{"id":5678,"date":"2015-01-12T02:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T07:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2015-01-12T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:47:00","slug":"bout-of-books-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5678","title":{"rendered":"bout of books wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/boutofbooks.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Bout of Books\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-1ALUmfnCGKk\/U_0x2p0NbkI\/AAAAAAAAKvI\/PkylHouDGjY\/s200-no\/BoB12-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bout of Books\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>My first <a href=\"http:\/\/boutofbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Bout of Books<\/a> has come and gone. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how I did on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5661\" title=\"bout of books\">goals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I read every day, but I definitely read most days. (Things got a little weird in the middle of the week.) Better still, I started pulling out a book at the times when I&#8217;ve been more recently reading Twitter or playing games on my phone, like while waiting for the metro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Page totals and quick thoughts on the books<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>My True Love Gave to Me<\/em>: 172 pages (This was the only book I finished this week, but I started it on Boxing Day. It really was a superb collection of YA Christmas-themed romance stories. I liked each one and loved quite a few.)<\/li>\n<li><em>When I Was the Greatest<\/em>: 66 (I hit the point where the book was getting stressful &#038; it was overdue to the library, so I returned it a quarter of the way in. I may get it back out or I may not.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Christmas at Thompson Hall &#038; Other Christmas Stories<\/em>: 9 (This was in my bag, so it didn&#8217;t get read except during commuting times, but I&#8217;m looking forward to reading a the rest of this this week.)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Amazing Thing about the Way It Goes<\/em>: 50 (Non-knitting essays from the Yarn Harlot. It&#8217;s okay. Some essays have been funnier than others so far.)<\/li>\n<li><em>2 a.m. at the Cat&#8217;s Pajamas<\/em>: 24 (I feel like the author never met a sentence she didn&#8217;t feel couldn&#8217;t be improved by her thesaurus, but I&#8217;m enjoying it so far. Obviously I&#8217;m not far in yet, but I think it&#8217;ll be good and I plan to finish it this week.)<\/li>\n<li><em>Texts from Jane Eyre and Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters<\/em>: 84 (I should really only read this when alone, because I keep wanting to read bit aloud when there&#8217;s an audience.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without padding and to my great surprise, that means I did hit my page goal for Bout of Books, even if I didn&#8217;t read a single whole book during the week. Not bad!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m counting my blogging goals as accomplished, too, since technically my mid-week update and this post count.<\/p>\n<p>So, overall, a success! And I took part in the final Twitter chat of the event as a bonus!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the next Bout of Books, which is in May. Maybe you&#8217;ll consider joining it, too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first Bout of Books has come and gone. 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