Bout of Books 8.0: Wrap Up

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, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 8.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

 So Bout of Books 8.0 is OVER and now I have to wait until January until the next one. Which is saddening. But I guess I should tell you all how I did with my goals this time around.

MY GOALS:

• Read for at least 3 hours a day.
• Read at least 5 books from the list below.
• Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
• The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas 
• Tumble & Fall by Alexandra Coutts
• This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
• Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• From What I Remember... by Stacie Kramer & Valerie Thomas
• Pivot Point by Kasie West
• Participate in at least 1 Twitter chat.
• Meet some new bloggers and make awesome new friends.
• Participate in at least 2 challenges.

THE RESULTS

• Yeah, I definitely read for more than 3 hours each day. For sure.
• I read 6 books, which beats the 5 books I wanted to read. However, I only read 3 books from my list. I pulled 3 other books. I think I picked my goal books too early. Which was my bad and perhaps something I'll learn from for the next go-round. Anyway, here are the books I read. 
• Cress by Marissa Meyer
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
• The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
• Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
• This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
• I didn't make it to any of the Twitter chats this time around...
• Which means I didn't make a new friends this Bout of Books. Which is kind of sad. 
• But I did complete two challenges, which I'm really happy about! 
• The Book Road Trip Challenge hosted by In Wonderland
• The Bookish Madlibs Challenge hosted by The Space Between

As always, I was really close to completing my goals and yet I failed. I had a really good time, though. I also worked on watching less TV and doing more reading instead. It was an interesting exercise. I will say, though, that I'd like to never mess up my Twitter chat goal again. I feel okay missing on the other two, but I do like the communal, conversational aspect of Bout of Books and I'm a little pouty that I failed on that one. I might just have to plan my schedule a bit better next time around. 

Anyway, thanks again to Amanda and Kelly. You ladies are the best. Really. I can't wait for my fourth Bout of Books!

To read my original goals post, click HERE.
To read my progress report post, click HERE.

Did you participate this time around? Did you have FUN if you did? If not, don't worry, the next Bout of Books 9.0 is in January. Let me know if you'll be participating in the comments below!