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 18th and runs through Sunday, August 24th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 11 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team
How it went:
I was trying to not over-stress myself since this is supposed to be fun, so I didn’t set up any big goals. But something happened on Wednesday and I was super stressed out for the rest of the week. So I didn’t do much reading. I mean, I did, but I didn’t.
Let’s se how I did with my goals:
read every day& finish/read 1 book
Well, I have read every day. However… considering things I’ve been dealing with in RL, I found Deathless too depressing (although so very beautiful, I’ll definitely continue reading it, just slowly) and none of the other books seemed enticing enough, so I read copious amounts of fanfiction instead, because that helped me relax.
So, page count *cough*: 36 pages (of Loki, by Mike Vasich), BUT add roughly 70,000 words of very good fanfic to that. So, I guess i did read a novel, in a way. ;)
participate in at least one challenge
I participated in the Book Scavenger Hunt, hosted by The Book Monsters.
maybe participate in one twitter chat (hopefully)
I joined the Monday twitter chat. It was great.
- try to be a little social either on twitter or visiting & commenting on other blogs
*blushes* Nope. Socializing was not my thing last week.
“Anything of the above will be a success.”
Well, I did (sort of) accomplish more than half of my goals, so it’s a success, right?
How was your Bout of Books 11.0? Is there anything special you will remember it by?
Yeah, life happens, and not every Bout of Books is going to be the same. Apparently August is not my month because last year's BoB 8.0 was a little awkward because of RL, and this time around I barely read at all. But I did read every day (except Friday, the day of my brother's wedding) so that's good enough for me!
ReplyDeleteReading every day is great, even if just a little.
DeleteI am sorry you got stressed half way through. As long as you had fun, that's what matters the most! I loved all the week, except the challenges, I thought they were all pretty dull. Other than that, it was all great. Hope you have a blast next time! Here's my Bout of Books 11 ~ Wrap Up.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I was just too stressed to do more than one challenge, though a few more seemed interesting, like the one when you had to make a sentence for the books's first words. I'm glad you had fun, otherwise.
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