Social Distancing Readathon #8 - May 8-10

Some of us are social distancing, others are sheltering in place - and we are all reading together. I know we all have different dates that the shelter-in-place advisories are up, so we may see our numbers rise or decline accordingly. My state's (Massachusetts) essential business closure was recently extended to go through May 18, so certainly this weekend should still be pretty quiet for me.

Welcome to those returning and any newcomers. The "rules" are pretty loose. We run roughly from Friday afternoon to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose. And of course some of us are having a harder time with focused reading than others, so don't feel like you have to be reading constantly - that's why we have the "Non-book activities" update too. As little or as much reading as you want to do is perfect.

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. Benita (benitastrnad)
3. Suzanne (Chatterbox)
4. Richard (richardderus)
5. Dejah_Thoris
6. Cyrel (torontoc)
7. Carrie (cbl_tn)
8. Paul (PaulCranswick)
9. PawsforThought
10. Kerry (aviatakh)
11. Jim (drneutron)
12. Rebecca (Rebeki)
13. LibraryLover23
14. Stasia (alcottacre)
15. Susanna (susanna.fraser)
16. Kathy (kac522)
17. Darryl (kidzdoc)
18. SilverWolf28
19. Katie (katiekrug)
20. Lynda (Carmenere)

Count me in, too!

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

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

Well, I'm not back at work yet - count me in.

I'll be there!

I'm in again!

I'm in too

I'm in and will hopefully do better than the dismal record of the last few weeks.

In again as well.

Me too.

I will particiapte.

I'll be joining in again and am also hoping to do better than last weekend.

I'd like to join again, thank you!

I am in again as well. Thanks for hosting, Mary!

Our stay-at-home order was extended through 5/31, so I'm still in.

I'm in...so many books and so much time....

I think I'll join in this weekend as well.

I'm in again! My electricity was out from Sunday evening to Wednesday evening so I didn't get to finish last weekend's readathon. :(

I'll start later today - my current reads that I want to make progress with -
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar - on audio
Deeplight by Frances Hardinge - YA
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world by Elif Sharak
The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Ickovits
Autobiopsy by Bernice Rubens
My Michael by Amos Oz

>16 kidzdoc: Glad to have you join in, Darryl!

As always, feel free to shout out if I missed you in the list in >1 bell7:. I know some folks are starting up today, and I'm looking forward to joining in with you tomorrow evening.

I will start about 5 p.m. tomorrow.

It's a holiday here today, so I've just started my readathon with a little morning reading.

Time: 08:49 in the UK
Books read from: The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield, The Evenings by Gerard Reve
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 30
Thoughts: I love that hopeful feeling of having the whole day ahead of me. The Evenings is an odd book, but strangely enjoyable. I haven't managed to read much in the week, but I hope to make good progress with it this weekend.
Non-book activities: drinking coffee, idly surfing the Internet, watching my cat sleeping.

Friday 11.30pm NZ time

Books read from: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar and Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hrs
Snacks: dinner - chow mein & sapa sui, apple cider
Thoughts: enjoying Deeplight quite a lot
Non-book activities: walk, cooking, tv news

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

Despite good intentions I haven't read as much as I wanted this evening.

I'll be reading this weekend, but probably less than the past two. I have some stuff I want to do around the house, but count me in!

Count me in too, please! Thanks, Mary

I got off work early today, so I am starting on the Readathon early. I hope that is allowed!

I will start early as well! I am reading The Overstory by Richard Powers.

>25 alcottacre: Of course! I started early last week, and that's the only reason I managed as much reading as I did :)

Greetings, all!

I'm working on three books right now: Middlegame (with which I'm almost finished), No Bells Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes (my nonfiction chunkster) and A Fashionable Indulgence (my audio book). I have no plans to finish the chunkster this weekend (it's best in fairly small doses), but after the other two are done, who knows?

>17 SilverWolf28: Oh dear - were you caught in some of the bad storms?

I just finished a lunch of leftover Creole crawfish étouffée, after I realized that it would take a good chunk of the afternoon to make pan fried zucchini buns for the first time, so I'm ready to get going. I have two books lined up, neither of which I've started yet, Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, and Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire. I'm currently also reading Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

2 pm EDT update:

Books read from: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 62 (pp 11-73)
Time reading: 55 minutes
Time posting: 2 minutes
Snacks: None yet
Thoughts: This novella is very good so far. I'm already more than halfway through it, so I should finish it in the next hour.
Non-book activities: Trying to stay awake after lunch

Total books finished: o
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 55 minutes
Total pages read: 62

3 pm EDT update:

Books read from: Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera; Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 62 (pp 74-114 in Signs Preceding the End of the World, pp 1-21 in Zenzele)
Time reading: 50 minutes
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: A handful of mixed nuts
Thoughts: Signs Preceding the End of the World was a quick but very rich and powerful novella. Zenzele is also good so far, and I should finish it today as well. After I finish it I'll resume reading Petals of Blood and start reading Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening, both by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. I'll take a 1-2 hour nap before I resume reading, though.
Non-book activities: Nada.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 1 hr 50 min
Total pages read: 124

I'll have some writing work to do this weekend, but will be reading to break that up. I don't think I'll have to venture out beyond a quick run for some Diet Pepsi, so it's all good.... Well except for the weather (which is still cold/rainy) and my migraines (which I'm battling about 75% of the time; so boring...)

It's 5:30 in Rhode Island:

Books read from: The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker (the next in the Bruno, chief of police, series)
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr
Snacks: some toast and some water
Thoughts: I may try to line up some audiobooks, in case my migraine remains bad. And I just re-read an old children's book by Noel Streatfield, and may read some more along that line...
Non-book activities: Talked to my writing partner about the ghost-writing project we've started; did a 1.5 hour preliminary interview with potential new clients about another ghost-writing project. Eyeing a new coloring book...

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

It is 5:00 p.m. in rainy gloomy cool Alabama. I am getting ready to start my weekend Readathon. I hope to put a quick finish on Girl of His Dreams and will start my weekend novella. This week will an Icelandic fairy tale Blue Fox.

Books planning to read from: Girl of His Dreams, Blue Fox, Fellowship of Ghosts, and Blood Safari
Books finished: Packing For Mars
Time reading: 0
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: Packing For Mars was an easy read. It is what I call Science Lite.
Non-book activities: I have some cooking to do this weekend and will meet with my real life book discussion group on Saturday. I also have to finish planting some of my garden plants this weekend

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

6 pm EDT update:

Books read from: Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 43 (pp 22-64 in Zenzele)
Time reading: 35 minutes
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Nada
Thoughts: Zenzele is another quick and enjoyable read, and I might be able to finish it tonight as well.
Non-book activities: I had a refreshing 1-1/2 hour nap. I'll heat up dinner shortly.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hr 25 min
Total pages read: 167

~6pm Texas Time

Books read from: Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson, Raquela: A Woman of Israel by Ruth Gruber, and Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux
Books finished: 2
Time reading: ~4 Hours

Thoughts: I am not sure how all I managed to read was nonfiction today!
Non-book activities: Talking to Kerry, talking to my mother, laundry, dishes, other stuff that I cannot remember

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ~4 hours

This will be my one and only check-in today. You know me, I will be in bed early!

It is 6:45pm in Cleveland, OH and we've had a bit of everything today. Rain to start, sunshine, wind, gray, snow pellets......yes, you read that right, snow pellets. Seems a polar vortex is going to be with us the entire weekend. How fun to be inside reading my books.

Books planning to read from: A Walk in the Woods, Hey, Kiddo, People of the Book (a reread for the 100 book challenge I'm working on thru my local library.
Books finished:
Time reading: about an hour
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Just finished dinner - Andouille Sausage with red beans and rice - corn on the cob
Thoughts: I really need to hide my laptop so I'm not tempted to browse
Non-book activities: Made dinner - I'll be participating in drive by birthday greetings to a neighbor so I'll skip out for a few minutes (I honestly dislike these drive by celebrations)
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hour

First check-in at 7 p.m. Eastern time

Books read from: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books finished: 0
Time reading: about a half hour
Dinner: finished up some quinoa salad, cashews, and a banana
Thoughts: I'm looking forward to some quiet evening reading on this rainy day
Non-book activities: After work, I finished up some videos I was watching online and got dinner together

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 30 minutes

7:30pm in New Jersey

Books read from: The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, Fade Away
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Hot dog with melted cheese (don't judge me)
Thoughts: Is anyone else's favorite part of readathon posts seeing what others are eating? No, just me?
Non-book activities: Dealing with ocular migraine, watching an episode of Top Chef, trying to ignore 'Avatar' which my husband is watching, jigsaw puzzle

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2

>36 Carmenere: I really enjoyed Hey, Kiddo.

Saturday 11.30am NZ time

Books read from: Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, My Michael by Amos Oz, Autobiopsy by Bernice Rubens
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5 hrs
Snacks: breakfast - peanut butter toast, latte
Thoughts: beautiful Autumn day, must take a walk
Non-book activities: sleep, pickup coffees

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3.5 hrs approx

I'm reading 1 chapter each day in My Michael & Autobiopsy so won't make much progress in them. Autobiopsy is fun.

Good evening, all! It's been a coolish, gray day here in Georgia, but we've missed the rain so far. This is my first update, covering noon to 8pm, Friday.

Books read from: 2 Middlegame (ebook), A Fashionable Indulgence (audio)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 27 minutes reading, 2:43 listening: 3:10 total
Thoughts: I don't really need another cat.... (see below)
Non-book activities: Taking one of my cats to the vet, rescuing another cat (again, details below)

Total books finished: none
Total read from: 2 Middlegame, A Fashionable Indulgence
Total time reading: 3:10

While I was waiting in the parking lot of my vet's office while one of my cats was getting a regular injection (one I am, by law, not allowed to give her myself), I was contacted by a co-worker who had rescued a cat from under a car at Zaxby's (a fried chicken fast food chain). She's a dog person - she'd taken her home and given her water, and bread and peanut butter to eat. Obviously, she needed rescuing immediately! So, I have a teenage cat isolated in a bedroom. She's a pretty little thing, and we're calling her Gigi - for either the movie or Colette's novella, take your pick.

8 pm EDT update:

Books read from: Zenzele by J. Nozipo Maraire
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 69 (pp 65-133 in Zenzele)
Time reading: 60 minutes
Time posting: 0 minutes
Dinner: homemade Mediterranean Spinach & Lentil Soup, toasted Whole Wheat Mountain Bread from Publix, orange juice
Thoughts: Zenzele is superb, and I will finish it tonight, probably in the next hour.
Non-book activities: I spent the 6-7 pm hour having dinner, checking work email, and reading an article in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hr 25 min
Total pages read: 236

8:45 pm
Books Read from The Overstory by Richard Powers
Pages Read 1-109 so far
Dinner- baked and marinated chicken breast, brown basmati rice and green lentil pilaf, cauliflower, ginger and tomatoes, slice of " Canadian War Cake"

Just a little shy of 9 p.m.

Books read from: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1 hr, 45 minutes
Thoughts: I haven't read this book in ten years and it was very nearly as fun to read as it was the first time
Non-book activities: n/a

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours and 15 minutes

9 pm EDT update:

Books read from: Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire
Books finished: 2
Pages read: 61 (pp 134-194 in Zenzele)
Time reading: 45 minutes
Time posting: 5 minutes
Food: nothing since dinner
Thoughts: Zenzele was fabulous, and I thank Madeline (@SqueakyChu) for sending it to me several years ago. I'll now resume reading Petals of Blood for another hour or two.
Non-book activities: Nothing in the past hour

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hr 10 min
Total pages read: 297

Books read from: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 45 minutes
Thoughts: This will be a much different read from my last book, but I think I'll enjoy it. Still thinking about what I might want to do tomorrow, as I'll have to cook at some point and call my Little. Heading to bed now, though.
Non-book activities: just posting on LT

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours

Bedtime 10:30pm

>39 avatiakh: Just a few pages in but so far I like it.
>40 Dejah_Thoris: Congrats to you on your new addition!!
>42 torontoc: Wondering what's in Canadian War Cake

Books read from: A Walk in the Woods, Hey Kiddo
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: tea and cinnamon roll pop tart
Thoughts: It's too cold to leave the house for birthday parade. Stayed in.
Non-book activities: made tea, toasted pop tart

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hrs

Night all!

It is 11:00 p.m. in rainy gloomy cold night in Alabama. I am calling it quits for today and heading off to bed.

