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Time has come and Bout of Books 17 is almost here. I'll plan to participate and try my best again. I need to get some serious reading done. I'm around 7 books behind on my goodreads reading challenge for this year and I plan to catch up. As always it's going to be hard, because I have to work and on the exact weekend I'll be out of town for my sisters bachelorette party. Hope I'll manage to read at all. Wasn't that good of a reading year for me so far. ^^" 

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

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Goals

• Read as much as I can. ✓
• Try to finish two books. ✓
• Ready every day at least a bit or listen to an audiobook. ✓
• Participate in all the challenges. ✓
• Daily Updates. ✓

READ-A-THON-TBR

• Daughter of Smoke and Bone - Lani Taylor
• The little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Soldier - Julie Kagawa (audiobook)
• A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin (audiobook)
• The Heir - Kiera Cass
• Stardust - Neil Gaiman
• The Sleeper and the Spindler - Neil Gaiman

『BOUT OF BOOKS 15』 Wrap Up

Goals

• Read as much as I can. 
• Try to finish at least three books.
• Read every day at least a bit.
• Participate in all the challenges. 
• Daily Updates.

『READ-A-THONs』 A week of READ-A-THONs ~ Eine Woche voller Lesemarathons

There are four read-a-thons this week and I thought I try and combine all of them. To be honest I'm not sure how to manage this, because uni started again and I'm working in between as well. But I thought I try it out and get some reading done right at the beginning of the year.

『read-a-thon』BOOKTUBE-A-THON 2014 ~ UPDATES

Monday

• Blue Exorcist Vol 11 - Kazue Kato => 210 pages read
• Time Stranger Kyoko Vol 1 - Arina Tanemura => 200 pages read

• total page count: 410 pages
• total amount of books read: 2
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures

Tuesday

• Time Stranger Kyoko Vol 2 - Arina Tanemura => 210 pages read
• Time Stranger Kyoko Vol 3 - Arina Tanemura => 210 pages read
• Half Bad - Sally Green => 144 pages read

• total page count: 974 pages
• total amount of books read: 4
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.

Wednesday

• Half Bad - Sally Green => 236 pages read

• total page count: 1210 pages
• total amount of books read: 5
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.

Thursday 

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - 35 pages read

• total page count: 1245 pages
• total amount of books read: 5
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.

Friday

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman - 145 pages read

• total page count: 1390 pages
• total amount of books read: 6
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.
• A book someone else picks out for you.

Saturday

• Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 176 pages read

• total page count: 1566 pages
• total amount of books read: 7
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.
• A book someone else picks out for you.
• A book to movie adaptation.

Sunday

• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - 170 pages read

• total page count: 1736 pages 
• total amount of books read: 8
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.
• A book someone else picks out for you.
• A book to movie adaptation.
• A book from the genre you read the least this year.
• Read seven books.

Wrap up

• total page count: 1736 pages 
• total amount of books read: 8
• challenges completed: 
• A book with pictures.
• Start and finish a series.
• A book with read on the cover.
• A book someone else picks out for you.
• A book to movie adaptation.
• A book from the genre you read the least this year.
• Read seven books.

Final thoughts:

• I read as much as I never did before in one week. 
• Mangas do it for read-a-thons. 
• I think I would never have made it through all the challenges when I wouldn't have included mangas. 
• I'm glad I read some books I didn't plan on reading so soon.
• I still don't like classics. They just don't do it for me.
• Forever in love with Neil Gaiman books. Don't ask me why. 
• Because of the BOOKTUBE-A-THON my july wrap up get's huge. 

