Category: Challenges

Can You Read a Series in a Month Review #1 ~ Pucked ~ Helena Hunting

Oh golly was Pucked a lot of fun! I loved Violet! Her klutziness, her lack of filter…the things that came out of her mouth! LOL I adored Alex, too. His loyalty, his tenacity, his loving Violet for exactly who she is. I have a feeling I might fly through this series! Highlights: Characters Not only was I delighted with Violet and Alex but HHunting populated their story with an outstanding secondary cast. From Alex’s teammates to his parents and Vi’s step-brother, parents, and best friend – they all combined to better convey the character of Violet and Alex. The secondary characters also gave depth to the story. Plus, I’m eager to learn more about quite a few hockey players. 😉 […]

Posted 11 November, 2019 by Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges, Reviews / 2 Comments

COYER Winter 2019 Sign-up Post

COYER Winter 2019 Sign-up WOW, it’s that time of the year again, it’s time for the COYER winter sign-up, and we are so ready for it. As usual, the rules for winter COYER are a bit stricter, but the many read-a-thons can be very helpful. COYER Winter 2019 Rules: Read Your E-Reads! Every book you read MUST be in an electronic format – meaning E-Book or Audiobook. It’s okay to start a book before December 1st, you must be less than half way for it to count then review it during COYER. The books must be FREE or NEARLY FREE! This includes review books, tour books, NetGalley, Edelweiss, etc. What’s nearly free? No more than $2 for eBooks and no more than […]

Posted 9 November, 2019 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 10 Comments

Can You Read a Series in a Month? Challenge ~ Sign Up Post

Michelle and Berls from Because Reading are once again hosting the Can You Read a Series in a Month? Challenge. Lexxie and I decided we wanted to participate so we both took a look at our shelves and chose a series to buddy read. Luckily I’d already decided to binge-read in November. 😉 The series we chose is…*drum roll* the Pucked Series by Helena Hunting. We both happened to get the entire series signed at Book Bonanza. 😀 Wish us luck! What about y’all? Are any of you joining in the fun in November? Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of […]

Posted 4 October, 2019 by Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 7 Comments

COYER Deserted Island Read-a-Thon

Deserted Island Read-a-Thon Deserted Island Read-a-thon, this Read-a-thon will run Sunday, June 9 – Saturday, June 22. Your treasure hunt has landed you on a deserted island… what books do you want with you? For this read-a-thon you’re making a list of the books you’d want with you. The twist is, you have to read them all in the given time, so make your list wisely. You must have at least one book (no less than 125 pages) on your list and all books fall under Summer COYER rules, so they can be any price and obtained from any legal location in any format. Completing this Read-a-thon successfully will earn you 5 points on the treasure hunt. For the first time […]

Posted 9 June, 2019 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 11 Comments

COYER Summer 2019 Sign-up

COYER Summer 2019 Sign-up If you’ve been here before, you know that we’re both pretty big fans of COYER. We have found many awesome blogger friends this way – and we’ve also – somewhat – managed to diminish all the books we have on our e-readers thank to this challenge. So of course, we’re going to participate in the 2019 Summer COYER challenge. COYER Summer 2019 Rules: It’s time to sign up for another Summer COYER. Summer COYER will run Saturday, June 1 – Saturday, August 31! Sign-ups will be open until Saturday, July 6th. You must create a sign-up post anytime between now and July 6th – on blog, goodreads, fb, google+, etc. Yes, that means you can sign up until […]

Posted 9 May, 2019 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 3 Comments

Can You Read a Series in a Month? Sign Up Post

Can You Read a Series in a Month? Challenge is hosted by Michelle & Berls at Because Reading. For full details, click the graphic above. Here are the general rules: Pick 1 series. Yes, just 1. Announce which series you’ve picked on your sign up post and link it back here. Read EVERY book in the series. You don’t have to read novellas or short stories, just the core books. Read them all between 12am (your time) May 1st and 11:59pm (your time) May 31st. They MUST be marked (on Goodreads) as started and finished in the month of May to count. Enjoy bragging to everyone about how you’re all caught up on whatever series you read (AKA – have fun)! Use […]

Posted 1 May, 2019 by Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 13 Comments

Audio Review ~ Darkhouse ~ Karina Halle

Darkhouse has been hanging around gathering dust for awhile. When my younger daughter gave it a listen, loved it, and promptly blew through the first 3 books in the Experiment in Terror series, I decided it was time I give it a listen! Highlights: Characters Perry seems like your typical 20-something, working at a job she doesn’t enjoy while trying to figure out where her life goes from here. She’s had an interesting life thus far – KHalle doles out facts throughout such as drug-use, mental health issues, weight issues – all of which have impacted who Perry is right now. Oh, and the most interesting trait of Perry’s? She can see and talk to ghosts. Dex…well, he’s an enigma. […]

Posted 28 January, 2019 by Brandee @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges, Reviews / 15 Comments

2019 Challenge Updates

2019 Challenge Updates 2019 Challenge Updates is a single page that updates automatically for all our new challenges. This makes it easier for us to make sure our challenges get updated. And it also makes it fairly easy to find everything we need if we want to sign up for a new challenge during the year. We have challenged ourselves to go for the New Release Pro for 2019. We just need to actually write all those reviews – not only read those books 😉 2019 New Release Challenge Books: We are pretty excited about the 2019 Audiobook Challenge, we have both aimed rather high – we shall see if we will reach our goal 😉 2019 Audiobook Challenge […]

Posted 4 January, 2019 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 8 Comments

2019 Audiobook Challenge Sign-up

2019 Audiobook Challenge We are so ready for the Audiobook Challenge for 2019! We have both listened to quite a few books in 2018, and we want to keep on going. As usual, the challenge is hosted by Hot Listens and Caffeinated Reviewer. If you’re new to audiobooks, they have some great resources for you to look into for free or cheap audiobooks 🙂 2019 Audiobook Challenge Details: Runs January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019. You can join at anytime. The goal is to find a new love for audios or to outdo yourself by listening to more audios in 2019 than you did in 2018. Books must be in audio format (CD, MP3, etc.) ANY genres count. Re-reads […]

Posted 23 December, 2018 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 15 Comments

2019 New Release Challenge Sign-up

2019 New Release Challenge The 2019 New Release Challenge is a year-long challenge in which we aim to read books released in 2019. Brandee and I are the sole hosts of the challenge, and we both hope many of you will sign up and participate! There is one post on the top of our homepage for all review links for the year, where the link is open for books you read and review each quarter. I also want to say a big thank you to Michelle @ Limabean Designs for creating our beautiful logo!! In 2018, I read 120 books that counted for the New Release Challenge, and I don’t see why this should be any different for 2019. This […]