{"id":37738,"date":"2020-05-19T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37738"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:32:37","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-midpoint-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37738","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge: Midpoint Check-in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/48hbc-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/48hbc-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37739\" \/><\/a>  It&#8217;s past 7:00 on Tuesday night, so I have come halfway through my 48-Hour Book Challenge, and I&#8217;m fighting off the realization I always get during these events that I can&#8217;t actually get infinitely many books read in an infinite amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>But the report so far is that I&#8217;ve finished reading (or listening to) four books, all of which I&#8217;d already started:  one children&#8217;s novel, one audiobook, and two nonfiction books which I&#8217;d been reading a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n<p>This has seemed like a good day for dipping into a large number of books, though it&#8217;s a little less satisfying to report.  But in the last 24 hours, I have ended up spending 15 hours reading, blogging, reviewing, and posting reviews.  (That&#8217;s good.  I like to try to hit 30 hours in my 48-Hour Book Challenges.  It all depends on how long I sleep.)<\/p>\n<p>And this time, I&#8217;m trying to focus less on getting a large amount read and more on getting what I finish reviewed.  But also to enjoy the process.  Because what could be better than a day spent reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s past 7:00 on Tuesday night, so I have come halfway through my 48-Hour Book Challenge, and I&#8217;m fighting off the realization I always get during these events that I can&#8217;t actually get infinitely many books read in an infinite amount of time. But the report so far is that I&#8217;ve finished reading (or listening [&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-37738","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\/37738","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=37738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37740,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738\/revisions\/37740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}