My 2012 Reading Challenges

For 2012, I'll be joining several exciting reading challenges that will not only help me make a dent in my TBR shelf but will also allow me to discover new blogs and win new friends with a bonus of cool prizes. Isn't that great?

1) So to start off is the 2012 Harry Potter Reading Challenge hosted by The Reading Fever and I’m super-duper excited about this one. It’s a challenge to read all 7 books in my favorite series of all time: Harry Potter.

It’s time to enter once again the magical world of Harry Potter and relived the adventure. For more info click here.

2) Have you ever read a classic novel? Well, I did. Once. And that’s after watching the movie. I know, I know most of us don’t have time to read these great novels. For starters, they’re harder to read and will require complete focus (at least for me). Second, is they give us book-induced nosebleeds. And the list of excuses goes on…Now it’s time to step up and join The Classics Reading Challenge 2012 hosted by Thoughts at One In The Morning. For more info head here.

There are 5 Levels to choose from and I think I’m going for Level Two 4-6 books.  Some of the books I might be reading are:

-1984

-How to Kill a Mockingbird

-Atonement

-The Lord of the Flies

3. The next reading challenge is a massive one hosted by 10 bloggers called 2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge.

Basically, you'll read books from your TBR shelf and do a review. This will run for the entire year and at the end of each month, there would be cool giveaways and mini-challenges from the respective hosts.

The Hosts: 

Evie from Bookish - http://www.evie-bookish.blogspot.com @SeoEvie

Nicole from All I Ever Read - http://www.nicoleabouttown.com/ @Nicoleabouttown

Bonnie from Hands and Home - http://www.handsandhome.ca/ @HandsHomeBlog

Donna from Book Passion For Life - http://bookpassionforlife.blogspot.com/ @BookPforLife

Caitlin from WatchYA Reading - http://whatchyareading.net @caitlingss

Rie from Mission To Read - http://missiontoread.com/ @missiontoread

Vicky from Books, Biscuits & Tea -http://booksbiscuitsandtea.blogspot.com/ @alouetteuette 

Christa from Hooked On Books - http://christashookedonbooks.blogspot.com @ChristasBooks

Jenna from Fans Of Fiction - http://fansoffiction.blogspot.com/ @fansoffiction

Angel from Mermaids Vision - http://mermaidvision.wordpress.com @mermaidvisions

Sounds fun, right? I'll be doing the A Friendly Hug level which will require me to read 11-20 books. Want to join? Click here for more info.

4) Next stop is the Harper Imprint Challenge hosted by Starry Sky Books. This will run on January and to join you'll have to read books published by Harper Collins and HarperCollins imprints: Harper Teen, Greenwillow, Katherine Tegen Books, and Balzer + Bray. For more info head here.

I'm doing the Medium Level (5-8 books) and these are the books I'll be reading:

- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

- Die For Me by Amy Plum

- Liesl  & Po by Lauren Oliver

- Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

  - Pretty Crooked by Elisa Ludwig

Schedule of Events:

-January 1: Event starts! Review link-up for the first week posted.

-January 4: First 24 hour Harper book giveaway!

-January 8: Review link-up for the second week goes up.

-January 11: Second 24 hour Harper book giveaway.

-January 15: Harper Imprint Challenge Readathon! Starts at 9am Pacific time and lasts for 24 hours; Review link-up for the third week

-January 18: Third 24 hour Harper book giveaway.

-January 22: Review Link-up for the last week, including the 29th through the 31st

-January 25: Last 24 hour Harper book giveaway!

-January 31: - Last day of the challenge!

-On February 1 there will be one final giveaway for those who participated and do a wrap up post of your accomplishments! 

5) I love contemporary novels so I'm happy to be joining this awesome challenge by Chick Loves Lit called Completely Contemp Challenge.

For this challenge you have to read YA contemporary published during 2010, 2011 and 2012. I'm going for the 5 books per year. I'm still making my reading list so I'll just update this post. For book ideas and more info about Completely Contemp Challenge click here.

And that's it for my first-ever attempt at reading challenges. I do hope I can accomplish all of them! *fingers crossed*