The End of Bout of Books 9.0 (And Day Seven Wrap-Up)

Day Seven Wrap-Up

Number of books I've read today: 1

Number of pages read: 495

Books:

Pathfinder (Pathfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card (completed - 495)

Notes:

I only finished Pathfinder today and it felt like way more then just under 500 pages to me, but I didn't sleep well last night, I woke up before 5 and couldn't get back asleep. And Pathfinder is a dense book. I'm glad I read it and I loved watching how everything tied together and everything, but it was very slow at first, the first probably three hundred, four hundred pages felt really slow.

Also, Orson Scott Card shouldn't write women, just shouldn't. I only liked Leaky at all, and even then, it was only for moments. All of his other women just hit bad notes with me and there were weird conversations that just no. Stop while you're ahead, dude.

Total and Read-a-Thon thoughts:

Total Number of Books Read: 10

Number of Pages: 3,536

Books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (180 pages)
The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick (144 pages)
Attack on Titan, Vol 4 by ajime Isayama (200 pages)
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (539 pages)
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare (485 pages)
Disney After Dark (Kingdom Keepers #1) by Ridley Pearson (325 pages)
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2) by Cassandra Clare (453 pages)
The City of Ember (Book of Ember #1) by Jeanne DuPau
Attack on Titan, Vol. 5 by Hajime Isayama (192 pages)
Pathfinder (Patfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card (657 pages)

Notes:
I love this read-a-thon, it's my favorite of the year and I love that it's multiple times through out the year. If memory serves, this was my third Bout of Books read-a-thon, and I was able to complete ten books and participate in all three twitter chats.

And these books were much longer then most of the books on my TBR were. At the beginning, I was suffering some really bad eye strain so had to take it easy. And, as I needed a tad bit of break, I'd read an Attack on Titan book, and they're also really good and I am craving more, always with the cliffhangers.

Anyway, I'm honestly impressed with myself over how much I read, and I've read more in a bout of books read-a-thon, but also I've been reading a lot since the year started, since January first, so I was already starting to wane a bit. So far this year, before and including this now, I've read twenty one books, which is complete just madness when I try to think about it. There was a challenge going around on the BookTube community at one point to read the equivalent of 30 books in 30 days, and I'd really love to try that (a book a day for a month, the equivalent of it). January is thirty one days, but I've got half the month left and ten more books needed.

Besides me freaking out about my own ability to read books, which is just annoying. I hope all of ou had good reading weeks or just good weeks, I hope you had fun, because this read-a-thon is suppose to be low stress and fun filled (I'm never low stress). And if you want to keep up with me, you can follow me here through blogger or on Twitter, Goodreads. And I might be making YouTube videos soon, we shall see.


Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up
Day Two Wrap-Up
Day Three Wrap-Up
Day Four Wrap-Up
Day Five Wrap-Up
Day Six Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day Six Wrap-Up

Wow, I actually completely forgot to write up this post, good thing I woke up at way too early in the morning feeling nauseous so I could fix it.

Number of books I've read today: 2

Total number of books I've read: 9

Books:
The City of Ember (Book of Ember #1) by Jeanne DuPrau (started and completed - 270 pages)
Attack on Titan, Vol 5 by Hajime Isayama (started and completed - 192 pages)

Books currently-reading:
Pathfinder (Pathfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card (continued - 30 pages)
Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) by Kristin Cashore (started - 90 pages0
 

Number of pages read today: 582

Total number of pages read: 3,041

Notes:

It was a really good reading day, almost got another 600 pages in, and I continued on with Pathfinder, even if it wasn't by much. Pathfinder is good, I just can't really get into it for some reason, I guess I'll just have to keep going, even if I don't finish it by the end of the read-a-thon, which it's very likely that I won't.

I don't know how I ended up picking up Graceling but it's... good so far. For some reason I wasn't expecting that kind of just it's there romance, but I probably should of been. I do like it, though, it's interesting so far.

Hope you all had a fantastic second to last day of the read-a-thon, and are having fun and maybe even getting some reading done!

