New Years Readathon - Social Distancing #42 - January 1 - 3

Happy New Year!

Welcome to another readathon!

We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.

Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:

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

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

Who is participating -

1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
3. Jean (majkia) -- Florida, USA
4. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
5. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
6. Käthe (PersephonesLibrary) -- Austria
7. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
8. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
9. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
10. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
11. Chelle (ChelleBearss) -- Ontario, Canada
12. Anna (annushka) -- Delaware, USA
13. Lori (thornton37814) -- Tennessee, USA
14. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
15. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, United Kingdom

OK, I'm in. Stunned by the realization that this is our 42nd social distancing readathon.

Suzanne in Rhode Island.

I'm in. Jean in Florida.

I'm in. Kerry in Auckland, New Zealand.

I'm in. Susanna in Seattle.

YES, a readathon! Count me in! Käthe from Austria.

I'm in. Thanks for keeping this going!

I am participating again. This is my
New Year's Eve check-in

Books read from: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares is my novella for the month of January. Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman. Recorded book Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner is Book 5 in the Queen's Thief series.

Books finished: 0 - so far this weekend

Time reading: 1 hour this morning - but I read the newspapers instead of my book Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth by Steve Solomon
Time posting:
Snacks: Breakfast was fresh grapefruit and coffee. For lunch I had chicken and dumplings. Supper will be soup.

Thoughts:Invention of Moral is a New York Review Classics entry. It is a novella by the LatinX author Adolfo Bioy Casares with an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges. It has proved to be an interesting macabre book.

I also started a YA novel Book of Blood and Shadow that I have been wanting to read for some time. So far it is starting out to be a typical YA novel.

Books finished: 0
Books Read From: 4

Total time reading: 1 hour

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 92
Total read from: 96
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 238.5 hours.

Friday 8pm check in:

Books read from: Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs

Snacks: homemade burritos
Thoughts: I love Strike & Robyn
Non-book activities: food prep, grocery shopping, watching Korean tv drama

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

Doubt I'll finish Troubled Blood anytime soon, it's a doorstopper and I'm not halfway as yet.

Friday 9.30 am check in for starting:

Books read from: Take a girl like you by Kingsley Amis
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 0

Snacks: coffee
Thoughts: I am still tired. I hope I won't fall asleep while reading. :)

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

Count me in again this weekend.

Just finished the home-maker by Dorothy Canfield.
Beginning the pull of the stars by Emma Donoghue

I'm in! Carrie in Seymour TN. I'm starting out with The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power.

Hi! Chelle in Ontario, Canada
I think I'd like to join in! I'll be working nightshift all weekend and since Ontario is in lockdown hoping it will quiet. I'd like to finish two books.

I'm in! Anna from Delaware. This is my first Readathon. I'm starting with Gorky Park

New Year's Day check-in

Books read from: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares is my novella for the month of January. Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman. Recorded book Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner is Book 5 in the Queen's Thief series.

Books finished: 0 - so far this weekend

Time reading: 1 hour this morning - but I read the newspapers instead of my book Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth by Steve Solomon
Time posting: 2.5 hours - trying to set up my threads for the coming year and I made a gargantuan booboo and can't undo it.
Snacks: Breakfast was fresh grapefruit and coffee.

Thoughts:

Books finished: 0
Books Read From: 4

Total time reading: 1 hour

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 92
Total read from: 96
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 239.5 hours.

Sorry if I am posting too much...

Books read from: Take a girl like you by Kingsley Amis
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~ 2 hours
Pages read: ~ 90 pages
Time posting: too much

Snacks: final Christmas cookies, Pasta Asciutta, ...maybe later a glas of yesterday's prosecco

Thoughts:
Love drifting from one free time activity to another without having to do anything.
Concerning the book: Despite the fact that it was published in 1960 it is entertaining. Of course, you have to keep the cliches and role models in mind, but it is very interesting to read a "live perspective" of emancipation in the 1960s.

