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Bout of Books Day Three

It's the halfway point! Day Four is here, so here's my day three wrap up. If you want to know what I was planning to read, check out my tbr here.

Day Three Challenge was Six Degrees of Separation, to connect the words "bout" and "books" through six books. 
  1. How Bout Them Cowboys? by Gary Myers
  2. One Cowboy Summer by J.M Nash
  3. The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
  4. A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
  5. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Lightning Storms)
  6. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak




The Instagram challenge for this day was a highly anticipated read for 2019. I chose Hero at the Fall by Alwyn Hamilton. I absolutely adored the first book in this series and while I have been slacking on reading Traitor to the Throne, I still am really excited. I love this series and the magic created within. This book is set to come out on March 12, so I have two months to read the first two books.

Today I managed to listen to the remaining time on The Last Olympian on my drive down to school. I forgot a few tiny details but it really felt like it has been forever since I last read this. I am not going to move onto The Last Hero yet, even though I never finished that series. I'm sure that I'll get there eventually.

I also listened to all of The Princess Diaries today. My roommate has not moved back yet, so I just had it on as I unpacked. I have read this book so many times, and I think that I have only listened to this once or twice, but Anne Hathaway does an amazing job narrating. The next audiobook I am going to listen to is the sequel, Princess in the Spotlight. I honestly don't know how much time I'll have to listen tomorrow.

I also read 113 pages to finish Princess of Glass. I really wanted to read my library book Princess of the Silver Woods, but luckily, Ohio has an amazing ebook library that includes that book, so I will be able to finish the series (and maybe do a review post of the trilogy as a whole).

For today, I want to listen to at least an hour of Princess in the Spotlight. I also want to read at least 100 pages of Princess of the Silver Woods. I am pretty sure that princesses has to be my theme of this readathon.

Day 3 is down and onto Day 4! I have job training today but literally no one else is on campus so I'll have plenty of alone time for some quality reading time afterwards. I look forward to seeing how it goes.

Thanks for reading!
Alyssa

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  1. Emma at Words And Peace / France Book ToursJanuary 10, 2019 at 9:22 AM

    cool, for the challenge, you did what I do for the monthly meme. but this time, I wanted to end up with the word books in the title. I almost got there, and ended up giving up and choosing an easier route. Congrats, seems your boutofbooks is doing great.
    I am very happy with mine so far: https://wordsandpeace.com/2019/01/10/bout-of-books-24-day-3-recap/

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    1. AlyssaJanuary 10, 2019 at 6:22 PM

      Thanks for commenting! It's really cool how you came up with this challenge and how you typically do this. I honestly was kind of stuck at first but I worked backwards from the way that I did it. The way you did it definitely makes sense though and is really cool.

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