Sunday, June 3, 2012

Classic Bribe Challenge & Giveaway


The Classic Bribe – Challenge & Giveaway (sponsored by quirkygirlsread):

  • Read at least 1 Classic over the summer – between Memorial Day and the end of Labor Day Weekend, September 3rd
  • You can have begun the Classic prior to Memorial Day, but it needs to have been completed between the challenge dates above
  • Post a review on your blog of each Classic that you read during the challenge period and reference a link to this “The Classic Bribe” challenge page
  • Link to each of your reviews separately by clicking on Mr. Linky on the challenge page
  • Each linked review counts as 1 entry – no entry limit per blogger – read and review as many as you like
  • Each entry builds up $1 toward an Amazon gift card – the more entries the higher the balance can grow – capped at $35
  • Random winner selected Labor Day weekend from all entries- no restrictions on region
  • Winner receives the full Amazon gift card balance accumulated based on entries receive
Click Underlined Challenge Title above to head to the site and sign up.


Yes.  I know.  I already have 30-some challenges.  Plenty to read.  But....I did this one last year and it fit in with what I was already reading and caused no extra challenge stress whatsoever.  Really.  (no, I didn't twitch...you imagined it)  And, so, I am drinking the reading challenge Kool-Aid and signing up for just one more....

Classics Read:
1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (6/3/12)
2. The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer (6/12/12)
3. The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (6/30/12)
4. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (7/4/12) [Classic spy thriller]
5. File No. 113 by Emile Gaboiau (7/11/12) [Classic French detective story]
6. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (7/12/12)
7. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (7/18/12)
8. The Four Million & Other Stories by O. Henry (7/21/12)
9. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (8/13/12)
10. Crime on Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties by Michele B. Slung, ed (8/18/12) [Classic/Vintage Mysteries]