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April Review-Copy Clean-Up Challenge



This is a reading challenge that will run from April 1st to April 30th. Results will be announced on May 1st 2014.

Please note - this is not the main group challenge for April, this is a challenge for those people who are struggling with those review piles! Jalyn will be running a seperate challenge for everyone else so not to worry!


This challenge is simple, and has one aim - get those review copies read! This obviously means that you will have to have review copies to take part in this challenge - either from Netgalley, Edelweiss, Publisher, Author, ARR programme etc.

Normal challenge guidlines and rules apply.

points:
1 point for each book read and reviewed
1 point for a buddy read (feel free to use our Wanted: Buddy Reads ARC thread if you need to - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/... )
Equaliser points (applied at the end) - 5 additional points for every 1000 pages read.

Note:
*Books need to either be review copies, or I will also allow books which are first/second in a series before a review copy that you need to read, so for example - I have , so I would also need to read & first, so those would also count.
* Books must be at least 100 pages in lenth
* Books must be read between April 1st and April 30th (inclusively)
*You can find our regular challenge rules here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

There will be one winner who gets the most points, but obviously everyone wil benefit from getting those review piles down!

Good luck Everybody! Let's get those review piles beaten into submission ☺

Sign-ups and Questions go here, I will open a seperate thread for reviews.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...


Addition - you can also earn points if you are reading books with someone else that are on their review copy list. Eg; if I need to read and someone reads it with me, they will also get points for the review and buddy read the same as if it was on their review copy list.

Participants:
Margarita
Heather
Tatiana
Danna
Amanda
Rachmi
Rachel
Sumeet
Kaitlin
Jenna
Jacquelyn
Dana
Emily


Mods:
Sarah
Abbie
Jalyn

I'm in! :) I feel like this will help me finish those ARCs faster :)

Yay! I need to get some finished too!

I'm kind of confused about what the challenge involves...

Im in and thank god for a challenge like this!!

Jenni -
The challenge is for people who have review copies - books that they have been given for free from publishers or authors, in exchange for writing a review. So books which you have gotten from places like Netgalley, edelweiss, or even review programmes in other groups etc.

The idea is, that in April people will spend time reading these review copies. Normal challenge rules will then apply - 1 point for a review, 1 extra point for a buddy read.

You do need to have review copies to join in though ☺
If you don't have review copies, Jalyn will be doing the main group reading challenge sign-ups shortly ☺

Yay!! I'm in!!

Yay! ☺

Heather wrote: "Im in and thank god for a challenge like this!!"

Hopefully it will be good motivation!

Sarah wrote: "Heather wrote: "Im in and thank god for a challenge like this!!"

Hopefully it will be good motivation!"
ohh it is for me already lol

I'm in too.

Great ☺ There will be lots of review copies crossed off in April!

Oh awesome. Pretty much all I've read lately is for R4R programs or books that I review for an outside reviewing site. The books that I get for the outside website will be reviewed there. When I review it on goodreads it will pretty much be a link to the website where my review is posted. Does that still count?

As long as I can read your review somewhere it's fine ☺

Awesome :)

Love this one, Sarah! If I actually find some time to read, I'll be cleaning up some of my own :)

I'm in. I'm sure I don't have much ARC just like most of you guys but I really want to finish all of my ARC before I request another one.

It's a great challenge, Sarah!

I am so in. Best challenge idea so far!! Great thinking Sarah!! :)

I know a lot of us how towering review piles! I definitely need to decrease mine!

Sarah wrote: "I know a lot of us how towering review piles! I definitely need to decrease mine!"

Mine is simply crazy at the moment!! :)

I'm going to list the books i need to read here so that I can tick them off as I go along ☺
I already have buddy reads planned for some of these if anyone wants to join.






My buddy reads 30th=

Read:

How about a book that isn't an ARC for me but it's an ARC for other? Can I include it for this challenge? For example I didn't request but am going to buy it when it released while I think there are member who have it as an ARC.

