Left Coast Mama » 48 Hour Book Challenge http://leftcoastmama.net Making Things Write on the Wrong Coast Tue, 22 May 2012 03:02:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 48 Hour Book Challenge: Final Summary http://leftcoastmama.net/2007/06/11/48-hour-book-challenge-final-summary/ http://leftcoastmama.net/2007/06/11/48-hour-book-challenge-final-summary/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:38:09 +0000 Gwen http://leftcoastmama.net/2007/06/11/48-hour-book-challenge-final-summary/ . . . → Read More: 48 Hour Book Challenge: Final Summary]]> Book_Challenge.jpgbook_challenge_desk.jpg

So I am finally awake enough to get my final summary posted. I really enjoyed this challenge and I hope that next year there won’t be so many things going on as I had this weekend. I didn’t get my new books on ontime, so I re-read a bunch of books that I have been wanting to re-read for a long time. I am especially glad I read Crusader and Wizards at War (previously I had only heard this one) because there is so much you can get out of a re-read. I am totally in for next year and I plan to actully take the weekend off from all activity and just read. Hmm I will have a three year old then. I guess I am only dreaming.

On to the totals.

Number of Books Read: 4

Number of Authors Read: 3

Total Number of Hours reading and blogging: 16 (my time keeping may be a little bit skewed to the lower side.)

Total Number of Pages Read: 1918

Comments: It was a blast and I can’t wait for the next one.

A huge thank you to Mother Reader for organizing this challenge. If you haven’t participated this year, you should add it to your to do list for next year. Take some time out for yourself and read!

P.S. I am in the Pacific time zone so I have this post up at 8:30 am. :)


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Title:  The Time Twister

Author: Jenny Nimmo

Pages: 374

Hours Read: 2

Copywrite: 2003

Publisher: Edgemont Books Ltd.

This is the second in the Charlie Bone and the Children of the Red King Series.  It was a nice fast read and let us go a little deeper into the world of Charlie Bone.  I didn’t like this one as much as the first in the series but it was well worth reading again.  In fact it has been so long since I read it that I only vaguely remembered the basic plot.


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Goodnight.


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Title: Midnight for Charlie Bone

Author: Jenny Nimmo

Pages: 401

Hours Read: 1:45

Copywrite: 2002

Publisher: Scholastic  Inc.

Midnight for Charlie Bone  introduces us to the Children of the Red King for the first time.  Charlie Bone is an 11 year old boy who discovers that he is “endowed” with an unusual talent.  He can hear the imprint of what happened when a photograph was taken and this leads him to the mystery of a lost baby.  With the help of his friends and some of the other endowed children Charlie solves the mystery and becomes involved in the war between the two sides of the Children of the Red King.

Now I have read 1544 pages, a number of hours.  Time for one more. :)


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Title: Wizards at War; Book 8 in the Young Wizards Series

Author: Diane Duane

Pages: 552

Hours Read: about 6 hours

Copywrite: 2005

Publisher: Harcourt Inc.

At this point in time Kit and Nita and the crew are on a mission to save the universes. The older seniors have lost their wizardry and it is up to the young wizards to fix the problems and help two essential things to happen.

I really like Diane Duane’s writing style and the fact that she doesn’t talk down to her audience. Though this is YA fiction she has a lot of interesting ethical debates as well as intellectual ones.

So in summary, I have finished 2 books, read for approximately 13 hours (I am also listening to an audiobook at the same time) , and finished 1143 pages. I have spent about an hour blogging. Now on to the next book, as I only have until 11pm tonight.


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Yeah! I am finished my first book and here are the particulars.

Title: Crusader

Author:  Edward Bloor

Pages: 591

Hours Read: about 4.5 hours

Copywrite:  1999

Publisher: Scholastic Inc. by arrangement with Harcourt Inc.

This was a re-read for me.  I love the characters in this book and the humanity of all of them.   They are flawed and they know it.  Crusader takes place in Florida and examines issues of race, ethnicity, religon, hatred and renewal.  Told through roberta Ritter, a 16 year old daughter of a murder victim.

More later. Back to reading before life interferes. :)


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I have had to delay my book challenge time by one hour so in 10 minutes (approximately) I will be starting. I will have two books on the go: one is Crusader by Edward Bloor and the second is Physik by Angie Sage. I will read Crusader till the light bothers Anthony or I am too tired to keep my eyes open and I will then switch to Physik which I have on my iPod. Good luck to all.

P.S. If you want to find out more about the book challenge click on the image above. This will take you to Mother Reader. Good Night; I will post an update in the Am.

P.P.S. Nana made it here safe and sound.


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This weekend I have a whole bunch of things that I am doing. My mother is coming to stay for a few weeks and gets in tomorrow at 8pm. (Yeah!) On Saturday I am going to get the church hall ready for our year end Girl Guide Parent/daughter Tea. The Tea will run from 4:30pm till 6:30 pm. At 7:30 pm we are having the girls only sleepover – non – sleepover till 11 pm. This means we do all the sleepover things; pj’s, doing hair, playing games, eating junk food and watching movies without actually sleeping at someone’s house. The girls all go home at 11 pm. On Sunday we have tickets to go see the real live Thomas the Tank Engine in Squamish. This means getting on the road at 8am at the latest. Last but not least I will be doing Mother Reader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge.The 48 Hour Book Challenge is a reading/blogging challenge that takes place over this weekend starting no earlier than 7 am Friday and ending no later than 7 am Monday. I have decided that with all these things to do this weekend I am going to try my best to read as much as I can. I will be starting around 10 pm on Friday night (yes mom, I am full planning to ignore you for part of the first weekend you are here,) and finish at 10 pm on Sunday.

I am allowed 1 audio book so I think that while I am moving about I can read Angie Sage’s third book Physik in the Septimus Heap trilogy. I am planning to try and get the Rick Riordan Trilogy from the library, (I already read The Lightning Thief), the latest Jenny Nimmo, Charlie Bone and the Wilderness Wolf and I have a few others around to read. I think I have an Edward Bloor (author of Tangerine and Crusader) and Eldest by Christopher Paolini around to read as well. I am also going to re-read Diane Duane’s Young Wizard’s series. Hmm, I guess I will be getting no sleep.

Yeah! I cannot wait to get started!!!


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