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6/7/13

48 Hours of Reading Fun

I started reading for the 48 Hour Reading Challenge at 4:53 pm today.  It is now 6:20, and I have just finished my first book, In the Shadow of Blackbirds (as Liviania advised me too, when I posted the pictures of the books I wanted to read). 

Here are my Saturday updates.

Stats from Friday

Time:  6:20 pm   1:28 hour/minutes read.  One book, In the Shadow of Blackbirds, finished (my thoughts).  387 pages read.

Time: 6:45.  Have used up 25 mins of precious social media time on review and this intro. 

8:15 now.  1 hour and 24 minutes more reading.  One more book finished--Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett.  It's 295 pages, but I was on page 110 when I stared, which makes 195 more pages for my total.

8:35 now.  20 more mins of social media time used.  Circa 10 Friendly Comments left on participating blogs.  One book requested from Paperback Book Swap where partipator MAD Hoydenish had just posted it.

10.05 1 hour and 20 more minutes read.   Read Mooncoin Castle, a nice kids' fantasy from 1970- a jackdaw enlists the help of a ghost and a witch to help save his ruined Irish castle home from being demolished to make way for a supermarket.   I might offer it to my ten year old...141 pages.  Read the first 70 pages of the Children's Blizzard, by David Laskin.   He gets Laura's sister Mary and Mary Power confused when talking about the Lond Winter.  I sneer at him for this.  Still, it's rather interesting, though a bit slow--at this point we've met the immigrant families whose kids are about to die, and seen them starving on the prairie for a while (I know much more about Mennonites than I did at 9:05).   I'm just at the point where the titular blizzard is about to hit...

10:16  11 mins more social media time.

But I am sleepy, and am calling it a night.  Much as I love a good reading challenge, I don't feel compelled to suffer.

Totals for Day 1:  4 hours 12 minutes read,  56 mins. social media time.   I did really well at reading while doing other things.   These did not include cooking.  Thanks, Patrick.
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16 comments:

  1. BrandyJune 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM

    I'm seriously impressed with how fast you read. I don't read that fast, and I read even slower withe-books, which several of my planned books are. Sigh.

    I'm not starting for another couple hours but am reading everyone's posts in anticipation.

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    1. CharlotteJune 7, 2013 at 5:44 PM

      Well, this was a specially fast one! (Is a withe book a thing or a typo? It's probably a typo, but it sounds like a fascinating catagory...)

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    2. Anamaria (bookstogether)June 7, 2013 at 6:15 PM

      What-in-the-hell books?

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    3. CharlotteJune 7, 2013 at 7:37 PM

      :) I have read my fair share of those, but it doesn't sound like Brandy...

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    4. BrandyJune 7, 2013 at 11:09 PM

      Yeah. It should say "with e-books". Not a good sign I was making that sort of mistake before I even started.

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    5. CharlotteJune 8, 2013 at 5:29 AM

      ahhhh! of coures. Ihave no e reader myself, so that didn't occur ot me.

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  2. Ms. YinglingJune 7, 2013 at 9:42 PM

    I typed up my reviews separately and will revise and post them later. I have mostly new books, but may reread A Little Princess if my eyes become too weary of E ARCs tomorrow. Hope you sleep well!

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    1. CharlotteJune 8, 2013 at 5:34 AM

      And there is nothing at all wrong with re-reading A Little Princess! Did you ever read the sequel that Hilary McKay wrote, Wishing for Tomorrow? It's very good.

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  3. Ms. OJune 7, 2013 at 10:59 PM

    Go Reader Go! Not challenging but will get some reading in this weekend for sure.

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  4. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 4:59 AM

    Aw, I always find out about these things when it's either too late to sign up or else a bunch of time in the challenge has already passed and it would be fairly pointless to sign up for only half a challenge. :/ Really have to stop missing the boat on all these readathons and other such things.

    Good luck with your challenge, and I hope you get many awesome books read!

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    1. CharlotteJune 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM

      Thanks! There are still 48 hours left though...so you still could do it...

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  5. WhitneyJune 8, 2013 at 7:56 AM

    Wow, just wow. I am seriously impressed by what you've accomplished in such a short amount of time. I hope I can achive as much. Happy reading!

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  6. VasillyJune 8, 2013 at 8:49 AM

    You're doing great! Keep it up and happy reading.

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  7. BethJune 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM

    Good work! I do feel smug when I catch mistaken references to other books in stuff I'm reading.

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  8. TammyJune 8, 2013 at 11:30 PM

    Way to go!! I also read In the Shadow of Blackbirds! We will have to compare notes.Keep up the hard work!

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  9. Tallulah A. ScribblesJune 9, 2013 at 3:20 PM

    Thanks for visiting my blog during your social meida time. Dropping to see what you are reading. I haven't read Mooncoin Castle. I'll add it to my TBR list.

    Good luck and happy reading!

    Tallulah A. @ MAD Hoydenish


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