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up
Day Two Wrap-Up
Day Three Wrap-Up
Day Four Wrap-Up
Day Five Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day Five Wrap-Up

A good reading day today. I pretty much spent most of the day just read, so we're going straight onto the stats

Number of books I've read today: 2

Total number of books I've read: 7

Books:
Disney After Dark (Kingdom Keepers #1) by Ridley Pearson (finished - 255 pages)
City of Ashes (The Moral Instruments #2) by Cassandra Clare (finished - 346 pages)

Books currently-reading:
Pathfinder (Pathfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card

Number of pages read today: 601

Total number of pages read: 2,458

Notes:
Those Mortal Instrument books I just fly though. I mean they are technically rereads, but I read them when they were first coming out (yes, I had to wait for those books, if you've read that series you probably know how infuriating it was). Anyway, they aren't... anything truly special, but I do really enjoy them. I always liked the world, the idea, and mostly the characters. I might end up reread the third one and maybe the Infernal devices series, I never read the third one in that one and I've heard it's the best.

Also I can't seem to pick Pathfinder back up, but I'm really hoping to tomorrow. I meant to read more then this today, actually, but I ended up getting on my computer to write and that always kind of ends my reading for the day, even if I don't want it to. There's a Twitter chat in the morning on Saturday (today), so hopefully that'll be fun and really kick me into the reading mood again since I am once again that weird area of  'finished book. What do I do now?' So hopefully I can jump into either Pathfinder or something new, I do want to read more of Pathfinder, I liked it, there's just something that's bugging me and I still don't know what it is.

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up
Day Two Wrap-Up
Day Three Wrap-Up
Day Four Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day Four Wrap-Up

I woke up so early today and I'm still surprised about why, but I got some reading done early and took a break to write and watch YouTube videos. I always get into this mood after a finish a book, like a kind of struggle to pick something else up or something.

Number of books I've read today: 1

Total number of books I've read: 5

Books:
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare (continued and completed - 253)

Books currently-reading:
City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2) by Cassandra Clare (started - 107)
Disney After Dark (Kingdom Keepers #1) by Ridley Pearson (started - 70)
Pathfinder (Pathfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card (no new progress)

Number of pages read today: 430

Total number of pages read: 1,857

Notes:

I didn't get as much reading done today. I woke up really early this morning, for me at least. And it made the end of the day kind of slow since I was just so tired. Not as good a reading day as others, but still good. And I think the now reading so much helped my eye strain a lot, which was nice.

Also both Mortal Instrument books were rereads, as is the Kingdom Keepers one, but I barely remember any that I've read of City of Ashes so far, I feel almost none of the actual stuff I remember. So I'm glad I'm rereading them.

I really hope to just kind of stay at the same pace, I would really like to finish Pathfinder by the end of the read-a-thon, maybe some more Attack on Titan, but Pathfinder is quite a long book. Still aiming for at least one book everyday and so far it's going well.

I hope all of your reading is going well, too! If you're participating, comment and tell me what you're reading and how you're liking it.

Happy Reading!

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up
Day Two Wrap-Up
Day Three Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day Three Wrap-Up

Day three down! There was a chat at the end of the day, 8pm CST, 9pm for me and it was awesome, as always. I love talking to everyone and seeing so many people excited about books/reading (seriously, so many people). Onto the updates now.

Number of books I've read today: 1

Total number of books I've read: 4

Books:
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (completed - 348 pages)

Books currently-reading:
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1) by Cassandra Clare (continued - 131 pages)
Pathfinder (Pathfinder #1) by Orson Scott Card (started today - 132 pages)

Number of pages read today: 611

Total number of pages read: 1,427

Notes:

It was a really great reading day and my eyes were definitely much better, the taking breaks for even just a few seconds or minutes definitely does some good. And Wool was a completely incredible book, it really just took off at 40% or so, just good god was it good.

City of Bones I've been meaning to reread for a while now. And Pathfinder I've been hearing really good things about, and I had it on my shelves anyway. It is a monster of a book so I don't know if I'll finish it this read-a-thon but I might, I'm already 20% in and it's only day three.

I hope you all had good days, reading or otherwise. And I truly do kind of adore what I am now thinking of as the new Bout of Books moto: "No Failing, Only Flailing!" perfection.

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up
Day Two Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day Two Wrap-Up

I had some sever problems with eye-strain today, so I read mostly paper books, hoping maybe that would be nicer on my eyes then the Kindle. It's a little better but not much, honestly. Bottom line is I didn't get as much read as I wanted to, not to say I didn't get reading done

Number of books I've read today: 2

Total number of books I've read: 3

Books:
The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick (started and completed - 144 pages)
Attack on Titan, Vol. 4 by Hajime Isayama (started and finished - 200 pages)

Books currently-reading:
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (started - 101 pages)
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (didn't read anymore today)

Number of pages read today: 535

Total number of pages read: 816

Notes:

I kind of called it an early night, it's been a long day and I read a lot but my eyes needed a break before long, way earlier then normal. I did end up reading way more then I thought, when I'd added up all the pages, which is awesome.

