Spring Events Abound...Bloggiesta and Once Upon a Time and more...Oh My!

Bloggiesta is here (has actually already started) and I'm not sure how much I will accomplish since it's the end of the month for work and I'm always slammed, but I'll still try to get some things done. Not sure if I'll have time for mini-challenges, but might make a chat...or two.

Goals

• Make button and create sign up post for my Spring into Horror read-a-thon in April.
• Finally make a decision on when I will host my next Sit Down and Write Write-a-Thon (create button).
• create sign-up post for The Strain read-a-long, coming to Castle Macabre in May/June.
• Update reading challenge stats

These next two items I always put on the list, but usually never get around to. Maybe this time?

• start listing books on my library blog.
• update my books read list and start linking to reviews

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Once Upon a Time VIII and Spring into a Good Book

I signed up for these at my Challenge blog. Click the links above or images below to see what I'm reading.

Hosted at ebook classics and Cedar Station

Since this is on my Classics Club list, I thought I would sign up. Hope I can keep up!

Posting schedule:

Part One – April 10, 2014

Part Two – April 20, 2014

Part Three – April 30, 2014

Twitter hashtag:  #MadameBovary2014

2014 Reading Challenges and a new literary group, Lit Collective

 

I vowed to myself that I would sign up for less than 10 challenges this year and I did it! I ended up signing up for 9 and one of those is a long term challenge that I'm spreading over 4 years. Of course, I'm keeping track over at my challenge blog, but listed below are the challenge buttons for the ones I signed up for.

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I also want to take a moment to officially announce my new book discussion community which I started with Heather at Between the Covers and Laura at Book Snob over at Goodreads. It's called Lit Collective: An Online Reading Retreat. We'll be having our "online retreats" twice a year. In March, we focus on books grouped around a theme. This March our theme is World World I. The books we're reading are:

4 Fiction
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Gendarme, Mark Mustian
The Light Between Oceans, M.L. Stedman
The Sandcastle Girls, Chris Bohjalian

1 Non-Fiction
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm, Juliet Nicolson

Each week, we will focus our discussion on one book, with discussion of the non-fiction title being more of a side discussion in addition to the others. Discussions will take place predominantly in the group, but we will have a Twitter hashtag for any Twitter chats or parties we decide to have and for announcements and it is #litcollective.

I will have the schedule of what books will be discussed when and some advance discussion questions posted in the group soon. In August, the retreat will revolve around 3 or 4 selected works of a certain author. We will vote on this in the group. 

To find out all the details and to join the group, visit Lit Collective here. We'd love to have you!

Reminder: Sign ups are open for A Winter's Respite over at Seasons of Reading. Click HERE, or the image below, to sign up.