4th Annual September is for Sequels Challenge Sign Ups

Am I the only blogger/reader who falls in love with the first book in a series, and then as I get more and more books to review, more firsts in new series, the sequels tend to sit on my shelf?  I mean I have to buy the sequels right away, usually once they come out, but then they sit on my shelves as I work my way through review books and other new series.  Well, a few years ago I had an idea for a challenge, (well to give credit to who I got the idea from, it was Ems Reviews Books).    Seeing all the challenges that other blogs did, I thought I would set aside the month of September to try to get through as many of those sequels, whatever point of the series I was at, anywhere from #2 to #5, or beyond.  I think the first year I had about 10 people participate, only 6 the 2nd year, but back up to 13 last year.  I'm hoping by getting this posted earlier in the month, maybe I can get some more people this year.  This fits right in with many other challenges, such as the TBR Pile Challenge, End of Series Challenge, etc.  I'm also going to host a Giveaway Hop to go with this, and will link back to that as soon as I get it posted as well.


Objective:
To read and review a minimum of 4 sequels between the dates of September 1st and 30th, 2015. My goal is to read 8 books, that's only 2 a week, which is the less than I set my goal for last year. But, I know that I still have lots of e-galleys to try to get through for the next few months, because I wasn't good about not requesting everything until just recently.  I also will be in New Orleans the last weekend in September, and while I intend to have books, and my Nook with me, (they always go when I travel), I'm not sure how much time I'll get to spend reading.  Plus, one of my books is a pretty big, thick one, so it will take longer than the others will.  But here is my plan, even though it may change as the month goes by:

1.  Arianna's Destiny by Michelle Sodaro
2.  Prodigy (Legend #2) by Marie Lu
3. Evertrue (Everneath #3) by Brodi Ashton
4. Lair of Dreams (The Diviners #2) by Libba Bray
5.  The Storm (The Rain #2) by Virginia Bergin
6. Infinite (New Souls #3) by Jodi Meadows
7. End of Days (Penryn and the End of Days #3) by Susan Ee
8. The White Rose (The Lone City #2) by Amy Ewing

Rules:

• It would be good if you had a blog to post reviews, or you can be a Goodreads Member and post your reviews on the site.  I'll open it up to people who want to post reviews on Amazon or Barnes and Noble as well.
• The book must be a sequel - it can be any # in the series, just not the first book.  Prequels can count if they were published AFTER the first one in the series.  You can do e-books, even ARCs or e-galleys, as well as good old fashioned books.  And, I'll even let you count the little 1.5 novellas that are often published as e-books only.  
• The deadline to sign up and participate is September 15th.  
• You must post on your blog an entry that has a list of the sequels you're planning to read, but it doesn't have to be complete, or you could even just post your goal, do you plan to read 8, or more?  You can always go back as the month proceeds and enter the books as you read and review them.  If you don't have a blog, then you can just post a comment on this post listing your goals.
• Make sure you grab the button and put it in your entry post, or on the sidebar of your blog.

 In the sign up form below, you need to give me your name and blog name, Ex:  Lisa (Lisa Loves Lit) or just your blog name is okay, and then a link to your original post that set your goal or listed the books you were reading.  If you are not a blogger, and can't do that post, if you only review on Goodreads, then leave me a link to your profile page on Goodreads so that I can follow you to see your reviews.  If you only review on Amazon or Barnes and  Noble, you can leave me a link to one of your reviews on that site.  Everyone who signs up to participate will be entered once into an end of the month giveaway of a $20 Gift card to Barnes and Noble or Amazon if you prefer, and I may increase the amount of the gift card if I get very many people signed up to participate!  If the winner is International and can't use either of those gift cards, I will let them choose up to $20 worth of books from The Book Depository.  There will also be a way to post a link to each of your reviews in order to earn extra points into the giveaway, that will be with the Rafflecopter below the Sign Up form. 



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3rd Annual September is for Sequels Challenge

I know many of you have signed up for the September is for Sequels Giveaway Hop.  But the reason this came about is because of the idea I had last year for a challenge, (well to give credit to who I got the idea from, it was Ems Reviews Books).  I've really noticed that as I started getting more and more advanced readers copies of books, and now e-galleys, that often I'd get the first book in a series, love it, and then since I often didn't get the sequels as ARCs, I would buy them, or even not buy them, but they'd end up on my TBR pile.  So seeing all the challenges that other blogs did, I thought I would set aside the month of September to try to get through as many of those sequels, whatever point of the series I was at, anywhere from #2 to #5, or beyond.  I think the first year I had about 10 people participate, but only had about 6 last year.  I'm hoping by getting this posted earlier in the month, maybe I can get some more people.  Plus I'm going to link up on the Giveaway Hop post to direct people here as well.


Objective:
To read and review a minimum of 4 sequels between the dates of September 1st and 30th, 2014. 

