Bout of Books 9.0

Another Bout of Books and I almost missed this time. As always the girls did one amazing job and if you’re going to read this week join it here. From the leading time I give you the final words:

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

I’m not good in picking ahead of time but I’ve made a reading pile for this month and the books will be chosen from there. Updates in this post everytime I finish another book.

Goal: 7
8/7

Books read:

       

Monday: I’ve finished hour 10 of Memory in Death. Not my favorite mystery so far, but liking Eve’s changes.

Tuesday: Finished the audiobook during lunch prepping and decided to continue with the series. Another audio for today, but this time only a novella, so only 3 hour long.

Wednesday: Started Lover Enshrined for the read along, read around 400 pages. It’s a huge book!

Thursday: Finished Lover Enshrined, the last hundred pages or so. Read the novella, Father Mine, cute but too short for my taste, wanted more of Zsadist and Nalla. Also read A December Bride, a novella from NetGalley, super cute.

Friday: Started and finished two novellas. A January Bride and A February Bride. Super cute and clean romances.

Saturday: Didn’t read. At all.

Sunday: Finished a novella and started another book, will read around 100 pages.

Bout of Books Wrap Up

 

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 had a crazy week, but managed to read a few books. I wasn’t really good at reviewing those books, but accomplished my goals. This was definitely a Fool’s Gold marathon for me and I had a blast meeting all those new peeps. Can’t wait for the next BoB and lets start scheduling some reviews.

I finished 5 books and 3 novellas. Yay me!!

Books Read

       

Bout of Books Goals

Bout of Books 7.0 again and here is another planner. Not that this will change anything but I tend to shift focus and pick a book outside the list. I’m so bad at following plans!

Time Devoted to Reading
I think I have the week for reading, but for a few appointments. Maybe more If I manage to change my schedule a little. No promises.

My Goals
Read a few ARCs. Not sure the right number but at least five is looking good. I’m trying to clean a little on the NetGalley and Edelweiss TBR.

Books To Read

• Seriously Series reads: 
  • Chasing Perfect by Susan Mallery
  • The Darkest Kiss by Gena Showalter
  • Seeking Pack Redemption by Eve Langlais
  • Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
  • Thrill Ride by Julie Ann Walker
  • The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
  • Portrait in death by JD Robb
  • Fall of Night by Rachel Caine
  • Stark by Brigid Kemmerer
  • When we Touch by Brenda Novak
• ARCs:
  • Big Sky Mountain by Linda Lael Miller
  • Big Sky River by Linda Lael Miller
  • Big Sky Summer by Linda Lael Miller
  • Skin in the Game by Jackie Barbosa
  • When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak
  • The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
  • Breathless by Brigid Kemmerer
  • Spirit by Brigid Kemmerer
• Others:
  • 2013 releases:
    • Fever by Maya Banks
    • Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead

Updates

5/13
Number of books I’ve read today: 1

Total number of books I’ve read: Read all Fall of Night and a few 50 pages or so of When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak

Books read: Fall of Night by Rachel Caine(352 pages)

Final disclosure: I love the Morganville and decided to read this one first because it’s a fast read and has a great story.

5/14
Number of books I’ve read today: 0.5

Total number of books I’ve read: Tackling When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak until I’m finished

Books read: When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak

Final disclosure: The day is not over yet, but I spent the afternoon shopping for a printer and a new phone, so after that I didn’t had much time for reading.

5/15
Number of books I’ve read today: 1.5

Total number of books I’ve read: 3

Books read: Fall of Night by Rachel Caine(352 pages), When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak(448 pages), When We Touch by Brenda Novak(110 pages)

Final disclosure: Finished When Lightning Strikes at 3am so it counts as Wednesday, but I ‘m so hangover without sleep. Don’t know how much I’ll be able to read after that. I decided to read a novella in the afternoon, because I was in love with a new series.

5/16
Number of books I’ve read today: 0.4

Total number of books I’ve read: 3

Books read: Fall of Night by Rachel Caine(352 pages), When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak(448 pages), When We Touch by Brenda Novak(110 pages)

Final disclosure: Started Portrait in death by JD Robb but stopped to see the finale of American Idol

5/17
Number of books I’ve read today: 1

Total number of books I’ve read: 4

Books read: Fall of Night by Rachel Caine(352 pages), When Lightning Strikes by Brenda Novak(448 pages), When We Touch by Brenda Novak(110 pages), Portrait in death by JD Robb(audio)

Final disclosure: Day is not over yet and I’ll start another book, but not so sure the theme.

