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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 2 recap
WHAT I READ ON DAY 2:
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Salt Creek: 50 pages
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Enigma: 12 pages
TOTAL pages in DAY 2 = 62
Pathetic. I had to write a book review, and it took me longer than I expected.
TOTAL PAGES SO FAR: 133/525
ALSO:
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I did the challenge:
Synopsis rewrite
In case you have not seen it, come this way
AS AN EXPERT:
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I followed 8 new people on Twitter, left tons of tweets and likes
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Followed 11 more bloggers on Instagram
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Visited and commented on 30 blogs
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!
Ha! Things do get in the way of reading (which is why I only do mini-comments rather than full reviews). I had my reads for the week mentally planned (but not published) then two library holds came in, so I’ve mentally revised my list.
Carry on!
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oops, I said in a comment what I meant as my answer here…
I’m indeed TRYING to simplify my reviews, but I still have ways to go…
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I can feel your pain about book reviews! I try to set out an hour or two to write a review and it ends up taking me the whole day
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well, sorry to hear I’m not the only one struggling…
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Looks like you’ve got some great goals for the challenge! Good luck with all of them. I hope you find some new books to love.
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well, it’s not going so well so far, but I hope to catching up right now. A good way to read what’s on my schedule for reviewing in September. I run France Book Tours, and I don’t read all the books featured, but it happens that suddenly there were so many good ones, I could not resist, you know how it is!!
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This read-a-thon looks like a lot of fun, but I don’t think I’ll have the time to participate. Good luck with your goals!
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so maybe next year:
there are 3 per year. Here are the dates for 2018:
Bout of Books 21 – 1/8/2018 — 1/14/2018
Bout of Books 22 – 5/14/2018 — 5/20/2018
Bout of Books 23 – 8/20/2018 — 8/26/2018
It’s really low key, you set your own goals, when you get the chance to connect with many other readers
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