read-a-thon
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August 20 to 26, 2018
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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
TBR pile:
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
-Literary, Family, India, Muslim
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
8/20/18: Started - been working on this one slowly and want to finally finish it this week.
8/22/18: Finished
by Cara Black
-Mystery, France, Paris
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
8/20/18: Started - part of my picks last month for Paris in July - finally cracking it open.
8/25/18: Still working on this. Should be done today. Finished in the evening.
by Paulette Jiles
-Historical, Western
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
8/20/18: Started
8/26/18: Reading this in bits but will post review next month for a Western theme I am plotting.
by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton
-Historical, Humor, Retelling, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
8/23/18: Started - loving it so far
8/24/18: Loved it to the end.
by Jon McGregor
-Literary
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF
8/20/18: Started
8/23/18: Stopped - lost my attention
Legacy of Orïsha #1
by Tomi Adeyemi
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF
8/20/18: Started
8/21/18: Stopped - just could not get into it
CHALLENGES:
Monday 8/20 (daily post)
Introduce yourself #insixwords
adventurous, anxious, curious, reader, observer, open
instagram-a-day: currently reading
Tuesday 8/21
Book Plot Emoji - for News of the World by Paulette Jiles.
instagram-a-day: favorite color covers
Wednesday 8/22
Literary Villain - he who must not be named aka Lord Voldemort
instagram-a-day: book spine poetry
sacré bleu
cruel beautiful world
Thursday 8/23
Book Trip - Venice in October for the infamous Masquerade
by Velda Johnston
-Mystery, Gothic
Amazon | Goodreads
instagram-a-day: 5 star read
Friday 8/24
Bookish Playlist - feeling French with my current read, Murder on the Left Bank, so pairing it with Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque - Claire de Lune
instagram-a-day: unfinished book series - Crazy Rich Asians
Saturday 8/25
Discover Books - I was excited to see this cover on a Bout of Books related post.
by Robert Galbraith - but we all know it's J.K. Rowling ;-)
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads
instagram-a-day: published in 2018 - just picked this up from the library
by Mary E. Pearson
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Sunday 8/26
Stretch Goal
I found that I had to revise the reading pile as a couple did not work out for me this round of Bout of Books.
Feeling pretty good that I got around to reading from the tbr pile.
instagram-a-day: series love - Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series
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Saturday: 10am CST (TZC)
