Bout of books 10 summary!

Well I certainly enjoyed this read-a-thon, and was very happy with my participation. I read 1405 pages, which for me, in a week, is pretty much unheard of. I managed to finish 4 novels and 1 short story, my goal for the challenge was to complete 4 novels, so I accomplished that!

The challenges were excellent and I certainly will be putting the next bout of books in my calendar! Thanks to everyone who commented on my blog or simply participated – you guys rock, and make the challenge worth doing.

The following is my list of books I wanted to read from, and I read 5 of the 8. I only chose books from this list until my last option, which for me was something different – I usually am a mood reader.

Proximity – Stephen Phillips
Free Bird – Kevin Cooley
The Watchman – Chris Ryan
Beat – Stephen Jay Schwartz
Personal Protection – Stephen Leather
Last Night – Stephen Leather
The Giver – Lois Lowry
Stone Cold – C.J. Box

So the following is my update for day #7
TODAY:
Hours of reading: 3
Pages read: St Kilda Blues by Geoffrey MacGeachin 150p
Total pages read: 1405p

Books in progress:
St Kilda Blues by Geoffrey MacGeachin – 150

Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather
Free Bird by Kevin Cooley
Lastnight by Stephen Leather

Bout of Books progress report day 6

Hours of reading: 4

Pages read: Finished Lastnight by Stephen Leather

Total pages read: 1255

Books completed:

Stone Cold by C.J. Box

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather

Free Bird by Kevin Cooley

Lastnight by Stephen Leather

 

I didn’t participate in any challenges

 

Tomorrow I’m hoping to get to 30% of St Kilda Blues, but I do have lots of uni work to do, so we will see.

Bout of Books Progress Report Day 5

Hours of reading: 2
Pages read: Made it to 40% of Last Night by Stephen Leather
Total pages read: 838
Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather
Free Bird by Kevin Cooley

No Challenges once again, but I am happy with the couple I have already participated in!

Tomorrow I’m reading Last Night by Stephen Leather, again. Hopefully I will polish it off today, that’s my goal. I have a couple of books I need to write reviews for next week, but the first step is reading them!

Bout of Books progress report day 4

Well, I certainly didn’t get as much reading done yesterday as I was planning – just a measly 2 hours, and it was very distracted time too, as my boyfriend kept coming in the room and talking to me. Plus, I then went and saw my sister for lunch and stayed there all night, but that is the nature of it! I’m not planning on reading much tomorrow either – I have lunch & dinner plans, but hopefully I can squeeze in a couple of hours.

Hours of reading: 2
Pages read: 19% of Last Night by Stephen Leather
Total pages read: 838
Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather
Free Bird by Kevin Cooley

I participated in the spell it out challenge by Kimberlyfayereads

Tomorrow I am planning on finishing or at least getting further through Last Night. I am really enjoying it so far, it’s about a serial killer who targets goths!

BOB Spell it out Challenge

This looks like a fun challenge to participate in, so I decided to use my first name – Rebecca, and then realised in the past four years I haven’t read a single book starting with the letter E – let alone two of them! So I decided to go with my birth month – August (you know, cause Leo was also out).

A – Aggressor by Andy McNab

U – Undersea Prison by Duncan Falconer

G – Good Jihadist, The by Bob Shepherd

U – Ultimate Weapon by Chris Ryan

S – Strike Back by Chris Ryan

T – Traitor by Duncan Falconer

Okay, so I decided to use books only by ex-SAS and ex-SBS authors! SUE ME.

Bout of Books progress report Day 3

Hours of reading: 5
Pages read: 245
Total pages read: 838
Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather
Free Bird by Kevin Cooley

Today I didn’t complete any challenges, but I did go around and post on a couple of blogs, just to see how other people are going. It’s interesting to see how other people progress through their reading.

Tomorrow I’m reading Last Night by Stephen Leather

Bout of Books Progress report day 2

Progress report for day 2 – I didn’t get as much reading done, work was busy, and I will be facing the same again on Wednesday. However, I have 8 hours of reading JOY planned on Thursday.

Hours of reading: 3
Pages read: 209
Total pages read: 593
Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Narrow Escape by Stephen Leather

I also competed in Battle Royale Challenge

Tomorrow I’m reading Free Bird

Challenge #2 – Battle Royale!

I decided to choose combatants from my ‘Classics’ shelf on Goodreads, and each has been called a monster in his own right!

The Combatants:

Frankenstein’s Monster from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein is hideous! He is a real brute of a guy and boy is he a tad immoral! He will do anything to get revenge on his pesky creator Dr. Frankenstein! Although he is strong and not afraid to kill, he is a hell bent on getting revenge on his creator, so he is prone to distraction.

My Hyde from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mr Hyde is Dr. Jekyll’s evil alter-ego! Boy can he kick some butt and kill some people. However, Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll are the same person, and if Dr. Jekyll has anything to do with it, Hyde won’t be getting into any trouble!

Grenouille from Perfume by Patrick Suskind

The creepy monster on tonight’s bill, Grenouille has an incredible sense of smell! No really, he can smell lots of things! It doesn’t sound like a problem until you realize he becomes a killer so he can preserve people’s scent! However, Grenouille is likely to be distracted by beautiful, or interestingly new scents!

A Battle Report:

The three contestants enter the arena, and immediately, Dr. Jekyll declares this battle inhumane and demands to be released! The other two take this as a sign of weakness and pounce on him, ripping him to shreds!

Grenouille decides to take Dr. Jekyll’s underpants (Sweat. Soap. Poo?) and make perfume from them, and Frankenstein’s monster laments his loneliness.

Grenouille starts to boil the pants, and Frankenstein’s monster asks to be called Frankie, and to help Grenouille with making his perfume. Grenouille agrees to his help and tells Frankie to take his own underpants off so they can make a perfect aroma a la panties.

Grenouille gets distracted by a red-headed virgin in the crowd and sends his new minion friend into the crowd to get her. Frankie declines, because he doesn’t want to be left alone! *sniff*

Frankie backs away from his new found friend, and Grenouille attacks him with a knife he was using to stir the underpants soup.

THE WINNER IS GRENOUILLE, mainly because the other two have emotions! YAY EMOTIONS!

Bout of books progress report: Day 1

So, this is a very late progress report for day 1 of the bout of books –I got a fair bit of reading done and was happy with the amount of hours I was able to avoid work and engage in reading. I joined twitter, which is a new experience – and certainly one that I am thinking I will enjoy.

So day 1 totals look like this:

Hours of reading: 6
Pages read: 384
Total pages read: 384
Books completed:
Stone Cold by C.J. Box – Reviewed – 12/5/2014

I also competed in The Book Barbies Challenge of ‘If you like X, try Y’ – entry

Tomorrow I’m tackling The Giver and Narrow Escape – two very different stories, I’m sure!

Challenge #1 Bout of Books

So, I’ve decided to participate in a challenge or two, and decided to jump straight in with The Book Barbies ‘If you like X, try Y challenge. Very easy, but fun first challenge!

If you like thrillers with a twist of western, try C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett Series

I just managed to finish a C.J. Box novel, and loved every word, so I thought I should include him in my challenge today!