24-Hour Readathon Final Report:

I clocked in for the 24-Hour Readathon just a few minutes after its official start on Saturday, which was 5 AM local time. I read for the better part of two hours, then had an almost five-hour time-out for breakfast with my sister and my Saturday-morning errands. I was back to reading by 12:30 PM, and finished the book I’d had in progress around mid-afternoon. I spent the next two hours cheerleading and commenting on other blogs – I signed up for just a one-hour shift as an official Readathon cheerleader, but enjoyed it so much I made some more visits on my own time. I got back to reading after that, starting two books. I then decided to see if I could make it all the way through the shorter one before I gave in, since I knew I wasn’t going to last for the full 24 hours. I made it, and I posted my final update just around midnight.

Total hours reading (best estimate): 10, which isn’t two bad considering the two hours of cheerleading and the five-hour time-out
Total pages read: 392
Books read, in whole or in part: 3

• In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church by Gina Welch (180 pages – in progress when Readathon started, finished during it)
• Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo? And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask, by Jancee Dunn (208 pages – read start to finish)
• The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O’Connor McNees (44 pages – started and set aside to finish after Readathon)

Mini-challenges entered/completed: 0/0. I wanted to focus my time on the reading, and limited my online activity to brief blog updates, Twitter check-ins, and my cheering/commenting. I completely skipped the mini-challenges.
Total hours cheering/commenting: 2
Blogs visited to leave cheers/comments: 30

Many thanks to my husband for letting me ignore him for the day to do another Readathon – I had a great time! If I don’t have a date conflict with the Fall Readathon, I hope to participate again in October – and if I do, I’ll probably try to take a vacation day on the Friday before so I can avoid another lengthy time-out on Saturday morning.

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