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) May 1st and 11:59pm (your time) May 31st. 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).
- Q; But can you read a book series if each book is less than 250 pages?
- Originally we said no but if the series is 5 books or more and less than 250 pages in each book than it totally counts, BUT it must be 5 books and you must read the entire series for it to count. (all books published)
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’m in. Here’s my sign up post: http://carolsnotebook.com/2020/04/28/can-you-read-a-series-in-a-month-challenge-2/
Yep! I’m in! My link doesn’t go live until Tuesday (28th) but I’m planning on reading Hailey Edward’s Gemini Series.
https://www.sunnybuzzybooks.co.uk/2020/04/read-series-in-month-challenge-2020.html
Awesome! Good Luck! I hope you love your series! 🙂
Thanks for this! Looking foward to getting started – I am doing The Wild Ones by C.M. Owens
C.M. Owens is a fantastic author, I haven’t read her Wild Ones series, I read her series under her pen name KRISTY CUNNING The Dark Side series. It was really good.
Good Luck with the challenge, I hope you love your series! 🙂
I am going to tackle an older series, but one of the three books is a novella. The first two books are almost 400 pages, but alas the third is only 126. So I will play along, but not officially.
I picked my series, A Chalkin’ It Up Cozy Mystery (3 book series) by Sarah Bourgeois. Here is my post link: https://cindysbookstacks.com/2020/04/09/can-you-read-a-series-in-a-month-challenge/
I am looking forward to this reading challenge!
I am definitely in , I just need to research and figure out a series, will reply back ASAP. Sounds fun!
Awesome! Picking the Series is always the hardest part.
If I can find a series I want to finish or catch up on that has only like three books then I will sign up…lol.
I need to research and will get back to you.
I’m in. I just need to figure out which series I want to tackle.
Okay, doing the Lady Darby historical mysteries by Anna Lee Huber.
Here’s my sign up post: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1619583978215863&set=a.153812434793032&type=3&theater