August-September 2012 Review Link-Up

Uris Library Stacks

 
I want to apologize for being absent last month. If you would like to link up your August reviews as well as your September ones in this linky, please do so.

**Also, if anyone would be interested in taking this challenge over, please let me know. My email is afewmorepages@gmail.com. My book blog hiatus seems to have become permanent and I'm just not around that much anymore.  

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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July 2012 Review Link-Up

Happy July! Hope you're getting some wonderful summer reading accomplished!

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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June 2012 Review Link-Up

It's June! And I'm late again but not as late as last month. Hope you're enjoying the beginning of summer!

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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May 2012 - Review Linkup

 

Argh! So sorry for being so late with the link-up! It completely slipped my mind with end of term things at work.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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April 2012 - Review Linkup!

by Alexander Smolianitski on Flickr

Sorry I'm a few days late getting the link-up posted. I hope everyone's finding some great POC books to share with us! (Please note: Your links will no longer have a thumbnail image here. I didn't renew my subscription for that at Inlinkz. I hope that's OK!)

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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March 2012 - Review Linkup!

Dylar by CyberAndy, on Flickr

Happy March!

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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February 2012 - Review Linkup!

Black History Month Cafeteria Display  by carmichaellibrary, on Flickr

February is Black History Month in the US. Are you planning to read any books to celebrate the month? Do you have any suggestions? Let us know in the comments! Enter the links for your POC Challenge book reviews in the linky below.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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The 2012 POC Reading Challenge

Hi everyone!

I know we've kind of been quiet over the last couple of months about this challenge and whether it would continue or not. The three of us have seen this year become quite busy, and we questioned whether we would be able to continue hosting this challenge or not.

In order to keep the challenge alive, we've decided to scale it back a bit. We will no longer be giving away book prizes every month. We might give away a book every so often, but it won't be a regular thing here.

We'll continue to have book link-ups every month, and encourage everyone to visit each other's reviews of the books they've read that feature a person of color as a main character or that have been written by authors of color.

I (Katy) am going to try to continue doing what I've been doing here from the beginning--posting the link-ups and visiting reviews when I can. If you have any questions, please email or tweet me (my contact information is in the sidebar).

If anyone is interested in contributing a guest post here, I would absolutely welcome it! Guest posts should be related to the reading challenge--for example, reviews of books that qualify for the POC Reading Challenge and posts about issues that challenge participants would be interested in (cover whitewashing, challenges faced by authors of color, etc).

Here are the challenge details:

Any book (by any author) with a main character that is a person of color qualifies for this reading challenge, as well as any book written by an author of color. The goal is to encourage readers have a more diverse reading experience and to support diversity in the publishing industry by reading and reviewing books by or about persons of color.

Choose how many POC books you would like to read in 2012:

Level 1: Read 1-3 POC books
Level 2. Read 4-6 POC books
Level 3. Read 7-9 POC books
Level 4. Read 10-15 POC books
Level 5. Read 16-25 POC books

So if you'd like to participate in the 2012 POC Reading Challenge, please do sign up, and if you have a blog please spread the word by grabbing the button from the sidebar and posting about your participation. I'll start a new link-up for reviews on February 1.

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2011 POC Challenge Wrap-up Posts!

Although the goal of this challenge is to get people reading more books by and about persons of color for life, it's nice to be able to post a summary of your reading to celebrate that you met your challenge goal (or even if you didn't meet your goal, just to acknowledge that you tried)!

Your wrap-up post serves as a way to link your completed list of books read for this reading challenge. When you have completed your reading list, create a blog post and link that post below. Here are some suggestions of things you could include in your wrap-up post (you don't have to answer these, they are just suggestions):

• What were your favorite (and least favorite) books read for the challenge?
• Favorite author(s) from the challenge?
• Has the challenge helped to change your reading habits? Will you continue to read books by and about persons of color? 
• Are there genres, authors, or specific books that you still want to read or that you plan to read in the future?
• What did you learn through this challenge? 

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December Review Link-up!

It's December! How are you doing on the challenge? Did you meet your goal already or are you racing to the finish line? I'll be posting an end-of-the-challenge link-up shortly so you can link up your wrap-up posts.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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September, October Winners

Should I just stop apologizing? I can't... I am very very sorry that it has taken me so long to post winners. Also if you won a book and haven't received an email from me, please go ahead and email me yourself! I check my email everyday so I will follow up. It's just increasingly difficult for me to remember to email the winners first.

September: BURIED IN PRINT!

Akoss @ Fantasy Pen!

October: April from Good Books & Good Wine!

Shannon from Reading Has a Purpose!

Congratulations winners! If you do not hear from me within 48 hours feel free to email me. I look forward to the holidays when I can take the time to not only read but COMMENT on many of the great reviews I've seen and read.

November Review Link-Up!

Is it really November ALREADY??? Sorry I'm late getting this up again.

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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October Review Link-up!

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Happy October! Please leave a comment you have any suggestions for spooky POC reads this month!

Please enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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August 2011 Winners!

*Ducks head in shame* I can't even find the words to apologize for how long this took me to post :0 But more importantly, here are ze winners!

A.J! from Collections, the random review was Invisible Touch by Kelly Parra. I've read the book too and I agree 100% with her thoughts about the ending and the blog entries

Sidne! from Reading Rendezvous Reviews and the highlighted review from her blog is Leading Lady of Rap by Torri L. Holmes, I like the tagline of the novel "Not a video vixen" story

Winners email me with your addresses and which book you've chosen from the prize list

Keep on keeping on!

September Review Link-up!

Keep linking up your POC Challenge reviews! You guys are doing great! Just a few months left until the end of the year!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Shelf Awareness for Readers: Books About China

Today's Shelf Awareness for Readers newsletter included a Further Reading section that focuses on books about China. Click here to see the suggestions!

And if you haven't signed up for Shelf Awareness for Readers (which is a free e-mail newsletter that arrives Tuesdays and Fridays), click here to do so!

July Winners

Brandy from Books, Books 'N More Books who reviewed the second book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (which is one of my personal favorite series'), Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith

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Tea from Book Page! Tea reviewed If Sons Then Heirs by Lorene Cary

Congratulations winners (email me if you don't hear from me in 48 hours) and I'm enjoying reading through as many reviews as I can :) And past winners be sure you let me know when your books have arrived

August Review Link-Up

Whooo's Reading a Good Book? by Enokson

School will be starting back up soon; we hope you're able to squeeze in some more POC books before the end of summer!

Enter the direct link to your reviews, not to the main page of your blog. We'd like to be able to find your review directly through the link and not have to look for it. Thanks for participating!

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Dystopia and Diversity?!

Lee and Low, a fabulous diversity rich publishing house, has put the first four chapters of their dystopian Tankborn online for your reading pleasure! Check it out and let us know what you think!

(edited to add: Click here to learn more about Tankborn at Lee and Low's website.)

Sync into summer!

The Audio Book Community is having two free downloads a week for kids audio. This week they are featuring a free download that all of you PoC challgengers may be interested in! It counts towards the challenge. If you download and listen let us know!

WHERE THE STREETS HAD A NAME by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Read by Kellie Jones
Published by Bolinda Audio

Thanks to April at Good Books and Good Wine for letting us know!