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Bout of Books 12: Update 1

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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 5th and runs through Sunday, January 11th 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 12 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

My Goals

  • finish off the books I’m currently reading.
  • Read at least one new book off of my TBR shelf.
  • Finish at least 3 books.

Books Read

I’ll be catching up on my eARCs.

Pages Read

*FLAIL ALERT* – 64 pages!!!  I’m hoping to do considerably better today since I went to bed at the same time as The Boyfriend last night and got up at the same time as he did as well.  That means I’ve got oodles more time to read before he gets home from work.  Also, there’s no twitter chat today to distract me 😉

Mini-Challenges Completed

I participated in the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt.

Monday’s Minutes #1

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Currently Reading: Tommy Black and the Staff of Light by Jake Kerr, a review book, and The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, which I’m reading for the Sword and Laser bookclub.

 Tommy Sparrow

Finished: The Sunken by S.C. Green, which I’ll be reviewing sometime this week, and Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, which I’ll be reviewing later today.

Sunken Ivanhoe

Winter 2014-2015 COYER Progress:  I’ve read 2 book towards my goal of 10, and participated in 1 read-a-thon towards my goal of 3.  I’ve also participated in some socializing on Facebook, but I need to check out some reviews and do a mini-challenge.

Show Your Shelves Some Love, Outdo Yourself, and Netgalley/Edelweiss Progress: Since the books I’ve finished this week were started before Jan. 1st, I haven’t made any progress towards these challenges yet.

Total pages read for the week: 722

Total number of books for the year: 2.  Since I celebrated my Birthday this week, I got a lot more reading done than I thought I would.  However, the COYER New Year’s Read-a-Thon was a bit of a flail for me.  I didn’t finish a single book for it.  I’m going to try to make up for that by getting in as much reading time as possible for Bout of Books 12.

Top Commenter: Every week I’ll be posting the top commenter.  For this week, my Top Commenter was Shaina from Shaina Reads.

What are you reading this week?