{"id":4036,"date":"2011-06-03T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:58:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:58:11","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=4036","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/48hbc.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/48hbc.bmp\" alt=\"\" title=\"48hbc\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4037\" \/><\/a>Woo-hoo!  I am now officially beginning this year&#8217;s 48-Hour Reading Challenge at 4:30 on Friday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/\">Mother Reader<\/a> is the blogger who sponsors the Challenge.  This is her sixth year doing the 48-Hour Book Challenge, and my third year participating.  As I said in my <a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?cat=54\">round-up<\/a> last year, this is the time when the guilt is totally reversed \u2014 You get to feel guilty if you\u2019re NOT reading!  \ud83d\ude42  Woo-hoo!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2011\/05\/sixth-annual-48-hour-book-challenge.html\">rules<\/a> are most reasonable and quite lovely.  As Mother Reader says, this is &#8220;that weekend extravaganza that lets you say, \u201cBack off, <em>I\u2019m reading.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that statement makes me think I need to point out what our theme song should be:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BuRuwR2JSXI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I love the 48-Hour Book Challenge and look forward to it all year.  This year, because I have to take my son to the SAT tomorrow morning (while playing an audiobook), I actually have both Friday and Saturday off.  So I am planning to stretch myself and see if I can hit the 30 hour mark this year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m going to be unspiritual and skip my small group Bible study tonight.  We&#8217;re even doing a book study, but I will be so close to 30 hours&#8230;  I won&#8217;t, however, skip church Sunday morning, so that&#8217;s the main &#8220;interruption.&#8221;  If I&#8217;m not lingering to talk so much after church, this is why!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;d meant to get started much earlier today.  But I decided I really should run some errands first.  Had to buy snacks, right?  And then it seemed like a good idea to take a nap.  It&#8217;s going to be tricky going all the way until 4:30 on Sunday, since the big question will be whether or not I can skip my Sunday afternoon nap.  I have my doubts!  That will give me a few hours left on Sunday to get ready for a long week&#8217;s work &#8212; I&#8217;ll be working the next 6 days.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the point of the 48-Hour Book Challenge is to pick a 48-hour time block on the designated weekend and read and blog about books as much as possible in that time.  Blogging time counts.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I&#8217;m way, way behind on writing reviews.  There are stacks of books which I have read this year, and very much want to review, but simply haven&#8217;t done it yet.  So my goal for this weekend is not quite as much fun as spending 30 hours reading.  I want to spend the majority of my time writing reviews.  I want to get within reach of catching up on that backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I probably won&#8217;t post all the reviews I write today.  It works well for me to write them ahead and then post one a day.  When I post the reviews, I add in links to related reviews and things like that and a link between the blog and the main site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">www.sonderbooks.com<\/a>.  But I think I will keep track of my progress by posting a review after every five reviews I write.  And I simply <em>have<\/em> to get some books read, or where&#8217;s the fun in the challenge?  So I&#8217;ll definitely be reading some books, too.  In fact, I think the key to reading instead of sleeping is to find one of those books that I can&#8217;t put down if I wanted to.  So I hope I can pick a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo-hoo! I am now officially beginning this year&#8217;s 48-Hour Reading Challenge at 4:30 on Friday! Mother Reader is the blogger who sponsors the Challenge. This is her sixth year doing the 48-Hour Book Challenge, and my third year participating. 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