Bout of Books' Sunday Update and Wrap-Up

Bout of Books

You can see my sign-up post with my goals here.

It's time for Sunday's update and the wrap up of this read-a-thon. Scroll on down to see how I did...

Monday 8/18:
-Finished Willow Springs (1/2 a book) and started City of Heavenly Fire (up to page 308 - this book is pretty lengthy)
-Total books read: 1 (1/2 + 1/2)
-Books read: finished Willow Springs
Willow Springs

Tuesday 8/19
-Finished City of Heavenly Fire, started In Perfect Time
-Total books read: 1.5
-Books read: finished Willow Springs, City of Heavenly Fire
City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments, #6)

Wednesday 8/20
-Visited six participating blogs (Yay! I only had four in goals.)
-Completed the challenge for today. You can see my sentence here. I misunderstood the challenge the first time, so I really did two sentences with the first one using book spines. :)
-Finished In Perfect Time (review posted)
-Total books read: 2.5
-Books read: finished Willow SpringsCity of Heavenly Fire, In Perfect Time
In Perfect Time (Wings of the Nightingale #3)

Thursday 8/21
-Finished Mark of Royalty and Bonds of Loyalty (reviews post Friday), up to 38% read for Darkness Within
-Total books read: 4.5
-Books read: 1/2 Willow SpringsCity of Heavenly Fire, In Perfect Time, Mark of Royalty, Bonds of Loyalty
Mark of Royalty Bonds of Loyalty (2)

Friday 8/22
-Participated in both challenges today. Yay! You can see my book chain (loved this challenge) here and my book cover recreated (took time and turned out so-so) here.
-I also stopped by a few blogs, so I was happy about that.
-Still reading Darkness Within and read several chapters of Midnight Thief
-Total books read: 4.5
-Books read: 1/2 Willow SpringsCity of Heavenly Fire, In Perfect Time, Mark of Royalty, Bonds of Loyalty

Saturday 8/23
-I participated in the spell it out challenge today. You can see mine here and go check out the others here.
-I also stopped by a few blogs, so I was happy about that.
-Still reading Darkness Within (up to 60% through now) and read more of Midnight Thief (up to page 147)
-Total books read: 4.5
-Books read: 1/2 Willow SpringsCity of Heavenly Fire, In Perfect Time, Mark of Royalty, Bonds of Loyalty

Sunday 8/24
-I participated in the challenge over at Falling Down the Book Hole. I had to choose five books I would take with me if the world was being attacked by aliens. Want to see what I picked? Go to my Tumblr page to check them out.
-Finished Darkness Within and Midnight Thief (Woohoo!)
-Total books read: 6.5
-Books read: 1/2 Willow SpringsCity of Heavenly Fire, In Perfect Time, Mark of Royalty, Bonds of Loyalty, Darkness Within, and Midnight Thief
 

To wrap up this up, my goals were:
- Participate in at least two challenges MET (participated in five)
- Stop by at least four other participating blogs MET (stopped by at least eight)
- Read at least six books MET (read 6.5 and finished all the books I needed to read)

I feel like I did really great this time around for this read-a-thon. If you participated, how did you do?

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