Books planning to read from: Blue Fox, Fellowship of Ghosts, and We Are Legion
Books finished: Packing For Mars and Girl of His Dreams
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: I was almost done with Girl of His Dreams (only had 50 pages left to read in it) so almost feel guilty counting the time I spent on reading it for this Readathon - Not. It is still time spent on reading a book. I will be reading Blue Fox, another novella tonight and tomorrow. This one is translated from Icelandic and is a fairy tale.
Non-book activities: I have some cooking to do this weekend and will meet with my real life book discussion group on Saturday. I also have to finish planting some of my garden plants this weekend

Total books finished since Readathon began: 18. I started doing this Readathon thing the weekend of April 4, 2020
Total read from since I began the Readathon: 28
Total time reading since I began the Readathon: 44 hours

A friend of mine went to Italy back in February and March. She returned to Tuscaloosa on March 10th. She had mailed a postcard from Rome before she left. I got it in the mail today. It took almost 60 days to make the trip across the pond. It is a beautiful postcard and worth the wait.

9:15 PM on an unseasonably warm night in Seattle...

Books read from: 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Food: Made a chili chicken casserole for dinner
Thoughts: what a hectic week of remote work. Hopefully I’ll be able to relax and read a lot this weekend
Non-book activities: work, cooking, laundry

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1.5 hours

A little later than I intended, here's my update covering 8pm Friday to 12:20 am or so Saturday morning:

Books read from: 3 Middlegame (ebook), A Fashionable Indulgence (audio), The Physicians of Vilnoc (ebook)
Books finished: 2 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc
Time reading: 2:25 reading, 0 listening: 2:25 total
Thoughts: Finally - so time to read!
Non-book activities: Hanging out with Gigi, the rescue cat.

Total books finished: 2 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5:35

>46 Carmenere: Thanks, Lynda! She's had a tough day, but I think she'll adjust.

I didn't manage to update again yesterday, but I did very little reading during the day in any case. Hoping to do a bit better today.

Time: 10:08 in the UK
Books read from: The Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Evenings
Books finished: 0, but I did finish the third volume of The Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America and will take a break before starting the final volume.
Pages read: 64
Thoughts: I admire those people who can read for a good stretch of time without getting distracted!
Non-book activities: watching TV, cleaning, doing washing, playing a game called Silly Socks with my son, playing football with my son, playing cards with my son and husband, more TV

Total books read from: 2
Total books finished: 0
Total pages read: 94

>44 kidzdoc: There was something I needed to tell you, but now I can't remember what it was, Darryl! If I remember, I'll post it on your thread.

I'm up at the surreally early hour (for me) of 6:30 a.m. because the only grocery delivery slot I could get was from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Now I need to stay awake so that porch pirates don't steal my groceries.

Books read from since last update: The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker (the next in the Bruno, chief of police, series), audiobook of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro, borrowed audiobook of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 5 hrs

Snacks: dinner last night -- two grilled no-sulfite frankfurters with honey BBQ sauce, some home-made potato salad, piece of blueberry pie. Today, a lemon selzer water.
Thoughts: Migraine is iffy. Sigh. And what on EARTH is going on when I'm woken up by a text/alert about a frost warning? On May 9th??? Thinking about how to accomplish what I need to do today, from work to errands (dry cleaning/Rx pickup.) Ho hum. Also need to check in on some friends who are struggling. What books should I line up to read next?
Non-book activities: Binge-watched some of the new episode of "The Last Kingdom" on Netflix last night (it really is violent, but good...), wrangled the kitten and tried to convince her my toes are not edible; did some coloring in my super-detailed coloring book with my decade-old Prismacolor pencils!!

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6 hrs

Sob sob sob! An inch of snow greeted me this morning and it's still coming down!!
Guess I won't be working in the yard today so a hot cup of coffee and a deep dive into reading.

>52 Carmenere: Yeah, I'm with you, woke up to more snow accumulated than I expected. Guess the herbs I planted last weekend won't be doing well... at least I'd only put in 3!

Good Saturday morning! It's going to take me a bit to get to reading, as this morning I have some cleaning around the apartment and will be calling my Little. I should get some good reading in later this afternoon and am hoping to make good progress in The Overstory. It started out well and I'm eager to see if I continue to like it or if it drops off for me... there seems to be some division on it in LT though it has an overall high rating (4.15).

Good Saturday morning, everyone! I've finished my supermarket shopping for the week, and just had a nice breakfast of a steak, egg and cheese from a local Mexican taquería, so I'm ready to get started. I'll make paella for the first time this afternoon, using a recipe that a Cubana colleague sent to me, although I may add pork loin to the chicken and chouriço she suggested, to make it more similar to paella valenciana, along with saffron. I have two or three other things I'd like to make this weekend, and I may make something else for dinner tonight. I doubt that I'll go back outside before Monday, even though it's a refresingly cool and sunny day in Atlanta, so I'll mainly spend the weekend cooking and reading.

After finishing two superb books yesterday I'd like to finish at least two more by Sunday night, the first being Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, the third in his series of four memoirs, in which he leaves his home in Kenya to attend Makerere University in Uganda in 1959, when both countries were under colonial rule, and by the time of his graduation in 1964 both countries had gained their independence from Great Britain. I also intend to finish American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, a fellow Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) alumnus and former professor at Pitt, who is now teaching at NYU. I should finish both books with relative ease by tomorrow, so I'll also continue to read Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's great novel Petals of Blood, which deals with corruption and injustice ib postcolonial Kenya, which was so controversial after its publication in 1977, along with his play I Will Marry When I Want, which was performed in the same year, that it led to his arrest and imprisonment without trial in Kenya for one year.

Saturday!

Books read from: 2: Network Effect and Second Star
Books finished: 1
Time reading: ?
Time posting: 1157 EDT
Snacks: finished my burger'n'baked beans
Thoughts: *sniff* I miss Murderbot. The Stabenow might be good but it ain't doin' it for me now.
Non-book activities: Zoomed with Rob; rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain at the idiocy of my fellow Murrikinz.

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

Good day! This is my Saturday update covering from a little after midnight to a little after noon:

Books read from: A Fashionable Indulgence (audio), The Lady in the Lake (print)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1:03 reading, 1:18 listening: 2:21 total
Thoughts: It's so chilly out! And what does it say about my taste that I have a crush on Philip Marlowe?
Non-book activities: Sleeping. More hanging out with Gigi the rescue cat.

