Total time: 21 hours (my goal was 20 hours)

Time spent read­ing: 14 hours

Time spent lis­ten­ing to audio­books: 4.5 hours

Time spent blog­ging and tweet­ing: 2.5 hours

Money raised for Room to Read: $118 (21 hours + 13 com­ments) Since the chal­lenge does not end for every­body until 7 a.m. Mon­day, June 6 any com­ments sub­mit­ted by then will be added to this total. Updated: Thanks to every­one who com­mented and the sup­port that meant for Room to Read’s local lan­guage pub­lish­ing pro­grams!

Books com­pleted: 8

Also Called Harper by Ann Hay­wood Leal (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012)

Chime by Franny Billingsly

The Dog Days of Char­lotte Hayes by Mar­lane Kennedy (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012)

Every­thing for a Dog by Ann M. Mar­tin (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012)

Franny Parker by Han­nah Roberts McK­in­non (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012) (got a copy since chal­lenge started)

Gar­den of Eve by K. L. Going (audio­book) (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012)

Mel­on­head by Suzanne Jur­main (ICCA nom­i­nee 2011–2012)

The Secret of the Yel­low Death: A True Story of Med­ical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain

I spent hardly any time tweet­ing, blog­ging and com­ment­ing on the last day as I really wanted to fin­ish more books and was at the Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­gram kick-off in the mid­dle of the day. So I’m off to go read oth­ers posts now and keep adding to my TBR pile. I learned about some great titles yes­ter­day and am sure it will be the same again tonight. I hope to write reviews on the books I read in the com­ing days.

Books I am most inter­ested in read­ing after read­ing oth­ers reviews/tweets, etc.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

Diver­gent by Veron­ica Roth

Mem­ory Bank by Car­olyn Coman

Sci­ence Fair Sea­son by Judy Dut­ton (hadn’t heard of this one at all before 48HBC)

Stu­pid Fast by Geoff Herbach

What I would do differently:

If I am able to do the chal­lenge next year, I will throw more non­fic­tion and more new titles into the mix. Lis­ten­ing to an audio­book worked pretty well for me and at least 3 of the hours I spent lis­ten­ing to it would not have been read­ing hours so it was great in help­ing me reach my 20 hours goal. I will, how­ever, use nar­ra­tor rec­om­men­da­tions more heav­ily when choos­ing the audio­book next year. I’m pretty sure I would have liked Gar­den of Eve sooner if I’d been read­ing, rather than lis­ten­ing to it. Another option might be a non­fic­tion audio­book so that I’m not try­ing to keep mul­ti­ple story lines going in my head.

Over­all, doing the 48hbc was a good expe­ri­ence. I enjoyed the snacks and had a cou­ple of great con­ver­sa­tions with kids about ICCA nom­i­nees at the library this after­noon that were def­i­nitely richer because of my recent reads. Many many thanks to Mother Reader for coor­di­nat­ing the challenge!