Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge 2011

Socrate's Book Reviews is hosting a Crusin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge in 2011.  The challenge runs January  - December.

Even though she will be hosting a cozy challenge for the full year, I still plan to host the Cozy Mystery Challenge April - September like I have in previous years.  In fact, I think I'll even sign up for Socrate's challenge myself!

If you cozy fans are interested in participating in 2 challenges next year (because of course I hope and pray you'll still participate in mine) please visit her blog for more info on the challenge.

psst...I'll even let you count cozies that you read for my challenge for her's too...isn't that nice of me?

Books list is complete!

Thank you everyone for filling out the form and letting me know what books you read for this challenge and including a link to your review (when there was one).

I do have the list of books read for the Cozy Mystery Challenge 2010 updated and complete.  Feel free to browse through it next time you are in need of a good cozy read.

Here's a LINK but you can also get it by clicking on the tab towards the top of the page.

We have winners!

Thanks again to everyone who participated in this challenge!  You all did so great and I'm so happy to see so many cozy mystery lovers out there.

I finally have the winners for the books.  Congrats to everyone who won!

Beth C.won Souther Ghost.
Trudy M.won Bookmarked for Death
Carol A.won Death of a Party.
Vickie B. won The Christie Caper and Last Writes.

I'm hoping to mail the books this weekend, along with the bookmarks.

Sticky post for Forms

If you completed the challenge and are ready to complete the form, please click HERE.

After you fill out the form above, please fill out this form to be entered into the giveaway. 

If you want to enter your SEPTEMBER books read, please click HERE.

To view the complete list of books read , please click HERE. 

**This is a STICKY post and will remain at the top**

Cozy Mystery Challenge is now over!

I can't believe it's that time already..time for the challenge to be over!

I bet you all did great!!!!

I'm going to leave the September reads form open through the 15th.  This gives people a chance to link up all their reviews.  If you want to link reviews for other months, please just link them all on the September form since I won't be checking the other forms to see which are new additions to the list.  After the 15th I will then update the page that has all the books read and links to your reviews.

Please make sure you also complete the form for having completed the challenge and for the give-aways!  The last chance to sign-up for the give-aways is 10/15 at midnight, central time.  I'll use random.org to pick a winner and will post the info that weekend.

I'm going to start making the bookmarks and getting those sent out too.  Everyone is going to get the same one this year.  I finally came up with a design this week and I'm hoping to make most of them this weekend.  I hope you like it..it's a surprise until you receive it!

I want to thank all of you for participating this year!  I had so many more from last year.  It's exciting to see this one grow each year.   Of course, as of right now I plan to host this one again in 2011.  Same place, Same time.  Hope to see you all come back and feel free to bring a friend.

I know that for me personally, I had started to drift away from cozies even though I love them and this challenge made me read more and fall back in love with the genre.

Last month of the challenge!

I can't believe we are already at the end of the challenge!   This one always seems to go by so fast.  You all have read an amazing amount of cozies this year.  I should know, I just spent 3 or 4 days entered them all on the new page.   I admit to be way behind in reading all your blogs, rest assured I will get to it so I can see your challenge wrap-up posts and read all those reviews that you linked too.

We have already had 7 people completed the form showing they have completed this challenge...way to go!

For those of you who have completed the challenge or as you complete the challenge this month don't forget to fill out that form.  Don't forget that those who do will get a bookmark as a prize for completing this challenge.

I'm also giving away several used books I've come across that are cozies.  Once you complete the challenge, don't forget to fill out that form as well to be entered into the giveaway.


Good luck everyone!

Complete list of Books read for this challenge

I created a page for this blog where I listed each of the books read for this challenge and links to all reviewed.

I did have this on the side bar, but with blogger making pages so much easier now, I decided to switch it over because it would be easier for you (especially if you were wanting to print off a list) and me.

All books read April - August are listed.  I'll update the September books read once the challenge is over. 

I added a link at the top of this blog, and also on the right, however if you use google reader or a similar program, here's the link.

Enjoy!