Social Distancing Readathon #26 - September 11 - 13
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2020
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1SilverWolf28
Welcome to another readathon!
Astonishingly we've been doing this for exactly 6 months now! When this all started I never imagined it would last so long!
On another note this is the 19th anniversary of 9/11. If we need to talk about it that's fine, or if not that's fine also. I'm to young to remember it happening ( I was still a baby), but my family talks about it.
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, or you can post all week if you want to.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
3. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
4. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
5. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
6. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
7. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
8. Bill (wierd_O) -- Pennsylvania, USA
Astonishingly we've been doing this for exactly 6 months now! When this all started I never imagined it would last so long!
On another note this is the 19th anniversary of 9/11. If we need to talk about it that's fine, or if not that's fine also. I'm to young to remember it happening ( I was still a baby), but my family talks about it.
We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, or you can post all week if you want to.
Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:
Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:
Total books finished:
Total read from:
Total time reading:
Who is participating -
1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
3. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
4. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
5. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
6. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
7. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
8. Bill (wierd_O) -- Pennsylvania, USA
2torontoc
I'm in!
It doesn't feel like six months.
I have a webinar to see on Sunday at noon. Also two of my friends are taking part in an outdoor art show this weekend- artists are setting up their paintings on their driveways. So a very busy weekend but I have started an interesting book.
It doesn't feel like six months.
I have a webinar to see on Sunday at noon. Also two of my friends are taking part in an outdoor art show this weekend- artists are setting up their paintings on their driveways. So a very busy weekend but I have started an interesting book.
3cbl_tn
I'm in! I don't have any big plans, other than the usual grocery run, laundry, and cleaning.
5nrmay
I'll be reading this weekend.
I have stayed at home since mid-March. I'm just begining to venture out a little more.
I dashed in and out of the grocery store early one morning before anyone else was there. First time since ??
I drove up to the mountains last Saturday just for the day.
And I went to a garden center yesterday - early again. Bought some herbs and planted them in pots.
I have stayed at home since mid-March. I'm just begining to venture out a little more.
I dashed in and out of the grocery store early one morning before anyone else was there. First time since ??
I drove up to the mountains last Saturday just for the day.
And I went to a garden center yesterday - early again. Bought some herbs and planted them in pots.
6avatiakh
I'm in. I don't have much planned for the weekend. It's just gone 5pm Friday here and I'll be able to start in an hour or so.
7torontoc
I will read tomorrow- just realized that my dishwasher should be replaced ( I thought that it was younger than it was- sigh -like everything else. It is leaking as we read now- I am moping up.
8nrmay
Friday night check-in
Books: now reading age of miracles by Karen Walker.
sci fi/coming of age.
Dinner: take-out pizza and salad. And a small cannoli for dessert.
Other activity: repotted large plant. Moving stuff off porch and patio. Getting our porch extended and glassed in. Work supposed to start Wed.
Family zoom meet-up.
Books: now reading age of miracles by Karen Walker.
sci fi/coming of age.
Dinner: take-out pizza and salad. And a small cannoli for dessert.
Other activity: repotted large plant. Moving stuff off porch and patio. Getting our porch extended and glassed in. Work supposed to start Wed.
Family zoom meet-up.
9torontoc
I'm reading Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
10benitastrnad
Books read from:Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris, Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine, and listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Books finished: Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear
Time reading: 30 minutes today
Time posting:
Supper: with two friends and I had a falafel wrap sandwich, fries, and lots of hummus and pita bread
Thoughts: Who would have thought we would still be here after 6 months. I can say that this 6 months has been very good for my reading, but not good for my cooking. I have eaten more and cooked less in these 6 months, but I have read lots of books.
Non-book activities:
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
Books finished: Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear
Time reading: 30 minutes today
Time posting:
Supper: with two friends and I had a falafel wrap sandwich, fries, and lots of hummus and pita bread
Thoughts: Who would have thought we would still be here after 6 months. I can say that this 6 months has been very good for my reading, but not good for my cooking. I have eaten more and cooked less in these 6 months, but I have read lots of books.
