This *August!* I’ve decided to forego organising what I’ll be reading during #CFSRS20 and leave it up to the moment I pick up a book and find myself falling into its chapters – ergo, Jorie gets her #INSPYreads on for the next 30 *28!* days!
Quick Links:
2020 #CFSRS20 Reading Challenge
& this Year’s Reading Challenge Sponsors (Authors & Pubs)
& the tags: #amreadingcfsrs20 & #cfsrs20winner
Each Summer, I happily look forward to the Christian & Clean Fiction Reading Safari hosted by the lovely Sydney @ Singing Librarian Books, of whom I originally crossed paths whilst hosting for Cedar Fort Publishing & Media. I have been a long standing hybrid reader of mainstream & INSPY markets of Literature since I was a young girl – wherein I would go to the regular bookstores as well as my hometown Indie inasmuch as my favourite Christian Bookstores as well. Uniquely, I bought most of my beloved Mandie series at the Indie bookstore as they stocked them more regularly than the Christian bookstores! I’m still hoping I have a full set – one day I’ll know for sure when I can unpack my Mandie books.
Usually this lovely event and readathon is hosted in JULY – however, this year, it was shifted into August and for me, I believe this was a better fit for me as a reader. I had a hard ending to May (ie. my migraines started to resume) whereas June & July were a bit of a blur with clustering migraines which knocked out more days and weeks than I desire to acknowledge possible. The latter of which was the past two weeks wherein I was barely able to surface on my blog whilst I was just attempting to resume reading as I was finally finding my focus again. This last migraine was a beast and I wish it on no one.
Regular readers of Jorie Loves A Story will be familiar with my keen attachment to INSPY Literature & Christian Fiction (in particular) by how regularly those stories are featured on my blog and/or my social feeds. One of the authors featured this year during the readathon is Danielle Thorne of whom I hosted during @SatBookChat this July. My reviews of her two novels “Josette” and “His Daughter’s Prayer” were postponed due to my severe migraines and the intensity of the lightning storms – as I did try to keep reading betwixt and between the migraines themselves which plagued me for the final two weeks of the month, however, the lightning storms made it impossible to gain any traction with the connectivity issues I was facing to update the reviews in progress. I’ll be sharing more about this lovely author this first week of the readathon – hopefully to inspire others to pick up her novels, to re-read over our #SatBookChat convo and to happily join the readathon to support the author and/or win one of her lovely books. She graciously gave two of my chatters one of her novels – the two stories we had chatted about during @SatBookChat.
It isn’t just my love of INSPY & Christian Fiction, but the wonderful uplift of JOY get have whenever you’re residing in one of these kinds of stories. I know I’ll be reading some more Love Inspired Suspense this month as it is a yearly happiness of joy to focus on those lovelies but where I find my readerly hat resting outside of Love Inspired is anyone’s guess!
Thus, I am a few days late joining the readathon this year – however, I previously selected the books to choose amongst to read this year and I couldn’t be happier to get get started! Some are from my backlogue of reviews, others are from my personal library – including the ones I’ve won in past Christian Reading Safaris or other bookaways! As that is the extended joy of this kind of readathon – you get to read the stories you’ve already selected to read whilst you get the chance to ‘meet’ new authors of INSPY if your name is pulled as one of the weekly winners!
Talk about a lovely readathon, eh?
Plus it is all at your own time and pacing –
how many stories you want to focus on and how fast you read them as well.
I’m looking forward to pulling a book off my shelf, setting into the story and having a nice readathon spent consumed by the books which give me a heap of JOY to be reading!
The following convo is regarding
the Christian & Clean Fiction Summer Reading Safari,
or as you will find the posts on my blog & Twitter feeds: #amreadingcfsrs120 OR #CFSRS20
I compiled this Q&A last year and am re-sharing it this year in case someone would like to participate but didn’t understand the specifics. I also added a bottom section pertinent to the Google Form which is replacing the way we added our entries in 2018 July.
We don’t have to review all the books we’re reading this month, but we can talk about them on Twitter or in a wrap-up post on our blogs or just read them w/o socially sharing them? That’s the option in the bookaway for “Read a book”
A: Yes. If you read a book that is Christian or Clean Fiction, you can enter it in the google form for points in the giveaways. ← In lieu of Rafflecopter, this year we have a Google form.
We can read and review ANY author of our choice –
as long as their Christian / INSPY or Clean – right?
A: Yes. You can read and review and author of your choice as long as it’s Christian or Clean, but you do get more entries in the Reading Challenge Google Form if you read a book by an author or publisher sponsor.
IF we are not in the Facebook group (as I use Twitter) but we read a book on the Facebook Challenge page (on the challenge blog) OR if we read book by an author listed on that page, we enter that title into that space on the bookaway?
A: Yes. You can enter this title to for extra points in the Reading Challenge Google Form. :)
Here’s what I was most worried about after finding 15+ audiobooks I want to listen to this month which actually count as INSPY/ChrisFic reads —
I am off-setting my readings with audiobooks, as I am trying to curb a repeat of Spring where I had a high frequency of migraines. When you say ‘read’ a book – you are accepting some of us are reading print books *and* audiobooks?
I wanted to confirm this wasn’t format specific to ONLY print or ebooks?
A: As for “reading” a book, this can be print,
e-book, or audiobook. What ever works best for you. :)
In regards to the Google Form:
Let’s say you’ve decided to follow a new author (ie. Twitter, their blog, their website, or author newsletter) but didn’t get to finish a book? Add that info to the form for the day it applies. Maybe you followed a new author + shared a s/o for the readathon via Twitter – add both to the form for that day’s entry. If you finished a book, shared a tweet *and!* followed a new author – mark all those fields on the form! Also, if you are blogging a review and/or sharing a review via GoodReads, LibraryThing or another site – those links also count on the form, too (for the days they apply). As a for instance – I shared a tweet and followed a new author on the 1st of July, 2019.
Jorie’s INSPY Reads for AUGUST 2020:
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