Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010!
I was asked by J. Kaye (of J. Kaye's Book Blog) if I would take over and host the Thriller & Suspense Challenge. Well, I love this genre so I jumped at the chance. The rules are basically the same but there is a new button! I hope you will join me in the Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge 2010!
**UPDATE**
• Courtesy of publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER UK, all participants of this challenge will receive a free ARC of either Random by Craig Robertson or Venom by Joan Brady to start you off on your challenge! Once you have signed up for the challenge, email me with your full name, address, blog URL (if you have one) and your entry number from the participants list below (so I can verify) and I will pass on your details. This is INTERNATIONAL!
I am trying to contact participants who have already signed up - to help me out please email me as there are a lot of people to get though ;) Also some of you don't have a blog or I can't find an email so please contact me!
Timeline: 01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010
Rules: To read TWELVE (12) thrillers in 2010
Details:
• You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront then you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.
• If you decide to participate in this challenge please use the links I have set up below with the buttons to post on your sidebar, this way others can find their way back to this post and join in the fun.
Now, there are many different sub-genres of thriller, so don't go thinking that you don't actually read these kinds of books because I bet you read more than you think. As I mentioned above you can choose from the numerous sub-genres, from cosy mysteries such as Agatha Christie to the more hard-boiled kind like V I Warshawski by Sara Paretsky, or even supernatural/paranormal suspense written by the likes of Laurell K Hamilton (Anita Blake) and Kelley Armstrong. So, there you have it, this challenge will have something for everyone I'm sure! :)
To help you figure out and decide, J. Kaye has kindly given me the sub-genre list that she compiled when hosting the challenge. To view this list go HERE.
If you have trouble signing below, please email me the name you want posted below with your blog's link HERE
NB: When signing up for Mr Linky, please add the direct link to your post where your Thriller & Suspense books will be listed as it makes it much easier for others to find. If you don't have a blog, leave the URL blank. Thanks!
102 comments:
I totally signed up! This looks like a lot of fun!
I'll post about this today! I love, love, love your button!
I signed up and I'll be sure to create a post about it.
Love your button! And this genre is right up my alley so I'm looking forward to this!
oh those buttons are fab!!! I signed up!
Super cute button!!! I am going to join up - probably next month since things are so busy right now. This looks like so much fun :)
Signed up Love the button :)
Ya know the more I think about this the more I'm convinced...I'm in :D
Just signed up and getting my 2010 TBR book list ready. I'll pick my books next week. I'm also following you on Twitter.
I'm a new blogger, this would be my first challenge, its what I enjoy reading and I can committ to it.
I look forward to it.
Now I have to figure out how to post it etc.
I'm in! This is fun!
totally love the icon. I'll come back after first of the year. Need time to gather thoughts on this one. Holidays are hectic.
I'm in. Love the button!
Am so excited...going to enjoy this challenge since this is my favorite genre of books and starts after the hustle & bustle of the holidays. Since I hibernate(lol) in the winter, this is going to be wonderful...curled up in my afghan, a cup of tea and a mystery/suspense...definitely looking forward to this challenge. Thank you for hosting.
Sorry about my mixup before, fixed my link! :)
I'm in. I've got my link but don't have my books selected yet. I will before I start.
Love this genre.....have signed up and posted about the challenge.
Great button!
Sounds great - I loved the 2008-2009 version, so I'm signing up. Haven't got a complete list yet, but I've put up a post about the challenge. Thanks for hosting!
I just posted about the challenge:
http://suitesweet.blogspot.com/2009/11/reading-challenge-thriller-suspense.html
This is a reading challenge I couldn't resist! I've signed up and can't wait for 2010 to begin so I can start reading some thriller/suspense/mystery books that have been on my TBR like forever...
Oh and I love the button!!
Thrillers are so much fun. Love the subgenre list.
Sounds like fun. I read so much of this stuff anyway :)
Hi, we received your comment at A novel Challenge.
We didn't join your challenge but we post about all book challenges that we find out about as a public service to bloggers looking for challenges.
If you decide to host other challenges, you are welcome to let us know about them and we will poost about them.
Darn me and my over-eagerness. I said I wasn't going to sign up for a lot of challenges in 2010. But I keep finding amazing ones like this one. You guys are killing me.
sounds like fun to me - hopefully most of the challenges I sign up for have a lott of cross overs
I'm in for next year!! Fantastic Button. Looking forward to reading everyone's reviews.
