Bout of Books 9.0 Wrap Up

Hello! Today I am here to wrap up my first time doing the Bout of Books Read a Thon! I managed to read three books and begin another.

 Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - Days 1-4 - 433 pages - Review here.

 Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - Days 5-6 - 300 pages - Review here

 Trapped by Michael Northrop - Days 6-7 - 232 pages - Review here.

 Just One Day by Gayle Forman - Day 7 - 59 pages

So, in total I read 1024 pages in one week! That is pretty impressive for me. I have also really been liking Just One Day so far, so hopefully I can finish that one soon and get a review up for you all. I also manged to complete all of the challenges except one! I will definitely be doing Bout of Books 10 in May.

Thanks to you all for joining me on this adventure!!

Bout of Books Sunday 1/12 Day 7 Update

Updates:

• Finished Trapped by Michael Northrop - 79 pages
• Started Just One Day by Gayle Forman - 60 pages

The challenge for today is from Harley Bear Book Blog. This is a Bookish Wedding tag that she posted on her Youtube channel:

And I'm going to do these questions on the blog! Here they are, with my answers:


1. Which fictional character would you marry? Percy Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He's so funny and nice and perfect! 2. Who would be your Maid of Honor or Best Man? Tessa Grey from Clockwork Angel. She just seems like a cool person to have and a great friend.  3. Which fictional world would you want to get married in? Hogwarts. No explanation necessary.  4. Who would you pick to play the music at your wedding? Liam from The Darkest Minds. I love his classic rock music taste on their road trips, so hopefully he'd bring something similar.  5. Who would be your photographer? Grover from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. This is mostly just an excuse to invite him to my wedding, but I feel like he would be really good at all those little mustaches and hats and things.  6. Who would you sit at the singles table (and hope they'd fall in love)? My OTPS - Clove and Cato (from The Hunger Games), America and Maxon (from The Selection) and Lena and Julian (from Delirium)  7. Who would be your flower girl or ring bearer? Flower girl - Zu from the Darkest Minds, Ring Bearer- Finnick's child (from The Hunger Games) 8. Who would you want to plan the bachelorette/bachelor party? Magnus Bane from The Mortal Instruments. Seriously, that would be the best party EVER.  9. At the wedding, who would be the first on the dance floor? Well, hopefully me. But otherwise - Kenji from Shatter Me. He would live for that moment.  10. Who would give a speech or toast? Peeta from The Hunger Games. For the obvious reason.  11. Who would catch the bouquet or garter? Gwen from Ruby Red. 
So that's it for the last day of the Bout of Books Read-A-Thon! Tomorrow will be my wrap up post! 

Bout of Books Saturday 1/11 Update

Updates:

• Finished Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - 128 pages
• Started Trapped by Michael Northrop - 153 pages

I'm not doing the challenge today, sorry! I'm just thankful I had enough time to read and get this post up. We have one more day of Bout of Books, so I'm going to get to reading. 

Bout of Books Friday 1/10 Day 5 Update

Update:

• Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - 172 pages

The first challenge for today is from Never Too Fond of Books. This is the Create a Story challenge and this are the rules:
 1. Open your current book to the last page you read. Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - page 40
 2. Using the last word of every line, create a poem or story. My Words: car, and, fear, look, suddenly, blowing, night, even, all, the, it, before, corner, looked, seen, out, their 
And my story:

The car suddenly looked all fear. Their night, seen even before the look, and the corner, blowing out.

Okay, that story didn't make much sense...this was a jumbled mess of words and verb tenses! Hopefully, it turned out okay.

The second challenge is from The Book Spines and it is a book spine poetry challenge. Seeing as how I've failed at the past poetry attempts, this should be interesting. :) The goal for this one was to take a picture of your book spines that make a poem.

The books featured were Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, Reached by Ally Condie, and Beneath the Glitter by Elle Fowler. Therefore, the poem was Catching fire, the House of Hades reached beneath the glitter. 

This was a good day of reading for me! Now onto the final stretch of weekend when I hope to finish at least two more books. Wish me luck! 

Bout of Books: Thursday 1/19 Day 4 Update

Update:

• Finished Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 220 pages
• Started reading Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier - 30 pages

Today's first challenge is from Pen In Her Hand. The first step is to chose a novel from any genre that you have read. For this, I chose Legend by Marie Lu and to pick a number; my number will be 2.

