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“If you’re like me, you just can’t imagine living in a world without reading. Unfortunately, for almost a billion people today, that’s exactly where they find themselves. There are countless villages, towns and vast regions of this planet where the power of reading has yet to shine its light.

Gone Reading International, LLC was founded to bring the magic effect of reading and books to places where they don’t exist. We believe that when people have open access to great reading materials, life always changes for the better.  When libraries and reading materials are made available, entire villages, communities and their citizens achieve unprecedented levels of self-sufficiency.”

- Gone Reading

If your nose is always in a book, this statement may have touched you like it did me. Yesterday I was contacted by GoneReading.com, an online gift shop for book lovers, asking if we’d spread the word to our readers about their work.

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Books of the Year 2011

Judging Covers opened in the beginning of January, which means we’ve been open (very nearly) a whole year! And what a lovely little adventure it’s been. We’ve reviewed over 100 books, expanded the team, been shortlisted for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award and had some amazing compliments from some of our favourite authors.

In celebration, we’re looking back over 2011 with some of our favourite books this year. These weren’t necessarily released during 2011, but each of them stuck in our minds as being the best book we read over the last 12 months…

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Judging Covers at the Cosmo Blog Awards!

Wow. This time last week I was rummaging in my wardrobe panicking about what to wear to the Cosmopolitan Blog Awards! How time flies. Still, better late than never is my philosophy…

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Cosmopolitan Blog Awards 2011 – Shortlist

We interrupt our usual schedule of reviews for an exciting announcement…

Judging Covers has been shortlisted for a Cosmopolitan Blog Award, in the ‘Lifestyle’ category. We are so proud to have been included alongside some amazing blogs, and are grateful to anyone that nominated us and helped to get JC noticed!

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