{"id":5943,"date":"2015-08-25T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2015-08-25T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T08:45:12","slug":"bout-of-books-wrap-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5943","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:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-ctRhfVexsj8\/U_0x274l8MI\/AAAAAAAAKvE\/kvaLzJ7poEY\/s200-no\/BoB14-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Bout of Books\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boutofbooks.blogspot.com\/\">Bout of Books 14<\/a> wrapped up Sunday night, and I consider my participation a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=5935\">great success<\/a>. I read every day last week, finishing three books in various states of progress and read a couple chapters in a fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Because everything was already partway through when the week began, I don&#8217;t have a complete tally of pages read, but I&#8217;d guess somewhere in the 600+ arena would be about right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I read two chapters of <em>Unrivaled<\/em>, about the UConn-Tennessee rivalry in women&#8217;s basketball.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I raced through <em>Circus Mirandus<\/em>, a charming middle-grade novel about a boy whose seriously ill grandfather needs a miracle promised long ago by a magical circus performer.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I completed <em>Hyperbole and a Half<\/em>, Allie Brosh&#8217;s illustrated\/graphic memoir\/essay collection.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And I finally, after having it out of the library for seven months (thanks, DCPL&#8217;s generous new renewal program), finished the final few chapters of <em>Signed, Sealed, Delivered<\/em>, a look at the merits of letter-writing. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of the pages, I participated in both Twitter chats and a blogging challenge and enjoyed considering my answers to several others I didn&#8217;t write early enough.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t quite get two bookish posts in last week, but one progress post and a wrap-up post is better than the last Bout I took part in.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to participating again in January and hope you&#8217;ll consider doing so, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bout of Books 14 wrapped up Sunday night, and I consider my participation a great success. 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