Bout of Books Sign Up and Goals

Bout of Books

Bout of Books 12 is about to start. I'm ready for a week full of reading adventures. I have work off this week and it is my last week of Christmas vacation before I return to college so I'm planning on getting as much reading done as possible.

I'm currently reading Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and I'm on page 128. Then I'm hoping to at least start Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.

If I'm able to finish Mockingjay then I will start Wonder by R.J. Palacio. I think this is going to be a great read, not to mention that I own it.

COYER Read-A-Thon Sign Up

Coyer Started and I'm starting off the Challenge by signing up for all the Read-A-Thons. The one I'm most excited about is the Scavanger Hunt Read-A-Thon. I think the Read-A-Thon's will help me to clean out my kindle and I guess possibly gain more Kindle books.

New Year's Read-A-Thon is from January 1st-January 4th
Dusting off the Shelves Read-A-Thon is from January 12th-16th
Scavenger Hunt Read-A-Thon is from January 25th-February 8th
Be My Valentine Read-A-Thon is from February 12th-16th
Next in the Series Read-A-Thon is from February 26th-28th

Black Friday and Christmas Spirit Read-a-thon/Challenge sign up

Don't Blame the Butler

 The black friday read-a-thon takes place at the end of your Thanksgiving into black friday. You can either be comfy and reading at home or read while standing in line. I'm pretty sure I will be doing a little of both. I will hopefully be on to a new book by then either Infinite, Isla and the Happily Ever After, or Ashes to Ashes. I will be reading something on my kindle app when I'm standing in line. 

Michelle @ True Xmas Spirit

I'm going to sign up for Mistletoe and actually complete it this year unlike last year. I'm ready to start reading Christmas books soon.

24 Hour Read-A-Thon October 2014 Finish Line Hour 24 Update

1. Which hour was most daunting for you? I always do better in the spring with the read-a-thon. I didn't force myself to stay up last night because I was happy with my progress. I passed out in hour 16. 
2. Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and  Siobhan Vivian, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) come true by Sarah Stroymeyer
3. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? I think the read-a-thon is great. I do think the blogs were a bit quiet this time around probaby because cheerleaders are always lacking. I might consider cheering for a few hours in April. 
4. What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon? The social media was great. I loved the goodreads group. 
5. How many books did you read? 2. I finished the last little bit in Zoe. Then I read all of Burn for Burn and started a little bit of Fire With Fire.
6. What were the names of the books you read? How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True by Sarah Stroymeyer, Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
7. Which book did you enjoy most? Burn for Burn
8. Which did you enjoy least? I liked them both
9. If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders? N/A
10. How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time? I might consider being a reader and a cheerleader come spring. We will see when the time comes. 

pg 0 to pg 12 from 10:50 to 11:01

Pages Read: 12

Time Read: 11 minutes

Total Pages Read: 417

Total Time Read: 8 hours 44 minutes

This is the completion of my fourth Dewey's Read-a-Thon. It is such a fun time. I  am excited to participate in the spring. 

24 Hour Read-A-Thon October 2014 Hour 16 Update

24HourReadathon

After the volleyball game I made some peanut butter balls quickly and went back to reading. I read pg 197 to pg 223 from 6:37 to 7:05. Then I read pg 223 to pg 356 from 7:29 to 9:48. That was end of Burn for Burn. This was truly a great readathon book because it was fast paced, and interesting. I couldn't wait to find out what happened after every page. 

Pages Read: 159

Time Read: 2 Hours 47 Minutes

Total Pages Read: 405

Total Time Read: 8 Hours 33 Minutes

I'm only about 45 pages under my total from this past April. I feel like I had more distractions last April although I read for more hours. With the friend having plans for today I was free to spend the day reading and I did. Like I said earlier I couldn't have asked for a more perfect readathon book than Burn for Burn. After I finish this update I'm going to start Fire with Fire and see how far I get before I fall asleep. I'm very proud of myself so I'm not going to push myself too far. I think today was a great day of reading. I love Dewey's Readathon and I enjoy participating no matter how much or little I read. 

