Social Distancing Readathon #51 - March 5 - 7

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. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3. Jean (majkia) -- Niceville, Florida, USA
4. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
5. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
6. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
7. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
8. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
9. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
10. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
12. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
13. Mary (bell7) -- Massachusetts, USA
14. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
15. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
16. Arlie (ArlieS) -- California, USA

Include me please. It's still in the 30f's and too chilly to work outside so I'll be reading from Ordinary Grace and The Indifferent Stars Above for book clubs

I'll join! Jean in Niceville. And it is finally nice here! Sunny, with a bit of wind, 70F.

Count me in again! I'll be reading when I'm not sleeping. I've lost sleep due to a combination of a sick dog and a weird medication schedule. I may sleep all weekend!

In again. My March reading is off to a slow start, so I'm hoping to build some momentum over the weekend.

I'm in- new books have arrived at my house!

I'm in again. It's 70 degrees here and I would love to be outside gardening but, alas, oak pollen will keep me indoors until April. I might as well read and enjoy the birds through the windows.

I will be reading again. I hope to finish two books this weekend.

I will be joining in. I don't expect to finish any books this weekend but I did finish 3 last weekend and 3 since, including one last night! I have 320 pages of the book at the top of my pile

I'm in too.

The first weekend in a while with nothing planned so hope to spend time reading. Must read some chapters from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Sign me up! After a grueling work week I'm ready to settle in and read. Anne, Washington DC.

First weekend in awhile I'll have mostly free for reading. Mary in western Mass.

I'm in again. Hi from Nancy in North Carolina!

Friday early evening, 1st checkin -

Books:
Just finished the underground railroad by Colson Whitehead. Wow, that was wrenching.
Almost done with microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures Now I really want to build one!
Just started the survivors by Jane Harper. I liked both the dry and the lost man a lot.

Good eats and treats:
lunch was Vietnamese ban mi sandwiches from a fav takeout place.
dinner - Husband cooking, chicken of some kind.

Other activity:
Went OUT today! Feeling more secure since I have now had both vaccine doses. Went to department store (1st time in months, or maybe a year..) for BD gifts for my mom. She is 99 today. We went to her assisted care residence for a window visit but she couldn't quite wake up. Also went to the library! Big day!

Weather: Clear and 45 F. (8 C.) about an hour after sunset.

Friday evening check-in:

Books read from: The Ravine
Books finished: The Ravine
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was turkey & rice soup, hummus, carrots, and asparagus; now drinking decaf Chai
Thoughts: I may do more sleeping than reading this weekend. I've had several late nights this week with a sick dog who thankfully seems to be on the mend.
Non-book activities: Caught up on my news feed

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

I'm getting ready to start Hedy's Folly. My other priority this weekend is finishing Chasing Vines.

OK, I'm back, and we'll see how much I get done. Fridays are turning out to be migraine days chez moi these days.

Books read from: The Fracture Zone by Simon Winchester, and The Voter File by David Pepper
Books finished: none yet
Time reading: (and listening...) about 4 hours
Snacks: macaroni & cheese. Boring but didn't require much prep work, which is crucial right now.
Thoughts: Glad I'm scheduled for a vaccine shot (thanks to my zip code, apparently I'm in a high-risk patch, so yeah, I'll grab it.) Dose #1 on Wednesday. On a separate note, it's as cold outdoors this weekend as it was in January -- actually, colder!!
Non-book activities: Finished up an article about suffragrist tactics pre-19th Amendment (eg tossing pamphlets from biplanes).

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours, more or less.

I finished Under Occupation by Alan Furst and saw the film ( on my computer) " Judas and The Black Messiah"- it is excellent.

Friday evening check-in:

Books read from: I listened to audio of Ordinary Grace
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting:5 minutes
Snacks: dinner Vegetarian tortilla with black beans and corn - Ice cream for dessert
Snack green tea and oreos
Thoughts: This book reminds me of Gilead but I'm liking this one much more.
Non-book activities: puzzle - cook dinner

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

Saturday morning check-in:

Books read from: The Narrowboat Summer and The Fairies of Sadieville
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours

Snacks: Spaghetti
Thoughts: I am really enjoying The Narrowboat Summer so far, about 33% through.
Non-book activities: Baseball game

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

Supper time Saturday in Kuala Lumpur

Books read from: The Hammer of the Scots, Some Experiences of an Irish RM & The Return
Books finished: The Return by Hisham Mater
Time reading: 7 hours
Time posting: 2 hours
Food: Home made Chili con Carne
Thoughts: Under the weather and between the covers (book covers)
Non-book activities:

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours

Saturday morning check-in:
Books read from: Hedy's Folly
Books finished: The Ravine
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Peanut butter chocolate chip Larabar, tea
Thoughts: It looks like it's going to be a beautiful day in East TN!
Non-book activities: Watched the first episode of the new season of The Mallorca Files on BritBox; slept

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

I am already absorbed by Hedy's Folly. I'm reading this for an online book club instead of The Only Woman in the Room because I generally avoid fictionalized accounts of real people. I don't want facts confused with fiction. I found this biography so that I'll be able to join in the discussion about Hedy Lamarr's life. It's a book I likely wouldn't have read otherwise, and it promises to be a very good read.

