Today is the start of a new era – because we get COYER for the whole year. And Michelle and Berls over at Because Reading decided it would be a good idea to start now that we’re all in confinement. COYER All Year Long Rules: So the first part of this is that COYER will now be all year. That’s right! For all-year COYER, there will be traditional 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 March 23rd, but you must be less than half way for it to count then review it during COYER. The books must be FREE or NEARLY […]

Happy 2020, y’all! I can’t believe we’re into a new year much less a new decade. To kick off a new year/decade, Linda and I are kicking off a self-challenge: Unearthing a Bookish Bounty. I’m sure we’ve all participated in challenges where we read books we own. Well, I decided I wanted to read exclusively (almost) what I own in 2020 because I know I have quite a bookish bounty on my shelves. And Linda was gracious enough (she’s such a wonderful blogger wife!) to agree to participate as well. Here’s a little glimpse into why this challenge is essential to me: As you can see, I have more than enough physical books to keep me reading for quite a […]

  2020 New Release Challenge The 2020 New Release Challenge is a year-long challenge in which we aim to read books released in 2020.  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 2019, I read 140 books that counted for the New Release Challenge, and I don’t see why this should be any different for 2020. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]