Non-book activities:
* puzzling the "Alice-in-Wonderland" puzzle I got for Christmas while listening to the New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Here's the link if you are interested: https://youtu.be/dIPQGHdWbNs)
* taking care of my ratties
* sleeping

Total books finished: 0
Total pages read: ~ 90 pages
Total time reading: ~ 2 hours

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Books read from: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheese pizza, peanut butter chocolate bar, egg nog, tea
Thoughts: It's a dreary, rainy day. I'm watching for a break in the rain so I can walk the dog.
Non-book activities: thread hopping, Ancestry.com

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

Just a brief check-in. I've been doing a bit of reading, but not much. Lost access to my Amazon account last month briefly and as a result have to reinstall everything on my Kindle (not just Kindle books but e-galleys, which is tricky). So I spent a lot of time doing that.

Books read from: 2, The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike, and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.
Books finished: None.
Time reading: About two hours of the former, and listened to about another two hours in the audiobook.
Time posting: zero
Snacks: some mandarin oranges, some soft rolls. I cracked a tooth while grinding my teeth in my sleep on Christmas eve, and it has become very painful again.
Thoughts: I wish I could just curl up under the comforter with the cats and sleep for a few weeks.
Non-book activities: Nothing. Doesn't augur well for a good start to the year!!

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours

Books read from: White Fire - Preston/Child
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~ 1 hour
Pages read: ~ 40 pages
Time posting: more time than I should

>16 PersephonesLibrary: Post all you like! I think your rats are really cute.

Just now seeing this. Will estimate time based on pages.

Books read from: Bible (ESV), Anchored in Jesus by Johnny Hunt, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, Dear Miss Kopp by Amy Stewart
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: Lots of time posting to threads
Snacks: Chex Snack Mix, Lemon bar
Thoughts: I love my cats!
Non-book activities: Napping with cats

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3 hours

Books read from: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: orange juice, cereal, cheese & crackers, chocolate, tea
Thoughts: Today feels like Saturday. I get another one tomorrow!
Non-book activities: Long walk with the dog.

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

9:30 pm Friday update:

Books read from: Dear Miss Kopp by Amy Stewart
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Just a strawberry-flavored drink
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:

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

It's 930pm and I'm 3.5 hours into my 9 hour shift.

Books read from: 1
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3ish hours between work calls
Time posting: 0
Snacks: chocolate, diet ginger ale and my soup for dinner
Thoughts: Wish I was home and not at work :-p
Non-book activities: work

I'm in- I am almost finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice- my go to book in times of stress -and PBS showed the series with Colin Firth last weekend from 5 pm -10pm! I am also getting over a migraine so P&P might be the only book read this weekend-but we will see.

Friday 8:00 PM check-in. Note that the two completed books are ones I started earlier in the week but held off on the last chapters till today because they met 2021 challenges, not 2020 ones.

Books read from: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Here For It, How to Catch a Queen
Books finished: The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Here For It
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: birthday cake
Thoughts: Never have I been so happy to have a new year.
Non-book activities: A really lovely Zoom party my husband and one of my best friends threw for my 50th birthday today.

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

Friday 11:45 PM check-in.

Books read from: Gorky Park
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2:45
Time posting: none
Snacks: a cake
Thoughts: As a person who lived in the USSR, I'm impressed with how detailed and spot-on are the descriptions of life in the book.
Non-book activities: watched some old movies

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2:45

>26 susanna.fraser: Happy Birthday Susanna!

About to head home from nightshift.

Books read from: 2
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 9 hours, off an on
Snacks: lots of caffeine
Thoughts: Thankful that this shift is coming to an end and looking forward to my bed.
Non-book activities: work (and soon sleep)

Books read from: 3, The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike, and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, first nonfiction book of 2021 will be Paper Bullets by Jeffrey Jackson, about two LGBTQ women on Jersey during WW2, who waged a kind of subversive propaganda using artistic skills picked up in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, alongside the likes of André Breton and Picasso. Intriguing and an unknown-to-me story.
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 6 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: I'm adopting the most bizarre diet to cope with the dental pain (didn't I just go through this at the same time last year??) Had a bowl of oatmeal, and just reheated some apple pie and added some custard.
Thoughts: Love my cats. (Sir Fergus the Fat and Minka the Velveteen Kitten)
Non-book activities: Napping; weird dreams.

