March 2020 24in48 Readathon Wrap Up

TIME READ: 14 hours 09 minutes

BOOKS FINISHED: Broken Harbor, Know My Name, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol 1, A Tale for the Time Being, How We Fight for Our Lives

I ended up not getting as much reading done as I thought I might on the second day, but I had some really nice conversations with family and friends so I can’t complain about that. I also finished more books than I thought I would. Usually I end up jumping around more, but I think the shorter reading time helped with that, although I did spend a good chunk of Monday reading 95% of ‘The Dry’ so maybe not.

Surprisingly I didn’t end up needing another audiobook and I almost didn’t end up finishing the one that I had. Partly that was due the fact I didn’t spend any time working concurrently on other projects and partly because this is the best I’ve felt during a readathon so far so I wasn’t struggling to focus like I have in the past.

TITLE	TOTAL P.	PREV. READ	CURRENT	REMAINING
Broken Harbor - Tana French	474	287	474	0
Know My Name - Chanel Miller	310	119	310	0
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, vol.1	126	44	126	0
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki	14.72	9.75	14.72	0
Policy Analysis of Multi-Actor Systems	170	0	37	133
How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones	153	0	153	0
Soft Science - Franny Choi	55	0	17	38

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