The Readathon: Bout of Books
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1370
Challenges Done: 3
Success?: Definitely Yes
Hey everyone!
Bout of Books 24 was an absolutely crazy one for me. I am a little disappointed that I did not manage to post a daily post, but I kept up with it for longer than I even managed to post these challenges on twitter. Next time, hopefully I will do better but I am definitely happy enough with how I did concerning challenges, and reading as well even though it was not exactly what I expected.
Part of the reason this post is going up so late is because I moved back to school and started classes. Really, the main reason is that I haven't felt much like writing this. I have been procrastinating like crazy on most things. For example, I was going to write this when I was working the desk at my job but I read an entire book instead. Good, but maybe not exactly what it was that I should have been doing.
Anyway, I'm writing this now. Here's my tbr for this readathon, so let's go through this overly ambitious tbr and break down how I did, which was definitely better than I expected.
I read a ton of audiobooks! I ended up listening to most of The Last Olympian while I was packing, so I finished that earlier on my five and a half hour drive to school than I expected. Honestly, I forgot how racist the PJO audiobooks are, and also why do so many characters have non American accents? It's definitely weird and Persephone sounds like an idiot. I also read The Princess Diaries on audiobook and started Princess in the Spotlight, what I estimate to be about 40 pages worth. These are actually really good audiobooks to listen to on faster speeds, as I found out. I haven't read them in a while so that was nice. All in all, I read about 640 pages in audiobooks during this readathon. Thank goodness for long drives and cleaning.
I read no netgalley books during this readathon, which kind of sucks because I definitely needed to. I have gotten a few read while I have been at school though, just none during this readathon.
I was not expecting to finish the Princesses of Westfalin trilogy, and while I didn't, I finished two during the readathon and read most of the third, which I have since finished. This totals 730 pages read, which is pretty good especially since moving and training took more time than I was initially expecting. I really love these books and while this was a reread, I still enjoyed them a ton. However, my sister texted me the Saturday of this readathon to tell me that I should be reading the Dragon Slippers series instead, a different Jessica Day George series. Still, I will stand by my enjoyment of these books.
I am so sorry that this wrap up is being posted so late, but I really did have an awesome readathon, despite life getting in the way, and I can't wait for the next one, Bout of Books 25 May 13-19. It is already on my mind, though that is primarily because we call our science journal BoB and I keep saying Bout of Books whenever I see it instead of Book of Biology. Whatever, readathons are better than science journals. I hope that you join the next BoB!
Thank you so much for reading and sorry for the delay in posting!
Alyssa
Books Read: 4
Pages Read: 1370
Challenges Done: 3
Success?: Definitely Yes
Hey everyone!
Bout of Books 24 was an absolutely crazy one for me. I am a little disappointed that I did not manage to post a daily post, but I kept up with it for longer than I even managed to post these challenges on twitter. Next time, hopefully I will do better but I am definitely happy enough with how I did concerning challenges, and reading as well even though it was not exactly what I expected.
Part of the reason this post is going up so late is because I moved back to school and started classes. Really, the main reason is that I haven't felt much like writing this. I have been procrastinating like crazy on most things. For example, I was going to write this when I was working the desk at my job but I read an entire book instead. Good, but maybe not exactly what it was that I should have been doing.
Anyway, I'm writing this now. Here's my tbr for this readathon, so let's go through this overly ambitious tbr and break down how I did, which was definitely better than I expected.
I read a ton of audiobooks! I ended up listening to most of The Last Olympian while I was packing, so I finished that earlier on my five and a half hour drive to school than I expected. Honestly, I forgot how racist the PJO audiobooks are, and also why do so many characters have non American accents? It's definitely weird and Persephone sounds like an idiot. I also read The Princess Diaries on audiobook and started Princess in the Spotlight, what I estimate to be about 40 pages worth. These are actually really good audiobooks to listen to on faster speeds, as I found out. I haven't read them in a while so that was nice. All in all, I read about 640 pages in audiobooks during this readathon. Thank goodness for long drives and cleaning.
I read no netgalley books during this readathon, which kind of sucks because I definitely needed to. I have gotten a few read while I have been at school though, just none during this readathon.
I was not expecting to finish the Princesses of Westfalin trilogy, and while I didn't, I finished two during the readathon and read most of the third, which I have since finished. This totals 730 pages read, which is pretty good especially since moving and training took more time than I was initially expecting. I really love these books and while this was a reread, I still enjoyed them a ton. However, my sister texted me the Saturday of this readathon to tell me that I should be reading the Dragon Slippers series instead, a different Jessica Day George series. Still, I will stand by my enjoyment of these books.
I am so sorry that this wrap up is being posted so late, but I really did have an awesome readathon, despite life getting in the way, and I can't wait for the next one, Bout of Books 25 May 13-19. It is already on my mind, though that is primarily because we call our science journal BoB and I keep saying Bout of Books whenever I see it instead of Book of Biology. Whatever, readathons are better than science journals. I hope that you join the next BoB!
Thank you so much for reading and sorry for the delay in posting!
Alyssa
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