{"id":299,"date":"2014-01-12T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardabbott.authorsxpress.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2014-01-12T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T15:42:15","slug":"reading-challenges-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/richardabbott.datascenesdev.com\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/12\/reading-challenges-for-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading challenges for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have signed up for two reading challenges for this year – sort-of a more interesting form of New Year’s Resolution, I suppose, although I do not imagine that it will be especially hard for me to keep reading books!<\/p>\n

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But before that, some news about Scenes from a Life<\/em>. Kindle copies are starting to sell nicely now, and – at least for those regions where this applies – I have enrolled the book in Amazon’s Matchbook<\/em> programme. This means that anyone who buys the soft-cover print copy of the book can, for a mere $0.99, get the kindle copy as well. Fantastic… but not yet globally available.<\/p>\n

I have also started drafting out the next novel in the series… more news when my ideas about that are a little bit more settled.<\/p>\n

So, Reading Challenges. I decided to sign up for two – one specifically on historical fiction, and a more general one. The trend today seems to be that you pick cool names for different levels of the challenge, which is fine by me. So the two are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Historical Tapestry 2014 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge<\/em><\/a> – I went for the Ancient History<\/em> (25 books) level, as opposed to Medieval<\/em> (15 books) or Prehistoric<\/em> (50+ books)<\/li>\n
  2. The Mad Reviewer Reading and Reviewing Challenge 2014<\/a> – I went for the Slightly Sane Reviewer<\/em> (26 books) level, as opposed to Sane<\/em> (12 books) or Crazy<\/em> (52 books). There’s even a Mad Reviewer<\/em> level calling for 104 books in one year. Phew.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Of course, some books can neatly be caught in both challenges \ud83d\ude42 which should help. To date I have read and reviewed 1 book this year (other reviews in 2014 were for books read last year), plus have one that is read and awaiting review, and one that is in progress.<\/p>\n

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