Birthday Month Reading Challenge and Hard Core Re-Reading ChallengeWinners

I'll admit I almost forgot but here's the announcement for the winners of the 2015 Birthday Month Reading Challenge and the 2015 Hard Core Re-Reading Challenge.
Winners were chosen randomly.

Birthday Month Reading Challenge 

A LOT of people participate in this challenge which was amazing!
The grand prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $20 or less from Amazon) is: Sherrie
The second prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $15 or less from Amazon) is: Courtney
The third prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $10 or less from Amazon)  is: C Riedel

Hard Core Re-Reading Challenge

Not quite as many people participated in this challenge but those that did were very dedicated and I was impressed with how many books they re-read! Good job everyone!
The grand prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $20 or less from Amazon) is: Becky
The second prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $15 or less from Amazon) is: Amanda
The third prize winner (your choice of a book or literary momento costing $10 or less from Amazon) is: Selah

If you were a winner please contact me and let me know what you would like your prize to be and I will get it sent off to you ASAP. I will try to contact all of the winners to let them know. Deadline to contact me is next Saturday (January 16th) and if you haven't contact me by then I will chose another winner.

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- December

Well December has come and the last month of the Birthday Month Reading Challenge! I hope y'all have had fun this year and don't worry... you still have 31 days to catch up if you're behind. ;)
Here's my customary list of December birthday authors and the more complete list is HERE.

• Jane Austen
• Stephanie Meyer
• Nicholas Sparks
• Emily Dickinson
• Rose Wilder-Lane
• Willa Cather
• Elisabeth Elliot
• Padraic Colum
• Eloise McGraw
• Ralph Moody
• G.A. Henty
• George MacDonald
• Rudyard Kipling
• Carol Ryrie Brink
• Mary Norton
• Rosemary Sutcliff

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- November

November? Wait how is it November? Where'd the rest of the year go?
If you are still trying to catch up, while I'd love to say you still have plenty of time it actually is running out now. Don't worry though, two months isn't too bad. ;)
Here's a short list of authors with November Birthdays and a more complete list is available HERE.

• Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Mark Twain
• Christopher Paolini
• Louisa May Alcott
• Margaret Mitchell
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• William Steig
• Robin Mckinley
• Lucy Maud Montgomery
• C.S. Lewis
• Jonathan Swift
• Astrid Lindgren
• William Steig
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Neil Gaiman
• Madeleine L'Engle

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- October

Well fall is here and it sure looks and feels like it!
Below is a list of some October birthday authors. A more complete list is HERE.

• Isaac Asimnov
• Michael Crichton
• E.E. Cummings
• Nora Roberts
• Jonathan Edwards
• Frank Herbert
• Helen Hunt Jackson
• Edward Stratmeyer (Had various pen names but wrote The Hardy Boys series and the Rover Boys series as well as others)
• Oscar Wilde
• P.G. Wodehouse
• Lois Lenski
• Katherine Patterson

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- September

It's September all ready? Wait? What happened to my summer? ;)
I hope everyone is still sticking with the Birthday Month Reading Challenge. Remember if you're behind you still have plenty of time to catch up. :) No one will ever know. ;)
Here's my list of authors with September birthdays.

• George R.R. Martin
• F. Scott Firtzgerald
• Truman Capote
• T.S. Elliot
• William Faulkner
• Shel Silverstein
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• O. Henry
• James Fenimore Cooper
• Stephen King
• Timothy Zahn
• Os Guiness
• Eugene Field
• Elizabeth Enright
• Agatha Christie
• H.G. Wells

Be sure to check HERE for other authors with September Birthdays. 

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- August

August.... the month where you poor unfortunate souls have to go back to school but I don't cause I'm done! Not that I'm rubbing it in your face or anything. ;)
Here's a list of authors with an August birthday! A more complete list is available HERE.

• Ray Bradbury
• Suzanne Collins
• Orscon Scott Card
• Danielle Steel
• Herman Mellvile
• David Baldacci
• James Baldwin
• Garrison Keillor
• William Goldman
• Theodore Dresiser
• E. Nesbit

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- July

The heat is coming and congratulations we are now over half way through the year and through the Birthday Month Reading Challenge!
Here's the list of authors with a July Birthday and you can check out he more complete list HERE.

• J.K. Rowling
• Ernest Hemingway
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• E.B. White
• Stephen R. Lawhead
• Owen Wister
• Ruth Krauss
• Joseph Kesselring
• Bernard Shaw
• Emily Bronte
• Bill Watterson
• Beatrix Potter
• Laura Numeroff

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Birthday Month Reading Challenges- June

We have reached June and we are at the half way point!!! Get excited! If you're behind don't worry! You still have time to catch up. :)
Here are the birthdays for June! Be sure to check out a more complete list HERE.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Maurice Sendak
• Pearl S. Buck
• Erich Maria Remarque
• John F. MacArthur
• Mercedes Lackey
• Esther Forbes
• Brian Jacques
• Walter Farley
• Thomas Hardy
• George Orwell
• Peter Spier
• Robert Kraus
• Eric Carle
• Johanna Spyri

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- May

May has come with graduations and the much anticipated end of school!!!!! :)
I hope you're all keeping up with the Birthday Reading Challenge! If you're behind don't worry; I'm sure many of us are. ;) Just catch up as you can. :)
Here's a list of authors with their birthday in May. A more complete list is HERE.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Walt Whitman
• Tony Hillerman
• Margaret Wise Brown
• Margaret Rey
• William Péne du Bois
• Irene Hunt
• Eleanor Estes
• Daphne du Maurier
• Richard Adams
• Leo Lionni
• J.M. Barrie
• Edward Lear
• L. Frank Baum
• Arnold Lobel
• Susan Cooper

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- April

March is gone and now it's on to April! I hope you all are blowing through the Birthday Month Reading Challenge succesfully. :) If you are behind don't worry, just pick up where you left off and catch up. :) I'm not going to come after you if you aren't on schedule. ;)
Here's a list of April birthday authors to hopefully help prompt you. As always, there's a more complete list HERE.

