Bout of Books 23

Well it is that time again and I am planning on doing this this time around, as I haven't done the last few for whatever reason.

If you have forgotten what it is, here is an explanation:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 20th and runs through Sunday, August 26th 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 23 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

If you can join me, that will be great and you will need to sign up over at their site.

As for the books that I will be working on then, I don't really know, but I should have a list up the weekend before the read-a-thon starts.

If you wish to follow me during the readathon, I will be tweeting reading updates on my main twitter account, @melissawiebe.

Happy reading!

Bout of Books 20

It's almost that time of year again. Time to get on with Bout of Books and a week of reading bliss. 

If you have forgotten what Bout of Books is, here is a little reminder:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner 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


Here are my reading goals for the week:

• The Fellowship of the Ring
• Winter (Luner Chronicles #4)
• By Gaslight
• Outlander

I will likely expand my reading goals as the week progresses.

I hope you are able to join me.

Bout of Books 19

I am going to try this again and hopefully I can get my act together.  If you have forgotten what Bout of Books is about, here is a little blurb about it:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 8th and runs through Sunday, May 14th 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 19 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team


My reading goals are to read:

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
• Lab Girl
• Outlander
• The Handmaid's Tale 

These are only a starting point but I may add more books as I get closer to the date.

Bout of Books 18

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 2nd and runs through Sunday, January 8th 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 18 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I enjoy this read-a-thon and I hope that you will be able to join me.

Here are the books that I hope to read during the read-a-thon:

• Outlander by Diana Galbadon
• The Nest by Cythnia D'Aprix Sweeney
• Dietland by Sarai Walker

I don't know what else I am going to read, but these are the ones that I am going to concentrate on.

#boutofbooks 17 signup

I am posting this kinda late.  Been so engrossed with the Olympics that I forgot about the readathon, but this is a good reset.

My reading for the readathon as such is going to be:

• The Fireman
• Winter
• The Elite
• The Sympathizer
• The Danish Girl

If you are wondering what Bout of Books is, I am not going to presume that everybody that reads my blog knows this, this is what it is about:

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 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th 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 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I hope you can join me.

Bout of Books 16 sign up

I thought for some reason that today was the start, but at least now I have an extra week to get prepared.

For those that are wondering what Bout of Books is, the lovely ladies over at the site can say it better than I can possibly do:

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, May 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I hope you can join me!  Happy reading.

Bout of Books 15

I love these types of readathons that take a week and allow me to take my time reading over the course of the week. And you can read as much or as little as you like.

Goals:
• complete at least 3 books
• get a couple of audiobooks started

I hope to post updates on a daily basis here on my blog.

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 4th and runs through Sunday, January 10th 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 15 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

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!

Bout of Books 14 sign-up #boutofbooks

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 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd 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 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

As most of you that have been following this blog for sometime, know that I enjoy this particular read-a-thon or that I have participated in most of them over the years.  This year is no different and it gives me an excellent excuse to get some of the books I have been wanting to get done, done.  But because of the time is about a week in the future, I at the present time have no idea as to what I am going to read, as some books that I would want to work on during this time may be completed by that time.  So my plan is to update this post with the books that I plan to read probably later in the week or I might put up a separate post with the titles.

But I will put down a list for the time being:

• Jacob Have I Loved
• The Odyssey
• Far from the Maddening Crowd
• Belzhar

The list may or may not be expanded, but when the read-a-thon starts on the 17th, I will probably put up a master post with the actual books that I will read.  In the meantime, Happy Reading!

#boutofbooks Wrap-Up Post

Overall, I think I did pretty good.  I got All the Bright Places completed and got most of Vanessa and Her Sister completed and should be done on Monday or Tuesday.

As for pages read, I got about 370 completed, which is pretty good, but for me a little disappointing. Hopefully the one in August is a little better for me in that respect.  I didn't really participate in any Twitter chats nor did I do any challenges, but I did enter a contest on Saturday.

