Summer Book Trek 2013 is over!
A great big Thank You all those who participated in the Summer Book Trek this year—both the rabid readers and the awesome authors and publishers who provided our prizes!
How many novels by LDS authors did you read in July? One? Four? More than 20?
Official recognition for Most Books Read (as reported via the Rafflecopter form) goes to Gayle who read 22 books! (Click her name to see what she read and links to her GoodReads reviews.)
I’ll post the list of the titles read during the last 2 weeks of the Trek below, but here are our overall stats for the entire month of July:
Total participants: 30
Total prizes claimed: 73 (still waiting on a few responses)
Total entries to win: 2841
Total books finished: 135
Total reviews posted online: 72
Total books nominated for a Whitney Award: 38
I think that’s pretty impressive! I’m proud of what we’ve done here. We’ve read lots of books, but even more importantly, we’ve helped out the authors we loved by posting online reviews of their books and nominating worthy titles for Whitney Awards. Yay, us!
And even though it’s now back to life as usual, I hope you’ll keep up the reading, posting and nominating. Remember, we’ll do this again next July. And in the Spring, we’ll have a Reading the Whitneys Challenge.
Till then, Happy Reading!
Karlene
Titles Read (since 7/20):
Above Rubies — Jaclyn Hawkes (2)
Alma — H.B Moore
Ashes Ashes — Julie Coulter Bellon
Be Mine — Sandra Norton Flynn
Bright Blue Miracle — Becca Wilhite
Brothers, The — Chris Stewart
Cure, The — Teyla Branton
Deep Cover — Traci Hunter Abramson (2)
Escape to Zion — Jean Holbrook Mathews
Frog Prince, The — Jenni James
Frozen Trail, The — Lisa Dayley
Glimmer of Hope — Sarah Eden (2)
House at Rose Creek, The — Jenny Proctor (2)
Hunting Gideon — Jessica Draper
I Belong With You — Shannon Guymon (2)
Millstone City — S.P. Bailey
Orchard, The — Krista Lynne Jensen
Paige — Anette Lyon
Proceed with Caution — Betsy Brannon Green
Reluctant Blogger, The — Ryan Rapier
Rising Sun, Falling Star — Vickie Hall
Rithmatist, The — Brandon Sanderson
Royal Secrets — Traci Hunter Abramson
Royal Target — Traci Hunter Abramson (2)
Scholar, The — May Nicole Abbey
Tangled Hearts — Roseanne Wilkins
Through Cloud and Sunshine — Dean Hughes
Whisper Island — Inola Pickett
Wild Born — Brandon Mull
Titles Nominated for a Whitney Award (since 7/20):
Brothers, The — Chris Stewart
Do Over by Shannon Guymon
House at Rose Creek, The — Jenny Proctor
I Belong With You — Shannon Guymon
Reluctant Blogger, The — Ryan Rapier
Through Cloud and Sunshine — Dean Hughes
Whisper Island — Inola Pickett
A very BIG THANK YOU to you for putting this all together!
I am looking forward to the spring challenge!