I must repeat that even though the contest is called the 48 Hour Book Challenge, it is hard for me to conceive of people reading for the entire time. Stunning! This year four people read and blogged for the entire forty-eight hours! No breaks that didn’t come with an audiobook soundtrack and no sleep — which is just a little bit crazy, but in a good way. Okay, to be fair, the second two reported a hair less than the 48 hours, but by executive decision, they win too.The winners of The Sixth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge are:
- Everyone has a Blue Castle...
Featuring an archivist masquerading as a reference librarian
- Books Like Breathing
Featuring an opinionated New Yorker with a caffeine addition
- Chance Encounter
Featuring a librarian who likes sensible shoes, but can’t manage a bun
- The Purpled One
Featuring a second-time winner from Maryland
Prize winners, please write me at MotherReader AT gmail DOT com with your address and the books you’d most be interested in receiving. If you’d like a personalized copy, please note to whom you’d like it signed; I’ll do my best to accommodate. Books donated by authors are: The Latte Rebellion, by Sarah Jamila Stevenson; Scars, by Cheryl Rainfield; Dragon Speaker: The Last Dragon, by Cheryl Rainfield; Little Chicken’s Big Day, by Katie Davis and Jerry Davis (with bonus onesie!); I Fooled You: Ten Stories of Tricks, Jokes, and Switcheroos, anthology signed by Carmela Martino.
I’m also giving an “Almost Made It” prize to a blogger who worked so hard to read the whole time, and then dozed off in the night. So a signed and personalized copy of When Life Gives You OJ, by Erica Perl (with drawstring backpack and water bottle!) to Over the Moon and Sun!
For the Sixth Annual 48 Hour Book Challenge we had eighty people complete the challenge, with many blogs listing totals of twenty hours or more. Here they are, in order of their finish line sign-in:
- MotherReader • 28 hours
- Blue Castle • 48 hours
- Reading Chick • 24 hours
- Libr*Fiti • 21 hours
- Over the Moon and Sun • 45 hours
- True Book Addict • 25.25 hours
- So Many Books • 32.25 hours
- Leeswammes • 22.25 hours
- Ms. Yingling • 35 hours
- Stacked • 30 hours
- Chance Encounter • 47.5 hours
- Handmade by Mikaiya • 22 hours
- Book Nut • 23.5 hours
- Joy’s Book Blog • 21 hours
- Abby the Librarian • 31 hours
- I Write in Books • 20 hours
- Just an Obsurvashun • 26.75 hours
- Books Like Breathing • 48 hours
- Babylon Reader • 21 hours
- The Children’s War • 30.5 hours
- Library Book Nook • 25.5 hours
- Confessions of a Bibliovore • 20.75 hours
- Zappo’s Read-a-Rama • 21.5 hours
- RovingFiddlehead KidLit • 21 hours
- Blog From the Windowsil • 25.5 hours
- SonderBooks • 30.5 hours
- Library Chicken • 32 hours
- Crowding the Book Truck • 29.25 hours
- WhatYA Reading • 21.5 hours
- The YaYaYa’s • 21 hours
- Bookshelves of Doom • 25 hours
- Libri Dilectio • 22 hours
- A Random Hodgepodge of Bookishness • 23.25 hours
- Amanda Pearl’s Books • 20 hours
- The Purpled One • 47.75 hours
- MotherReader • $80 to Donors Choose
- So Many Books • 50 Euros to Barnardos
- Chance Encounter • $145 dollars and 5 bags of dog/cat food to Animal Resource Foundation
- Joy’s Book Blog • $60 to Joplin Schools Tornado Relief Fund
- Babylon Reader • $100 for Birthday Wishes (birthday parties for children in shelters)
- Library Book Nook • $51 to medical expenses for library aide
- Confessions of a Bibliovore • $55 dollars to Make Way for Books
- RovingFiddlehead KidLit • $118 for Room to Read
- Two Canadian Readers • $75 to UNICEF
- Boys Rule, Boys Read! • donations to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
- Just Deb • $48 to Slave Lake Library
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Thank you so much. I just sent you an email. I'm still all hyped up from all that tea :)
Grace
Thanks! I just sent you an email. Oh, and I did have a "cause" this year (noticed that you linked to my post from last year). I should be donating $50 to our local homeless shelter. :)
And, my boss has also agreed to sponsor myself and my co-worker (A Chance Encounter) by giving $1 per book read to our local food bank. We are covering all the bases here!
Wow! I'm impressed. I'll have to go read some of those second-day posts to see how lucid they are. :) Thanks again for hosting!
Thank you for hosting this event! It is amazing to see how much reading everyone was able to accomplish.
That's fantastic - so many people with so much determination and stamina! Congratulations to all winners and again to you for running such a great challenge!
Thank you, I just emailed you. Happy Monday!
Amazing that some people actually read for the full 48 hours! I couldn't even manage half (but I had 2 good nights of sleep!).
Thanks for organising, Motherreader. It was another fun challenge.
Thanks for pulling this together! It's wonderful to have that "excuse" to completely devote yourself to reading, blogging and reviewing - for at least one weekend a year.
Thanks for all your hard work in organizing this. It was great fun as always.
Thank you!!! I didn't expect to win anything at all due to the shocking body betrayal. :) I really appreciate it. Next year, I'm going to hit that 48 mark!
Thanks so much, Pam! I look forward to this weekend all year and always have so much fun! You do an awesome job with this challenge and I appreciate it!
Thanks for providing me with an opportunity to do just read away my time, a luxury I haven't had in a long time.
And thanks for doing such a great job of hosting. I will be emailing you soon.
Thanks for posting my blog! I had so much fun doing this reading challenge :) I think this should be a bi-annual thing. Anyone else up for a repeat in December lol
Thanks so much, Pam, for all the hard work you put into this! It was a lovely weekened.
Thanks for hosting! I only read for a few hours but it was still fun to do a bit of visiting and twittering.
Congrats to the winners! What a great week and some mighty fine causes, too! Cheers, Deb
Hi I raised $60 for Bridget's cause.
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