#boutofbooks
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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:
Day 1
WHAT I READ ON DAY 1:
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Salt Creek: 67 pages
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Enigma: 4 pages
TOTAL pages in DAY 1 = 71
Not bad, as we had this crazy Twitter Party for an hour – crazy because of the speed of the tweets, though I have seen worse, lol!
+ 40 mn of audio time: The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
TOTAL PAGES SO FAR: 71/525
ALSO:
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I did the challenge:
Introduce Yourself #insixwords
In case you have not seen it, come this way -
I posted a book giveaway
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I took part in the Twitter chat, it was not as crazy as last year.
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13 new Twitter followers (@wordsandpeace), 1 new Instagram follower (@wordsandpeace1)
AS AN EXPERT:
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I followed 28 new people on Twitter, left tons of tweets and likes
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Followed 5 more bloggers on Instagram
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Visited and commented on 8 blogs
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?
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Le Regard du Ressuscité, by Archimandrite Gabriel – a French book on Orthodox icons, received for review
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A Curious Collection of Dates: Through the Year with Sherlock Holmes, by Leah Guinn
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Salt Creek, by Lucy Treloar
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Enigma, by Catherine Coulter (Netgalley)
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Merle, by Angela Wren
What books will I be listening?
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The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper, by Phaedra Patrick
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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
If you have not signed up yet
to Bout of Books,
click on the top logo to do so today!
I really need to get on the Twitter game! I loved the six word introduction though, it was a fun challenge!
Here is my progress so far! https://reachingwhilerooted.com/2017/08/22/bout-of-books-monday-progress-report/
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that was a neat introduction!
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Love how you are doing goals for being an expert. I wish I had kept up with how many new people I was following after the first chat! I’ve been using a random number generator to visit 10 progress posts and I try to visit progress posts from blogs I already follow too. 🙂
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ah, the idea of random number generator is great, thanks. I started in order with the people on the main sign up, then realized quite a few were actually not participating, then today I followed the order of those who posted their recap.
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