Bout of Books Final Update

Bout of Books

Welcome to my final update for Bout of Books. You can see my sign-up post with my goals here.

I didn't quite get all the books/pages read that I wanted to, but I still did fairly well. I basically have parts of three books left and then two full ones. I'll be finishing those up this week. My goal was to at least read 1500 pages and I was only short by 263, so not bad.

Here's how my last day went and then a recap...

SUNDAY
Challenges: I participated in both of them here and here
Books read: finished (322 pages) Always on my Mind
Pages read: 322
Total books read: 4
Total pages read: 1237
Always on My Mind (Christiansen Family #4)

MONDAY
Challenge: I only participated in the scavenger hunt. I posted it on my Tumblr page if you want to go take a look. :)
Books read: started and finished Love Unexpected: A Storybook Romance (176 pages), read 60 pages of Dearest, and am at 35% (~86 pages) of Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined
Pages read: 322
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 322
Love Unexpected: A Storybook Romance

TUESDAY
Books read: read 22 pages of The Young Elites, read 10 pages of Dearest, and got to 62% (~62 more pages today) of Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined
Pages read: 94
Total books read: 1
Total pages read: 416

WEDNESDAY
Challenge: I participated in the Character Coupling Challenge hosted over at Writing My Own Fairy Tale. You can see which characters I picked to stick together on my Tumblr page.
Books read: finished (~97 pages) of Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined, read to 9% (~24 pages) of Calvin Sparks and the Crossing to Cambria, and finished Solstice (~69 pages) and Dearest (87 pages)
Pages read: 277
Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 693
Rough Around the Edges Meets Refined (Meet Your Match, #2) Solstice Dearest

THURSDAY
Books read: None
Pages read: None
Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 693

FRIDAY
Books read: read 14 more pages of The Young Elites and read 35% (~81 pages) of Fifteen
Pages read: 95
Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 788

SATURDAY
Books read: read 45 more pages (up to page 81 now) of The Young Elites, up to 51% (~37 pages more) of Fifteen, and 45 pages of Always on my Mind
Pages read: 127
Total books read: 3
Total pages read: 915


If you participated, how did you do?


43 comments

  1. Alexandra Perc1/12/15, 1:22 AM

    That was a challenge! Well done and thank you for your posts!

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  2. Sonja Nishimoto1/12/15, 7:00 AM

    That's really a lot of books. They certainly look good. I still have quite a big TBR pile and the Kindle books, I don't even want to go there! I keep collecting them, thinking one day I will read them all. I hope I live so long !

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  3. Wow -- I often read multiple books at a time, but I haven't done that recently. You did a great job on BoB -- congrats!
    Jen @ YA Romantics

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  4. Stephani watson1/12/15, 9:16 AM

    So many great books on your list! Cress was on of my favs of 2014! the only book that I have read on your list too. Most of them are on my TBR list.

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  5. I participated and my challenge went great. I completed 14 books, and had a good time. Congrats on a successful week! Here's how my Bout of Books 12 ended up.

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  6. Cali Willette1/12/15, 11:12 AM

    What a challenge; it is hard to read many books at once. ;)

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  7. Tracy Renee Snyder1/12/15, 11:28 AM

    I hope I can get that many this year.

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  8. What a fun list, Tressa. I loved some of these as well. Most of the Christian fiction books are favorites or ones I really want to read still (*cough* Jenny B. Jones). Then most of those YA books I'm still *dying* to read. Cannot wait to start them.
    Thanks for the fun giveaway. It's a cool idea to offer the winter's pick of your 2014 favorites. Leaves a lot of room for the winner to chose. :)

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  9. You read a lot of great looking book, most of which I have never heard of..lol. :) Thanks for the giveaway!

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  10. Lots of reading!! Amazing!!

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  11. Lot of good ones on here. I'll have to grab a few of these. Thanks. :)

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  12. I absolutely LOVE the Finishing School series. I'm dying for book four! This last book killed me.

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  13. So many good books up there! Since you seem so in tune with my taste, I think I will check out Chasing June.

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  14. Maria Theresa Santos1/12/15, 7:00 PM

    Great list. Thanks for the chance

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  15. Sarah Flood Held1/12/15, 7:02 PM

    This reminds me, I need to start Dearest. What did you think about it? I loved Hero, particularly Saturday in it.

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  16. Michelle Faile1/13/15, 7:41 AM

    I love reading, it's such a wonderful escape!

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  17. It was crazy, wasn't it, how much I read? I'm actually hoping to read just as much this year. There were a lot of books that I didn't get to too and so I'm hoping to get to those and read less books that I don't like. Of course, I don't know I won't like them until I read them. Lol! Definitely more DNFs for me though. I've already done that with a few books over the past month or so.


    I did love Finn too. :) You've got to read On the Fence!! Those brothers and the other characters! Did you read The Distance Between Us? There are a few characters that show up from that, but the book is very different. I really loved that one!

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  18. Lol! I know exactly how you feel! It's almost like I need the publishing industry to take a year off so I can read without adding to my pile. :) Except, I love new releases... Oh well.

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  19. The longer I've blogged the more I've realized that there are a lot of good books out there and that it's tough to pick which ones I'll get to read because I just can't read them all regardless of how much I want to. I'll come see if you had a favorites' list. :)

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  20. It's awesome however many you read. I've figured that I can't compare. I just read as much as I can, which of course means I always want to read more. Lol!

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  21. Ha! You read a ton too. I know there are several books that you loved that are still on my list and I really want to get to. Who needs sleep, right?


    I'm hoping that the collection was diverse enough that whoever wins will find a favorite.

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  22. Well, one of my goals as a reader/blogger is to expose readers to different books and not just the main stream ones. There are some great books out there. Sometimes it just can be hard to find them outside the usual places. I hope there's something for everyone in my list. :)

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  23. Thanks! It's a crazy number, honestly. It helps that I read at a good clip. :)

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  24. Hey, Amber! I hope you enjoy the ones that you read!!

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  25. Oh, me too!!! There are so many different directions it could all go in.

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  26. I hope you like it! It's the second in that series, so you might want to try the first book before that one.

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  27. Isn't it?!! :D It's how I wind down at night once the kids are in bed.

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  28. Hey, Holly! There are some nice covers. Glad you stopped by!

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  29. Thanks, Jen. I seem to always be reading at least two books at a time or three. One is normally for a tour and then one that's a library book or from my shelves while also reading an ARC. Kind of crazy and probably not always the best, but it seems to work for me. :)

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  30. I really, really liked it. I think Enchanted will always be my favorite, but I enjoyed this one too. And Saturday was awesome in Hero. Friday was a more reserved, but also fierce heroine. Maybe steady is the better word for her. I would say her fierceness shows the most at the end and it's a glorious one at that. :)

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  31. You have some great books listed up there that I would love to read, so thank you for a great giveaway

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  32. Sonja Nishimoto1/14/15, 6:42 PM

    Me too, gotta have em all!

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  33. There are so many books on your list that I have on my TBR -- I really need to start marking them off this year - but oh, the list just keeps growing! LOL!
    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  34. Thanks for stopping by and good luck!

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  35. I know what you mean. I read a ton last year, but I still have a huge tbr list. Good luck!

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  36. Sonja Nishimoto1/19/15, 8:54 AM

    Those are some interesting books. You seem like an avid reader like myself. Would love to win! Would love to read a Beauty so Rare.

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  37. Yeah I did read And loved Distance Between US! It was fab :)

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  38. You should love her others then.

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  39. That was such a beautiful historical novel! It's a slower-paced book, but I really loved it! Good luck!

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