{"id":20269,"date":"2013-06-09T00:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20269"},"modified":"2013-06-09T00:20:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:20:24","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-saturday-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20269","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge: Saturday Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! I might actually be able to hit the 24-hour mark in the 48-Hour Book Challenge<\/a>! Even though I worked.<\/p>\n

I am now posting this simply to keep myself awake. Once I stop, I need to go straight to bed.<\/p>\n

But I’ve already done 14 hours and 35 minutes of the challenge! So if I can fit in 9 hours and 25 minutes, even though I’m going to church, I can hit the 24 hour goal. The big question: Can I keep from taking an afternoon nap?<\/p>\n

Here’s how it’s broken down:<\/p>\n

I spent 3 hours and 45 minutes blogging and writing reviews, not counting
\n1 hour and 35 minutes posting reviews.
\nI spent 7 hours and 45 minutes reading, not counting
\n1 hour and 50 minutes listening to an audiobook.
\nI’ve spent 10 minutes unpacking books.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done any networking so far, except what I did in between customers when working at the library reference today. I learned that my sister Marcy<\/a> is participating in the Challenge!<\/p>\n

I have completed three books, though two of those were nonfiction books that I only had the last chapter left to read. I read many, many nonfiction books at a time, rotating piles. I don’t recommend that method to anyone, but it does keep me from getting bored.<\/p>\n

The third book was Heart’s Blood<\/a><\/em>, by Juliet Marillier, which I also only had to finish. Tonight I’d had enough “productive” time spent. I wanted to have the fun of reading! So I went out on my balcony (pictured in the Starting Line post) and finished the book. I’m so happy with the balcony! Birds were singing loudly the entire time. On the grass, I watched a squirrel, and later a bunny. It just felt so nice to sit out there enjoying a book.<\/p>\n

My page total is 369 pages. That doesn’t seem like very much with 7 hours and 45 minutes spent reading, but shuffling around the nonfiction books goes much slower than settling in with fiction. For that matter, the Heart’s Blood<\/em> pages were long ones.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m really drooping and need to get to bed. Can I do 9 hours of the challenge tomorrow without skipping church? We shall see….<\/p>\n

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