huff... puff...
Crossing the finish line now! Technically, I still have almost another 12 hours, but grl2grl utterly did me in. I'm now going to curl up with a favorite Georgette Heyer or something like that as an Existential Alka-Seltzer.
So, totals:
6 books (one more than last year)
reading time: 9 hours, 25 minutes (+25 minutes on books I decided not to finish)
writing time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
total time: 14 hours, 43 minutes (43 minutes more than last year)
pages: 1378 (not counting unfinished books) (115 pages more than last year)
Favorite book: Hmmm. I think the best book was probably This is What I Did, but I most enjoyed reading Wicked Lovely.
Least favorite book: Bucking the Sarge, which was a real disappointment.
I'm pleased that I beat my record; I honestly didn't even expect to break even, what with the craziness of life lately.
So what did I learn? Well, 4 out of my 6 reviews took 55 minutes to write. That's kind of interesting, for whatever it's worth.
I learned I still really do like YA literature. I enjoyed reading all of the books I finished, and several I thought were truly excellent. I think I would have been happier if I'd stocked more of a variety, to break things up a bit, but I did get to finally read some books I've been curious about for ages. I hope having reminded myself of how terrific YA books can be, I'll make more of an effort to read them in the future.
And I learned, again, that my own perfectionism is my worst enemy as a reviewer these days. Doing the challenge, with the permission to just whip things out imperfectly and move on, gets around my tendency to panic and freeze. Now I need to think of some other techniques to accomplish the same thing. Maybe I should set myself a weekly challenge of some kind.
So, totals:
6 books (one more than last year)
reading time: 9 hours, 25 minutes (+25 minutes on books I decided not to finish)
writing time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
total time: 14 hours, 43 minutes (43 minutes more than last year)
pages: 1378 (not counting unfinished books) (115 pages more than last year)
Favorite book: Hmmm. I think the best book was probably This is What I Did, but I most enjoyed reading Wicked Lovely.
Least favorite book: Bucking the Sarge, which was a real disappointment.
I'm pleased that I beat my record; I honestly didn't even expect to break even, what with the craziness of life lately.
So what did I learn? Well, 4 out of my 6 reviews took 55 minutes to write. That's kind of interesting, for whatever it's worth.
I learned I still really do like YA literature. I enjoyed reading all of the books I finished, and several I thought were truly excellent. I think I would have been happier if I'd stocked more of a variety, to break things up a bit, but I did get to finally read some books I've been curious about for ages. I hope having reminded myself of how terrific YA books can be, I'll make more of an effort to read them in the future.
And I learned, again, that my own perfectionism is my worst enemy as a reviewer these days. Doing the challenge, with the permission to just whip things out imperfectly and move on, gets around my tendency to panic and freeze. Now I need to think of some other techniques to accomplish the same thing. Maybe I should set myself a weekly challenge of some kind.
Labels: book challenge
posted by web at 11:16 PM
8Bligs:
I'm still catching up from the Challenge (though I did have major house-falling-apart problems right after), so reading backwards through your posts... just wanted to say I think your idea of a weekly challenge is brilliant. I also feel as if I get something more than just a fun weekend doing a group read out of this, and it would be nice to bring that into the rest of the year. Hmmm. Must give this some thought.
Hey, maybe we can coordinate and do a book at the same time. What's on your reading list?
What a fun idea! I'm waiting for Debbie Harry Sings in French by Meagan Brothers (thanks to a review on 7 Impossible Things) and How To Be Bad by E. Lockhart et al. to get here, and today I just ordered the one you reviewed along with Sara Zarr's Story of a Girl. And - oh, those are the only ones that I've ordered atm, trying to remember others - I'm waiting for Ink Exchange (also liked Wicked Lovely a lot) to come out here, and same for the latest Percy Jackson, and second Cassandra Clare. (And I must finish A Great and Terrible Beauty, but that's not really for fun.) Anything there sound of interest and not yet read?
I have DHSiF, so let me know when yours arrives. The library doesn't have Ink Exchange yet, alas, but I'll see if I can find How to Be Bad and Story of a Girl.
No luck with HtBB, but I've ordered Story of a Girl, should get it in a few days.
Debbie Harry and HtBB have just arrived! So, I'm game for anything. Anything involving those two, anyway.
Okay, let's have Debbie Harry as our book. Though I reserve the right to hate it and not finish. :-)
In a hurry, will post later.
Hating and not finishing is every reader's right in my book! It's late here, so I'll post tomorrow morning.
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