literary wanderlove: read-a-thon

Sunday, 17 August 2014

Bout of Books 11 Goals

Look look look, I'm doing Bout of Books again! Whaddaya know? I feel like the last one just happened.

In case you don't already know, Bout of Books is a week-long readathon put together by Amanda (On a Book Bender) and Kelly (Reading the Paranormal). It starts at 12:01 Monday, August 18 and ends at 11:59 Sunday, August 24. There are challenges and fun stuff like that, but I'm not participating in those because minimal participation is where it's at, yo!

My goals are a little bit different this time around. I'm going to be spending most of this week packing up all of my stuff (and doing a major purge of all the stuff I don't want/need anymore) because I'm moving next week! I'm so excited and ready to get back to the city, especially given that I'll have a whole week of settling in before classes start. I get to see my friends again, after a whole summer of separation! Yay! However, more time spent packing means less time to read/spend on the internet.

GOALS

read for at least one hour a day
read at least three books
actually interact with other bloggers for once in my life
figure out what these twitter chats everyone's talking about are all about
get caught up on my reviews! I have like 5 books finished that I still need to write reviews for...

ON MY TBR

Irises by Francisco X Stork

The End of Everything by Megan Abbott

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

not pictured - More Than This by Patrick Ness

- These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Bout of Books (10) Goals

I'm participating in the Bout of Books read-a-thon!

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 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 grandprize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I've been seeing this on a whole bunch of the blogs I follow and thought that I'd take part! After all, it's not like I have anything better to do than read all day erryday. I'm currently unemployed and I'm not in school for the summer, so I'm not doing a hell of a lot lately.

My goals:

1) Read for at least 2 hours a day. I'm hoping to read more than this, but this is NOT INCLUDING bedtime reading. I don't track how long I read before bed.

2) Read four books. I think I could probably handle more than that, but because this is my first read-a-thon I'm gonna set a reasonably low goal for myself.

3) Read at least two ARCs. I have a bad habit of requesting ARCs and then not reading them. I'm a little bit too click-happy on NetGalley and my review ratio is abysmal.

4) Comment on at least 10 blog posts per day. This is a lot for me. I'm not a naturally social person, though I desperately want to be. Commenting can be really tough for me!

5) Use my twitter account. I struggle with interacting with people on twitter. I struggle with merely posting on twitter on a regular basis. I'd like to branch out more and put myself out there. 90% of my twitter posts are just cross-posted Goodreads status updates.

6) Write reviews as I finish books. I tend to close one book only to delve right into another, without allowing myself any time to process the book I just finished. I want to start writing reviews shortly after finishing the book, when it's still fresh in my mind.

My TBRs: