#48hbc : Finish Line

Well, it's close to the finish line and dinner's here, so I'm calling it!

Final challenge update:

Total time blogging/reading/social networking: 26 hours
Total pages read: 2005
Books finished: 7 + 65% of Rose Under Fire

The books I finished this weekend were:

• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
• Pi in the Sky by Wendy Mass
• This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
• Eruption!: Volcanoes and the Science of Saving Lives by Elizabeth Rusch
• The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
• Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler
• Doll Bones by Holly Black
• and 65% of Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein

I also listened to some of The Case of the Left Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2) by Nancy Springer while exercising (and not while cleaning or doing laundry since I haven't done any of those things yet!!). 

This was a really fun weekend for me because I loved every book that I read this weekend. I guess my favorite out of all of them was Doll Bones, but really they were all excellent. It's especially exciting because when I started thinking about crafting my TBR pile (over a month ago), I didn't think there was anything I was particularly excited to read! Some time spent perusing Netgalley and Edelweiss proved me wrong, and I'm really glad. 

Boyfriend had a nice time this weekend, too! He finished the following books: 

• How to Grow Up and Rule the World by Vordak the Incomprehensible
• Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
• Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
• A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
• Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes
• and part of Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin

I want to give a shout out to Ms. Yingling of Ms. Yingling Reads for being our fabulous challenge organizer this year! It's really a fun weekend and I'm glad we could make it happen. Thanks, also, to everyone who participated. (And thank you so much to my obliging Boyfriend who will take a whole weekend to sit inside and read quietly beside me. :)

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