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May Reviews: 2012 Books of Eyre Reading Challenge

Link Your May Reviews!

Please link your May reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. Jane Eyre (Amber) or Jane Eyre (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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May Reviews (+Giveaway): 2012 Tudor Reading Challenge

Link Your May Reviews!

Please link your May reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

VERY IMPORTANT: When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. The Other Tudors (Amber) or The Other Tudors (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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As a special treat (and one I meant to do last month), I am giving away two Tudor-related books. At the end of May, I will put the names of those who reviewed a Tudor book this month in a spreadsheet and use random.org to choose one winner. Each Tudor book review linked here by the end of the month will earn you one entry. My giveaway policy applies. At this time, this won’t be a monthly thing, but maybe I can make it so next year.

One winner will win these two books:

April Reviews: 2012 Books of Eyre Reading Challenge

Link Your April Reviews!

Please link your April reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. Jane Eyre (Amber) or Jane Eyre (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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April Reviews: 2012 Tudor Reading Challenge

Link Your April Reviews!

Please link your April reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

VERY IMPORTANT: When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. The Other Tudors (Amber) or The Other Tudors (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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March Reviews: 2012 Books of Eyre Reading Challenge

Link Your March Reviews!

Please link your March reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. Jane Eyre (Amber) or Jane Eyre (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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March Reviews: 2012 Tudor Reading Challenge

Link Your March Reviews!

Please link your March reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

VERY IMPORTANT: When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. The Other Tudors (Amber) or The Other Tudors (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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2012 Picture Book Reading Challenge

I could not resist! I’ve been reading some picture books for two reasons: to find good books for my youngest cousin and to build up a bit of a repertoire in case I ever land a library job, especially as a children’s librarian (or a young adult librarian). AND, the button. It has an owl on it. Me=happy. I also really enjoy the non-fiction picture books in particular.

Like most every other reading challenge, this one lasts from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012. Here are the details:

Select your level:

Level 1 - Read 12 picture books

Level 2 - Read 16 picture books

Level 3 - Read 24 picture books

You don’t have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. If you do list your books in the beginning, you can always change them later on.
Crossovers with other challenges count.
Digital books count
Re-reads count as long as you read them in 2012 and you post a new review for the book.
You can join anytime

I am going for Level 3 - Read 24 picture books! I will be listing them below.

January

01. Once Upon A Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O’Malley, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley, Carol Heyer, Scott Goto

02. The Hair of Zoe Fleefenbacher Goes to School by Laurie Halse Anderson, illustrated by Ard Hoyt

03. What Baby Needs by William Sears, M.D., Martha Sears, R.N., Christie Watts Kelly

February

04. Once Upon A Royal Superbaby by Kevin O’Malley, illustrated by Kevin O’Malley, Carol Heyer, Scott Goto

05. Valentine’s Day Is… by Gail Gibbons

06. Wolf Camp by Katie McKy, illustrated by Bonnie Leick *§

07. President’s Day by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell

08. The Luckiest St. Patrick’s Day Ever! by Teddy Slater, illustrated by Ethan Long (review posted in March)

09. Red Sled by Patricia Thomas, illustrated by Chris L. Demarest

10. Leopold’s Long Awaited Leap Year Birthday by Dawn Desjardins, illustrated by C. E. Locander

March

11. Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton

12. Red Sled by Lita Judge

13. The Littlest Owl by Caroline Pitcher, illustrated by Tina Macnaughton

14. The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy, illustrated by Jane Chapman

15. A Book of Sleep by Il Sung Na

16. I’m Not Sleepy! by Jonathan Allen

April

17. Oh No, George! by Chris Haughton

18. How Robin Saved Spring by Debbie Ouellet, illustrated by Nicoletta Ceccoli (review posted in May)

19. In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb by Marion Dane Bauer, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully

20. The Legend of the Sand Dollar by Chris Auer, illustrated by Rick Johnson

May

21. Memorial Day by Trudi Strain Trueit, illustrated by Ronnie Rooney

^ Re-reads

* ARC

** Review Copy

§ E-Book

February Reviews: 2012 Books of Eyre Reading Challenge

Link Your February Reviews!

Please link your February reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. Jane Eyre (Amber) or Jane Eyre (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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February Reviews: 2012 Tudor Reading Challenge

Link Your February Reviews!

Please link your February reviews on this post. Each month, there will be a new post where your reviews can be linked for that particular month. You do not need a blog to participate! Posting on Goodreads or wherever you post your reviews is fine. I will list the link for each month on the sidebar under the challenge button.

VERY IMPORTANT (last month the links were entered incorrectly): When you add the link(s) of your review(s), please leave the book title and your name/blog (i.e. The Other Tudors (Amber) or The Other Tudors (The Musings of ALMYBNENR)). Do not add your blog link but rather the link that will take us directly to your review.

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Select Books of Eyre Reads: 2012 Books of Eyre Reading Challenge

Here are a few ideas of Eyre-related books to read for this challenge (click on the covers for synopses from Goodreads):

There is also another related book coming out sometime in the summer that has no details or cover as of yet called Death of a Schoolgirl (The Jane Eyre Chronicles) by Joanna Campbell Slan.

And of course, the original counts!