Time Devoted to Reading
- I want to read at least 1 hour a day and about 2-3 hours each day of the weekend!
My Goals
- My goal is to read at least four complete books in the next week!
Books to Read
- The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
- A Cunning Plan -
Updates
Monday 8/22/16
Books Started: The Hating Game - Sally Thorne & A Cunning Plan -
Books Finished: None
Pages Read: THG 1/52 ACP 1/18Books Finished: None
Thoughts: I am excited to start a Bout of Books Challenge again! I really want to get through a few books this week!
Total Pages Read Today: 70
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 70
Challenge: Bout of Books Book to Movie Challenge! hosted by Writing My Own Fairy Tale:
It’s super easy. All I need you to do is
share with us your favorite book-to-movie adaptation and your least
favorite book-to-movie adaptation. You can give reasons for your answers
or just names, it’s really up to you how much you share. Here’s an
example:
My favorite book to movie adaptation =
My absolute least favorite/most hated adaptation ever =
Tuesday 8/23/16
Books Started: None
Books Finished: None
Pages Read: THG 52/66 ACP 18/36Books Finished: None
Thoughts: I need to work on dedicating a little more time to reading Wednesday once I get home from work!
Total Pages Read Today: 32
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 102
Wednesday 8/24/16
Books Started: Angel6: HOPE - J. W. Bowers
Books Finished: None
Pages Read: A6H 1/196 & THG 66/93Books Finished: None
Thoughts: I really stepped up my reading today and hope to continue into tomorrow!
Total Pages Read Today: 223
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 325
Challenge: Show Off Your Shelves Photo Challenge -- HERE at the Bout of Books blog!
Share a picture of your books/shelves/nightstand/e-library/wherever you keep your books on Twitter, Instagram, or on this post. Use the hashtags #boutofbooks and #shelfie4boutofbooks
My nightstand books are starting to get a little to talk! #boutofbooks #shelfie4boutofbooks pic.twitter.com/3vYBeUon48— Reading to Unwind (@readingtounwind) August 24, 2016
Thursday 8/25/16
Books Started: None
Books Finished: Angel6: HOPE - J. W. Bowers
Pages Read: A6H 196/294 & THG 93/116Books Finished: Angel6: HOPE - J. W. Bowers
Thoughts: I am really moving along with my reading and hope to get a lot more done this weekend!
Total Pages Read Today: 121
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 446
Challenge:
The Book Junkie Hosts:
We've all stood in line at the grocery store and giggled at some of the outrageous headlines we see. So, for today's challenge, I thought it would be fun to take some of our book plots and make them into fun tabloid headlines. For example, a tabloid headline for the book Twilight might be...
SPARKLY VAMPIRE STALKS BROODING GIRL FOR ENDLESS STARING CONTEST
Now it's your turn!
- Think about the book you are reading or one that you finished during Bout of Books 17
- Create a "tabloid" type headline. Make it fun, feel free to use sarcasm liberally. :)
- Post your headline in the comment section below
AND/OR
- Tweet your headline using two hashtags: #boutofbooks and #tabloidtitles
Friday 8/26/16
Books Started: None
Books Finished: None
Pages Read: THG 116/153Books Finished: None
Total Pages Read Today: 37
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 483
Thoughts: I didn't get much reading done when I got home from work. I am hoping to sit down Saturday and really read!
Challenge: Today's challenge is hosted by: Janey Canuck
You know how sometimes, you're reading a book and it just reminds you of a particular song so much that you have to stop, put your book down and choreograph an interpretive dance reflecting your book's plot to that song? No? Yeah, me neither...
Anyway...
Seriously, though - sometimes, you can't help but connect a book and a song in some way. After listening to Goo Goo Dolls on the bus in high school while doing my reading for English class, I can never hear Black Balloon without thinking of Orwell's 1984 (it's a good thingYouTube didn't exist when I was in high school - that video is TERRIFYING. And very late 90s) . And even though Anne's Theme was composed for the mini-series, whenever I see my set of Anne of Green Gables books, the song floats into my head (p.s. who else is SUPER excited to see what happens in the CBC/Netflix adaptation?!)
So, you tell me what connections you have between a book and some music. Anything goes, really. Some suggestions to get you thinking:
- Rename your book with a song
- Give a lyric that sums up the plot of your book
- A song or album that is forever associated with a particular books in your mind
Post
your song connection anywhere you are talking about Bout of Books and
post the link here. Please remember that I have to be able to see your
post so make sure your account isn't private.
My song connection is: "When We Were Young" - Adele for the book We Were Liars -- E. Lockhart
Let me photograph you in this light
In case it is the last time
That we might be exactly like we were
Before we realized
We were sad of getting old
It made us restless
It was just like a movie
It was just like a song
Saturday 8/27/16
Books Started: None
Books Finished: The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
Pages Read: THG 154/363Books Finished: The Hating Game - Sally Thorne
Total Pages Read Today: 209
Total Pages Read for Challenge: 692
Thoughts: I couldn't put The Hating Game down! It was amazing!
Books Started: None
Books Finished: None
Pages Read: ACP 36/108Books Finished: None
Total Pages Read Today: 72
Total Pages Read for Challenge:764
Thoughts: I really enjoyed this Bout of Books Challenge. My goal for the next one is to break 1000 pages in a week. I did get 2 books read which was helpful and I am a good way into my third book!
Oh good luck! I've never joined Bout of Books but I hope to do it one day :)
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ReplyDeleteLove the name of your blog! I just found this challenge via Twitter too late to participate but not too late to cheer you on. Way to go!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It is a great challenge it really make me ready! I hope you can participate next time!
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