Non-book activities:
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
11avatiakh
Sat 6.30pm
Books read from: Caging Skies by Christine Leunens & Burn by Patrick Ness
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3hrs
Snacks: curried cauliflower soup
Thoughts: beautiful sunny day after a very cold early moring
Non-book activities: shopping, genealogy research
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3hrs
Definitely not enjoying Caging Skies so I need to finish it instead of dag out the reading. Not one character that I like in the book.
Books read from: Caging Skies by Christine Leunens & Burn by Patrick Ness
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3hrs
Snacks: curried cauliflower soup
Thoughts: beautiful sunny day after a very cold early moring
Non-book activities: shopping, genealogy research
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3hrs
Definitely not enjoying Caging Skies so I need to finish it instead of dag out the reading. Not one character that I like in the book.
12weird_O
I'm in again.
It is 1:34 p.m. ET. Haven't read a book word (a word in a book) yet today, but did marvel at the tattered state of our nation. Horrified by the west coast apocalypse. If you must evacuate, where do you go? Which direction?
I did read more of Hazards of Time Travel last night; past the halfway point. It isn't time travel in the sense of Wells's The Time Machine, journeying across the timeline of history. This is a dystopian state that teletransports "subversives"—Exiling them—to a different time period, monitoring their every move and Deleting them if they don't follow The Instructions. Maybe four years in a distant past will teach you to be worthy of a return to the present.
Expect to charge through to the conclusion this weekend.
It's a good time to reassess reading plans, select a fresh bedside TBR stack.
It is 1:34 p.m. ET. Haven't read a book word (a word in a book) yet today, but did marvel at the tattered state of our nation. Horrified by the west coast apocalypse. If you must evacuate, where do you go? Which direction?
I did read more of Hazards of Time Travel last night; past the halfway point. It isn't time travel in the sense of Wells's The Time Machine, journeying across the timeline of history. This is a dystopian state that teletransports "subversives"—Exiling them—to a different time period, monitoring their every move and Deleting them if they don't follow The Instructions. Maybe four years in a distant past will teach you to be worthy of a return to the present.
Expect to charge through to the conclusion this weekend.
It's a good time to reassess reading plans, select a fresh bedside TBR stack.
13benitastrnad
>12 weird_O:
Maybe it is time for in-migration. All those folks who left the vast middle lands of the U. S. can head back there. All those Californians can move back to the small towns and the depopulated states of Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, Eastern Colorado. Every one of those states has sent millions of people to the coasts every since the 1930's. Maybe it is time for them to return?
Maybe it is time for in-migration. All those folks who left the vast middle lands of the U. S. can head back there. All those Californians can move back to the small towns and the depopulated states of Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, Eastern Colorado. Every one of those states has sent millions of people to the coasts every since the 1930's. Maybe it is time for them to return?
14benitastrnad
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris, and listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and earlier this week I finished the mystery that I had started last weekend - Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear. The wasp book was about evolution and I had been reading it for the Nonfiction Challenge hosted by Suzanne. The category this month is Science and Technology. This book is all about evolution and what a weird wacky world that gets into. The book is a series of vignettes that were originally a weekly column in the digital magazine "Wired." the column was called "Absurd Animals." The book was an ALA Alex Award winner back in 2017. Easy reading while learning something. Sweet Little Lies turned out to be a pretty standard police procedural even though it had won several awards including the first book award from the BBC's Richard and Judy Show. It was OK, but I don't think I will pick up the next entry in this series anytime soon.
Time reading: 30 minutes late last night.
Time posting:
Lunch was leftover pita bread and pesto. For dessert some ice cream.
Thoughts: The crazy college kids that live across the street from me in a house they rented had a party last night. When I came home from my supper there were 7 cars parked around the street. When the number of cars reached 10 I called the police. They sent out the Covid task force because the college students in town are not supposed to have parties and be gathering in groups larger than 3 people. It took me about 20 minutes to decide wither or not to call the police. I realize that people have to have some social interaction, but I think this was over the top. Besides, if you live on-campus they are basically still under lockdown. Also, I dislike the rowdy boys who think that this quiet neighborhood is their new playground. I don't want this neighborhood to be known as a party area. So I called the police.
