Category: Read-a-Thon

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 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Day 3 Update: Books/Stories finished: Little Chickies by Susie Jaramillo, "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton, and Night Shift by Charlaine Harris Books started: In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware and Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron In the middle of: Nothing Challenge Participated in: 5 Favorites Pages read: 162 Time listened: 1 hr 49 mins Running Total: Books/Stories finished: Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh Little Chickies by Susie Jaramillo "The Garden Party"...

Today's Bout of Books Challenge is to list 5 Favorites. "Pick the topic of your choice and share your 5 favorite books that fit. Topics could be a favorite genre, a favorite trope, book boyfriends, or ANYTHING." My choice is my 5 favorite detectives, in no particular order. 1. Sherlock Holmes from The Hound of the Baskervilles and others by Arthur Conan Doyle 2. Hercule Poirot from Agatha Christie's series that started with The Mysterious Affair at Styles. 3. Nancy Drew starred in her own series written by a variety of authors under the pen name Carolyn Keene. The first was The Secret of the Old Clock. 4. Inspector Roderick Alleyn is the gentleman detective from Ngiao Marsh's series that begins with A Man Lay Dead. 5. Finally, we have Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. His first appearance was in Louise Penny's Still Life. I could have made a longer list, but it was only supposed to be 5. Who do you think should have been included?...

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 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Day 2 Update: Books finished: None Books started: None In the middle of: Night Shift by Charlaine Harris and Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton Challenge Participated in: Show Off Your Shelves Photo Challenge https://www.instagram.com/p/BFQB1WFBLU0/?taken-by=carolsnotebook Pages read: 58 Time listened: 2 hr 55 ins Running Total: Books finished:  Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh Pages read: 248 Time listened: 3 hrs 55 mins  ...

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 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Day 1 Update: Book finished: Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh Book started: Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich and Phoef Sutton In the middle of: Night Shift by Charlaine Harris Challenge Participated in: Introduce Yourself #insixwords https://twitter.com/carolsnotebook/status/729663732603756545 Pages read: ∼190 Time listened: ∼1 hr Running Total: Books finished:  Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh Pages read: 190 Time listened: 1 hr  ...

I've never joined in on a Bout of Books Read-a-thon before, but I'm really in the mood for a read-a-thon and low-pressure is always good. Here's the info: 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 9th and runs through Sunday, May 15th 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 16 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Sounds like fun, doesn't it?...

  I failed a bit at the Christmas Spirit Read-a-thon. I finished a few short stories, and made a bit of progress on a couple of books, but I had hoped to have more time for reading. Finished: “Holiday Task” by Leo Bruce “Murder!” by Arnold Bennett “The Hazel Ice” by H. C. Bailey “Early Bird Special” by Tracy Krimmer Read/Listened to part of: The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young Five Questions of Christmas by Rob Burkhart Do You Believe in Santa? by Sierra Donovan Advent Illustrated by Sara Laughed I guess nothing was really grabbing my attention, hence the jumping around between books....