Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Bout of Books Read-a-thon #16

9:47 pm | Posted by Unknown

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, May 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

So I'm a bit late to the party but better late than never they say. I love read-a-thons as it pushes me a bit further to read a little bit more and I love the interactions with fellow book lovers in such events. I do live in a different time zone so sometimes the chats are hard to organise but I do try. I'll stop rambling, but this is just to say I'M IN!!! Will update my post with progresses etc tomorrow.

Goals

~~Read 100 pages daily~~
~~Participate in at least 2 Challenges~~
~~Participate in at least 1 Twitter chat~~
~~Visit and comment in at least 20 blogs~~

Wrap-up Update

I was able to complete all my goals, I even outdone myself by averaging to 178 pages per day which is alot better than my 100 pages per day original goal, I may up it to 200 pages per day next time.

I did visit and comment on 50+ updates but I wish I had done it over more days rather than just the 2 days I did it. One of those days I did the 50 and then another day I did about 10-20 more but I love socialising and encouraging participants through readathons, it's fun to meet new people, especially those that love the same type of books.

Hope to see everyone in the next one and thanks Amanda and Kelly for all the great effort and time you both take to organise.

Daily Updates

Monday 9th May

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff = 312 pages

Total Books Finished = 0
Total Pages Read = 312 pages

Challenge - Describe yourself #insixwords #boutofbooks

"First-time Mum, Book, Makeup, Stationer-lover"

Here's my Twitter link

Tuesday 10th May

Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman = 75 pages

Total Books Finished = 0
Total Pages Read = 387 pages

Challenge - Bookshelf Pic

This is my main bookshelf, it's got two levels not visible in this photo as it's very messy at the moment, I mean look at those shocking haphazard stacked books! 85% of my books are certainly on this shelf excluding my ebook reader.

Wednesday 11th May

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff = 287 pages

Total Books Finished = 1

Total Pages Read = 674 pages

Challenge - Top 5 Books Written by Australian YA Authors

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Obernewtyn Series by Isobelle Carmody
Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington
Pretties Series by Scott Westerfeld
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman

*In no particular order

And OMG what a fool I am! I've been reading The Starbound Trilogy AND Illuminae and just realised that Amie Kaufman is based in Melbourne, Australia!!! Well you learn something everyday and this challenge certainly taught me something new :)

Thursday 12th May

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard = 120 pages

Total Books Finished = 1
Total Pages Read = 794 pages

Today was a terrible read-a-thon day for me as I had Step-Mum duties; had to pick up my Step-Son who lives 1.5 hours (there and back) from home, followed by lunch, had to take Father in Law to Doctors, then everyone to the movies and then the Dentist for Step-Son.

In between all that I had to make an hour trip (there and back) to pickup a girlfriend from her post-op and drop her off at another girlfriend's home where she'll be recovering for the week. THEN, it was dinnertime and had to drop Step-Son home, take dinner to my two girlfriends (the nurse and the patient).

By the time I got home it was 9pm, I left the house around 9am so I had been out for nearly a whole 12 hours. I really should've listened to my audiobook as I certainly would have gotten some hours in there from all the driving LOL. By the time I got home I had a raging migraine, so I napped for an hour, then got up and FINALLY got to read!

Friday 13th May

Truthwitch by Susan Dennard = 251 pages

Total Books Finished = 2
Total Pages Read = 1, 045pages

Saturday 14th May

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray =18 pages

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken = 82 pages

Total Books Finished = 2
Total Pages Read = 1, 145 pages

Actually made it to a Twitter chat, I love the social aspect of readathons! I also visited 50 blogs today, which is always a goal for my #boutofbooks readathon to visit blogs and comment.

I would love to get another 355 pages in before the end but I highly doubt it as I'm very busy tomorrow.

Sunday 15th May

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken = 80 pages

Their fractured light by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff = 20 pages

Total books finished this week = 2

Total pages read = 1,245 pages

Was extremely busy today with one of my Step-kids birthday so I had 5 children which included 3 of my step children, their step brother and one friend. So I was very busy all day with All you can eat lunch and roller skating. Was extremely surprised I even got to read as much as I did by the time I got home I was exhausted.