IQR Challengers 2013
Welcome on board challengers!! If you find you name in this list please go ahead and start your submissions.
1. Anant Awasthi 2. Shikha Chauhan 3. Alpa Dedhia
4. Samarpita Sharma 5. Nishita Kumar 6. Debdatta Dasgupta
7. Psych Babbler 8. Sarika Patkotwar 9. Phoenix
10. Lady Nimue 11. Pallavi Kamat 12. Sapna
13. Sirisha 14. Madiha S. 15. Dhwani
16. The Goddess 17. Ashik Shareef 18. Anjana Avinash
19. Leo 20. Modern Gypsy 21. Tanya
22. Malini Nair 23. Amit Das 24. Maverick (Geetu)
25. Swati 26. Manjulika Pramod 27. Adite Banerjie
28. Sundeep & Srinivas 29. Pooja Dave 30. Ankita Singhal
31. Balkha 32. Priyanka Roy Banerjee 33. Aparajita
34. Urshita Saini 35. Seema Solanki 36. Supriya
37. Nimi Vashi 38. Gayathri Manikandan 39. Kerith
Bloggers submit your book review links here and non-bloggers rate and review your reads here
Challenger’s Account Details: (as on 03.05.2013)
| Challenger | IQR Target | Reviewed for IQRC | ||
| 1 | Adite Banerjie | 12 | 4 | |
| 2 | Alpa Dedhia | 20 | 4 | |
| 3 | Amit Das | 12 | 3 | |
| 4 | Anant Awasthi | - | - | |
| 5 | Anjana Avinash | 20 | 3 | |
| 6 | Ankita Singhal | 10 | 3 | |
| 7 | Aparajita | 30 | 10 | IQR Champion – February 2013 |
| 8 | Ashik Shareef | 15 | 2 | |
| 9 | Balkha | 12 | 3 | |
| 10 | Debdatta Dasgupta Sahay | 12 | 10 | |
| 11 | Dhwani | - | - | |
| 12 | Gayathri Manikandhan | 15 | 6 | |
| 13 | Kerith | 15 | - | |
| 14 | Lady Nimue | 20 | 2 | |
| 15 | Leo | 111 | 58 | IQR Champion – March 2013April 2013 |
| 16 | Madiha S. | 7 | 1 | |
| 17 | Malini Nair | 10 | - | |
| 18 | Manjulika Pramod | 51 | 10 | |
| 19 | Maverick | 10 | 2 | |
| 20 | Modern Gypsy | 10 | 4 | |
| 21 | Nimi Vashi | 100 | 22 | |
| 22 | Nishita Kumar | 6 | 5 | |
| 23 | Pallavi Kamat | 24 | - | |
| 24 | Phoenix | 20 | 5 | |
| 25 | Pooja Dave | 12 | 2 | |
| 26 | Priyanka Roy Banerjee | 20 | 4 | |
| 27 | Psych Babbler | 5 | 1 | |
| 28 | Samarpita Sharma | 100 | 49 | IQR Champion – January 2013 |
| 29 | Sangita | 10 | 1 | |
| 30 | Sapna | 20 | 4 | |
| 31 | Sarika Patkotwar | 9 | 3 | |
| 32 | Seema Solanki | 15 | - | |
| 33 | Shikha Chauhan | - | - | |
| 34 | Sirisha | 33 | 3 | |
| 35 | Sourab Jha | 25 | 2 | |
| 36 | SRS | - | 5 | |
| 37 | Sundeep & Srinivas | 25 | 12 | |
| 38 | Supriya | 15 | 2 | |
| 39 | Swati | 5 | 5 | |
| 40 | Tanya | 20 | 2 | |
| 41 | The Goddess | 20 | - | |
| 42 | Urshita Saini | 30 | 2 | |
| Total | 255 |
* p.s: If you have a blank against your IQR Target kindly set one and let us know by entering in the comment box or contact us.
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Hi! Please set my IQR Target as 30!
Thanks!
- Samarpita
Thank you Samarpita. Added. All the best
Thanks Reshmi. I hope and intend to do 30 fresh reads apart from the links I am posting from last year.
Hopefully
30 should do for me too! But that doesn’t include the ones I already posted links of.
