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Bout of Books - Updates

8/19/2014

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Bout of Books
I'll be updating this post daily as the week goes on, so check back to see my Bout of Books progress! You can see my goals here.

Monday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 17 minutes
Number of pages read: 168
Book I read from: A Constant Heart by Siri Mitchell
Blogs commented on: Five
Challenges completed: Zero

Tuesday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 6 minutes
Total time spent reading: Four hours and 23 minutes
Number of pages read: 145
Total number of pages read: 313
Books completed: One
First book finished at: 6:22 p.m.
Books I read from: A Constant Heart by Siri Mitchell ; The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall
Blogs commented on: Seven
Challenges completed: One (Book Spine Poetry)

Wednesday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 9 minutes
Total time spent reading: Six hours and 32 minutes
Number of pages read: 170
Total number of pages read: 483
Total number of books completed: One
Book I read from: The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall
Blogs commented on: Eight
Challenges completed: One (Create a Sentence)

Thursday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 37 minutes
Total time spent reading: Nine hours and 9 minutes
Number of pages read: 161
Total number of pages read: 595
Number of books completed: One
Total number of books completed: Two (I may have to cheat a bit and read a really short one in order to meet my goal of completing four books. . .)
Books I read from: The Case of the Love Commandos by Tarquin Hall ; Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
Blogs commented on: Seven
Challenges completed: Zero (Two total - see them here)
The work week is just about done! I've been spending about six hours a day in my classroom, getting it ready for the upcoming school year. That really cuts into my reading time! But today is Friday, so I'm only planning to spend about half that amount of time at school. Hopefully, this afternoon I'll be sitting on my front porch with a glass of lemonade, reading about polar bears in the Arctic!

Friday

Time spent reading: Three hours and 7 minutes
Total time spent reading: Twelve hours and 16 minutes
Number of pages read: 183
Total number of pages read: 778
Number of books completed: One
Total number of books completed: Three
Book I read from: Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by Zac Unger
Blogs commented on: 6
Challenges completed: One (Book Chain - which means I have 3 total, and this goal is complete! Yay!)
I didn't quite as much reading time in yesterday as I hoped, mostly because I spent way too much time searching my bookshelves for the Book Chain challenge. That was a really fun one! I've got a lot I want to get done today (really fun stuff, like cleaning the bathroom - please note the sarcasm), but I'll do my best to get some reading in!

Saturday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 14 minutes
Total time spent reading: Fourteen hours and 30 minutes
Number of pages read: 193
Total number of pages read: 971
Number of books completed: One (It was a short one. I knew I'd never hit my goal of four otherwise. :)
Total number of books completed: Four
Books I read from: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron; Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Blogs commented on: 7
Challenges completed: One (Spell It Out)

Sunday

Time spent reading: Two hours and 25 minutes
Number of pages read: 130
Number of books completed: Zero
Book I read from: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa
Blogs commented on: 10
Challenges completed: Zero

Read-a-thon Totals

Time spent reading: Sixteen hours and 55 minutes
Number of pages read: 1,101
Number of books completed: Four
Blogs commented on: 50
Challenges completed: Four
And those totals mean that I met all of my goals (two hours a day, 4 books completed, 5 blog comments a day, three challenges). I dub this read-a-thon a success! Can't wait until the next one!
12 Comments
Brandie link
8/21/2014 03:38:05 am

You're doing great this week! Quite a lot of pages read. Keep up the good work and happy reading!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/21/2014 01:52:54 pm

I'm doing better than I expected, that's for sure! Happy reading to you, too!

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Jennifer @ A Librarian's Library link
8/21/2014 08:17:10 am

Wow! congrats on being consistent this week! You are doing really well! (Much better than I am ;-) ) Here's to a good rest of the week! #readstrong

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/21/2014 01:53:57 pm

Thanks! I'm surprised I've been able to keep up with my goals so far. I hope I can continue it all week!

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Samantha link
8/22/2014 08:20:40 am

Awesome progress! Happy reading for the rest of the readathon! =D

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/23/2014 02:58:22 am

I'm happy with the amount of reading I've been able to squeeze in so far (although I always wish it could be more. . .) Happy reading to you, too!

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Lisa @ Captivated Reader link
8/22/2014 11:06:52 am

Sounds like you're reading a lot and making good progress. Great job!!

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/23/2014 02:59:05 am

We'll see what the weekend brings. Saturday is busy, but Sunday sounds like a good day to just kick back and read a book all day!

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Karsyn @ KaKiJoKoJa
8/25/2014 07:56:28 am

Congrats on meeting all your goals! Great job! Here's my <a href="http://kakijokoja.blogspot.com/2014/08/bout-of-books-11-wrap-up.html">Bout of Books 11 ~ Wrap Up</a>.

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/25/2014 01:37:08 pm

Thanks, Karsyn! I had a lot of fun, and I hope you did too!

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Samantha Stewart link
8/26/2014 01:36:57 am

Woo! You did amazingly during the read-a-thon!
Congrats on completing all of your goals :D

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Julie @ Smiling Shelves link
8/26/2014 03:17:36 am

Thanks, Samantha!

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