48 Hour Book Challenge: Day 2

My final tally:
9 hours, 20 minutes,
4.5 books

It's day 2 of the 48HBC, and honestly, I don't think I'll have much time available today, but I'll give it a shot!

Friends from out of town were here, and there was a lot of wash to do, but I managed to squeak in some reading today.

Very glad to have started Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perrera.  I'm completely hooked on the story (though I cannot foresee a happy ending) and will definitely finish it at a later date.

Today's meager stats:

Books started: 1

Guantanamo Boy

Books finished: 1

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

Total hours for day 2: 2 hrs, 20 minutes

My total for the 48 Hour Book Challenge: 9 hours, 20 minutes

For my first time participating, I'm happy with that!  It was lots of fun.  Thanks, Mother Reader, for the challenge.  Look soon for reviews of the books I read!

48 Hour Book Challenge

Here are the stats for day 1 of the 48 Hour Book Challenge

Books finished: 3

• Super Diaper Baby 2 by Dav Pilkey
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• Dumpling Days by Grace Lin

Books partially finished: 1 audiobook

• How Angel Peterson Got his Name and Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports by Gary Paulsen

Blog posts, comments, Twitter updates, etc. - many!

Total hours spent reading: exactly 6

Total hours spent blogging, commenting socializing: 1 

(really, I spent more, but the rules allow for 1 hour per 5 hours/reading)

Total for the day: 7 hours

Fun? Yes!

Back at it tomorrow...

48 Hour Book Challenge

I just finished A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.  A great book, but since it's not due out until September, I'll hold off on reviewing it for a while and continue down my pile.  My black and white Nook did not do justice to the illustrations.  You can check out a few pages on illustrator, Jim Kay's website.

2 books and 3.25 hours into the 48 Hour Book Challenge. Working on Grace Lin's Dumpling Days and making lunch for my son who's sick.

Super Diaper Baby 2 review

I'm off and running on Mother Reader's 48 Hour Book Challenge, so I may have several posts per day.  The idea is to read as much as I can in the next 48 hours.

Pilkey, Dav. 2011. Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers. New York: Scholastic.

(Advance Reader Copy)
Principal, Mr. Krupp, has told Harold and George that there must be something else that they can write about besides poop!  He even offers them his copy of The Grinch who Stole Christmas for inspiration.  And voila! They find that there is something else to write about – pee!  And they can make it rhyme, too!

And once every toilet
was crushed by the cat,
The people awoke and cried,
“What’s up wit’ dat?”

With more Flip-O-Ramas and “feachering gooder grammer and lesser mis-pelled words,” kids are sure to love Super Diaper Baby 2.  Coming this month to a library near you.


... and I'm off to my next piece of quality literature ...

48 Hour Book Challenge

June 3rd (or June 4th, depending on your preference) kicks off this year's 48 Hour Book Challenge.  The Book Challenge has been an annual happening for 5 years and is organized by MotherReader.  In a nutshell, "the challenge is to use this window of time to read as much as you want - and then a little bit more - along with your book blogging friends."  Full details may be found here.  I've never participated before, but am hoping to use this time to catch up on my reading pile and share some new books with you.

Here's what's on my "to be read" pile:

• The Mis-Adventures of Phillip Isaac Penn byDonna Peterson
• Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers by Dav Pilkey (kids will be so happy to see this one released later this month!)
• Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
• The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers: The Medusa Plot by Gordon Korman (due out in August and also likely to be very popular)
• Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera (at least I hope to get a start on this one)
• Several picture books that have also been piling up

I doubt I'll get to them all, but I like the inspiration offered by the 48 Hour Book Challenge - just what I needed - a little push.