Thank you Sia. Added. So that makes your IQRT 33. All the best.
Hi Reshmy!
I have a few doubts and it would be great if you could help me clarify them!
I’d like to know that if we read any book (obviously one which qualifies the criteria of being and IQRC book) which we haven’t mentioned in the original list, does it still count as a read and reviewed book under IQRC?
Also, could you please tell me if the book, Lovetorn by Kavita Daswani, can be included in the Challenge reading list? My guess is it can, but since the author bio says that Kavita is an American I’m not exactly sure.
Thank you, Reshmy!
Hi Sarika,
Some challengers like you list the books you will be reading while other don’t so as long as the book qualifies as an IQRC read and you link it on the linking page, it qualifies. No worries there.
Lovelorn – Yes it can be because the challenge rule says “the only criteria is that it should be authored or co-authored by a writer of Indian origin” and we know someone who has India in all her published works is definitely ‘Indian origin’.
All the best dear.
Thank you so very much, Reshmy!
Hi. My target is 12 (for now!)
Thanks.
Updated to the IQRC challengers list. All the best
I think 20 would be a good target for me
Updated to the IQRC challengers list, Alpa. Looking forward to your reviews.
Would books from our neighboring country do or do they need to be strictly Indian?
Indian Quills = Indian writers only Sapna dearie
come on, we have so many…why peep into other’s houses? 
okies
Okay… 4th comment going to moderation
Reshmy might kick me out of the challenge at this rate.
Anyways, please update my target from 12 to 44, since I’ve now linked up 11 books
Hey Reshmy, I actually added a link of a book that I reviewed ( it fits the guidelines) but I not a part of the challengers list given above…is it ok that I posted the link?
Welcome to IQRC 2013, Aparajita. You have been added to the challengers list, your IQR Target will be updated this weekend.
Linking the book review is perfectly ok and a beautiful book at that
All the best & keep reading.
Hey! 30 would be a good target for me. Thanx
Updated to the IQRC challengers list, Urshita. All the best. Looking forward to those reviews.
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Samarpita Sharma is the Indian Quills Reading Champion for January 2013, for the wonderful non-fiction reviews she contributed to the database. She gets to choose a book of her choice from the ‘Picks of the Month’ for January and a campion badge for her blog.
Way to go girl!!
Thanks !!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
This being the month when Shiva Trilogy created history we choose Aparajita as the Indian Quills Reading Champion for February 2013 for her consecutive reviews of the 1st two parts of the Trilogy.
She gets to choose a book of her choice from the ‘Picks of the Month’ for February and a campion badge for her blog.
Way to go girl!!
Thanks Reshmy
Leo is the Indian Quills Reading Champion for March 2013 for getting Poetry to The Tales Pensieve.
He gets to choose a book of his choice from the ‘Picks of the Month’ for March and a campion badge for his blog.
Way to go fellow blogger & writer/ poet!!! CONGRATULATIONS.
Thanks, Reshmy
I’d like to join. 15 IQR Target.
Welcome to IQRC. If you blog about books then kindly do a joining post & link it to the sign-up page here: http://thetalespensieve.blogspot.in/
And if you don’t blog about books then kindly use this page to write a short review of the books you read. http://thetalespensieve.blogspot.in/p/non-bloggers-iqr-challenge-2013.html
All the best!
Leo is the Indian Quills Reading Champion for April 2013 for getting Graphical Novels to The Tales Pensieve.
He gets to choose a book of his choice from the ‘Picks of the Month’ for April and a campion badge for his blog.
Way to go fellow blogger & writer/ poet!!! CONGRATULATIONS.
Hi Reshmy, I remember my book count was 50 when I had asked you to increase the target to 100. I counted on the page where we upload on the linky and it’s 54. Can you please check?
HI Samarpita. It indeed showed 50 at the start of the month but that was because I had by folly counted ‘Work it Out Without a Workout’ by Vesna P. Jacob in books by Indian writers but she is a Bosnian. Hence moved the count to 49. No. 252 onwards on the linky page are May 2013 reviews, will be updated by month end into the database & the challengers account details so the 5 comes in there. So that’s 54.
Do write back in case you have any query.
Aah ok..thanks