COYER December 2015
COYER is back, and this time, it’s back to basics, baby! Read those books that are taking up all the memory on your e-reader, be it an ARC, a freebie, a book that cost you under $5, a library book, or an audio that cost less than $16! Michelle @ Because Reading, Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews, Oh My! and Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun are our incredible hosts once more!
As usual, they have twitter parties and some fun to share with us, and there is also a facebook group for COYER participants. If you’re new to this challenge, believe me, it’s one of the greatest challenges out there! The friendships I’ve made since the first time I participated are great, and I’ve definitely managed to clear out my e-reader in a good way. Even if I’ve also added lots of books to my virtual shelves when participating. All those great-looking books just makes it impossible to resist, you know 🙂
COYER Back to Basics 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 20th, 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 library books, review books, tour books, NetGalley, Edelweiss, etc. What’s nearly free? No more than $5 for ebooks and no more than $16 for Audiobooks (or the equivalent in your currency).
Announce your participation! This can be a blog post (or if you don’t have a blog – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Booklikes, Goodreads, Shelfari, etc.) If you want to list books you would like to read, that’s great, but not necessary. The point is to let us know you’re committed to COYER, maybe share some goals, and help the hosts spread the word.
The COYER Challenge will run from December 19th 2015 through March 4th 2016, so that’s quite a bit of time to have fun, read those free and cheap e-books, and get to know some new-to-you bloggers.
I have no idea what to set my goal at – the challenge will run for about three months, so if I say I’ll read 20 books counting for COYER, that’s OK. I may have to adjust up or down as time goes by, though.
Twitter: bmreviewsohmy
It is so hard to set a goal for COYER, I never know how many books I am going to read. As fast as you read I am sure you will be upping your goal from twenty…lol. 🙂
Yeah, but January and February are exam months for me, so I know I’ll be busy with other things as well, which is why I prefer to set my goal lower than usual – I hate not meeting my goals 😀
Twitter: bmreviewsohmy
Ahh, I see. I am like you I would rather set low goals and adjust. That is why I picked a low New Book Reading Challenge goal and then ended up with way more reads that I thought I would…lol. I think I put that I would read only like 15 and I am now on like book 40…lol.
Twitter: limabean74
20 is a goo number, I think this year I am going to set my goal kind of low also but hoping I will read more and surprise myself 🙂
Twitter: limabean74
Good not goo, no one wants a goo number, sounds gross 😉
Well, I wouldn’t say no to some gooey candy to go with my COYER challenge, Michelle 😉
I haven’t set a goal yet. I still need to think about it, but I’m looking forward to doing this. COYER is fun!
20 is a lower goal for me than usual, but it’s always possible to make up my goal while the challenge is under way 🙂 And I agree, COYER is a lot of fun.
I set my goal at 12. I’m hoping I will do more.
That sounds like a great idea, Andie. I hope I’ll do more than 20, too, but I’m not sure 🙂
This will be my first COYER! I have set my goal as 20 too, see how I get on!
I hope you’ll enjoy COYER as much as I do, Heather! You should join the Facebook group -it’s a great way to keep in touch both during the challenge and in between challenges 😀
I’m still deciding on a goal! I normally read about 100 for COYER, but I’m more than likely starting a new job next week, so I don’t know what my reading time will look like! I do know that I always try to read only COYER eligible books during these three months.
And I totally agree about friendships! I think this is only challenge where there’s a focus on the community it creates and not just reading as much as possible. 🙂
Yeah, you usually read a lot faster than even me, Angie 🙂 Congrats on the new job! That’s great news, even if it’ll eat some of your reading time 🙂
The friendships I’ve formed thanks to COYER are amazing! That’s part of what makes it such a great challenge, I think.
This sounds like a fun challenge, its always good to get through those e reads that can accumulate on our readers. I have been working on getting through those lately.
Then you should join, Renee! There is a lot of amazing bloggers participating, and there’s a facebook group to keep up with everyone 🙂
Yay I am so excited for this Coyer and happy to hear you’re participating again this year too! I’ll have my sign-up post live next week. My goal also will be around the 20. I agree that this is one of the best reading challenges out there.
I have been ready ever since Michelle started talking about the next COYER challenge in the FB group, Lola, so my post was more or less ready to go yesterday 😀 I’m really glad you’ll participate again, too!
So glad you’ll be doing COYER too! I set my goal conservatively at 12; we’ll see how it goes. I’m not picking out titles yet, though there are a few tour books I’ll have to read that qualify for COYER. I’m looking forward to it!
I love the COYER challenge, Lark, and I’ve participated in all the challenges since the beginning. I’ve found some really good blogger friends thanks to COYER 🙂 I’m not picking out any titles, if I can avoid it, I never pick titles in advance. I’m a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of gal 😀
You are tempting me with this challenge. I need it bad.
Then you should sign up, Jennifer! It’s so much fun! And laid back. And you’ll enjoy yourself 😀
Woohoo! I can’t wait for this challenge to begin! It’s always so much fun and it will certainly help with my goal of reading books I already own. 🙂 Now I need to get my sign up post done. I’m glad you’re doing this challenge as well.
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I’m with you, Brandee! It’s amazing how many books I manage to add to my kindle every week… I don’t even want to try to count how many I add every year! *BIG HUGS*
I thought about joining but I’m almost at the point where I’m just going to dump all the unread books. I only have about 5 I still want to read and the rest are all freebie ebooks from years ago that I don’t really care about reading now. But if I don’t….I might sign up for this.
Only five sounds pretty amazing, Dreams! I have so many, and not all of them are freebies, and most of them I still really want to read. The challenge is a lot of fun, though, and the friendships forged are great 😀
I was thinking twelve and then decided not to put a number to the challenge this year. I just want to have fun and not worry about book counts. They tend to stress me out. I think your goal is a good one, especially given all you have going on. I wish you luck with your exams!