{"id":42213,"date":"2023-02-20T22:20:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T03:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42213"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:20:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T03:20:45","slug":"finish-line-24-hour-book-blitz-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=42213","title":{"rendered":"Finish Line &#8211; 24-Hour Book Blitz, February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/48hbc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/48hbc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41552\" \/><\/a>24 hours isn&#8217;t enough time!<\/p>\n<p>But my final stats are:<br \/>\n9 hours, 10 minutes reading,<br \/>\n3 hours, 15 minutes listening,<br \/>\n1 hour, 25 minutes online with related stuff.<br \/>\nTotal:  13 hours, 50 minutes.  And I spent more than half the 24 hours actually on books.<\/p>\n<p>I finished 3 books, and read or listened to parts of 16 books.  This isn&#8217;t as bad as it sounds.  I read a page or two of several books as part of my daily quiet time.  I read a total of 810 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, it&#8217;s not enough time.  I&#8217;m in the middle of Sidney Taylor Award Winner and Printz Honor Book, <em>When the Angels Left the Old Country<\/em>, and it&#8217;s amazing!  But that means I didn&#8217;t get going on Morris Award eligible books.  However, I greatly narrowed down the list of award winners I&#8217;m going to try to read before I do a program a week from today.  I hope to at least start a Morris book this week.  And after that &#8212; No more excuses!  If I don&#8217;t read two Morris eligible books in a given week, I&#8217;ll finish up on Sunday instead of going to my usual gaming group.  That&#8217;s the plan, we&#8217;ll see if it works!<\/p>\n<p>And meanwhile, how much fun was it to spend a day reading?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 hours isn&#8217;t enough time! But my final stats are: 9 hours, 10 minutes reading, 3 hours, 15 minutes listening, 1 hour, 25 minutes online with related stuff. Total: 13 hours, 50 minutes. And I spent more than half the 24 hours actually on books. I finished 3 books, and read or listened to parts [&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-42213","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\/42213","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=42213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42214,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42213\/revisions\/42214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}