Bout of Books 9.0 Day 6

Day 6 Update
Currently reading:  The Magician, Jinx's Magic, Splintered, Touch of Frost
Pages read: Splintered- 6 pages, Touch of Frost- 60 pages, Jinx's Magic- 44 pages, The Magician- 20 pages
Comments posted-3
Twitter chat-1

Bout of Books 9.0 Day 5

Day 5 Update
Currently reading:  The Magician, Fangirl, Dragonflight
Pages read: Fangirl- 65 pages and finished!, Magician- 36 pages, Dragonflight- 34 pages and finished!
Books finished- 2
Comments posted- 2
New blogs following: 1 Never Too Fond of Books,
Minichallenge- 1 Create a Story -- Never Too Fond of Books
 The rules by Mandi Kaye

1. Open your current book to the last page you read.
2. Using the last word of every line, create a poem or story. You must use every word (but they do not have to be in order), and you may add punctuation as necessary. If a word is split between the end of the line and the beginning of the next one, you may choose whether or not to use it.

This was really hard and it doesn't quite make sense, but is was really fun!These words are from page 268 of Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. 

The hundred years marks the table, we slammed. Lessa’s mind is going, missing, left, but they see our cautious help. Up ahead we can shake briskly between this intermediate, imbalanced evening. We turn alive…to die. Did we?

Bout of Books 9.0 Day 4

Day 4 Update
Currently reading:  The Magician
Pages read: The Magician- 26 pages
Comments posted: 2
New Blogs Following-2 Writing My Own Fairy Tale, Coffee Bean Bookshelf,
Minichallenge 1 Double Date Book Challenge -- Writing My Own Fairy Tale
For this minichallenge we had to recommend two books that we think people should read together.
For this I chose Persuasion by Jane Austen and For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund.
For Darkness Shows the Stars is a retelling of Persuasion in a society that is rebuilding after wars and natural disasters and is a bit dystopian. The romance in both books is beautiful and I loved them both. I did this for the Classic Double Challenge hosted by Melissa at One Librarian's Book Reviews. My review and comparison is here.

Balzer and Bray

The cover is also beautiful!

Bout of Books 9.0 Day 3

Day 3 Update:
Currently reading:  Fangirl
Pages read: Fangirl- 92 pages
Twitter chat-1 2 total. Hooray!
Comments posted: 1
Minichallenge 1 Introduce Someone to Your Favorite Genre -- Doing Dewey
I commented "I am really enjoying YA Steampunk. I haven't read a whole lot in the genre, but my favorites are the Steampunk Chronicles by Kady Cross and the Leviathan trilogy by Scott Westerfeld. I love the mix of history, strong female leads, and machines. Also the steampunk clothing is really cool. I particularly like the alternative history of WWI in the Leviathan trilogy. I hope to start some of Gail Carriger's books soon! Thanks for hosting!"

Bout of Books 9.0 Day 2

Day 2 Update:
Currently reading:  Fangirl
Pages read: Fangirl- 5 pages
Post comments: 1
Minichallenges:1 Reading Tactics List -- Sarah Says Read Posted a comment on her blog
New Blogs to Follow: 1 Storybook Girl

Work kicked my butt today! Then I came home and cooked and cleaned the kitchen, which took the entire rest of my night. I will definitely read more tomorrow!!

Bout of Books Day 1

Day 1 Update:
Currently reading: Dragonflight, Fangirl
Pages read:Dragonflight- 33 pages, Fangirl- 173 pages
Post comments: 2
Minichallenges:1
Twitter chat: 1

 Book Buying Spree -- Bookish Comforts
 Imagine if you will: you’ve just received some FANTASTIC news! You have won a $100 book buying spree! Now comes the hard part though: what books will you buy?! For this challenge, you’ll be creating your book buying spree wishlist.

Your basket You have 6 items in your basket Free shipping worldwide to these countries Shipping cost: FREE Total: $97.18 Attachments (Paperback) by Rainbow Rowell Availability: Usually dispatched within 48 hours $13.58 Save $1.42 $15.00 Quantity Remove $13.58 For Darkness Shows the Stars (Paperback) by Diana Peterfreund Availability: Usually dispatched within 48 hours $9.02 Save $0.97 $9.99 Quantity Remove $9.02 Across a Star-Swept Sea (Hardback) by Diana Peterfreund Availability: Usually dispatched within 48 hours $17.99 Quantity Remove $17.99 Alliance (Hardback) by Mark Frost Availability: Usually dispatched within 48 hours $17.51 Save $0.48 $17.99 Quantity Remove $17.51 Perfect Lies (Hardback) by Kiersten White Availability: Pre order - 43 days to go $15.29 Save $2.70 $17.99 Quantity Remove $15.29 The Museum of Extraordinary Things (Hardback) by Alice Hoffman Availability: Pre order - 43 days to go $23.79 Save $4.20 $27.99 Quantity Remove $23.79 Subscribe to our newsletters ©2014 The Book Depository International Limited (Guernsey) Legis House, St Peter Port, GY1 3EG. Registered company number: 50596.
These are all books I would love to own and all but one of them are books I have not read yet!

Bout of Books 9.0 Goals

My goals for this year's Bout of Books:
Complete at least 3 mini-challenges
Find at least 3 new blogs to follow
Comment on at least 10 blogs
Finish at least 2 books

 

 

My reading stack:
Splintered by A.G. Howard Amulet Books(finish up 2013 starts)
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey Del Rey (reread)
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell St. Martin's Press
Jinx's Magic by Sage Blackwood Katherine Tegen Books
Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep K-Teen
The Magician by Michael Scott Delacorte Press(reread)
Queste by Angie Sage Katherine Tegen Books (finish up 2013 starts)

Hopefully I can finish up at least two of these, since I have already started all of them! Good luck to everyone!