No, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I hoped, or as I did last year. But, hey, with a headache and dizziness, this is still quite good. And it was definitely still fun.
I only finished three books. But Code Name Verity was so incredibly good, it was just as well it was the only fiction book I finished. All the better to savor that way.
Here are my stats:
Total time spent on the 48HBC: 27 hours, 30 minutes
Donation to Book People Unite: $48, in honor of my turning 48 within a week of the 48-Hour Book Challenge. (Hey, seemed appropriate!)
How this was broken up:
Time spent Reading: 11 hours, 55 minutes
Books Finished:
Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein (Wow!) (343 pages read)
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, by Lauren F. Winner (216 pages read)
Shiny Objects, by James A. Roberts (73 pages read)
Books partially read:
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, by Alexander McCall Smith, 25 pages read
The Bible, 4 pages read
Each Day a New Beginning, by Karen Casey, 2 pages read
Praying for Strangers, by River Jordan, 8 pages read
A Truth Universally Acknowledged, edited by Susannah Carson, 4 pages read
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair, by Nina Sankovitch, 22 pages read
The Conundrum, by David Owen, 4 pages read
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, by Deborah Hopkinson, 26 pages read
Victory Over Verbal Abuse, by Patricia Evans, 2 pages read
The Order of Odd-Fish, by James Kennedy, 13 pages read
Der Orden der Seltsamen Sonderlinge, by James Kennedy, 16 pages read
Total pages read: 758
Time spent Listening: 3 hours, 25 minutes
Audiobook listened to: Sing You Home, by Jodi Picoult
Time spent Networking (mostly Twitter and Facebook): 1 hour, 30 minutes
Time spent Blogging: 10 hours, 40 minutes (counting only until 11:30)
Books Reviewed: Still, Shiny Objects, Code Name Verity (All the books I finished, so that goal, at least, was reached.)
Reviews Posted: The One and Only Ivan, Still, North of Beautiful, Code Name Verity
Other Blog Posts:
Two for Sonderjourneys
Three for Sonderquotes
Sonderling Sunday
Two about the 48-Hour Book Challenge (Not counting this one, written after the ending time)
Total words written: 5,778
So, it looks like I will need to turn in lots and lots of books if I want to go to California in a couple weeks without holding onto library books I haven’t read. We shall see!
Now, I admit I wish I hadn’t had a headache the whole weekend. But if I had to have a headache, it was definitely nice to be distracted. I’m counting this a success!