I am in, sure love serial killers
Thanks everyone for joining!! This should be fun - I can't wait to see all the books you choose and read your reviews (if you post them). xoxo
I've been gearing up :) I'm so excited.
Hi!
I did this this year over at J. Kaye's place. Glad to see someone took it over, my favorite read is suspense and mysteries. I have posted about this and linked back to you at my place, A View of My Life. Have a great day!
Sherrie
A View of My Life
I've been meaning to sign up ever since I saw this. Looking forward to it and will blog about it before the beginning of the year. For now will add my name to mr. linky with url pointing to my 2010 challenge post.
I have a question. I am putting buttons/pictures of my 2010 challenges in my sidebar but the links go back to my original challenge post so people can see all my reviews, etc. In my original post I have the link back to how to sign up to join the challenge. Is this okay to do or do I have to have the sidebar button link back to this page?
Hi Rebecca - I would prefer if my button linked back to the challenge post. If you want to link to your own challenge page you can put separate link underneath button. Thanks! :)
I'm in. Looking forward to the challenge.
Signed up and will start next year as the challenge requires, but I did link with the last thriller/mystery I reviewed this year.
hohoi I totally signep up!! I read more than 12 mystery&thriller books in a year.
But I am a bit confuse here...the date was set to January 1...but how come people are already giving link???
I'll put the button once I use PC not Cellphone.
Thanks for hosting this challenge!
Hi Novroz,
Thanks for wanting to join the Thriller & Suspense reading challenge. Well, when you want to join a challenge you write up a post about it then link that particular URL to Mr Linky. That way everyone else who has joined the challenge can check out how everyone else is doing and give support. I hope that answers your question and you will come and sign up!
Thx BCC :)
I have already written my introduction and also give my 1st review (tho it isn't January yet)
This is right up my alley and my first challenge ever....hopefully I can figure out all the links for my blog. Thanks so much for hosting!!
I'm signed up :)
I love all kinds of mysteries , so this s a no brainer.
Chèli
Cheli's Shelves
I was just saying I need to read more books in 2010 than this year. This is perfect and has come at the right time, thanks for holding it.
My blog about the challenge is here
http://newtowritinggirl.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/thriller-and-suspense-reading-challenge-2010/ I'll add the bedge as soon as I work out how to.
I signed up for this challenge as I read so much of this stuff anyways. I have never done one of these and it looks like fun. I already have my first book picked out, it's going to be difficult to wait until January 1st.
Thanks for hosting! I'm a thriller newbie, so I compiled some best-of lists and other reading lists over at my blog if anyone needs help with where to start--I know I will!
Can't wait!
I've officially signed up, and looking forward to it!
Just a question for you, as I am a newcomer to the blog scene, and don't actually have a blog ready to go. Can I post my reviews on Library Thing or somewhere else like that until I actually become a blogger of my own? My kids are probably rolling their eyes right now because I am asking this question.
I wasn't too sure about this one until I read the list of sub-genres. I'm giving it a try!
I'm in. I just blogged about the challenge and posted the button on my blog too. Thanks for hosting this challenge--my favorite book genre.
Count me in! Haven't been reading much mystery/thrillers lately, so this is going to be fun. Will put up a post real soon.
Have signed up. Thanks for hosting this one. Please bear with me - I am new to this blogging business!
Can't wait to get started, which I will be doing in just a few minutes. I hope it's ok that we crossover into other challenges.
Thanks for hosting this. I'm hoping to read more romantic suspense and mysteries this year so this will help me.
http://retroreduxsreviews.blogspot.com/2010/01/thriller-and-suspense-challenge-2010.html
Hi I was no. 7 that joined but just realised it was the wrong link, my apologies, still new to blogging. I rejoined so you can delete my first one.
Happy New Year
Carolyn, I'm getting ready to do my first review for the challenge but can't find a post to link the review to. I was just curious to know if you will be doing on.
I'm excited to participate in this challenge BCC. I hope to have loads of fun reading authors who get a bit neglected by me *eek*
I am so in - just need to make a post. Do audios count as well?
Hi Sheila - Yep audio books count! :)
I haven't read suspense thrillers recently so this should be fun.
Looking forward to the challenge. I'll post it on my blog tomorrow
http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com
Thanks for hosting it.
I saw your update--yay! That's very nice of them! Is that giveaway open internationally?
Hi Jennifer - sorry I should have put that, yes it is open worldwide! :)
Sorry can you delete my previous entry on Mr. Linky, I messed up on the URL part. I'll enter again.