Total books finished: 2 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7:56

>46 Carmenere: Canadian War Cake- is from a book on recipes developed during the First World War for soldiers and families in Canada- the ingredients are- lots of brown sugar and raisins, all purpose flour, a little butter, some spices and boiling water. I can write out the recipe here if anyone wants ( it is on the thread for cuisine in Club Read)
Still reading The Overstory

1:25pm Saturday in New Jersey

Books read from: The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, Fade Away
Books finished: 1 (Fade Away)
Snacks: Coffee, English Muffin
Thoughts: I really need to get something productive done today
Non-book activities: Movie with my husband last night, sleeping, dishes

Total books finished: 1 (Fade Away)
Total read from: 2

It is 12:30 p.m. in a gloriously sunny, but cool day in Alabama. It was cool this morning but I still managed to sit outside and read a book. I wanted to get up and get one of my wrapper blankets but it was warm enough in the sunshine that I just stayed put.

Books planning to read from: Blue Fox, Fellowship of Ghosts, and We Are Legion
Books finished: Packing For Mars, Blue Fox, and Girl of His Dreams
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: I finished reading Blue Fox another of my short books. It had 115 pages in it. This one is a moral tale translated from Icelandic.
Non-book activities: I am going to eat lunch and make a pasta chicken casserole.

Total books finished since Readathon began: 19. I started doing this Readathon thing the weekend of April 4, 2020
Total read from since I began the Readathon: 28
Total time reading since I began the Readathon: 46 hours

Check-in!

Books read from: The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2h30m
Time posting: 1459 EDT
Snacks: Honeycrisp apple, 1/2lb blueberries
Thoughts: Dementia scares me shitless.
Non-book activities: Got packages from the desk

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?...let's say 5 hours and run with it.

Checking in about 3:30 p.m.

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 20-30 minutes
Thoughts: I really cannot focus today... I think I might put in some laundry and go grocery shopping, as I can't seem to sit still
Non-book activities: I spent the morning cleaning my apartment, talked to my Little on Skype for a couple of hours, and had lunch

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours, 20 minutes

~2:30pm Texas Time

Books read from: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux, Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie, and There There by Tommy Orange
Books finished: 0
Lunch: Baked Potatoes, Corn, Tea
Time reading: ~2.5 Hours

Thoughts: I am tired and feel like I have accomplished nothing today
Non-book activities: Talking to Kerry, talking to Catey, putting away groceries, cooking lunch, putting away dishes, napped

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~6.5 hours

My chicken and chouriço paella is finished!



This is the first time I've made paella, one of my favorite Spanish dishes, and I'm pleased as punch that it turned out this well.

Now that it's done I'll spend the rest of the day reading, starting with Birth of a Dream Weaver.

>63 kidzdoc: That is gorgeous! I was pretty happy with my Blackened Chicken Cesar Salad, but no more!

>63 kidzdoc: Gorgeous. I've just finished dinner or I'd be cycling southwards.

>63 kidzdoc: OK, i'm drooling. And it's your fault.

I've had a migraine (yes again, grrr, need the Aimovig...) so most of my reading has been via audiobooks.

Books read from since last update: audiobooks of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro, borrowed audiobooks of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hrs

Snacks: About to eat some mac & cheese
Thoughts: Icy cold outside -- about 40 F, which for May 9 is absurd. Regretting my Netflix binge last night as it may have contributed to the migraine.
Non-book activities: Trying to sleep & having weird dreams (I accidentally cut off my middle finger when cooking; a new person buys the house and plants the nice yard -- we're on a double lot -- with miniature plastic gnomes and mushrooms). Went grocery shopping with upstairs neighbor & picked up my prescriptions.

Total books finished: 1 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker)
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 10 hrs

Books read from: The Danger; The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: leftover pulled pork, sweet potato fries, slaw, and banana pudding from yesterday; a few spoonfuls of peanut butter ice cream; butter mints
Thoughts: I have been distracted chasing down my matrilineal ancestry after a breakthrough on my mtDNA matches
Non-book activities: genealogy, laundry, walking the dog, picking up this week's dairy order, drive-by wedding shower (maintaining social distance & outside in the bright sunshine)

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?

I had thought I would read more last night since it was so cold and rainy, but I made a breakthrough on my mtDNA matches and spent the evening on Ancestry finding documentation for "new" branches in my family tree. One really weird discovery is that the will of my 6th great-grandmother's father in my direct maternal line was witnessed by two men who are in all likelihood related to my direct paternal ancestors. One of them may actually be a direct paternal ancestor (father's father's father...). That might not be so odd if my parents were from the same place and their families had lived there for generations. They were not.

I'll read a bit more this evening, but I also need to finish the laundry, cook dinner (potatoes in buttermilk and bacon), and walk the remainder of my 10,000 steps for the day.

>57 torontoc: Thanks, I found the recipe in Club Reads. I think I have everything I need so I'll give it a try next week.

>67 cbl_tn: How very cool, Carrie!

It's been a cool but lovely day in Georgia. Here's my update for noonish to 6pm, Saturday:

Books read from: A Fashionable Indulgence (audio), The Lady in the Lake (print)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1:48 reading, 30 minutes listening: 2:18 total
Thoughts: I hate it when people irresponsibly put spoilers in reviews or comments without any warning. Grrr.
Non-book activities: More hanging out with Gigi the rescue cat. Watering plants and other garden stuff. Posting on LT

Total books finished: 2 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 10:14

>63 kidzdoc: Oooh, Darryl, that looks delicious! Please let me know if/when you post the recipe.

I had salmon flavored with pesto and lemon, with spinach and tomato for dinner tonight though it was not nearly as lovely-looking as Darryl's dish. I'm going to see if I can read and sit still now.

Saturday night update:

Time: 23:08 in the UK
Books read from: The Evenings
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 63
Thoughts: It's time for bed.
Non-book activities: washing, sorting out some of my son's toys, jigsaw, some cleaning and tidying, Snakes & Ladders with my son, football in the garden with my son, TV, card games with my husband and son

Total books read from: 2
Total books finished: 0
Total pages read: 157

A little after 7 p.m.

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 55 minutes
Thoughts: Ahhh... yeah, now I can relax and get into this. Not sure where my brain was the rest of the day. And - suddenly remembered I left laundry in the washer, oops.
Snacks: blackberries
Non-book activities: none since the last update

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours, 15 minutes

7:15 pm
Books Read From The Overstory
pages read from 109- 220
also read the Sat newspapers and some old New York Times Sunday magazines.
supper- left overs- baked chicken, basmati brown rice and green lentil pilaf, the last of the cauliflower, ginger and tomato dish, clementine, and war cake.

