The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 20th and runs through Sunday, August 26th 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 23 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team
Goals:
1. To read at least 500 pages throughout the week.
2. To finish at least one book during the week.
3.Participate in three challenges.
4. Maybe participate in one of the twitter chats – it depends though because one is in the middle of the night for me and the other is when I might be out of the house.
Monday:
Pages read: 8
Challenges: Introduce yourself in six words. I did this one on twitter: Writer that reads, Barista drinking tea.
Notes: I knew I wouldn’t get much reading done today, but should be able to make up for it tomorrow when I have the day off work. Am currently reading The Lottery by Shirley Jackson which is a book of short stories, so is easy to dip in and out of during a readathon.
Tuesday:
Pages Read: 109
Total Pages Read: 117
Notes: Was hoping to finish reading The Lottery today but will easily finish it tomorrow. I had already started r adding The Lottery before the readathon so want to try and finish another book before the end of Sunday.
Wednesday:
Pages Read: 74
Total Pages Read: 191
Books Finished: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Notes: am hoping to do the challenge tomorrow and start reading The Girl Who’s Raced Fairyland All The Way Home by Catherynne M. Valente.
Thursday:
Pages Read: 29
Total Pages Read: 220
Notes: Have started reading the last in the Fairyland series by Catherine M. Valente and am already enjoying it more than I did the last book in the series.
Friday:
Pages Read: 4
Total Pages Read: 224
Notes: Knew I wouldn’t get much reading done today and tomorrow is likely to be the same, but as I have Monday off work, I can read Sunday evening all the way through to midnight.
Saturday:
Pages Read: 20
Total Pages Read: 244
Notes: Not bad considering I was travelling for most of the day and couldn’t get much reading done. Unfortunately I had to miss the twitter chat (as I thought I might) as I was on a bus at the time and can’t read while being in a moving vehicle!
Sunday:
Pages Read: 96
Total Pages Read: 340
Total Books Finished: 1 (The Lottery)
Notes: Didn’t quite manage to reach my goal of 500 pages in this readathon but didn’t fall as far behind as I normally do and there’s always the next readathon to try again!
ChristyESWriter 
Good luck on the readathon! I hope I can finish at least two books this week, hopefully even more. But either way, I’m sure we all can reach our goals!!
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I had a low page count on Monday too (25 pages) and then whipped out 181 yesterday. Good luck for the rest of the week! 🙂
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