Bout of Books 10.0: Goals and Updates

Jumping on this because READING WITH FRIENDS. HECK YES! I made a quick video with my goals and I'll be updating my progress on this post throughout the week. If you don't know what Bout of Books is, you can still join. Here's all the important info:

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 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th 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 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

My Goals

Time Devoted to Reading

I hope to read a little bit every day. I do work Monday through Friday from 8-4:30, but any free time will be dedicated to reading.

Books to Read

1. The Lives We Lost by Megan Crewe

2. Team Human by Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan

3. Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

4. Death Note Volume 1

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May Rewind and Couple Random Things

This is where I show you what I read in May (and a couple of other things that happened). So let's start off with the books:

          

Ten books guys! The only reason I was able to read that much this month was because Bout-of-Books happened. If you don't know what this is, you can check out the website. It explains everything you could wonder about this read-a-thon. I posted my goals, update and wrap up all in one place, so if you want to see my daily updates with gifs to show my emotions, just go here. 

This month's reviews:

   

-The Forgotten Ones + If you like playlists, you should also check out this post because I created a playlist for The Forgotten ones and explained why I chose the songs.

-Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris 

-The Last Academy by Anne Applegate

-Click to Subscribe by L.M. Augustine

New books for my shelves (not that I need any):

I haven't done a Stacking the Shelves in a while but I did get some pretty awesome books this month.

A Few Random Things:

I went to Disney World! :) Felt like a little kid for the day and it was awesome.

I've been watching Grey's Anatomy none stop. At the beginning of this month, once finals were over, I went and bought season one and two for really cheap at my used book store and I've been hooked ever since. I'm on season 6 already. It's a huge surprise that I even managed to read anything this month with how obsessed I've been with this show. SO. GOOD.

Also, DEMI was released. All of the songs one the album are AMAZING. Some of my personal favorites are Something That Were Not and Really Don't Care.

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and I can't believe it's already June!!!

Bout of Books Goals and Updates + Wrap Up!!!

This is my list of goals for the read-a-thon and also where I'll be posting my daily updates. My goal is to read at least a book a day. Here's what I plan to choose from:

Undeadly by Michele Vail
Hysteria by Megan Miranda
The Vampire's Assistant by Darren Shan
Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols
Click to Subscribe by L.M. Augustine
The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Ditched by Robin Mellon
Unremembered by Jessica Brody
The Lives We Lost by Megan Crewe
Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland

I think that list gives me a good mixture of genres with mystery, contemporary and paranormal. There are some review books in there, some library books and some books I've had on my shelves for too long. I can't wait to see how much I get through, because we all know I won't be able to get to all of them.

Link me your goals so I can see what you guys will be reading! I love seeing everyone else's goals.

Updates:

Monday
What I'm Reading: Ditched by Robin Mellom (29/273 pgs)

Books I Read Today: Undeadly by Michele Vail (done) and some of Ditched

Total Number of Books I've Finished: 1

Number of Pages Read: 301

I feel like I'm off to a good start. My goal to read a book a day is going better than expected.

Tuesday

What I'm Reading: Hysteria by Megan Miranda (43/323)

Books I Read Today: Ditched by Robin Mellom (done) and some of Hysteria

Total Number of Books I've Finished: 2

Number of Pages Read: 287 (today)/ 588 (total)

After I finished Ditched I was so hyper and couldn't decided which of my books I wanted to read next so I skimmed the first pages of a few books. But it's okay. I found my next read now.

Wednesday

What I'm Reading: Still reading Hysteria (206/323) and started Click to Subscribe (not sure how much I've read since this book is an ebook but online it says it has 252 pages)

Books I Read Today: None :(

Total Number of Books I've Finished: 2

Number of Pages Read: 213 (today), total (801)

So I didn't finish a book today because Hysteria. I MEAN WHAT IS GOING ON?! That book confused me so much. It's supposed to be a mystery but usually I'm really good at having somewhat of a clue about the mystery early on. Well, not in this one. I'm more than halfway through and I have no idea. I just had to take a break. But I'm going to be finishing both books so I should be back on track for tomorrow.

Thursday

What I'm Reading: Unremembered by Jessica Brody

Books I Read Today: 2 (finished Hysteria and Click to Subscribe)

Total Number of Books I've Finished: 4

Number of Pages Read: 336 (today)/ 1137 (total)

I finished Hysteria! (shake it off Cumberbatch style) WOOHOO! Finished off two books and started Unremembered. I'm feeling pretty great about the rest of the read-a-thon. Hopefully I can finish 3 more books by the end but it's getting harder to decide what I want to read out of the ones left. I WANT TO READ THEM ALL.

Friday

What I'm Reading: Unremembered

Books I Read Today: O

Total Number of Books I've Finished: 4

Number of Pages Read: 163 (today)/ 1,300 (total)

Unremembered is pretty good so far, but...I watched Grey's Anatomy ALL DAY. I tried to get some reading in between episodes but Netflix just starts the next episode right away. So I blame Netflix for my lack of reading. I'll stay far away from Grey's Anatomy until the read-a-thon is over and finish Unremembered and another book by the next update.  That was just a moment of weakness *sigh*.

Wrap Up:
As you guys can tell by my lack of updates on Saturday and Sunday...I didn't really read much this weekend. I watched Star Trek: Into Darkness (AND IT WAS GREAT) and I went to the beach with my family. But I did manage to finish reading Unremembered by Jessica Brody and I started The Gathering and Nantucket Blue, both seem like they're going to be great reads! So here's what I managed to read this read-a-thon:

 

Total books read: 5
Total pages read: 1,451
Final reaction: I had so much fun participating in Bout of Books, meeting new people and it gave me a chance to read some of the books I had been wanting to get to. So thank you so much to Amanda and Kelly for organizing this read-a-thon!

Comment with your update and goal links! And if you guys are updating on twitter, leave me your handles so I can find you :)

Bout-of-Books Read-a-Thon Sign Up

I've been so excited for Bout-of-Books. The anticipation has been killing me. A whole week where we just READ. WHAT?! I so need this. It's very simple, here are the instructions directly from the Bout-of-Books page:

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 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th 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 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I'll be posting up my goal list tomorrow where I'll also be updating daily. If any of you are participating let me know so I can go creep on your goals list and see what you guys are reading!