I hope you all had a good second day of the read-a-thon. I think I'm going to relax and then hopefully sleep long enough to heal my eyes.

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off
Day One Wrap-Up

Bout of Books 9.0: Day One Wrap-Up

My friend Haley and I had a sleepover last night and I kind of poked her into it earlier in the week and we both started reading at midnight (because that's what you do at sleepovers, right?), and that's kind of how the day started. I read until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and then when I woke up, I started reading more.

I struggled a little bit at first, flicking between books, reading a couple paragraphs, just couldn't settle on something, and ended up setting on the two weirdest books to read together probably ever: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Wool by Hugh Howey, but it apparently worked for me.

The problem is I've already read so many books this year, my brain is a little slogging, so hopefully I can push through that. Participating in the Bout of Books chat on twitter in the afternoon definitely helped that a lot, it was awesome and insane. And now onto the updates.

Number of books I've read today: 1

Books:
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (started and completed - 180 pages)
Wool (Silo #1) by Hugh Howey (started - 191 pages read)

Books currently-reading:
Well still reading Wool, obviously. Not technically anything but tomorrow will be picking up Attack on Titan Vol 4 and that's all that's for sure.

Number of pages read today:  371

Notes:

I didn't get as much writing today as I wanted to. I ended up having to write, I - hard to explain, and then the premier of Teen Wolf. Which I wasn't going to watch but I ended up watching anyway. And then my eyes, my poor eyes seem to be suffering from eye strain and since I've read like 12 books in six days plus some, this isn't surprising, so might be just reading physical books tomorrow (aka: no reading of Wool, but we'll see).

I did write like six thousand words today, though, so there is that.

Hope you all had good reading days and days in general. If you want to see my progess more real time: twitter, goodreads.

Goals Post
Monday Kick Off

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 9.0 GOALS

And we have another Bout of Books read-a-thon beginning on the 6th of this month, this is by far my favorite read-a-thon of the year, mostly because it's so well organized, a week long, and it happens multiple times during the year. This year I'll, once again, be able to read for the whole week, pretty much at least.

I have a lot of books in mind to read and I've been itching to reread a bunch of books and this read-a-thon seems like a good time to do a mini-marathoning of rereading. So here is some of the books I'm planning on:

Reread:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1-5 by Rick Riordan
• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
• Legion by Brandon Sanderson
• The Mortal Instrument #1-3 by Cassie Clare

I think that's all the books I want to reread. And now, I have some stuff coming in the mail and I don't know when it's coming, but this is some other books I might pick up:

• More in Attack on Titan
• The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima (The first is The Demon King)

And I've got books all over so whatever I feel like most, I'm going to pick up, but I think this will be the week of rereading. It looks like a lot of books, and it is, but Percy Jackson is middle grade and quick, both of the Sanderson books I want to reread are short, and I can read one of the Attack on Titan books in an hour or so. Looking at the week, I think Monday will actually be my worst reading day because Haley might, hopefully, be sleeping over Sunday - Monday and then Teen Wolf starts again that night. (Judge away, please, I am judging myself right now).

I don't really have a goal of a certain number of books just to read as much as I possibly can and try to maybe write some reviews up for them, because I am already behind on review for the year as I've read seven books as of writing this. I love that this read-a-thon is so early in the year because I feel like I'm so excited for a new year and so motivated to read and the read-a-thon is just giving me a double dose of that.

If you're doing this read-a-thon, then leave a comment with your blog so I can check out your progess through the month. And if you want to see mine I'm going to be posting here everyday (updates will be the day after, so what I read on Monday will be posted on Tuesday and so on),  besides that, though: Goodreads, Twitter.

Also, if you want to do this read-a-thon, the the Bout of Books blog and twitter.

Bout of Books read-a-thon 9.0

Yes. Another read-a-thon. Is there a review a thon I can join after because it's also kind of scary? (I'm going to google that later). Anyway, another Bout of Books read-a-thon, my favorite read-a-thon hosted multiple times during the year. You can check out the blog here and then go from there.

The read-a-thon starts on the 6th, and here is the official information and stuff from the Bout of Books people:

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

Obviously I'll be doing daily updates for it and then the first day is like a reminder it starts and also my TBR for the week (spoiler: I have a list of books to reread so look out for that).

