{"id":11243,"date":"2012-06-09T00:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T04:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11243"},"modified":"2012-06-09T00:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T04:35:57","slug":"and-were-off-the-7th-annual-48-hour-book-challenge-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11243","title":{"rendered":"And We’re Off! The 7th Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge Begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> I confess: I really do look forward to this weekend all year. It’s the weekend of Mother Reader<\/a>‘s 48 Hour Book Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I began at 11:30 pm tonight, Friday night. My challenge will then run until 11:30 pm Sunday night. I’m going to see how much time I can spend reading.<\/p>\n

My stats from last year<\/a> are definitely going to be hard to beat. If not impossible. Last year, I hit 30 hours and 30 minutes. I finished 8 books, read 1,606 pages, and wrote 9 reviews, but only posted one of them.<\/p>\n

This year, I’m going to try very hard to get less<\/em> behind rather than more<\/em> behind. With this in mind, I plan to post all reviews I write, as well as several reviews I’ve already written. Since I have about 45 reviews waiting to be posted, any amount will help! And during the 48 Hour Book Challenge, I have a nice amount of traffic from other book challengers, so it’s really a good time to post! Oh, I also want to catch up on writing reviews of books I’ve written. I have 11 books sitting here that I very much want to review, so I will try to review them in the next 48 hours. Mind you, I also want to review every book I read during the challenge, so this writing will cut down on my reading time. But all of it will be fun.<\/p>\n

The biggest obstacle to a high number? Well, today is my 22nd day with a low-grade vestibular migraine. I felt somewhat better today, but I find that staying up later does not help. So I’m thinking it would not be a good time to avoid sleep, and that may be my undoing.<\/p>\n

Once again, I am lucky in that I am not scheduled to work this weekend. I waited until late so I could go to small group Bible study without it cutting into my time, and then I did the grocery shopping for the week, so I won’t need to do that. Love those late night hours! I brought in my audiobook for in a pinch. <\/p>\n

Now, I do need to be my son’s chauffeur for going to Prom tomorrow night, but they are just going to have to bear with me listening to an audiobook! I confess, I’d be tempted to skip church Sunday morning — but they will be showing pictures of the graduating Seniors, and I chose many for my son. Of course the big challenge will be: Can I possibly stay awake on Sunday afternoon and read, or is a Sunday afternoon nap a biological necessity? Time will tell.<\/p>\n

I did save Code Name Verity<\/em> to start tonight, because I have a feeling I won’t be able to stop until I’m so tired I can’t keep my eyes open. Then it would be cool to go through my entire “rotation” of books<\/a> — a book I own (Code Name Verity<\/em>), a new library book (The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection<\/em>), an award winner (Breaking Stalin’s Nose<\/em>), an Advance Reader Copy of a book not yet published (Keeping the Castle<\/em>, by Patrice Kindl), an older library book (Silver Phoenix<\/em>, by Cindy Pon), and rereading a book (Over Sea, Under Stone<\/em>, by Susan Cooper — though I might save that for the plane). I also have a lot of Capitol Choices books I’d like to get read and a lot of shorter books still for 5th grade and up that I’d like to slip in there. We shall see.<\/p>\n

Now I’m going to go read!<\/p>\n

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