Bout of Books Day 1 Update

Hey all! Day 1 of Bout of Books is over! If you want to know what I was planning to read, check out my tbr here.

The challenge for Day 1 was #insixwords. I chose "Winter Break: it's time to read" for my six words. I felt like it described what I'm doing right now, since I am fortunate enough not to have classes start until next week.

The Instagram photo challenge for today was currently reading. I don't have an Instagram, but here is my picture for this challenge:

I actually ended up listening to 5 hours 26 minutes of The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, which I did not plan to. I probably with listen to some more today, so I will almost certainly finish this audiobook by the end of the week, and hopefully get started on another as well. I forgot how awful some of the voices chosen are, especially the racist choices like for Ethan Nakamora. Also, I swear too many of these characters are British.

I read only 50 pages of Princess of the Midnight Ball, which might end up getting me into trouble since I wanted to have all three books in the Princesses of Westfalin trilogy done by Wednesday when I leave for school. I love Galen though. He and Rose are already adorable.

My goals for today are to finish Princess of the Midnight Ball and hopefully get started on Princess of Glass as well. I also want to listen to at least another hour of my audiobook.

This is what I finished on Day 1 and here's to a more productive Day 2. Are you participating in Bout of Books? If so, let me know how your day went and what you hope to accomplish today!

Thanks for reading!
Alyssa

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