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Bout of Books 10 Spell It Out Challenge

Bout of Books 10 Spell It Out Challenge

Kimberly Faye Reads has issued an acrostic poem challenge for Bout of Books 10–to form a name or phrase using the first letter of words from book titles. Not one to do the ordinary (I know, I’m weird), I created my own quirky phrase. Hint: it has to do with my favorite novel topic! I did not include the articles “the” or “a” as first words since titles are not alphabetized with them. Without further ado, here goes. Girl Who…

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Bout of Books 10 Goals and Updates

Bout of Books 10 Goals and Updates

Bout of books is finished! The End. Fini. It was great fun as always. I ended on a good note with another long drive and two hours of listening to Soulless plus an hour of reading Unholy Ghosts. Here are my results (pause while I pull out my calculator): Listening 8.5 hours + reading 7.75 hours =  16.25 hours. My goal was 12, so I’m pretty jazzed with the results. How about you? Updates: Monday I listened to 25 minutes of Saints…

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Bout of Books 10 Read-a-thon

Bout of Books 10 Read-a-thon

Book lovers unite in a new bout! Actually, bout has two meanings 1. contest among antagonists 2. a period of time spent in a pursuit I’m going to go with the second definition and so should you. Here’s why: 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…

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Bout of Books Wrap-up

Bout of Books Wrap-up

The Bout of Books Read-a-thon is officially over, and like others before me, I have survived! Not only that, I had fun and enjoyed chatting online to some new folks. My goals were: 1. Finish Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell 2. Read More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon 3. Listen to Joyland by Stephen King 4. Comment on 3 blogs a day and participate in 2 challenges (besides my own). I achieved all my goals! Yay, me! The challenges…

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Bout of Books Read-a-thon The End

Bout of Books Read-a-thon The End

(image credit) I survived my first read-a-thon ever; thank you Bout of Books! I enjoyed the experience immensely even though I didn’t quite meet my goals. But I guess that’s what goals are for, yes? Anyhow, I finished The Maze Runner by James Dashner and A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson. Reviews to follow, but of these two I enjoyed A Stir of Echoes more. In addition, I finished listening to Wolf Hall during the read-a-thon week although I…

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Bout of Books Read-a-thon Day 1

Bout of Books Read-a-thon Day 1

I finished the first day of my first ever Bout of Books (or any other for that matter)  read-a-thon. Yay! I also participated in my first ever Twitter chat. Comments were flying so fast and furious that my computer froze several times. As a techno-idiot, I’m still trying to understand the whole Twitter phenom, but I made a little progress. Case in point, I spent a whole lot of time on help sites trying to figure out how to jump…

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Bout of Books Read-a-thon

Bout of Books Read-a-thon

Please join me as I pioneer my way through the Bout of Books Read-a-thon. First, a big thank you to Grace from Books Without Any Pictures for bringing this event to my attention. I’ve never participated in a read-a-thon before, so this should be interesting. Here’s the information about the event that the organizers provided: “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…

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