 

Dewey's Read-A-Thon (October 12th-13th, 2013)

I didn't really have a huge stack of books to get through, which is kind of surprisingly with my read-a-thon past, but I had some books I wanted to read. I always love this read-a-thon, because it's a short and sweet one and everyone is on Twitter talking about how they're reading this and their snacks and at about 3am everyone either passes out or gets extremely delirious.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you the books I read and how pages it was, because I like this keeping track of page count thing.

Books:
Coraline: Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell
The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus #3) by Rick Riordan
The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus #4) by Rick Riordan

Pages: 1,255

So it was only three books but both the Riordan books were long, both almost 600 pages, and I had started Mark of Athena before but I didn't count that hundred or so pages. Anyway, I had a lot of fun and got a lot of reading done and oh my god Rick Riordan knows just how to do a middle grade adventure, let me tell you. If you participated then I hope you had an awesome time and got some reading done, and hopefully I will post more regularly now. Ha, NaNoWriMo is coming, that's not going to happen.

And if you're reading this and going 'Casey, what is this read-a-thon thing that is 24 hours and I missed' then you should go to the website and check it out.

Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon is tomorrow!

It's been how long since I've made an actual post here? That's not excepted, what happened to that plan, self? Okay, besides that, the yelling at myself and saying I am very sorry about not posting, I just realized (almost 8pm) that tomorrow is the Dewey 24-hour read-a-thon. I vaguely remember it happening last year and I really wanted to participate this year because this is apparently the year of me doing read-a-thons.

So on the thirteenth, probably late in the day, I'll put a post up talking about tomorrows day of reading and what happened. I have actually been reading the last couple days, which is perfect, so I think tomorrow will be awesome! I also want to make a post about NaNoWriMo, because it is coming. Too slowly, in my opinion, but I also really need to actually plan out my stories.

Anyway. The read-a-thon tomorrow. Official twitter, blog. Check it out! (if you want to sign up, it's simple, in the left bar is a link to all the posts you'd need. To be a participant or just a cheerleader)

Bout of Books 8.0: Day One

Day one of the read-a-thon! 

Number of books I've finished today: 2

Book(s):
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (started and finished - 215 pages)
Serenity: Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon and so many more (started and finished - 80 pages)
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (started - 140)

Number of pages read today: 435

Notes:
I was going to read more, I really was. But - then I started writing and there was the Teen Wolf midseason finale and a headache, and I wanted to get to sleep at a semi-normal time. Anyway, I did read over 400 pages today, so I can't say I can complain considering my goal is to read 200-300 pages a day.

I finished A Monster Calls just before noon and had to really try not to suddenly burst into tears. It was such an amazing and intense book and I can't believe it took me so long to read. And I can't wait to finish Eleanor and Park, I'm really not a contemporary person but I'm loving this story so far.

Also. That Serenity comic book, man. I've got the other two and then another book with tidbits and pictures and then some short stories written by some of the writers, so that's kind of awesome, I'm really excited about all of these things. My addiction to Firefly is getting a tad out of control, I guess. I'm not complaining.

Overall it was a really successful first day for me not stressing about it (me trying not to stress about it, my factory setting is stressing about things with full anxiety, but mostly not stressing about it). Really, getting some books read this week just seems like the best thing to do.

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!

Read--a--Thon: Bout of Books 8.0

This is the post where I tell you I'm going to take part in another read-a-thon.

Bout of Books is a read-a-thon that is an extremely fun and set your own goals for yourself week long read-a-thon. Bout of Books 8.0 is taking place from Monday, August 19th until Sunday, August 25th. Set your own goals, have fun, talk with people participating and the people running the read-a-thon on twitter and have tons of fun. Sounds awesome right?

I was toying with the idea. No, yes, no, yes. And decided on 'why not?' So I'm definitely not going to be crazy like the last few read-a-thons I've done, but I hope to get some books read. Also, pretty much everyone is going off to college the next couple weeks so it's kind of hand out now time, before everyone leaves, but I hope I can get some read since I've been in a reading slump kind of since the last month.

I've participated in the Bout of Books read-a-thon, the first read-a-thon I ever did, and I love read-a-thons, always fun. So I hope if you're doing it too, you'll leave a comment so I can check out your blog or whatever you're posting updates on and I can procrastinate the reading I should be doing.

Bout of Books 8.0 blurb:

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 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th 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 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.
- From the Bout of Books team

(I wrote this up quickly, with the beginnings of a cold, so I'm sorry about anything that's wrong with it. I checked it over, but I probably missed something. Anyway: read-a-thon!)

