Sunday Salon - A bit of everything: #boutofbooks update, #BtHreadathon books, and so forth

Today's post is a bit of a hodgepodge of stuff, so bear with me.

First off, the Bout of Books Readathon isn't going so well for me.  I finished To Kill A Mockingbird and that was all about I really read for the week, even though I have a quite a bit to read.  But I know that there are going to be other readathons coming up and I will be able to get books done and that this is a stress-free readathon.  I did start reading Go Set A Watchman and so far the book is okay (I'm only 2 chapters in and every now and then you can hear Reese Witherspoon's southern accent come through, although you really heard Sissy Spacek's more clearly during To Kill).  I don't know why I didn't read as much as I had hoped to, but I think it just amounted to the fact that I was concentrating on one book and I felt really tired at times during the readathon).

As for Beat the Heat Readathon, this one might be a bit more successful, just due to the length of it, being 2 weeks instead of 1.  So here are the books that I plan on working on are for Beat the Heat are:

• Go Set a Watchman (my dad wants to read this and would like to get it done by Thursday)
• The Odyssey
• Letters to the Lost

And these are maybes:
• Jacob Have I Loved
• The Book of Life

As for me not blogging this past week, it was just a busy week and I anytime I remembered to blog, it was too late for something or other and I didn't really have the energy to blog this week, but hopefully I will have more energy this week to blog.

Now I will get off my computer and start doing some reading.  See you next week!

3rd Annual Beat the Heat Readathon Sign-up

Beat the Heat readathon is hosted by Novel Heartbeat and Phantasmic Reads. 

Thought I would do this once again.  So here are the rules:

• The Beat the Heat Readathon runs from August 24th at 12:00 AM to September 6th at 11:59 PM. What does this readathon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for three weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal!
• There will be mini-challenges throughout the Readathon for participants, along with a grand prize giveaway at the end!
• Sign up at Novel Heartbeat or at Phantasmic Reads. You may join whenever you like, but to be eligible for our grand prize giveaway, you must sign up by August 28th.
• To join, all you have to do is make a sign-up post – even if it’s just a “Let’s do this!” thing – and add your post URL to the linky below! You can put your goals and progress (will be required for the final giveaway) in your sign-up post, or you can make it separate. Totally up to you! (You are welcome to use the template we provide in the kick-off post as well.)
• In order to enter for the grand prize, you must have a post to keep track of your progress so we can see that you participated.
• Follow along on Twitter and share your progress with the hashtag #BtHReadathon!

I will have a post up closer to the 24th with the books I am planning on reading.

#boutofbooks Wrap-Up & #bthreadathon Update No. 8

Bout of Books:

Was pretty successful, even though I finished 2 books.   I managed to read about 869 pages, which in my books is pretty good and am looking forward to the next Bout of Books read-a-thon in early January.

Beat the Heat:
Friday:
Mrs. Hemingway:          31 pages
The Word Exchange:     69 pages
Total pages:                   100

Saturday:
The Word Exchange:         58 pages
Mrs. Hemingway:              47 pages
The Invention of Wings:    38 pages
Total pages:                        143

Sunday:
The Wide and Starry Sky:                                                                  64 pages
The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window:  42 pages
Total pages:                                                                                        106

#boutofbooks Day 4 Update & #bthreadathon Update No. 7

Beat the Heat:
The Word Exchange:     135 pages

Bout of Books:
Don't know why but I didn't read much during the day, but once the evening came on Thursday, I read a lot.  Hopefully I get more reading done this evening.

#boutofbooks Day 3 Update & #bthreadathon Update No. 6

Beat the Heat:
The Word Exchange:                  50 pages
Under the Wide and Starry Sky: 40 pages
Total pages:                                 90

Bout of Books:
Productive day of reading; started reading Under the Wide and Starry and got about 40 pages done from that book.  Got a bit more of The Word Exchange completed with 40 pages.  Hoping to do as much reading as I did yesterday.

#boutofbooks Day 2 Update & #bthreadathon Update No. 5

Beat the Heat:
The Word Exchange:     45 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling:   163 pages *
Total pages:                   208

* Completed

Bout of Books:  Day 2

Felt like a productive day of reading, especially since I was able to finish The Cuckoo's Calling on Tuesday evening.  I don't know how much reading I am going to get done today, but I am hoping to get a lot done.

#boutofbooks Day 1 Update & #bthreadathon Update No. 4

Beat the Heat:
Sunday:
The Word Exchange:   27 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling:  46 pages
Half-Blood Prince:       127 pages
Total pages:                  200

Monday:
The Cuckoo's Calling:   47 pages

Bout of Books: Day 1

Didn't do a lot of reading for Monday, as I was recovering from a huge reading day from the previous day, but I did read about 47 pages from The Cuckoo's Calling.  I am hoping to be reading a bit more today.

I am sorry for the odd look, but when am doing two different readathons at the same time, this is how its going to look like.

#BtHreadathon Update No. 3

I realize that its been a few days since I last updated as to what I had read.  I had other things up and I just put it aside in favour of those of other things.

Friday
Half-Blood Prince:    83 pages read
Mrs. Hemingway:     11 pages read
Total pages read:       94

Saturday
The Circle:                  48 pages read*
The Cuckoo's Calling: 42 pages read
Total pages read:          90

* = completed reading

I did start reading The Word Exchange, but it wasn't enough to think it was enough to record it (it was a few pages); I hope to read a bit more today and that I update sooner than have at the moment.

#BtHreadathon Update No. 2

Had a big day of reading today, although I only really read from two books.  But within those two books, I read a lot of pages and am anticipating about the same tomorrow.

Here is what I read:
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Read 69 pages
• The Circle: Went from about 71% to about 91% completed, which is about 106 pages

I read for about 3 and a half to about 4 hours (didn't really calculate as to how much I read).

#bthreadathon - Update No. 1

I am so sorry for not posting an update yesterday, but here I am!  It will be a quick one, as I am headed off to do some reading before I go off to dream land.

It really hasn't been a successful couple of days, as yesterday I didn't feel like reading.  But before I did head off to sleep I read about 130 pages from two different books.  Didn't read much during the day yesterday (Wednesday), but am hoping today is going to be better.

2nd Annual Beat the Heat Readathon Sign-up Post

Beat the Heat readathon is hosted by Novel Heartbeat and Phantasmic Reads. 

I don't know how I heard about it; probably a blog post I read in the last few days.

So here are the rules:

• The Beat the Heat Readathon runs from August 11th to September 1st. What does this readathon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for three weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal!

• There will be mini-challenges throughout the Readathon for participants, along with a grand prize giveaway at the end!

• Sign up here at Phantasmic Reads or Novel Heartbeat. You may join whenever you like, but to be eligible for our grand prize giveaway, you must sign up by August 24th.

• To join, all you have to do is make a sign-up post – even if it’s just a “Let’s do this!” thing – and add your post URL to the linky below! You can put your goals and progress (will be required for the final giveaway) in your sign-up post, or you can make it separate. Totally up to you! (You are welcome to use the template we provide as well.)

• In order to enter for the grand prize, you must have a post to keep track of your progress so we can see that you participated.

Here are the books that I will hopefully work on:

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• The Cuckoo's Calling
• The Word Exchange

• The Circle

• Bittersweet
• The Lady and the Unicorn
• Mrs. Hemingway
• The Invention of Wings

• a history book that I need to read for a course I am doing online.

I am sorry for starting a little late, but I hope to post updates, in a separate post, either just before I go to bed or when I get up the next day.