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Whew! I did it! And I enjoyed it and only wished I could do it longer! The fun of putting aside everything else and catching up my reading and my website was very gratifying. (Though I ended up with just as many books waiting to be reviewed as I started with. But at least all my blogs are upgraded and working again.)<\/p>\n
My final statistics for the 48 hours between 10:30 Friday night and 10:30 Sunday night:<\/p>\n
Total time spent reading and blogging: 23 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n
(I almost<\/em> spent half the time!)<\/p>\n This was broken down like this: Books finished: 5 Pages read: 1,120.<\/p>\n Goodness, though, it did give me the bug and made me super aware of all the books I have waiting to be read…. I had checked out extra books to be ready for the challenge, and the sad part is that I really want to read them all, but obviously it’s going to take a lot longer than the check-out period to do so.<\/p>\n All in good time! It was a whole lot of fun making a start!<\/p>\n Here’s a list of books I read and partly read:<\/p>\n The Holy Bible<\/em> (11 pages) Hey, I figured that I could count my nightly Bible reading in the total. It is reading! Another review written: Tea Time for the Traditionally Built<\/em>, by Alexander McCall Smith. <\/p>\n You might wonder how I spent so much time blogging with only 5 reviews written. Well, I also wrote entries about the 48-hour challenge and entries on my other three blogs, Sonderquotes,<\/a> Sonderjourneys,<\/a> and Sonderblessings.<\/a> I also added a page for each review on the main site<\/a> and updated the About Me page there and on all the blogs. (They still said that I was pursuing a Master’s in Library Science! I’ve been a librarian for a year and a half now!) Anyway, the whole thing was a whole lot of fun and it felt great to ignore unpacking boxes for a weekend and pay attention to my website. (Yes, I still have boxes to unpack from my move in mid-April. Mostly books!)<\/p>\n My biggest drawback was that I stayed up very very late two nights last week — reading and blogging — so I really needed to sleep this weekend. Oh well! Next year I will plan that better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew! I did it! And I enjoyed it and only wished I could do it longer! The fun of putting aside everything else and catching up my reading and my website was very gratifying. (Though I ended up with just as many books waiting to be reviewed as I started with. But at least all […]<\/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-527","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\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nReading time: 11 hours, 40 minutes
\nListening time: 50 minutes
\nBlogging\/reviewing time: 11 hours<\/p>\n
\nBooks reviewed: 5
\nPartial books read: 6<\/p>\n
\nThe Eternal Smile<\/em>, by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim (finished and reviewed)
\n10-10-10<\/em>, by Suzy Welch (52 pages). I lost interest and am turning this back in. The idea is great — when making decisions, consider the implications after 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years. However, the idea is simple enough, it doesn’t seem like you need to read a whole book to understand it.
\nDragon’s Keep,<\/em> by Janet Lee Carey (301 pages). Finished and reviewed.
\nExcuses, Begone!<\/em> by Wayne Dyer (64 pages). Good stuff. I’ll keep reading this one, but I always read nonfiction slowly over time and in little bits.
\nHow to Ditch Your Fairy,<\/em> by Justine Larbalestier. (307 pages) Finished and reviewed. Fun!
\nShow & Tell: Exploring the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration<\/em>, by Dilys Evans (21 pages). Good stuff. I’ll read more.
\nThe Lincolns<\/em>, by Candace Fleming (82 pages). Interesting! I’ll be finishing this soon, I think.
\nNot Becoming My Mother<\/em>, by Ruth Reichl. 112 pages. Finished but not reviewed yet. A quick and interesting memoir.
\nOctavian Nothing, Volume I<\/em>, by M. T. Anderson, the last 15 minutes of the audiobook. Finished and reviewed.
\nHis Majesty’s Dragon,<\/em> by Naomi Novik, the first 40 minutes of the audiobook. Good so far!<\/p>\n
\nI also finished upgrading the blogs and changing the look of each one to match my main site– but that was mostly a matter of letting the computer delete and copy files while I was reading.<\/p>\n