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

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power; The Golden Egg
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheese pizza, skinny dipped almonds, tea
Thoughts: Looks like another gray and dreary day outside
Non-book activities: Sleep; enjoying classic cartoons on MeTV. I had forgotten all about Droopy!

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

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: White Fire and Intervention
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2.5 hours
Time posting: too long!
Snacks: tea, lots of tea.
Thoughts: Still rather grey and unwelcoming outside, so good day to read.
Non-book activities: Sleep

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3.5 hours

10:30 am Saturday:

Books read from: Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan, Old Testament Words for Today by Warren W. Wiersbe, The Address Book by Deirdre Mask, Bible (ESV), Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries compiled by Otto Penzler
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: cereal and a banana for breakfast
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: sleeping, petting and feeding cats, sweeping

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 7 hours

10:30 AM Saturday:

Books read from: How to Catch a Queen
Books finished: How to Catch a Queen
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: satsuma
Thoughts: Rain, rain go away
Non-book activities: About to head to the farmers market preorder pickup booth.

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

Saturday 2:00 PM check-in.

Books read from: Gorky Park
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: none
Snacks: none
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: online shopping and organized my reading list for 2021

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 4:45

Saturday, early afternoon.

Books:
read some of pull of the stars in bed late last night; about a hospital maternity nurse in Dublin during the 1918 flu epidemic.

Lunch:
BLT/sliced egg sandwich. Ate our last cookies last night...
Oh no! We're out of cookies!! : /

Thoughts:
mild day today and rain has stopped. Sun is trying to poke though the haze. Must go for a walk. Only an hour left of my audio book, beast player, that I have been listening to forever.
One of my travel goals is to see all the National Parks. For Christmas my husband said we could visit one this year. I'm thinking Grand Canyon! As soon as I get my covid vaccine...

Other activity: cooking, baking, sending postcrossing cards. Along with reading, postcrossing.com is my other main hobby these days.

Finished 127 books in 2020; more than my usual 100, due to staying in to avoid covid.

2:30 pm Saturday:

Books read from: The Address Book by Deirdre Mask, Bible (ESV), Anchored in Jesus by Johnny Hunt, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: sausage balls and mozarella sticks left over from New Year's Eve
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: petting cats, reading 3 newly-arrived Christmas cards, Facebook, reading LT threads

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 9 hours

4 p.m. Eastern on Saturday:

Books read from: 3, Third Girl by Agatha Christie, Paper Bullets by Jeffrey Jackson, and Elderhood by Louise Aronson.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: About to nosh on some ham sandwiches.
Thoughts: Still love my cats. (Sir Fergus the Fat and Minka the Velveteen Kitten)
Non-book activities: Long naps instead of real sleeping. Ran errand to buy paper towels, TP, etc.

Total books finished: 2 (The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 15 hours

4 p.m. Eastern on Saturday

Books read from: 3: Elsewhere by Dean Koontz, Who is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht and audio Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend
Books finished: 1
Thoughts: Wish I didn't have to work tonight but hoping it's slow enough to read most of Vera Kelly
Non-book activities: Sleeping all day, took down Christmas decorations, meal prep for work - all while listening to audiobook

Total books finished: Elsewhere
Total read from: 3

42nd social distancing readathon? I've obviously not being paying enough attention as I missed the last 41 and it feels a bit late for this one. I have read a few pages today but not really enough to claim to be participating.

8:30 pm Saturday

Books read from: The Address Book by Deirdre Mask, The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler, Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: supper was leftovers
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: petting cats, Facebook, reading LT threads

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 11 hours

Books read from: The Address Book; The Golden Egg
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheese, carrots, tea
Thoughts: I'm too sleepy to read. I'll pick it up again tomorrow.
Non-book activities: Hair appointment, long walk with the dog, laundry

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

I received a text message from a good friend who wanted to let me know he was in ICU due to a heart attack. He's doing better, but the fact he is still in ICU concerns me. Still he was doing well enough to text me himself. I could tell he didn't want to be online long, and he said he'd text me again when he could.

