{"id":2474,"date":"2007-06-11T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:39","slug":"48-hour-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2474","title":{"rendered":"The 48 Hour Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 255);\">&#8220;Ques&#8217;tu lis?&#8221;&#8221;Kes-tu-lis?&#8221;<\/i> (*edit: Sebastien, a French intern at the Mouscron Public Library in Belgium has corrected me!) That is the question being posed to a bunch of young people  in Belgium. It means (loosely translated) &#8220;What Are You Reading?&#8221; Everyone is getting ready for their summer reading programs, and <i style=\"color: rgb(102, 51, 255);\">&#8220;Kes&#8217;tu lis?&#8221;<\/i> is a regular gathering that will introduce new mangas, graphic novels, and other cool reading. Go Belgian librarians! It sound really fun.<\/p>\n<p>The 48 Hour Book Binge is such a nice kick-off to summertime.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, sans <i>The Book Thief<\/i>, this year&#8217;s reading challenge went a <i>lot<\/i> better. Last year I was interrupted so many times I was frantic and irritated. I only finished seven books, and ended up being pulled into all kinds of other people&#8217;s problems, and I got really frustrated. This year, I am proud to report that being ruthless really helped. Clearly I need to be a bigger bully and make people feed me and leave me alone to read more often. I only felt guilty once or twice. Or three times. But no more than that.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I finished &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Fifteen books (actually fourteen and a half, but I had to finish up the last Maude March!)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>3,688 pages (throw in a couple of MG and 400 pagers &#8211; it helps)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>And approximately thirty-six hours of reading (barring sleeping, and an unfortunate phone call from a girlfriend I couldn&#8217;t tell to hush and leave me alone, &#8217;cause she was calling long-distance, <i>and<\/i> an unfortunate choir rehearsal where the director was late &#8211; but I had my book in my purse, so all was well!).<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homemakingcottage.com\/images\/whim_farimsh.gif\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Getting my <a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviews\/comments<\/a> posted was a bit of a challenge at times, but scrawling thoughts on handy scraps of paper seemed to work out okay. These couldn&#8217;t be mistaken as coherent reviews for the most part, but for some books it was a temptation to write essays (there&#8217;s that English major in me always wanting to respond to books in some way.) &#8211; which I squelched, for the most part. No matter how brief my comments, some of the books I read were fabulous, and you should check them out. I did begin some books and choose not to finish them or review them &#8212; I&#8217;ll spare all of us that torment &#8212; but I tried not to spend more than ten minutes on figuring out whether or not a book was worth my time.<\/p>\n<p>As always, having an excuse to read unopposed is an unrivaled delight to me, and I hope to join the fun next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ques&#8217;tu lis?&#8221;&#8221;Kes-tu-lis?&#8221; (*edit: Sebastien, a French intern at the Mouscron Public Library in Belgium has corrected me!) 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