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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

One Month to go in The Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge!

Yes, it’s November 30th and almost the end of another year.  My second blogging anniversary is coming up in January, but more importantly my reading and reviewing challenge will be coming to an end at 11:59pm on December 30th.  I’m hoping to announce winners the very next day, but it may be a couple days afterward as I collect the names and enter them into my draw.

So I’m basically finished.  I’m going to review a few long books (Cleopatra’s Memoirs, 11/22/63, etc.) and then add any of the long books I didn’t count from the rest of this year.  I’ve read and reviewed far more than 104 books this year and although I won’t reach my 500 review goal I’m pretty happy with how this blog has been running.

My question for you guys now is: If you’re participating in the challenge, do you think you’re going to finish?  What level are you finishing?  Will you try again next year?

And if you’re not involved in the challenge, read all about it here and tell me this: would you like to participate in the 2014 version?  Why or why not?

A Quick Poll to Improve Your Reading Experience

Mid-month I have a surprise coming down the pipeline that you’re going to love, but first I want to know what you guys, my readers, would like to see more of.  After all, you’re the reason this blog exists, let alone why I keep it well-maintained.  So, what would you like to see more of here on The Mad Reviewer?  I would really appreciate your input.