I'm afraid the news made me lose concentration. I decided to work on a project where I'm checking my to be read pile against the libraries I use most to see if there are changes in availability and to eliminate a few things I know will never get read.

I've also been catching up on threads. I do hope to read a little more in at least one book before bedtime, but I'll report it with my first post in the morning.

No judgements made here, Luci... LOL

Here's my update for the evening. I'm off to bed, with books but without the laptop.

10:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday:

Books read from: 4, Third Girl by Agatha Christie, Paper Bullets by Jeffrey Jackson, and Elderhood by Louise Aronson, also Dance Wth Death by Will Thomas
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 6 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: About to nosh on some ham sandwiches.
Thoughts: Still love my cats. (Sir Fergus the Fat and Minka the Velveteen Kitten)
Non-book activities: Long naps instead of real sleeping. Ran errand to buy paper towels, TP, etc.

Total books finished: 2 (The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 21 hours, more or less.

Last update for today.

Books read from: Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith and My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: none
Snacks: a chocolate candy
Thoughts: I'm glad tomorrow is Sunday and I can read more.
Non-book activities: cross-stitching and online shopping

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 6:45

1:15am Eastern on Sunday

Books read from: 4: Reading Darkly Dreaming Dexter and audio Hollowpox by Jessica Townsend
Books finished: 2 (Elsewhere by Dean Koontz, Who is Vera Kelly by Rosalie Knecht)
Thoughts: Can't wait for work to end so I can go to sleep!
Non-book activities: Work, audiobook during workout

Total books finished: Elsewhere, Who is Very Kelly
Total read from: 4

My participation needs improvement. I had to work yesterday for the seventh stocktaking at our bookshops this week. Afterwards tiredness crashed me.

Total Books read from: Take a girl like you; Poems by D.H. Lawrence
Total Books finished: 0
Total time reading: about 5 hours

Sunday Morning update:

Books read from: The Long Way Home and Intervention
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: not much
Snacks: Irish Whiskey
Thoughts: Really enjoying the re-read of Intervention.
Non-book activities: Watching TV with Mr Majkia

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 9 hours or so.

Sunday morning check-in

Books read from: The Address Book, The Golden Egg
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cereal, almonds, egg nog, tea
Thoughts: This is the last day of vacation. Things go back to "normal" tomorrow.
Non-book activities: Zoom church, cooking lunch

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

Sunday 10:30 am check-in:

Books read from: Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, Bible (ESV), Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan, Old Testament Words for Today by Warren Wiersbe, Anchored in Jesus by Johnny Hunt
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks:
Thoughts: I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow.
Non-book activities: sleeping (overnight), church (on TV), petting cats, Facebook, reading LT threads

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 13 hours

Sunday check-in:

10:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday:

Books read from: 4, Third Girl by Agatha Christie, Paper Bullets by Jeffrey Jackson, Elderhood by Louise Aronson, Dance Wth Death by Will Thomas
Books finished: 1, Paper Bullets
Time reading: about 6 hours
Time posting: 15 minutes
Snacks: More ham sandwiches! Leftover lemon tea cake.
Thoughts: Minka is treating me as a human warming pad. That's ok, because she's furry and purry.
Non-book activities: Not a heck of a lot.

Total books finished: 3 (The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike, Paper Bullets and The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 21 hours, more or less.

Sunday 3 PM Pacific:

Books read from: The Journeys of Trees
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: finished off my birthday cake
Thoughts: Actually a nice sunny day today!
Non-book activities: I ended up with much less reading time than expected because last night my husband went into the attic to check on a small leak in our bathroom ceiling, then missed his footing and stepped on the insulation/drywall rather than a support beam. He's OK, except for a possible bruised rib, but our hall ceiling is NOT.