Saturday Morning:

Books Read From: The Grave's A Fine and Private Place -audio, and Consequences - A Retrieval Artist Novel. Enjoying both of them.

We went out to dinner last night so only about 2 hours of reading yesterday for the readathon. Also, watched the final episodes of Black Spot on Netflix. Really enjoyed the series weirdness!

Saturday morning report (11:00 am)

Books read from: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, Love
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ? not much
Pages read: 118
Time posting: 0
Snacks: my husband made breakfast burritos for dinner as I was still "at work" at 8:00
Thoughts: I was really ready for my weekend to start at 5
Non-book activities: work, 2 episodes of the Mandalorian, yoga this morning

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total pages read: 118
Total time reading: 1 hour reading, 80 minutes listening

Saturday morning check in:

Books read from: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Books finished: 0
Time reading: probably about an hour and a half altogether, last night and this morning
Snacks: breakfast this morning was oatmeal, banana & cheese, and coffee
Thoughts: Somehow my Saturday to-do list is really long, and I feel like I need to accomplish a lot of it before I can sit quietly and read. However, my sunroom is incredibly warm right now and making it pleasant to finish up some projects
Non-book activities: Brought my recycling to the center, paid some bills, house cleaning

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: about an hour and a half

I'm joining a bit late - 10 AM Saturday my local time (Friday was chaos, but the weekend should be calmer). I did manage some reading Friday morning, before everything else took over my attention.

I'm in California, USA. (But proudly and sometimes loudly Canadian).

I'll be starting the morning with 1636: Flight of the Nightingale once I get some breakfast into me, and switching to non-fiction as the caffeine kicks in.

Saturday morning in Seattle. It's not raining at the moment, and as of yesterday sunset is after 6 PM again, so we'll call it a very good day.

Books read from: Equal Rites
Books finished: Equal Rites
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: Cereal
Thoughts: Why didn't I like Pratchett when I first tried to read his books decades ago?
Non-book activities: Watched the finale of WandaVision, booked a rental for a week at Glacier NP in August now that it looks overwhelmingly likely the whole family will be vaccinated by then.

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

Saturday morning check-in

Books read from: Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker. Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is my recorded book.
Books finished:
Time reading: 1 hour last night
Time posting: 15 minutes
Snacks: Had some left-over Rice-A-Roni for breakfast.
Thoughts: I am not doing much heavy duty reading right now. This is going to be a cooking window.
Non-book activities: talking on the phone.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 106
Total read from: 109
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 321 hours since April 2020.

Saturday mid-day check-in:

Books read from: Hedy's Folly
Books finished: The Ravine
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: donuts, coffee, chips
Thoughts: It's a beautiful, sunny day. I just wish it was warmer so I could sit outside and read!
Non-book activities: grocery pick-up, laundry, long walk with dog

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

2:15 pm Saturday check-in:

Books read from: I listened to audio of Ordinary Grace
Books finished: Ordinary Grace
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:5 minutes
Snacks: breakfast: Egg over easy on everything bagel - orange juice
Snack: green tea and rice cake with peanut butter
Thoughts: Wow wow wow what a book!
Non-book activities: ordered baby books for my friends granddaughter
What's next: The Indifferent Stars Above

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

Saturday evening check-in

Books read from: Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker. Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is my recorded book.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 0
Time posting: 15 minutes
Snacks: coffee
Thoughts: I had to work today and cover our electronic chat line. It was busier than usual. I also did a zoom meeting with a graduate student. I am hungry and so will go get Mexican food tonight and do the grocery shopping I should have done this afternoon. Now I am going to do the dishes that are in the sink.

During the week I finished reading Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of Brown Decision by Peter Irons. It was quite a book. Good reading with lots to think about.

Non-book activities: work

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 108
Total read from: 111
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 321 hours since April 2020.

Sunday afternoon check in: 1pm

Books read from: Isabella, the warrior queen by Kirstin Downey, Instruments of Darkness by Robert Wilson, The is how we change the ending by Vikki Wakefield
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hrs

Snacks: coffee; feta, potato, egg & spinach fry up
Thoughts: I think I'll carry my weekend over to Monday

Non-book activities: watching Korean TV drama, food prep

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

Really enjoying the audiobook on Isabella, I see it gets mixed reviews but it's interesting and I'm happy with it.
I should be reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms but that needs me to settle and concentrate for an hour of two, not something I'm able to do at present.

