Bout of Books 14 Sign-Up and Progress

YAY! It is time! Pardon my double post for today, but I saw that the sign-up post happened a few days ago and I want to be on top of things. Bout of Books is one of my favorite things that happens for the book community and I can’t believe how many I’ve been able to do so far. More info about Bout of Books for newbies:

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 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd 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 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

I hope to participate in more challenges this time around! AND get more reading done without making it feel like an obligation. I am definitely going to use this challenge to beef up my summer reading. I always say how I save summer-oriented books for the summer months, but I usually get sidetracked with way too many other things instead. I’m going to share my proposed TBR and goals right here in this post, because why not? I’m in the mood to not get any work done today. The focus of this Bout of Books will be:

Get all of the summery reading done!

• Read 5 books from the TBR below (hopefully at least one is a reread)
• Read only from this TBR of summer books I already own
• Must read Nantucket Blue for August’s Book Buddies review with Cristina
• Participate in at least two challenges and/or Twitter chats

Woo! So as I mentioned, my main goal is to pull from only these summery reads. There’s a chance I read a few of them before the read-a-thon actually starts, but that’s okay. Plenty to choose from. I am hoping this will give me a good kick in the pants to read some of my favorite books and relax during the final stretch of summer. I’m also pretty bad about completing the challenges too, so hopefully I’ll take the time to do one or two of them.

Challenge Posts & Updates

• Scavenger Hunt
• Four Seasons in Book Covers

Reading Progress & Tracking

Monday August 17th

• Started: Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
• Continued: Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

Tuesday August 18th

• Finished: Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen, Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
• Started: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Wednesday August 19th

• Continued: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Thursday August 20th

• Continued: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Friday August 21st

• Finished: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
• Started and finished: Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt

Saturday August 22nd

• Started: How to be Bad by Lauren Myracle, E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski

Sunday August 23rd

• Finished: How to be Bad by Lauren Myracle, E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski

Total completed: 5 – goal met!!

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