Day Seven: BookTube--A--Thon and Complete Wrap-Up(Thoughts, final stats)

Number of books I've finished today: 2

Books:
The Breathing Method by Stephen King (audiobook, finished - 53 pages)
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (continued and finished, 583 pages)

Number of pages read today: 636

Notes:
Actually ended up finishing pretty early, at about nine, but I decided that I'd read enough. I probably could of read more, definitely could of really, but - it's been a long week.


TOTALS:

Number of Books: 15

Pages Read: 4,200

Books Finished:
Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (256 pages)
Snow White by the Grimm Brothers, Illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia (80 pages)
Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King (47 pages)
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia #4) by C.S. Lewis (240 pages)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia #5) by C.S. Lewis (271 pages)
Beyond the Door by Philip K. Dick (20 pages)
Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb (356 pages)
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia #6) by C.S. Lewis (257 pages)
White Cat (Curse Workers #1)  by Holly Black (310 pages)
The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia #7) by C. S. Lewis (228 pages)
Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy #1) by Jacqeuline Carey (934 pages)
Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1) by Charlaine Harris (304 pages)
The Breathing Method by Stephen King (53 pages)
Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind (820 pages)

Thoughts (on read-a-thon overall and challenges):
I really love read-a-thons, and this one was a lot of fun, especially because I came in it from a reading slump. I hadn't read anything since probably the first of the month, sadly, so I was glad to be able to make sure I read a bunch this week and I did, I definitely did. And I liked the added challenge, a little extra thing to add to everything.

Overall, I just thought it was great. Reading sprints, watching everyone's updates, and reading through the hashtag on Twitter was always fun. And I'm sure I'll be joining in again next year, if I can. I kind of am learning I love read-a-thons, because they get me reading way more then I'd ever be able to, because it's just fun.

Now, onto the challenges. I read more then one book to fulfill some of the challenges, so I'm just going to list the books beneath the challenges they fit, just the titles. (Challenges in italics, book titles normal).

read an average of 300 pages a day
This one I did finish, all of the books fit this, I guess, but I read over 300 pages everyday.

read a book with over 500 pages
Kushiel's Dart (934)
Wizard's First Rule (820)

re-read one book
Kushiel's Dart
Dead Until Dark
Wizard's First Rule

finish a series/trilogy
The Last Battle

read a book that's been on your shelf forever
All of the Narnia books fit this and White Cat

listen to an audiobook
The Breathing Method

read a classic
Again all of the Narnia books I read count under this one

Day Six: BookTube--A--Thon

Number of books I've finished today: 1

Total number of books I've read: 13

Books:
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (started and finished, reread - 304 pages)
The Name of This Books is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (started, reread - 111 pages)
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind (started, reread -  pages 237)

Number of pages read today: 652

Total number of pages read: 3,564


Notes:
For some reason today, I was just in the retreading kind of mood. I kind of ran out of books I had lined up to read for this read-a-thon and floundered a bit before: rereads. I ended up starting with Dead Until Dark, which I haven't read in years, honestly it was kind of a let down. Then, I was going to start a reread of the Secret series and did, as you can see, and got 100 pages in before deciding it wasn't the right time.

So I settled on Wizard's First Rule, which is the first book of the Sword of Truth series. There is a TV show based of it, Legend of the Seeker, which is how I first heard of it, but I haven't been able to continue reading the series and really needed to reread the first one, Wizard's First Rule, before containing. And so here we are, this was also kind of the logic behind Kushiel's Dart, so many long, long books and so little time.

I'm hoping to finish Wizard's First rule tomorrow and even though it's 800+, I think I can. I read it in one shot the first and only time I've read it, so I'm hoping I can again.

Day Five: BookTube--A--Thon

Number of books I've finished today: 3

Total number of books I've read: 12

Books:
White Cat by Holly Black (continued and finished - 192 pages)
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (started and finished - 228 pages)
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (continued and finished - 375 pages)

Number of pages read today: 795

Total number of pages: 2,912


Notes:
Completely adored White Cat and can't wait to be able to read the rest of the series (hopefully very soon). This one didn't fulfill any kind of challenge.

I did finish Kushiel's Dart today, though, no small feat as it rests at just over 900 pages, whew. But it's truly a fantastic book and it fulfilled two challenges, the read a book over 500 pages one and the reread one. And, The Last Battle, counts as finishing a series as it's the last book in the Chronicles of Narnia, wasn't the book I was originally planning on, but somehow I read four Narnia books this week.

