{"id":1496,"date":"2010-06-06T23:55:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T03:55:48","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-final-summary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge Final Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here I am enjoying the 48-Hour Book Challenge<\/a> last night:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> What a lovely weekend! Though it goes to show that even with a whole weekend set aside for it, I barely make a dent in my piles of books to read and books to review. This weekend, I also made some progress blogging about the upheaval in my life this month. It’s book related, since the main event was losing my job as a librarian, right? Anyway, I also did some blogging on Sonderjourneys<\/a>, Sonderblessings<\/a>, and Sonderquotes<\/a>. Besides posting reviews on this blog, I also posted the reviews on www.sonderbooks.com<\/a>, my main website where I have links to related books and have all my reviews organized by type of review.<\/p>\n

My 48 hours are up. Here are my stats:<\/p>\n

Reading: 11 hours, 35 minutes
\nListening to an audiobook: 3 hours, 50 minutes
\nBlogging: 9 hours, 20 minutes
\nNetworking: 1 hour, 55 minutes (I did not count the 3 hours I spent at the DC Kidlit Book Club, though!)<\/p>\n

Total: 26 hours, 40 minutes<\/p>\n

The key this year was reading The Sky Is Everywhere<\/em> through the night until I finished it. If I had been as caught up in The Red Pyramid<\/em>, maybe I could have done it both nights.<\/p>\n

I was disappointed that I only finished 3 books. But I did get lots of reading time in, so I can’t really complain. And I always read nonfiction books a chapter at a time, rotating my many piles of books. So any reading time makes progress!<\/p>\n

I did review all the books I finished, plus one book from the backlog. I would probably have to spend more time on reviewing to take care of that backlog altogether. But it was nice to finish the weekend without being further behind on books to review.<\/p>\n

Here are the books I finished. I was already on page 234 of The Red Pyramid,<\/em> but the rest I began this weekend:<\/p>\n

The Red Pyramid<\/a><\/em>, by Rick Riordan
\nThe Birthday Ball<\/a><\/em>, by Lois Lowry
\nThe Sky Is Everywhere<\/a><\/em>, by Jandy Nelson<\/p>\n

The other book I reviewed was a fantastic tribute to librarians:
\nThis Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All<\/a><\/em>, by Marilyn Johnson<\/p>\n

The audiobook I’m listening to and totally enjoying is The Princess Plot<\/em>, by Kirsten Boie<\/p>\n

However, even though the total finished is low, here are some other interesting stats:<\/p>\n

Pages read: 995
\nWords written on blogs: 6,356<\/p>\n

I read lots and lots of partial books. First, during my daily devotional time, I read a page out of several devotional books:<\/p>\n

The Bible
\nJourney to the Heart<\/em>, by Melody Beattie
\nThe Book of Common Prayer<\/em>
\nPraying God’s Words Day by Day<\/em>, by Beth Moore
\nGrace Notes<\/em>, by Philip Yancey
\nMeditations to Heal Your Life<\/em>, by Louise Hay
\nMore Language of Letting Go<\/em>, by Melody Beattie<\/p>\n

The other nonfiction from which I read chapters are:
\nGod Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter<\/em>, by Stephen Prothero
\nEverything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book<\/em>, by Anita Silvey
\nA Thousand Names for Joy<\/em>, by Byron Katie
\nGetting Organized in the Google Era<\/em>, by Douglas C. Merrill
\nFor Better: The Science of a Good Marriage<\/em>, by Tara Parker-Pope
\nWon’t Let You Go Until You Bless Me<\/em>, by Andree Seu
\nFeel: The Power of Listening to Your Heart<\/em>, by Matthew Elliott
\nEmbracing the Wide Sky<\/em>, by Daniel Tammett
\nAlmost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream<\/em>, by Tanya Lee Stone<\/p>\n

I kept expecting to find one to grab me enough to finish it to the end, but I was impatient and wanted to get to the fiction. Most of these I will finish before too much longer.<\/p>\n

It was a wonderful weekend! I want to do this every weekend! Especially with so much turmoil and uncertainty related to my job, it was extra nice to have time to forget about it all and read, and also to reflect on it all and blog and remember to count my blessings.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Mother Reader<\/a> for sponsoring this challenge! What a treat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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