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 13th and runs through Sunday, August 19th 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 5.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.

-From the Bout of Books 5.0 team

Here we go again. Round 5 and I am ready for it! I've got a ton of books I need to read for this year. Hopefully this readathon will knock out a good chunk. I decided to completely stay away from Twitter this time around. It just distracts me from my reading. So I will only be doing updates on my blog. I also wanted to diversify my reading list this time around.

My goals:

Read 5 books
Review all book read
Complete at least two challenges
Read an average of 2:30 hours a day

My TBR pile (ambitious, but I do like choices):

HP 7
A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Emma by Jane Austen
Richard III by Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare
Restoring Grace by Katie Fforde
A Truth Universally Acknowledged edited by Susannah Carson