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, August 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23rd in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

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Update (Day 7)

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Wrap-up

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 Modern to Classic

THE CHALLENGE Share one book that you believe will be considered a classic in 100 years time. Simple? I do have a few caveats, the book must have been published in or after 2005 and you need to provide two reasons for why this book will be a classic.

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Update (Day 3)

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Book Haiku!

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Updates (Day 1+2)

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Bookish Survey

"Today’s challenge is very easy and a great way to meet people and get to know your fellow readers! All you need to do for this challenge is answer the questions below on your blog, Twitter, YouTube, or wherever you happen to be updating your read-a-thon progress! Then come back and link up your answers (or answer, I know Twitter will be tricky with this so you can just link up one tweet here). It would be great if you visited other’s challenge answers and chatted with them, since part of this whole thing is creating a reading community, but it isn’t required."

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The Questions: 

1. How do you organize your shelves?

This usually depends on how many books I have. When I was first starting to get into YA, I could stand each book next to each other on the shelf. As time went by I had to start stacking. Now I have so many books that won't fit my shelf has some books standing, so some stacked, and some stacked on top of the standing books.

2. What is one of your favorite book that’s not in one of your favorite genres?

Ahh, this would have to be Ruin and Rising, the last book of the Grisha Trilogy. Don't get me wrong, I love every book of that trilogy but Ruin and Rising has to be my favorite. As you can now see, fantasy is not one of my favorite genres. I just haven't read enough in the fantasy genre to name it as one of my favorites. 

3. What is the last 5 star book you read?

Haha, I give 5 stars to books quite often so this shouldn't be hard. I gave 5 stars to Forged, which I read last month!

4. What book are you most excited to read during the read-a-thon?

That has to be my current read, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids. I have been wanting to read this for awhile and finally have gotten to it. It sounds super interesting. I haven't read anything from Sarah but I so plan to soon!

5. What book do you recommend the most?

That would have to be a book like Let's Get Lost or Compulsion. A book that I love so much and deserves more of it!

So tell me: Are you participating in Bout of Books?!

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, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May 17th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 13 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

Welcome to my TBR for Bout of Books 13! I am super excited for this read-a-thon and hope to get loads of books read! This is just my TBR post but on the week of Bout of Books there will be updates and challenges going on! Posts will be going up as normal. Now for the TBR!

The Revenge Playbook

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

The Program

The link to the website for this read-a-thon is above and I hope everyone can participate! If you are please let me know. :D