Sunday, May 19, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 7

The end is in sight.
Keep reading!

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day, your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow. Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 6

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day, your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow. Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Friday, May 17, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 5

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day, your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow. Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 4

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day, your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow. Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 3

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day, your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow. Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 2

Congratulations!

You survived the first day of the read-a-thon!

Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!

Discord Daily Qs

Don't forget to check out the Discord chat forum where daily questions will be posted for you to answer.

Updates

The way these updates work is that you post whatever you want your fellow readathoners to see TODAY. Whether that's your progress for the previous day (today's link would be to your progress for the first day of the read-a-thon), your reading-in-place report, an incredibly witty tweet about the book you're reading, or a hygge reading picture you posted on Instagram, link it here. The linky will be open for 24 hours. There will be another linky tomorrow.
Please include a DIRECT LINK to your update so we don't have to go clicking around to find it.

If you have questions, please email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Monday, May 13, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Day 1

Welcome to Bout of Books 39!


Join us on Discord!

With the ongoing changes to Twitter, we've moved the readathon to Discord.
Not a member of the #BoutOfBooks Discord server yet? We have an invite for that!


Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page!


Sign up

This is a re-post of the sign up linky. If you've already signed up (with direct link to sign up post/tweet/update!), you're good to go.

If you have questions, please tweet us @boutofbooks or email us (boutofbooks at gmail dot com).

Monday, May 6, 2024

Bout of Books 40 Schedule

It's COMING!

Reading-in-Place Times

Reading-in-place times, or reading sprints, are transitioning away from Twitter. They're now on Discord and spontaneous. ANYONE can start a sprint, at any time. Jump into the #reading-in-place channel and get your read on!

Discord sprint commands:
/sprint 20 (Start a 20 minute sprint. Max length is 1 hour)
/sprint for 20 in 5 (Start a 20 minute sprint in 5 minutes time) Or: /sprint 20 5
/sprint at :15 for 20 (Start a 20 minute sprint at quarter past the hour)
/cancel (Cancel the active sprint)

Instagram Photo a Day

For those of you who use Instagram, don't forget to post your daily Bout of Books photo. Find out more on our Bout of Books Instagram page! Prompts for the current read-a-thon are posted the Friday before the read-a-thon begins.

Discord Daily Qs

While over on Discord, don't forget to check out the chat forum where daily bookish questions will be posted Tuesday-Sunday for you to answer.