Bout of Books 11 – Goals and Progress

 

 

This post contains my goals for the Bout of Books 11 and will serve to update my daily progresses.

 

Time Devoted to Reading

I intend to read all days of the week.

 

My Goals

• Read at least 100 pages everyday (more or less 2h/day by my standards);
• Finish 3 to 4 books.

 

Books to Read

• Finish Álbum de Verão, by Emylia Hall (128 pages left);
• Start and finish As Ligações Perigosas, by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (298 pages);
• Start and finish A Boneca de Kokoschka, by Afonso Cruz (240 pages);
• Start (and maybe finish) No Mar Há Crocodilos, by Fabio Geda (177 pages).

 

Updates

Monday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 38
  • Álbum de Verão: 16
  • Holiday in Death: 22
• Total number of pages read: 38
• Total number of books read: 0
• Reading: I’ve used my spare time today to do some blog work, including pending reviews that took a lot of reading time. Not the best reading day I’ve had.

 

Tuesday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 57
  • Álbum de Verão: 4
  • Holiday in Death: 53
• Total number of pages read: 95
• Total number of books read: 0
• Reading: Today was a bit better in terms of pages read, but still it was worse that what I was hoping. Álbum de Verão is not interesting me enough (I’ve been reading it for almost two weeks!).

 

Wednesday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 237
  • Álbum de Verão: 108 (finished)
  • Holiday in Death: 114
  • As Ligações Perigosas: 15
• Total number of pages read: 332
• Total number of books read: 1
• Reading: Today, I finally finished Álbum de Verão. After dragging the reading for almost two weeks, I decided that I had to end it today and made an effort. It ended up not living to my expectations. I also made a good advance in Holiday in Death, since I had a lot of time to listen to audiobooks. All in all, an excellent reading day.

 

Thursday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 148
  • Holiday in Death: 83
  • As Ligações Perigosas: 65
• Total number of pages read: 480
• Total number of books read: 1
• Reading: Not so good as yesterday, but still I got to read a good amount of time. I’m not sure about As Ligações Perigosas, and certainly it will take me more time to read that I was intending initially.

 

Friday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 308
  • Holiday in Death: 14 (finished)
  • As Ligações Perigosas: 218 (finished)
  • Midnight in Death: 76
• Total number of pages read: 788
• Total number of books read: 3
• Reading: My best day so far. I managed to end As Ligações Perigosas, although yesterday I thought it would take me longer. I also finished Holiday in Death, and I’m still addicted to the In Death series.

 

Saturday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 294
  • Midnight in Death: 20 (finished)
  • Conspiracy in Death: 105
  • A Boneca de Kokoschka: 140
  • No Mar Há Crocodilos: 29
• Total number of pages read: 1.082
• Total number of books read: 3 (I’m not counting Midnight in Death, because it’s a novella)
• Reading: Another great day. Started 3 (!) books today, and I’m counting in finishing 1 or 2 more until the end of this Bout of Books.

 

Sunday

• Number of pages I’ve read today: 143
  • Conspiracy in Death: 98
  • A Boneca de Kokoschka: 45
• Total number of pages read: 1.225
• Total number of books read: 3 plus a novella
• Reading: Today I didn’t read as much as I would like and ended up not finishing another book, but still I’m really happy with how it went.

 

Wrap-up

My best Bout of Books until today! I managed to read 1.225 pages, which amounts to an average of 175 pages a day, which is awesome. I really am motivated to read more because of this challenge, so it was definitely worth it.