48 Reading Challenge tracking post

Here is the 48 Hour Book Challenge.

Here are my books, an assortment of mostly sci fi/fantasy books, all of a diverse nature:

Here's how I did last year:

Total of pages read/listened to:  3086  

Total time read:  23 hours and 32 minutes

And off  I go at 4:40 pm to do even better.............

Day 1

5:50:  have read Dragon Keeper, by Carole Wilkinson (333 pages). Here's my review.
6:08:  have visited other blogs and commented
8:23:  read from 6:18 to 7:50.  Blogged from 7:50 till now.    Ten minute break, then read till 10:05

Totals for day 1:  5 hours and 12 minutes of reading    48 minutes of social media


Day Two

After 25 minutes of reading, finished my second book--The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.   Am feeling rather stunned by it.  (328 pages).  Also got in 5 minutes of social media time and 25 minutes blog post writing time.

7:08 pm   Not a good day for reading-I fell aleep, and woke to find my help was need on Project Fix Leaking Roof.

But I have finished a third book--Across the Nightingale Floor, by Lian Hearn.  I'm not going to bother reviewing it, cause of not liking it much.   I think if girls are described as strong when we first meet them, they shouldn't be progressivly described (with no sickness or anything) as more and more delicate.   I think if we are told in no uncertain terms that the main character boy won't make a good assassin because he was raised to abhor killing, some time should be taken to explain how he gets to be the sort of person who casually thinks "Oh I want to kill that person."  I think a few lessons isn't enough to make a novice a compitent sword fighter.  That sort of thing.

Plus the insta love was REALLY over the top.

Kirkus described it as "a rousingly muscular adventure," and I am not sure if we read the same book.  Nor am I sure what a "muscular" adventure is.

stats update:  1 hour of audiobook listening (Throne of the Crescent Moon).   2 and half more hours of reading.  10 more minutes of social media.  1 nap.  1 hour scraping paint off really long piece decorative molding taken from area of suspected roof leak.

day two totals:  5:55 hours of reading.  1 hour of social media

Day three: 7 hours and 35 min of reading, 10 min social media