Tag Archive | Reading Challenge

Our Challenge Round Up

Half the year has gone. Time flies doesn’t it?  We’ve joined a few challenges at the start of the year and here’s an update on how we’ve gone so far. Picture Book Challenge 2012       67 of 120 Nonfiction Challenge 2012           22 (12) POC Reading Challenge 2012       24 of 25 Reading the World Challenge     […]

The 2011 Reading Challenge Round Up

In 2011 we joined quite a number of reading challenges. It was both exciting and difficult. But we’re happy to report to have successfully completed every one of it. Picture Book Challenge 2011 The goal was to read 120 Picture Books in 2011. We read 133 books. If you haven’t noticed yet we at Gathering Books […]

Books, Conferences, and Whodunits: A May Affair Round-up

In the Philippines the end of May means the end of summer and the beginning of another school year. Here at Gathering Books the end of May marks an end to a busy month that has allowed us to make new acquaintances and build better bridges in the world of literature. The AFCC (Asian Festival […]

Beginning April with a March Round-up

April is in the air. Time does fly and we’re once again doing our monthly round up for March which has been wonderful in many ways. If anything, it ended with a happy note that we hope to continue in April.  Before I head out to list everything, we’ve been reading and reviewing let me […]

February Round-Up: Reading through the Month of Love and Announcement of 1st batch of Whodunit Winners

Last January we began a new tradition here at GB – the monthly roundup. Today being the 1st of March, this seems like the perfect time to update our readers on the various challenges the GB team joined, the reviews we’re getting for our Whodunit Reading Challenge, the reviews for our bi-monthly GB Special and […]