Non-book activities: shopping this morning only to find that my local Walgreens is out of the supplies I need. Amazon - here I come.
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon and earlier this week I finished the mystery that I had started last weekend - Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear. The wasp book was about evolution and I had been reading it for the Nonfiction Challenge hosted by Suzanne. The category this month is Science and Technology. This book is all about evolution and what a weird wacky world that gets into. The book is a series of vignettes that were originally a weekly column in the digital magazine "Wired." the column was called "Absurd Animals." The book was an ALA Alex Award winner back in 2017. Easy reading while learning something. Sweet Little Lies turned out to be a pretty standard police procedural even though it had won several awards including the first book award from the BBC's Richard and Judy Show. It was OK, but I don't think I will pick up the next entry in this series anytime soon.
Time reading: 30 minutes late last night.
Time posting:
Lunch was leftover pita bread and pesto. For dessert some ice cream.
Thoughts: The crazy college kids that live across the street from me in a house they rented had a party last night. When I came home from my supper there were 7 cars parked around the street. When the number of cars reached 10 I called the police. They sent out the Covid task force because the college students in town are not supposed to have parties and be gathering in groups larger than 3 people. It took me about 20 minutes to decide wither or not to call the police. I realize that people have to have some social interaction, but I think this was over the top. Besides, if you live on-campus they are basically still under lockdown. Also, I dislike the rowdy boys who think that this quiet neighborhood is their new playground. I don't want this neighborhood to be known as a party area. So I called the police.
Non-book activities: shopping this morning only to find that my local Walgreens is out of the supplies I need. Amazon - here I come.
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
15torontoc
I finished Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand last night! This is a remarkable book not only for the story of Louis Zamperini but the history of the planes and what airmen faced in the Pacific during World War Two.
Now going to read the last half of The Overstory- I had started it and put it down in the spring.
Yesterday I ate leftovers ( chicken with olives, couscous, and kale salad.)
I also went to visit a friend who had an art show in her driveway.She belongs to a group of artists who usually take part in a big series of house tours in the fall. This year the group are exhibiting their art work in their driveways this weekend.
Today-reading, seeing a webinar at 12 pm and later a film online from the film festival.
Now going to read the last half of The Overstory- I had started it and put it down in the spring.
Yesterday I ate leftovers ( chicken with olives, couscous, and kale salad.)
I also went to visit a friend who had an art show in her driveway.She belongs to a group of artists who usually take part in a big series of house tours in the fall. This year the group are exhibiting their art work in their driveways this weekend.
Today-reading, seeing a webinar at 12 pm and later a film online from the film festival.
16nrmay
Sunday mid-morning
Books:
finished the age of miracles by Karen Walker late last night.
It creeped me out a bit. Sci fi/speculative fiction/coming-of-age.
About what happens to a community when the earth's revolution slows and days and nights get longer and longer. Reminded me of Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer in her last survivors series.
Returned to audio of Pax by Pennypacker. Lover her name!
Breakfast:
Just coffee so far. Thinking of oatmeal with dried cherries, pecans and cinnamon. I ordered 4lbs of dried cherries and 5 lbs of pecans from Amazon. I haven't been to Trader Joes, where I usually buy them, since before the pandemic.
Other: Sunday papers
Books:
finished the age of miracles by Karen Walker late last night.
It creeped me out a bit. Sci fi/speculative fiction/coming-of-age.
About what happens to a community when the earth's revolution slows and days and nights get longer and longer. Reminded me of Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer in her last survivors series.
Returned to audio of Pax by Pennypacker. Lover her name!
Breakfast:
Just coffee so far. Thinking of oatmeal with dried cherries, pecans and cinnamon. I ordered 4lbs of dried cherries and 5 lbs of pecans from Amazon. I haven't been to Trader Joes, where I usually buy them, since before the pandemic.
