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| My final time for the 24in48 readathon: 24 hours 2 minutes and almost 2 seconds. I made it! |
WHAT I READ:
I finished the next two books in the Fjallbacka series (The Drowning and The Lost Boy) and started a few more (there’s a full list at the end of the post), plus I finished up some more academic reading which actually made that a bit more fun which surprised me (maybe because I was just reading and not taking notes?). Most of what I consumed was audiobooks, partly because it let me do other things, like design BuJo spreads and spend some time in Photoshop, but also because I was too exhausted for most of Sunday to do much physical reading.
THOUGHTS (WHAT WAS EASY? HARD? WHAT WAS DIFFERENT THAN ANTICIPATED):
I didn’t realize how much I was looking forward to reading ‘It All Falls Down’ until I couldn’t get a copy in time. That wasn’t much of an issue on Saturday when everything was new and I was working on creative projects, but on Sunday when reading was a bit harder and I wanted something fun, and something I had Instagram posts planned for (yeah OK it’s not that hard to convince me to gush over Vancouver where the book is set), because I’d been hoping to be more engaged in that aspect of the readathon, it was a bit frustrating, but even that wasn’t a huge deal. Maybe it’s all the unintentional camping/roadtrip readathons I’ve accidentally done but I knew I could read that much and I knew when to switch up books and take breaks, so the biggest issue for me really was just staying awake long enough to read for enough hours across the two days.
CHANGES FOR NEXT TIME:
Right now I’m looking forward to getting back into my normal routine so I can safely say that two days is enough of a readathon for me. Although I do have to say I definitely enjoyed it. It was a great way to get caught up on reading, to give myself permission to get caught up on reading without feeling like I was neglecting anything. I wouldn’t want to do this too often, but a couple of times a year seems reasonable, so I’m looking forward to seeing how the dates in July end up working out.
There are a couple of things I would change going into this again. Mainly, I’d need a spreadsheet or at least a table (e.g. see the table below) for tracking page counts because doing math while listening to an audiobook is not my strong suit. I’d also need to find a way to balance the social aspects of the readathon and reading, Either I need to decide not to try for the 24 hours or I need to ignore the community aspect of it (which would be a shame) because I can’t do caffeine and staying up past my bedtime just isn’t feasible. Granted there were some extenuating circumstances this time, but then again that’s life. I know better than to forgo planning for surprises, but I’m not sure how to include that buffer time and still participate in things like challenges.
TITLE | TOTAL PAGES | FINISHED | STARTING | ENDING | PAGES READ |
The Drowning | 480 | Y | 0 | 480 | |
The Lost Boy | 493 | Y | 0 | 493 | |
The Red Word | 352 | 3 hr 5 mins | 4 hr 41 min | 48 | |
An Echo in the Bone* | 1200 | 85% (45 p.) | 87% (124p.) | 109* | |
Ms. Marvel vol. 9 | 136 | 0 | 88 | 88 | |
The Mortal Animal (ch 13 & 18) | 32 | Y | 0 | 32 | |
The Foundations of Buddhism (ch 6) | 29 | Y | 0 | 29 | |
Principles of Evolutionary Psychology | 4 | Y | 0 | 4 | |
How Pleasure Works (ch 1) | 24 | Y | 0 | 24 | |
The Fantasy of Identification | 273 | 36% | 56% | 55 | |
TOTAL | 1,362 |
* Page numbers from The Outlander Bookclub (using the hardcover edition). It turns out I’d read a portion of the book before (I assume in the preview from the last book) so I’ve removed those pages from the total page count.
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