Bout of Books 41 Wrap-Up

 Congratulations!

You have survived Bout of Books 41!

In this post, we invite you to link up to your overall progress for Bout of Books. You don't have to create a wrap-up post--it can be an update post with day 7's progress.

Whatever works for you, works for us.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this last official Bout of Books. And a very large thank you to everyone who helped make Bout of Books a success over the years! We appreciate that you love books and how vocal you are about sharing it! 

While this space will no longer be updated, the Bout of Books fun continues on in our Discord. Join us to chat about books, host and participate in reading sprints, and otherwise connect with fellow book lovers. 

Join the Discord! We hope to see you there!

-Kelly and Amanda

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 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).

Bout of Books 41 Day 1

Welcome to Bout of Books 41!

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).

Bout of Books 41 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.

Bout of Books 41 Sign Up

Are you ready to SIGN UP?
THIS IS WHERE YOU SIGN UP.

Here's what you have to do:

1. Post on your site, Twitter, Tumblr, Goodreads, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook account and declare your intentions to join us.  It's EASY. We ask you share info to help spread the word. Please link back to us so others can find us here.

If you're posting on your blog, grab the official blurb (below) and our button (in the sidebar) and create a post. (Need an example? Check out Kelly's (incredibly simple) Bout of Books 41 blog post!)

The Bout of Books readathon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It’s a weeklong readathon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 19th and runs through Sunday, August 25th in YOUR time zone. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are reading sprints, daily Discord questions, and exclusive Instagram challenges, but they’re all completely optional. For all Bout of Books 41 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

2. Add the direct link to your sign up post to the linky in this post.

3. On August 19th, READ! If you join after that, READ!

Official Sign Up

Remember: we ask that you post a DIRECT LINK to your sign up post.
If you're only participating on Twitter/YouTube, link up your "I'm participating in Bout of Books!" tweet/video, NOT your Twitter/YouTube profile.

A direct link is...
http://yoururl.com/your-sign-up-post
http://twitter.com/YOURHANDLE/status/thenumberofyourstatus
etc.
(And if you have questions on how to find a direct link, we have a post for that!)