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8 hours

Books read from: The Address Book, The Golden Egg
Books finished: The Address Book
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheese & crackers, peppermint pattie, tea
Thoughts: It feels late but it's not!
Non-book activities: Walking the dog, Ancestry, dishes, laundry

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

I'd like to make a good dent in The Golden Egg before I call it a day.

Sunday 10:00 pm check-in

Books read from: Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer, The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries edited by Otto Penzler
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks:
Thoughts: I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow.
Non-book activities: miscellaneous things to get ready to go back to work tomorrow, North Carolina Genealogy chat, looking over information from a couple potential genealogy clients, entering a death and obituary info in my own family, a little bit of genealogical research, petting cats, answering a friend's question about her cat's health issue with info from my veterinary handbook, etc.

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 15 hours

While I may read a little more before I go to bed, I won't record it this weekend.

Sunday 11:00 pm:

Books read from: 4 - just starting Dearly Devoted Dexter
Books finished: 3 - Elsewhere, Who is Vera Kelly & Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Thoughts: Thankful my last nightshift is almost finished! 4 hours to go
Non-book activities: work, grocery shopping, cleaning

Total time reading: unsure, but most of my three 9 hour shifts at work as it's very slow this weekend

Sunday evening check-in.

Books read from: 2 (Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith and My Promised Land by Ari Shavit)
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Time posting: none
Snacks: a cake
Thoughts: Too many distractions today. I wish I read more.
Non-book activities: an online class, some browsing

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 10:15

Sunday 9:30 PM Pacific:

Books read from: The Journeys of Trees
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: fried chicken for dinner
Thoughts: Back to work tomorrow. SIGH.
Non-book activities: Laundry, mostly. Watched the Seahawks game.

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 9 hours

I seem to have gotten sidetracked and ended the weekend with less reading than expected. More Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, some The Song Dog by James McClure and started a YA, Loner, by Georgina Young.

Monday morning checkout

Books read from:
Take a Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
Poems I by D.H. Lawrence
Kim Jiyoung, geboren 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Thoughts: Thanks for the readathon!

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total pages read: 432
Total time reading: ~ 9 hours

Final update:

Books read from: The Address Book, The Golden Egg
Books finished: The Address Book
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: tea
Thoughts: A successful readathon! It got my reading year off to a good start. I would have liked to finish The Golden Egg too. It's a quick read so I should be able to finish it within the next couple of days even with less reading time during the work week.
Non-book activities: Sleep

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

New Year's weekend check-in

Books read from: Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization by Steven Solomon. Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman. Recorded book Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner is Book 5 in the Queen's Thief series. I also listened to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling.

Books finished: 2 - both were recorded books I listened to while driving. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Time reading: 18 hours of driving time spent listening to two books. Plus about 1 hour or reading time in the hotel room and when I got back to Tuscaloosa.
Time posting:
Snacks: Going out for lunch today and will be reading a bit while eating.

Thoughts: I hesitate to count all those hours of driving while listening to recorded books for this Read-A-Thon, but then I count them as books so decided that I would record the entire trip as reading time, except for the two hours of talking on the telephone that I did while driving.

Books finished: 2
Books Read From: 6 - I packed away invention of Morel but will get back to that as soon as I find it in my car.

Total time reading: 19 hour

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 94
Total read from: 99
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 258.5 hours.

weekend windup -

Books:
finished the pull of the stars, Emma Donoghue. Hist fiction about the 1918 flu. Rather scary given the current situation...
started the wanderers by Chuck Wendig.

food over the weekend:
I fixed an 'old world supper' in the crockpot - sauerkraut, sausage, potatoes, and apples. Last night my husband made garlic chicken with vegetables and rice. We both like to cook!

Other activity:
sent postcards, watched the tv mini series 'Hollywood'

thoughts:
Dreaming of road trips! Hoping to visit my sister in DC this month.
New Year's resolution - resume daily walks. Slacked off over the holidays..

I'm still enjoying these weekend marathons.
Still staying in to be safe in anticipation of vaccine soon, I hope.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/328503