Sitting on the shelf...

  Sitting on the shelf looking at you, forgotten, alone, collecting dust. What is it you ask? Its the books, you know the ones, the ones you bought with good intentions of reading right away. Well here is your chance! The time is now, in 2013! Make a commitment to read through some of those books you already own. Put a number on it if you want. For me, I will be reading 10-15 Books that I already own before I buy another book. I picked book challenges that would help me keep this goal because I already own books that can fall under those challenge rules. I understand a lot of you don't want a book challenge with all its rules and and having to stay with certain books but this one is easy! Read the books you already picked out and bought, read as many or a few as you want. The point is to set a reasonable goal and to meet that goal before spending any more money and adding more books to the shelf that won't be touched for a while longer. Make some of those books happy this year!
 How many books will you read from your shelf this year?

Pick an Author Book Challenge 2013!

Pick an Author Book Challenge 2013!

This challenge is great for those who have a favorite author or an author of a great book they read last year and want to see what else the author has!

How it works/Rules:
~Pick an author that has two or more books out already(as of Jan. 1st 2013).
~It can be from any genre you like.
~Books have to be over 100 pages long.
~Pick as many or as few authors you want.
~You have to read at least 2 books from the author(s) you pick.
~To get the most out of this challenge I would pick 1-3 Authors and read at least 3-5 books from each of them.
~Pick the authors for the year and the first book from each author that you will read and make a blog post about this challenge and what you chose and link it back to this post. (if you know all the books you will read from the author(s) you picked post them all.
~Crossovers from other book challenges are OK.
~Books with more then one Author are OK as long as one of them is the main one you picked for this challenge.
~If doing a book that has a study guide with it, the book and study count as one total.
~Series are OK.
~Sign up for this blog to see the reminder posts throughout the year.
~Sign up for the challenge by adding your name and link to your blog post about this challenge in the reply section below.
~As you finish books from the authors you chose update your post about it and also post in the reply section here with what you have done so far.
~You can read any new books released in 2013from the author(s) you picked as long as they have two or more books published before 2013 and at least one of the books you read from them are from before 2013.
Examples:
 1. Sign up reply will look like this,
          Name, Blog post link
          Author name
          1.First book you will read from that Author
         Author name
         1.First book from that Author
Repeat as many times as you need for how many authors you picked

2. Update Post/reply
          Author Name
         1. First Book you read from Author
         2.Next book you read or will read from author
         Author Name
        1. First book you read from Author
        2. Next book you read or will read from Author

Outdo Yourself Book Challenge 2013

I LOVE books!!! But I never end up reading as much as I want to or need to! So I thought being part of a few book challenges would help me along with that! One of them that I will be participating in is the Outdo Yourself Book Challenge hosted by The Book Vixen! The level I will be working on is "Out of Breath", I will need to read 6-10 more books then I did last year. Want to join me in this? Click on the button to sign up!