{"id":37749,"date":"2020-05-20T19:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37749"},"modified":"2020-05-20T19:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T23:57:13","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-finish-line-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=37749","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the last 48 Hours, between 7 pm Monday and 7 pm Wednesday, I spent 27 hours and 15 minutes reading, reviewing, posting reviews, and blogging.<\/p>\n

I was hoping for 30 hours — but today I lost a little bit of urgency when I realized that my week off will continue and there’s nothing to prevent me spending the time the same way! So I took a little longer on my walk by my lake, taking pictures of irises.<\/p>\n

Today I focused more on dipping into various nonfiction books I’d started than reading whole novels. In fact, I’m a little stunned that I only finished ONE book from start to finish — Emily’s Quest<\/em>, by L. M. Montgomery. But I did finish four other books that I’d already started and wrote reviews of them. I also got more than halfway through a children’s novel that I started today.<\/p>\n

But most of the time was reading a chapter or two from nonfiction books. Besides the five books I finished, I read parts of eighteen other books. So yeah, maybe I’m overdoing the reading a little bit of books each day thing (and no wonder it takes me a long time to make much headway), but they were all books I really enjoyed reading, and that was in keeping with my theme of taking a personal spiritual retreat this week.<\/p>\n

My stats for the 48 hours:
\n13 hours, 30 minutes were spent reading
\n2 hours, 50 minutes were spent listening to audiobooks
\n2 hours, 30 minutes were spent writing four reviews
\n4 hours, 25 minutes were spent posting five reviews (so I’m not further behind!)
\n1 hour, 55 minutes were spent with other blogging (starting line & midpoint posts & Sonderquotes)
\n2 hours, and 5 minutes were spent keeping track in spreadsheets (Oh dear, that seems excessive.)<\/p>\n

In those 13 and a half hours, I got 954 pages read.
\nIn the 4 hours, 25 minutes I spent reviewing and blogging, I wrote 2,921 words.<\/p>\n

And the important thing? I had a lovely time doing it. And — I think I set some nice habits for the rest of my week off. Having this going on helped me spend a little less time on Twitter in the morning. And it reminded me that I *like* reading and reviewing and blogging.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was again a lovely way to refresh my reading batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the last 48 Hours, between 7 pm Monday and 7 pm Wednesday, I spent 27 hours and 15 minutes reading, reviewing, posting reviews, and blogging. I was hoping for 30 hours — but today I lost a little bit of urgency when I realized that my week off will continue and there’s nothing to […]<\/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-37749","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\/37749","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=37749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37750,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37749\/revisions\/37750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}