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A Bookaholic, Pro-life, Conservative, Catholic, with Asperger's, who reads a lot. These are the ramblings of the books I read or read aloud to my energetic Autistic 11yo. I love reading almost any book from classics to mysteries to fantasy to ARCs. I sometimes go through stages of "genre love", get addicted to manga and graphic novels or get caught up in reading ARCs, but you'll find I read a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction. I tend to post a lot of reviews of juvenile/teen books but I still do a lot of adult reviews as well. I read well over 200 books a year, but haven't made it to 300 yet!

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Random Reading Challenge

I am soooooo going to be in on this one! The Random Reading Challenge is really cool! Go to the site to read all the details but here is the fun part:

1. NO lists allowed. Books for the challenge are chosen one at a time when the mood strikes.

2. Sign up at any time during the challenge period using Mr. Linky below. Please give me a direct link to your blog post about the challenge. If you do not have a blog, no worries. Simply enter your name and leave the URL box on Mr. Linky blank.

3. Book reviews are not required, but if you want to write a review I will be providing a review Mr. Linky after August 1st.

4. Books are selected one at a time using the following procedure:

Randomly select any number of books from either your physical OR your virtual TBR pile (I don’t care how you do this, but it must be random…no “cherry picking” allowed)

Assign a number to each book based on how many books you selected (ie: if you selected 14 books, assign each book a number from 1 through 14; if you selected 28 books, assign each book a number from 1 through 28…you get the idea)

Go to THIS SITE and use the TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR located in the upper right hand corner of the page to randomly select the book you will read. NO CHEATING – whatever the random number generator generates is the book you must read!

Each time you select a book for the challenge, you will use this procedure. You many select different books each time, choose a different amount of books each time, etc…have fun, mix it up, keep it random.

The challenge runs from Aug.1 '09 to Jul 31 '10.

I plan on using my ARC tbr pile through Dec. then will work on books off my bedside table tbr. starting Jan. This is going to be fun!

5 comments:

Wendy said...

So glad you are joining!! I hope this is really fun...

Trish said...

Gahhhh! I want to, I really really do... I just fear I've already joined too many challenges that there isn't enough room left for randomness. :(

Nicola said...

Wendy - Thanks, I know this is going to be fun. I love randomness so much!

Trish - Why don't you put all your challenge books in a pile and randomly pick from them!

Trish said...

I didn't think of that! Is that allowed? If so, that's a GREAT idea.

Nicola said...

From the rules, I don't see how it would not being allowed. Go ask and see!!!