Introducting the 2013 TBR Pile Reading Challenge

With 2012 coming to a close, I'm looking back on everything I've read this year.... and then I cry a little on the inside. I'm not saying that I haven't enjoyed the books that I've read! Absolutely not, they've all been absolutely wonderful. The only problem is that there hasn't been nearly enough of them. 2012 has not been a pretty year for me book-wise, and I deeply regret that. Sometimes life gets in the way though, and there's nothing I can do about that.

And that's why this challenge is so amazing. It's giving me the incentive I need to read those books that didn't make it last year. The ones I've been absolutely dying to read, but haven't had the time to get to. And trust me, there's a lot of those. Anybody who's taken a look at The LIST lately will notice that quite a few of the books on there aren't exactly new releases. Yeah....

I found out about this reading challenge through the absolutely beautifully wonderful Fiktshun, so here's the explanation she gave:

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Welcome to 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge!!! 
 

6 BLOGGERS, 12 MINI-CHALLENGES, 24 BOOKS TO WIN!!!

We all have those books. We buy them, win them, they’re gifted to us. Then we put them up on a bookshelf and there they stay, collecting dust, waiting for the time when we’ll finally decide to pick them up.

Join us on a quest to dust off your TBR Pile and read all the books you’ve been telling yourself you’ll read next time you’ll get a chance. This is your chance! And we’ve got PRIZES!!!

Challenge Guidelines…

***This challenge will run from Jan 1, 2013 – Dec 31, 2013***
+ Anyone can enter! You don’t have to be a blogger, as long as you review the book you’ve read! (On your blog, Amazon, Goodreads or Shelfari!)
+ Any genre, length or format of book counts, as long as it is a book that’s been sitting on your shelf for some time now. Only books released in 2012 or earlier! NO  2013 ARCs or 2013 fresh-off-the-press releases allowed!
+ You can list your books in advance or just put them in a wrap-up post. If you list them, feel free to change them as the mood suits you.
+ When you sign up in the linky, put the direct link to your post about joining the 2013 TBR PILE Reading Challenge.
+ You can move up levels, but no moving down.
+ Sign-ups will be open until Dec 15, 2013, so feel free to join at any time throughout the year.
+ On the 20th of each month one of the hosts will post a wrap-up. Every wrap-up will be a unique theme, and include a mini-challenge, a giveaway and place for you to link up your reviews from that month. For each review you link up, you will get one entry in a drawing of one book of your choice from The Book Depository. It’s open to INTERNATIONALS. The giveaway will be open until the next wrap up post goes up! (i.e., the entire year).
+ If you miss a wrap-up post + giveaway, you can link up your reviews next month. Do not, however, try to link up one review twice - we will be checking.
+ December is a wrap-up for the whole year. All the book reviews you linked up January-November + the ones you’ll link up in December will be entered into a HUGE giveaway for a box of books.
You don’t have to follow all the hosts to join the challenge, but you do have to follow all of us to be entered in the giveaways!

Levels…

1-10 – A Firm Handshake
11-20 – A Friendly Hug
21-30 – A Sweet Kiss
31-40 – Love At First Sight
41-50 – Married With Children

Wrap-up Post Schedule…

Jan. 20th: Evie @Bookish (www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com)
Feb. 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (www.fiktshun.com)
Mar. 20th: Justin @Justin’s Book Blog (www.justinsbookblog.com)
Apr. 20th: Tiffany @Escaping…One Book At A Time (escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com)
May 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca)
Jun. 20th: Justin @Justin’s Book Blog (www.justinsbookblog.com)
Jul. 20th: Emily @Doodle’s Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com)
Aug. 20th: Tiffany @Escaping…One Book At A Time (escapingonebookatatime.blogspot.com)
Sept. 20th: Rachel @Fiktshun (www.fiktshun.com)
Oct. 20th: Emily @Doodle’s Book Blog (doodlesbookblog.blogspot.com)
Nov. 20th: Bonnie @Words At Home (www.wordsathome.ca)
Dec. 20th: This one will be posted on all the blogs. There will also be a huge BOX OF BOOKS giveaway and this time you can link up ALL YOUR TBR Pile REVIEWS you wrote for the entire month!

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Do you see this, people? A BOX of books! Even if you don't need that gentle nudge (or in my case, something along the lines of a shove off of a cliff) in order to get those books read, you should be interested in this. You don't even need to have a blog as long as you can post your reviews somewhere!

You can sign up on any of the six hosts' blogs, or you can enter here.

I'm going to be a loser and just start off with A Firm Handshake, but hopefully (please, please, please, PLEASE) I'll be able to read much more than that. Here are a few of the books I hope to get to next year.

So, are you guys going to join?