This will be my final update for the night. I'm going to make my grocery list and then I'm going to lay in bed and read. I will be back in the morning for the finish line post. 

24 Hour Read-a-thon October 2014 Hour 12 Update.

24HourReadathon

I just finished up with my long break for today by watching my favorite college play volleyball and unfortunately they lost. I'm still reading Burn for Burn. I read from 3:29 to 3:48 pg 170 to pg 184. Then I read during halftime pg 184 to pg 197 from 4:49 to 4:58. 

Pages Read: 27

Time Read: 28 minutes

Total Pages Read: 246

Total Time Read 5 Hours 46 Minutes

Mid Event Survey

1. What are you reading right now?

Burn for Burn
2. How many books have you read so far?

1; How Zoe (Mostly) Made Her Dreams Come True
3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon?

I'm looking forward to hopefully finish Burn for Burn.
4. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those?

I had a volleyball game to watch so I just took it as a long break. I'm going to make peanut butter balls, get those in the fridge, and get back to reading. 
5. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far?

How much I haven't been on the computer. I spent most of the morning just reading. This is such a fun way to spend my day. I'm feeling great. I will see you all in a few hours for another update. 

24 Hour Read-a-thon October 2014 Hour 9 Update

24HourReadathon

I can't believe it is already hour 9 and this is my first update. Here's my secret. I have been way too busy reading to update. 

I woke up this morning and I only had 49 pages left in How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly Come True by Sarah Strohmeyer. From 8:05 to 8:58 I finished Zoe. I have to say I really loved this book especially since I'm a Disney Fanatic and this was a contemporary about a theme park called Fairyland. 

Then I went downstairs to do laundry as planned, so I had lots of time to read. While downstairs I started Burn for Burn by Jenny Hann and Siobhan Vivian. From 9:27 to 11:32 I read from pg 0 to pg 92. Then I went to my friends room and only read 3 more pages from 11:57 to 12:05. Then I came back up to my room and decided to take a bath so I could read for a long time. It was very relaxing. I read pg 95 to pg 170 from 12:19 to 2:31. 

Pages Read: 219

Time Read: 5 Hours 18 Minutes

Opening Meme

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

South Dakota, USA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

Burn for Burn which I have already started and I am loving it so far. 3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

Peanut Butter Balls or also know as Energy Bits. They are amazing. 4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

I'm a college student that still finds time to read for fun. 5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

Today I just want to spend a lot of time reading, but not stress out if I do not read as much as others. 

My Read-A-Thon Name is  How Rachael Burn for Burn and Made her Dreams (Mostly) Come True!

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon October 2014 Sign Up and Goals

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I know this is really close to the date, but I'm finally announcing my plan to participate in Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon. I will be staying at college this weekend and my roommate is leaving so with the apartment to myself I'm hoping to have a productive day of reading. My friend that I hang out with on the weekends mostly also has plans for Saturday. She says she feels bad, but I was secretly happy because I knew that would give me lots of hours of reading. In April I hung out with her while doing the read-a-thon. I just ending up spending most of the time in her room reading instead of talking to her. That isn't abnormal in our friendship because she knows I read a lot anyways especially on the weekends when I can ignore schoolwork. 

My plan for Saturday is to wake up around 7 when the read-a-thon starts and read in bed until around 8:00. Then I'm going to get dressed and go downstairs to do laundry. I don't trust the people in my complex so I stay downstairs with my laundry in the laundry room no matter how many weird stares I get. While I'm down there I will read. Once my laundry is done and put away then I'm going to take a shower and get ready for the day. After that I will just pick random places to read changing places frequently. I'm hoping it is nice outside so that I can read outside for a while. I also will probably head down to the library and read there for quite a few hours. Their chairs are so comfortable. I have a volleyball game to watch at 4:00 so that will be my long break for the day. I'm excited for the read-a-thon. 

