Aussie YA Reading Challenge September/October Reviews

We now have 82 people signed up for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge.

If you are interesting in signing up go here.  You can sign up at anytime.

***This prize for September-October is a choice of either Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta or Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart***

A few things to remember before you link up:

• In the linky tool please paste the direct link to your review. Reviews can be from your blog (or a guest post on a blog), Goodreads and Shelfari.  You can link up for each Aussie book you read and review in September and October 2011.
• The prize is only for those that are participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 and who complete a review by 31st October, 2011.  Please make sure that you have officially signed up here before you link a review.
• Winner will be selected at the 1st November, 2011 using random.org.
  
  
  
  

Aussie YA Reading Challenge July/August Reviews

We now have 77 people signed up for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge and in May-June we had 55 reviews posted!

If you are interesting in signing up go here.  You can sign up at anytime.

***This prize for July-August is a $15 (AUS dollars) to spend at The Book Depository on any Aussie title of your choice.***

A few things to remember before you link up:

• In the linky tool please paste the direct link to your review. Reviews can be from your blog (or a guest post on a blog), Goodreads and Shelfari.  You can link up for each Aussie book you read and review in July and August 2011.
• The prize is only for those that are participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 and who complete a review by 31st August, 2011.  Please make sure that you have officially signed up here before you link a review.
• Winner will be selected at the 1st September, 2011 using random.org.
  
  

Go Aussie Book Tour Picks

We have had great success with Round 1 of the GO AUSSIE BOOK TOURS and we are hoping to do another round of books.  But we need your help.  We would love to hear what books you would like to see on Round 2.  


All the titles we have picked are ones that aren't available internationally that we would love to share. 


Please feel to add any other suggestions on the list.  And a BIG THANK YOU for taking the time to answer the poll! 

Aussie YA Reading Challenge March/April Winner

Aussie YA Reading Challenge March/April Reviews

 Choice of one aussie book out of the 4 titles listed here.

Congratulations to Flannery

Winner was generated by random.org

Aussie YA Reading Challenge May/June Reviews

We now have 70 people signed up for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge and in March/April we had 33 reviews posted!

If you are interesting in signing up go here.  You can sign up at anytime.

This prize for May-June is a choice of ONE of the following Aussie titles, 2011 release (none of these titles are available internationally but this prize is opened INTERNATIONALLY):

A few things to remember before you link up:

• In the linky tool please paste the direct link to your review. Reviews can be from your blog (or a guest post on a blog), Goodreads and Shelfari.  You can link up for each Aussie book you read and review in May and June 2011.
• The prize is only for those that are participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 and who complete a review by 30th June, 2011.  Please make sure that you have officially signed up here before you link a review.
• Winner will be selected at the 1st July, 2011 using random.org.

May and June Reviews 

Go Aussie Book Tour

I know that I am constantly going on about Aussie books that most of you can't read but now you can. Thanks to the brilliant idea of Missie at The Unread Reader I am happy to announce the Go Aussie Book Tours for those of you participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 hosted by me.  You can sign up at anytime (like right now if you haven't) for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011.  Just go here.


Here are the tour details thanks to Missie (as per post at The Unreader Reader) :

Mission Statement:
The mission of Go Aussie Book Tours is to promote Australian authors and books. Many phenomenal Aussie titles are not readily available in the U.S. and we would like to give readers the opportunity to read these books while generating buzz for Aussie YA!

What is a Book Tour?
A book tour is when a highly anticipated title is passed from one book blogger to another.  Tours provide an opportunity for the book blogger to read and review the title for their blog. In the case of the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011, an additional opportunity is provided for bloggers to work on completing their goals for the reading challenge. Each blogger will be responsible for covering their own shipping expenses. Packages MUST be sent via United States Postal Service with delivery confirmation. Delivery confirmation information must be sent to the host for tracking purposes. The last person on the tour will then ship the book back to the host.

Tour Rules:

• Go Aussie Book Tours are exclusive for U.S. participants of the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011. If you haven't already signed up for the challenge, you can here.
• U.S. residents only.
• Interested participants are allowed to sign up for multiple tours but the max is three (3).
• Each participant will be responsible for covering their own shipping expenses. Packages MUST be sent via United States Postal Service with delivery confirmation.
• When a book is received, participant must e-mail the host a notification. At that time, the mailing address of the next person on the tour will be provided.
• Each participant will have ONE WEEK (7 days) to read the book.
• Book received must be reviewed and reviews MUST be linked on Aussie YA Reading Challenge review posts found on Irresistible Reads.
• Tours will be limited and small. Schedule will be based on reader interest.
• Failure to comply with the rules will result in immediate removal from the tours.
• Any questions/concerns can be directed to missie@theunreadreader.com

Please Remember: All the book on this tour are from Missie's personal library and many were purchased by her. The books are not easy to obtain in the U.S., nor are they easy to replace. That is why we are sharing them. We don't want one bad apple to ruin the tour for the rest of the participants. Please be respectful of the mission, the rules, and the books you receive.

Aussie Books on Tour:

Burn Bright (Night Creatures #1) by Marianne de Pierres
Fury by Shirley Marr
Good Oil by Laura Buzo

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Saltwater Moons by Julie Gittus
Saltwater Vampires by Kirsty Eagar

Sign Up:

• Sign up will continue all the month of April and tour schedules will be announced in May
• GO TO THE UNREAD READER TO SIGN UP FOR THE TOUR!

They are all amazing books and some of them have no release date for the US so this might be your only chance to read them.  So go head over to The Unread Reader and sign up now!!!!

A big thank you to Missie for organising this.  You are the best :)

Giveaway winners!!!

One signed copy of Fury by Shirley Marr

Congratulations to Misha at My Love Affair With Books

and

Aussie YA Reading Challenge Jan/Feb Reviews

 $15(aus dollars) to spend on any Australian young adult book of your choice at The Book Depository 

Congratulations to Skye at In The Good Books

Winners were generated by random.org

I will be contacting both of you shortly.  Please reply to my email within 48 hours.

Aussie YA Reading Challenge - March/April Reviews

Wow, we have 59 people signed up for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge now and in Jan/Feb we had 35 reviews posted!  I loved reading them all and I see most of you are enjoying them.

If you are interesting in signing up go here.  You can sign up at anytime.

This prize for March/April is a choice of ONE of the following Aussie titles (my favourites):

A few things to remember before you link up:

• In the linky tool please paste the direct link to your review. Reviews can be from your blog (or a guest post on a blog), Goodreads and Shelfari.  You can link up for each Aussie book you read and review in March and April 2011.
• The prize is only for those that are participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 and who complete a review by 30th April, 2011.  Please make sure that you have officially signed up here before you link a review.
• Winner will be selected at the 1st May, 2011 using random.org.

March and April Reviews 

GIVEAWAY WINNER - Aussie YA Reading Challenge

GIVEAWAY WINNER of the Sign Up for Aussie YA Reading Challenge

Today is Australia Day and also time to announce the winner of the first giveaway for the Aussie YA Reading Challenge for those of you who have signed up.

The winner is:

Linds @ Bibliophile Brouhaha

I will be contacting you shortly by email. 

Thank you to all of you who have signed up so far.  Don't forgot to link up your January and February reviews for a chance to win another Aussie book.

Aussie YA Reading Challenge - Jan/Feb reviews

 

I am so excited that so many people have signed up for the challenge! 49 people so far.  Way more than I was expecting.  Thank you all and I hope you enjoy your Aussie reads.  I know that I am going to love reading all your reviews!

 

If you are interesting in signing up go here.  If you sign up by 25th January, 2011 there is a awesome prize thanks to Nomes at Inkcrush.  For more details on the prize check out the sign up post.  Remember though you can sign up at anytime!

 

This prize for January/February is $15(aus dollars) to spend on any Australian young adult book of your choice at The Book Depository.   Open to all participants that TBD ships.  (If you are participating and they don't ship to you please send me an email so I can see what I can work out in case you win).

 

A few things to remember before you link up:

• In the linky tool please paste the direct link to your review. Reviews can be from your blog (or a guest post on a blog), Goodreads and Shelfari.  You can link up for each Aussie book you read and review in January and February.
• The prize is only for those that are participating in the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011 and who complete a review by 28th  February, 2011.  Please make sure that you have officially signed up here before you link a review.
• Winner will be selected at the 1st March, 2011 using random.org.

 

January and February Reviews 

 

 

Aussie YA Book Challenge 2011

If you haven’t noticed I am big fan of Aussie young adult fiction.  Many of my favourite books (On The Jellicoe Road, Six Impossible Things, Raw Blue, A Little Wanting Song - just to name a few) are by Aussie authors and I now try to read at least one Aussie book at week.   

So, I have been signing up for some reading challenges for 2011 when I noticed there was none for Aussie YA books. I know a few bloggers who are passionate about Aussie YA so I thought why not host a challenge to encourage more people to read Australian young adult fiction.  So with a lot of help from Nomes at Inkcrush, together we have created the Aussie YA Reading Challenge 2011:

The challenge is as follows:

Australian participants - Read at least 12 young adult books by Australian authors from 1^st January, 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

International participants - Read at least 6 young adult books by Australian authors from 1^st January, 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

They can be old or new titles, however no re-reads.

It is open to everyone. You don’t have to be a blogger but you MUST POST A REVIEW.   Reviews can be posted anywhere - Blogs, Goodreads, Shelfari or non-bloggers can even do a guest post on a blog like mine.

You can join anytime. The challenge runs from 1^st January 2011 to 31^st December, 2011.

There will be prizes throughout the year and guest posts and interviews from some awesome Aussie authors.   

If you sign up by the 25th January, 2011 you could be the lucky winner of one of the following titles, thanks to Nomes at Inkcrush.  These are some of Nomes' favourite titles that are available internationally.  Open to everyone as long as The Book Depository ships to you.

Getting Started:

 
Create a post for the challenge listing some of the titles you are wanting to read (you don’t have to list them all just post some ideas of what you are thinking of reading) and link back to this post.  

Place one of the buttons or create your own in the side bar of your blog.

Non-Bloggers: Post your list of books (just a few titles again) in the comment section of this post.

Sign up with the link at the bottom of the this post, linking to your challenge post.   

Non-Bloggers just put your Goodreads, Shelfari or this post link in.


Reading Ideas:

You can check out the following links for some reading ideas:

Goodreads -  Favourite Aussie YA, Aussie YA Paranormal & Fantasy, Aussie YA 2011 Releases, My Aussie YA Shelf

Aussie YA @ Inkcrush 
Aussie Reviews

Buttons: (you can use the top pic or the one's below or create your own):-



They are so many wonderful other challenges (from Off the Shelf to Vampires to Kindle) out there at the moment that are worth checking out as well.  Here are some of my personal favourites and they all help inspired me to start my own little challenge: The Story Siren Debut Author Challenge, The Contemps Challenge, The Bookette British Challenge. 

If you have any question please feel free to email me at irresistiblereads@hotmail.com. 

Don't forget to fill out the below link!