There is only a half hour left (for me) of the 48 Hour Book Challenge. Here is my summary:

Actual Reading/Blogging Goal: 21 Hours
Projected Goal Reading:   12 Hours
Books Read:   Completed Five Whole Books, Finished One, Started One
                 Total: 7 Titles
                 Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (had already started -- completed)
                 Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
                 Catherine Called Birdy
                 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Awful Truth
                 Kitty and the Midnight Hour
                 Winter Gardens
                 The Lost Hero (three chapters)
Blog Reading/Commenting: One Hour
Charity: $100 for Birthday Wishes (provides birthday parties for children living in homeless shelters).

My third update:

Completed Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 6:20-6:50 (30 minutes).
Completed: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn 8-11:30 (3-1/2 hrs)
Reading Blogs: 30 minutes

Total: 4-1/2 hours

Total so far: Fourteen Hours

48 Hour Book Challenge Update: I have cobbled together four-and-1/2 hours in reading time:

Completed: The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School by Candace Fleming
On page 156: Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

Completed two books (I was already halfway through one when I started the 48 Hour Challenge).

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - by Helen Simonson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth - by Jeff Kinney

Total Reading:  Four and 1/2  Hours
Blogging/Reading Blogs: Thirty Minutes
Total: Five Hours

Okay. As posted earlier, I am officially kicking off the 48 Hour Book Challenge sponsored by MotherReader. Start time: tonight, June 3rd at 8:30 p.m. End Time:  June 5th at 8:30 p.m.

First up, finishing off Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

This weekend I am participating, for the first time, in the annual 48 Hour Book Challenge sponsored by MotherReader. The rules are simple: spend as much time as you can reading and blogging in a 48-hour period between June 3 and June 5th. You can read middle-grade, young adult, graphic novels and adult titles. Many participants set their own personal goals. I am trying for at least twelve hours.

I do not yet have a set list of titles to read. Several possibilities include titles from my school's Literacy Closet.