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) September 1st and 11:59pm (your time) September 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).
- 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 with at least 60 pages 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 a $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 always look forward to this Challenge throughout the year – and, the truth is, I often suck at Challenges. Intentions are good, it’s taking (and sometimes making) the time to follow through. But… I really want to read the series that I picked this time. And I’ve even scheduled in reading time in my daily planner, I don’t know how to be more dedicated than that! 🙂
I often suck at this challenge and I was the one that came up with it 🙂 I think it is great you have a schedule and I wish you luck! This is one of my favorite challenges to co-host. 🙂
I totally forgot to sign up…and I shared it for at least a month… I am totally losing my mind. Any-who I will be listening to the DFZ series by Rachel Aaron.
Glad you are joining us! Good Luck! 🙂
This is a great challenge, glad I came across your blog. Off to decide what series I am going to read and sign up.
Thanks, glad you a joining us. We try to do this challenge at least 2 times a year, sometimes we try and squeeze in one more 🙂 it’s one of our favorites.
This is a great challenge…Now I just have to decide what to read but I am already excited 😊 🤓
Deciding is the hardest part! 🙂
This is a great motivator challenge for me. I’m definitely in. Now, to figure out what to pick.
That is my problem this time too. I can’t decide what series to binge lol