This is right up my alley! I'm currently reading Rain Gods by James Lee Burke, which fits into this challenge. Happy reading everyone :)
Help! I've been hunting and can't find your email anywhere to send you my full name and address for this challenge.
Hi Jan - there's a contact button on my navigation bar :)
That Contact button doesn't work for me, not sure why.
Thanks!
Hi...My first ever book challenge yay!...let me know if I do something wrong! Found you via Cat at Tell Me a Story.
Yay! Thanks for your help. I signed up, this looks fun
Could have sworn I'd done Mr. Linky before, but I don't see it on the list, so I linked again. I've already done two, and have about a gazillion more planned for 2010. Thanks so much for this fun challenge.
Just saw the update :) That's really great...
I've signed up, but I've linked to my blog instead of the post. I'm not sure how to fix this, but here is the post link just in case:
http://ihatebooks.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/my-first-two-book-challenges-ever/
Can't find your e-mail address to send you my mailing address. Would you please post it? Thanks.
Never mind. Found your e-mail. Thanks.
I just saw the update! How amazing is that?! Anyways, I e-mailed you my info :)
This looks like a fun challenge so I'm in as well.
I hope it's ok if my blog is in Portuguese. I'll do the post relating to the challenge in both languages, so I guess it won't be a problem.
Ohhhh! I wasn't going to sign up for any challenges this year, but am going to have to now! This sounds and looks like such a fun one and one of my favorite genres!! So, I am in! By the way - I LOVE the button!!!!
Hi, Could you please remove me as entrant #114 (Geri) I signed up wrong but have hopefully corrected the error. Have signed up again with my blog url.
Thanks!!
Cute button - thanks. My email is rae_sunshine4(at)yahoo.com
I'm no. 26 and 141. Sorry I forgot and signed up twice.
My email: harvee44 at yahoo dot com
I accidentally stumbled upon this but I would love to participate. I am not sure though that I got everything exactly right. :) So, I'll just go step by step and ask for help if I don't understand something.
oooohhhhh I love this idea!!! Count me in. I'm #144 on the list. I have your botton on my blog and I LOVE IT!! I hope the books I read count. They always keep me in suspense and thrilled. :)
Hi! Just signed up for this. I'm so excited - I have just started my own blog and this is my first challenge. Will now go and make a post about it.
This is one of the few challenges I actually completed last year...looking forward to 12 more thrills this year!
Very much looking forward to this challenge :)
I am #118 so I thought I'd finally get around to sharing the books I have picked so far...
Right now I am reading 'Moonlight Falls' by Vincent Zandri. And my February pick is Elizabeth Kostova's 'The Swan Thieves.' March with be 'Dot Dead' by Keith Raffel.
You can keep up with my monthly reading in the righthand column of my blog. Stop by and share with me what you are reading, regardless of that day's post topic!
Michele
SouthernCityMysteries
Just got Venom in the mail! Thanks so much. I'll probably read this for February, since I read my one thriller for January!
Hi, thanks for the comment on my blog and for the compliment about my english! :)
I write, read and talk in english everyday as I work for UK, so my blog is in portuguese so I won't forget my own language :oP
I had to sign up! This is the perfect challenge for me :)
Sent you an e-mail as well!
Hey, I just got "Random" by Craig Robertson :) I can't wait to read it!
I actually wanted this one, not "Venom" so thanks to you & Simon & Schuster ;) Thank you!
I just got "Venom" as well! Excited to read it - maybe it will be one of my monthly challenge reads?
Michele
SouthernCityMysteries
I received Venom in the post today, it looks like a gripping read, thank you, it was a great suprise in the mailbox as I'd completely forgotten about the giveaway after I signed up!
I just signed up - I love a good mystery!
How fun! Thrillers are my favorite type of book anyway. Twelve should be pretty easy (since I've already read two this week!)
I've put my first review for the Thriller & Suspense Challenge up on my blog. I've started with The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier.
Sorry I meant to tick the email box below before I published the earlier comment.
Hi! I can't find ur email add but have sent you my details via google friend connect. Hope you get it.
lol i thought i signed up for this ages ago hehe
I'm officially entrant 160 now lol
my email is wings.reviews@gmail.com
Due to a glitch with blogger, I need you to delete #163 Terri@TheLatestThing. Thanks.
I wanted to sign up, but accidentally posted the wrong link and signed up twice, could you please delete no. 167? Many thanks!
This will be so fun and easy, since this is what I read 90% of the time. Thanks!
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