I’m a first round Cybils judge!
The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards. This year I’m serving as a first-round panelist in the category of Young Adult Speculative Fiction.
What this means is that I’m going to need to do a LOT of reading in the next three months.
More than 100 books will likely get nominated in my category, and we hope to have at least two panelists read each book. All panelists will read books that are serious contenders for the shortlist.
So I need to read!
(And I do love it when I get to say that! Instead of feeling guilty for taking time to read, I should feel guilty when I don’t!)
The bad side is that I’m going to get even further behind on posting reviews. I currently have 66 reviews written that I haven’t posted yet. So I’m going to try to get about one per day posted most days — but that will not catch me up.
And Sonderling Sunday is going to be a much more rare feature.
So — if my posts get a little less frequent — It’s because I’m reading!
And — this coming Thursday and Friday, I’m going to hold my own personal 48-Hour Book Challenge!
By something of a fluke, I have those days off. So I’m going to brush off the spreadsheets I used for Mother Reader‘s past years’ 48-Hour Book Challenges and use her rules.
The point is to see how many hours out of a chosen consecutive 48 hours I can spend reading. I’m allowed one audiobook, and can count hours spent reviewing or posting my reviews. And I’m allowed to spend time networking — posting about my challenge. I’m going to see if I can hit a personal best. Can I top 30 hours and 30 minutes? (Do I even want to?) For that matter, can I pass 18 hours spent reading? (I might want to go easier on the non-reading activities.)
So — I’m going to get behind on posting reviews, but it will be worth it!
And you can participate! Anyone who has read a good children’s or young adult book published between October 16, 2015 and October 15, 2016 — nominate it for a Cybils Award!
Give me more great books to read!