 e-books, that's about one each week of the challenge.
• Comment on at least 3 other reviews every time I post a review on the linky.
• Since it is summer, I will try to participate in at least one read-a-thon if there is one.
• I will try to participate in at least one of the scavenger hunt challenges.
• And I WILL post a wrap up post.  I often get to the end of a challenge and then just fizzle out with the wrap up post.  I will not do that this time.  In fact, I'm probably going to go start a post and schedule it for the day after the challenge ends to put all my wrap up stuff in.

Those are my goals.  And I intend to stick to them, maybe go above them if I have time, and I should since it is summer.  Although I am trying to work more at the bookstore and I'm going in and working on inventory in the library so that is taking up some of my extra time at the moment.

If you're interested, go sign up and I'll look forward to reading your reviews as the challenge goes on!

New Year's COYER Read-a-thon Wrap-Up

Well, let's just say that I didn't do as great as I would have liked.  I only got two e-books read, and they weren't ones that I'd listed in my  initial post.  However, I did actually attempt to read two of the books on the list.  One, Ixeos, I only got about 10% into before I gave up.  I just couldn't get into it, the characters didn't really grab me and neither did anything else about it.  The 2nd one I got 50% through, Alpha Girl, and it was better.  I could probably have finished it, other than I just had an issue with the main character and her love interest.  I  know it's fiction, I mean obviously, the main character is a werewolf, but I have a problem with her getting romantically involved with her teacher at her high school.  While she's still in high school.  Now, maybe by the end of the book it turned out like you would think that kind of relationship would, but I just couldn't keep reading on.  I don't have a problem with older men, but I do have a problem with someone who is a teacher doing that.  So, hey, to each his own, there are lots of good reviews for both books.  They just aren't for me.  And while that kind of makes it a not successful ending to this read-a-thon, in a way it helped me clear some of those books off of my e-reader in a different way.

So, did you participate?  If so, how did you do? 

New Year's Read-a-Thon

 

 Since part of my plan for the COYER challenge is to read some books that I downloaded because they were free, I feel like this challenge, hosted by Fantasy is More Fun and Because Reading, will be a good one for me.  You can participate, whether you’re a COYER participant or not, and even if you don't have a blog. The Read-a-thon will run from 12 AM Thursday, January 1, 2015 – 11:59 PM Sunday, January 4, 2015.  Here are the rules:

1. All books must meet the COYER Price Guidelines (so Free/Nearly Free, eBook or Audiobook)
2. It’s a new year, so read an author, narrator, or series that’s new-to-you.
3. Sign-up on the linky HERE by 11:59 PM December 31st. No link required, just give us your name so we know you’re joining in.
4. Sometime between now and 11:59 PM December 31st, post on your blog, twitter, FB, Google+, Booklikes (you get the idea… somewhere!) that you’re participating. That’s the link you’ll need for the Rafflecopter.

I'm going to predict that these are the books I'll try to read:

• Ixeos by Jennings Wright
• Alpha Girl by Kate Bloomfield
• Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
• Falling Fast by Lucy Kevin

I went back to the earliest downloads on both Amazon and Barnes and Noble and picked two from each one.  We'll see how it goes!

Challenge: Winter 2014-2015 COYER (Clean Out Your E-Reads)

 

I had talked about hosting my own challenge for the year to try to read through some of these e-books that I keep downloading for free.  And then I saw that I didn't need to do it on my own, because there already was one out there to participate in. It is hosted by Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun and Michelle @ Because Reading. It runs from December 20th 2014 – March 6th 2015 and you can sign up here until January 25th! Go check out the details and if you do sign up, be sure to indicate that I sent you on the linky, where it says “Who referred you?” so I can win $5 to Amazon!

My goals:

Hmm, I probably won't count a lot of my e-galleys, as I do try to read those in order of when they will expire or be published. 

• Read and review 10 e-books that meet the requirements. That's about one a week.
• Comment on at least 2 other reviews every time I post a review to the Linky
• I'm not a big read-a-thon person as I have things I need to read by certain times for reviews, but I will try to participate in one during this challenge.
• Depending on what the mini-challenges end up being, I may try to do one of those as well.

So those are the goals I'm starting with.  I may do more challenges or read-a-thons if I decide I can, and I may read more than 10 books, just depends on how my time goes.

So, what do you say? Will you join me? Don’t forget to list me when you sign up!