I was going to read the last five pages of anything to get it up to 800 pages for the day but I decided against it, I was getting a headache and finishing that book pretty much exhausted me, but I'm really proud of how much I did read today. Also, on Goodreads, I reached having read 75 books for the year, which I had upped my goal up to from 50, so now it sits at 100. I'm 21 books ahead of schedule, but I'll probably end up lowering it, there's no way, I think, that I'll end up getting to 100. Was definitely my most successful reading day for this read-a-thon so far, though!

And how did your reading go today/this read-a-thon? Good? Leave me a comment and tell me what book you're currently reading.

Day Four: BookTube--A--Thon

Number of books I've finished today: 2

Total number of books I've read: 9

Books:
Judgment in Death by J.D. Robb (continued and finished- read 127 pages)
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (started and finished - read 257 pages)
White Cat by Holly Black (started, read to page 118)

Number of pages read today: 512

Total number of pages: 2,117


Notes:
Well, I didn't get nearly as much reading today as I wanted to get done. I ended up spending some bonding time with my pet rabbit (Kitty) and then there was Comic-Con stuff going on that I got dragged into. So the day didn't quite go as planned, but I did get the at least three hundred pages read and it's not like it was a bad reading day, just - not as much as I wanted to get done (stupid Teen Wolf trailer and panel. And oh my god I can not still).

I think I'm going to up changing my 'finish the series' challenge to reading the last Narnia book. I didn't think I could read all four I needed to, to finish it, but I only have the last one left so I might as well try. I didn't end up reading really any of Kushiel's dart, but I think that's what I'm going to do tomorrow, just sit down and try and finish it, I've got like 350 pages left I think.

Ended up starting White Cat, just for something else, I guess. Got just over a hundred pages in and really interested to see what happens next, a fun, interesting word with a family of, well, they're grifters, I guess, but so much more.

So how is your reading progress going? Are you having a good read-a-thon? Getting distracted by anything (like I obviously was today)?

Read-A-Thon? Read-A-Thon (BookTube style)

So I don't technically make videos (I did, no you can't find them anywhere. Though you may always run across me in friends vlogs). I really would love to be like 'but now is the right time to start again!' BUT considering the fact I'm about 85% sure that I currently have strep throat (which is what LeakyFlu evolved into for me, I've been feeling pretty sick since I got home, the flight was not fun all congested) I'm thinking video making with that would be not fun. If I'm feeling better at the end of the week, I might do my wrap-up in a video or something, but if not - right here.

I'm kind of a sucker for read-a-thons, honestly, I don't know why but they're just kind of fun and interacting with everyone about what they're reading. It's awesome. Anyway, this read-a-thon has certain challenges set forth for one to try and complete and they are:

• read an average of 300 pages a day
• read a book with over 500 pages
• re-read one book
• finish a series/trilogy
• read a book that's been on your shelf forever
• listen to an audiobook
• read a classic

And a tad bonus one about seeing how many you could make into one. So, I have really no clue what I'm going to be reading (kind of forgot about this until a couple days ago and I had an 'oh crap!' moment).

Possible books (and what, if any, challenges they would fulfill):

• Kushiel's Dart by Jacquiline Carey (Over 500 pages, so far, and a reread - maybe on this one)
• The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan (finish a series one, been meaning to read this since it came out, have had it sense then).
• Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (I really need to get back into this series, I'm almost halfway there, pretty much. This fullfills the 'been on my shelf forever and ever' because I got copies of the Chronicles of Narnia in probably middle school and have yet to finish the series. Just recently started it).
• The Drawing of Three by Stephen King (currently-reading)
• Death's Daughter by Amber Benson (currently-reading)
• A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin (currently-reading)

I'd really like to finish a book a day and complete that 300 pages a day thing, too, that would be super cool. However, I am also doing Camp NaNoWriMo, website here, and my goal is 150k (because I'm insane) but I'm at about 2k a day to finish on time and I think I can do that. Basically, this is the week I go insane. 

I don't know if I'll do an audiobook, I have a couple that are pretty short and I'm sure I could get them listened to over the course of the week. I guess I'll update everyday, the post will be the day after. So no post Monday, but the post on Tuesday will be Monday's stats. (As it was for my last read-a-thon). I did read 4k pages in the Bout of Books read-a-thon, so hopefully I can do this 300 pages a day. We shall see, I've been in a bit of a reading slump so this will either be the kick I need or I will just hopelessly stare at books.

Also, if you are participating leave your YouTube/blog/twitter/whatever you prefer in the comments so I can see your progress. Good luck, everyone, and have fun (and read)!