Bout of Books 8.0 Wrap Up

Goals: Started out being happy with 2 books read, bumped it up to 4, ended up finishing 6 books. Success!

Books:

• Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen – finished 8/20
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig – finished 8/21
• Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys – finished 8/22
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield – finished 8/23
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan  – finished 8/24
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz – finished 8/25

Overall: It was fun! I don’t feel like I was as social as I wanted to be but I did visit some blogs and meet some cool people. I’m not sure if I’ll do the one in January but I would like to do it again sometime!

Bout of Books 8.0 Goals

Time Devoted to Reading

I’m not sure how much time I’ll be able to devote to reading. Some things came up, so I’m going to read when I can and hope everything works out.

My Goals

Since I’m not completely sure about my week anymore, I have no idea. I was going to shoot for 4 books, but that seems high now. I think I’ll be happy with 2 and happier if I manage more. I definitely want to read Scarlet, though. If I am able, I’d like to do chats and other activities.

Updated Goals: I think I really want to try for 4 again. I have a lot of free time over the next few days!

Books to Read

• Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen – finished 8/20
• Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys – finished 8/22
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz – finished 8/25
• The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig – finished 8/21
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield – finished 8/23
• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (library ebook) – finished 8/24

The list isn’t in any order and please excuse my bare mattress (laundry day). I also have Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald and Manicpixiedreamgirl by Tom Leveen on deck in case I change my mind.

I’ve been wanting to read Scarlet for so long! I’ve also been curious about The Secret History of the Pink Carnation for a while. I kind of randomly picked the others because I’ve seen some good things about them.

Updates

Monday 8/19

Number of books I’ve read today: not even half of one

Number of pages I’ve read today:  77

Books: Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen

Books finished: 0

My Monday was crazy busy. I did comment on a few blogs, too.

Tuesday 8/20

Number of books I’ve read today: the rest of Scarlet, over half of The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

Number of pages I’ve read today: 518

Books: Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen – finished

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig

Books finished: 1

Wednesday 8/21

Number of books I’ve read today: I finished Pink Carnation and began Out of the Easy

Number of pages I’ve read today: 117

Books:  The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig – finished

Out of the Easy – Ruta Sepetys

Books finished: 2

Notes: I also did some commenting, the TBR challenge, and participated in the Twitter chat, although I wasn’t super active – chats are intense!

Thursday 8/22

Number of books I’ve read today:  finished Out of the Easy, began The Thirteenth Tale

Number of pages I’ve read today: 408

Books: Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Books finished: 3

Friday 8/23

Number of books I’ve read today:  I finished The Thirteenth Tale and started Aristotle &Dante and The Lightning Thief

Number of pages I’ve read today: 321 plus 20% of The Lightning Thief (I was tired and wanted to read in the dark and found this on Overdrive. There was one copy left so it was obviously meant to be!)

Books: 

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Books finished: 4 (total)

Saturday 8/24

Number of books I’ve read today:  80% of The Lightning Thief, some of Aristotle and Dante

Number of pages I’ve read today: I lost count, oops. Since I didn’t have a page goal it’s not a big deal, but 80% of TLF and maybe 30 of Aristotle and Dante

Books: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan – finished

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

Books finished: 5

Sunday 8/25

Number of books I’ve read today: 

Number of pages I’ve read today: 

Books: 

Books finished:

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Bout of Books 8.0 Sign Up

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

I’ve never done a read-a-thon before, and I’m a little unsure of it because I’m going back to school next week but it’s low pressure and I would be reading anyway. I’ll just try to read more than usual! Sounds fun!