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Wrap Up Post to the Summer TBR Wipeout

By Brookelorren on 10 Comments

Summer 2018 TBR Wipeout Challenge

It’s hard to believe, but today is the final day to the Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge, hosted by The Candid Cover.  Although summer isn’t completely over, the TBR Wipeout is, and it makes me a little sad.  This is the first challenge that I’ve done as a book blogger, and so it will probably be a little special to me, and it’s sad to see it end.  I’m sure that there will be plenty of new challenges to come.

So without further adieu, I’d like to give my final report:

Since My Last Update:

Since my last update to the Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge, I’ve read five books:

Glass Sword and Crown of Midnight were on my TBR when this challenge began.  The George Whitefield book was an ARC from Netgalley, and the other two books were ARCs that I won through various sweepstakes (my first two physical ARCs!).

Overall Challenge:

Overall, I read 15 books for the Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge.  My reading pace has slowed since I had to go back to work, but since my goal was 10 books, I can say that I reached the goal and that’s a good thing.

I plan on writing reviews for all of the books that I read for this challenge and haven’t been posted yet.  I plan for the weekend of September 13th to be Sarah J. Maas weekend, where I post my reviews for the first three of her books, and the weekend of September 27th will be Victoria Aveyard weekend, where I post the first three books of The Red Queen series.  Yes, I realize that I haven’t read the third book in either series, but since I’m first on the waiting list for both books, I doubt that that will be a problem.

Thanks for reading my updates, thank you to The Candid Cover for hosting this challenge, and I hope that you’ll keep visiting my blog to see my future reviews and hopefully new challenges in the future!

Update Post #2 to Candid Cover’s TBR Wipeout Challenge!

By Brookelorren on 2 Comments

Summer 2018 TBR Wipeout ChallengeSo today is the day I’m supposed to give another update to The Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge, hosted by The Candid Cover.  The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy, so I only got four more books read.  That’s okay though, because I did get some writing done, and I did get one of the books on my TBR shelf read.  Yay!

So over the last two weeks since my last update, I read these books:

  • Summer Days and Summer Nights – Various authors
  • 1,000 Years, 1,000 People – several authors
  • Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard
  • Harbor Me – Jaqueline Woodson

Only Red Queen was on my TBR plans to read at the beginning of this challenge.  I signed up to check this one out of the library in May, and finally got the chance to read it last week.

I reviewed two of the books last week, plan on publishing the review for Harbor Me tomorrow, and plan on reviewing Red Queen on September 20th (I generally review a new release book early in the week and an older book later in the week, so the older books are backed up a bit).

For the next two weeks, I’m 2nd on the waiting list for Ever the Brave and Crown of Midnight, so I may end up getting to read those.  I have an ARC for My Mother, Barack Obama, and the Last Stand of the Angry White Man that I plan on reviewing next Monday, and I’m working on reading George Whitefield: Evangelist for God and Empire; I hope to review that two Monday’s from now.  I also was chosen for Give the Dark My Love by Penguin’s First to Read program, so I’ll probably read that soon as well.

See you in two weeks!  I can’t believe this challenge is almost over!

Challenge Yourself to Read More Books This Summer!

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Every time of year is a good time of year to read a book, but people tend to read more books in the summer.  I have a little more time because I have a couple fewer responsibilities; I’m currently taking a leave of absence from work (family stuff) and have a lot more time to read in the meantime.  There’s no better time to challenge yourself to read more books and get into the reading habit.

My coworker one suggested that I must never sleep and have tons of energy, because I’m always talking about a story that I’m writing, or a book that I’ve read, or the language classes that I teach.  I responded with “not really, I just don’t watch a lot of TV”.  My husband just said earlier today that he wanted to read more books (hint: put down the Netflix).  A good way to get out of the TV habit and into the book habit is to join the Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge, hosted by Candid Cover.  If you do, you might be able to win a free book!

There are a few things that you have to do to join this challenge.  You don’t have to have a blog, but you do have to have a few places where you can make a few posts about this challenge.  You can post to Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, or anywhere else you like to post.  All you need to do is make an introductory post, a couple of update posts, and a final post.  Oh, and do a lot of reading.  Easy peasy!

Sign-ups close on July 5th, so you’ll want to get in there before then.  Since this is still early June, you have plenty of time, but you might as well sign up now before you forget about it.  Happy reading!