Button from Bout of Books blog Progress: 271/950 pages (29%) | Contestant number: 727 ~ Plethora Day 6 of Bout of Books Read-A-Thon. Accomplishments from Day 5: Clearly I am not going to make my overall page goal for the Read-A-Thon, however, I have been chipping away at my mini goals.This is a good thing allowing me to at least check off some things from my list. Life just gets in the way of the best intentions sometimes and foils your plans
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My overall goal for the week is 950 pages, a modest average of 135 pages a day.
Minimum book plans for the week:
Minimum book plans for the week:
- Part One of D octor Zh ivago by Boris Pasternak ~ p. 3-128
- The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis ~ p. 1-217
- Volume One of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen ~ p. 3-175
- Book Two of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis ~ p. 35-65 (Completed)
- Book Three of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis ~ p. 69-150 (Completed)
- Part Two of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert ~ p. 58-183 (Completed)
- .6-123 (Chapters 1-2 Completed, p 6-38)
Daily Challenge
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Tweet about an author you think deserves a little more love. Squeeze in why. Hashtag with #showauthorlove and #boutofbooks so everyone can see. If you don't have Twitter, comment on this post with your answer.
I'm still a bit new to blogging and social media (I have Twitter, but I will not use Facebook) in the past month of so I have followed @JoelCRosenberg and @SomanChainani. I had just recently read an ARC by both of these authors and enjoyed them greatly. I can't wait to read some of Joel C Roenberg's other works as The Auschwitz Escape was my first. I had previously finished The School for Good and Evil prior to receiving A World Without Princes (book two in the series), so now I must await book three. (Reviews are linked.)
I also follow @cplesley, I have been trying to get around to reading The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel and The Golden Lynx, but time has not been in my favor yet.
I went looking at a few recent reads by living authors and decide to add @HannahFKent for Burial Rites and @virginiapye for River of Dust, both books I read and enjoyed last year.
I do follow a bunch of the publishers.
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