{"id":5078,"date":"2015-05-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5078"},"modified":"2015-05-01T06:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T11:48:31","slug":"aprilatoz-2015-challenge-is-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5078","title":{"rendered":"AprilAtoZ 2015 Challenge is in the books!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"graphic<\/a>I did it!
\n26 new books recommended in 26 days this April!
\nAprilA2Z Challenge 2015 is complete!<\/p>\n

Was it worth all the effort? Let’s look at the numbers: Google Analytics says that my April readership was up 15% from March. Hooray! My Akismet site stats give a more detailed picture, showing a huge increase during first week of April, with lower numbers for the rest of the month, but page view total still about 20% above March 2015.<\/p>\n

Of course, the opportunity (with deadlines!) to move 26 books from my “to be reviewed” shelf to the “y’all must read this & here’s why” files of BooksYALove is probably the main reason that I jump in to April AtoZ Challenge each year.<\/p>\n

I might not have gotten to visit as many fellow participants’ blogs<\/a> during the past month as I’ would have liked, since April also brings the Texas Library Association conference, but I will be visiting others during May and beyond because I do enjoy finding new ones to enjoy throughout the year.<\/p>\n

A huge thank-you to the A2Z organizers<\/a> who take time away from their own blogging to set up the challenge, visit participants’ blogs, retweet our #AprilA2Z tweets, and give us all a boost.<\/p>\n

So, will I be posting 6 days a week from now on? No way! I plan to post frequently, with book birthday Tuesdays and audiobook Thursdays guaranteed, plus 1-2 more recommendations weekly.<\/p>\n

You’ll definitely want to stay tuned to BooksYALove this summer, as SYNC and Audiofile Magazine once again will provide 2 FREE young adult audiobooks for you to download each week from May 7 through August 13. I’ll post direct links to each pair on Thursdays, starting next week; you can also sign up for reminders on the SYNC site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you subscribe to BooksYALove by email or RSS feed, please do come over to the site occasionally and comment so that I know you’re out there! I don’t think that the site stats or Google stats can measure your smiles, trips to the library, or visits to your favorite bookstore resulting from my recommendations.<\/p>\n

So many more great books coming up in the weeks and months ahead!
\nLet me know what you’ll be reading.
\n**kmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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