#boutofbooks signup and goals

I am going to be doing this again.  Here is a bit of an explanation:

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. 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

You still have a few days to sign up, if you choose to join up and can do so here.

This year the hosts aren't don't a goals post, but I do have a few goals that I wish to accomplish while reading this coming week:

• complete Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• start Half-Blood Prince
• complete at least Book 5 (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) of the Narnia chronicles and possibly even Book 6 (The Silver Chair).
• start reading one of the books I have set out to read for one of the numerous challenges.

#boutofbooks 10 Goals

I am getting a little excited and am really looking forward to Bout of Books 10!

Here are the books I would like to read/work on during the week:

•  A Tale of Two Cities
•  Frog Music
•  The Fault in our Stars
•  The Bear
•  His Majesty's Hope
•  War & Peace
•  The Count of Monte Cristo
•  The Woman in White
•  Bittersweet

My goals are to:

• complete at least 3 books
• read about 1000 pages
• participate in at least one twitter chat

I don't know if I'll do a mini-challenge, but I'll see if time permits and if I remember.

As for keeping track of pages, I have a notebook in which I am going to keep track of how many pages I have read, especially since I am reading from multiple books.

Bout of Books 9.0 Goals

As I stated earlier last month, Bout of Books 9.0 is coming up and I believe you can still sign up.    I have done this readathon pretty much from the start and despite my reservations at times, I do enjoy this one, as it helps me get some reading done when I might otherwise not get any done. And this comes at the perfect time.

If you don't know anything about Bout of Books, here is a brief description of it:

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 6th and runs through Sunday, January 12th 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 9.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

So there you have the description and lets get onto what my goals are to be for this week long read-a-thon:

• get 14 chapters of The Count of Monte Cristo completed
• complete Life after Life and get some of the e-books I have borrowed completed or get major work done on them.
• read Book 10 of War & Peace
• start reading Possession by A.S. Byatt for the TuesBookTalk Read-a-long
• start reading a book for my TBR Pile reading challenge (there are two I am doing, but they basically have the same book list); probably will be something like Moon over Manifest.

I will be updating my progress on a daily basis, with my opening post on the 6th and my closing post on the 13th.