5/18
Number of books I’ve read today:

Total number of books I’ve read:

Books read:

Final disclosure:

5/19
Number of books I’ve read today:

Total number of books I’ve read:

Books read:

Final disclosure:

My Sign Up Post for another Bout of Books!

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 still don’t know what to read, but they will definitely be ARCs.

Bout of Books Goals and Updates!

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 7th and runs through Sunday, January 13th 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 6.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Booksblog. – From the Bout of Books 6.0 team

This year didn’t start very good for my schedule and my internet is still with problems so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to update and I only managed to think about the books today.

So without much delay. I pledge to read at least 5 books and over 1000 pages. Less than my last Bout of Books, but I don’t know how much time I’ll have. Finished the 1000 pages and decided to add more 500.

Monday:

I decided to start a romance series yesterday and I’m loving these Sheikh’s. Time passes way to fast but these books are sweet and very easy. So I managed to start and finish the third book in this series. Everybody speaks greatly about Susan Mallery contemporary romance series, but this one is just as good and a little old.

Number of books I’ve read today: 1
Total number of books I’ve read: 1
Books:

1. The Sheik’s Secret Bride by Susan Mallery

Tuesday:

I liked this series so far and decided to continue with the sheikh’s romance. So another book to add on the read pile.

Number of books I’ve read today: 1
Total number of books I’ve read: 2 
Books:

1. The Sheik’s Secret Bride by Susan Mallery
2. The Sheikh and the Runaway Princess

Wednesday:

These sheikh’s are making my days. Without a lot of time to read these fun and little books are all that I have this week.

Number of books I’ve read today: 1
Total number of books I’ve read: 3
Books:

1. The Sheik’s Secret Bride by Susan Mallery
2. The Sheikh and the Runaway Princess by Susan Mallery
3. The Shiek & The Virgin Princess by Susan Mallery

Thursday:

I officially started this book yesterday, but only got to actually finish it today. It was a good book and I actually liked Chloe.

Number of books I’ve read today: 1
Total number of books I’ve read: 4
Books:

1. The Sheik’s Secret Bride by Susan Mallery
2. The Sheikh and the Runaway Princess by Susan Mallery
3. The Shiek & The Virgin Princess by Susan Mallery
4. The Prince & The Pregnant Princess by Susan Mallery

#boutofbooks Wrap Up

Last week was all about reading and I had a great time just finishing one book after another. Since real life is a bit insane at the moment I tried not to pledge a lot, so no reviewing this time and I barely had time for twitter a few days, but I tried really hard to read the 2000 pages.

Since I’m a failure at following a list, this time I decided to follow the wind so to speak and read whatever I wanted without worrying about plans and lists. I also only updated on twitter and goodreads. There was a bottom on my blog, but was a bit wrong half the time.

I had fun as always in just reading and traveling in the stories. There was a lot of erotica, and of course YA because Onyx was released last week and there was no way I wouldn’t read that, if you didn’t until now I will only say one thing: Amazing!!!

Books Finished:

Plus 92 pages from other books that I didn’t have time to finish.

Total Pages Reads:

1960 pages in seven days and I almost touched the 2000 I have pledged. But it’s all good. And some books were totally worth it. Now I only have to wait for the next Bout of Books.

Bout of Books 5.0

 

Lately I’ve been in several read-a-thons but it’s so fun to join and see how people are spending their week reading. Since I’m usually reading around four books every week it’s no big deal for me to sign up and try to read more for one week.

The Bout of Books is sort like a ritual since I participated in all of them, usually my goals are way to high and RL gets in the middle of things so the results are not the best, but for the next week I’ll try something that worked now.

I pledge to read 2000 pages, instead of setting a goal for books since I never keep, usually change the book and things just don’t work. But 2000 sounds like manageable, maybe I can even upgrade if I get there soon enough.

You can find more informations about my readings on twitter, I’ll update everyday with the hashtag #boutofbooks, or follow me on goodreads since my feed will tell you about the books I’m reading and the word count. More information about the read-a-thon is here.

