Social Distancing Readathon #6 - April 24-26

Some of us are social distancing, others are sheltering in place - and we are all reading together. Comfort reads, challenging reads, rereads, or just keeping us company while our brain stubbornly won't let us read, all are welcome here.

Welcome to any newcomers just finding us and to those who are returning!

As always, the "rules" are pretty loose - I'll be counting my time from 5 p.m. on Friday when I get out of work through midnight Sunday, but feel free to tweak that with what works for you. I'm on vacation next week, so no work emails or projects and I'll most likely be doing a lot of reading this weekend because I'll have plenty of time to do everything else later.

Here are some things you might keep track of throughout the weekend -

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. Mary (bell7)
2. Lynda (Carmenere)
3. Katie (katiekrug)
4. Susanna (susanna.fraser)
5. Mamie (Crazymamie)
6. Paul (PaulCranswick)
7. Carrie (cbl_tn)
8. Suzanne (Chatterbox)
9. PawsforThought
10. Jim (drneutron)
11. Benita (benitastrnad)
12. Rebecca (Rebeki)
13. LibraryLover23
14. Charlotte (charl08)
15. Kerry (aviatakh)
16. Richard (richardderus)
17. Dejah_Thoris
18. Cyrel (torontoc)
19. Morphy (Morphidae)
20. SilverWolf28
21. Kathy (kac522)

Count me in!
Thanks, Mary, for offering to host again! It helps me keep track of the days.

>2 Carmenere: It helps me keep track of the days.
Me too!

Same!

I'm in!

I'm in!

I'm also in even though I fell away a little bit on last Sunday due to needing to prepare something for work!

I'm in again, too!

I'm back for more...

I'm in again, and will hopefully get more reading done this time than last.

In again - last weekend was pretty productive reading time for me.

I will participate again as this has really helped bring some sanity to my time at home.

Me too. Hoping to get a bit more reading done this time!

I'm in again, thank you!

Adding my name to the list too. Thanks Mary.

I'm in, again.

Eeeee! One more day to go :0D

Happy Thursday (for me, I know some of you are already in Friday)! What are you planning on reading this weekend?

For me, it depends how quickly I finish the books I'm in the midst of now, but I will most likely be finishing up The City We Became and I think after that I might jump into the Murderbot novellas.

I am planning to continue the book I started yesterday, Only a Few Bones, and then attack some of my backlog of ARCs starting with The Jane Austen Society.

I'll probably be finishing The Hate U Give and most likely read from Bossypants and Yes, Please. I feel the need to laugh.

I lost y'all for a minute.

Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:

Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:

I'm in - no idea what I'll be reading by tomorrow, lol, but I'm in.

>19 cbl_tn: Ooh, both sound interesting, I look forward to your thoughts on them when you're done, Carrie!

>20 Carmenere: I found both enjoyable, especially Bossypants - even better if you can get the audios read by the author :)

>21 richardderus: Glad you found us again, Richard!

>22 Dejah_Thoris: Ha, no worries. My TBR pile shifts places almost daily with what I want to read next. I'm not good at planning my reading at all...

I am not sure what novella I will pick to read this weekend, but Memory by Philippe Grimbert seems to be calling to me.

It's already 3pm Friday here in Auckland so I'll be starting in a couple of hours.

I'm planning on getting through the last third of The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox and continue my comfort reading of Georgette Heyer, currently rereading A civil contract.
Also lined up are Bernice Rubens' Go tell the Lemming, Jean-Christophe Rufin's Check-point and Elif Stafak's 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world.

I'm in!

I am going to make an early start. It is almost 5 pm here on Friday.
No targets but I want to make some proper inroads on my reading this weekend.

Currently trying to finish; Rotherweird and Frozen Moment and the latter will get finished first. I seem to have been reading Rotherweird for ever. It isn't that I don't like it - but I am finding it a bit weird and heavy going.

Friday 11pm NZ {GMT+12)

Books read from: Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: dinner - Spanish fried rice
Thoughts: so many books
Non-book activities: food prep, tv news

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2hrs

Friday 21:05

Books Read From : 1 - Frozen Moment
Books Finished : 1
Time Reading : 3 hours
Food : Prawns with mixed vegetables / Persian Chicken & Barberry Rice // Orange juice, water & COFFEE
Thoughts : Thank God for coffee.
Non Book Activity : Internet, savouring my food, listening to my 1969 playlist - It was the Age of Acquarius for a Salty Dog if you did it My Way In the Ghetto with A Boy Named Sue!

Total Books Read From : 1
Total Finished : 1 - Frozen Moment
Total Reading Time : 3 hours

It is 9:15 a.m CDT here in bright sunny Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It is a bit early, but I am going to start early on my weekend reading because yesterday I had to write my goals for the year and "discuss" it with my supervisor. These sessions are always ugly as we don't really write our own goals. She tells us what to write, which means it is a total waste of my time. It always puts me in an ugly mood. Books help, so I don't care if I do any work today.

Books read from: I will be reading from Trackers by Deon Meyer, Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, and Memory by Philippe Grimbert. The first is my take-my-mind-off-the-world reading and I am trying to finish all the books written by Meyer that I have on my shelf. Sea of Trolls is my Middle Grade book for work. Memory is a novella and part of my novella reading I have been doing this spring.

Books finished: Since last weekend, I finished reading Icarus and Last Hunt by Deon Meyer. I am now caught up with the author on the Benny Griessel series.

Time reading: 1 hour over breakfast

Time posting: this is my first stop so I have spent very little time posting today.

Snacks: breakfast of oatmeal and coffee

Thoughts: read the newspaper and am still appalled at the lack of scientific leadership I see around me. And I work at a Research 1 institution. Nobody at the University level is showing any leadership either. why don't they get their heads out of the sand and start laying a scientific groundwork for containment and tracking? I suspect they want to hide their heads in the sand and blame this fiasco on the politicians.

Non-book activities: none this morning

Total books finished: 11. Since my first weekend participating in this Readathon - the weekend of April 4, 2020 I have finished the following books.

Last Hunt by Deon Meyer
Icarus by Deon Meyer
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan - novella
When I was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago
Amarcord - Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Suffer the Little Children by Donna Leon
Masaryk Station by David Downing
97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman
Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez - audio book

Total read from: 12 so far

Total time reading:16.25 hours since starting the Readathon. They have probably been my most productive hours since April 1st.

I'll be reading from Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams and Talking to Women by Nell Dunn and am going to make a start an hour early, though >29 PaulCranswick: has me wanting to make myself a cup of coffee first ;)

Greetings, all! It's noon on Friday in middle Georgia and it's another glorious day, if a bit soggy from all the rain this week. I'm starting my readathon now, but still with little idea of what I'll be reading, other than to finish the last bit of my current audio book.

As always, I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone is reading.

I'm starting early - it's almost 3pm here in southern Georgia, and as Dejah mentioned, it's another glorious day here. We have feasted in Mexican takeaway, and now I am ready to head for a glass of wine and the screened-in porch with my reading. I'll be starting with Miss Buncle's Book, which I am finding light and charming - just the ticket. I need to decide what's up next on audio...

