Bout of Books: Goals and Updates

Hi everyone, as you may know the holidays are coming to an end and its time to get back to the real world. This week I'm going back to university to resume my classes. But since its only the first week and I won't really need to study, I've decided to join the Bout of Books read-a-thon just to finish up some of my holiday books before university gets too hectic.

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, January 5th and runs through Sunday, January 11th in whatever timezone you are in. Bout of Books is low-ressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 12 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team 

My Goals

I really need to finish up some books that I've had on my TBR for way too long, just to make enough room for a HUGE box of books I ordered while boxing day shopping.

 So with that having said, these are the books I plan to get through this week:

 

My Updates

This idea was completely stolen from Angela @ Angela's Anxious Life

Monday
Number of books I've read today: 2
Name of book: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Second Star by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Total number of books I've read: 2
Number of hours read: 7
What else I did: That HUGE box of books I was talking about earlier in this post.. well it came in so I fangirled over that for a while. You can check out whats in that box on my STS on Saturday.
But other than that, nothing else really happened today.

Tuesday
Number of books I've read today: 1
Total number of books I've read:  3
Books: Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole
Number of Hours I've Read:  4
What else I did:  Today was my first day back at university! I started my new classes, Chemistry has tons of hot guys in it. Anthropology was so boring I fell asleep on the first day. And my ex boyfriend just happens to be in my writing class :/

Wednesday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read:  3
Books:  -
Number of Hours I've Read:  1
What else I did:  Sorry guys, today was a  super study day. I already have homework and assignment on my second day back :/ But I did manage to make it to the twitter chat :P

Thursday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read: 3
Books: -
Number of Hours I've Read: 1
What else I did: Spent most of my day at university. Nothing special.

Friday
Number of books I've read today:  0
Total number of books I've read:  3
Books:  -
Number of Hours I've Read:  .5
What else I did:   It was my best friend Kelly's birthday today. So we spent most of the day together. Don't worry I'll finish my book tomorrow for sure.

Saturday
Number of books I've read today: 1
Total number of books I've read:  4
Books: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers 
Number of Hours I Read:  6
What else I did:  I watched over my neighbours dog. It's such a cute yorki, and my dog really loves playing with him :)

Sunday
Number of books I've read today: 0
Total number of books I've read: 4
Books: -
Number of hours I read: 4
What else I did: I started reading The Madman's Daughter but I only got about half way.

Overall, I had so much fun with this challenge. And even though my original goal was to finish the books with the images above before my box of new books came in. It ended up coming in early, and I ended up reading mostly those books. I still read four books even thought my week was really busy so I'm still happy with that. The challenges and Twitter chats that Bout of Books hosted were absolutely amazing! I had so much fun joining all of them and meeting new people. I absolutely can't wait to join again in May.