~6:30pm Texas Time

Books read from: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux, Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie, There There by Tommy Orange, and A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Books finished: 1
Dinner: Barbeque Jackfruit, Potato Salad, Diet Pepsi
Time reading: ~1 Hour

Thoughts: Where did my day go?
Non-book activities: Watching videos on YouTube, Playing Relic Runners with Kerry, eating

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~7.5 hours

I am off to LT for a while and then to bed. Back tomorrow! Have fun reading!!

Saturday afternoon check-in from Seattle, where it’s 85 F out, and I’m rejoicing we decided to invest in central air last summer.

Books read from: 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hours
Food: Yogurt
Thoughts: What should I make for dinner?
Non-book activities: nap

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5.5 hours

Sunday 12noon NZ time

Books read from: Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, Autobiopsy by Bernice Rubens, Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 5.5 hrs
Snacks: dinner - chicken corn soup, breakfast - latte
Thoughts: Salt Creek is quietly devastating
Non-book activities: sleep, 2 long long walks

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 9 hrs approx

Mother's Day here in New Zealand today, so will ring my Mum later on, have been messaging with my daughter who lives in London.

Books read from: The Paris Hours
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1h30m
Time posting: 2129 EDT
Snacks: Half-dozen Dare maple crème cookies
Thoughts:"She is never surprised. She is ten years old. She knows everything." Ooo...the memories...
Non-book activities: Another Zoomtime with young Rob, fresh from the kitchen. He hadn't even taken off his rebreather or whatever those things are! It's nice to be the reason someone hurries home.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 6h30m

9:36 p.m.

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 45 minutes
Thoughts: I am getting sleepy and may do the rest of my reading in bed
Non-book activities: spoke on the phone with family members, finished my laundry and folded it

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

I'm behind Cyrel in The Overstory, just reaching p. 116 now

9:40pm - Cleveland - heading up to bed but will either read from A Walk in the Woods or watch an episode of Hollywood on Netflix

Books read from: Hey, Kiddo
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 4 hours off and on
Thoughts: What a chore it is reading a GN on Kindle
Snacks: Russian Tea and golden oreos
Non-book activities: yoga - cleaned 2.5 bathrooms - heated leftovers for dinner - talked to mom

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

Sleep tight all!

9:45pm Saturday in New Jersey

Books read from: French Exit, The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, Fade Away
Books finished: 1 (Fade Away)
Snacks: Dinner was Chinese takeaway
Thoughts: Bed soon?
Non-book activities: Cleaned the kitchen, unpacked some boxes, did some organizing, jigsaw

Total books finished: 1 (Fade Away)
Total read from: 3

It is 9:00 p.m. and time for me to join Hyacinth Buckett on her cruise. This will be my last post tonight. It won't freeze here tonight but it is going to get down into the low 40's. Met by Zoom with my real live book club and cooked a chicken casserole to eat next week.

Books planning to read from: Fellowship of Ghosts, Sea of Trolls and We Are Legion. On audio I am listening to Sea of Gold: The Reader by Traci Chee this is book 1 in a YA trilogy.
Books finished: Packing For Mars, Blue Fox, and Girl of His Dreams
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: I cooked the pasta chicken casserole. Now ready to spend some time with the British comedies on PBS.

Total books finished since Readathon began: 19. I started doing this Readathon thing the weekend of April 4, 2020
Total read from since I began the Readathon: 28
Total time reading since I began the Readathon: 47 hours

Books read from: The Danger, The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: bacon and potatoes for dinner, ice cream, tea
Thoughts: I hit my 10,000 step goal again today! The more I walk, the better I sleep.
Non-book activities: cooking, laundry, walking

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?

I am calling it a day. I will probably read another chapter or two of The Danger before going to sleep. I'd like to finish it tomorrow.

It's nearly midnight in Rhode Island. Listening to some audiobooks, as the migraine persists.

Books read from since last update: audiobooks of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro, and a "re-listen" to Day of Atonement by David Liss. Also e-galley of The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith and of Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hrs

Snacks: Mac & cheese for a late lunch. Some lemon selzer. Need to eat something else, but can't face cooking, so not sure what the outcome will be!
Thoughts: Tired of the cold weather.
Non-book activities: Trying to banish migraine, talked to a friend for an hour.

Total books finished: 1 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker)
Total read from: 7 (the above, and Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.)
Total time reading: 10 hrs

Update covering Saturday, from 6pm to midnight:

Books read from: A Fashionable Indulgence (audio), The Lady in the Lake (print), No Bells Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes (print), Catfishing on CatNet (ebook
Books finished: 2 The Lady in the Lake, A Fashionable Indulgence
Time reading: 1:31 reading, 46 minutes listening: 2:17 total
Thoughts: I'm worried about my rescue kitty, Gigi - I'm going to have to get her the the vet's office Monday, and my vet is out of town.
Non-book activities: More hanging out with Gigi the rescue cat. Baking cookies. Posting on LT.

Total books finished: 4 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc, The Lady in the Lake, A Fashionable Indulgence
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 12:31

9:30 PM in Seattle:

Books read from: 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours
Food: Ramen
Thoughts: One thing I learned from this book that doesn't surprise me at all when I do the math in conjunction with my knowledge of history--if, like me, you're a white Southerner with family stories of being part Native American, statistically you're more likely to be part black. And if you're a black Southerner with the same family story, you're more likely to be part white. (The exception being if you're from my husband's home state of Oklahoma.) Maybe one of these days I'll actually do a DNA test.
Non-book activities: laundry

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

Sunday morning update:

Time: 09:32 in the UK
Books read from: The Evenings
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 41
Thoughts: Wish I'd gone to bed earlier last night.
Non-book activities: finishing a jigsaw and drinking coffee

Total books read from: 2
Total books finished: 0
Total pages read: 198

~7:15am Texas Time

Books read from: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux, Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie, and A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Diet Pepsi
Time reading: ~2.5 Hours

Thoughts: I am not sure I am awake enough for thinking
Non-book activities: Listening to some Rimsky-Korsakov and Rogers & Hammerstein while reading

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~10 hours

>82 cbl_tn: good for you! 10,000 steps have been difficult to achieve for the past two months.
>84 Dejah_Thoris: Hope Gigi the rescue cat is ok!
>85 susanna.fraser: wow, interesting thoughts!

