{"id":31364,"date":"2016-10-05T22:51:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=31364"},"modified":"2016-10-05T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:04:36","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-starting-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=31364","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge Starting Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Cybils-Logo-2016-Web-Sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Cybils-Logo-2016-Web-Sm.png\" alt=\"cybils-logo-2016-web-sm\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31366\" \/><\/a>And I&#8217;m off!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I&#8217;m starting my own personal 48-Hour Book Challenge at 10:50 pm!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m modeling it after the Challenges that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">Mother Reader<\/a> did every year for 10 years, borrowing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/search\/label\/48%20Hour%20Book%20Challenge\">her rules and format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea:  In a period of 48 hours, spend as much time as I can reading and reviewing.<\/p>\n<p>Networking is also allowed, and I will allow spending time posting reviews.  But I want to maximize reading time.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion:  I&#8217;m a first-round judge for the 2016 Cybils Awards, in the category of Young Adult Speculative Fiction, so I want to get off to a good start!  I have Thursday and Friday off this week because I worked six days last week &#8212; and I&#8217;m going to spend them reading!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m so excited!<\/p>\n<p>But first, <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?cat=54\">it&#8217;s traditional for me<\/a> to post my 48-Hour Book Challenge Theme Song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BuRuwR2JSXI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And now, to READ!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m off! Tonight I&#8217;m starting my own personal 48-Hour Book Challenge at 10:50 pm! I&#8217;m modeling it after the Challenges that Mother Reader did every year for 10 years, borrowing her rules and format. The idea: In a period of 48 hours, spend as much time as I can reading and reviewing. Networking is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48-hour-book-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}