『read-a-thon』BOOKTUBE-A-THON 2014

I kinda decided on spot that I want to try to participate in the BOOKTUBE-A-THON. At least for all the reading challenges. ^^


My BOOKTUBE-A-THON tbr

A book with pictures. 
Blue Exorcist 11 - Kazue Kato

Start and finish a series.
Time Stranger Kyoto - Arina Tanemura

A book with red on the cover.
Half Bad - Sally Green

A book someone else picks out for you.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

A book from a genre you've read the least this year.
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

A book to movie adaptation.
Coraline - Neil Gaiman

Read seven books!
All in all I have eight books. Let's see if I can do this! ^^

『read-a-thon』Bout of Books 10.0 Updates

I'll update this post with the remaining days of the read-a-thon. So I'll have everything in one post.
For my goals see here.



Day 1 - Monday

Currently reading: 

• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi
• Fyre - Angie Sage

Books completed: 

• -

Pages read since last update: 300
Total pages read: 300



Day 2 - Tuesday

Currently reading: 

• Fyre - Angie Sage

Books completed: 

• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 161
Total pages read: 461


Day 3 - Wednesday

Currently reading: 

• The One - Kiera Cass

Books completed: 

• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 227
Total pages read: 688


Day 4 - Thursday

Currently reading: 

• The One - Kiera Cass

Books completed: 

• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 137
Total pages read: 825


Day 5 - Friday

Currently reading: 

• The One - Kiera Cass

Books completed: 

• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 0
Total pages read: 825


Day 6 - Saturday

Currently reading: 

• Fracture Me

Books completed: 

• The One - Kiera Cass
• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 199
Total pages read: 1024


Day 7 - Sunday

Currently reading: 

• -

Books completed: 

• Fracture Me
• The One - Kiera Cass
• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Pages read since last update: 62
Total pages read: 1086


Wrap up

Books completed: 

• Fracture Me
• The One - Kiera Cass
• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Total pages read: 1086

Goals archived: 

• reading throughout the week ✓
• finishing the "Shatter Me" trilogy + the novellas
• finishing the "The Selection" triolgy ✓
• finally finishing "Fyre" (the thing is I just don't want this series to end XD") ✓
• maybe one book from my tbr box

My thoughts: 
While I only archived three out of five goals and had to do an adjustment in between I'm super happy I was able to finally finish Fyre by Angie Sage and that I continued on with the Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi. Had to do one adjustment to my Bout of Books tbr, because I suddenly received my copy of The One by Kiera Cass and I had to read it as soon as I got it. So with that I completed two series and nearly finished with the Shatter Me one too. I completed three full books and the rest of Fyre, which means I read a lot more in one week as I normally do. I think I could have come farer if I hadn't to study for my last exam (and hadn't birthday in between XD), but since school is the most important at the moment it's totally okay that I "only" read this much. All in all I had a lot of fun and I would love to do it again. ^^

『read-a-thon』Bout of Books 10.0 Goals

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Goals:

• reading throughout the week
• finishing the "Shatter Me" trilogy + the novellas
• finishing the "The Selection" triolgy
• finally finishing "Fyre" (the thing is I just don't want this series to end XD")
• maybe one book from my tbr box

List of books I have picked:

• Fyre - Angie Sage
• Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi 
• Fracture Me (novella) - Tahereh Mafi
• Ignite Me - Tahereh Mafi
• The One - Kiera Cass
• Der Clan der Otori - Das Schwert in der Stille (Tales of the Otori 1) - Lian Hearn (tbr box)
• Der Magische Zirkel - Der Abgrund (The Secret Circle 4) - L. J. Smith (tbr box)

List of books I might pick up in between:

• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
• Half Bad - Sally Green
• Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare

『read-a-thon』Bout of Books 10.0 sign up

Thought about participating in this one. I still have to do my goals list and I think it's going to be a little hard, but I just won't put too much on there. Still have to prepare for viral history exam. Which is kind of annoying. But still, school's counting the most the last few weeks. ;__; I'll be so glad when everything will be over. Soon~

One week of reading, with my birthday in between should be fun and kind of relaxing. haha That sounds like it'll be no stress concentrating on the reading. XP

Btw, my April wrap up should be following soon and I'm writing on heidi. in Cologne. So be prepared for another super long post. ^o^


If you want to know more about check out the infos below:

"The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team"