{"id":34332,"date":"2018-02-19T00:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T04:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34332"},"modified":"2021-04-03T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T15:22:12","slug":"24-hour-book-blitz-newbery-edition-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34332","title":{"rendered":"24-Hour Book Blitz: Newbery Edition, February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For several years, I’ve done 48-Hour Book Challenges<\/a>, inspired by Mother Reader<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Knowing that this year I need to read more books than ever before in a year, I first thought I’d try to do one 48-Hour Book Challenge each quarter of 2018.<\/p>\n

Well, I still may do that. But last weekend, at ALA Midwinter Meeting and the first meeting of the 2019 Newbery Committee, I decided I need to do more. I’ve got President’s Day holiday coming up – so why don’t I try to do a 24-Hour Book Blitz each month? Starting tonight!<\/p>\n

Here are my rules: The object is to spend as much time as I can in the next 24 hours reading and blogging.<\/p>\n

I began at 10:15 pm Sunday night, and I will finish at 10:15 pm on Monday night.<\/p>\n

It might be smart to just do reading, but I have finished several books that I still need to review, so I’m going to count writing reviews as well. I’m going to make a stipulation, though, that I can’t count more than half as much time writing\/blogging as I have spent reading. So blogging won’t get more than one-third of the time.<\/p>\n

Now, some years I’ve done better than others, sometimes even skipping trivialities like a shower. However, tomorrow morning I’ve got a dentist appointment to get a permanent crown, so I will have to take time for that and for showering! But I figure this means my first 24-Hour Book Blitz will have a result that I will be able to beat the next time I try it.<\/p>\n

Time to get reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several years, I’ve done 48-Hour Book Challenges, inspired by Mother Reader. Knowing that this year I need to read more books than ever before in a year, I first thought I’d try to do one 48-Hour Book Challenge each quarter of 2018. Well, I still may do that. But last weekend, at ALA Midwinter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,391,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48-hour-book-challenge","category-book-blitz","category-newbery-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332","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=34332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39243,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34332\/revisions\/39243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}