Well, folks, I made it 19.5 hours. In the end, my downfall was the baby who wouldn’t sleep. Daniel actually went to sleep between 9 and 10 and was totally passed out. Then, around 11, he woke up and decided it was PLAY TIME! He spent at least 20 minutes each on trying to roll from his back to his front and then trying to scoot somewhere when I finally put him onto his stomach. He didn’t quite accomplish either, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. When 12:30 rolled around and I realized I’d read about 40 pages of the final book I was hoping to finish and Daniel still wasn’t showing signs of sleep, I realized that this was the end for me. I cannot possibly make it through 24 full hours at this rate. Since I started early, though, I did participate in 19.5 hours, which might be my most ever, I’m not sure.
Here are my final stats:
Time elapsed: 19.5 hours (I think?)
Books Read: Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, The King’s Rose by Alisa M. Libby, The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley, Once Was Lost by Sarah Zarr, Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (audio), Where’s Baby’s Halloween Pumpkin, The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson, The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
Pages Read: 1381
Time Spent Reading: 12 hours, 30 minutes ish plus 15 minutes of audio
Books Finished: 7 – Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi, The King’s Rose by Alisa M. Libby, The Black Stallion Returns by Walter Farley, Once Was Lost by Sarah Zarr, Where’s Baby’s Halloween Pumpkin, The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
Happy Readathon, everyone!
You have done an AMAZING job! I definitely couldn’t have done a readathon with a four month old babe in arms! Kisses to Daniel!
.-= Belle´s last blog ..Readathon Cheerleading: I Got Booted Off Twitter =-.
Great job!
You are an inspiration, Jen! Congrats on an awesome number of hours, books, and pages, and enjoy a well-earned rest! See you around the blogosphere
.-= Kirsten´s last blog ..Gimme five! =-.
You are phenomenal, ya know?? To do all you do with that little one is amazing!! Congrats on 19.5 hours of the read-a-thon!!
.-= Stephanie´s last blog ..My Memory of Dewey =-.
Great job!! Very impressive that you were so successful with a small baby added to the mix.
.-= Stephanie´s last blog ..Still hanging in there =-.
Enjoy your rest: you did great!
You’ve done a great job! Hope you and Daniel had fun!
You’ve gotten a lot of reading done! Congrats.
You did great, hopefully the baby will sleep now so you can get some rest
19.5 hours is awesome! You did great!
.-= Memory´s last blog ..Read-a-Thon Hour 22: In Which I Blather =-.
you did so great!
Wow! You did amazingly. I have a four month old too and just trying to cheerlead for 10 minutes at a time was tough! Great job!
You did such an amazing job!!! I know how hard it is to read with a 4MO; I’m so proud of you! Congrats!
.-= Heather´s last blog ..And so, the end =-.
What a great job – and going it while taking care of a baby also? Totally awesome!
You did amazing! Congrats on your fantastic reading!
.-= Kay´s last blog ..Comic : Multi-Reading =-.
You did an awesome job!!!!
Amazing! Great job!
Very impressive!! I need to do something like this just to get my TBR pile down a little bit. It grows much faster than I can read. But of course, I also need a 24-hour review writing marathon, too. Oy, I’m so behind!
Congratulations!! Hour 19.5 was my downfall too. Lack of caffeine and I fell asleep reading.
Wow, your results were great — 12.5 hours of reading is fantastic!
Congrats on your accomplishments during read-a-thon!
I think with a new baby, you get to double (possibly triple) all your stats! Great job!