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Have You Finished The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge 2014? Tell Me Here!

Yes, it’s the end of 2014 already and so the end of my reading challenge is also nigh.  That means it’s also time to announce how I’ll be verifying the challenge entries as well as what the winners of the draw will receive.  I’ll start with the latter.

Here are the prizes for this year since last year’s prize distribution was really an unmitigated disaster (and I really do apologize to the winners last year for all of that):

  1. Grand prize winner: a $35 book shopping spree on The Book Depository.
  2. First Runner Up: a $15 book shopping spree on The Book Depository
  3. Second Runner Up: a couple of free ebooks donated by some close author friends.

If you have finished The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge 2014, comment below with a link to your reviews or email me through my Contact page.  Even if you didn’t reach your goal, as long as you reached at least 12 books (the lowest level) you can still get entered.  The rules are here if you want to look.  And unlike last year, I am not chasing people around to see if they finished the challenge.  If you finished the challenge, please take the time to comment or contact me in some way or you won’t be entered into the draw for 12:00am MT on SUNDAY, JANUARY 4.

If you need a refresher, here are the different levels and the number of entries they get you:

1.  Mad Reviewer: 104 books in one year. (4 entries.)

2.  Crazy Reviewer: 52 books in one year. (3 entries.)

3.  Slightly Sane Reviewer: 26 books in one year. (2 entries.)

4.  Sane Reviewer: 12 books in one year.  (1 entry.)

And yes, as I said at the beginning of the challenge, they all have to be reviewed! Continue reading

The Mad Reviewer Reading and Reviewing Challenge 2014 Sign Up

The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge ButtonThe 2013 Mad Reviewing Reading & Reviewing Challenge is still in progress of course but I’m liking it so much that I figured I may as well start people on the sign up sheet.  The challenge is the same as last year:

The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge is to read and review (either on Goodreads, Amazon or your own blog) 104 books in one year starting January 1, 2014 and ending December 31, 2014.

I’m fully aware that not everyone has time to read 104 books which is why I’ve created different levels of the challenge that you can aspire to:

1.  Mad Reviewer: 104 books in one year. (2 books a week all year.)

2.  Crazy Reviewer: 52 books in one year. (1 book a week all year.)

3.  Slightly Sane Reviewer: 26 books in one year. (1 book every fortnight all year.)

4.  Sane Reviewer: 12 books in one year.  (1 book every month all year.) Continue reading

Have you Finished The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge? Tell me Here!

From now until January 1 this post will be a sticky on my front page.  Basically, if you’ve finished The Mad Reviewer Reading & Reviewing Challenge for 2013, please tell me here.  Leave me a comment with a link to the site where you did all of your reviews and I’ll go verify that you really did reach the level you claimed to reach.  Then I’ll post your name and the level you completed here, which also means that I’ve entered your name in my jar for the grand prize draw of internationally shipped books.  (If you need a refresher about the rules click here.)

Just as a refresher, here were the levels and the number of entries you’ll get:

1.  Mad Reviewer: 104 books in one year (4 entries)

2.  Crazy Reviewer: 52 books in one year (3 entries)

3.  Slightly Sane Reviewer: 26 books in one year (2 entries)

4.  Sane Reviewer: 12 books in one year (1 entry)

Here are some of the people that have completed the challenge so far and what levels they achieved:

MAD REVIEWER

1. Sharon Stevenson of Sharon Stevenson’s Blog

2.  Kim of Read Your Writes Book Reviews

3.  James of James’ Reading List

4.  Myself (Full breakdown here)

CRAZY REVIEWER

1.  Diantha Jones of DJ’s Book Corner

2.  Scatty of The Big Nerd

SLIGHTLY SANE REVIEWER

1.  Shirley of fordsthoughts

2.  Caleb Flanagan of 20four12

SANE REVIEWER

1. Ashutosh of Ashutosh’s Blog

2.  Margaret Taylor of Steam Trains and Ghosts

3.  Devina of Hot Chocolate And Books

4.  Raya of midnight coffee monster

5.  Walki of The Masquerade Crew