Social Distancing Readathon #215 - April 26 - 28
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1SilverWolf28
Welcome to another readathon!
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2alcottacre
I will be in as much as I can be! Thanks for hosting once again, Silver.
3PocheFamily
Looking forward to it! I have a couple of BFBs I'm inching my way through and a few on audio I want to get to before they are no longer available as included on Audible. But the weather is cool and sunny and the garden calls for some zhuzhing after the winter (still too early to plant here in N. NJ as we're still under frost warnings), so I'll probably be a split personality this weekend. I look forward to seeing what others are reading!
4ChrisG1
I'm in again - currently reading More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon. I had total knee replacement surgery yesterday, so I've little to interfere with reading for awhile, other than doing my Physical Therapy.
5nrmay
I’ll be reading here in California.
Keeping the grandkids while the parents have a weekend away.
Current book: Pretending to Dance
And next up - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.
A couple challenges - the youngest is home from school with fever and l have an annoying sinus infection.
Keeping the grandkids while the parents have a weekend away.
Current book: Pretending to Dance
And next up - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers.
A couple challenges - the youngest is home from school with fever and l have an annoying sinus infection.
6Carmenere
I'll be in when I'm not working outside. I want to follow Starter Villain with Assistant to the Villain or some of the slim books I put aside for April.
7benitastrnad
Weekend Start-up
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart. I am listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Book Thoughts: I had an Inter-Library Loan request come in and so I took some time out from the heavier reading to read it. It will be an easy read at 180 pages. It is also mind candy because it is a travel memoir that is full of adventure and lightheartedness. I am enjoying it.
Non-Book activities: I packed boxes and boxes of books this last week. Tomorrow I am going to knit all day long and visit a friend. I will have to purchase more boxes and so will do that on Sunday. Then it will be back to packing books for a couple of days. I haven't even touched the cookbook collection. I talked to my sister for two hours today and will take time out to go for supper with friends tonight.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 1 hour
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftovers. I am ready to go out and get hot food.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 414
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1172 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart. I am listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Book Thoughts: I had an Inter-Library Loan request come in and so I took some time out from the heavier reading to read it. It will be an easy read at 180 pages. It is also mind candy because it is a travel memoir that is full of adventure and lightheartedness. I am enjoying it.
Non-Book activities: I packed boxes and boxes of books this last week. Tomorrow I am going to knit all day long and visit a friend. I will have to purchase more boxes and so will do that on Sunday. Then it will be back to packing books for a couple of days. I haven't even touched the cookbook collection. I talked to my sister for two hours today and will take time out to go for supper with friends tonight.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 1 hour
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: leftovers. I am ready to go out and get hot food.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 414
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1172 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
8cbl_tn
I'm in! I want to finish A Walk in the Woods and make good progress on La Vendee.
10alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (audiobook), The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld
Books finished: 1, The Devil in the White City
Time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Not much reading today as today was my monthly gaming marathon with Kerry.
Books read from: The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (audiobook), The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld
Books finished: 1, The Devil in the White City
Time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ~1.7 hours + listening to audiobook
Not much reading today as today was my monthly gaming marathon with Kerry.
11avatiakh
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu, A Chinese Fantasy: Law of the Fox by Yen Samejima, Lopini the Legend by Feana Tu'akoi, Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
Books finished: 4 Koro's Star, A Chinese Fantasy: Law of the Fox, Lopini the Legend, Stone Cold
Time reading: 4hrs
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4hrs
Food: matzo ball soup chicken satay with rice, matzo brei
Nonbook activities: Reading 'X' posts, watching tv, making ciorba soup, italian meatballs & chocolate nut clusters.
Tomorrow will be a breeze as have already made lunch and dinner. Son will make more matzo brei in the morning.
Books read from: Koro's Star by Claire Aramakutu, A Chinese Fantasy: Law of the Fox by Yen Samejima, Lopini the Legend by Feana Tu'akoi, Stone Cold by Robert Swindells
Books finished: 4 Koro's Star, A Chinese Fantasy: Law of the Fox, Lopini the Legend, Stone Cold
Time reading: 4hrs
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4hrs
Food: matzo ball soup chicken satay with rice, matzo brei
Nonbook activities: Reading 'X' posts, watching tv, making ciorba soup, italian meatballs & chocolate nut clusters.
Tomorrow will be a breeze as have already made lunch and dinner. Son will make more matzo brei in the morning.
12Carmenere
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: White Fang by Jack London my sister in law gifted this book to me last year prior to my cruise in Alaska.
Books finished:
Time reading: 1 hr
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hr
Food: sauteed garlic shrimp on spanish rice..Mmmm so good!
Non-book activities: Went to Mexican Restaurant for dinner. After sharing a pitcher of margaritas, no chance of further reading when I returned home.
Watched the Guardians lose ugly to Atlanta :0(
Books read from: White Fang by Jack London my sister in law gifted this book to me last year prior to my cruise in Alaska.
Books finished:
Time reading: 1 hr
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hr
Food: sauteed garlic shrimp on spanish rice..Mmmm so good!
Non-book activities: Went to Mexican Restaurant for dinner. After sharing a pitcher of margaritas, no chance of further reading when I returned home.
Watched the Guardians lose ugly to Atlanta :0(
13alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (audiobook), The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld, and She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Books finished: 1, The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy
Time reading: ~2.3 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~4 hours + listening to audiobook
This was a frustrating reading day for me as I had really hoped to get more read, but I kept falling asleep. . .
Books read from: The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson (audiobook), The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld, and She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
Books finished: 1, The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy
Time reading: ~2.3 hours + listening to audiobook
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~4 hours + listening to audiobook
This was a frustrating reading day for me as I had really hoped to get more read, but I kept falling asleep. . .
14nrmay
Sunday mid-day
Book: Pretending to Dance
Finally settled to read for a bit but feel like l’ll fall asleep.
Have had a few sleepless nights with a sinus infection and child with fever & cough. 🤒
The other grandchild won her softball play-off game this morning and plays the final game this afternoon.
The parents return today. 🙂
Book: Pretending to Dance
Finally settled to read for a bit but feel like l’ll fall asleep.
Have had a few sleepless nights with a sinus infection and child with fever & cough. 🤒
The other grandchild won her softball play-off game this morning and plays the final game this afternoon.
The parents return today. 🙂
15benitastrnad
Sunday afternoon report
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart. I am listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Christ Stewart
Book Thoughts: I read Three Ways to Capsize a Boat in two days and enjoyed every minute spent reading it. It was just my kind of mind candy entertainment. The author has a very witty way of writing that keeps you laughing but he also provides lots and lots of information that is serious but also gives mundane details that are interesting. The book is a memoir of his first encounters with sailing. He ended up spending the summer as the skipper of a small yacht in the Greek Islands. The next year he signs on as a crew member of a larger yacht that makes a trans-Atlantic crossing using the northern Viking route. He travels from the Cornish Coast to Vineland by way of Norway and Iceland. Reading this was just mind candy for me. I had so much fun reading it.
Non-Book activities: I knitted at the yarn shop and celebrated Local Yarn Shop Day with the ladies and knitted more on my sweater. I am inching closer to having it done. I am going to be online less this coming week than in the past because I have run out of broadband bytes. All those Zoom meetings planning the 50 year high school class reunion has run up the bill.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 4 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: my usual Sunday lunch at the Indian restaurant and now I am at my local Starbucks, which has reopened after being closed for 40 days to remodel. They still haven't done anything about the excessively cool temperature of the building. I guess some things never get fixed.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 415
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1176 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Chris Stewart. I am listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Christ Stewart
Book Thoughts: I read Three Ways to Capsize a Boat in two days and enjoyed every minute spent reading it. It was just my kind of mind candy entertainment. The author has a very witty way of writing that keeps you laughing but he also provides lots and lots of information that is serious but also gives mundane details that are interesting. The book is a memoir of his first encounters with sailing. He ended up spending the summer as the skipper of a small yacht in the Greek Islands. The next year he signs on as a crew member of a larger yacht that makes a trans-Atlantic crossing using the northern Viking route. He travels from the Cornish Coast to Vineland by way of Norway and Iceland. Reading this was just mind candy for me. I had so much fun reading it.
Non-Book activities: I knitted at the yarn shop and celebrated Local Yarn Shop Day with the ladies and knitted more on my sweater. I am inching closer to having it done. I am going to be online less this coming week than in the past because I have run out of broadband bytes. All those Zoom meetings planning the 50 year high school class reunion has run up the bill.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 4 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: my usual Sunday lunch at the Indian restaurant and now I am at my local Starbucks, which has reopened after being closed for 40 days to remodel. They still haven't done anything about the excessively cool temperature of the building. I guess some things never get fixed.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 415
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1176 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
16avatiakh
9.30am Monday morning Update:
Books read from: The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith, Demonosity by Amanda Ashby, Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 6hrs
Food: ciroba soup, italian meatballs, matzo brei
Nonbook activities: Reading 'X' posts, watching tv, baking coffee cake
Picked up a book from the library and had a latte at library cafe.
Books read from: The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith, Demonosity by Amanda Ashby, Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 6hrs
Food: ciroba soup, italian meatballs, matzo brei
Nonbook activities: Reading 'X' posts, watching tv, baking coffee cake
Picked up a book from the library and had a latte at library cafe.
17alcottacre
Sunday Night Update:
Books read from: The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen, and The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Books finished: 2, The Glass Town Game and Life Laid Bare
Time reading: ~4.2 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~8.2 hours + listening to audiobook
Books read from: The Glass Town Game by Catherynne M. Valente, Life Laid Bare by Jean Hatzfeld, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen, and The Town that Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
Books finished: 2, The Glass Town Game and Life Laid Bare
Time reading: ~4.2 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~8.2 hours + listening to audiobook
18ChrisG1
Weekend Summary:
Books read from: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfey, Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Books finished: More Than Human
Pages read: 300-ish
Non-reading activities: Doing my PT for knee surgery recovery, watching Detroit Tigers baseball.
Books read from: More Than Human by Theodore Sturgeon, The Forgetting Moon by Brian Lee Durfey, Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson
Books finished: More Than Human
Pages read: 300-ish
Non-reading activities: Doing my PT for knee surgery recovery, watching Detroit Tigers baseball.
19fuzzi
Still working in the yard, gardens, etc. but I managed to start one Newbery, Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
by E.L. Konigsburg, and finished Mark in my Bible.
by E.L. Konigsburg, and finished Mark in my Bible.
20benitastrnad
Weekend wrap-up
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Witchshadow by Susan Dennard. I finished listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom and started She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Christ Stewart. Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to Jello Girls by Allie Rowbottom and thought this was an OK memoir of a daughter taking care of her mother. The author's mother and grandmother both died from hormone driven cancers and both were heiress to the Jello fortune. The legacy of Jello is intertwined with the cancer legacy. The author narrated her own book and she did a fair job, however, the cd's were corrupted and the last three or four tracks on each CD was not listenable. I had to go back to the library and get the book so that I could read the parts that the CD was skipping. That sort of thing tends to ruin your listening experience.
Non-Book activities: I had computer problems this weekend and that put a damper on my weekend plans for Sunday. It took our IT people 2 1/2 hours to get my laptop to let me into my e-mail again.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 5 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: my usual breakfast today. yogurt and fruit. tomorrow I will be cooking a carrot and millet salad for the Wine Club meeting.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 416
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1177 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
Books read from: Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability by Amy Chua. Witchshadow by Susan Dennard. I finished listening to Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom and started She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper.
Books finished: Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian. Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat by Christ Stewart. Jell-o Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom.
Book Thoughts: I finished listening to Jello Girls by Allie Rowbottom and thought this was an OK memoir of a daughter taking care of her mother. The author's mother and grandmother both died from hormone driven cancers and both were heiress to the Jello fortune. The legacy of Jello is intertwined with the cancer legacy. The author narrated her own book and she did a fair job, however, the cd's were corrupted and the last three or four tracks on each CD was not listenable. I had to go back to the library and get the book so that I could read the parts that the CD was skipping. That sort of thing tends to ruin your listening experience.
Non-Book activities: I had computer problems this weekend and that put a damper on my weekend plans for Sunday. It took our IT people 2 1/2 hours to get my laptop to let me into my e-mail again.
Time reading today: 1 hour
Time reading this weekend - 5 hours
Time listening:
Time posting:
Food: my usual breakfast today. yogurt and fruit. tomorrow I will be cooking a carrot and millet salad for the Wine Club meeting.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 416
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 1177 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon in April of 2020.
21PocheFamily
Late reporting in but here’s a very brief snapshot:
Piccadilly Jim, P G Wodehouse; The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll (Audible); Armada, Ernest Cline (hardbound); France 1940: Defending the Republic, Philip Nord.
Time reading:
Fri: 2.25
Sat: 1
Sun: 6
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 9.25
Pivoting towards France and D-day as we approach the 80th anniversary.
Piccadilly Jim, P G Wodehouse; The Conquering Tide, Ian W. Toll (Audible); Armada, Ernest Cline (hardbound); France 1940: Defending the Republic, Philip Nord.
Time reading:
Fri: 2.25
Sat: 1
Sun: 6
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 9.25
Pivoting towards France and D-day as we approach the 80th anniversary.