My goal is to read 12 books, that's three a week, which is the same amount I set my goal for last year.  Which ones I actually read may change, but here are the 12 I plan to read:

1. Beautiful Chaos (Caster Chronicles #3) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
2. Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles #4) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
3.  Asunder (New Souls #2) by Jodi Meadows
4. Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse #12) by Charlaine Harris
5. The Fox Inheritance (Jenna Fox Chronicles #2) by Mary E. Pearson
6. Light (Gone #6) by Michael Grant
7. Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3) by Robin LaFevers
8. Altered (Crewel World #2) by Gennifer Albin
9. Days of Blood and Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone #2) by Laini Taylor
10. Caught (The Missing #5) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
11. Sinner (Wolves of Mercy Falls #3.5) by Maggie Stiefvater
12. Arianna's Destiny (Arianna's Honor #2) by Michelle Sodaro

Rules:

• It would be good if you had a blog to post reviews, or you can be a Goodreads Member and post your reviews on the site.
• The book must be a sequel - it can be any # in the series, just not the first book.  Prequels can count if they were published AFTER the first one in the series.  You can do e-books, even ARCs or e-galleys, as well as good old fashioned books.  And, I'll even let you count the little 1.5 novellas that are often published as e-books only.  
• The deadline to sign up and participate is September 15th.  
• You must post on your blog an entry that has a list of the sequels you're planning to read, but it doesn't have to be complete, or you could even just post your goal, do you plan to read 8, or more?  You can always go back as the month proceeds and enter the books as you read and review them.
• Make sure you grab the button and put it in your entry post, or on the sidebar of your blog.

 In the sign up form below, you need to give me your name and blog name, Ex:  Lisa (Lisa Loves Lit) or just your blog name is okay, and then a link to your original post that set your goal or listed the books you were reading.  If you are not a blogger, and can't do that post, if you only review on Goodreads, then leave me a link to your profile page on Goodreads so that I can follow you to see your reviews.  Everyone who signs up to participate will be entered once into an end of the month giveaway of a $20 Gift card to Barnes and Noble or Amazon if you prefer, and I may increase the amount of the gift card if I get very many people signed up to participate!  If the winner is International and can't use either of those gift cards, I will let them choose a book from The Book Depository up to $20.  There will also be a way to post a link to each of your reviews in order to earn extra points into the giveaway, that will be with the Rafflecopter below the Sign Up form.  



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September is for Sequels Challenge

Have you noticed that the longer you've been blogging about books, the more books that get added to your TBR pile?  And that all those pretty, sparkly, new books grab your attention first, leaving sequels to other series sitting on the pile for longer and longer? Well, it seems to be happening to me!!  Then, a month or so ago, I saw an idea for a sequel challenge in September on Ems Book Reviews Blog.  She's only doing a 3-day weekend for her challenge though, and since I'm now back at school teaching, I can only read 1 book (hopefully at least a whole book) in that time period.  AND, since I've been thinking about a whole month of sequels since I first saw the idea, I decided to host a month long challenge in September (and I did get permission from Ems to do something similar to her idea).
I'm hoping there are other people who might want to join in as well, and so I've set it up with a prize at the very end!  So far I haven't been able to create a button for this, but I'll let everyone know if I get one up for you sometime during the month.

Objective:
To read and review a minimum of 4 sequels between the dates of September 1st and 30th, 2012.

My goal is to read 8 books, that's two a week, a pretty normal number for during the school year.  Which ones I actually read may change, but here are the 8 I plan to read:

1. One of our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde
2. Dust & Decay by Jonathan Maberry
3. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
4. Shadows by Ilsa J. Bick
5. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare
6. Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Stolarz
7. Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick
8. Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin

Rules:

• It would be good if you had a blog to post reviews, or you can be a Goodreads Member and post your reviews on the site.
• The book must be a sequel - it can be any # in the series, just not the first book.  Prequels can count if they came out AFTER the first one in the series.  You can do e-books, even ARCs or e-galleys, as well as good old fashioned books.  And, I'll even let you count the little 1.5 novellas that are often published as e-books only.  
• The deadline to sign up and participate is September 15th.  
• You must post on your blog an entry that has a list of the sequels you're planning to read, but it doesn't have to be complete, or you could even just post your goal, do you plan to read 8, or more?  You can always go back as the month proceeds and enter the books as you read and review them.

In the sign up from below, you need to give me your name and blog name, Ex:  Lisa (Lisa Loves Lit) or just your blog name is okay, and then a link to your original post that set your goal or books you were reading.  If you are not a blogger, and can't do that post, if you only review on Goodreads, then leave me a link to your profile page on Goodreads so that I can follow you to see your reviews.  Everyone who signs up to participate will be entered once into an end of the month giveaway of a $20 Gift card to Barnes and Noble or Amazon if you prefer, and I may increase the amount of the gift card if I get very many people signed up to participate!  I'm hoping to have some smaller giveaways each week too.  There will also be a way to post a link to each of your reviews in order to earn extra points into the giveaway, that will be with the Rafflecopter below the Sign Up form.

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