#24in48 Wrap-Up & What's Next

Ah, Monday, we meet again.  This weekend I participated in the 24in48 readathon hosted by Rachel @ Home Between Pages. She posted a set of follow-up questions so I'm gonna fill them out here.

1. How many hours did you read, if you were tracking?I capped out last night at 22 hours and 5 minutes.  SO CLOSE!
2. How many books did you read, if you were tracking?
   I read The last 2/3 of The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson, all of Blood Rites by Jim Butcher, all of Snowed In by Rachel Hawthorne, and the beginning 2/3 of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
3. How many pages did you read, if you were tracking?
   Some rough addition: about 1,200
4. Favorite book of the ‘thon?I think it's going to be Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  Of course that is hinged on the ending, and if I don't like the ending then it'll be Blood Rites.
5. Least favorite?
   The Amityville Horror.  I'll be reviewing this, but basically because it's (allegedly) a true story, it read more like a newspaper article or like a textbook sequence of events.  Rather than a proper novel.
6. Thing you learned from this ‘thon?
   • Don't forget that sometime in the 48 hours you should be sleeping.  
   • And that, if you work a traditional job, you gotta get up for work on Monday morning. 
   • And remember that wine makes you sleepy; usually I stay up late on Fridays, but I...drank too much wine and fell asleep at like 10:30.  So I didn't start until 9 Saturday morning
   • Switch books!  I have a weird mindset about books and I actually think the goodreads challenge exacerbates it because I keep thinking in terms of finishing books and not in the fact that I read for 22 hours (which is pretty amazing)!  When I felt meh about a book, I would be hesitant to switch books because then I would finish less books but read the same amount of time. So there were a few times near hours 18-20 where I felt like I was doing homework which was so annoying (I was mostly annoyed at myself).  
   • Make a tasty meal on Friday and eat the leftovers all weekend.  Because cooking takes away from precious reading time, but eating crappy food is depressing.

What's Next

Finishing up Miss Peregrine, likely tonight, and then I am going to attempt to get over my mental roadblock that screams "Back away!  You'll never finish!" when I look at A Clash of Kings and cower into a corner. This is my book for Once Upon a Time VIII (which I haven't started and ends on June21 which is growing closer and closer!). If that's unsuccessful tonight, I will probably spend 2 hours choosing my next book and then fall asleep before I can start.

I'll be reviewing The Amityville Horror, and I think Miss Peregrine and hope to have them posted by the end of the week(end).

How was your weekend?  Did you do #24in48?

#24in48 Check-In - Hour 12

Well it's technically hour 14, but, no matter!

I've completed 5 hours of reading and I always get frustrated when it takes me a long time to read a short book, so I have to keep reminding myself that this is simply based on the amount of time spent reading, not how many books I blaze through this weekend.

My Stats:

Books read: Finished The Amityville Horror  (and I haven't chosen my next book)

Pages read: 222

Time read: 4 hours & 45 minutes

I'm gonna make some popcorn for a snack while I mull over what to read next.  Turns out I'm not in the mood to read anything from my pre-selected stack. Ugh.

How's your readathon coming along?

#24in48 Kick-Off!

So, ahem, yes the readathon started 8 hours ago but...when you have a bottle of delicious wine and new bath bubbles...sometimes you fall asleep early, okay?

I'll be starting ASAP right after I brew my coffee.  This is hosted by Home Between Pages.  She posted a quick bunch of Qs on her kick-off post to be answered when readers start!


1. From what part of the world are you reading today?
Northwest New Jersey!

2. What book are you most looking forward to?
The conclusion of The Amityville Horror because I'm getting anxious waiting to see how it all pans out. I think I'll read that first since I'm limited to daylight hours with that one.

3. What’s your plan for the weekend, if you have one? 12 hours a day? 18 today, 6 tomorrow?
I thought I had a plan, but. I really don't. I'm just gonna read whenever I'm not doing something else. Most of my reading will be tomorrow, I think, as I have a prior commitment this evening.

4. Are you going to be tracking anything specific this weekend besides time, like page count, books read, snacks consumed?
When I started formulating my "plan" in my head, I was like ooh, I'll finish so many books! But I think I will just count time read, because when I try and finish books or read a certain amount of pages, I think I start to rush through books to get to the next one.

5. Is this your first readathon? If its not, leave our newbies your best readathon tip.
It IS my first readathon! I'm excited!

6. Where are you going to be updating this weekend? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, a blog?
Mostly here and MAYBE on Twitter.


Onto the mass amount of reading!!!!

What are you book are you starting with?  (Or...what book did you start with?)