I did it! I completed this year’s 48-Hour Book Challenge!
As feared, yesterday was pretty much a wash-out for reading. I’m happy, though, because the family crisis was resolved in a surprisingly wonderful way, with me sort of coordinating and help from others, including my ex-husband. Instead of being resentful of spending my day off not reading, I’m happy I had the day off to help out. On top of that, the musical “Parade” at the Kennedy Center last night was amazing! The performance was astoundingly good. The topic was hard-hitting – antisemitism and racism in Georgia showing a Jewish man wrongly convicted and eventually lynched in 1915. But it was incredibly well-done with wonderful music.
And today? Instead of using some of the time to blog and post reviews (which I didn’t get to yesterday, either) – I wanted to read, doggone it! And I was happy to be reading an incredibly good book – the advance reader copy of Sisters in the Wind, by Angeline Boulley. I haven’t written the review yet, but it was just as good as her first two – wonderful! I ended up with a positive experience of this year’s 48HBC because I got to take the time to devour that book.
My stats for the 48 hours are probably my lowest:
Time spent:
14 hours, 35 minutes total:
8 hours, 35 minutes Reading
30 minutes blogging (Starting line post)
5 hours, 10 minutes Listening to the audiobook James
20 minutes with details (spreadsheets and stuff)
I wrote 603 words and read 505 pages. I only finished one book, but made good headway on several. (The way I read nonfiction is to read one chapter at a time. I also started a graphic novel toward the end and got a lot of pages in.)
Now, I’m not quite sure how I’ll get those Mathical books read, but I did get one more book read that I got at ALA Annual conference, and my kid is having things work out great, so it’s been a good weekend so far.
Now, my plan for Labor Day is to make progress on my new website, prayingwiththepsalmists.com. I’m hoping those plans will go better!