TBR pile overwhelming? Too many categories to count? Participate in your own personal RCRC! This challenge will be tough, but it will be fun! Let’s get some romances read!
Goal: To read 30 (new to you) category romances in one month.
Break down: 1 category romance per day for 30 days.
Extra Blogger Goal: Review each book for this challenge and post before next day. Normal readers are welcome to share their thoughts during the challenge. Simply click the submit review button above and tell us about the book!
Can you do it? Join in by taking this button and posting it on your blog and/or by leaving a comment below! Prize for 1 person who completes challenge: box of gently read categories, assorted. To be eligible must submit 3 reviews or link me to 3 reviews in November 2009.
5 Tips to Stay on Target:
- Block reading time. Many people say you can read a category in a few hours. Set aside at least 3 hours in your day. I suggest when you first wake up (get up early if you have to), during/around lunch time, and an hour before you turn off the light.
- Carry book with you. If you can’t get block time, carry your category with you. I bet you’ll be surprised how fast you whip through it with all those spare minutes here and there throughout the day.
- Change it up. Switch category romance lines regularly to keep interest. You can still be diverse reading category!
- Stick to one line. If you find yourself breezing through the categories of a certain line and you’re enjoying them, stick with it, don’t switch lines unless you want to, go with what is working.
- Keep notes. This one is for bloggers. If you keep notes while you read, say on a piece of paper that you use as a bookmark, you’re review will be that much quicker and easier to put up.
Good luck!
***Please note that this challenge was designed in mind to help crank through books already in a fairly large TBR pile. I don’t expect anyone to go out and buy 1 let alone 30 new categories to complete this challenge. You can if you want, but that’s not the point for this challenge. Your library, ebay, and amazon are equally good sources for free to low price categories if you want to join the merriment.
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Keira, the only way I could possibly read 30 books in one month is:
#1 If I found a Delomelanicon, and I bargained with Remi for the power to read in my sleep.
#2 Only if Donald Trump hired me a maid, a cook, and a babysitter.
#3 By ignoring moral/ethical guidelines and cloning myself 10 times. Each Susan could choose three books from the series, and we’d finish all 30 within the given month.
#4 If my boss said to me, “I’m feeling generous. I’ll advance you a month’s pay, just stay home, and do nothing.”
#5 Use a confundus charm to confuse readers into thinking I actually read 30 books.
#6 By using the ocularis biblio to speed read all 30 books in under five minutes. (I made that charm up in case you’re wondering)
#7 If I act within the next five minutes by ordering six CD’s and course guide to learn how to speed read for only $200.
#8 I could just take a nap instead, and dream about how nice it would be to actually read 30 books.
#9 A magic lamp with a genie would grant me three wishes. I could wish for the ability to speed read without paying the $200.
#10 My second wish would be for the authors to orally narrate their books to me. They read while I type my notes, and my review. (How cool would that be)
I bet you can read 30 books and here’s why:
1. Usually categories are kinda small.
2. The text is a bit larger nowadays in categories compared older categories.
3. DNF (did not finish) books count.
4. You could have more reading time if you gave cooking and cleaning duties to hubby.
5. Claim you’re on errands and go find a nice spot to sit and read.
OTOH, I only require proof (reviews) of three read (which is 1/10th of the books suggested to read) to enter the contest.
lol
30 books in a month? I’m kinda jealous, actually. I barely have time for 2 a month and that’s stretching it a bit. I fondly remember the days when I could read like that. Course, writing does get in the way lol.
Plus I owe you a review on The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy which I’ve read but have yet to write a reveiw of.
That’s the crux of the seesaw right there!
Reading < Writing
Reading > Writing
One goes up the other goes down. There’s never an = because there’s more going on in life than just those two things.
Looking forward to your review!
I so wish I could participate in this challenge. My unread category romance pile is massive. Unfortunately, there’s just no way I’ll have the time to get through 30 books (!) this month. I think I’d have trouble with half that. So I’ll participate in a half-assed way and just focus on reading as many of the categories in my TBR pile as I can.
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