48 Hour Book Challenge Finish Line

I need to do this quickly: it’s breakfast time, and I’m off to church soon…

Starting time: 7 a.m. Friday
Finish time: 7 a.m. Sunday

Total time read: 18.25 hours. I read less this time, though I think I had more time to read. I think, this year, I took more breaks. (I know I did: I ended up watching a couple episodes of Castle, season 1 with C on Friday night — because how could I resist? And a few episodes of The Big Bang Theory, season 1 with both C and A on Saturday night. Yes, I gave up precious reading hours for TV this year.)

Books read: 7

There was also a 45 minute period — which I counted — where I went through about 5 books, abandoning them after about 35 pages because I wasn’t in the mood to read them. (I started The Downside of Being Up, which really is about a kid who gets unwanted erections — after about 25 pages, mostly because in the those 25 pages, there were more euphemisms for penis and erection that I could count. Well, actually, I was counting, and after more than 2 dozen, I decided that it wasn’t my type of book.) 

Favorite reads: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Stickman Odyssey

Total time blogged: 3.2 hours

Total time:  21.5 hours

Not my best year; I really was aiming for 24 hours or more. But, I still had a grand time. And since my $1 an hour is less than $25, I’m going to donate the $25 to RIF.

And as a little bonus, my favorite geek being bookish:

As always, thanks Pam, for this! I had a blast.

6 thoughts on “48 Hour Book Challenge Finish Line

  1. Yeah, I couldn't imagine having The Downside of Being Up in a school library. Beyond awkward, although I left it for Surly Teen Boy to find and read. Yeay for finishing! I finished at 11 and felt like I left the party early!

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  2. Congrats!
    I went through a period like that, too… I flipped through the first five pages of 3 or 4 books until I settled on what I wanted to read next. The Downside of Being Up does not sound like the kind of book I would enjoy reading either.

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