1. Flip to a page at random - p.133 and go down 2 lines, over two words until you get 14 words. Here are my words:

• nothing, grit, off, my, I, the, why, against, wall, if, I, hunting, Skiz, morning

1. Next is to delete two words and add two more. I will delete Hunting and Skiz and add then and now. 
2. Now arrange the words into a poem:

          Nothing if I now,

          Against the wall

          I grit off then

          Why my morning? 

And the second challenge is from Writing My Own Fairytale. You must pick two books that would go well together to recommend, as long as they are not in the same series. Here are my choices and why:

1984 by George Orwell and The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

These books are both dystopians in which everyone knows what you are thinking. The first is a classic book that invented the genre and the second is a newer one coming from the reinvention of the genre; but both talk about mind control and knowing everything about personal thought.

Well, today I finally kicked into reading and finished my first book! How did you do? 

Bout of Books: Wednesday 1/8 Day 3 Update

Progress:

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell - 54 pages

The challenge for today is from Doing Dewey and it is to pick your favorite genre and recommend some books for beginners to that genre! My favorite genre is dystopian and I have read a good bit of it besides the more popular series like Hunger Games and Divergent. So for those of you looking to more futuristic worlds, my top five lesser known dystopian books are:

 Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano. This is one of my favorite books that I read in 2013 and I am so excited for the sequel! You can check out my full review here.

 Reboot by Amy Tintera. Another first book in a duology, this book is action packed and very exciting. This book was lots of fun!

 Proxy by Alex London. This book was exciting and one of my favorites. Another action packed book with lovable characters! The sequel is also coming out this year.

 Earth Girl by Janet Edwards. This is a British series and it is one of the most realistic futuristic societies. It's a very interesting read.

 The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa. This is the first book in an amazing dystopia/fantasy series with a new outlook on vampires. The last book in the trilogy is coming out this year and it will be a must read for me!

Bout of Books: Tuesday 1/7 Day 2 Update

First, a progress report:

• Fangirl - 39 pages... Not the best, but I've been busy with school, so I'll take it. 

The first challenge for the day is from Sarah Says Read. The question is: How do you fit in as much reading as possible during Bout of Books? How do you squeeze in those extra pages?

And my answer is: I try to stay up later at night for reading and fitting it in at random times, just to get in a few extra pages. My favorite times are while I'm waiting for something to boil, in commercial breaks of shows, or while on public transport. 

And the second challenge is from The Geeky Blogger's Book Blog and it is to pick a book and the actors who would play them on a radio show, so just their voices. 

My book: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

My cast: Cath would be Anna Kendrick and Levi would be Liam Hemsworth

That's it for today! 

Bout of Books: Monday 1/6 Update (Day 1)

It's day 1 of Bout of Books! Here's my progress for the day:

• Fangirl - 135 pages

And now, onto the challenges. The first is hosted by Bookish Comforts and it's pretty easy. Pretend you have just won $100 to spend on books - what do you buy? Okay, let's do this:

 Miss Peregrine's Home for Pecuilar Children by Ransom Riggs
 An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter
 The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan

I think that should be around $100, but I'm not sure. Let's just say it is. Okay? Okay.

And the second challenge is hosted by Cheap Thrills. This is a bookish mad lib, so it should turn out to be very interesting.
character name – Leonard from Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
adjective1 – True from An Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
adjective2 – Perfect from Perfect Ruin
item – Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
occupation – Fangirl from Fangirl 
act of violence – Poison from Poison Study 
adjective3 – Beautiful from Beautiful Creatures
noun1 – Bone from Shadow & Bone
noun2 – Mockingbird from To Kill A Mockingbird 

The Story:

I just read the greatest book!

This guy Leonard ends up in the middle of a true conspiracy. Turns out his ancestors were pirates, and he/she might be the key to finding the perfect philosopher's stone. It’s a mythic artifact that disappeared centuries ago, and now a shadowy group of fangirls are looking for it. No one knows what uncovering it might do, but these guys are willing to poison for it.

I won’t say anything else. But believe me, if you like beautiful stories with bones  and mockingbirds, you have to read this one.

There you go! How did you all do? I think my Mad Lib turned out pretty well and the rest of my reading also turned out pretty well. 

Bout of Books 9.0 Read a Thon Goals

These are my goals for the Bout of Books read a thon! Let's see how many I can accomplish:

Books to Read:

• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Ruby Red by Kirsten Gier
• Trapped by Michael Northrop
• Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard 

Bout of Books 9.0

It's Bout of Books Read-A-Thon time, my friends! And I shall be participating this year! For more information, you can go to their website: here. But this is what it's all about:

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'll also be posting my goals in later post today! See you all then.