I will start a little early, too. And I may extend through Monday, as I have taken the day off from work.

Friday, 3:10pm in New Jersey

Check-in #1
Books currently in progress:
The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Mr. Darcy's Diary by Amanda Grange
A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell (audio)

Posting template for my reference--
Books read from since last check-in:
Books finished since last check-in:
Meals/Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:

Total books finished:
Total read from:

9pm ish UK time.
I've been doing fiddly stuff for work today, so it's taken me a bit to switch off and pick up a couple of books.

I'm eating a stash of mini eggs that were on sale when I went shopping last week. Listening to a soul mix that includes the Commodores, Marvin Gaye and Bill Withers.

Books read from: Couple of books that I've had on the go for a while. The Man who wasn't there and Bird by Bird. Also a library book Celestial Bodies (from Oman!).
Books finished: 0
Time reading: Half an hour?

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: Half an hour. Ish.

Salutations...

I've done a little bit of work. I've had my telemedicine appointment with my neurologist. I've eaten lunch. I've done the grocery run and unpacked.

I'm going to alternate between catching up on migraine-deprivation sleep and reading, so I'll probably be posting erratically.

I don't have a clear sense of what I'll actually end up reading, but I'll try to finish Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley (sequel to The Rook, which I read and relished last weekend.)

Also:
The Good Assassin by Stephan Talty
Treachery by S.J. Parris
The Invitation by Lucy Foley
A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland (shortlist for Walter Scott award)
Mother Land by Leah Franqui
Barbara Tuchman's book about the 14th century on audiobook
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Outsider by Linda Castillo
The Last Protector by Andrew Taylor
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Malice by Keigo Higashino
audiobook of Harlequin by Bernard Cornwell
audiobook of A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey

Books read from: The Aosawa Murders
Books finished: none yet
Time reading: 0h33m
Time posting: 1759
Snacks: pot roast sammy, buttered noodles
Thoughts: I got to see, smell, and hug Rob for about 10min!!!
Non-book activities: sad that Rob's dad the shitheel is very sick

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 0h33m

My goal for the weekend is to finish The Land Beyond (110 pages left) and The Beautiful and Damned (2,5 hours left). The weather has turned and it's supposed to be cold, cloudy and rather miserable so there won't be any crossword solving in the sunshine to distract me from reading (though there might be Netflix or online "window shopping" to distract me instead).

Sweden, just after midnight

Books read from: 2 - The Land Beyond and The Beautiful and Damned
Books finished: 0
Time reading: An hour?
Snacks: Cinnamon rolls, rye buns
Thoughts: I need to start buying jigsaw puzzles without a great expanse of blue sky
Non-book activities: Wasting time online, jigsaw

After a gray and drizzly day here in east Tennessee it has turned into a lovely evening. I have dinner in the oven (macaroni and sausage casserole). I'll take the dog on a walk after I finish dinner and then settle in for a bit of reading before bedtime. Will be working on Only a Few Bones. My dog, Adrian, thinks it sounds like a wonderful book!

Friday, 6:50pm in New Jersey

Check-in #2

Books read from since last check-in: The Flatshare, A Simple Favor
Books finished since last check-in: 0
Meals/Snacks: glass of red wine
Thoughts: Dinner?
Non-book activities: Dishes, jigsaw puzzle

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2

I'm approaching the end of my current audio. It's fairly ridiculous, but keeping my attention. Will take a break now and see about motivating the husband into making dinner (I'm the sous chef).

7:10 pm
Reading Soot-still- it is 537 pages- I had a non-reading interlude but now I am back to this book. I'll try to finish it this weekend!
Dinner- white wine, baked salmon and asparagus, mashed potatoes, some dark chocolate

7:20pm Cleveland, Ohio Sunny afternoon but still too dang chilly to enjoy the outdoors.

Check-in #1
Books currently in progress:
The Hate U Give
Bossypants

Books read from since last check-in:
Books finished since last check-in:
Meals/Snacks: Dinner - (Pork chops w/lemon-caper sauce - mashed potatoes and green beans) Neapolitan Ice cream for dessert.

Thoughts: The house across the street has a drive way full of cars. What's up with that?
Non-book activities: Being nosy neighbor

Total books finished:
Total read from:

Books read from: Tim Gunn: the Natty Professor by Tim Gunn and Ada Calhoun
Books finished: 0
Time reading: about fifty minutes
Time posting: 9:45 p.m.
Snacks: dinner was leftover pizza
Thoughts: I'm feeling tired and blah
Non-book activities: treadmill, knitting, watching 30 for 30 and sort of watching the NFL draft, Sudoku puzzles

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: fifty minutes

I'm going to read a little in The City We Became and head to bed

Checking in...

It's 11:10 p.m. in Rhode Island

Books read from: The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Malice by Keigo Higashino, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Books finished: 0
Time reading: About 3.5 hours
Snacks: Had fish sticks and some noodles for dinner. Strawberries coming up.
Thoughts: So glad my migraine appears to be gone. Hopefully this time it will STAY gone for a little while?
Non-book activities: Checking news, playing online video game (sigh) and now watching a documentary about Mikhail Khodorovsky (former oligarch, who ran afoul of Putin & ended up in Siberia). It's good.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 3.5 hours

Good evening! Notes from noon to midnight on Friday:

Books read from: The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal (audio), Lady of Quality (audio), Blood Sport (ebook)
Books finished: 1 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
Time reading: 2:18 listening, 1:43 reading, 4:01 total
Time posting: around midnight in Georgia
Thoughts: Too much about COVID-19
Non-book activities: making a sock mask, going to the grocery store for the first time in four weeks, cooking, dealing with the IRS website, messing about on LT

Total books finished: 1 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
Total read from: 3
Total time reading/listening: 4:01

Saturday 4pm NZ (GMT+12)

Books read from: Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: brunch - scrambled eggs, coffee
Thoughts: I'm bored
Non-book activities: food prep, supermarket visit

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4hrs

Started remembering the plot as I was about halfway through, still an enjoyable read. Have another Heyer to on hand, Faro's Daughter, but will start reading a real book rather than a digital one. Lined up The Absolute Book and will try to finish.

>44 Chatterbox:
I read Distant Mirror many years ago when it first came out. In fact, I purchased that book when it was published. I ordered it from Varney's Bookstore in Manhattan, KS. The store isn't there anymore. I was living a hundred miles away from the store. They dealt mostly in textbooks, but would order trade books. I called them from my home, out in the boonies. I had to mail them a check and then they ordered the book for me. I had to wait to pick it up until I made a trip to Manhattan. The whole transaction took a couple of months before I got the book. I remember being Wowed! by it. I still have my copy.

The system was cumbersome, and so pre-Amazon bookstore, but it did work. I also ordered the Warren biography of Henry II using the same method.

Greetings from Seattle, where I got off to a later reading start than I’d hoped.