9:30am
Yes, I'm having coffee in bed. Happy mom's day to all those with kids and furkids!

Books read from: A Walk in the Woods
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1
Snacks: breakfast - coffee
Thoughts: If we hadn't had to cancel our reservations we would've been in Mexico this morning
Non-book activities: sleep, texting mother's day greetings

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: about 6 hours

Shivery Sunday. Sunshiney but too durn cold for May.

Books read from: The Paris Hours, The Fear Hunters
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2h10m
Time posting: 1012 EDT
Snacks: cheesy scramble, white toast w cream cheese
Thoughts: ugh i hate waking up at 6
Non-book activities: Surrounded by mother's day hoohah. Disliked my mother, who returned the sentiment; all the mothers I found later are dead now; don't much want to hear the noise.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 7h40m

11:00am in Lancaster County, PA. Sunny, cool day here, I should probably do some yard work today.

Books read from: Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City by Matthew Desmond, Emma by Alexander McCall Smith, The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay, and The Witch's Book Of Self-Care: Magical Ways To Pamper, Soothe, And Care For Your Body And Spirit by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: Breakfast was a bowl of Life cereal
Thoughts: Kind of a motley mix of books, but I'm engrossed in each of them.
Non-book activities: We'll see what the day brings!

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4 hours

>88 Carmenere: Thanks, Lynda - she'll be fine!

Good afternoon, all! It's absolutely beautiful today here in middle Georgia (yes, they actually call my part of the state "middle Georgia"). It's a bit warmer, which makes me, the cats, and the plants very happy.

This update covers from midnight to 1pm, Sunday:

Books read from: Catfishing on CatNet (ebook), A Seditious Affair (audio)
Books finished: 1 Catfishing on CatNet
Time reading: 1:23 reading, 50 minutes listening: 2:13 total
Thoughts: Happy Mothers' Day to all who celebrate!
Non-book activities: Sleeping. Posting on LT. Wow - what have I done with my time?

Total books finished: 5 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc, The Lady in the Lake, A Fashionable Indulgence, Catfishing on CatNet
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 14:44

1:20pm Sunday in New Jersey

Books read from: The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
Books finished: 1 (The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs)
Snacks: Mixed berry smoothie for breakfast, handful of goldfish crackers
Thoughts: What to read next?
Non-book activities: Laundry

Total books finished: 2 (Fade Away, The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs)
Total read from: 3 (Fade Away, The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, French Exit)

Happy Sunday afternoon, and Happy Mother's Day to all of the mums! I've lost some momentum since Friday night, but I hope to get back on track this afternoon, and finish Birth of a Dream Weaver and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin before midnight.

Thanks for the compliments about my paella! I will certainly create a post, Mary, most likely in La Cucina in Club Read, and post a link to that post on your thread. If I don't get to it tonight I'll do so tomorrow.

2 pm EDT update:

Books read from since Friday night: Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes
Books finished: 2
Pages read: 94 (pp 1-84 in Birth of a Dream Weaver, pp 2-11 in American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin)
Time reading: ~2 hours
Time posting: TNTC
Food: A late breakfast of Indian-Spiced Tomato and Egg Casserole, banana and coffee. I'll have paella as a late lunch, and possibly make Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Lemon Tahini Dressing for dinner if I've done enough reading this afternoon.
Thoughts: Birth of a Dream Weaver, similar to Ngũgĩ's earlier memoirs, is outstanding.
Non-book activities: Lots.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~6 hr
Total pages read: 391

11:30 AM on another unseasonably hot day in Seattle:

Books read from: Ms. Marvel Vol 2: Stormranger
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Food: chocolate cupcake
Thoughts: I'm sure someone out there has written something on how superhero stories and depictions parallel mythical gods and heroes and/or saintly iconography
Non-book activities: Morning prayer and virtual coffee hour with my church, Postcards to Voters

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 9.5 hours

Checking in about 2:45 p.m. on a blustery and unseasonably cool (57 degrees Fahrenheit) Sunday.

>91 Dejah_Thoris: No judgment here about middle Georgia, I live in a tiny state and we still have western/central/eastern Massachusetts.

>93 kidzdoc: Thanks, Darryl, I'll keep an eye out

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 45 minutes
Breakfast: oatmeal with banana
Lunch: leftover salmon and spinach
Snacks: blueberry muffins
Thoughts: It's been a pleasant day so far. I've read 152 pages of The Overstory. It's had some moments of very lovely writing, and it's definitely the kind of book I need to really sit down and get totally immersed in. I couldn't tell you what it's about at all except for "trees," so I'm looking forward to some sustained reading time this evening to make some more progress before my work week starts interfering. My copy is a used paperback I bought at the library book sale, and the person behind me left a couple of small pieces of papers to mark spots. I don't *think* it's where they stopped reading, as there is one between page 142 and 143 and another between pages 144 and 145. A quick flip through indicates some pages were dog-eared, which just makes me wonder what the previous reader(s) found so important to notate, what they might have liked about the book and how much they read of it.
Non-book activities: church online this morning, went to my mom's in a car parade with my brother & his fiancee, baked the blueberry muffins

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours, 45 minutes.

Books read from: The Danger, The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch - open-faced asparagus & egg sandwich; ice cream; cranberry juice cocktail w/ club soda
Thoughts: I miss my mother and my grandmothers today
Non-book activities: Zoom Sunday school (my church); online church service (brother's church in TX); cooked lunch; long walk with the dog

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

I'm going to see if it's warm enough to read on the deck. It's sunny, and it's warm when the wind isn't blowing. But the wind is blowing most of the time. If it's too cold I'll come back indoors.

It's about 4 p.m. in Rhode Island on a chilly but sunny day. I'm just grateful for the sun...

Books read from since last update: A "re-listen" of my audiobook of Day of Atonement by David Liss. I finished the e-galley of The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 5 hrs

Snacks: Had chicken pot pie for dinner last night; some strawberries earlier today.
Thoughts: Immense profound relief that the migraine has gone, but now I need to figure out a way to focus and get some work done. I need to be more organized.
Non-book activities: My father called about midday and I talked to him. Had a nap. Had an existential discussion with Minka the velveteen kitten about the meaning of life.

Total books finished: 2 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker and The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith. the latter is the next episode in the adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, moral philosopher.)
Total read from: 7 (the two above, and audiobooks of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski, Contested Will by James Shapiro, and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym; e-galley of Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Total time reading: 15 hrs

I'll finish listening to David Liss's novel, which is set against the backdrop of the great Lisbon earthquake in the mid-18th century and is a compelling yarn, and probably will wrap up Contested Will, about the authorship question involving Shakespeare, as well.

