This week, I missed my first WWW Wednesday since I started participating in May. It’s the culmination of a very slow two months of reading. The biggest issue, as I see it, has been my attention. It has been split into what feels like a million directions. In reality, it’s more like seven or eight. Maybe nine, at most.
Well anyway, just yesterday, I read about the Bout of Books readathon, which I discovered at JMILL WANDERS. Here’s how the Bout of Books team describes it at their website:
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 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th 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 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.
Reading is relaxation, recalibration, and inspiration time for me. Without it, life feels just the teeniest bit out of balance. So even though it’s too late for me to sign up officially for the Bout of Books readathon, I will be participating for myself. My reading goal is simple: to spend as much time as I can spare reading.
At the head of my priority list are the books I’ve had going all month, The Odyssey
The Revolving Door of Life
The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
Strong Opinions
Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
The Books in My Life (New Directions Paperbook)
Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City
Book of Days: Personal Essays
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Spooky Little Girl: A Novel
Eleanor & Park
Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour
Any of the many Jill Mansell
This Is What Happy Looks Like
Any of the Hamish Macbeth Mysteries (31 Book Series)
How’s your reading life going this summer?
Great List, Sally! Though I have to say, if it were me, I’d be focusing on the short books first…
PS – Have you seen the Agatha Raisin TV series? I know you like M.C. Beaton, and I think the TV series is better than the books, actually…
Yes, shorter books provide excellent readathon motivation. I see myself reading a Hamish Macbeth this week.
I haven’t seen the Agatha Raisin series. Intrigued to hear you’ve found it better than the books. I haven’t read many of them, honestly. I prefer the Hamish books, but I might have to find the Agatha series now.
I’m late to this, but love the idea of it. I hope it’s gone well – I can’t wait to find out how it’s turned out, and what books you chose from your TBR list. I guess that’s one of the advantages of not being able to read a blog you love until quite a few posts have gone by!
Thank you, Alysa! Somehow, the books I end up reading end up being a surprise to me as well. 🙂