{"id":34750,"date":"2018-05-11T20:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34750"},"modified":"2018-05-11T21:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T01:45:03","slug":"newbery-notes-48-hour-book-challenge-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=34750","title":{"rendered":"Newbery Notes – 48-Hour Book Challenge Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I did it! I focused on reading and reviewing for a solid 48 hours, and now I’m ready to report.<\/p>\n

I’m a little disappointed in my totals, since I’ve broken 30 hours in previous years, but since I still have the weekend, it’s still good.<\/p>\n

Here are my totals for the 48 hours from 1:30 on May 9 to 1:30 on May 11:<\/p>\n

Grand Total of time spent: 26 hours, 5 minutes<\/p>\n

15 hours and 45 minutes of that time was reading.
\n4 hours and 20 minutes was writing reviews.
\n2 hours and 10 minutes was other blogging.
\n2 hours and 15 minutes was messing with my spreadsheets and gathering books. (!)
\n15 minutes was listening to an audiobook while I drove to and from Silent Book Club.
\n1 hour and 20 minutes was posting two reviews.<\/p>\n

In that time, I read 15 complete books and 4 partial books, but 9 of those complete books were picture books. I read a total of 2,090 pages.<\/p>\n

I wrote 12 reviews, posted 2 reviews, the Starting Line post, and 2 Sonderquotes posts, for a total of 5,537 words written.<\/p>\n

This brings my totals for Newbery-eligible books to:
\n229 books received from publishers (including now 2 duplicates).
\n107 middle grade books read, including 14 not finished, for a total of 22,504 pages.
\n32 young adult books read, including 2 not finished, for a total of 10,253 pages.
\n188 picture books read, for a total of 7,090 pages.<\/p>\n

Grand total: 327 books read, 39,847 pages.<\/p>\n

Best of all, this year’s 48-Hour Book Challenge was fun! The weather has been glorious, just perfect for sitting out on my balcony and reading. I also got caught up on writing reviews – though I still need to write reviews of the last two books I read. So far, I’ve been able to mostly vary the styles of books enough that I’m not getting bored. (I began each hour of reading by reading a picture book, for example.)<\/p>\n

And here are parts of my view while reading:<\/p>\n

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There are still an awful lot of books left that I need and want to read. But at least I’m having fun doing it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did it! I focused on reading and reviewing for a solid 48 hours, and now I’m ready to report. I’m a little disappointed in my totals, since I’ve broken 30 hours in previous years, but since I still have the weekend, it’s still good. Here are my totals for the 48 hours from 1:30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48-hour-book-challenge","category-newbery-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750","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=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}