• William Shakespeare
• Thomas Jefferson
• Maya Angelou
• Harper Lee
• Booker T. Washington
• Henry James
• Janet Evanovich
• Anne McCaffrey
• Beverly Cleary
• Robert Penn Warren
• Lew Wallace
• Anthony Trollope
• Charlotte Bronte
• Emile Zola
• Erik Christian Haugaard
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Marguerite Henry
• Gary Soto
• Maud Hart Lovelace

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- March

Congratulations on making it through February! Now on to March! If you've fell behind don't stress out! Just catch up as you can. :)
Here's a list of some authors with birthdays in March for my Birthday Month Reading Challenge. Be sure to check out the more complete list HERE.

• Albert Einstein
• Dr. Seuss/Theodore Geisel
• Ralph Ellison
• Iris Chang
• Howard Pyle
• Andrew Lang
• Lois Lowry
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Kenneth Grahame
• Ezra Jack Keats
• Tennessee Williams
• Robert Frost
• Anna Sewell
• Sid Fleischman
• Marguerite de Angeli
• Virginia Hamilton
• Patricia MacLachlan

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- Februry

I hope you all made it through January okay with the Birthday Month Reading Challenge! I'm trying to get to all of your reviews but it's been pretty crazy with school so I'm sure I've missed a few. :( I'll try to be better this month. :)
It's February now so here's my list of some authors with February birthdays that I hope will prompt you in case you are having trouble with coming up with authors. :)

• Charles Dickens
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
• John Steinbeck
• Frederick Douglass
• John Grisham
• W.E.B. du Bois
• Toni Morrison
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Chaim Potok
• Elizabeth George
• William Allen White
• E.L. Konigsburg
• Jeffery Shaara
• Laura E. Richards
• Walt Morey
• Hilda Van Stockum

These are just a few. Check out a more complete list HERE. 

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2015 Birthday Month Reading Challenge- Review Posts

This is where you can link up your review posts for the 2015 Birthday Month Reading Challenge. If you don't have a blog feel free to use Goodreads or any other medium and if necessary you can just comment your review. :)
For the original listing of rules be sure to check out this post HERE.

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Birthday Month Reading Challenge- January

It's a new year, a new month and time to start our new reading challenges! I'm incredibly excited for a new year of reading and my mountain of challenges I will be participating in this year. :)
If you haven't yet signed up for my Birthday Month Reading Challenge or my Hard Core Re-Reading Challenge be sure to check them out! There's still time to sign up.
So for the birthday month reading challenge the goal is every month to read a book by an author who has their birthday in that month. To help y'all out, I am including a list of some famous authors who have birthdays in January. :)

• J.R.R. Tolkien
• Wilkie Collins
• J.D. Salinger 
• Edgar Allen Poe 
• Benjamin Franklin 
• Edith Wharton 
• Zora Neale Hurston
• John Piper 
• Zane Grey 
• Max Lucado
• Francis Schaffer
• Lee Strobel
• Horatio Alger 
• Bill Peet 
• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Lloyd Alexander 
• Walter Brooks
• Arthur Ransom
• Anne Bronte
• A.A. Milne
• E.M. Forster

For a more complete list of authors check out THIS website. I just included the ones that immediately caught my eye. 

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2015 Birthday Month Reading Challenge

I had a brainwave about a reading challenge (well hopefully it's a brainwave and I'm not stealing someone else's idea) so I'm going to host ANOTHER challenge! :)

Rules (And when I say rules please realize I'm one of the most flexible people in existence)

• First off, this challenge is for EVERYBODY! That means YOU! I want anyone and everyone to join in on the fun!
• How this challenge works is that each month you read a book by an author who has his or her birthday in that month. So for example in December you could read a book by Jane Austen because her birthday is December 16th and in July you could read a book by J.K. Rowling because her birthday is July 31st. So you will end up reading twelve books all together for this challenge. 
• At the beginning of each month I will try and post a list of some author with their birthday in that month as a prompt. You should start and finish each book in that month span but if you don't make it that's okay. :) The ultimate goal is to get all twelve books completed before the end of the year. 
• The challenge officially runs from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015. 
• At THIS POST you can link up your reviews of the books you read for this challenge. That way not only can everyone enjoy other people's review but also that is how I'll keep track of how many books you complete for the drawing at the end (see below). I don't care how short or long your review is. :)
• Those participating in this challenge will be entered in a drawing for prizes! There will be three winners. The first place winner will get their choice of a book or a literary trinket (costing $20 or less) from Amazon. Second place will have the same option only costing $15 or less and third place the same costing $10 or less.... because I'm a poor nursing student people! ;)
• All forms of books are allowable including actual book, ebook and audiobook. 
• If you don't have a blog but still want to participate you can sign up with a comment and use Goodreads for reviews or I suppose even comment on the reviews page with your reviews. I don't want to exclude anyone from joining in the fun. :)
• You can sign up below with the Linky tool. Registration is open from now right up until the end on December 31, 2015. 

Sign up here!

P.S. Be sure to check out my Hard Core Re-Reading challenge HERE!

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