{"id":41960,"date":"2022-11-12T23:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41960"},"modified":"2022-11-12T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:32:20","slug":"48-hour-book-challenge-finish-line-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=41960","title":{"rendered":"48-Hour Book Challenge Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, I finished this month’s 48-Hour Book Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First off, I’m disappointed because my total time is 10 minutes less than last Spring<\/a>, and I thought that was low. I should somehow avoid those naps! But this time I did less audiobook listening and more reading, so I got more pages read. This time I spent much more time on housekeeping details, but it’s all good.<\/p>\n

Here are my totals:<\/p>\n

Reading time: 13 hours, 15 minutes
\nI read 906 pages in that time. Only one was a complete book, but I finished four books, and hope to finish one more book for the Cybils before I go to sleep tonight. Counting the four books I finished, I read from sixteen different books. (This isn’t unusual. I like to read nonfiction a little bit at a time.)<\/p>\n

Listening time: 4 hours, 5 minutes
\nThat’s not enough to finish the audiobook I’m working on, but I’m 49% through it.<\/p>\n

Reviewing time: 1 hour, 20 minutes
\nI wrote reviews of three of the books I finished.<\/p>\n

Blogging time: 1 hour, 25 minutes
\nThis is the start and end posts, plus two Sonderblessings<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n

Posting two reviews: 1 hour, 30 minutes.
\nI write the posts on this blog, then set them up for the main website<\/a>, with links to reviews before and after.<\/p>\n

Housekeeping details: 3 hours
\nThis includes setting up the spreadsheet and details like that. The reason it’s so very long this time was first that it turned out the book I started Thursday night was in the wrong category. So I sent emails to the Cybils category chair of Young Adult Fiction and got that straightened out — it’s not Speculative Fiction at all. (My category.) Then last night, I got the list of finalist books for the Mathical Book Prize, and I went through my library catalog with every title to figure out how many I need to order and how many I can read from library books.<\/p>\n

You’d think by now I’d know that I’ll never get as much done in 48 hours as I think I can! I suspect what spoiled me is in other years I’ve worked on children’s books, and I can read them in about half the time of a young adult book. I was looking back in my records, and only once did I ever get more than 30 hours in, but usually I do more like 27 hours. Maybe I’m getting old!<\/p>\n

But it’s all good, and it’s definitely fun to try! And I read some good books this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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