May 12th, 2012 
Vicky 
Yes! It’s that time of the year again – Bout of Books 4.0 is here! What is it all about, you ask? Bout of Books is a week long read-a-thon, run from 12:01am on Monday, May 14th through 11:59pm Sunday, May 20st in whatever time zone you are in. It is totally low pressure, meaning participants are only asked to push themselves to read more than they normally would during any given week. There is no competition between readers. How much time a reader wants, and can commit, to read, tweet, or network with fellow bloggers is left to individual preference.
I’ve actually done this read-a-thon before but my life got in the way and I didn’t manage to participate as much as I would’ve liked to. So here’s to a successful read-a-thon! 
My plans:
I know I’m going to sound really boring here but my aim for this read-a-thon week is to catch up with my uni reading. I have two exams coming up which require tons of books to be read in the next few weeks. They’re mainly for American Literature which (sorry guys) is not my cup of tea, but it has to be done. It’d be a great opportunity and a great motivation for me to finally catch up with myself and be productive for once. So anyway, since I won’t be able to join in the RAT until Tuesday evening and I’ll probably be busy with birthday celebrations, my aim is to finish 2 or 3 books that week. I’m a slow reader but I hope I’ll manage two books at least.
The books I’m going to read are:
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Seize The Day by Saul Bellow
I’ll try to post updates as frequently as I can but I’ll probably tweet them instead of putting them on the blog. I’m not sure whether I should review them, though? Do you guys review books you read for uni? Or if you’re not in uni/college, are you interested in books like these? Do let me know!
Also, if you’d like to sign up for this event, make sure to do so here. Anyone else joining in? x
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I’m participating too and its my first bout of books read-a-thon and I’m aiming to read 5/6 books haha. I’m thinking now maybe I should have gone for a goal like yours just seems much more do-able! I never review uni books probably just because I don’t see them as books that I personally would like to read and discuss, and most of all they’re boring!
Good luck anyway!
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I wouldn’t normally pick these up either so I don’t think I’ll review them. Yay, have fun! It’s my second time participating but I was really busy the last time I signed up so it wasn’t the same. I hope it’ll be better this time round. 
Yay, you signed up! I’m looking forward to readathon again with you (: I hope you can find some time to check out my challenge on Tuesday.
Good luck with your books! I agree on American Lit not being that much fun. Hope you’ll have a wonderful birthday ^^ <3
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I’m signed up too
That’s good that you’re using this for school, I always find the read-a-thon to be motivating, especially with other people cheering you on. Good luck getting those read, as for reviews it’s up to you, but I don’t think you have to do them.
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At least Cuckoo’s Nest and Catcher in the Rye are supposed to be decent reads? I haven’t read them myself (saw the movie of Cuckoo’s Nest) but have both.. yeah. Good luck!
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Haha yeah, that’s why I’m starting with these two. I haven’t seen the film yet but I hope it’s not as bad as some of the Am Lit books I’ve read so far :/ Thank you!
Wow, heavy reading there, Vicky. I hope to read them all some day too. Would love to read your reviews for these.
I couldn’t decide what to read, so I’m having a poll. I will be putting up my reading list soon.
Since reading in May so far hasn’t been too great for me, I hope to pick up with this read-a-thon.
Good luck with your exams.
Thanks Pragya! Yep, I have to read them, unfortunately
But I’m hoping to participate in the Twitter chat and stuff so I hope it’ll be a little bit more fun this way. 
Oh, where’s the poll?
Ah, why unfortunately. It’s good to get some serious reading done once in a while. The movie One flew over..was superb and I have heard good things about the book and about Catcher in the Rye too. Don’t think of them as course work and you will end up having fun.
I love the Tweeting during read-a-thons. Keeps up the motivation.
The poll is here – http://poll.fm/3owci
Hi Vicky. Good luck with your reading this coming with. I am so excited to join in again for this wonderful read-a-thon.
- Beckie
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is such a trip. I’m guessing you’ll like it…and it is definitely better than the movie – way more intense, and such genius character development. I hated Catcher in the Rye when I was in High School, but recently read it and really loved it! I’ll be curious to hear what you think of those two! I don’t think either is boring at all! In fact, Catcher in the Rye could really be a Young Adult Contemporary. Good luck!
