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Julianne Vs TBR: Slow Decluttering and Summer Project 2019 Launch

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Today I’m officially announcing my new project to help me decrease the number of unread books on my shelves: Julianne Vs TBR! The project will include lots of smaller, themed projects, the first of which is my Summer Project. Watch to hear all about it!

Books mentioned:

Goodbye, Johnny Thunders, by Tania Kindersley
Are We There Yet?, by David Levithan
Vegan, Virgin, Valentine, by Carolyn Mackler
Second Chance Summer, by Morgan Matson
Rules of Summer, by Joanna Philbin
The Summer I Turned Pretty, by Jenny Han
It’s Not Summer Without You, by Jenny Han
We’ll Always Have Summer, by Jenny Han
The Truth about Forever, by Sarah Dessen
Undeniable, by Liz Bankes
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour, by Morgan Matson
My Summer Of Love, by Helen Cross
The Unexpected Everything, by Morgan Matson
The Summer of Impossible Things, by Rowan Coleman

Short Books September 2018 (#sbksept)

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What?

Short Books September is a month-long challenge to read short books! For the purposes of this challenge, I am defining ‘short books’ as 250 pages or less, but feel free to set your own limit. You can also set your own goals. If you haven’t been reading regularly for a while, I suggest you aim to read one book. As I read quite quickly, my goal is to read four short books.

When?

The second Short Books September will run from 1st-30th September 2018. Hence the hashtag #sbksept!

Why?

One fine day last summer, I gathered my short books together one day to take an Instagram photo and realised that I had quite a lot of them. This gave me the idea to run a short books themed reading challenge. I thought for a while about the best time to run it and settled on September, as that’s always a busy month for me. I was also on the verge of getting behind on my Goodreads challenge, so…

This year that’s not an issue as I’ve actually already completed my Goodreads challenge, but I had so much fun doing it last year I thought, why not go again. I decided to rename the challenge to Short Books September as ‘The Short Short Books Reading Challenge’ is a bit of a mouthful!

Where?

Wherever you like! I’ll be posting about the challenge here, on my YouTube channel, on Twitter, and on Litsy (@juliannebenford). I’ll also be doing Instagram Live to review each book as I read it and let you know how I’m doing. All you need to do to join in is share your goals and progress using the hashtag #sbksept on whatever platforms you prefer!

What are you going to be reading?

Watch my TBR here: