Aleksandra's Corner

Benji @ The Non Reluctant Reader & Chelsey @ Starry Sky Books are hosting the Middle Grade March Madness challenge! 

I love MG books, but I don't read them as much as I'd like to & there have been a couple of MG series I've been planning to re-read & than continue reading the sequels, so this challenge is perfect! 

Also, there will be a MG 72-hour Read-a-Thon, so I can't miss that, so I had to sign up ;)

I'll go with the 2nd level Mayor & read 4-8 books. Although I already have 5 MG books planned that I'll probably read, I'll list them as I read them.

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Now, more about this challenge:

• The last day to sign-up is March 7th.
• You may sign-up if you have a blog, goodreads, amazon, library thing, or Barnes and Noble account where you post reviews

 

THE LEVELS

 

1. Citizen, Read 1-3 Books

2. Mayor, Read 4-8 Books

3. Congressman, Read 9-12 Books

4. President, 13+ Books

 

THE SCHEDULE

 

January 20th: Sign-Ups are OPEN (along with the giveaway)

February 22nd: Giveaway Ends

March 1st: Challenge Begins

March 7th: Sign-ups close, First giveaway of the challenge goes up

March 14: Second giveaway of the challenge goes up, first giveaway of the challenge ends

March 15-17th: Middle Grade 72 Hour Readathon Begins!

March 21st: Third giveaway of the challenge goes up, second one ends

March 28th: Final Giveaway of the challenge goes up!

April 1st: Challenge ends!

If you'd like to join, sign up HERE or HERE!

Celine from Nyx Book Reviews & Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea are hosting the Review Copy Cleanup event this March. 

I'm really behind on reading all the galleys I've received for review (this couple of months I've read only 5 or 6 - I've been reading the books I've bought instead) so this is a great great way for me to read more of the review books ;)

Challenge Guidelines:

• The challenge runs from 1 to 31 March
• To sign up, just fill in the Mister Linky HERE or HERE. Link to your sign up post directly please! The Linky is the same for both our blogs, so you only have to sign up once.
• The sign up is open until 15 March 2012. Participation in the challenges and giveaways won't be possible for anyone who hasn't previously signed up
• When you post your sign up post on your blog, either include the challenge button with your post or link it back to this article so that people know where to sign up. Thank you! 
• Every book you received for review counts towards the challenge, both ebooks and hard copies, including all genres and lengths
• You don't need to follow the two hosts in order to be able to sign up for the event (although it's appreciated), but you do have to follow us in order to be able to enter our giveaways. In order to be entered in the giveaway, simply complete the given challenge and add the link to your post in the linky list
• Challenges will be posted every week on Fridays and will last throughout the week until Thursday the next week. Every challenge ends with a giveaway. To enter in the challenges and giveaways, simply add the link to your challenge post in the Linky list in the main challenge post. It will be posted on both blogs.
• At the end of the event we will host our Massive Giveaway. This contains tons of prizes donated by awesome authors. All you'll need to do in order to enter this giveaway is to fill in a Rafflecopter form - as simple as that.
• Most of our giveaways will be open INTERNATIONALLY but you'll find all the relevant info about each giveaway when we post the challenges 
• Feel free to use the #RCCleanup hashtag on Twitter for your RCC related tweets or join in the Twitter party at http://tweetchat.com/room/RCCleanup and meet lots of awesome bloggers (:

Challenge Schedule:

March 2 - Show Off Your Pile
March 9 - Cuddle Up With a Book
March 16 -  Don't Be Such a Tease!
March 23 - Mysterious Meet-up
March 30 - Love Will Find a Way

Sounds fun, right?  

So, if you're like me & you have lots of review books piled up, sign up HERE or HERE now!!!

Vanessa and Isalys over at Book Soulmates have created this feature, called the Random Acts of Kindness (RAK)!

This month I received one RAK: Allison Hewitt is Trapped by Madeleine Roux from Jeanne @ Infinity (thanks again, Jeanne!) & I've pre-ordered a couple of books: Inside by Maria V. Snyder for Jeanne & The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter for Patricia @ Book Exhibitionism. Both books are already shipped, so you should get them soon :) I hope you'll enjoy them!!!

 COMPLETE RULES RE-CAP: 

Please read carefully & follow all rules!  Thank you!

• Please sign-up each month that you can participate (and by participate, we mean give as well as receive).
• Show off your participation by grabbing our RAK button (code is in the right sidebar).
• Create a wish list (on Amazon, Goodreads, or your blog, etc) and post it in the Google Doc located in each R.A.K post for the month.
• If you choose to do a R.A.K for someone, check out their wish list and contact that blogger directly for their information.
• Once you receive a RAK, send us an our new email to [rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com] so that we can update the Google Doc. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEND EMAILS TO THIS ADDRESS!
• E-book participation is limited to files being gifted directly to a person from the e-book store. Amazon's Kindle Store is set up to allow this, as well as the Kobo store and we believe Barnes & Noble with Nook as well.
• At the end of the month, SHOW US YOUR R.A.K by making a "RAK Wrap-Up" post.  This post should include who you SENT gifts to as well who you RECEIVED gifts from :)

OPEN TO EVERYONE including all our International brethren!

Remember, there's always the Book Depository and they offer FREE shipping!

 

Easy peezy!!

Links you will need:

• Sign up for March 2012 [HERE]
• See who else is participating [HERE]
• If you have any questions regarding RAK, please contact us via the following: rakbybooksoulmates @ gmail . com

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

This weekly meme is being hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!