Books read from: Citizens and Check, Please! Vol. 2
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Food: chili for dinner
Thoughts: I so badly need a relaxing weekend.
Non-book activities: birdwatching, cooking, laundry

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 1.5 hours

Friday reading from Chicago, where stay at home has been extended to May 30:

Books read from: 1 -- The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Books finished: 0
Time reading: about 2 hrs
Thoughts: the book describes massive devastation and death in a matter of minutes, while this crisis feels like (relatively) slow motion

Saturday morning update on last night's reading and what I've read so far today, 09.32 UK time:

Books read from: Queenie, Talking to Women and an unexpected quick read, Moomin's Desert Island
Books finished: 1 (Moomin's Desert Island)
Pages read: 112 (high for me, but includes a comic)
Thoughts: I'm annoyed that I've slept badly and feel run down and hope this doesn't spoil the day ahead. I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed the book of Moomin comic strips, which I borrowed from my son's shelves, and am sorely tempted to order the other books in the series.
Non-book activities: playing Uno, watching TV and eating curry last night; not much other than reading and drinking coffee so far this morning.

Morning readathoners!

Update #2

Books read from: Bossy Pants (just what I needed) and The Hate U Give
Books finished:
Pages read: 7% & 35 pages - accordingly
Thoughts: It's Saturday
Breakfast: Homemade Banana Carrot Bread - coffee w/cream
Non-book activities: I'll do an online yoga class shortly then back to reading.

>44 Chatterbox: Suzanne, Where did you see the documentary on Mikhail Khodorovsky? My son is majoring in Russia and if he hasn't already seen it, I'd like to tell him about it. Thanks.

>50 Rebeki: Awe, I love the Moomins!

Saturday midnight NZ (GMT+12)

Books read from: Go tell the Lemming by Bernice Rubens, The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2.5 hrs
Snacks: dinner - chicken curry
Thoughts: yawn
Non-book activities: food prep - smoked fish chowder for rest of family, talking

Total books finished: 1 Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6.5 hrs

Not as much reading this evening, too many family members wanting to talk.

Saturday, 9:00am in New Jersey

Check-in #3

Books read from since last check-in: The Flatshare, Mr. Darcy's Diary
Books finished since last check-in: 0
Meals/Snacks: Last night - kielbasa and cabbage, tater tots; This Morning - coffee
Thoughts: Still waking up
Non-book activities: Making dinner, watching the NFL draft

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3

I'm enjoying all of my reads, and should finish the audio (A Simple Favor) today and maybe The Flatshare.

Just before four, Sweden.

Books read from: 1 - The Beautiful and Damned
Books finished: 0
Time reading: An hour and a half?
Snacks: Cinnamon rolls, rosehip soup
Thoughts: I'm ready for this book to be finished
Non-book activities: Gardening (the weather turned out better than predicted so raked the lawn, cut old branches from the berry bushes, got rid of the Christmas "forest" and cleared some of the overgrown old grass from the raspberry field), jigsaw, the radio music crossword.

Saturday afternoon update, 15.07 UK time:

Books read from:Queenie, Talking to Women
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 75
Thoughts: I am having such a lazy day, but I needed a nap after a poor night's sleep. I need to get up and do something different now, so that I don't feel this evening that I've wasted the day.
Non-book activities: just napping!

Total books read from: 3
Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 187

>51 Carmenere: Me too! And they're a great comfort read at this time.

Saturday, 9:00am in a western suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

I'm doing it this time. Yay! I'll be be working on finishing the following, in this order:

Illustrated Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. R. Rowling (currently on page 107/246)
Envy by J. R. Ward (228/387)
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (121/322)
The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (31/101)

I don't do time read as I'm too easily distracted. Plus marking when I start and stop is nerve-wracking a pain in the rear. I'm just going to record pages as I normally do for this type of thing. I am going to read for an hour then take a 20 to 30 minute break to do other things, then do another hour of reading, etc. And at some point this weekend I'll be having a video chat with a friend.

Books read from since the last check in:
Books finished since the last check in:
Pages read:
Meals/Snacks: Oatmeal, 1% milk (1 cup)
Thoughts: Yay for finally doing this!
Non-book activities: Setting up journal and planner for the day, had website do my astrological natal chart and read it because I'm just silly that way

Books read from: The Machine Stops, The Aosawa Murders
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2h15m
Time posting: 1022
Snacks: 3 hard-boiled eggs
Thoughts: The Machine Stops really is one of the most surprising reads I've encountered.
Non-book activities: Still excited because I got to see, smell, and hug Rob for about 10min!!!

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2h50m

Good morning! Checking in a little before 11.

Books read from: Tim Gunn: the Natty Professor by Tim Gunn and Ada Calhoun and The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: probably about an hour combined from last night and this morning
Snacks: coffee, oatmeal w/banana, chai
Thoughts: I'm still planning what to do with my day
Non-book activities: getting up and ready for the day, visiting with the folks I live with, starting a load of laundry

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 1 hr. 50 min.

I'm off to call my Little for a bit. I probably won't get a ton of reading in today, but I'm starting a week of vacation and will have plenty of time all week to read and work on various projects.

Saturday, 12:00pm in New Jersey

Check-in #4

Books read from since last check-in: The Flatshare, A Simple Favor
Books finished since last check-in: 1 (A Simple Favor)
Meals/Snacks: still just coffee
Thoughts: A Simple Favor was ridiculous and full of unpleasant people. Can't wait to watch the movie!
Non-book activities: Breaking down completed puzzle, starting new one

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3

Half six in the evening in the UK. It has been a super sunny day here for April, I have my big hat out and my sun chair.

Reading: Downloaded The Last Protector as it wasn't available at rhe library online for a month, so have mostly been reading that. About 40% in.

Meals / snacks: The last of the blue cheese with crackers. Lots of tea. Some chocolate.

Other activities: very satisfying gardening (digging up over ambitious plant and moving it to the back of the garden) and bramble bashing to clear a local path. Plus a snooze.

Thoughts: it's so quiet!

Good afternoon! It's yet another gorgeous day in Georgia (we get lots of them, this time of year), and while I could dash out an get a tattoo, a mani-pedi, sweat at the gym, and bowl a game or ten due to loosened restrictions, I think I'll stay home and herd the cats, garden, and read - in no particular order.

Notes from midniight to 1:30 pm (or so) Saturday:

Books read from: Lady of Quality (audio), Blood Sport (ebook)
Books finished: 1 Blood Sport (ebook)
Time reading: 49 minutes listening, 1:47 reading, 2:36 total
Time posting: about 1:30 pm
Thoughts: Oh sure - you want me to think, too?
Non-book activities: Sleeping, basking in the sunshine

Total books finished: 2 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal,
Total read from: 3
Total time reading/listening: 6:37

>57 Morphidae: Hooray, Morphy, you made it!

My sleep is all buggered up again/still, so I completely lost the morning. On the other hand, trying to get to sleep last night meant that I turned to my current audiobook, Barbara Tuchman's book about the 14th century.

It's 2:45 p.m. in Rhode Island

Books read from: The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Books finished: 0
Time reading: About 6.5 hours
Snacks: Strawberries late last night. Thinking of making some toast.
Thoughts: Frustrated by this inability to sleep consistently, and fatigued (without having done all that much!) Gah.Anxiety level rising, so I'm kind of avoiding the news.
Non-book activities: Sleeping, but starting five hours after I first tried to do this. Sigh. Scratching Minka the kitten's head. Did dishes late last night.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3 (the two above, plus Malice by Keigo Higashino.
Total time reading: 10 hours

A rainy Saturday afternoon in East Tennessee.

