The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 7th and runs through Sunday, January 13th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional.
For all Bout of Books 24 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team
For all Bout of Books 24 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team
This weekend I was in full on reading mode and managed to finish Lost Island as well as make a huge dent in The Bride... as much as I had trouble reading both books. No... I take that back. The books were easy to read, easy enough to fly right through. But both books... ugh. Reviews will be coming soon as I mull over how to present them.
Anyway, I'm including The Bride in my 'Books Read' section because I really AM finished reading it, even if I technically didn't finish it until a couple hours after midnight. It just also makes my stats look nicer! =D
So, as far as totals go:
1) I read four books (even if only three to completion)
2) I read a total of 1141 pages
3) I listened to 50 minutes of audio book
I probably could have clocked more minutes from The Neverending Story this past week, but I just wasn't quite feeling like audio book, which is a shame, cause then I'd be further along in the book, and my "number of minutes listened to" would be a little more impressive. As it stands, I still have about eleven hours of the audio to finish before the end of the month.
In truth, aside from not really updating regularly as I'd wanted to, I would actually call this time's Bout of Books a smashing success! I reached my goals of reading at least three books, and I'm pretty certain I managed to clock at least two hours of reading each day. The weekend saw me pretty much doing nothing BUT reading, especially on Sunday.
AND I discovered a new author I will be following.
Books Read
by Anna Lee Huber
386 pages / 89 pages read pre-readathon /
297 pages read during readathon
Progress: Completed on Tuesday, 01/08/2019
-- 132 pages read on Monday, 01/07/2019
-- 148 pages read on Tuesday, 01/08/2019
by Amanda Quick
384 pages / 46 pages read pre-readathon /
338 pages read during readathon
Progress: Completed on Friday, 01/11/2019
-- 0 pages read on Monday, 01/07/2019
-- 12 pages read on Tuesday, 01/08/2019
-- 46 pages read on Wednesday, 01/09/2019
-- 23 pages read on Thursday, 01/10/2019
-- 259 pages read on Friday, 01/11/2019
by Phyllis A. Whitness
250 pages / 30 pages read pre-readathon
220 pages read during readathon
Progress: Completed on Saturday, 01/12/2019
-- 0 pages read on Monday, 01/07/2019
-- 0 pages read on Tuesday, 01/08/2019
-- 0 pages read on Wednesday, 01/09/2019
-- 0 pages read on Thursday, 01/10/2019
-- 30 pages read on Friday, 01/11/2019
-- 59 pages read on Saturday, 01/12/2019
-- 131 pages read on Sunday, 01/13/2019
by Julie Garwood
388 pages / 0 pages read pre-readathon
268 pages read during readathon
Progress: Completed on 01/14/2019
-- 47 pages read on Friday, 01/11/2019
-- 0 pages read on Saturday, 01/12/2019
-- 221 pages read on Sunday, 01/13/2019
Books I'm Currently Reading
by Michael Ende | narrated by Gerard Doyle
822 minutes / 89 minutes listened to pre-readathon
Progress: 89 of 822 minutes listened to
-- 0 minutes listened to on Monday, 01/07/2019
-- 0 minutes listened to on Tuesday, 01/08/2019
-- 0 minutes listened to on Wednesday, 01/09/2019
-- 0 minutes listened to on Thursday, 01/10/2019
-- 0 minutes listened to on Friday, 01/11/2019
-- 0 minutes listened to on Saturday, 01/12/2019
-- 50 minutes listened to on Sunday, 01/13/2019
by Robert Galbraith
656 pages / 0 pages read pre-readathon
Progress: 33 of 656 pages read
-- 33 pages read on Friday, 01/11/2019
-- 0 pages read on Saturday, 01/12/2019
-- 0 pages read on Sunday, 01/13/2019
Read-a-thon Hopefuls I Didn't Get To
I'm going to try to have as much fun as I can. If anyone else is interested in joining the read-a-thon, the badge at the top of this post will take you to the Bout of Books official website. The link under the picture takes you directly to the sign-up post. Let's all have some fun for this week of a read-a-thon!
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