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, 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
Goals:
For this readathon, I won’t set myself a page count goal, because I never really reach them and they usually just make me focus more on the amount I’m reading than what I’m reading. I will still provide updates for my page count, but I won’t be too fussed if it’s not a lot (as it often is).
I want to finish reading The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper and if I can I want to read the other three books in the series as well. I will also be re-reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black before I start the second book in The Folk of The Air series – The Wicked King – if I can finish all these books by the end of the week it will be a miracle as I’m in work every day except tomorrow, but I’m hoping I can at least make a big dent in all of them!
The only other goals I have are to update on here every day and to take part in at least one of the twitter chats – though one of them is at 2am my time, so that really only leaves one as I will be asleep at 2am, and to spend some time either on blogs or on twitter with other people also doing Bout of Books this time around as I usually get so caught up in the reading that I forget the point of a readathon is to make reading sociable!
I will also try to take part in at least three of the challenges throughout the week.
Monday:
Pages Read: 110
Total Pages Read: 110
Challenge: introduce yourself in six words: Reads when not distracted or working.
Notes: Have found that The Wicked King won’t be being released tomorrow but is now being released next week instead – after the readathon has finished – while this means I won’t be able to read the book as part of the readathon, it does mean I have more of a chance of being able to read the other books in my TBR pile this week and if I can get through all of them this week then I have nothing to stop me from reading The Wicked King when it finally does come out next week!
Tuesday:
Pages Read: 10
Total Pages Read: 120
Notes: Today was probably the day that I will be able to read least, although I am in work all day Thursday and Friday too but am hoping that I will be able to finish The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper tomorrow.
Wednesday:
Pages Read: 120
Total Pages Read: 240
Books Finished: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Notes: Have found out that I have the day off work on Saturday so will be able to take part in the twitter chat that is going to be in the middle of the afternoon for me. Finished The Dark is Rising and am thinking of doing a full review of the series when I have finished all five books. I am however, going to be in work earl on Monday morning – so won’t be able to read until midnight on Sunday, so the last bits of my reading will be happening on Saturday.
Thursday:
Pages Read: 41
Total Pages Read: 281
Notes: The Wicked King is now available on my kindle – I think there must just have been a delay in letting me download it. So as I am off work on Saturday, I plan to finish reading The Cruel Prince on Friday night and read The Wicked King on Saturday morning.
Friday:
Pages Read: 76
Total Pages Read: 357
Notes: Won’t have time to finish The Cruel Prince before I get tired and have to go to sleep, but it is a fairly quick book to read, so I do still have time to read it on Saturday. I have to go out in the afternoon, but have Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo as an audiobook so can listen to that while I’m out of the house.
Saturday:
Pages Read: 130
Total Pages Read: 487
Audiobook: 3 hours 39 minutes
Notes: will definitely be able to get up to five hundred Pages Read before the end of the readathon and will hopefully finish the Cruel Prince tomorrow, but won’t ha time to finish Greenwich or start The Wicked King before the end of the readathon.
Sunday:
Pages Read: 24
Total Pages Read: 511
Notes: Only have a few more pages to go of The Cruel Prince but won’t be able to read it before Tuesday now, so will have to finish it then. Over five hundred pages is pretty good going for me during a readathon though, even if it I did only finish one book during the week.
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