Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon

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Guess who's doing her first read-a-thon! 
It's me Claire. I'm doing the Bout of Books Read-a-thon, and I am so excited. i have never done one of thee before, since I'm always too busy or miss it, but I'm actually going to do it this time! YAY! You guys should do it too! 


I hope to be able to read 7 novels (one a day), so I put aside 7 books over the past two weeks, ready to get marathon.
The Giver by Lois Lowry
That Summer by Sarah Dessan
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway
Reached by Ally Condie
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
The Game by Terry Schott
I probably won't be super loyal to this list, although I hope to at minimum read 3 of these novels above.

I'm going to update this post daily from August 19th onward so I can keep you guys up to date on how I'm doing. I'll do another post at the end to sum it all up, as well as separate posts for any of the challenges I choose to do.

Updates:

August 18
pages read: 311
books: Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (I finished the whole thing, 307 pages, and loved it) and The Giver by Lois Lowry (only got 4 pages in, then I figured I should go to sleep. Will finish tomorrow).
finished reads: 1
challenges:
Scavenger Hunt
I decided to do the most recent book I've read that falls under each category
     1. Bad Houses
     2. 1984 (It's a film as well)
     3. A Song of Ice and Fire Series
     4. Grim
     5. The Giver (I'm going to start to read it tomorrow)
total page count: 311

August 19
pages read: 224
books: The Giver by Lois Lowry(read the rest of it, 173 pages) and That Summer by Sarah Dessan (51 pages in)
finished reads: 2
challenges:
OTP
My book OTP is Hazel and Augustus from the Fault in Our Stars
total page count: 535

August 20
pages read: 218
books: That Summer by Sarah Dessan (finished it, 181 more pages) and Reached by Ally Condie (37 pages, will finish tomorrow)
finished reads: 3 (up to date!)
challenges: N/A
total page count: 753

August 21
pages read: 324
books: The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (on my kindle, 8% done, approximately 18 pages) and Reached by Ally Condie (still not done, 306 pages farther in)
finished reads: 3 (no! Falling behind!)
challenges: N/A
total page count: 1077

August 22
pages read: 379
books: Stolen by Lucy Christopher (finished it, 301 pages) and read a bit more of The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (78 more pages)
finished reads: 4
challenges:
Recreate a Cover
French Kiss | Stephanie Perkins | Anna | and the    Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
Made on the website Pixton
total page count: 1456

August 23
pages read: 156 (yikes! Not so good)
books: The Elite by Kiera Cass (156 pages in)
finished reads: 4
challenges: N/A
total page count: 1612

August 24
pages read: 196
books: The Elite by Kiera Cass (180 more pages, so I'm done!) and The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (16 more pages)
finished reads: 5
challenges: N/A
total page count: 1808

I didn't make all my accomplishes, but I did read 3 books from my TBR list at the top, as well as get into/finish a couple more! I did not finish Reached because I had to return it to the library, and I didn't finsih The Paper Magician because I ran out of time.

-Claire

5 comments:

  1. Wow, you have gotten off to an amazing start. I really want to read Everything Leads To You. It looks like such an amazing book. I am so glad that you enjoyed it. Happy reading!

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  2. You have a lot of good books you plan on reading. I've heard a lot of great things about that Nina LaCour book too. I haven't picked it up though; maybe I should think about doing that. How did you like it?

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  3. That looks like a great list of books. I loved Eleanor & Park. Enjoy your first read-a-thon!

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  4. Seems like you are still on track, great job! :D I hope you can keep it up. Happy reading.

    Bout of books - Mel@thedailyprophecy

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  5. Popping in from BoB, saw your books and just wanted to say that you have awesome taste in books:) every book you're reading that I see looks really good

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