Checking in even though I haven't read anything since my earlier check-in - oops!

Got caught up with laundry, organizing the refrigerator, baking cookies, talking to my husband. Not much reading but it's been a good day :)

Last check in -
Monday 9.30am NZ time

Books read from: Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, Autobiopsy by Bernice Rubens, My Michael by Amos Oz
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5 hrs
Snacks: dinner - chorizo & pea risotto, breakfast - coffee
Thoughts: Rubens wrote some very fine books
Non-book activities: sleep, last night tv - Blues Brothers movie, first episode of the Young Ones, some episodes of Damned
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 10.5 hrs approx

Went a bit off track with my reading as the tv took over, haven't seen The Blues Brothers for years and daughter was watching for first time.

Should finish Salt Creek on today's walk and also Autobiopsy which has been fun.
Find out later today when and if we go down to Level 2 lockdown this week, which sees much more freedom of movement and opening of businesses such as cafes, retail shops, gyms and children back to school etc.

>95 bell7: I'm very fond of Massachusetts, although I've only lived in the eastern portion. I wish it were Central GA, not Middle, for some reason - Middle just seems so...middling.

Good evening! This update covers 1pm to 7pm, Sunday:

Books read from: A Seditious Affair (audio), No Bells Toll: Destruction and Creation in the Andes (paper), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (ebook)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1:38 reading, 1:12 minutes listening: 2:50 total
Thoughts: My neighbors are idiots - they're throwing a largish party, presumably for Mother's Day. Darwin Award, anyone?
Non-book activities: Lots of time outside, transplanting, etc.

Total books finished: 5 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc, The Lady in the Lake, A Fashionable Indulgence, Catfishing on CatNet
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: 17:34

7:09 pm
I started another book -I had a yen to read non-fiction so I have started to read Natasha's Dance A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes- I will read off and on this evening
I did laundry today as well.
Dinner- baked salmon, left over pilaf and fennel and celery salad.

It is almost 7:00 p.m. and time for my weekly PBS binge watching. I will start with "Call the Midwife", sort of halfway watch "World on Fire" (Sean Bean is playing a very different part in this TV show), and end with "Baptiste."

Books planning to read from: Fellowship of Ghosts, Sea of Trolls and We Are Legion. On audio I am listening to Sea of Gold: The Reader by Traci Chee. This is book 1 in a YA trilogy.
Books finished this weekend: Blue Fox
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: Talking on phone with my sister and long hot bath. Then a nap. I have made very good progress on Fellowship of Ghosts. This book is a travel book about hiking in the central part of Norway and makes we want to start planning a trip. It is very descriptive and sometimes funny.

Total books finished since Readathon began: 19. I started doing this Readathon thing the weekend of April 4, 2020
Total read from since I began the Readathon: 28
Total time reading since I began the Readathon: 50 hours

>100 Dejah_Thoris: Ah, I see your point. I've only lived in western MA myself and people who haven't been to the state are astonished I pronounce my r's :)

Checking in a little after 8 p.m.

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr. 30 minutes
Dinner: pita bread pizza with mushrooms and onion
Snacks: blueberry muffins
Thoughts: I won't finish many books this weekend, but I am pleased with my progress in The Overstory. I'm now 210 pages in - not quite halfway - and enjoying it even if it defies explanation/description. I should be able to get another couple of hours of reading in before heading to bed, I think.
Non-book activities: group videoconferencing and game playing with the family

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 7 hours, 15 minutes

8:10pm Sunday in New Jersey

Books read from: The End of October
Books finished: 0
Snacks: chocolate chip cookies (taste testing!); dinner was cabbage and kielbasa
Thoughts: This is probably my last check-in for this weekned.
Non-book activities: Dinner, 2 episodes of Veep

Total books finished: 2 (Fade Away, The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs)
Total read from: 4 (Fade Away, The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs, French Exit, The End of October)

It's 8:50 p.m. in Rhode Island

Books read from since last update: Continuing my "re-listen" of the audiobook of Day of Atonement by David Liss, listened to some more of Contested Will by James Shapiro (about the Shakespeare authorship controversy), dipped into Putin's People by Catherine Belton and read a biggish chunk of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hrs

Snacks: Some ham sandwiches for a very late lunch.
Thoughts: How to address the sloth??
Non-book activities: Talked to a friend for about 30 mins. Made sandwiches. Wondering about new toothache's debut in a different part of mouth (sigh). Did some coloring while listening to the Shakespeare book.

Total books finished: 2 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker and The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith. the latter is the next episode in the adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, moral philosopher.)
Total read from: 8 (those listed above, and borrowed audiobooks of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski, and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym; e-galley of Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Total time reading: 19 hrs

I suspect I'll keep reading for another 5 hours or so. I'll prob finish one or two more books, and start Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener.

Books read from: The Danger, The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
Books finished: The Danger
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: leftover potatoes from last night, yogurt, cereal, tea
Thoughts: My Fitbit just told me it's time to rest and recharge
Non-book activities: Long walk to get in the rest of my 10,000 steps for the day

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

Final check in at 9:30 p.m. and I'm just about ready for bed

Books read from: The Overstory
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr.
Snacks: glass of orange juice
Thoughts: This was a good weekend, and I am happy with the amount of reading I've done - first half of The Overstory
Non-book activities: just getting ready for bed, brushing teeth, that kind of thing

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 8 hours, 15 minutes

10:25pm Cleveland, OH - rainy, windy evening

Books read from: A Walk in the Woods
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hrs. off and on
Meals: Brunch - Huevos Rancheros
Dinner - Salisbury Steak with mashed potatoes
Snacks: trail mix and a glass of chardonnay
Thoughts: How cool it would be to hike the Appalachian Trail - but dislike for camping makes it impossible and there'd be bugs and snakes and bears
Non-book activities: Watched season finale of Oak Island with hubby, Watched Hail, Caeser on Netflix with family, called mom

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: Approx 9 hrs.

Once again, Mary, thanks for hosting.

8:15 PM in Seattle:

Books read from: The Ends of the World
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Food: Chinese delivery
Thoughts: This weekend went by too fast.
Non-book activities: Responded to some emails

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 11.5 hours

>108 Carmenere: Bugs, and snakes, and bears, oh my! Too funny, Lynda.

