Stephanie’s Comments (group member since Dec 18, 2015)

Stephanie’s comments from the Steampunk Reading Challenge group.

Jo wrote: "oh that's a shame. I was hoping to get some good tips on reading material. I will keep an eye out here just in case things change and someone is able to get things going again. Thanks"

Yea, I personally probably won't be back into the reading regime until later this year because I'm currently in my 3rd trimester of pregnancy and my baby will be here end of April/early May.

However, here are some helpful links if you're looking for more Steampunk books!

- Goodreads Steampunk
- Popular Steampunk Books
- Best Steampunk Books

Hope those help you with some reading material!

Jo wrote: "Hello....... is this group still active?

It seems a bit quiet out there, I am hoping to get some good advice on future reading material.

Cheers :)"

We still do the steampunk challenge on our blogs, but we haven't had the time to do the book club version of it because life got in the way.

Katrina wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "I love the beginning of this! I love Nathaniel and Cara. I love how he's treating Cara. I hate Cara's father and am glad he got killed by an asp. I'm really loving where this is g..."

He apparently pissed someone off! :)

I love the beginning of this! I love Nathaniel and Cara. I love how he's treating Cara. I hate Cara's father and am glad he got killed by an asp. I'm really loving where this is going!

First things first. I love the cover and I love the title. :)

Danny wrote: "I read the first book. That was as far as I could go with this particular challenge."

Well, we have decided to change things up a bit. We are still keeping a challenge for those who want to challenge themselves with reading more Steampunk. But we have decided to make it more of a book club. So, we're thinking of doing polls and what not for all of you guys to vote what book to read for the month!

Do you have any other suggestions on how you'd like the group to go or how we can make it better?

YAAAAASSS to both! :) haha I'm so bad at making decisions!

Katrina, we should prolly do polls for future months. :)

Miriam wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "-Use #2016SteampunkChallenge on social media to show off your updates for the challenge and of course to make more friends!"

I'm not that firm with social media, appart from the ..."

The hashtag you can use on Twitter and Instagram if you wanted to. It's not necessary.

When we post up the linky on our blogs, you'll be required to link up your review/book talk post (only have to do that, if you want to be entered in the giveaways) You can link up as many as you'd like, they just have to be separate links for the different books.

Hope that helps! :)

Katrina wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "I'm so stoked!! :) I've gotten quite a few steampunk novels in the past couple of weeks from Half Price Books and I cannot wait to read more in this genre!! :)

Some books I'm goi..."

I am seriously so excited!! :) The other day I also grabbed which I think is Steampunk...

I'm so stoked!! :) I've gotten quite a few steampunk novels in the past couple of weeks from Half Price Books and I cannot wait to read more in this genre!! :)

Some books I'm going to be reading (hopefully):


And I have an entire shelf on Goodreads that I plan on looking into as well. :)

M.R. wrote: "Hello, all, and thank you for the invitation!
I'm Margaret, author of assorted SF/F and professor of education. I quite dig steampunk, and I am all over this challenge. Let's do it!"

WOO! So excited for you to join this with us! :)

Emily wrote: "Hello! I'm Emily. I haven't read a whole lot of steampunk, but I'm so excited to explore it! :)"

Hello Emily! Thanks for joining us!! :)

Liz wrote: "Hi! I'm Liz. I love all things steampunk and I'm open to any possibilities in reading. :)"
Hi Liz, and welcome! :) I'm Stephanie one of the Co-hosts and Katrina and I are SO excited for this challenge!

This is where you can introduce yourselves! Let us know a little bit about you! :)

This is where you can put all of your suggestions on how we can make this challenge better for upcoming years! :)

Challenge Objectives:
-To introduce readers to the Steampunk genre

Challenge Rules:
-This challenge will run from January 1st, 2016 to December 31st, 2016. Signups will be open until December 1st, 2016.
-Anyone can enter, as long as you are posting your reviews/book talks somewhere that you can link to them. Whether that is on your blog, Goodreads, Instagram, Amazon, Youtube, Tumblr, etc.
-Rereads are allowed as long as you have a review/book talk to go along with that for the 2016 year
-Wrap Ups will be held on both blogs (with the same linky) on the last Friday of every month. The linky for the wrap ups will be open for 2 weeks and then there will be a winner chosen within that linky for the giveaway prize for that month.
-We will also be hosting some read alongs throughout the year. These will occur every other month and a discussion post will go up the Monday before the Wrap Up of that month. (see the schedule below)
-Use #2016SteampunkChallenge on social media to show off your updates for the challenge and of course to make more friends!

Which Books Count:
-Any book that has Steampunk elements in it. The book can be published at any time.

Helpful Links:
- Goodreads Steampunk
- Popular Steampunk Books
- Best Steampunk Books

To Be Eligible For The Giveaways:
-You must be officially signed up in the sign up linky for the Challenge on one of our blogs: Bookish Things and More and In Wonderland
-You must enter links in the monthly linkys that we provide on our blogs in the wrap ups.