Bout Of Books Read-A-Thon

I just participated in The Booktube-A-Thon and had  so much fun that I decided to go ahead and participate in the Bout Of Books Read-A-Thon just for fun. 

I’m a very competitive person… I come from a very competitive family as well. We’re one of those families who, once having beaten the players around the dining room table, we climb on top of the table and dance shouting “I won, I won!” Needless to say, we don’t go down without a fight. :) 

My family participated in the Booktube-A-Thon with me, but I’ll be Riding Solo on this one… well maybe not. They don’t have blogs so they’ll be silent partners. ;P 

I'm going to attempt to read three books, 

The Selection by Kiera Cass 

Over You by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus 

Once Upon the End by James Riley 

I plan to give daily updates, but we’ll see how that goes! :) -Jordan 

Booktube-A-Thon

I made my video a couple of days ago but have been procrastinating this blog post… but I shall dive in now. 

There were seven challenges: 

1) read an average of 300 pages a day

2) read a book with over 500 pages

3) re-read one book

4) finish a series/trilogy

5) read a book that’s been on your shelf forever

6) listen to an audiobook

7) read a classic 

I choose to attempt them all and managed to complete all of them except ONE! 

The first book I completed was Hacking Harvard by Robbin Wasserman. It was a very good book, although (if you read my review) it had a very sucky ending… very sucky. This completed the Read The Book That Has Been On Your Shelf The Longest Challenge. 

The second book I completed was Thou Shalt Not Road Trip by Antony John. Overall an excellent book except (again) the ending. I felt it could have ended differently (and needed to!) I finished this book and that completed the Read 300 Pages A Day Challenge

The Third Book I completed for for the Re-Read Challenge and that was Anna & the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins. It was a very good book and possibly better the second time around! 

The Fourth Book I completed was The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. I did not review this one (because reviewing classics intimidate me!) but it was very good and completed THREE challenges!!!!! The first of which was to Read A Book With 500+ Pages, the second being to Listen To An Audio Book, and the third Challenge was Read A Classic.

The audio book was 700+ Pages long so I had some room to be lazy but ended up completing The Juliet Club (which I highly recommend) by Suzanne Harper to polish off the end off the Booktube-A-Thon. It did not complete any challenges… well I guess it did. It completed the Read 300+ Pages A Day Challenge! 

After adding up all the challenges, the only challenge I did not complete was to Finish A Series or Trilogy which is sad because I only had one book to go to finish one of my favorite trilogies but I just didn’t get around to it.

The total amount of pages I read added up to 2123 Pages! Not bad, huh? 

I always feel awkward when I end posts -Jordan