Congratulations on another month past challengers!

October moves us into the third month here with the Harry Potter Reading Challenge and with it comes a brand spanking new Mister Linky to submit your challenge posts with. When you post a review, discussion, or anything at all having to do with the HPRC make sure you hop on over here and submit it so all the challengers can visit!

I’d also like to turn your attention to a generous giveaway currently being run by Park Avenue Princess.  Until October 16th she has a giveaway of a box set of the Harry Potter book open.  If you’re interested in participating hop on over and sign yourself up.

How are we all doing on the challenge?

Hello there challengers!

We’ve moved into a brand spankin’ new month here with the Harry Potter Reading Challenge and with it comes a brand spanking new Mister Linky to submit your challenge posts with.  When you post a review, discussion, or anything at all having to do with the HPRC make sure you hop on over here and submit it so all the challengers can visit!

This month I thought I’d include a discussion piece.  So let’s chat here in the comments too shall we?  My questions to all of you are:  Why did you decide to start or re-read this series? What is it about this series that makes you want to do so?

Jump in and chat away with your fellow challengers I bet we all have quite a bit in common.

Calling all muggles!  Do you aspire to master the craft of wizardry or witchcraft?  Well if so you can start your research here!

**waves wand**

Introducing the Harry Potter Reading Challenge

<<cough cough>> Dang all that awesome mist and fog is getting me all verklempt.

Anyway, the deets:

What: Read or listen to all seven books in the Harry Potter series

• Sorcerer’s Stone
• Chamber of Secrets
• Prisoner of Azkaban
• Goblet of Fire
• Order of the Pheonix
• Half-Blood Prince
• Deathly Hallows

When: The challenge will run from August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2010.  I know we’re all busy with life and work and other such fun things so join up whenever you want, there are no deadlines to the challenge besides the end date above. 

Where: E-to the Everywhere!  Post reviews on your blog, chat about it on messageboards, post vlogs or podcasts, comment on and converse about it in the monthly post I create here on Galleysmith.  It’s entirely up to you, as long as there is some evidence of your having completed each book along the way you are good to go.

How: Get thee to Mr. Linky below.  Sign up to join in and play, cause you know….Harry would want you to and all!

Then, post a kick off post on your blog and link it back up according to the details on the monthly HPRC post also available here on Galleysmith    You can find August’s post already up! If you don’t have a blog then comment to the post I put up each month and point us to where you are chatting about it or join/start a conversation of your own right then and there.

Oh but the fun doesn’t stop there!!

I have one more thing you might want to hear about….

Party Gifts!!
I mean come on….what is a party like without gifts?  So, over the course of the year there will be giveaways y’all.  All things Harry Potter are game so keep an eye out to see what’s happening as we’re truckin’ along.

Since I want to start this party off in style I’m going to give away two Harry Potter box sets (one paperback and one hardcover)!  See….look….pretty!

All you need to do is sign up to participate in the challenge by August 15th and I’ll draw two lucky winners at random to recieve all seven books!  How’s that for incentive right?

So get yourselves on over to our friend Mr. Linky up there and sign on to participate in the challenge.

Welcome to August’s Harry Potter Reading Challenge discussion post.  Use the Mr. Linky widget below to link up your blog posts,  vodcasts, podcasts, or other forms of participation.  You don’t have to link here to indicate participation you’ve already done that!

If you don’t have the ability to link to an outside resource please start or join in a conversation already in progress by posting and replying to comments below.

Remember, the deadline for the challenge kick off give away (one paper back and one hardcover Harry Potter series box set) is August 15th.  Don’t miss the boat there!

Welcome to the challenge!