Books read from: Only a Few Bones
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Just had some of the lavender & honey ice cream I picked up from a local dairy's drop-off in my neighborhood - yum!
Thoughts: It's a good weekend for reading since it's chilly and rainy outside.
Non-book activities: Walking the dog, picking up my dairy order

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?

Saturday, 2:15pm in a western suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

Finished the Harry Potter, onward to the Ward. I need to spend less time playing Merge Dragons! My 20 to 30 minutes in between turns into more like 45 to 60!

Books read from since the last check in:
Books finished since the last check in: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Illustrated by J. K. Rowling
Pages read: 139
Meals/Snacks: Beanie Weenies, Loft's Lemon Frosted Cookie
Thoughts: Getting aggravated that my friend hasn't contacted me about when our video chat will be. I don't like not knowing. It makes me twitchy (MrMorphy would add an "er.")
Non-book activities: Merge Dragons, checked bank balance yet again looking for my tax stimulus (I'm on SSDI.), posted something silly on CrazyMamie's thread, made a list of daily tasks for Merge Dragons (SHUT UP, STOP LAUGHING), did two small exercise routines

Total books finished: 1

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Illustrated by J. K. Rowling

Saturday, 4:50pm in New Jersey

Check-in #5

Books read from since last check-in: The Flatshare, Smile
Books finished since last check-in: 1 (The Flatshare)
Meals/Snacks: what toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam, some gummi bears
Thoughts: Is it too late for a nap?
Non-book activities: Unpacking random boxes, futzing around on the internet

Total books finished: 2 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare)
Total read from: 4

It is almost 5:30 p.m. on a blustery windy, sunny day with perfect temperatures for working outside. I continue to read from my short stack of novellas. This weekend the book will be Memory. I have had this book on my TBR shelves since I joined LT back in 2008. Time to move it off and since it is a novella this is the perfect opportunity to do so.

Books read from: I read from Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, and Memory by Philippe Grimbert.

Books finished: none today.

Time reading: Since it is Saturday 2 hours over breakfast

Time posting:

Snacks:

Thoughts: Since nobody else seems to be observing the quarantine, I joined the hoards of people who are purchasing their essential spring flowers at the essential nursery because. I can't believe how many cars are out on the streets and how many shoppers there are at Target and Walmart. I am angry that shoppers are allowed to buy clothing and electronics at Target and Walmart, while J. C. Penny's has to be closed. It doesn't make sense.

Non-book activities: went shopping and planted flowers.

Total books finished: 11. Since my first weekend participating in this Readathon - the weekend of April 4, 2020

Total read from: 12 so far

Total time reading:18.25 hours since starting the Readathon. They have probably been my most productive hours since April 1st.

>63 Chatterbox: For me to be able to sleep I have found it really important to supplement with Vitamin D3:

https://thesleepdoctor.com/2016/02/26/low-on-vitamin-d-sleep-suffers/amp/

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-vitamin-d-should-you-take/

https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Naturals-Vitamin-Gummies-Function/dp/B00B3AL44C/re...

Books finished: The Ordinary Princess, On Basilisk Station.

Books reading: The Honor of the Queen

Lunch: homemade vegetable soup, mashed potatoes.

Hours reading: 1-2 last night, 2-3 today.

>68 SilverWolf28: Thanks for the suggestion. I take a vitamin pill daily but will check on D3... I think it's partly due to the way my body/mind are responding to the stress of the situation. Consciously, I'm actually LESS stressed (less to juggle, less control I have to exert), but unconsciously I'm worrying about the ramifications of what I know will be a very long drawn out process and that's how it's manifesting.

It's now 7:40 p.m. in Rhode Island

Books read from: The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Books finished: still none!
Time reading since last check-in: About 5.5 hours
Snacks: Toast, diet Pepsi.
Thoughts: Reflecting on some of the eerie parallels between the late 14th century and today. The extreme wealth inequality, the pandemics. And the ideas that these sparked from nationalism (for the first time in the 14th century) to class conflict. The way that the upper classes of the 14th century treated the working poor can be compared to today, with battles for the equivalent of a living wage, concern over fair treatment of the then-equivalent of gig workers, and debates over collective action. It has prompted me to resolve to embark on Piketty's tomes that re-evaluate capital vs. labor (since this involves 2,000-plus pages of Big Thoughts, it's going to be a Project with a capital P.
Non-book activities: Dozing, struggling to deal with attempts by migraine to return. Playing a bit of an online game. Ordered a pencil sharpener online so I can return to my grown-up coloring books while listening to audiobooks.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3 (the two above, plus Malice by Keigo Higashino.
Total time reading: 15.5 hours

I'll probably finish the Daniel O'Malley chunkster soon, and move on to something shorter or a bit lighter. Plus, I have the last 30 or 40 pages of a book about contemporary Russia to finish, which I want to do after watching "Citizen K" last night -- a film about Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It was fascinating, and highly recommended. Well balanced he's no saint, and the film makes viewers realize that had Putin left him alone, he probably would never have had a crisis of conscience. On the other hand, rather than caving in, he went the other way and became an advocate for political change in Russia, and at least somewhat disinterested, probably jeopardizing his life. The irony is that now being a political exile, he becomes less relevant to Russians. This is GOOD documentary making...

Nearly 10:30 and time for bed. Not a lot of reading happening today for me, but perhaps tomorrow.

Books read from: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 50 minutes
Meals: leftover pizza for lunch, taco soup for dinner
Thoughts: I had a good day, including a nice long walk outside
Non-book activities: laundry, Skype with my Little, coloring, put the NFL draft on, a 30 for 30 episode, and a walk

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hr. 40 min.

7:30 in Seattle

Books read from: Citizens and Check, Please! Book 2
Books finished: Check, Please! Book 2
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Food: pizza
Thoughts: I’m glad we bought this house years ago because if I have to be shut up like this at least I have a backyard full of trees and birdsong.
Non-book activities: napping

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours

It's 10:43pm in O-H-I-O and I'm about to head upstairs to bed.

Books read from: The Hate U Give but mainly Bossypants
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours, maybe a little more
Meals: Dinner was a homemade pizza with pepperoni and black olives
Thoughts: Enjoy the sun and warmth today cause tomorrow rain, rain, rain and chilly once again
Non-book activities: Worked in the yard picking up twigs and branches. Had a short socially distant chat with neighbor also working outside

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2

Sleep tight, all

11:14 pm in Toronto
almost finished Soot I am near the end- it was good but a very complicated plot with all the threads apparently coming together in the last 45 pages.
Supper- barley and mushroom soup, omelette, sliced yellow pepper, clementine, piece of cake

Saturday, 11:35pm in New Jersey

Check-in #6

Books read from since last check-in: Mr. Darcy's Diary
Books finished since last check-in: 0
Meals/Snacks: Dinner was takeaway Greek - lamb gyro and lemon potatoes; red wine
Thoughts: Time for bed!
Non-book activities: Dinner, virtual meetup with TX friends, movie

Total books finished: 2 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare)
Total read from: 4

Watched the film of A Simple Favor, the audio book I finished earlier. It's always interesting to see how books get adapted. This wasn't a particularly good adaptation, but the book wasn't all that good, so *shrug.* Still, entertaining for a Saturday night.