Other: Sunday papers
17benitastrnad
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris, and listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon.
Time reading: 1 hour so far today
Time posting:
Lunch was my regular Sunday Chinese Buffett.
Thoughts: I finished the book part of Visual Thinking Strategies and am reading the Appendixes. This is where all the practical stuff is written.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone to my sister.
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon.
Time reading: 1 hour so far today
Time posting:
Lunch was my regular Sunday Chinese Buffett.
Thoughts: I finished the book part of Visual Thinking Strategies and am reading the Appendixes. This is where all the practical stuff is written.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone to my sister.
Total books finished: 60
Total read from:
Total time reading: 64
18avatiakh
Mon 3pm
Books read from: Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Mother Russia by Bernice Rubins, Becoming Gershona by Nava Semel & Burn by Patrick Ness
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: homemade mince pie
Thoughts: really dislike the characters in Caging Skies
Non-book activities: shopping, genealogy research, out for coffee
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7hrs
Hoping to finish Caging Skies in the next day or so.
My son is about to go for a Covid test and isn't happy, just that he teaches guitar to children from a number of schools so feels obliged.
We're in for another week at current lockdown levels.
Books read from: Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Mother Russia by Bernice Rubins, Becoming Gershona by Nava Semel & Burn by Patrick Ness
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: homemade mince pie
Thoughts: really dislike the characters in Caging Skies
Non-book activities: shopping, genealogy research, out for coffee
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7hrs
Hoping to finish Caging Skies in the next day or so.
My son is about to go for a Covid test and isn't happy, just that he teaches guitar to children from a number of schools so feels obliged.
We're in for another week at current lockdown levels.
19benitastrnad
11:00 p.m. Sunday checkin from Tuscaloosa, AL
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris, and listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. This evening I finished reading Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine. This one is a book for teacher's and using art to increase literacy skills such as inference, scaffolding, description/observation, developing argumentation, and writing skills.
Time reading: 2 hours so far today
Time posting:
skipped supper
Thoughts: I am beginning to wonder how long this Covid thing is going to go on. I am getting really tired of it. I had a very nice meeting with my book discussion group today. We talked about "Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles. This turned out to be a great book for discussion even though it is one of the longer ones we have read. Strangely our book discussions are getting better since we moved to Zoom. We don't get off track as often with the discussion. We have people in three time zones participating at this point. People from Bozeman, MT all the way to Asheville, NC. It is beginning to look like we will keep with this format even after the Covid Crisis is over.
Another interesting thing. On Friday night I called the Tuscaloosa City Police about the students who live across the street from me having a party on Friday night. I said that I felt like I was turning into a cranky old lady. I told the book discussion group about how hard it was to make a decision to turn in the party. Then my sister started laughing and told us she did the same thing. We both live in college towns. My sister lives in Bozeman, MT. Home to Montana State University. They live close to the campus and on Saturday night they called the Bozeman police about a late noisy party that was going on. Some of the underage drinkers climbed over the fence that separated the yards of the two houses into my sister's back yard and escaped by then running out to the street. My sister said that watching them get over the fence and then out to the street was very entertaining.
Non-book activities: shopping for my weekly supply of yogurt.
Total books finished: 61
Total read from: 64
Total time reading since the 6-month long readathon started: 144.5 hours
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris, and listening to Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. This evening I finished reading Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine. This one is a book for teacher's and using art to increase literacy skills such as inference, scaffolding, description/observation, developing argumentation, and writing skills.
Time reading: 2 hours so far today
Time posting:
skipped supper
Thoughts: I am beginning to wonder how long this Covid thing is going to go on. I am getting really tired of it. I had a very nice meeting with my book discussion group today. We talked about "Gentleman in Moscow" by Amor Towles. This turned out to be a great book for discussion even though it is one of the longer ones we have read. Strangely our book discussions are getting better since we moved to Zoom. We don't get off track as often with the discussion. We have people in three time zones participating at this point. People from Bozeman, MT all the way to Asheville, NC. It is beginning to look like we will keep with this format even after the Covid Crisis is over.