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OMG! This sounds so fun! I just joined! Cant wait! <3!
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Ah, I need to make my post! It’s almost time.
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I wasn’t finished. So…
I loved One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and Catcher in the Rye was okay. I haven’t read the other two.
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I am doing this too..my post wil go up tomorrow evening after The Sunday Post. Great picks…hope you read them all
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I’m signed up as well. I’m using it to catch up with my goals and I’m participating because I like events that involve choosing my own content and meeting reading goals. I’ve got 12 books on my Bout of Books Challenge list plus another 4 for the weekly challenge I do and there’s a couple on top of that I need to read to keep up with the schedule I set for my blog so I don’t see myself doing a ton of networking during the event. I made a page on my blog for updates and Read-A-Thon Related things because my goals are to post a review each day from now on and I’d like to give those more attention than I do events. I figure I’ll do a main page wrap up at the end but otherwise it won’t affect my main page schedule. And no I’m not listing massive amounts of books as a competition with others I’m listing those because I want to use the read-a-thon to bring me where I want to be in my personal reading list and blog plan.
As far as the UNI list goes I might not review them if you know already they’re nothing your going to enjoy, but maybe in your wrap up give each a rating and a short opinion paragraph. Then you’ve offered an opinion about the book without devoting a lot of time to reviewing it. You may actually surprise yourself and enjoy the book you’ve been assigned to read. Occasionally assigned books surprise people. For example I used to wonder in school if English teacher ever read anything interesting or if their tastes in books became boring when they took the job. In Junior year we read The Crucible by Arthur Miller though and it remains to this day one of my favorite. My freshman English teacher introduced me to F. Scott Fitzgerald and I enjoyed his works as well. Some of my college English electives offered some interesting reads as well. Of course I also took courses like Science Fiction and Fantasy, and King Arthur so with topics that appeal to me I was likely to find books I enjoyed. One of my college instructors assigned Robin McKinley as a must read. The Hero and The Crown was an excellent book, so you may be surprised once you actually read these to find one among them that doesn’t put you to sleep.
JD Salinger’s Cather in the Rye made the banned books list at one time and though I’ve never read it there’s got to be something interesting in there if the establishment banned it from public libraries and schools for a while. I only know that because one my school teacher talked about getting suspended when she was in school because her teacher caught her reading that book. I mean yeah now it’s standard reading material for many English classes but back in the day it was one of those forbidden reads so maybe you’ll find it appealing in some way. Anyway I wish you luck with your assigned reads and hope that you find one which you actually enjoy.
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Ooh, love the bean bag! Your room looks so cosy. Yay, you got an iPod touch! I love mine. <3 Wish it was a iPhone though, ahah.
Bout of Books seems like it would be perfect to catch up on University reading. Especially when it comes to exams and all that. If I were in school, I would probably do the same thing.
I have been wanting to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and I have a copy of Catcher in the Rye on my bookshelf somewhere.
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that’s still a great goal! Good luck with your uni reading and exams!! Oh and I saw the bean bag post!! So jealous! I’m also reading Straight to Heaven right now and really enjoying it!
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I think you should review them! It could be very interesting. I’m super excited about this readathon. I have so much that I want to get done.
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I’m doing this read-a-thon too! I’m kind of being boring too. I’m going to catch up on some review books. Hey, but truly, no reading is boring, right? I just read Catcher in the Rye a couple of weeks ago. It was….well, wait and see.
Good luck with your goals!
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I was thinking of the Bout of Books, but I’m soooo behind my reading already.
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Ooooh, Catcher in the Rye and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest are two books I’ve always wanted to read but never got around to doing! It sucks that you’re not liking your American lit class but hopefully these books won’t torture you too much!
Looking forward to participating in this read-a-thon with you! Feel free to continuously update me on twitter and imessage! Hehe.
READ! READ! READ! xD
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I’ve just signed up. By the way, your choice of books is great ( even if I don’t think that uni books are choice). I haven’t read any of them, I’ve seen only the movie “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”. The movie is great but I’m sure that the book is better. Still, I think that you should review them. I’ll try to review mine. Two of mine books are for reviewing. Here is the link:
http://chicklibrarycat.blogspot.com/2012/05/bout-of-books-40.html
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