Showing posts with label A-Z. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A-Z. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The A-Z Challenge Wrap Up

2012 is behind us now and so is this particular reading challenge!

How did you all do? I started off well but real life got in the way and poor Melissa had to do all of the work from there :(

I've wrapped up my own progress on my blog, The Novel Nation, but as a hint, I only managed level 2. It's a good thing I love Alphabet Soup then, right?

Now for the bonus (and the thing that I totally forgot to mention at the beginning of the year :p ) Those of you that participated and linked throughout the year, are eligible for a special prize from us! Simply link up your own close out post below and you'll be entered for a chance to win a book from the Book Depository valued up to $10. What a great way to get started on your reading goals for the New Year, right?!

Thanks to the small number of participants that joined in with us for 2012. May 2013 be bigger and wordier for you all :)

You have until Jan. 20, 2013 to enter your links.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

November A-Z Challenge

Melissa:

I did NaNoWriMo last month, but at the beginning I did get a review of one book up, and it qualifies for the challenge!  It's a letter I've been needing.  I also got more read, but not posted with Nano.  It'll come in December, I'm just hoping it qualifies in the remaining letters I need. ;)

K:  Kiss of Death by Seleste deLaney

Sunday, November 4, 2012

October A-Z Challenge

Melissa:

Well, this challenge is really getting harder with the dwindling letters left.  But I did manage to get one letter reviewed...

O:  Of Course I Try by Seleste deLaneyA-Z

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

September A-Z Challenge

Melissa,

Okay, so I seem to be stuck.  I need to get my review books rotated through here that match up with the letters I have left.  That's going to be hard.  But I'll work at it.  But for now, I don't have any letters finished for September.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

January in review: A-Z Challenge

Jackie: Well, January was a near bust for me. I've been sick since just after Christmas but just as I was starting to get some relief, I got another cold (I blame the second one on the kiddie :-p ) What all that whining amounts to is very little reading time. Most days, you'd find me on Twitter complaining to Melissa that a book was just way too heavy to hold, lol.

Anyway, here's what I read for the A-Z challenge this month:

Everneath by Brodi Ashton
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
World War Z by Max Brooks


Melissa:  Well, I know the feeling of being down with the colds.  I think we were sending it back and forth through a virus on here. lol.  It's definitely been a tough start to the new year.  I've spent more of my time reading short stories with being up and down.  And I have books I've read that will go towards this Challenge, but I'm holding them until I get the reviews up here in February, trying to spead the love more than one month. lol.

What I've got thus far for A-Z Challenge...

Addicted by S.A. Archer
Cybrosis by P.C. Haring
Foreshadow by S.A. Archer
Percepliquis by Michael J. Sullivan
Something Wikkid This Way Comes by Nicole Peeler

Well, here's to February being a great lettered month too. :)

Thursday, December 15, 2011

The A-Z Reading Challenge 2012

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Hello all!

Melissa and I (Jackie) were trying to think of some interesting ways to challenge ourselves and our fellow readers for the New Year. We've come up with an alphabet challenge that should be fairly easy to complete, if you happen to read 26 or more books per year. Then again, there are always those elusive letters, like "Z" and "U", that might really make this "challenge" come alive. And to throw an additional wrench in the plans, books starting with "A" or "The" don't count for "a" and "t"

Here are the challenge levels:

Level 1 - The EZ-Peasy. 7 books (each TITLE starting with a different letter of the alphabet). This challenge level maybe a cake walk, and upon completion, you can read all the books that start with "The" you could possibly desire, including John Grisham's entire library ;)
Level 2 - Alphabet Soup. 13 books of varying letters but just like the soup, sometimes you only get so many letters in the bowl. It will still be an impressive feat!
Level 3 - The Varsity Jacket. 26 books. You'll read a book starting with every single letter! Once completed,  a victory lap around the track can be performed in celebration!
Level 4 - The Vanna White. 52 books. Tackling each and every letter twice over this year, you'll prove your prowess is matched only by the letter master herself! We will be awed and humbled by your achievements :D

To join in, enter your blog info below. We will be posting monthly updates where you can link your alphabet themed reviews (setting up a post where you have links to all your reviews together would be a great way to keep track too :). Remember to keep checking back until the end of the year when we'll be giving away a gift certificate and a swag pack. We're looking forward to seeing all the great books listed!

We've created a handy-dandy button for you to remember where to link, also! Just copy the text in the box below and paste into an HTML window on your sidebar:

The Challenged Writers A to Z Reading Challenge