It's now 11:45 p.m. in Rhode Island, and I'll probably read for another few hours before trying to sleep.

Books read from: The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley
Books finished: 1, Stiletto
Time reading since last check-in: 3 hours
Snacks: Mac & cheese with bacon; some more of the strawberries I got yesterday.
Thoughts: According to one study, it seems as if the approximate date here for modifications to social distancing will be June 10. Which feels about right to me. I have been saying for a while that I thought it would be between Memorial Day and July 4 (yeah, I know, a big target!)
Non-book activities: Ate dinner, dealt with a couple of e-mails.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3 (the two above, plus Malice by Keigo Higashino.
Total time reading: 18.5 hours

I'm going to pick up The Overstory now in case there's any chance in the world I can get it read before a book group discussion tomorrow afternoon. LOL....

It is almost 10:30 p.m. on a cool spring evening in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Books read from: I read from Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, Trackers by Deon Meyer, and Memory by Philippe Grimbert.

Books finished: I finished the novella I had selected for this weekend. Memory by Philippe Grimbert is a French book (novella - 140 pages) that won several literary prizes when it was published.

Time reading: 3 hours

Time posting:

Snacks: Since everybody else is doing it - I left home and got Chinese food from some long time restauranteurs I have known for 25 years. I feel ashamed that I haven't been driving and leaving home all along so that I can get food from them. They need the business and I have foolishly been staying at home instead of giving them business.

Thoughts: I must be stupid to have taken the quarantine instructions so literarily.

Non-book activities: went shopping, planted flowers, and got Chinese food for supper.

Total books finished: 12. Since my first weekend participating in this Readathon - the weekend of April 4, 2020

Total read from: 14 so far

Total time reading: 19.25 hours since starting the Readathon.

Good evening! I didn't spend much time today reading or listening. Maybe tomorrow I'll make more progress.

Notes from noon to midnight, Saturday:

Books read from: Lady of Quality (audio), Doomsday Book (ebook), Up the Line (paper) abandoned
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1:11 minutes listening, 1:19 reading, 2:30 total
Time posting: around midnight
Thoughts: Up the Line shows its age a bit too much for me to find amusing. And my sleep schedule is completely messed up.....
Non-book activities: A nap, gardening (I got out the dreaded week whacker), reading too much news, playing around on LT, ordering books (my Thingaverasary approaches)

Total books finished: 2 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, Blood Sport
Total read from: 5
Total time reading/listening: 9:07

>77 benitastrnad: I'm not sure it'a possible to take it the quarantine too seriously. My take on it is if I didn't absolutely need to go out, I didn't go. That means I've been off the property twice in four weeks. I feel certain my restraint has been counterbalanced by plenty of people who have ignored advice to stay at home completely.

Sunday 12:30 Kuala Lumpur

Books Read From : 4 - North by Seamus Heaney, Cambridge by Caryl Phillips, The Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis and (again) Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott
Books Finished : 1 - North
Time Reading : 5 hours
Food : Sea Bass in spicy/sweet/sour sauce (Malay call it "tiga rasa" which means three tastes), smoked black pepper cheese // coconut water, water & COFFEE
Thoughts : Thank God for coffee. (Hope you got enough @ >31 Rebeki:?!)
Non Book Activity : Internet, far too much sleeping, sorting out books, listening to Morrissey & Jethro Tull

Total Books Read From : 5
Total Finished : 2 - Frozen Moment & North
Total Reading Time : 8 hours

Saturday reading from Chicago:

Books read from today: 2 -- Rosabelle Shaw by D. E. Stevenson and Austen's Mansfield Park on audiobook read by Juliet Stevenson. This is my umpteenth re-read of MP, but I'm accompanying with reading the notes of Mansfield Park: an Annotated Edition with notes by Austen scholar Deidre Lynch.

Books finished: 0
Time reading/listening: about 4 hours
No exciting snacks
Thoughts: am finding the daily corona virus updates on youtube from Dr John Campbell very calming and giving me the ability to ignore the rest of the hype.

Sunday morning in the UK, where it is overcast and kind of grey and cool after yesterday (in the north west bit, anyway).

Books read from: continuing The Last Protector and The Man Who Wasn't There

Books finished 0

Time read: Couple of hours

Food: Toast with bovril, coffee.

Thoughts: I hope the replanted plants don't die.

>81 charl08: Still sunshine and blue sky in London. Will try to make the most of it today!

Sunday morning check-in, 09.30 UK time:

Books read from: Talking to Women by Nell Dunn
Books finished: 1 (see above)
Pages read: 54
Thoughts: I had a good night's sleep, so hopefully today will be more productive. It's lovely that the loudest sound I can hear from my bedroom window is that of birdsong.
Non-book activities: I tried to make up for lost time yesterday afternoon by playing football and going for a walk with my son, doing a load of washing and some minor cleaning and tidying, having a family game of cards and then watching TV. I've done nothing yet today but read and drink coffee.

Total books read from: 3
Total books finished: 2
Total pages read: 241

Sunday 9.30 pm NZ (GMT+12)

Books read from: Go tell the Lemming by Bernice Rubens, The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer & The Ringmaster by Morris West (audio)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3.5 hrs
Snacks: lunch - avocado on toast, dinner - corned beef with creamy potato mash & cabbage
Thoughts: The Morris West feels dated but will keep listening anyway
Non-book activities: food prep, a long walk, more food prep

Total books finished: 1 Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 10 hrs approx

Will try to read more of the Knox tonight and continue reading tomorrow as it is a long weekend here.

Three in the afternoon, Sweden.

I didn't check in last night because I got a headache and decided it'd be better to just go to bed.

Books read from: 2 - The Beautiful and Damned and The Land Beyond
Books finished: 1 - The Beautiful and Damned (finally)
Time reading: A couple of hours
Snacks: Sandwich, gingerbread biscuits
Non-book activities: Gardening, watching a farming show on TV, jigsaw

Sunday, 9:35am in a western suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

Books read from since the last check in:

Books finished since the last check in: Envy by J. R. Ward, The Forbidden Billionaire by J. S. Scott, The Billionaire's Touch by J. S. Scott

Pages finished since the last check in: 557

Meals/Snacks: Sat PM Snack - Swiss Almond Cheese Spread, Triscuits, Strawberry Banana Smoothie w/Spinach, Sat Dinner - Minnesota Hotdish*, Kemp's Cow Tracts Ice Cream, Sat Evening Snacks (Ugh! Too many! Thankfully one serving or smaller and not bingeing, but still, ugh) - Cheetos, Pringles, Townhouse, Hershey Miniatures

Sun Breakfast - Lean Pocket Meatball & Mozzarella, Banana Bread

Thoughts: I was going to read something more serious after the Ward (‪With the Fire on High) but decided I wanted something fluffy. And, oh boy, did I go for fluffy. Fun though and I read until 1am! But I ended up devouring too much food along with the books. And I'm "too old for this shit" as I woke up at the usual hour so now I'm exhausted, cranky, and feeling bad about myself. Blech. ‬

‪I'm trying to keep in mind that while I did overeat, they were regular portions and I did not binge, i.e. it wasn't over a short period of time (it was over five hours), I didn't eat mindlessly and wasn't stuffed full and feeling physically sick afterward. But it's really hard to not criticize myself harshly for it.‬

Non-book activities: Merge Dragons (of course,) SongPop (my playlist choice of the day was "American Bandstand",) quick reviews of LT, FB, Nextdoor, and news headlines (the less said the better)

Total pages finished: 696
Total books finished: 4

10:54am Cleveland, OH - What a glorious day for reading. Chilly, rainy, gray.

I think this is update #4

Books read from: Bossypants 50% done - hope to finish today
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1hour in bed this morning
Meals: A slice of banana-carrot bread, coffee w/cream
Thoughts: If I prep them put dinner in the crock-I'm free to read all day long :0)
Non-book activities: Made stuffed cabbage rolls and placed in crockpot with saurkraut & ham hock.
Added items to my curbside pick up order

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1

Sunday, 11:30am in New Jersey

Check-in #7

Books read from since last check-in: Mr. Darcy's Diary, Necessary as Blood
Books finished since last check-in: 0
Meals/Snacks: Breakfast - The Wayne tried to make buttermilk biscuits and they were inedible, so I settled for having some bacon on wheat toast with as lice of cheddar; coffee
Thoughts: World's most boring birthday ever
Non-book activities: Sleep, shower, breakfast

Total books finished: 2 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare)
Total read from: 5

11:45 a.m. on Sunday

I haven't read much this morning, but I'm finally ready to sit down and get lost in a book

Books read from: Letters to the Church by Francis Chan - this is kind of cheating, because I only had a few pages left
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 15 minutes or so?
Meals: breakfast was coffee and oatmeal with banana, and I'm just about to reheat some pizza for lunch
Thoughts: The weather is kind of blah today, and I'm happy to cozy up with a good book. Also, touchstones don't seem to be working for me today which is mildly annoying
Non-book activities: getting up for the day, online church service

Total books finished: 1 (Letters to the Church)
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: about 3 hours

Good day from Georgia! It's beautiful again - hopefully I'll spend much of the day outside. I'll listen to Georgette Heyer while I garden and bask in the sun.

Notes from midnight to noon, Sunday:

Books read from: Lady of Quality (audio), Doomsday Book (ebook)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1:39 minutes listening, 1:36 reading, 3:15 total
Time posting: noonish
Thoughts: Spring is glorious! I should go out to the store again, but I don't want to. It'll keep.
Non-book activities: Sleeping, making blueberry muffins

Total books finished: 2 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, Blood Sport
Total read from: 5
Total time reading/listening: 12:22

>87 katiekrug: Cheddar lice!



>88 bell7: I've had issues, too. I've found saving the post, waiting several minutes, then opening it up again has worked.

Sunday 6 pm in the UK. Still pretty overcast. No dead plants so far.

Finished The Last Protector and The Man Who Wasn't There. Now reading Some Kids I taught and what they taught me

Books finished 2

Time read: Most of today

Food: Amazing lamb sunday roast. Compliments to the chef.

Other activities: ordered foxglove seeds, did boring house jobs, spoke on videochat to relatives, tidied up in the garden a bit, threw compost around.

Thoughts: I think I am mostly enjoying Clanchy's book because I agree with her about almost everything to do with school, from the evils of religious schools to the importance of poetry. Woolly liberal alert.

Sunday 1:45 pm in Toronto- overcast and a little rain.
I finished Soot -it is very good but with the plot of a " Smoke that infected most of the world and forces trying to harness power for profit .., I have to go to read Pride and Prejudice again!

2:30 p.m. in Rhode Island, and it's raining/chilly again, with forecast for more tomorrow. I still have all my thick sweaters out, although it's almost May, and I have kept the flannel sheets on the bed. Sigh. Not a sign of a naturally-growing tulip in the gardens here.

Books read from: The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, The Overstory by Richard Powers, A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey
Books finished: 0
Time reading since last check-in: About 6 hours
Snacks: Some toast, a diet Pepsi
Thoughts: So, so, so fed up with this weather. Also frustrated by my apathy/lack of motivation.
Non-book activities: signed for some Amazon packages, did some coloring of a mandala design using my scores of colored pencils while listening to part of The Overstory.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5, The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley Malice by Keigo Higashino. The Overstory by Richard Powers, A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey
Total time reading: 24.5 hours

(PS: Touchstones not working)

Books read from: Only a Few Bones
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was leftover macaroni-sausage casserole, glazed parsnips, sweet cream ice cream from local dairy; drinking OJ & club soda now
Thoughts: Hoping the dog isn't seriously ill after he threw up and shook for a couple of minutes earlier this afternoon. He seems OK now.
Non-book activities: Zoom Sunday School this morning (my church) followed by online church service (brother's TX church); nap

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?

>90 Morphidae: - Thank you, Morphy!

The cheddar lice was delicious ;-)

Sunday, 4:45pm in New Jersey

Check-in #8

Books read from since last check-in: Mr. Darcy's Diary
Books finished since last check-in: 0
Meals/Snacks: Not much, as I'm holding out for giant birthday dinner ;)
Thoughts: I love Mr. Darcy
Non-book activities: Internet, talking to in-laws on the phone, watching the husband bake a cake, providing unasked for advice...

Total books finished: 2 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare)
Total read from: 5

>95 katiekrug: Happy birthday, Katie! Mine was last month and rather boring too

Books read from: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin and Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor by Tim Gunn and Ada Calhoun
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 4 hours and 15 minutes
Snacks: none after lunch, and I'm ready for dinner
Thoughts: Oh look, the touchstones are working! I'm really happy to finally get some focused reading time in, rather than snatches here and there
Non-book activities: knitting while listening to the end of The Natty Professor

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours and 15 minutes

After dinner, I'll be pondering what book to start next. I'm thinking 18809896::All Systems Red and Such a Fun Age might be on the soon-TBR list.

2 PM in Seattle

Books read from: False Value
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2.5 hours
Food: leftover pizza
Thoughts: I love this series
Non-book activities: virtual coffee hour with my church

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7.5 hours

>97 susanna.fraser: Well I had been considering rereading the series before I read False Value, but I guess I should go ahead and join you!

Notes from noon to 6pm, Sunday:

Books read from: Lady of Quality (audio), Doomsday Book (ebook)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 50 minutes listening, 30 minutes reading, 1:20 total
Time posting: about 6 pm
Thoughts: So much for getting any reading done. I have had a singularly unproductive day.
Non-book activities: Napping, puttering, wasting time

Total books finished: 2 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, Blood Sport
Total read from: 5
Total time reading/listening: 12:22

Books read from: 3 - The Madonnas Of Leningrad by Debra Dean, The Invention Of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, The Nature Of The Beast by Louise Penny
Books finished: 1 - The Madonnas Of Leningrad
Time reading: 3 hours, about 1 hour per book
Time posting: 6:10pm in Pennsylvania
Snacks: Supper was mushroom ravioli, salad, and a big cookie from one of my favorite restaurants that I ordered from earlier this week.
Thoughts: I realized I haven't been to Three Pines in ages, I've missed it!
Non-book activities: Grocery curbside pickup, baking, cleaning, etc.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 3 hours

Almost 8:45 p.m. in Rhode Island. Steady rain. Yuck. It's chilly in my living room.

Books read from: A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Books finished: 0
Time reading since last check-in: About 4.5 hours
Snacks: fish fingers & veggies
Thoughts: Still struggling to focus and angry with myself about lack of discipline
Non-book activities: made dinner, talked to a friend for about 45 minutes, had a nap, etc. etc.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6, The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley Malice by Keigo Higashino. The Overstory by Richard Powers, A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico.
Total time reading: 29 hours

I've spent more time reading this weekend, but have finished only a single book. Probably because several are relatively long (400-500 pages or more) and/or non-fiction. I do expect that I'll finish the re-read of the "Mrs 'Arris" book tonight. It's delicious comfort reading -- I discovered it as a teenager or so, and fell in love with the story, re-reading it so often that the book literally fell apart. I hope that this re-read will hold up. I'll move on to her adventures in NYC, Moscow and running for election as an MP, only one of which I've read before and have never re-read.

Monday 1 pm NZ (GMT+12)

Books read from: The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox, Faro's Daughter by Georgette Heyer & The Ringmaster by Morris West (audio)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2.5 hrs
Snacks: lunch - banana smoothie
Thoughts: this will be my last Heyer for a while
Non-book activities: a long walk including a bush walk & supermarket visit.

Total books finished: 1 Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 12.5 hrs approx

>101 Chatterbox: My mom mentioned that drinking lots of fluids can help with migraines. Also you might want to consider supplementing with DHA. It's extremely important for good brain health.

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Books read from: All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr. 30 minutes
Dinner: taco soup
Thoughts: I'm liking my book, but I've got the beginnings of the headache and this weather is miserable! The wind is absolutely whipping, too.
Non-book activities: knitting while watching an episode of 30 for 30

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours and 45 minutes

I'm getting ready for bed now, and will probably read another half hour or so to finish the Murderbot novella. I'll start Such a Fun Age too, as it's the next audiobook-before-bed on deck, along with the book I have out from the library. All told, I expect that will make over 9 hours reading/listening this weekend. Not a bad start to my vacation week.

>101 Chatterbox: Mrs. Harris was one of my favorites of 2019!

I'm calling it a day. I was too sleepy to read for long this evening, so I ended up watching Acorn TV for a while. I'll read another chapter or two of Only a Few Bones before I go to sleep. I'll have about 100 pages left.

Books finished: The Flatshare (thanks katiekrug)

Books reading: The Honor of the Queen

Lunch: homemade nachos

Hours reading: 1 - 2

Notes from 6pm to midnight, Sunday:

Books read from: Lady of Quality (audio), Doomsday Book (ebook), Faro's Daughter (audio)
Books finished: 1 Lady of Quality
Time reading: 3:12 listening, 39 minutes reading, 3:51 total
Time posting: around midnight
Thoughts: What an unproductive weekend! At least it was pretty.
Non-book activities: Puttering, posting on LT, reading news, household projects

Total books finished: 3 The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal, Blood Sport, Lady of Quality
Total read from: 6
Total time reading/listening: 16:13

I'm in again for next weekend.

It is now almost midnight in windy blustery sunny Tuscaloosa, AL. Time to call it a weekend and end this weekend's Readathon.

Books Read from this weekend: Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, Dry by Neal Shusterman, Memory by Philippe Grimbert, and Trackers by Deon Meyer
Books finished this weekend: Memory by Philippe Grimbert
Time reading this weekend 6.25 hours
Time posting: around midnight
Thoughts: I bought my spring plants and planted a good share of them. Still have a tomato and my herbs to plant.
Non-book activities: Gardening, a bit of laundry. Lots of time on the phone today. No cooking, but I did get groceries for a the coming week.

Total books finished since Readathon started: 14
Total books read from: 20
Total time reading: 35.5 hours

If we do this next weekend you can count me in.

>107 SilverWolf28: Katie hit me with The Flatshare as a book bullet, too...

It's now almost 1 a.m. in Rhode Island, and I'll probably read for another few hours. Dunno if I'll check in again before I go to sleep, however.

Books read from: A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey
Books finished: 0
Time reading since last check-in: 3 hours?
Snacks: Just a diet Pepsi and some selzer
Thoughts: Fatigued after doing so little? Gah. And, it's bloody cold outside -- below freezing again.
Non-book activities: re-drafted a fund-raising letter for a non-profit client.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6, The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley Malice by Keigo Higashino. The Overstory by Richard Powers, A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico.
Total time reading: 32 hours

>98 Dejah_Thoris: I wish I’d gone back and re-read the series—I’m starting to lose track of ongoing characters and plot arcs.

Late-night check-in from Seattle

Books read from: False Value
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours
Food: ravioli
Thoughts: How is it almost May already?
Non-book activities: cooked dinner and made banana bread

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 10.5 hours

Count me in for next weekend!

It's early Monday morning here, but here's my final update for yesterday:

Books read from: Queenie
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 48
Thoughts: really enjoying this book, although it's a painful read at times, as I want the narrator to be kinder to herself.
Non-book activities: online church service, washing, TV, Zoom chat with my parents, playing Uno, more TV. A bit less lazy than yesterday, but not much.

Total books read from: 3
Total books finished: 2
Total pages read: 289

Well, it's Monday morning and I'm back at work and didn't get any more reading done on Sunday because of a small gardening accident that necessitated a quick trip to the hospital (I'm fine, just needed to be checked). Hopefully next weekend will be better - it'll be longer at any rate as Thursday is Walpurgis Night and I have a half-day at work and Friday is May Day and a bank holiday.

>115 PawsforThought: Oh no! Not exactly a relaxing Sunday then.

Monday morning here.

I finished three books, thanks again for organising this, Mary. Nice to have a focus on reading over the weekend rather than the rolling news.

Monday morning/Sunday night/whatever...

It's 4 a.m. in Rhode Island, and this will be my final check-in (until next weekend??)

Books read from: A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
Books finished: 1, the Mrs. Harris novel
Time reading since last check-in: 2.5 hours
Snacks: Some water
Thoughts: Not sleepy at night, yet again. Somehow I have managed to turn day into night and vice versa.
Non-book activities: Not much.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6, The Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara Tuchman, Stiletto by Daniel O'Malley Malice by Keigo Higashino. The Overstory by Richard Powers, A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico.
Total time reading: 34.5 hours

>116 charl08: Well, it was relaxing until about half past one when I had a close enounter with the raspberry thicket.

>96 bell7: - Thanks, Mary!

>107 SilverWolf28: and >111 Chatterbox: - Hope you enjoy The Flatshare!

Monday, 9:45am in New Jersey

Check-in #9

Books read from since last check-in: Mr. Darcy's Diary, Smile
Books finished since last check-in: 1
Meals/Snacks: Birthday feast, birthday cake
Thoughts: Yay for taking Monday off from work!
Non-book activities: Internet, dinner, talking to family on phone, watching mindless TV during food coma, sleep

Total books finished: 3 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare, Mr. Darcy's Diary)
Total read from: 5

>119 katiekrug: I have the week off, so I'll join in with you continuing to read on Monday, though it won't be anywhere near as much as I did yesterday!

Books read from: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr. (that's the reading from last night since my last post)
Breakfast: coffee and oatmeal with banana
Thoughts: Another miserable rainy day. No real plans for today, but I'm exercising for sure (took yesterday off) and want to cook some potato soup
Non-book activities: getting up for the morning, catching up on threads and reviews

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 9 hours and 45 minutes

I'll post a new thread (or continue this one if we get over 150 posts) for next weekend's readathon tomorrow

Monday, 9:00am in a western suburb of the Twin Cities, Minnesota

Books read from since the last check in: The Billionaire Takes All by J. S. Scott
Books finished since the last check in: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Pages read: 227
Meals/Snacks: Doesn't matter, I lost 8 pounds this week, whooo hooo! (Remember/realize I'm very heavy so it's not an unreasonable amount.)
Thoughts: I'm going to need to continue my readathon until then end of the month or until I get the six (!) more books read I need for a TIOLI sweep. It certainly doesn't help that I'm reading brain candy in between challenge books! And we're talking pages of regular, challenging and nonfiction reading, not fluff.
Non-book activities: Same ol', same ol' - Merge Dragons, Song Pop, Facebook, web surfing, news

Total pages finished: 923
Total books finished: 5

Days left to go: 4
Books left to go: 6
Pages left to go: 1,288
Pages needed to read per day: 322

Today's plan: Finish the Herrera, McCreary, to page 86 in Montgomery

The Transmigration of Bodies by Yuri Herrera (page 31/101)
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic by Michael McCreary (166 pages)
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery (261 pages)
Scythe by Neal Shusterman (435 pages)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (152 pages)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (204 pages)

10am Monday in Sunny but chilly Cleveland, OH.

I think this is update #5

Books read from: Bossypants 72% done
Books finished: Zero

Time reading: approx 3 - 4 hours
Meals - dinner: stuffed cabbage w/mashed potatoes
breakfast: cream of wheat w/strawberries and brown sugar
Thoughts: I hope Mary sets this up again for this coming weekend. :o)
Non-book activities: Went to the movies with my guys in our family room last night. Checked out some You Tubers.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1

>122 Carmenere: Of course I will! I expect even if some unessential businesses begin reopening, I won't be back to my full range of outside-of-work activities for some time.

Books read from: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hr. 15 min.
Lunch: onion soup
Thoughts: I have had enough of soup lately, and I'm looking forward to a grocery shopping to put together other meals
Non-book activities: exercise

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 11 hours

It is almost 12:30 p.m. on a beautiful sunny spring day in Tuscaloosa, AL. I am about to step outside for my lunch. This will be my last report for this weekend. I hope that we continue to do this next weekend as we will still be in quarantine.

Books read from: I read from Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer, Trackers by Deon Meyer, and Memory by Philippe Grimbert.

Books finished:Memory by Philippe Grimbert

Time reading: 1 hour at breakfast today

Time posting: this is my first today.

Snacks: no snacks this morning, but some darn good coffee.

Thoughts: Only thoughts about work. I actually had some this morning.

Non-Book Activities:

Total books finished: 14. Since my first weekend participating in this Readathon - the weekend of April 4, 2020

Total read from: 20 so far

Total time reading: 37 hours during the month of April for this Readathon.

>123 bell7: >122 Carmenere: Great! Thank you! It certainly helps me focus! Have a wonderful week!

Checking in for last time on Tues morning after a long weekend.
Last night I was able to finish The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox which I'd been reading on and off since early February. I love Knox's work though this one just didn't appeal.

2 books completed - A civil contract and The Absolute Book.

A little late...

Sunday reading and weekend round-up:

Books read from/listened to on Sunday: 2 Manfield Park (audiobook and read annotations) and Rosabelle Shaw
Books finished: 1 (Rosabelle Shaw)
Total time reading Sunday: about 5 hours
Snacks: nothing interesting
Thoughts: Rosabelle Shaw was mostly good, but I had some trouble with the characters. Will go into more when I write it up.

Weekend summary:
Books read from: 3
Books finished: 1

Monday, 9:00pm in New Jersey

Final check-in

Books read from since last check-in: Smile, Necessary as Blood
Books finished since last check-in: 1 Smile
Meals/Snacks: Lunch was leftover cabbage and sausage; dinner was a cheeseburger
Thoughts: Nobody does pathos quite as well as the Irish.
Non-book activities: jigsaw puzzle, errand, sous-chefing dinner, internet

Total books finished: 4 (A Simple Favor, The Flatshare, Mr. Darcy's Diary, Smile)
Total read from: 5

Last report at 10:30 p.m. and I'm off to bed.

Books read from: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Dinner: breakfast sandwich and hash browns from Dunkin Donuts
Thoughts: not a bad start to my vacation week
Non-book activities: knitting, watching episodes of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and an episode of ESPN's 30 for 30

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 12 hours

I'm assuming we'll all be back for more next weekend??

I finished up the second Mrs Harris book and A Castle in Wartime by Catherine Bailey, though I'm perplexed as to why the US publishers gave it that title.

Tuesday, 2:38 am in Fishers, Indiana

Check-in #1
Books currently in progress:
Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster

Posting template for my reference--
Books read from since last check-in:
Books finished since last check-in:
Meals/Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:

Total books finished:
Total read from:

Here's a new thread for this weekend. Join me there and I'll add you to the list of those participating!

>126 avatiakh:
I have read Dreamhunter and Dreamquake by Elizabeth Knox and liked them enough to purchase Jane Unlimited which I have not read yet. She is not an author who is very well known here in the US, but she generally writes good stuff. I am sorry to hear that this one wasn't as good.

>133 benitastrnad: I think it is more me than her for this one as the book gets lots of glowing reviews. I can recommend Mortal Fire which is a sort of Dreamhunter sequel. I'll probably read some of her earlier work, I have most of them.
Jane, unlimited looks interesting, is it similar to Knox's Dreamhunter books?

>134 avatiakh:
I haven't read Jane Unlimited yet, but Joe read it when it first came out and liked it. It is fantasy and parts of it take place in a dreamworld. When I looked it up I discovered, to my chagrin, that Jane Unlimited is by Kristin Cashore and not Elizabeth Knox. I think the book I was thinking of was Mortal Fire and I got it mixed up with the Cashore book.

I haven't read Mortal Fire yet either. We have it in our library, but I just haven't read it yet. I have been using this time at home to read the last books in several series, so Mortal Fire would fit that pattern - if we ever get back into a library. Alabama is to start a gradual transition to opening up, starting on May 1, so we will see what happens. I don't think I want to be in the library the day it reopens. I think it will be a mad house of people trying to get books. And return books.