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Enter to Win a New Book This July!

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A new month means that there are new books to win, as well as a new book of brand new book releases.  Yay!  In the July of Books Giveaway Hop, you have several chances to win a new book.  I don’t have any sweepstakes to offer, but I want to let everybody know about these great sweepstakes anyway.  Most of the sweepstakes end on July 31st, but you’ll want to get your entries in as soon as possible so you don’t forget.  This giveaway hop is sponsored by It All Starts at Midnight and FLYLēF.

Those are the ones that are available now, but any one of the above links will take you to a post with a linky that will list all of the others.  Good luck!

Welcome to the Summer 2018 TBR Wipeout Challenge

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Summer 2018 TBR Wipeout ChallengeWelcome to the Summer 2018 TBR Wipeout Challenge, hosted by The Candid Cover.  It is the chance for you to get some of those books off of your Want to Read list.  Signups will be going on until July 5th.  Plus, you could win a prize just for signing up!  Good deal, yeah?

I have set a goal to read 10 books between now and when this challenge ends, on August 12th.  That’s about two per week.  If I read more, great!  If not, The Candid Cover is going to come to my house and flog me (well, not really; this is a low-pressure challenge).

So what am I going to read for the summer TBR challenge?  I’m not 100% sure, but I am on the waiting list for several books at the library and Amazon is delivering a few more.

Here are the book series on my waiting list.  If they become available, I will read them:

  • Throne of Glass Series – 6 books
  • Mortal Instruments Series – 5 books (I read City of Bones already, you can read my review here)
  • Red Queen Series – 4 books
  • Caraval Series – 2 books

I’m currently reading Origin by Dan Brown and will probably finish that in the next day or two.

I checked out Ever the Hunted from the library and am on the waiting list for Ever the Brave by Erin Summerill.  I’m #5 on the waiting list for the second, so it may not become available during the Summer TBR Wipeout, but if it is, I’ll probably end up reading it.

With part of my birthday Amazon credits, I recently bought:

  • Batman: Nightwalker – Marie Lu – I am normally not into superheroes or anything, but I like every other book that she has written, and I guess I’m wondering if she could do the superhero theme justice.
  • Rora – James Byron Huggins – this has been on my TBR for more than 5 years.  I figure I should probably read it.
  • This Savage Song – Victoria Schwab – it looked interesting and it was on sale for $1.99, so I figured that I should get it.

Outside of the books listed above, I don’t have any top priority books at the moment for the TBR Wipeout Challenge.  There are a  few books coming out on September 18th that I want to read fairly badly, but they’re not out yet.  So, for the most part, I will probably let serendipity be my guide as I pick books to read.  I’m trying to read about one pre-release ARC per week, so I’ll probably pick out books from there that sound good at the time.  Lately, I’ve been seeing quite a few sale announcements on Twitter for books I want to read (I’ll try to remember to post them here when I see them); if I see a book that I’ve been thinking about reading and I can get it for cheap, I’ll probably end up getting that.

I hope you join me for the TBR Wipeout Challenge and get some of those books off your TBR list!

Challenge Yourself to Read More Books This Summer!

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Every time of year is a good time of year to read a book, but people tend to read more books in the summer.  I have a little more time because I have a couple fewer responsibilities; I’m currently taking a leave of absence from work (family stuff) and have a lot more time to read in the meantime.  There’s no better time to challenge yourself to read more books and get into the reading habit.

My coworker one suggested that I must never sleep and have tons of energy, because I’m always talking about a story that I’m writing, or a book that I’ve read, or the language classes that I teach.  I responded with “not really, I just don’t watch a lot of TV”.  My husband just said earlier today that he wanted to read more books (hint: put down the Netflix).  A good way to get out of the TV habit and into the book habit is to join the Summer TBR Wipeout Challenge, hosted by Candid Cover.  If you do, you might be able to win a free book!

There are a few things that you have to do to join this challenge.  You don’t have to have a blog, but you do have to have a few places where you can make a few posts about this challenge.  You can post to Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, or anywhere else you like to post.  All you need to do is make an introductory post, a couple of update posts, and a final post.  Oh, and do a lot of reading.  Easy peasy!

Sign-ups close on July 5th, so you’ll want to get in there before then.  Since this is still early June, you have plenty of time, but you might as well sign up now before you forget about it.  Happy reading!

Win Some Free Books!

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Win some free books in JuneI love to win things!  I’m sure that you do as well.  When I started this blog a year ago (before life got sidetracked and I started spending a lot of time at a different job) I was thinking of making this blog into one where I had a lot of sweepstakes and reviews.  When I decided to reboot this blog a couple of weeks ago, I thought that it might make sense to focus on book reviews.  I still love sweepstakes though.  When I saw that there was a June blog hop going on, I thought that I’d share it with you here!

There are some great books coming out in June.  I’ve got almost my entire day set aside on Tuesday so I can read Smoke in the Sun.  Of course, there are a lot of other wonderful books coming out in June, and you can have a chance to win one of them!  In fact, there are several chances for you to win a new book, since this is a giveaway hop.

Here are some of the opportunities you have to win:

Each of these giveaways have their own rules and end dates, so make sure that you check the rules before you enter.  There may be some more added later to this giveaway hop, but the ones listed above are ones that are currently working and that I have successfully entered.

Good luck!  And may the odds be ever in your favor.

Win a $500 Amazon.com Gift Card! Ends January 26th

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$500 Amazon.com gift card
Win a $500 Amazon.com gift card

I love Amazon.com!  They have almost everything, and if I pre-order a book, I almost always get it on release day.  That’s why it would be great to win a $500 Amazon.com gift card like this one!

You can enter the sweepstakes for this Gift card in several different places, including the giveaway at Mommies with Cents.  Just click on the link (or the Amazon.com picture) and enter over there!

The giveaway ends on January 26th, so don’t wait!  There are several different ways that you can earn entries, some of them that you can do every day.