Bout of Books 16 Wrap-Up

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 did absolutely TERRIBLE during this Bout of Books. It feels like I read so much but I didn't manage to finish even one book. It was a crazy week though. Full of puking two year olds, anxiety attacks, and pure laziness. But oh, well. I'll do better next time!

POSTS

Event Sign Up | 4/25/16

Challenge #1 & Reading List | 5/9/16

Challenge #2 & Day 1 Reading Updates | 5/10/16

Challenge #3 & Day 2 Reading Updates | 5/11/16

Challenge #4 & Day 3 Reading Updates | 5/12/16

Day 4 Reading Updates | 5/13/16

Day 5 Reading Updates | 5/15/16

Day 6 Reading Updates | 5/15/16

Event Wrap-Up | 5/16/16

I COMPLETED

0/6 Books

4/6 Challenges

9/9 Posts (Including Sign Up & Wrap Up)

I READ

Total Books: 0

Total Pages: 286

Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 254)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 32)

Bout of Books 16: Day 6 Reading Updates

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
---No challenge photo today.
It's a free day for the readathon.
:)

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Day Four Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 254)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 32)

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 286

Bout of Books 16: Day 5 Updates

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
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No challenge photo today.
I was lazy.
:P

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Day Four Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 254)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 32)

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 286

Bout of Books 16: Day 4 Updates

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
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No challenge photo or anything today. I had a bit of an anxiety ridden day and pretty much just laid in bed all day watching YouTube videos and chillin' out with my daughter. I read a little bit but not much.  I had actually intended on taking a photo for the challenge when we went out for dinner but ended up forgetting all about it. So no challenge from me today!
Happy Friday the 13th!

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Day Four Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 254)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 27)

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 281

Bout of Books 16: Challenge #4 & Day 3 Reading Updates

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 am so not where I'd like to be, reading wise. I feel like I've read less this week than I normally do. :( Readeathon slump?

Challenge #4

Hosted by Bout of Books

If You Like This, Try This

Since we all love recommending books, here's your chance to share the love.
Example: If you like paranormal romance with bloodthirsty vikings, try Shelly Laurenston's Call of Crows series.

So here is my recommendation!

If you like the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan you should definitely check out the Elementals series by Michelle Madow! They're very similar and both are amazing reads full of adventure, Greek mythology, and teen drama!

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Day Three Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 154)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 19)

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 173

Bout of Books 16: Challenge #3 & Day 2 Reading Updates

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
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Day two is in the books! Literally! :)
There's not much I can say for day two except that I read. Not as much as I would have liked but I did read.  I always start these readathons so excited, thinking that I'm going to throw down a ton of books... and then I'm quickly reminded of how slowly I read. lol.  I wish I was a super fast reader, but I'm simply not. And that's okay.  I can't complain when it comes to reading good books.

Challenge #3

Hosted by Bout of Books

5 Favorites

Everybody loves sharing favorites and now we're giving you free rein to do just that. Pick the topic of your choice and share your 5 favorite books that fit. Topics could be a favorite genre, a favorite trope, book boyfriends, or ANYTHING. There's no limit to where you can take this!

So here are my books!

The topic I chose was horror. I'm a horror lover and, though these books are on my TBR and I haven't actually read them yet, these are on my list for a reason. I absolutely love vampires and I absolutely love ghost stories. Ghosts actually scare me more than anything because I've had a ton if experiences in my life and they're the most real for me. I absolutely love R.L. Stine and e is my favorite author. I included an extra book because I HAVE read Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and it was so insanely realistic and Seth Grahame-Smith made it so believable. I loved it. I can't wait to read Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.

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Day Two Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 104)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (pages read: 10)

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 114

Bout of Books 16: Challenge #2 & Day 1 Reading Updates

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
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Alright guys! We've made it to day two of the readathon! For me, this was a feat to be achieved.  Of course, the morning Bout of Books started, my little one woke up with a stomach bug and I spent the day cleaning up puke, running down to the hotel laundry room to do laundry and basically just doing whatever I needed to do for my little sicko. Since the day she was born, if she isn't feeling well, she's a daddy's girl. But not yesterday. Her tummy was messed up, she was tired all day, she had a fever, and all she wanted was mommy.  If I left her side for a second she started crying.  So it's safe to say that my reading updates for day one (at the end of this post) won't be very impressive.  Hopefully today will make up for it!

Challenge #2

Hosted by Bout of Books

Show Off Your Shelves Photo Challenge

Share a picture of your books/shelves/nightstand/e-library/wherever you keep your books on Twitter, Instagram, or on this post. Use the hashtags #boutofbooks and #shelfie4boutofbooks

So here are my "shelves"!

These bags aren't technically shelves but we're out of town right now and in a hotel suite so I have very limited space. Usually the books are at least stacked nicely in the bags but my 2 year olds keeps going through them. 😜 She loves books just like her momma.

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Day One Reading Updates
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (pages read: 36)
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire

Total Books Finished: 0
Total Pages Read: 36

Bout of Books 16: Challenge #1 & Reading List

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
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Hey everyone! I'm super excited to start off Bout of Books 16! I have a lot of confidence in myself to do better this time around than I ever have before! And I have a bunch of books to get through for other challenges and for tours and stuff. I actually already had a TBR list made up for myself so, for this challenge, I'm just going to list the first five books on that list. I'm not sure how many I'll be able to get through but I'm ecstatic to find out!

Hosted by Bout of Books

In Six Words

Introduce Yourself #insixwords 

The challenge is simple: introduce yourself on Twitter, Instagram, or on the main post using six words, no more, no less. Use the hashtags #boutofbooks and #insixwords

So here are my six words!

I'm forever a work in progress.

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Reading List
Strikethrough = finished
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini
Bellman and Black by Diane Setterfield
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Rapunzel Untangled by Cindy C. Bennett
Come What May by A.M. Arthur
Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (on page 573)

Total Books Finished:
Total Pages Read: