crossed the finish line

Read in total: 18 hours, 2 minutes

My 48 hours started Friday night at 7 pm/EST. I went to bed at 11 pm. In those four hours I read for 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Woke up at 5 am Saturday, had to do some codemonkey coding. I had hoped that my other coding would have come through then but it didn't. So I read for an hour (12-1pm) then took a nap. The nap lasted longer than I wanted. Read from the time I got up until 10 pm, in time for Pushing Daisies. Also watched the Tigers and Red Wings win. So in six and a half hours I read for 6 hours and 13 mins.

Last day, I read the most Sunday finishing at 7 pm. Finished two books on Saturday and still in the midst of reading two more. In ten hours and thirty-five minutes I read for 8 hours and 39 minutes.

Books I read/are still reading
Fight Club - I really wish that I had read the book before seeing the movie. It was a good book through and through, I would just like the hindsight of having my own ideals of the characters and setting before reading, like with the Harry Potter series. There was more to this book as with any movie adaptation there is something lost but I love the characters in the book more than the movie counterparts. The book added something more to what Tyler and the narrator had and went through. My advice, read the book then see the movie.

Money Hungry - I found this book in the bookcase while looking for something that was different and easier to get through than the book I was originally reading. I liked the character although now I'm wondering if there is at least one more book that ties up some things for me. It was a good read about a girl living in the projects and trying to get out.

Tender Is the Night - I'm still reading this book, more than halfway through. I have struggled tooth and nail to get through this and I'm still going. I will have this book finished by Tuesday, if it's the last thing I do. It took F. Scott Fitzgerald a decade to write this and it feels like it's taking me that long to get through it. The characters were not exciting to me during the first book and in the second book the doctor and his wife are becoming more than just one-dimensional characters. Reading the flap I was told if I liked The Great Gatsby I needed to read this so here I am. I love the way he writes scenes, how you feel like your there when he describes something.

Watchmen - Hee. I loved the movie and I'm loving the graphic novel. Rorschach is still one of my favorites.