Final update for the weekend, covering 7pm to midnight, Sunday:

Books read from: A Seditious Affair (audio), No Orchids for Miss Blandish (ebook), I, Robot (paper)
Books finished: 1 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Time reading: 1:41 reading, 1:54 minutes listening: 3:35 total
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: A little bit of posting on LT, cat care, dishes.

Total books finished: 6 Middlegame, The Physicians of Vilnoc, The Lady in the Lake, A Fashionable Indulgence, Catfishing on CatNet, No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 21:09

Good night, all. See (so to speak) you next weekend.

It's 1:48 a.m. in Rhode Island:

Books read from since last update: Finished my "re-listen" of the audiobook of Day of Atonement by David Liss, listened to some more of Contested Will by James Shapiro (about the Shakespeare authorship controversy), read some more of Putin's People by Catherine Belton and read a biggish chunk of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5 hrs

Snacks: Nothing. Toothache.
Thoughts: Argh re toothache. It's not severe pain but makes me not want to eat. Even though I know I'm kind of hungry.
Non-book activities: Had a short nap. I thought I'd go to bed early, but it didn't turn out that way because once again, I just woke up!

Total books finished: 3 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker, The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith and Day of Atonement by David Liss.
Total read from: 8 (those listed above, and borrowed audiobooks of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym; library copy of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar.
Total time reading: 22.5 hrs

Since I'm now awake (again), I might as well read some more. I have about 2 1/2 hours left to listen in Contested Will by James Shapiro, so I'll probably finish that.

Too bad we can't do a week-long readathon! I might get more read or at least feel guilty about not getting more other stuff accomplished...

Final update for yesterday:

Time: 07:18 Monday morning
Books read from: Giant Days, Volume Five by John Allison, She Came to Stay by Eleni Kyriacou
Books finished: 1 (finished off the graphic novel Giant Days, Volume Five
Pages read: 35
Thoughts: I had a lovely long weekend. Shame the final part of it was marred by the PM's announcement and the uncertainty of what it meant. On a more positive note, I'm excited to have started She Came to Stay, which is written by someone I know.
Non-book activities: starting to build a model of Warsaw's Palace of Culture - a sort of 3D jigsaw and a whole-family activity, washing and ironing, Zoom chat with parents, TV.

Total books read from: 3
Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 233

4:15 am update:

I fell asleep at 10 pm, woke up at minight finished Birth of a Dream Weaver at 1 am, and I've been wide awake since then. I'm glad I'm not working today!

Books read from since Friday afternoon:
Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (4 stars)
Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by J. Nozipo Maraire (4.5 stars)
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (4.5 stars)
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrence Hayes (unfinished)
Books finished: 3
Pages read: 144 (pp 85-228 in Birth of a Dream Weaver)
Time reading: ~3 hours
Time posting: TNTC
Food: Chicken and chouriço paella for a late lunch with an orange, nothing for dinner, mixed nuts and red wine as an early morning snack.
Thoughts: Despite my distractions this was a very productive weekend of reading. Due to our low inpatient census I've apparently been called off from work on Thursday and Friday, so I'll certainly participate in next weekend's Readathon.
Non-book activities: Lots...

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~9 hr
Total pages read: 535

It's 5 a.m. in Rhode Island, I'm about to go and try to do this sleep thing again.

Books read from since last update: Finished Contested Will by James Shapiro (about the Shakespeare authorship controversy), read some more of Putin's People by Catherine Belton
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hrs

Snacks: Chicken tikka masala & rice. Selzer water.
Thoughts: Clearly, I'm going to have another week with topsy-turvy sleep patterns.
Non-book activities: Ate dinner. Colored an art nouveau mandala while listening to Contested Will.

Total books finished: 4 (The Body in the Castle Well by Martin Walker, The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith; the audiobooks of Day of Atonement by David Liss and Contested Will by James Shapiro
Total read from: 8 (those listed above, and borrowed audiobooks of Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski, and Excellent Women by Barbara Pym; library copy of The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar.
Total time reading: 25.5 hrs

It is almost 9:30 a.m. and time for my final weekend reading report. I finished one novella and started another short book and got a great start on a travel book about Norway, which I am loving.

Books read from: Fellowship of Ghosts, Sea of Trollsand Packing My Library. On audio I am listening to Sea of Gold: The Reader by Traci Chee. This is book 1 in a YA trilogy.
Books finished this weekend: Blue Fox by the Icelandic author Sjon. This was part of my novella project.
Time reading on Sunday: 3 hours
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts: My novella project is moving along at a great pace. I finished another and I felt so good about it that I started a short nonfiction book. Packing My Library comes in at 160 pages so fits into my short book criteria. I have read the first three chapters in it and am finding it very good reading about books, authors, and readers and the relationships between the three. I have made very good progress on Fellowship of Ghosts. This book is a travel book about hiking in the central part of Norway and makes we want to start planning a trip. It is very descriptive and sometimes funny.

Non-book activities: PBS Sunday night watching. Call the Midwife was good - as always. Baptiste really surprised me with a real twist at the end. I think this is going to be another Masterpiece Mystery of the same quality as "The Tunnel."

Total books finished since Readathon began: 19. I started doing this Readathon thing the weekend of April 4, 2020
Total read from since I began the Readathon: 28
Total time reading since I began the Readathon: 50 hours

If we do this for one more weekend - count me in. Alabama is moving to a "Safer at Home" policy today, but there is no movement for us to go back to work at the University, so I will be at home - following the rules for at least another weekend.

New thread for next weekend is up.

>111 Chatterbox: If you want to keep going with the readathon all week, go for it, Suzanne! Unfortunately work makes it a bit hard for me to participate - but certainly the thread isn't "closed" if others want to continue.

I finished the messy, disorganized, badly titled, and just not very good The Fear Hunter and left my review. Operative verb: Left. Buh bye.

This is a link to the chicken and chorizo/chouriço paella recipe I tried on Saturday, along with additional comments from me: https://www.librarything.com/topic/318928#7155321 (see message #44).

ETA: I've had it for lunch three days in a row, and it still tastes fabulous, reheated in the microwave. I added ~1 tsp of EVOO before reheating in a closed Tupperware container, and as a result the chicken isn't as dry as it was immediately after I made it.

Thanks for continuing this, Mary! Count me in :0)

>119 kidzdoc: I was hoping you’d post it somewhere!