Saturday evening check in:

Books read from: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1 hr. 45 min.
Snacks: supper was leftover beef stew
Thoughts: It's been a busy day and I didn't read much 'til after dinner, but I'm very pleased with how much I accomplished at home, and tomorrow should be a much more relaxing day of reading and knitting
Non-book activities: More house cleaning, laundry, working on computer things I had told folks I would do

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours, 15 minutes

Saturday late night/Sunday early (1.15 am)

Books read from: 9
Anthony Quinn, London, Burning
Peter Lovesey, The Tooth Tattoo
Ellen Wiles, The Invisible Crowd
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
Anne Tyler, Clock Dance
Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life
Cathy Cassidy, Looking Glass Girl
Susanna Jones, The Missing Person's Guide to Love
Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 297
Thoughts: Not much
Non-book activities: Emails and WhatsApp, playing Bejeweled Blitz, usual stuff

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 9
Total pages read: 297

It's 8:30 p.m. in Rhode Island, catchup from last night.

Books read from: The Voter File by David Pepper, The Anarchy by William Dalrymple, and re-listen to Place of Execution by Val McDermind (which requires minimal expenditure of attention).
Books finished: 1, The Voter File)
Time reading: (and listening...) about 6 hours
Snacks: Fish & chips. Lemon selzer.
Thoughts: Migraine. Can't think.
Non-book activities: Talked to my father. Found out that my former WSJ editor is going into hospice, dying of cancer. Another loss looming.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4, the above plus The Fracture Zone by Simon Winchester, which is pretty good.
Total time reading: 10 hours.

Saturday evening check in:

Books read from: 1636: Flight of the Nightingale, How the Mind Works, macOS Catalina: the missing manual
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hr, 45 min
Pages Read: 129
Snacks:
Thoughts: I expected to be well over 2 hours - I was wrong.
Non-reading activities: Reading and updating LibraryThing threads; cataloging books; laundry; walking dog; long phone call with sister

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 1 hr, 45 min
Total pages read: 129

Saturday night check-in:

Books read from: Hedy's Folly
Books finished: The Ravine
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheese & crackers, pear, hummus & carrots, tea
Thoughts: I'm finally beginning to feel rested after a stressful week.
Non-book activities: long nap, laundry, dishes, Zoom chat

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

I will read another chapter or two of Hedy's Folly and then call it a day.

Saturday night check-in

Books read from: Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker. Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is my recorded book.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Snacks: got Mexican food from the local restaurant. It was crowded with college kids out for a night of drinking with one of the boys at one table already drunk. Lout.
Thoughts: I did get the dishes done and when grocery shopping. Tomorrow I have to cook. I am down to the dregs in my refrigerator and little of anything I want to eat in the freezer. Time to cook something. I am going to do a pasta dish tomorrow. Rigatoni with Bolognese Mushroom sauce. I wanted to make a dip of some kind because that is easy to take for lunch during the week but won't have time to do so.

I am headed off to bed and will read a bit before I go to sleep.

Non-book activities: work and grocery shopping

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 108
Total read from: 111
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 322 hours since April 2020.

Saturday night check-in (midnight-ish)

Books read from: The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, Love, Prairie Fires, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
Books finished: 1
Time reading: ?
Pages read: 232
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Dinner was Dutch pancake and roasted vegetables
Thoughts: A beautiful day but I wish it was warmer.
Non-book activities: laundry, farmer's market, walk, making pie crust dough, made dinner, dishes, finished Season 2 of the Mandalorianmaking p, 2 episodes of the Mandalorian,

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total pages read: 350
Total time reading: 2.5 hour reading, 4 hours listening

Sunday morning:

Books read from: Heroine's Journey
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: banana
Thoughts: Today I'm especially longing for live music, both the making and hearing of it.
Non-book activities: Busy Saturday of chores and socially distanced errands, Sunday morning YouTube church.

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

Sunday noon check in

Books read from: Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker. Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is my recorded book. I will be starting Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell this evening.
Books finished: 1 - Dark Vineyard by Martin Walker
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:
Snacks: Had my Sunday morning cappuccino from Starbucks and had only one car in line in front of me when I drove up. Hurrah!
Thoughts: I will start my food for the wine club meeting this afternoon. I am going to make Rigatoni in Bolognese mushroom sauce. I really liked book 2 in the Bruno Courrages series set in the French region of the Dordogne. The first two books in this series have been great setting pieces. By that I mean that I love reading about the setting and the life of the people who live there. These are very good cozy mysteries. I am looking forward to reading the Anthony Powell series. I had to place an ILL request for this first book in the series and it is due back on March 18 so I need to get to reading on it.

