May's Reading Challenge

It's Spring. It's time to clean and what am I buried in? Books to read! A huge portion of them are ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) that I wish to read and review. The problem is, typically, life gets in the way of me accomplishing this. Well, not this month!

Thanks to Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer, there is a challenge this month that is going to light the fire under my lazy reader's butt to get me to read and review as many of the ARCs I have in one month: it's called the "Clean Sweep ARC Challenge." If you would like to join me, the linky to join will remain open until May 15th, so it is not too late!

 

My reading list for this challenge 

(which includes ancient ARCs from last year's BEA through digital ARCs that were approved as recently as yesterday!) 

The Last Policeman

The Curiosities

After

The Company of Writers

Guardians, Inc. : The Cypher (read and REVIEWED)

Eat Drink Vote

The Facebook Diet (read!)

crush.candy. corpse

The How-To Handbook

Identity Theft

Burning the Page

Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time

Being Henry David

The Revelations of Jude Connor

I still have more. Finishing this list will not be a complete sweep, but writing this list out like this is showing me exactly how many I still have to read. If I can get through this batch, I'll come back and add more.

For now, I think I better stop blogging and jump into that reading list. 

Thanks for reading!

This list includes fiction, YA, graphic novels, books on writing, nonfiction and short stories: which genre are you most interested in hearing (reading) about?

Goodreads Reading Challenge

I did it!

For my 2012 Goodreads Reading Challenge I challenged myself to read 52 books in the year. I figured one book per week wasn't too much of a stretch for someone who loves reading as much as I do. It shouldn't have been, anyway, but by December I found myself over 15 books behind on my reading.

I didn't think I was going to squeeze it out and, some may say that I "cheated" in the end, but before the clock struck 12am on January 1, 2013, I had read 54 books.

Now I have to catch up on my reviews! I have a lot of books to review and share. The whole year was an awesome read, but December was particularly exciting with so many stories jammed into such a short amount of time. There were novels, graphic novels, children's books and audiobooks all absorbed during the holiday season.

I was so inspired by my December Read-a-Thon that I quickly created my 2013 Reading Challenge and decided to really reach for the stars:

My new goal is 100 books, and I've already read six! I'm looking forward to sharing them all here so you can find yourself in some book love this year.

Happy Reading!

Do you participate in any kind of reading challenges?

What do you think is a reasonable amount of books to read in one year?
Do you think children's picture books should be counted as "reads"?