It’s time for Bout of Books 5.0!! I participated last time, in Bout of Books 4.0, and I had a total blast. It takes place from August 13th- August 19th, and is super relaxed. I’m totally excited to participate again this time around!!
Anyways, here’s my list o’ goals:
- Read at least 7 books. This is going to be tough, especially because I have SO much going on. But I really need to get as many books read as I can before school starts!
- Comment on 5-10 blogs every day. I was really bad at commenting last time, and I want to fix that this time!
- Read at least 3,000 pages. This should be a piece of cake if I read 7 books!
- Participate in at least 1 Twitter chat. I participated last time in 2 of the Twitter chats, and it was SO much fun! I want to participate in at least one this time, and hopefully stay longer than I did last time.
- Write reviews for books as soon as I finish them. Last time, I just did a mini-review type thing so I could write my full review later. Naturally, because of my procrastination skills, I put off writing those reviews for quite a bit of time. So, this time, I plan on writing a review as soon as I finish a book. I’m not going to let myself pick up another book before I write a review for the previous book!
- Participate in at least 2 challenges. I don’t think I participated in any challenges in the last readathon, and I really want to this time around! There’s lots of challenges going on this time, and they all look fabulous, so I want to make sure I participate in at least two.
- Host a fantabulous challenge! This is my first time hosting a challenge for any readathon, and I am super excited. I hope to comment on everyone’s posts and have an easy to understand challenge post. =)
Anyways, onto my TBR pile! I’ve made a pretty big TBR pile for this readathon, but only because I’m a pretty moody reader, so I like to have tons of options available. Here are the books in my stack!
- Every Day by David Leviathan
- Kissing Shakespeare by Pamela Mingle
- A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
- Dead to You by Lisa McCann
- Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Unwholly by Neal Shusterman
- Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake (re-read!)
- Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
That’s it for me! I’ll have a separate post for all my updates, and another post for all my challenges. If you’re participating, link me up to your goal post! If not, then go and sign up!
Unwholly! Haha. I just love seeing it appear on people's tbr pile :D It's great that you're determined to become a more active blogger through your resolutions. I look forward to the results (Is that the right term? Results? Oh well)
ReplyDeleteGood luck, Aneeqah :D
Woooho! Good luck, Aneeqah! <3 You're always such a fast reader - I'm so jealous LOL! I might need to participate in this read-a-thon someday, just so I can be more pumped to finish more books! x) And I love that you mentioned about reviewing - sometimes I don't know what to write in my review and keep procrastinating it LOL! x)
ReplyDeleteYay for read-a-thon! <3 GO GO Aneeqah!! <3
Yay, you got Unspoken! Gosh, I love Sarah Rees Brennan to death, so I hope you enjoy it! I'm sure it'll be amazing, judging by all the fantastic reviews I've been reading. Good luck on your reading!(:
ReplyDeleteGood luck! That is a lot to read in a short amount of time. It should be easy to get some challenges done because it is Utah Book Month, and there are a lot of challenges going on right now.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!! I hope that you are able to reach your goals!!
ReplyDeleteImpressive set of goals! I'm sure you'll rock them.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I LOVED Anna Dressed in Blood. I just picked up the second in the series and I'm super excited for it.
Good luck!
What great books, Aneeqah! I'm planning to read Every Day, too ... it looks pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Some great looking books on your list, looking forward to seeing what you think of them :) I'm going for 7 books too, so fingers crossed and good luck with your goals! Hopefully see you in a twitter chat or two :D
ReplyDeleteGood good good luck! And heres to me not knowing there was a read a thon goin gon.. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteWe have pretty similar goals - I'm horrible for commenting too. Hope to change that this time! You have a bunch of really good looking books on your list! Good luck to you :)
ReplyDeleteI really want to read Code Name Verity and Dead to You. I hope you enjoy them. I'll read your reviews. Have fun this week, and enjoy the books :)
ReplyDeleteAwesome list, Aneeqah! I love taking part in the challenges, and I can't wait to take part in yours! Good luck and happy reading!
ReplyDeleteGreat TBR! I'm sure you will love anything you pick up! Hopefully you can reach all of your goals also! I will he sure to stop by your challenge! Good luck reading!
ReplyDeleteMcKenna
Great list of books to choose from. Good luck with your goals - mine is set at 7 too ;) Have fun!
ReplyDeleteWow, those are quite ambitious goals! I participated in 4.0, too and had a blast :) I hope you can read all those books - Vampire Academy certainly is a great, fast-paced novel and I really want to get my hands on Code Name Verity, as well :)
ReplyDeleteHappy (and successful) reading!
Hey i'm doing this read a thon too :).
ReplyDeleteI just saw your profile picture with Bitterblue and I think that I follow you on twitter ! We even talked once ^^ (i'm @ifmary on twitter). But I didn't know that I wasn't following your blog so now it's done :).
That's a great list of books ! OMG I can't wait to read Unspoken :o I already pre ordered a copy ^^. I asked for it on netgalley but I was declined :/.
Oh you're reading VA :D are you rereading it? or is it the first time?
Vampire Academy is my favorite YA series :).
Have fun and Good luck !
OOOOh you have compiled such a great reading list for this week! I hope you reach your goal of 7! Goodluck! =)
ReplyDeleteWow! Those are ambitious goals. I'm planning on reading like a fiend, but I couldn't begin to write reviews and comment on that many blogs -- not and get much reading done. You've got a tremendous week lined up.
ReplyDelete> because I’m a pretty moody reader, so I like to have
> tons of options available.
Me too! I have lots of TBRs on hand, but will pick my next read based on my mood. Some of these look really interesting. I'll have to investigate.
That's quite a list, but you have some fantastic titles there - good luck with getting through your 7 books, and have a great week :)
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I'm definitely a moody reader as well. I LOVED Anna Dressed in Blood and cannot wait to read Girl of Nightmares.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
I don't think you'll have any trouble reaching your goal with amazing books like that on your list! Can't wait to hear what you think of them. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteyay I'm glad I'm not the only one who has never read Vampire Academy! I hope you enjoy all of these great looking books. I really need to read Girl of Nightmares!
ReplyDeleteHappy reading, I hope you get all of your goals accomplished!
I have chosen to go with 5 books! Let's see if I can, I really want to and I have devoted today to commenting as much has I can =)
ReplyDeleteHere's my Bout of Books post!
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