Bout of books 3.0 day 7

I didn't get a chance to update yesterday, so this is for two days. I had a very surprise visit from my best friend and ended up going to lunch with her, so did not really get much chance to read yesterday. I have read a bit today. So, since Friday night I have read the following:

Books read since Friday: 0

Books read all together: 1 and a half

Pages read since Friday:  290 (270 The Geneva Deception, 20 Start somewhere)

Pages read since start: 1233

#insixwords so hot I am battling to read

Bout of books 3.0 Day 3

Had work today, so I did not manage to read as much as I would have liked. However, I have managed to finish my first full book! I read It's now or Never  by Carole Matthews which was a really sweet, funny, romantic story!

Progress so far:

Books finished today: 1 (It's now or never)

Books finished so far: 1 and a half (It's now or never and Kiss the Girls)

Pages read today: 184

Total number of pages read: 792

#insixwords: Work interfered with my reading!

Bout of Books 3.0 Starting line and updates

I have once again signed up for the Bout of Books readathon, which starts on Monday. I will update daily on this post, since I will have access to a computer and not use the phone to post, apart from Twitter that is.

Time committed to:Definitely Monday and Tuesday for most of the day. Wednesday - Friday I will be back at work, so not as much time. But then, will be back on the weekend.

Goals:
I would like to read a minimum of 3 books, but will be thrilled with 5 or more. My ideal is to get a bit ahead in my goal to reach 120 books this year. I have quite a few long books on my TBR pile, so will count pages as well.

Books to be read:
I have about 15 books on my TBR pile, and 3 boxes of books in my house belonging to my bookclub, so I wont run out. I won't specify right now what I will read, since typically I specify and then read something totally different!

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I didnt get as much chance to read as I liked, but did get some done. Going to bed now, so whatever I read in bed, will be added to tomorrows total.
Number of books I’ve finished today:  a half (Kiss the Girls)
Total number of books I’ve finished: a half (kiss the girls)
Total number of pages read: 351 (Kiss the Girls 312; Start Somewhere 14; Duncton Tales 25)
Today #insixwords: Tired because I woke early today
Things I learned on Twitter: Twitter not working on my phone today :-(
Books: Kiss the girls, Start somewhere, Duncton Tales

1/10

Number of books I’ve finished today: 0
Total number of books I’ve finished: half
Pages read today: 257 (It's now or never)

Total number of pages read: 608
Today #insixwords: Too much excitement here to read
Things I learned on Twitter: Once again no time to tweet!
Books: It's now or never

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Bout of books reading pile.

This is my reading pile for the Bout of Books readathon. It is basically just my to be read pile. However, I have a confession to make: There is another pile hiding behind that one, but this is really where I want to start. I also have all the books from my book club, so it is quite possible that I will read something from that if I get bored! What isnt in this pile is the book I am currently reading which is Duncton Wood by William Horwood.

Bout of books readathon wrap up post

For some reason this wont let me post a picture tonight, grrr!
Anyway, here is my very belated wrap up post for bout of books! I have been so busy since Monday I havent had a chance to come on.
I felt like I totally failed at this readathon, since I hardly read that much and I didnt update much. I did however, regularly check peoples tweets! Having said that I actually met my goal and managed to read two books, so that was a bonus. The books I read were:
Cracks by Sheila Kohler
The return of the king by J.R.R Tolkien. I also read about 50 pages of THe lost city of Z, but taking a break from that since I didnt really get into it.
I really enjoyed the readathon and am looking forward to the next one!

Bout of books readathon starting post

I am doing my start up post tonight, since I probably wont get a chance tomorrow, then I know it is up!

Time devoted to reading: 

I commit to reading something every day for the entire week, but realistically it will probably be limited until Wednesday. I have an exam first thing Wednesday morning, and then will be at work the rest of the week.

Goals:

Read  a minimum of 2 books (due to above exam limitations) but would like to read 3 which will bring my total for the year to 90, only 10 away from meeting my goal of 100 books this year.

Possible books to read:

To dream of the dead - Phil Rickman

Lost City of Z - David Grann

Leaving - Karen Kingsbury

The last Oracle - James Rollins

Labyrinthe - Kate Mosse

Break no Bones - Kathy Reichs (will be starting this one tomorrow)

The return of the King - J.R.R Tolkien

Crack - Sheila Kohler

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson



I will update in daily posts so that I can do it from my phone quickly if I dont get much computer time. If you would like to check out the readathon then click on the button at the top of the post. Go on, you were going to read anyway!



Bout of Books Readathon and taking a break

I totally missed the last readathon I signed up for. Had so much going on that week even though my daughter was away that I didnt get a chance to read. However, I have signed up for the above readathon which occurs during the week break between my two sets of exams, so that should be a nice destresser!
Since I have 3 exams coming up over the next week I wont be bloggin at all until those are finished.
 

Bout of books readathon wrap up post

I didnt get to post last night, so here is a wrap up post.

Books finished during the readathon: 2 (Fat Tuesday and Ant in my sugar)
Other books read: Duncton Found 300 pages

All in all, I am pretty happy with what I achieved, considering the fact that it was an exam/prac week.

Bout of books readathon Day 1

Just realised while I am sitting outside UNISA that I forgot to add an update last night. Thank goodness for modern technology and my phone!
I didn't get to read much at all yesterday, but I didn't really expect to.
Books read yesterday: 106 pages of Fat Tuesday by Sandra Brown.
#insixwords sadly not much chance to read

I hope to get a bit more time today, but won't hold my breath.
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Bout of Books Readathon

Ok, I am becoming quite the readathon addict these days! I recently came across this one and since I have had such  a busy time lately with university work, a lot of which will come to an end this week, I decided that this is just the reward I need. It starts tomorrow and ends on the 28th, so a nice long time.get

How much time I intend to read?

Now, I probably won't get that much time to read during the week, but plan to spend most of next weekend reading. As a result, my goals are going to be set quite low!

Goals?

Due to the above my goal is only to finish Duncton Found which I am about  a third of the way through and read one other book. I have about 13 books on my to be read pile, so I wont have any shortage of books! Will decide what to read based on how exhausted I am feeling by the end of the week!

There are also going to be some challenges, prizes and lots of fun, so pop over to On a book bender for more information.