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[Miscellaneous] – Bout Of Books 11

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Miscellaneous is the tagline to store my random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. It’s more for consistency sake so I can have an itty-bitty picture to follow suit with the post.

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BoB11-200x200The 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, Aug 18th and runs through Sunday, Aug 24th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 11 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. 

Initial Thoughts:

What Is It?

Bout of Books is a low-pressure read-a-thon which runs from Aug 18th-24th in whatever time zone you live in.

The Sales Pitch

Usually read one novel a week? Challenge yourself to more.
Fancy the sports column in your local newspaper? Try reading arts for a change.
Interested in other genres and types of reads (i.e. comics)? Here’s an excuse to throw monies away (or you could borrow, I guess).
Already participating in a read-a-thon/read-a-long? Kill two endeavours with one book.

The content of this intro-post is basically the same as last time. If you do any form of reading, you’re basically participating…so just take an extra few minutes and sign up via twitter or a blog post—head over to the site for the deets. While the focus of this read-a-thon is to, you know, read books, you can certainly create value through reading other mediums as well.

Always: experience, think, and learn.

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[Miscellaneous] – The Very Inspiring Blogger Award

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Miscellaneous is the tagline to store my random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. It’s more for consistency sake so I can have an itty-bitty picture to follow suit with the post.

What’s Miscellaneous and Random Today?

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award

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The Award Rules:
1. Thank and link the amazing person who nominated you.
2. List the rules and display the award.
3. Share seven facts about yourself.
4. Nominate 15 other amazing blogs and comment on their posts to let them know they have been nominated.
5. Optional: Proudly display the award logo on your blog and follow the blogger who nominated you.

Initial Thoughts:

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award has been making noticeable rounds in the community (or the miniscule community that I know of at least) recently and people are apparently inspired by my words (or bloggers just ran out of nominees and if so: THEN I BEAT THE SYSTEM). Either way, I will continue to laugh at the thought of being inspirational. But first and foremost, I’d like to thank these people for nominating me for said award:

Anna @
WP: Anna’s Reading List // Twitter: AnnieAnnnieee

Miguel @
WP: The Quirky Reader // Twitter: The Quirky Reader

Stefanie @
WP: Bookmark’d In Bangkok // Twitter: Bookspry

Alex @
WP: Alex In Bookland // Twitter: sambart93

Elyssa @
WP: Books and Iced Coffee  // Twitter: elyssamesias
(A preemptive thanks. She’s apparently nominating me)

If you thought I was inspirational, well… shit, you better go check them out instead because they inspire…my inspiring…to inspire…?—that’s trippy.

The Facts

Now here’s where I’m supposed to tell you 7 things about how to live life on the edge as an inspirational...ist. And since I don’t curate content that often (suffice to say I don’t have regular scheduled posts to qualify for this award—re: beat the system comment), let’s buff this post up so you can learn more about this boymanthing behind thoughts and afterthoughts. So as a matter of bonus, let’s narrow (or expand?) these 7 facts to somewhat fit the category of the five main senses: sight, hear, taste, smell, touch – because I can…and because you, the reader, apparently find enjoyment in my keyboard smashing…

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[Miscellaneous] – BoutOfBooks 10 – Aftermath: Why Failure Is Okay

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Miscellaneous is the tagline to store my random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. It’s more for consistency sake so I can have an itty-bitty picture to follow suit with the post.

Bout of BooksThe 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 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.

Initial Thoughts:

Last week I gave myself the green light go-ahead to joining in on the Bout of Books read-a-thon. If you’re still considering joining, you still have time! If you’re still unsure whether you want to, consult my sales pitch in my initial post by clicking here and I’ll tell you might ought to.

This post is devoted to my on-going updates to track my progress during the read-a-thon going forward.

Read-a-thon Goals: 3 books and catching up on manga.

At first, I thought it was a brilliant idea to see through some trilogies from start to finish (i.e. Ness’ Chaos Walking, Lu’s Legend Trilogy, Dashner’s Maze Runner). But then I wondered if I would be bogged down by something in the novel that could stunt my reading. So I decided against it to read them on my own time and terms without the smash-face-into-book-to-beat-goals-that-is-a-read-a-thon.

One of my ongoing goals is to expand my library to encompass more of the other genres I’m usually void of. While I previously stated a 2:1 ratio of Sci-fi-to-Alternative was ideal… I’m swapping this ratio around for this read-a-thon. With “To All The Boys,” it was ultimately a choice between Han’s novel and Elizabeth Fama’s Plus One; as both were part my Goodread’s May Bookclub read-a-long. And since I have to finally read Proxy before Guardian gets released this month…Han’s novel meets the criteria while getting bonus points for being a read-a-long novel as well.

[You can select the image to be taken to its respective Goodreads site.]

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