Just so everybody knows, I've added this addition to the rules, so that if you buddy read a book from someone else's list, you get points as well ☺

Addition - you can also earn points if you are reading books with someone else that are on their review copy list. Eg; if I need to read and someone reads it with me, they will also get points for the review and buddy read the same as if it was on their review copy list.

Sarah, I can read Hooked with you but it isn't an ARC (this is the same case as my message #23).

I've managed to get most of mine read over the past few months.

Review copies i have:



Then maybe -
Because they're available for download on edelweiss.

Then i have these to read so i can see if want to request the sequel on edelweiss -

Rachmi wrote: "How about a book that isn't an ARC for me but it's an ARC for other? Can I include it for this challenge? For example I didn't request but am going to buy it wh..."

That's fine ☺ I thought of that, it isn't really fair if you buddy read with someone but don't get points because it isn't on your shelf, so we'll have the same rule as for the shelf clearing challenge - if you buddy read a book with someone that is on their shelf, then you get points for the review and buddy read too ☺

Rachmi wrote: "Sarah, I can read Hooked with you but it isn't an ARC (this is the same case as my message #23)."

Okay ☺ If we buddy Hooked you get the points too as its on my shelf. I have to read it because I have an ARC of the second one.

I've tried to tweak the rules so that its fair for everybody, but if anybody has any other questions feel free to ask ☺

Here are the books I plan on reading during this challenge

Sarah wrote: "Rachmi wrote: "How about a book that isn't an ARC for me but it's an ARC for other? Can I include it for this challenge? For example I didn't request but am goi..."

Yay! thanks Sarah :D

Sarah, I still can't get over the fact that you got Sweet Reckoning LOL

It's because I'm pre-approved for HarperCollins on Edelweiss. They gave out pre-approvals to a whole bunch of bloggers last september/october. I was one of the last to get it, and I really didn't expect it because they didn't always approve me before. I think it's because of the length of time I've had the blog.

Unfortunately, I don't have any Sarah so I'll just do the main challenge.

Okay ☺

You're added ☺

Sarah wrote: "Rachmi wrote: "Sarah, I can read Hooked with you but it isn't an ARC (this is the same case as my message #23)."

Okay ☺ If we buddy Hooked you get the points too as its on my shelf. I have to read..."

When do you want to read Hooked?

I'm intending to read a bunch of ARCs in April, anyway, soon I'll join in on this challenge. :)

Yay! I'll add you ☺

I have a question. So I have an ARC of Poison Promise ng Jennifer Esteep and I'm shocked to know that it's the 11th book in the series. If I read the other 10 books first, will they count?

Estep* sorry :)

Yes ☺ Good luck with all those!

Good luck with that Margarita! Hopefully you end up liking the series!

Hey guys! I know you're all desperately waiting for April's main challenge to be up, so I wanted to let you know that Jalyn is going to be working on it tonight after work, so you should see the sign-ups coming up within the next 24 hours ☺

I think I'll join you guys on this one. I need to review these, and if I finish these up then I'll add more :)

Anybody want to read (BR set for April 27th) (BR set for April 15th)?

Just added: , but I have to read first. Also .

Yes, I wish I'll like this series so reading them will not take too long :)

I've got , I have loads of buddy reads planned already, so if you want to pick a date I'll probably read it over a couple of days if that's okay ☺

Jalyn, I'm up for White Hot Kiss!

Sarah wrote: "I've got , I have loads of buddy reads planned already, so if you want to pick a date I'll probably read it over a couple of days if that's okay ☺"

You know me, it'll take me a few days to get through it anyhow (unless it's really, super good and impossible for me to put down). My schedule is wide open for April, so whatever works for you is fine by me :)

Tatiana wrote: "Jalyn, I'm up for White Hot Kiss!"

Yay! I'm open for whenever. What works for you?

Can we read it at the end of the month? Around the 27th?