Updates for the first few days of the Bout of Books readathon! I finished one short book and started several others; I’m actually really happy with the readathon TBR that’s been coming together along the way. I had Monday, the first day of the readathon, off of work, so I was able to kickstart things well, but I’ve been struggling a bit more now that I’m combining work and readathoning. We’ll have to see how I do with the second half of the readathon.

Here are my daily updates and reading tracking:

Day 1

Books started: Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen; Women & Power by Mary Beard, Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Books finished: Women & Power

Pages read: 115 pages of Women & Power; 23 pages of Bliss Montage; 107 pages of Counterfeit

Day 2

Books started: High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson

Books finished: None

Pages read: 63 pages of Counterfeit, 10 pages of Bliss Montage, 30 pages of High Times in the Low Parliament

Day 3

Books started: None

Books finished: None

Pages read: 29 pages of Counterfeit

That was possibly the longest title I’ve ever written for a blog post! Basically, there are 2 readathons taking place simultaneously this week that I really enjoy and want to participate in: Bout of Books and the Spring TBR Smash-Up.

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 10th and runs through Sunday, May 16th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, Twitter chats, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 31 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

Since I’m posting this a bit late, I don’t necessarily have an official TBR, but here are my updates for my extremely prolific day 1 of both readathons. I had the day off and was able to make a good amount of reading progress by reading the second half of a book I’d started prior to the readathon; listening to an essay from a favorite writer on Scribd; and starting a new nonfiction read.

Day 1 Updates:

Pages read: 181 pages of Writers & Lovers by Lily King, 35 pages of Disfigured by Amanda LeDuc

Audiobook time: 1 hour of Writing into the Wound by Roxane Gay

Books started: Writing Into the Wound, Disfigured

Books finished: Writers & Lovers, Writing into the Wound

I’m not 100% sure what I’m planning to focus on for the duration of the readathon, but it would be great to finish Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert (contemporary romance), which I started last month but haven’t made much progress on; to continue/finish Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda LeDuc (nonfiction); and maybe to start something new and random.