#boutofbooks Update #6

Today was a bit better reading wise, but still didn't spend the full day reading; am hoping that I will be able to that tomorrow, as I don't have anything really planned.  I hope to get at least part 2 and completed from Vanessa and Her Sister and start Book of Life and get the first little bit completed.

While I know that there is no really sanctioned twitter chat, I will try to come around and chat with some of my fellow readers at some point during the day.

Happy book dreams.

#boutofbooks Update #5

While I didn't finish anything, nor get anything really completed, I did start reading Vanessa and Her Sister on Friday and am in the process of possibly starting two other books that I am wanting to get done.  Thankfully it is the weekend and so I will probably be able to get a little more reading done after a fairly busy week.  Maybe I'll stop to watch the series finale of Mad Men this coming Sunday evening and to attend church and to do a few other tasks that I would like to get done.

Here's to a happy weekend of reading....

#boutofbooks Update #4

Thursday was a bit more successful of a reading day, in that I did actually complete a book off my list,  All the Bright Places.  I don't know how much I will be able to read today, but if things work out, I shouldn't have an issue getting some reading done.  I don't know if I will get anything completed, but I'll see.

#boutofbooks Update #3

While I did expect not to read a lot today, I did kinda expect to read during the evening.  That didn't exactly happen.  I didn't sleep well overnight and due to some social engagements I had during the afternoon, I was exhausted.  And the last thing on my mind was sitting down and reading.  But I did go to the libraries that I have membership with and pick up materials I had requested.  The next  few days should be better, but sometimes life throws you curve balls that you can't anticipate.

Hope you all have pleasant bookish dreams.

#boutofbooks Update #2

While I didn't read the amount that I had hoped to, I did read a bit more than I did on Monday.  The reason for the lack of reading was due to the fact that I was busy for a good portion on Tuesday, cleaning in the afternoon and at my Bible study group in the evening and by the time I got home, I was feeling tired (I didn't finish the movie that I had hoped to watch prior to going to be).  Wednesday will probably look somewhat the same, as I have a number of things up in the afternoon, but I am not as busy in the evening and hopefully I can get some reading done then.  Thursday through Sunday are much more freer and looks like I will be able to read for most of them.  Happy reading.

#boutofbooks Update #1

Didn't read as much as I hoped to; was hoping to complete All the Bright Places on Monday, but due to waking up late and having stuff to deal with, I didn't really read much.  I tried to read this evening, but some reason my head wasn't in it.    I hope that this afternoon will be a little more productive.   And by not reading much, I read like 10 pages.

#boutofbooks 13 Sign-up

This is one of my favourite read-a-thon's (my other being the 24 hour readathon, among a couple of others) and the start date is creeping up on me.  If you want to join, you can still do so.

Here is some information about 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, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May 17th 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 13 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I hope that you will be able to join me as well.

Here are the books that I hope to read from:

• The Book of Life
• The Color Purple
• All the Bright Places
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Vanessa and Her Sister
• Moon over Manifest
• While We're Far Apart
• plus maybe a one or more two books

I know that I won't be able to complete everything on this list, but I can probably at least start or make some headway on most of them.  

My goals for Bout of Books 13 are:

1. Complete at least two of the books on the list
2. Read every day
3. Update my blog readers as to what I am up to
4. Read at least 600 pages
5. Participate in a Twitter chat
6. Participate in at least one challenge/giveaway

I also hope to get caught up on book reviews during the week at some point.  Hope you all have a great week of reading.

#boutofbooks - Day 5

Busy couple of days of reading.  On Thursday and Friday, I worked on Harry Potter and was able to finish it yesterday (Friday).  I also started Daisy Miller.  Don't know how much I'll get done today, but I am hoping to complete it and possibly start The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Happy reading.

#boutofbooks - Day 3

I knew that I wouldn't have a lot of time to read yesterday (according to what I would normally expect), but I still managed to work on Harry Potter and should be able to complete it sometime today and hopefully work on another book.

#boutofbooks - Day 2

Like Monday, I didn't read too much on Tuesday, but I was able to get a bunch of Harry Potter done.  I am hoping that I will be able to get a little more done (and also get to bed earlier), but only time will tell.

Happy reading.