I finished 8 complete books, parts of 2 others, and listened to a couple of hours on my current audiobook.
Books I finished during the challenge:
Like a Love Story by Adbi Nazemian (Balzer + Bray, June 2019) - I had started this one previously and finished it up as my first book Saturday morning
The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller (Schwartz & Wade, August 2019)
Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow, 2017)
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum, October 2019)
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews (First Second, June 2019)
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee (Putnam, August 2019)
Meal by Blue Delliquanti (Iron Circus Comics, 2019)
Dead Voices by Katherine Arden (Putnam, August 2019)
Bloom by Kevin Panetta (First Second, 2019)
And for my last book of the challenge, I got a little over halfway through Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Rick Riordan Presents, January 2020).
My lovely audiobook companion while I was doing laundry and talking walks outside (despite the intense heat we got this weekend) was I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (Scholastic Audiobooks, May 2019).
You can look for more posts about these books in the weeks to come.
Whew! What a GREAT weekend of reading! One of the 24in48 challenges along the way was to post about your favorite book of the challenge and I can't really do that because I chose absolutely excellent books. Seriously, they were all great.
This time around I did plan ahead to have a stack of graphic novels to read in between longer prose novels and I think that really helped me. I felt better about how the challenge was going when my completed book count was going up and the graphic novels, being shorter reads, really helped with that.
One thing that the challenge team did that I thought was so, so neat was that they asked participants to log any finished books in their spreadsheet, which were then added to a July 2019 24in48 Readathon Goodreads shelf. It's already got over 1600 different titles logged to it. I think it's really neat to be able to see what books were read over the weekend.
The challenge hosts were phenomenal at posting all weekend, hosting giveaways and challenges, and responding to folks on social media. I want to send a huge thank you to the 24 in 48 Team!
And they've set the dates for the January challenge - mark your calendars for
January 18-19, 2020
for the next challenge!
