Rising from the Reading Slump

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, May 11th and runs through Sunday, May 17th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 13 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog.

- From the Bout of Books Team

April was a month consisting of laying in bed all day and marathoning a million series that I'll most likely never finish, without ever opening a single book. For the lesser half of the 30-days. For the most part, I have a perfectly good excuse, I went abroad. Ha.

Either way, I am now 3 books behind on my Goodreads challenge and being a lazy ass, not just with reading, isn't working out for me. So it's time to get up and do something! (Funny how I'm going to sit back down again. At least while reading.)

Goals, goals, goals: generally, to get back on my track with Goodreads (ooh, alliteration!); specifically: 3 books - Confess, Shades of Earth, and The Lover's Dictionary

Monday

I pretty much spent the whole day cleaning so no book was finished. I did read 63 pages Shades of Earth in ebook version and also did the Bookish Survey challenge. As much as I wanted to, I wasn't able to participate in the Twitter Chat because of some annoying stuff that happened with my email. *ehem* Yahoo *ehem* I'll try again on Saturday, that's for sure!

Tuesday
I. AM. GETTING. SO. CONFUSED. BY. THE. DAYS. DAMN. TIME. ZONES. I just continued reading Shades of Earth.

Wednesday
Is it just me, or are the days going by so fast? I think it's just me. So, I finished all 338 digital pages of Shades of Earth! Hooray! *insert 30-second dance party; thanks Mer!* I've got mixed feelings about this one, though. Review to come all the way from Centauri-Earth. I promise it's not going to take a hundred years.

Thursday
I would consider this day quite productive - bookish wise - since I finished The Lover's Dictionary in one sitting! Woo, the feels in that book though. Aaand, even though it's very late in the evening right now, I joined the challenge for Day 4, From Modern to Classic.

Friday
I've got a confession. I didn't read anything today but the first few pages of Confess. Oops.

Saturday
To make up for slumping my way through yesterday, I joined today's Favorite Read Photography Challenge and wrote a review. 

Sunday
Oh my god, I didn't read again. What is wrong with me?! At least, I finally got my review of Shades of Earth done, along with a bonus of WordPlay. Yaay. But seriously, no reading. I am ashamed.

In Conclusion

Writing this, it is 18th of May, Monday and Bout of Books 13.0 have ended hours earlier. I gotta say this wasn't my best read-a-thon, which is sad, but I did manage to pull myself about 10% out of my reading slump by finishing 2 books. That's progress, right? 

I did 3 challenges for this week. They were fun and got me into a reading-ish/productivity mode which is good. I was also able to update my Review page and actually write reviews on time. 10 points for productivity!

Anyways, I really do hope to get out of this slump 110% soon so I could get back to fully enjoying leisurely reading. If you've got tips, go ahead and share, from one bibliophile to another.