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The BLI Holiday Reading Challenge 2012 – Sign Up
Today we are interrupting our usual Romance & Me feature to make a festive announcement.
It’s time to bring out the Christmas decorations, eggnog recipes and your holiday reading, because
the BLI Holiday Reading Challenge starts today!!!
Ready, steady, go! 😀
You might remember the BLI Holiday Reading Challenge from last year, we read a lot of holiday set books, got in the festive mood and had tons of fun, so we thought why not do it this year as well, only amping the fun and prizes? 😉
Truth be told as you may remember I’m a Christmas-aholic, so I’m counting back the days ’till the holidays from the moment January rolls around, so I was excited and impatient to finally start the challenge again! 😀
So please join me in Book Lovers Inc’s second annual Holiday Reading Challenge! *throws confetti*
Here are the main rules, but don’t hesitate to ask if anything’s unclear:
Challenge Rules:
1. The BLI Holiday Reading Challenge will start on November 14 and will end on December 31.
2. You can read as many holiday themed books for the challenge as you wish, pick your level:
Santa’s Helper: read 1-3 holiday themed books
Serial Mistletoe-er: read 4-6 holiday themed books
Candy Cane-aholic: read 7 or more holiday themed books – this is the level I’m aiming for! 🙂
3. The books you read for this challenge must all be holiday related books. The holiday doesn’t matter, it can be Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc. and the story can have any connection to the holiday (for example set around Christmastime, or having Santa or an elf as a character, the cover being festive, featuring snowflakes, etc.).
4. The format, length or genre of the books do not matter, they can be ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks, and short stories and novellas do count as well. It’s okay for the book to overlap with other challenges. The only thing is that they can’t be children’s books, but YA novels are good. Re-reads are also fine.
5. Start the challenge by signing up! Leave a link back to your challenge post in the linky below where you state your challenge level (and if you already know which books you’ll be reading a list as well).
If you don’t have a blog, no problem, you can still sign up with your name and e-mail address.
(There will be posts later where you can leave your links to your reviews and of course there will be a challenge wrap up post at the end).
6. And of course there will be prizes! There will be separate giveaways where you can win some holiday themed novels (the rules for those will be set out on the separate posts) and there will be the Grand Prize Giveaway: at the end of the challenge we will draw 3, yes THREE winners from all the review links. Meaning the more books you read, review and link up, the more chances you have at winning. 🙂
1st winner: shopping spree of $15 USD
2nd winner: shopping spree of $10 USD
3rd winner: shopping spree of $10 USD
of any holiday themed books at the Book Depository or the online ebook retailer of winner’s choice if they accept payment through Paypal.
Here is our festive challenge button, feel free to display it on your blog or site, and we would be grateful if you spread the word, the more the merrier! 🙂
Leave the links to the books you have read for the challenge HERE.
Find some holiday read recommendations here:
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can you change ( moving up) our level during the challenge itself or our choice is definitive? do teh french review count too? ( just to be sure^^)
additionnal question is a book is an anthology can we make a review by story or it’s one for the whole book?
For anthologies you can make reviews by stories if you’d like, but those reviews need to be actual real reviews having more than 2 sentences 😉
of course^^ i don’t like too short reviews anyway ^^ but it help me to count how many are possible
I don’t think it’s too difficult to read 3-5 holiday themed books in 1,5 months, usually people start out with a modest bet and they surpass their expectations 😉 Good luck!
Yes, you can move up and down, start with a smaller level and upgrade if you read more, no pressure at all 😀
Sounds like a really fun challenge! I’m in. ^_^
Glad you joined the fun Tin! 😀
I’m in – already got my holiday romances waiting. 😉
Yay! Aren’t those the best? 😀 Can’t wait to start reading them!!
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Thanks so much for hosting this challenge again!
Thanks for participating Darlene, have fun! 😀
I’m looking forward to this – looks like a clot of fun and to help me get into the Christmas mood! 🙂
Can’t wait! Thanks for hosting! 🙂
Thanks for reminding me and hosting this event again this year. There are many free christmas ebooks right now at Free Ebook Partay
Is it too late to join. I love Holiday books and already checked out a bunch of Holiday inspired books.. This seems like fun..
Of course it’s not too late Evy, the challenge is open ’till Dec 31, so enjoy those holiday books 😀
Aw, heck, I read/reviewed two Christmas books last week, before I knew about the challenge here. Sigh! Nevertheless, since I have a couple more on the docket, please count me in!
Trix, it’s no problem at all, just sign up for the challenge with a post or a goodreads shelf and then link your reviews in the other Linky 😀
Trix, could you please sign up with a link to your challenge post on your blog and not the link to your comment here? Thanks
I’m actually one of those blog-free folks who is posting reviews at a different site. Should I just put my name and address in the linky, but no URL?
Do you have a Goodreads profile? Or where do you post your reviews that you mentioned above? If you are on Goodreads/Shelfari please create a shelf for the challenge and link to that and we’ll be able to see your progress 😀
I’m not on GR…I’ve basically posted the other reviews on Reading Romances’ December page, and would probably continue to do so there (since I’ve done all the Christmas reading in December). Would it work on one of those posts? (Sorry to clog up everybody’s bandwidth, haven’t felt like a ‘net amateur in a while…)
Sure, that could work Trix but only if you can point exactly to where the review can be found (won’t have to go through 33 pages of comments, etc.)
Okay, revised signup is #16 on the linky, below my old one. Apologies, and many thanks for your patience! Should I go ahead and link to my December 4 reviews, or just start fresh from here?
Sure Trix, link to any holiday reviews you wrote after Nov 10 😀