It’s that time again…..
Can You Read a Series in a Month?
Remember the days before book blogging, when you didn’t have a COLOSSAL list of books to read, because you didn’t know about all of them yet? When you discovered a great series and literally just gobbled it up because you had no review book commitments and, quite often, nothing else to read anyway? When you didn’t know about a series until long after it was published from beginning to end and you COULD just binge read the whole thing? Wouldn’t it be fun to do that again? Not to mention, I KNOW you have a least half a dozen series you’ve been dying to read and just haven’t made time for. Which is why Berls and I are challenging you to read an ENTIRE series in a month.
The Rules
- Pick 1 series. Yes, just 1. Announce which series you’ve picked on your sign up post.
- Read EVERY book in the series. You don’t have to read novellas or short stories, just the core books.
- Read them all between 12am (your time) November 1st and 11:59pm (your time) November 30th. They MUST be marked (on Goodreads) as started and finished in the month of June to count.
- Enjoy bragging to everyone about how you’re all caught up on whatever series you read (AKA – have fun)!
The Nitty Gritty / Inevitable questions
Here’s some questions that we’ve anticipated (and asked each other as we figured it out) and we can update this section as we get more questions (assuming there will be).
- Q: Can I read more than 1 series?
- I know we have some reading over-achievers out there who want to do more. Go ahead, we’ll cheer you on, but there’s no bonus points or higher levels for reading more than 1.
- Q:How many books constitutes a series?
- We’re going to say 3 published books – so if it’s a trilogy it counts. If you want to take on a 40 book series, be our guest. And good luck!
- Q: Can I have started the series?
- You can’t reread an ENTIRE series. But if you have less than three books remaining in a series (so 2 or 1) you may reread 1 or 2 books, so that you’re reading 3 books. For example, if you’ve read 3 books in a 5 book series, you could reread 1 book and then read the 2 unread books, bring your total to three.
- Q: Does the entire series have to be published and complete?
- No. But there must be at least 3 books published for it to count (or if you’ve already read 1 book, 4 published). So if there’s going to be six books, but only 4 are published and you’ve read the first one, it counts. So if it’s a trilogy that not yet complete, that wouldn’t count.
- Q: Novellas?
- Novellas can be read but they can’t be the 1st, 2nd or 3rd in a trilogy. So if you have 4 books, and one is a novella that is fine but if the series has 3 books and one of the 3 is a novella that doesn’t count. The 3 need to be full length books (over 250 pages each book).
The giveaway!
Bragging rights! Nah, just kidding. We will be awarding $5 Gift Cards to Amazon, selected randomly from everyone who successfully completes the challenge.
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Sign up
So it’s time to sign up! We just need to you make a simple sign up post (on your blog, Goodreads, Facebook, etc) declaring your intention to participate and letting us know what series you will be reading. I’ll have my sign up post next week if you need an example… I have to decide which series I’m going to pick of the MANY I’m considering!
I managed to finish just in the nick of time Saturday ! I have my wrap up done – do I need to link it somewhere? Also, thanks so much for hosting!
finished my first book 3 more to go
I’ll be reading DD Barant’s 6 book Bloodhound Files series. I’m a mood reader so I HOPE I’ll feel like reading the series next month!
I’ll be reading the Entanglement Series books 1-3 by Michelle MacQueen!
Lex and I are going to buddy read Helena Hunting’s Pucked series. 🙂
Count me in. I just need to figure out which series, I am going to read.
I am going to use November to catch up on some cozy series so I might look and see if I have one that has three or more that I am interested in binging and sign up. 🙂
yes i have a quite a few series i can throw into this i have to stick with the smaller ones for sure
my series is THE DARKEST MINDS by Alexandra Bracken
I’ve got to put my thinking cap on, about which series I might actually be able to finish. See you soon!
I do have several series that need my attention. I’ll have to figure out which one I’ll likely be in the mood for (and maybe have a back up ready). But, I’m in!
I loved taking part in this when it ran back in May! I read a 6 book series that time.
I think this time around I may finish an existing series… I have 6 /7 books left in the Chicagoland Vampires and 9 left in the Kitty Norville series both of which I want to finish this year so I’ll be aiming for one of those! Will choose when I post my sign up. 🙂
Yay! Good Luck! Can’t wait to see which one got pick!
This looks like a lot of fun but I don’t think I could ever finish a series in just a month. I will admit, November is a slightly less than busy month though… Now I’m tempted.
I didn’t do good the first two times but last time I was surprised that I was able to do it. I always say it’s worth a try because you never know. We do it 2 times a year so there is always time to check it out 🙂