Another interesting thing. On Friday night I called the Tuscaloosa City Police about the students who live across the street from me having a party on Friday night. I said that I felt like I was turning into a cranky old lady. I told the book discussion group about how hard it was to make a decision to turn in the party. Then my sister started laughing and told us she did the same thing. We both live in college towns. My sister lives in Bozeman, MT. Home to Montana State University. They live close to the campus and on Saturday night they called the Bozeman police about a late noisy party that was going on. Some of the underage drinkers climbed over the fence that separated the yards of the two houses into my sister's back yard and escaped by then running out to the street. My sister said that watching them get over the fence and then out to the street was very entertaining.
Non-book activities: shopping for my weekly supply of yogurt.
Total books finished: 61
Total read from: 64
Total time reading since the 6-month long readathon started: 144.5 hours
20SilverWolf28
>18 avatiakh: What do you think of Burn? I'm considering reading it.
21nrmay
Weekend round-up
Books:
Halfway through American Street by Ibi Zoboi.
Award-winning novel about Haitian immigrants.
Started Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors by Chester Berry.
The burning and sinking of the steamship Sultana on the Mississippi River at the end of the Civil War was America's worst maritime disaster. More died than on the Titanic. I've always been interested in the Sultana because my husband's great great grandfather was one of the survivors.
Finished 7 books so far in Sept
Read a total of 12 books in Aug
Up to 94 for the year so far
Other activity: postcrossing.com
Books:
Halfway through American Street by Ibi Zoboi.
Award-winning novel about Haitian immigrants.
Started Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of Survivors by Chester Berry.
The burning and sinking of the steamship Sultana on the Mississippi River at the end of the Civil War was America's worst maritime disaster. More died than on the Titanic. I've always been interested in the Sultana because my husband's great great grandfather was one of the survivors.
Finished 7 books so far in Sept
Read a total of 12 books in Aug
Up to 94 for the year so far
Other activity: postcrossing.com
22benitastrnad
Monday morning check in
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris.
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. Sunday evening I finished reading Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine.
Time reading: 1 hour today from Ice Child
Time posting:
breakfast was yogurt and peanut butter toast
Thoughts: I need to get Ice Child read because it came from ILL and it is due tomorrow. This morning my e-mail announced that the University would remain under restricted access for another two weeks.
Non-book activities: watered my plants and downloaded and updated my podcasts.
Total books finished: 61
Total read from: 64
Total time reading since the 6-month long readathon started: 145.5 hours
Books read from: Ice Child by Camilla Lackberg, Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris.
Books finished this weekend: On Friday I finished Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar by Matt Simon. Sunday evening I finished reading Visual Thinking Strategies by Philip Yenawine.
Time reading: 1 hour today from Ice Child
Time posting:
breakfast was yogurt and peanut butter toast
Thoughts: I need to get Ice Child read because it came from ILL and it is due tomorrow. This morning my e-mail announced that the University would remain under restricted access for another two weeks.
Non-book activities: watered my plants and downloaded and updated my podcasts.
Total books finished: 61
Total read from: 64
Total time reading since the 6-month long readathon started: 145.5 hours
23benitastrnad
Since we are under restriction for another two weeks and possible until October 2, I'm game for another weekend of the Readathon.
24SilverWolf28
>23 benitastrnad: I'll keep posting until someone tells me to stop. :)
25torontoc
Great! I am trying to finish The Overstory- I am seeing films online this week as well. Two are related to books that I have read.
26cbl_tn
I did read over the weekend. Just didn't post! I finished The Ice Child yesterday. I had a carpenter here all day Saturday replacing the wire shelves in the master closet and pantry with wooden shelves. With half the house topsy-turvy I just wasn't motivated to post. Sorry!
27avatiakh
>20 SilverWolf28: I'm enjoying the Ness book, it's different from the others I'm currently reading. There are dragons, a cult and a couple of FBI agents. I'm not that far in yet as I'm determined to have finished Caging Skies before the next Readathon.
