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? 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? - December 29th, 2014

This weekly meme is sponsored by Book Journey, and we talk about things we read last week, and our plans for what we'll read this coming week. 

Last week:

For Christmas break I've been getting some reading done.  Not as much as I'd hoped, but still pretty good.  I did get two reviews done for the week, as was my goal for the year.

• Frostfire by Amanda Hocking
•  Infected by Sophie Littlefield

Currently Reading:

Well, I just DNFed Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti.  I've now moved on to the book pictured below, which I'm not sure how I feel about it yet, but we'll see.

This week:
I'm working on trying to get some e-galleys caught up before they expire, plus hoping to do a little New Year's mini-challenge for COYER starting on January 1st.  But I'm doing more DNFs if they don't catch my interest, like I did with Monkey Wars.  If it is an egalley, I will give a mini-review on Goodreads and then also on Edelweiss or Netgalley for the publisher, even if I don't do one on here.  So here are the tentative reading plans for the week:

• I'll Have What She's Having by Rebecca Harrington (egalley from Edelweiss)
• Ixeos  by Jennings Wright
• Alpha Girl  by Kate Bloomfield
• Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
• Falling Fast by Lucy Kevin

I'm pretty sure I won't get through all of those, but those are what I intend to attempt to read this week.  Wish me luck!

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!