I'm currently on page 234 of How Zoe Made Her Dreams Mostly Come True by Sarah Strohmeyer. I plan to finish this early in the read-a-thon day. Then I will start Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian. I also have Moonlight by Ann Hunter to read on my computer. 

Hosted by My Shelf Confessions

I will also be participating in the Wonderfully Wicked Readathon which starts today. 

Goodbye Summer Read-A-Thon Wrap Up

Hosted by Bookmarklit

The Goodbye Summer Read-A-Thon has come to an end and I'm a few days late as far as wrapping it up. I do not have any stats for you as I haven't had time to tally my results, but I have it all tracked. I just have to sit and decode. I hope to get my progress post up this weekend. I'm just here to wrap up the books I read. I finished two books and started a third book. That is pretty amazing progress for me. 

Books Finished:

Both books I finished are by Kasie West meaning that I have finished all of her novels. I loved both The Distance Between Us and On the Fence. I can't wait to read more by this author. 

Books Started:

My copy of Lola has the other cover, but this one is just so pretty. Then I dove into another contemporary with Loa and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins. So far I'm enjoying it, but not quite as much as Anna and the French Kiss. 

Goodbye Summer Read-a-thon Sign Up

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I'm kind of on a break from read-a-thons, but this one sounds awesome so I'm joining. 

The goal of this read-a-thon is to read summer books or books we wanted to read this summer, but didn't. I'm planning on finishing Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, starting The Night Circus by Erin Morgansten, and possibly start The Distance Between Us by Kasie West. 

Head on over and join this read-a-thon. It sounds like a lot of fun. I don't plan on getting a whole lot done since I will be in college and my classes have a lot of reading and homework that go with them. Something is better than nothing. 

Bout of Books 11 Wrap Up

Bout of Books

I read 250 pages in 6 hours and 5 minutes in 7 days which is an average of 35 pages per day and about 52 minutes per day. 

Books Started:

Unfortunately the only book I made progress on is Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I was hoping to read more, but it was a busy week. This was probably by far my worst Bout of Books. Hopefully I will do better in January. 

Bout of Books Progress

Bout of Books

Day 1 August 18th

pg 112 to pg 142 

Today was a stressful day at work, which has left me pretty tired and not in the mood for reading. I'm going to get some reading done now before I go to bed. I have a dermatologist appointment in the morning. I always get a good 30 pages done at her office. Then we are planning on going to see The Giver as our going back to school tradition.

Pages Read: 30
Time Read: 45 minutes

Day 2 August 19th

pg 142 to pg 187



Pages Read: 45
Time Read: 58 minutes
Total Pages Read:75
Total Time Read: 1 hour 43 minutes

Day 3 August 20th

pg 187 to pg 271

Pages Read: 84
Time Read: 2 hours 6 minutes
Total Pages Read: 159
Total Time Read: 3 hours 49 minutes

Day 4 August 21st

pg 271 to pg 298

Pages Read: 27
Time Read: 49 minutes
Total Pages Read: 186
Total Time Read: 4 hours 38 minutes

Day 5 August 22nd

pg 298 to pg 316

Pages Read: 18
Time Read: 16 minutes
Total Pages Read: 204
Total Time Read: 4 hours 54 minutes

Day 6 August 23rd

pg 316 to pg 337

Pages Read: 21
Time Read: 27 minutes
Total Pages Read: 225
Total Time Read: 5 hours 21 minutes

Day 7 August 24th

pg 337 to pg 362

Pages Read: 25
Time Read: 44 minutes
Total Pages Read: 250
Total Time Read: 6 hours 5 minutes

Bout of Books 11 Sign Up

I know I'm late with the sign up, but I will be participating in Bout of Books 11. This Bout of Books takes place during my final week of summer so between work, packing, and a wedding we are attending it is going to be a busy week. Bout of Book is organized by Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal and Amanda @ On a Book Bender. You can find out more information at the Bout of Books Blog.

My goal this week is to finish Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and start The Distance Between Us by Kasie West. I would also like to read around 12 hours. 

Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon Wrap Up 2014

My Shelf Confessions

As far as reading goes I didn't do too bad with this read-a-thon. As far as updates goes I couldn't motivate myself to update on this read-a-thon in the slightest.

I read 674 pages in 12 hours and 42 minutes in 11 days. Granted I have done better on some Bout of Books read-a-thons that were only 7 days, but this wasn't that bad. 

Books Finished: 

I finished The Real Boy by Anne Ursu which I loved and Little City by the Lake by Celia Wilkins (I will hopefully read the last book in this series soon). 

Books Started: 

I started Ash by Malinda Lo. I ended the read-a-thon on page 73, but I'm currently on 156. 

As mentioned when I signed up I was also going to try to complete the booktube-a-thon challenges. I completed 4. The Real Boy counted for the book with pictures, and a book somebody picked for me. Little City by the Lake counted for a book with red on the cover (the carriage) and the genre I have read the least of. Ash did not satisfy any challenges, but is helping me out with my tbr this month as I will be caught up with random reads soon. 

Wicked Wildfire Read-A-Thon Progress

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The reading part of this read-a-thon so far has been going fine, but updates not my forte this week. The time is not accurate at all. I noticed that the time tracking was making me want to read less so because I would like to keep some general time for my end of year stats I decided I would guestimate on the time read. I have read quite a bit this week and enjoy just being able to pick the book up and not write down the time. 

Day 1 July 14th

pg 57 to pg 96

Pages Read: 39
Time Read: 1 hour

Day 2 July 15th

pg 96 to pg 142

Pages Read: 46
Time Read: 54 minutes
Total Pages Read: 93
Total Time Read: 1 hour 54 minutes

Day 3 July 16th

pg 142 to pg 193

Pages Read: 51
Time Read: 1 hour 2 minutes
Total Pages Read: 144
Total Time Read: 2 hours 56 minutes

Day 4 July 17th

pg 193 to pg 274

Pages Read: 81
Time Read: 1 hour 27 minutes
Total Pages Read: 225
Total Time Read: 4 hours 23 minutes

As you can see from the updates probably not my best read-a-thon week. I feel that I have done a really good job. Tomorrow's update will include finishing The Real Boy and starting Little City by the Lake. I think I do have the possibility of finishing the books I set as my goals.

Day 5 July 18th

pg 274 to pg 341 (finished)

pg 0 to pg 76

Pages Read: 143
Time Read: 2 hours 8 minutes
Total Pages Read: 368
Total Time Read: 6 hours 31 minutes
Books Finished: 1


Day 6 July 19th

pg 76 to pg 130

I literally did not start reading until 6 on this day. I just could not motivate myself to read. We were babysitting from 7 to midnight so it wasn't a very productive reading day.

Pages Read: 54
Time Read: 37 minutes
Total Pages Read: 422
Total Time Read: 7 hours 8 minutes
Books Finished: 1

Day 7 July 20th

pg 130 to pg 241

Pages Read: 111
Time Read: 2 hours 29 minutes
Total Pages Read: 533
Total Time Read: 9 hours 37 minutes
Books Finished: 1

Day 8 July 21st

pg 241 to pg 270

Pages Read: 29
Time Read: 35 minutes
Total Pages Read: 562
Total Time Read: 10 hours 12 minutes
Books Finished: 1

Day 9 July 22nd

pg 270 to pg 309

pg 0 to pg 19

Pages Read: 58
Time Read: 50 minutes
Total Pages Read: 620
Total Time Read: 11 hours 2 minutes
Books Finished: 2

Day 10 July 23rd

pg 19 to pg 37

Pages Read: 18
Time Read: 40 minutes
Total Pages Read: 638
Total Time Read: 11 hours 42 minutes
Books Finished: 2

Day 11 July 24th

pg 37 to pg 73

Pages Read: 36
Time Read: 1 hour
Total Pages Read: 674
Total Time Read: 12 hours 42 minutes
Books Finished: 2