Sunday, June 10, 2012

48-Hour Book Challenge -- Final Summary


My update:
Total hours spent on the challenge: 10
Hours of reading: 7.5
Hours of listening to an audiobook: 1.5
Hours blogging/reviewing: 1
Books finished: 4
Books started: 1
Pages read: 855

Kate's update:
Hours of reading: 9
Books finished: 2
Books started: 1
Pages read: 945

The challenge is over! Kate was not able to do any more reading but I did finish Lake Como Girls, which I will review in a separate post. Together, we participated for a total of 19 hours! As promised, I've donated $40 ($2 per hour, plus a bit to round up) to Reading Is Fundamental.

I did not manage to participate for as many hours as I had in past years, but I was really glad that Kate was able to find so many hours to read and that my sister-in-law Jill spontaneously joined us from Singapore to do some reading of her own with my two nephews. I envy and admire those participants who can read for 20+ hours and hope to achieve that myself one year.

I wish to express my thanks to MotherReader for once again organizing this fun and well-run event! I hope to spend the next couple of days catching up with other participants' blogs and reading their thoughts on the books that they had read over the weekend.

5 comments:

  1. Congrats! I am amazed by all the parents taking park in the challenge.

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  2. It's such a treat to be able to read the weekend away, but especially nice to do it with friends. Thanks for playing!

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  3. Wonderful its really interesting.I will definitely try this for revising book summaries chapter by chapter

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  4. And can I just add a kudos for Kate's impressive reading time! Great job!

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  5. Congrats! I didn't think to log Gearbox's (11) hours... but he read along this weekend, too. Maybe next year I'll let him play along more actively.

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