Challenge Yourself to Read More Books This Summer!

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!

Win Some Free Books!

Win some free books in JuneI love to win things!  I’m sure that you do as well.  When I started this blog a year ago (before life got sidetracked and I started spending a lot of time at a different job) I was thinking of making this blog into one where I had a lot of sweepstakes and reviews.  When I decided to reboot this blog a couple of weeks ago, I thought that it might make sense to focus on book reviews.  I still love sweepstakes though.  When I saw that there was a June blog hop going on, I thought that I’d share it with you here!

There are some great books coming out in June.  I’ve got almost my entire day set aside on Tuesday so I can read Smoke in the Sun.  Of course, there are a lot of other wonderful books coming out in June, and you can have a chance to win one of them!  In fact, there are several chances for you to win a new book, since this is a giveaway hop.

Here are some of the opportunities you have to win:

Each of these giveaways have their own rules and end dates, so make sure that you check the rules before you enter.  There may be some more added later to this giveaway hop, but the ones listed above are ones that are currently working and that I have successfully entered.

Good luck!  And may the odds be ever in your favor.