Bout of Books 20: schedule, goals, and giveaway

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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 21st
and runs through Sunday, August 27th
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 20 information and updates,
be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.
From the Bout of Books team

Bout of Books 20:
schedule, goals, and giveaway

SCHEDULE

Challenges/Giveaways
**This is the overall list for the challenges offered during Bout of Books 20.
Make sure you check the blog each day of the read-a-thon for instructions
and details on how to complete the daily challenges**

Monday 8/21
Introduce yourself #insixwords

Tuesday 8/22
Synopsis rewrite

Wednesday 8/23
Book spine rainbow

Thursday 8/24
If you like this, try that . . .

Friday 8/25
Leave a book review

Saturday 8/26
Love to hate

Sunday 8/27
FREE DAY!

Twitter Chats
(chats last approximately one hour)
TZC = Time Zone Conversion

Monday: 8pm CST (TZC)
Saturday: 10am CST (TZC)

GOALS

What books will I be reading?

Le Regard du Ressuscité, by Archimandrite Gabriel – a French book on Orthodox icons, received for review
A Curious Collection of Dates: Through the Year with Sherlock Holmes, by Leah Guinn
Salt Creek, by Lucy Treloar
Merle, by Angela Wren

What books will I be listening?

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, by Phaedra Patrick
Coule la Seine, by Fred Vargas

As my daily average so far this year seems to be 69 pages/day, my challenge will be to read 525 pages (average of 75 pages/day).
Not counting some time for audiobooks as well.

And as I’m an expert this year, I plan on visiting and cheering 25 bloggers every day

GIVEAWAY

Here are 4 books you can choose from.
Just open to US residents

The Pilgrim’s Progress
Songs from the Violet Café
brand new condition

A Kim Jong-Il Production
ARC in very good condition
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
ARC in brand new condition:
I received it at BEA 2016,
but chose actually to listen to it