Bout of Books 21 Wrap Up Post

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So for one of my goals this year to help me focus more on reading and having concentrated time for reading, I decided to participate in all 3 Bout of Books reading challenges / read-a-thons this year! The first one was luckily scheduled for this past week which is before my busy season at work officially starts.

Below were the goals that I had set for the week and my assessment with how I did on them.

Time Devoted to Reading

I plan to read at least 2 hours each day during the week, with hopefully additional hours on Friday. Also the Saturday during Bout of Books I have Goal Day planned but then I have other family plans in the evening so I’m hoping for a good 4 hours of solid reading. And then Sunday I don’t have anything planned other than house work so hopefully a solid 4 hours that day as well.

Things didn’t go quite according to plan – Goal Day for Saturday got moved because of a family function and due to prep work and chores I barely got to read at all Saturday. Plus a couple social functions kept me away from reading during the week. Overall I ended up reading close to 16 hours this week though which I’ll call a success.

My Goals

My goals for this read-a-thon are that I’d like to participate in as much as I can: the daily posts plus reading every day.

I did participate in 3 out of the 7 daily challenges and I did read every day.

Books to Read

Finish The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden – Finished this one! See the review here
Read The Crown Prince’s Bride by Donna Alward – Finished this one, see the review here
Read Like Broken China by J. D. Thompson – Finished this one, see the review here
Read The Safest Lies by Megan Miranda – Finished this one, see the review here
Read The Midnight Watch by David Dyer – Decided to skip this one, I can’t make it to the book club meeting this next week so I decided to read this one another time
Instead of reading The Midnight Watch, I started reading The Rogue Is Back in Town

Overall this was a great week of concentrated reading for me and I am glad I was able to get so much accomplished! Looking forward to the next one in May!