From May 13-19th was Bout of Books- a week of reading and completing other book-ish goals. Being my first Bout of Books, I was a bit ambitious in my goals- maybe too ambitious as I’d forgotten about some things going on last week that could be potential distractors from the goals.

My goals for the week were:

My goals for Bout of Books 7.0 are the following:

Books I Plan to Read/Finish:

1. Oscar Wilde and Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth

2. Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman

3. The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

4. The Guest Book by Erika Marks

5. 3rd Generation and Beyond by Danna Pycher

Other Book-ish things:

1. Post my review for The Glass Wives

2. Post reading schedule for Reconstructing Amelia for my 1st online book club beginning in June!

3. Post review for Oscar Wilde and Murders at Reading Gaol

4. Post interview with Danna Pycher

5. Update my Goodreads page

6. Tweet about Danna Pycher Twitter chat on May 22 #3gab ( thanks to Love at First Book)

7. Update my blog with reading challenge info, book blog tour info, and other things.

8. Attend The Cherry Cola Book Club by Ashton Lee book signing!

 

Last Wed I updated my goal process- here it is:

My goals for my first Bout of Books (still going on my friends!) were not super lofty. Read a bit more. Write a bit more. Do some things to my blog. Update my Goodreads page. You know just normal things.

So today’s Wednesday- let’s see how my Monday and Tuesday have shaped up goal-wise!

Monday:

Went to The Cherry Cola Book Club signing as planned- check!

Finished Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth- check!

Not too bad- 2 goals finished!

 

Tuesday:

Posted my review of The Glass Wives- check!

Posted my review of Oscar Wilde-check!

Finished Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman-check!

Made 2 minor additions to my blog- check!

And holy heck, updated my Goodreads page- reviews, books for TBR, and more- CHECK!

Tuesday was a good day!

Wednesday (so far)

Read about 30 more pages in The Other Typist. *Wednesday is not looking good so far- darn Tuesday for being so productive!

 

Here’s the final update as the week went to heck in a handbasket- and yet, I still completed many things!

Monday:

Went to The Cherry Cola Book Club signing as planned- check!

Finished Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol by Gyles Brandreth- check!

Not too bad- 2 goals finished!

 

Tuesday:

Posted my review of The Glass Wives- check!

Posted my review of Oscar Wilde-check!

Finished Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman-check!

Made 2 minor additions to my blog- check!

And holy heck, updated my Goodreads page- reviews, books for TBR, and more- CHECK!

Tuesday was a good day!

 

Wednesday

Read about 30 more pages in The Other Typist. *Wednesday is not looking good so far- darn Tuesday for being so productive!

Began reading The Cottage at Glass Beach (not in my original goal post)

Thursday

More reading of The Other Typist, The Cottage At Glass Beach.

Wrote blog post and interview with Danna Pycher

Updated blog.

Friday

Wrote blog post about Ashton Lee book signing.

Posted Reconstructing Amelia reading schedule.

Saturday

Not 1 drop of productivity

Sunday

Finished The Cottage at Glass Beach

Wrote review for The Cottage at Glass Beach

Updated my Pinterest reading boards: The TBR List That Ate An Entire Town, , Book Signings, and Beach Bag Reads 2013

Began Bad Publicity for this week’s blog tour

 

So.. all in all- while I did not complete every goal- I did add some that weren’t in the original post. I feel I had a pretty good book week!