Bouts of Books 9.0: Starts Today

This is the first day of the read-a-thon, my wrap up for today will go up tomorrow. First day of the read-a-thon where you repost your goals and make sure everyone knows so they can participate. Read-a-thons are suppose to be low stress and I don't actually really stress about them, which is surprising to me, but I do aim my goals high, very high sometimes, but that's how I like it.

As writing this, I've already read ten books this year, the beginning of the year always kicks me into action and I'm so motivated and it's always fantastic and I'm so glad this read-a-thon is so early in the new year.

So, I'm actually going to tweak some of my goals, because I didn't feel like I actually listed them very well in that first post.

• Read 200 - 300 pages a day
• Finish at least one book a day
• Read as much as I possibly can but also don't stress about it, one book a day is completely doable.

And the books I'm planning on haven't really changed, but I'm also surrounded by books so I might just end up picking one up at any point and reading it, we'll have to see how it goes. 

If you're participating, I wish you the best of luck, and if you're not but you might want to, then check out the Bout of Books blog and twitter. And if you want to track my progress aside from these daily updates, there's my twitter and goodreads.

Bout of Books 8.0: Starts Today!

Yay, the beginning of yet another read-a-thon. I don't really have many goals for this read-a-thon, just actually get myself reading and out of this slump, would be great. It's going to be a much more relaxed read-a-thon, then the last couple where my goal was just kind of 'read everything I possible can.'

I won't have as much free time during this week as normal, so we'll see how it goes. And onto what goals I do have.

Goals:

• read 200, if not 300, pages a day.
• finish a book every other day, at least. (basically: finish 4-5 books this week if not more)
• have fun and don't stress about not reading as much as normal for this read-a-thon, even though I like to try and one up myself from the last read-a-thon.

So this is the official first day of Bout of Books 8.0! My update of what I read today and such will go up on the blog tomorrow, it'll be same for the whole week, the day after the post will go up. And then in a week, next Monday, the post for the last day and a full wrap-up of the read-a-thon will go up. It's just easier then stressing and trying to get the post up before midnight.

Possible books that I could read:

• The Monster Call's by Patrick Ness
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean (maybe)
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Ruthfuss (it's so long But sounds so good)
• The White Fox by James Bartholomeusz

All of those are kind of maybes, really, and I'm surrounded by books so whatever I'm feeling like, I'll probably just pick up and start reading. We will see how this goes. I hope everyone has a fun re ad-a-thon!