Reader’s Choice Giveaway – Spring 2025 Edition – Goal Reviews

We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post for a Special Weather Alert — because this seems to be Spring in Canada this year. 🙂 There’s a significant freezing rain ‘episode’ headed our way over the weekend. Mix of snow and freezing rain — heavy at times with predictions of possible power outages. So, if the winner’s announcement post doesn’t go up on Saturday, that will be why. Hopefully we’ll dodge the worst of it but but as of now it’s a 95% certainty. So, stay tuned, and if the power does go out, I’ll get the post up as soon as I can after it’s been restored.

Now on to our Goal Review Giveaway:

Quarterly reading goal reviews have become a Best Reads Blog tradition. I’ll share my progress (or not!) here just for some fun, book nerdy stats and, if you’re so inclined, you can share a goal or two in the comments. But no pressure – a goal can be as simple as ‘read a book.’

So, to enter this giveaway, just share anything goal related in the comments. Then, in the same comment, list a book that will help you reach your goal. So it looks like this:

“I want to catch up on some suspense series. Night Prey by Susan Sleeman.”

NOTE: BOOKS MUST BE CHRISTIAN FICTION

You can enter up to three times in three separate comments — and you can use the same goal or a different one each time, but a different title for each entry.

Books can be published any time up through to June 2025. Currently published books will be ordered this coming week for winners, otherwise it will be an IOU for a title releasing later.

See? Easy Peasy. But if you’re still not clear, don’t be shy about asking questions.

Now, here are some of my reading goal highlights — it’s a bit of a topsy turvy start. Did well in some ways and totally bombed in others.

Overall not too bad but I’m fine tuning some of my goals for the second quarter of 2025. This is what I’m going to concentrate on:

  • More Indie Books!
  • Look for Diversity in authors, characters, settings
  • Pick 5 Read to Zero authors and start working on catching up on their books. Totally bombed on this goal in the first quarter!
  • Target series to complete.

Okay, that’s enough nerdy stats stuff. Let’s get on with the giveaway!

Share below and remember to include a book title that will help you achieve any kind of reading goal. You can enter three times in three separate comments using the same goal or different ones. What ever strikes your fancy. Just make sure each entry is for a different title.

DRAW WILL BE HELD AND WINNER ANNOUNCED ON 

Saturday March 29 2025

OFFER OPEN TO ANY READER WHO HAS A US KINDLE .COM ACCOUNT FOR EBOOKS. OTHERWISE IT’S WINNER’S CHOICE OF PAPERBACK OR EBOOK FOR US AND CANADIAN ENTRIES.

146 thoughts on “Reader’s Choice Giveaway – Spring 2025 Edition – Goal Reviews”

  5. Your graphics are great, as you make statistics fun! Lots of interesting comments, too, from the blog followers. I am not as detailed, but I read 26 books this past quarter. That total includes a memoir and a history, but I did not count a couple of cookbooks I checked out from the library. I did a binge read on a couple of popular authors. There were three books I did not finish. I would like to read more early releases from several authors mentioned in the upcoming books for the quarter.

    An Untamed Land by Lauraine Snelling.

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  7. A classic! Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke. I am trying to collect more classics, or those I believe to be instrumental in the development of the genre. Thank you for the educational week!

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    1. Ooooh, yes, cookbooks! I’m forever checking them out from the library and renewing and renewing and scribbling down recipes before I finally have to return them! Love browsing through cookbooks! lol Good luck, CC!

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  14. Boy, do I have goals, LOL! I need to reread books and one that will help me reach this goal is An Overdue Match by Sarah Monzon! You have done great on your goals so far this year! cilydav at hotmail dot com

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  18. Read more books of authors I haven’t read in a long time.

    A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    mauback55 at gmail dot com

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  19. I am woefully behind on Gabrielle Meyer’s Timeless series, so For a Lifetime by Gabrielle Meyer will help me pick up where I left off.

    Your goals are pretty incredible! I’m just trying to keep my head above water with my 100+ books on my Goodreads TBR wish list. That is a totally un-attainable goal, but it never hurts to dream. But I have read 19 that are logged on Goodreads for the year, there are a couple that I need to post reviews for. There is a LOT going on in my household these days!

    perrianne (DOT) askew (AT) me (DOT) com

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    1. I’m right there with you, Perrianne. I’ve only read the first book. Chickened out when I saw that the second book featured the heroine time traveling between three eras — so three lives, three guys and she has to choose? Ack — too much angst! I may get brave eventually. lol Good luck!

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  24. Read a book in my favorite genre I missed, Until the Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin.

    Thank you for all you do. Blessings!

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  25. GOAL: Catch up on some suspense series

    Jonas (Book 2 of The Minnesota Marshall Series) by Susan May Warren

    Alison Boss

    nj(dot)bossman(at)gmail(dot)com

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  30. Kav, love the chance to list books to help us reach some of our goals. For my goal of reading Katie Powner’s backlist – The Sowing Season.

    ckbarker at gmail dot com

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  33. I’m still trying to play catch up on some of my favorite authors’ books.

    #1. Best-Kept Secrets by Sarah M. Eden. It doesn’t release until May, but it’s part of her series, The Huntresses.

    whthomas13 at yahoo dot com

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  34. A book by a new-to-me author. I’ve heard of Ann Gabhart’s books for quite a while, but I regret to say I’ve never read one of her books. Her upcoming release sounds so intriguing.

    #2 The Pursuit of Elena Bradford by Ann H. Gabhart

    whthomas13 at yahoo dot com

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  35. #3 Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer. I need to catch up on this series. So many books, too little time!

    whthomas13 at yahoo dot com

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  41. Goal 2: more male authors
    Where Secrets Lie by (Colleen Coble) and Rick Acker

    Thanks,
    tam – appletamoATyahooDOTca

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