Category: The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge
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And the Winners of the 2013 Mad Reviewer Challenge Are…
First off, congratulations to everyone who completed the 2013 Mad Reviewer Reading & Reviewing Challenge. Not all of you completed the levels you set out to but some of you doubled your goal. Still, everyone is a winner here because they posted more reviews and helped authors in the process.
I won’t keep you in suspense. Everyone who completed the challenge had their names written on scraps of paper according to what level they completed. I just drew the names out of my cookie tin and here are the winners:
Grand prize winner: Diantha Jones
1st runner up: Shirley Ford
2nd runner up: James Kennedy
3rd runner up: Scatty
Congratulations to all of the winners! Both Diantha Jones and Scatty completed the Crazy Reviewer levels, James Kennedy went all out and completed the Mad Reviewer level and Shirley Ford finished her goal of Slightly Sane Reviewer.
If you’re a winner we’ll be in touch today. If you don’t hear from me, please drop me a line either through my contact page, email or Twitter.
The 2014 Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge Has Begun!
(The draw for the 2013 prizes will be held on January 4 so if you’ve finished the 2013 challenge please let me know.)
Yes folks, The Mad Reviewer Reading & Reviewing Challenge has begun for 2014! All your reviews from now until December 31 count toward your goal. If you need a reminder of the rules click here. Just remember that if you signed up but didn’t provide a link in either your profile or your comment you aren’t officially signed up. Please contact me with a link as soon as possible!
And if you haven’t signed up for the challenge but would like to please read the rules in the link above and comment on either that post or this one! You can join anytime in 2014 and can count any reviews you’ve already done for the year toward your goal.
Below are some of the awesome book bloggers that have decided to join the challenge this year. Anyone who is a returning participant is indicated with (R) beside their name.
I Finished The Mad Reviewer Reading & Reviewing Challenge
I started my own challenge way back in 2013 so it’d be a darn shame not to finish it. I actually read and reviewed 191 books in 2013 but I counted the longer novels toward my challenge. Anyone who doubts whether I actually reviewed these books can go verify them on the ‘My Reviews‘ page. Right now I’m just going to talk about my statistics from the reading challenge (in which I read 104 books).
Total pages read: 43,985
Average pages per book: 422.9
Time spent reading (assuming an average of 100 pages/hour): 436.85 hours
Time spent reviewing (assuming 45 minutes/review): 78 hours
Um, wow? I had no idea I spent that much time reading, but I guess I really do spend a lot of my time with my nose in a book. More than most people, I’m thinking. Even with blogging, I had no idea I spent that much time actually writing reviews! But by the time I find cover pictures, blurbs and actually write the darn things an average of 45 minutes has gone by. That means that since I reviewed 191 books this year I spent 143 hours and 15 minutes writing reviews. I earned my blog name, that’s for sure.