Carmela A. Martino

Well, it's now 9 pm Sunday, the end of my 48-hour book challenge. Today I finished reading my friend's young adult historical novel work-in-progress that I blogged about yesterday. Then I began The Name of the Rose, an adult novel by Umberto Eco. Both are quite different from Melvin Beederman Superhero: The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich, the book I began the Challenge reading. :-)

Today I read for a total of 5 hours. Adding that to my previous total of 8 hours, 45 minutes, gives me a total of 13 hours, 45 minutes. [That includes about 60-90 minutes spent blogging and reading a few blog posts. If I do this again next year, I'll know to track my blog-related reading more carefully. This year, I simply noted my stopping and starting times without differentiating time spent online. But I was careful to limit my online time.] I don't believe I've ever spent that much time reading fiction in one 48-hour period, except perhaps in my college days.

This has been a most interesting, and fun, experience. Read More 

I managed to put in only 1 hour 15 minutes of reading time last night. It's now 1 pm, Saturday, and I'm ready to sit down to some serious reading. It's too hot and muggy to be outside for long, so I'm going to read in the comfort of my lovely air-conditioned office.

Stopping for tonight. I managed 7 hours and 30 minutes today. Add that to yesterday's 1 hour, 15 minutes and I'm up to a total of 8 hours 45 minutes so far. All of today's reading was a historical young adult novel set in the 1930s. It's a work-in-progress I'm critiquing for a friend. I'm almost at the end, but my eyes are getting tomorrow. I hope to finish it tomorrow.  Read More 

Well, I meant to start several hours ago, but I got sidetracked. So I'm setting my official start time as 9 pm, CST today, Friday. We'll see how much reading I can accomplish between now and 9 pm Sunday.

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