"We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they're gifted to us.. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we'll finally decide to pick them up..
Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you've been telling yourself you'll read next time you'll get a chance.. This is your chance! And we've got PRIZES!!! :D"
Come and join us during this challenge! As some of you might know, I'm one of the 10 hosts which means that I'll host a mini-challenge in November AND I'll throw international giveaways during this event! If you'd like to win some fabulous prizes, have fun and read then make sure to read the challenge guidelines below and sign up at the bottom of this post!
If you have any questions about the event, the mini challenges, about how you can take part in the challenge or anything else, feel free to drop me a line or tweet me @alouetteuette !
Come and join us during this challenge! As some of you might know, I'm one of the 10 hosts which means that I'll host a mini-challenge in November AND I'll throw international giveaways during this event! If you'd like to win some fabulous prizes, have fun and read then make sure to read the challenge guidelines below and sign up at the bottom of this post!
If you have any questions about the event, the mini challenges, about how you can take part in the challenge or anything else, feel free to drop me a line or tweet me @alouetteuette !
Challenge guidelines:
- This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2012 - Dec 31, 2012.
- As we would like to see quality reviews linked up to our monthly wrap-ups, only bloggers can enter. Sorry about that!
- Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that's been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2011 and earlier! NO ARCs and 2012 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!
- You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood takes you.
- When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2012 TBR PILE Reading Challenge (You need to include the info + host list + challenge button. You can also grab the button code and add it to your sidebar!)
- You can move up levels, but no moving down.
- Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2012, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
- At the end of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will have it's unique theme, a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from this month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of choice from Book Depository. It's open to INTERNATIONALS. For participating in the mini-challenge you will get +1 entry.
- If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking ;)
- December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you'll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway - 12 books, 12 winners, INTERNATIONAL.
- You don't have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in giveaways!
Levels:
1-10 - A Firm Handshake
11-20 - A Friendly Hug
21-30 - A Sweet Kiss
31-40 - Love At First Sight
41-50 - Married With Children
Due to the fact that I'll have lots of exams at uni and I'll be working on review copies as well, my aim is to achieve the Friendly Hug level. :)
Due to the fact that I'll have lots of exams at uni and I'll be working on review copies as well, my aim is to achieve the Friendly Hug level. :)
Hosts (their blogs & Twitter accounts)
Evie from Bookish - @SeoEvie
Nicole from All I Ever Read - @Nicoleabouttown
Bonnie from Hands and Home -@HandsHomeBlog
Donna from Book Passion For Life - @BookPforLife
Caitlin from WatchYA Reading -@caitlingss
Rie from Mission To Read -@missiontoread
Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea - @alouetteuette
Christa from Hooked On Books -@ChristasBooks
Jenna from Fans Of Fiction - @fansoffiction
Angel from Mermaids Vision - @mermaidvisions
Wrap-up POST Schedule:
January - Donna (Theme: Let It Snow + Book Cover Challenge)
February - Nicole (Theme: Un-requited Love/Love Gone Wrong + Advice Column Challenge)
March - Rie (Theme: Green or Pinched + Green Cover Challenge)
April - Bonnie (Theme: Easter + Mini Challenge)
May - Christa (Theme: MayDay - Disaster Books! + Cover Disaster Challenge)
June - Jenna ( Theme: Camping + Sentence Challenge)
July - Rie (Theme: International Day + Cover Comparison Challenge)
August - Angel (Theme: Summer Memories + Send Your Fav Character On Vacation Challenge)
September - Nicole (Theme: Life Changing Books + Mini Challenge)
October - Caitlin (Theme: Thanksgiving Theme + Share-A-Book Challenge)
November - Vicky (Theme: Spooky Halloween + Book Puzzle Challenge)
December - Evie (Theme: Xmas Bliss + Book Bachelor Challenge)
The books I'm planning to include in the challenge and read in 2012:
I'll probably add some more later on though, but these are the ones I know for certain at the moment. :)
- Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Ghost Children by Sue Townsend
- Things I Want My Daughters to Know by Elizabeth Noble
- Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
- The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
- The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
- Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
- Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon
- Jenny Pox by JL Bryan
- A Home for Christmas by Deborah Grace Staley
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9 comments:
Gorgeous blog! It's really great that we all can cohost together. I can't wait to read your review for Carrier of the Mark.
-Jenna @ Fans of Fiction
Ahh, yes! I will definitely be doing this one but I'll hold on a couple more weeks to sign up because I'm not ready to do sign up posts on my blog.
Was looking for a TBR pile reading challenge to tidy up my shelf a bit and I did find one last night but this one sounds much more fun! :)
I'm looking forward to this Vicky!! What a great idea to get the TBR pile down :)
Jenny
Definitely signed myself up to this! I'm in some serious need of getting my TBR down, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon with Uni and review copies. This will help focus me - Oh how I love to cross things off lists ;P
It's going to be great! :)
Dani @ Pen to Paper
My Challenge Post
OMG, really excited. I definitely want in on this.
- Asher (from Paranormal Indulgence)
Nice challenge! Can't wait for 2012! And I see some great books in your list :) Hope you have fun reading them!
Great idea, I'm in!!!
Here's my list :)
http://passionfornovels.blogspot.com
This is such a great idea. Thanks for the invite on Good Reads! :)
This is the one challenge I absolutely need to do. So glad to have something pushing me to finally read some of the books that have been on my shelf for eons.
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