Bout of Books 6.0 Goals and updates

Hello everyone! I’ve decided to jump start this year by taking part in the Bout of Books read-athon. I took part in several read-athons last year, but never Bout of Books. 

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, January 7th and runs through Sunday, January 13th 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 6.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. -From the Bout of Books 6.0 team.

For this read-athon I’ve decided to tackle books I’ve been meaning to read for ages. Here is the stack of books that I had in mind.

My goals:

To read at least three books from this stack

To take part in at least three challenges

To take part in one twitter chat

I will be updating my progress with the Bout of Books counter in the side bar, on our Facebook page and on my twitter.

If you’re taking part in this read-athon too, I’d love to know what your goals are. Good luck everyone. 

Monday:
Number of pages I've read: 144 (Fever Moon) 150 (The Gathering Dark) (already previously started 25% (approx 100 pages) of The Mad Scientist's Daughter and 83 pages of Live Through This by Mindi Scott)
Total number of pages: 477
Total number of books I've read: 1.5
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning
Challenges completed: 1
Twitter chat: 1

Tuesday:
Number of pages I've read: 157 (The Gathering Dark) (already previously started 25% (approx 100 pages) of The Mad Scientist's Daughter and 102 pages of Live Through This by Mindi Scott)
Total number of pages: 836
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning and The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo
Challenges completed: 1

Wednesday:
Number of pages I've read: 147 (Meant to Be) and 22 (Dance of Shadows)
Total number of pages: 1005
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning and The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo
Challenges completed: 1

Bout of Books Challenge: The 48 page challenge hosted by Booking in Heels

Challenge:   

• Turn to page 48 of your current book, or 48% if you're using an e-reader. 
• Take the first complete sentence on that page and copy it. 
• Now you're going to continue the story! Ignoring the real plot or anything else you know about that book, add four new sentences of your very own. You can morph the plot completely, kill everybody off or go off on a huge tangent - anything goes!  

My current read is Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill. (page 48)

Poor kid can’t catch a break, but I suspect he’s so drunk he’s not feeling much of anything at this point...  He swaggers slight to the left and then lands with a loud thump on the clutter of mess on the bed. I take that as my sign to quickly hightail it out of there, I don’t want to be there when he wakes up with a big bump on his head and so many questions that I can’t answer. I run out of the room and weave through the crowded mass of bodies swaying to the bass pumping through the speakers, by the time I make it out of the house I’m completely breathless and I can feel sweat beads forming at the side of  my head. My phone suddenly lets out a cheery tune from the bottom of my bag, but I ignore it, I quickly run off into the night, without a backward glance.

Thursday: 
Number of pages I've read: 177 (Dance of Shadows)
Total number of pages: 1182
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning and The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo
Challenges completed: 2

Bout of Books Book Spine Poetry challenge hosted by Escape through the Pages

Challenge:
The concept is simple – using books you have on hand, create a poem out of their titles. There is no theme and no set number of books to use, just whatever poem pops into your head and however many books you need to create it.

Can You Keep a Secret? because
I'll Be There so
Send Me a Sign were
Meant to Be my
Starcrossed lover.








Friday: 
Number of pages I've read: 143 (Meant to Be)
Total number of pages: 1325
Total number of books I've read: 3 (I have reached my book goal! woo hoo!)
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning, The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo and Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
Challenges completed: 0

Saturday: 
Number of pages I've read: 176 (Dance of Shadows)
Total number of pages: 1501
Total number of books I've read: 4 (I have surpassed my book goal!)
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning, The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo, Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill and Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black
Challenges completed: 1

Challenge: Name your Book Crack challenge hosted by Bookgoonie

So I want you to reflect and identify your deepest, darkest addictions. What is your Book Crack? What can you NOT SAY NO to? What bookish things make you blissful?

My Book Crack is buying books on their release date, despite having a ton of books in my tbr pile at home already. It’s like I get an odd feeling in my stomach if I don’t by the book on that date, I think I’m most likely scared that all the copies will run out and there will be no more left for me. So it’s kind of satisfying when I buy a copy on the release date, so that I can then take it home and know it will be sitting safely on my bookshelf. The bad thing is sometimes it takes me ages to get to the book, for example I brought Divergent by Veronica Roth on its release date, but didn’t get around to reading it until nearly a year after its release date. Other books which I still have to pick up and brought straight away include I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Die for Me by Amy Plum.

My favourite section in my bookstore. How can a girl resist?

Sunday: 
Number of pages I've read: 
Total number of pages: 
Total number of books I've read:
Books: Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning, The Gathering Dark by Leigh Bardugo, Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill and Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black
Challenges completed: 0