Bout of Books 7.0 Goals and Updates

Woohoo, Bout of Books starts tomorrow! So here are my goals for the read-a-thon, and check back here for updates throughout the week too.

Not sure what Bout of Books is? It's an event run by Amanda from On a Book Bender, and Kelly from Reading the Paranormal, in which participants challenge themselves to read as much as they can over a week. There are twitter chats, mini-challenges, prizes and lots of fun! Find out more about it here.

Goals

- Finish The Night Circus and at least one other book (and hopefully more, but I have a lot of work this week and want to set an easy goal so that I don't stress myself!)
- Catch up on some cross-posting of reviews.
- Visit as many participating blogs as I can.
- Take part in at least two mini-challenges.
- Join in at least one of the Twitter chats.
- Have fun!

Books I'm Aiming to Read/Start

These are the books I'd like to choose from, and get as many read as I can. My goal is to finish The Night Circus and at least one other. Five books should give me plenty of choice, but I'll probably end up picking something completely different anyway!

Updates

Monday: Very good first day, finished The Night Circus and took part in the Twitter chat (which was CRAZY - so many people!), and completed the book spine poem mini-challenge. So I'm already a good way through my goals. Yay for easy goals! :-)

- Read: Finished The Night Circus. 32% through Any Other Name by Emma Newman.
- Mini-Challenge: Completed!

Tuesday: I had a busy day, but decided to go internet-free for the evening and wow, did I get a lot of reading done! Steaming ahead with this read-a-thon... this can't last! xD

- Read: Finished Any Other Name

Wednesday: Today's reading wasn't quite so epic, but I did have A LOT of fun with the mini-challenge! :-D

- Read: Up to page 134 in Poison, by Sarah Pinborough.
- Mini-Challenge: Completed!

Thursday: Was feeling a bit head-achey all day, but didn't manage to curl up with a book until quite late. Still, managed to finish Poison (which is a very short book) and now I'm onto my FOURTH book! Woo! That's very good for me, and I think this is now officially my most productive read-a-thon ever.

- Read: Finished Poison, and began Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway (up to page 26).
- Mini-Challenge: Completed!

Friday: Okay, today was a terrible day for reading. Think I burned myself out a bit and needed a video game night instead. Progress was made on Deus Ex: Human Revolution, not so much on Angelmaker! I'm not sure tomorrow will be a lot better, what with Doctor Who and Eurovision distractions. Eurovision! I'm so excited! :-D John's making a trip out for snacks and party food right now...

- Read: Er, about 10 pages I think! Let's see... oh, a bit better than that. 22 pages. >_< Angelmaker is very weird but very intriguing so far. I love Bastion!

Saturday: After a frustrating day trying to fix an issue with my computer, I finally got it working... just in time for the twitter chat! Yay! The chat was really fun, and have discovered some new Twitter friends and blogs thanks to it. :-) Then it was Doctor Who, Eurovision, and far too much party food. A really fun afternoon/evening, but not very productive for the reading!

- Read: To page 99 of Angelmaker.
- Mini-Challenge: Completed!

Sunday: I ended up writing for most of the day - almost 5000 words done on my story, which is pretty good for one day for me. Must be something about a read-a-thon that makes me want to write... :-) Consequently, didn't get a lot read, but it was definitely worth it!

- Read: To page130 of Angelmaker.
- Mini-Challenge: Completed!


And that's it! Read-a-thon over. It was a lot of fun, and I got more reading done than I thought I would. I met most of my goals, and took part in most of the mini-challenges. Yay! Whether you joined in this time or not, hope to see you in August for the next one! :-)