Recreate a Book Cover! | Bout of Books 11 Challenge

Samantha over at Spines and Covers is hosting one of today's Bout of Books challenges! This challenge is to recreate any book cover in essentially any medium, be it drawing, photoshop, or whatever else you can think of. I decided to involve makeup in my challenge, and chose to recreate the cover of Unite Me by Tahereh Mafi:

Did you do this challenge? Feel free to leave me a link to your post and enjoy the rest of Bout of Books!

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Day 4 Progress | Bout of Books 11

Number of Books I'm Reading: 1

Title: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Pages Read Today: 30

Pages Read Thus Far: 330

Books Completed Thus Far: The Maze Runner, Drive, and Destroy Me

How did you do on Day 4? Feel free to leave me a link to your progress post and have a great Bout of Books!

Day 3 Progress | Bout of Books 11

Today was a busy day for me, as we're redoing a room in my house, so I didn't get much reading done.

Number of Books I'm Reading: 1

Title: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Pages Read Today: 21

Pages Read Thus Far: 300

Books Completed Thus Far: The Maze Runner, Drive, and Destroy Me

How did you do on Day 3? Feel free to leave me a link to your progress post and have a great time during this Bout of Books!

Day 2 Progress | Bout of Books 11

I've read two books (and finished off another) in as many days! I'm making good progress in my reading, I'm quite happy with my progress thus far.

Number of Books I'm Reading: 1

Title: The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Book Completed Today:

Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi

Pages Read Today: 109

Pages Read Thus Far: 279

Books Completed Thus Far: The Maze Runner, Drive, and Destroy Me

How did you do on Day 2? Feel free to leave me a comment/link to your own progress post and have fun this Bout of Books!

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Book Spine Poetry! | Bout of Books 11 Challenge

Alysia over at My Little Pocketbooks is hosting one of today's Bout of Books challenges! This one involves book spine poetry, which is pretty much self-explanatory: you write a poem using the titles of books you own! As a way of making the challenge a bit easier, we get one free word for every book we use - so since I'm using seven books, I can choose seven words of my own. This is my very own book spine poetry:

Let me in

to

the Murdered House

where the

road ends

in

Hollow City.

Under

Alabama Moon

we're

dancing with the dead -

all

shades of grey.

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Day 1 Progress | Bout of Books 11

Day 1 was a fun start to Bout of Books 11! I finished a book I'd started before the read-a-thon, and I'm reading another one now - both very different and very interesting.

Number of Books I'm Reading: 1

Title: Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi

Books Completed Today:

1. The Maze Runner by James Dashner

2. Drive by James Sallis

Pages Read Today: 170

How did you do on Day 1? Feel free to leave me a link to your progress post and have fun during this Bout of Books!

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Historical Fiction Novels! | 50% off 50 at Book Outlet

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Historical fiction can be absolutely fascinating. You can get lost in a world from long ago, whether it's fictional or based in fact. This week's 50/50 sale:

• includes Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald for $2.99 (featured in my June Book Haul: Part 1)
• ranges in price from $1.49 to $3.99
• ends Monday, August 25

You can visit Book Outlet's Canadian website here and their U.S. website here. International shipping options are available on both sites.

Do you enjoy historical fiction?

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Book Scavenger Hunt! | Bout of Books 11 Challenge

I love the idea of Book Scavenger Hunts! Whenever I see this kind of challenge, I will do it. They're a lot of fun to me! Kristen over at The Book Monsters is hosting today's challenge, and without further ado, here is my entry.

1. A book that begins with "B" (for Bout of Books!): Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

2. A book that has been made into a movie: Blindness by José Saramago

3. A series you love: The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

4. An anthology of poems: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton

5. A book on your TBR shelf: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Do we share any of the same picks? Feel free to leave me a link to your entry and have fun during this Bout of Books!

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Goals and TBR List | Bout of Books 11

I'm incredibly excited for Bout of Books 11! I had a lot of fun the last time I did this read-a-thon, and ultimately, it was pretty rewarding because I got a lot of reading done.

The challenges sound so cool for Bout of Books 11 so I'm going to try and do several. This time around, I'd like to do things a little differently in terms of what I'm delving into. I rarely read small novels, so for Bout of Books 11 I'll be reading short novels and anthologies, as well as graphic novels and comics!

Goals:

• Read at least two short novels, one novella, one collection of short stories, two graphic novels, and 10 comics issues
• Participate in at least one Twitter chat
• Participate in at least three challenges
• Make daily progress posts
• Read at least one hour per day

To-Be-Read:

1. Drive by James Sallis

 2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

3. Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi

Read my review of Shatter Me!

 4. The Virgin Coop: A Broken Trilogy by Matt Scallon 

 5. Serenity: Better Days and Other Stories by Joss Whedon, Brett Matthews and Will Conrad 

6. Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale by Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon and Chris Samnee

7. At least 10 comics from this pile

I can barely wait for next week. What will you be reading?

$20 Off a $60+ Purchase! | Book Outlet Sunny Weekend Deal

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Happy weekend! This time around, Book Outlet's Sunny Weekend Deal is for $20 off any order of $60 or more. That means you pick ANY books you want from ANYWHERE on the website. How awesome is that? During one of their recent sales, I purchased five books for just over $11. Think about the possibilities with this weekend's sale. This deal:

• is for $20 off orders of $60+
• requires you use the following discount code at checkout: BOOKOUTLET20
• ends Monday, August 18 at noon EST

Check out their Canadian website here and their U.S. website here. International shipping options are available on both sites.

What'll you be buying with this sale?

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