 

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 13th and runs through Sunday, August 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 5.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. -From the Bout of Books 5.0 team

Bout of Books 4.0–Goals

Monday morning starts another read-a-thon and today I’m trying to decide what to read next week. That’s a big choice between my overflowing TBR pile and some great new books released this week. So I will fill 5 must read books and leave 2 spots open for consideration. Deciding what to read will be fun. Maybe some romance from Harlequin!

The list is:

1. Damien by Jacquelyn Frank
2. Noah by Jacquelyn Frank 
3. Adam by Jacquelyn Frank
4. The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts
5. Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis

I’ll update this page with the information from my previous days.

Monday

Books: Never to Sleep by Rachel Vincent (Novella)

Damien by Jacquelyn Frank (Started)

Pages: 56+90

Total finished: 146 pages.

Tuesday

Books: Still reading Damien

Pages: 125

Total finished: 271

Wednesday

Books: Finished Damien and started Simply Irresistible by Jill Shalvis

Pages: 143+62

Total finished: 476

Thursday

Books: Finished Simply Irresistible 

Pages: 249

Total finished: 725

Friday

Books: Started Noah by Jacquelyn Frank

Pages: 118

Total finished: 843

Saturday

Books: Still in Noah and started The MacGregor Grooms by Nora Roberts

Pages: 84

Total finished: 927

Sunday

Books: Finished The MacGregor Grooms and A Callahan Wedding by Tina Leonard

Pages: 290+224
Total finished: 1441

This week is bound to have lots of reads and hopefully I’ll tackle all the TBR for this month!!

Bout of Books

I was going to do something different for this time and try to post an update everyday, but since my net is having horrible thoughts on me since yesterday decided against it and now I’m going to update this post with the books finished during this week.

Books Read:
The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges
Finished: January 10
Pages: 400
Review: 12/01/2012

Tool Belt Defender by Carla Cassidy
Finished: January 10
Pages: 224
Review: 14/01/2012

Vanish by Sophie Jordan
Finished: January 11
Pages: 294
Review: -|-

Bout of Books 3.0

 

So another read-a-thon… Yes, but this one I’ve participated in all editions so couldn’t let it pass. Still don’t know how many books I’ll be able to really read during this period but I’ll try to update everyday, if not here on the blog, twitter will be(do you follow me already?).

My book list in no particular order:

• The Gathering Storm by Robin Bridges
• Too Belt Defender by Carla Cassidy
• Deep Disclosure by Dee Davis
• Heartstrings and Diamand Rings by Jane Graves
• Don’t mess with Texas by Christie Criag
• Too wicked to wed by Cara Elliot
• Crave by Melissa Darnell
• Vanish by Sophie Jordan
• Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
• Supernaturally by Kiersten White

Ten is a big list right, but there are different kind of books, so depending on my mood is easier to pick. See you guys on the read-a-thon. Almost forgot, but the rules and schedules are from Amanda(On a book bender). And I’ll leave you guys with the information.

Here is your must-know information about Bout of Books:

• Bout of Books will run from 12:01am 1/9 through 11:59 pm 1/15 (your time zone)
• However, all posts on this blog and the challenges at the co-hosts’ blogs will publish at midnight CST (or UTC-6).
• Read as much as you can whenever you can. The only person you are competing against here is yourself. There is no pressure.  Commit to the entire week or a few hours – whatever works best for your schedule.
• Bout of Books should be about networking with fellow bloggers in addition to reading. You were going to read that week anyway, right? Bout of Books gives you the opportunity to share your reading experience with other readers.
• Use #boutofbooks on Twitter to update people on your progress and what you are reading. Feel free to follow me (@BookBender) and your co-hosts (links in the side bar) for Bout of Books information, but please do NOT @ me (or the co-hosts) with all your updates. Using #boutofbooks should suffice. I will try to repopulate the Bout of Books Twitter list.  For ideas for using Twitter to your advantage during the read-a-thon, visit our Twitter Tips page.
• All challenges and giveaways are separate, meaning you can participate in any challenge even if you are not interested in the prize that day.  All giveaway information can be found on the Giveaway page.
• Help spread the word!  Grab the button in the side bar and post it on your blog.  Tweet.  The more people we have participating, the more fun it will be.