Non-book activities: cooking

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 109
Total read from: 112
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 324 hours since April 2020.

Sunday Afternoon:

I've finished The Grave's A Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley. Flavia. One of a kind.

Also still reading Consequences: A Retrieval Artist Novel and just started listening to Ice Hunt.

Sunday afternoon check-in:

Books read from: Hedy's Folly
Books finished: The Ravine, Hedy's Folly
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was fruited pork chops & rice, hot tea
Thoughts: I am fascinated by the story of Hedy Lamarr's invention. I found a documentary about her that I will rent and watch later this afternoon.
Non-book activities: Zoom church, short walk, cooking lunch & cleaning kitchen

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

>29 Carmenere:

I liked ordinary grace too. Have you read this tender land, also by Krueger? I loved that one as well.

Sunday afternoon in North Carolina

Books: the survivors by Jane Harper, suspense in Australia.

Eats and treats:
Last night I made salmon cakes with lemon parsley sauce and champ (mashed potatoes with green onions) from my Irish cookbook. Trying out recipes for a St Patrick's Day family dinner party I'm plannning.
My husband just put coq au vin together in the crockpot for dinner tonight. It smells good already!
leftovers for lunch.

Other activity:
started watching season 3 of the handmaid's tale tv series.
wrangling 3 cats, mine and my sister's two that I'm keeping for another week.
Sunday papers/sudoku
music and funny things on FaceBook. I love 'cooking with Rose' on FlavCity.
FaceTime with little granddaughters.

weather: sunny, 54 F. (12 C.) in the mid-afternoon.
I have spring fever!

>43 nrmay: Nancy, I'll be reading This Tender Land later this year as a selection for my neighborhood book club. I'm really looking forward to it!

I had absolutely no idea it was Sunday! I can't believe it! Anyway.......

Sunday afternoon update 4:55pm
Books read from: I read a couple of chapters from The Indifferent Stars Above
Books finished: Ordinary Grace
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting:5 minutes
Snacks: breakfast: Raspberry Greek Yogurt and a Cinnamon raisin English muffin
Snack:
Thoughts: I still can't get over it's Sunday! How can it be?!
Non-book activities: Worked on 2019 Shutterfly album for 3 days straight and now it's finally ordered.

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

Sunday check-in 5 pm

Books read from: Love, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 90 minutes reading, 3 hours listening
Pages read: 183
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Lunch was chicken and rice
Thoughts: On weekends, it's either the first day of the weekend (Saturday) or the last (Sunday). Sundays always arrive too quickly!
Non-book activities: laundry, yoga, organizing, getting short ribs ready to slow cook

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total pages read: 533
Total time reading: 4 hours reading, 7 hours listening

Sunday evening check-in:

Books read from: By Its Cover
Books finished: The Ravine, Hedy's Folly
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: ice cream, turkey & rice soup, hot almond milk
Thoughts: It's been a productive readathon!
Non-book activities: Went for ice cream, long walk, watched a documentary on Hedy Lamarr from the American Masters series. It covers a lot of the same ground as the book.

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

Sunday Night check in: 8:10pm
Books read from: The Indifferent Stars Above
Books finished: Ordinary Grace
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Time posting:5 minutes
Snacks: Broccolini and a glass of white wine
Snack: Milano cookies
Thoughts: Wine always makes me sleepy
Non-book activities: cooked dinner

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 11.5 hours

Reading to about 1 am

Books read from: 9

Books read from: 9
Anthony Quinn, London, Burning
Peter Lovesey, The Tooth Tattoo
Ellen Wiles, The Invisible Crowd
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
Anne Tyler, Clock Dance
Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life
Cathy Cassidy, Looking Glass Girl
Susanna Jones, The Missing Person's Guide to Love
Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 236
Thoughts: Not much
Non-book activities: Emails and WhatsApp, playing Bejeweled Blitz, usual stuff

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 9
Total pages read: 533

I haven't finished any books over the weekend though I've read more pages than there are in any of these books. It's partly because I finished a lot of books between Friday and Monday last week so had started a lot of new ones. I have nearly finished London, Burning and may finish The Tooth Tattoo in the next few days, though I have a few meetings to contend with this week, and must do a couple of things that I should have probably done this weekend rather than prioritising reading.

Thoughts: Schools have another go at reopening this week, though my kids' school is having a slightly phased return over the next couple of days.

Weekend wrap up

Books read from: Love, The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown, Prairie Fires
Books finished: 0
Time reading:1 hour 40 minutes reading, 40 minutes listening
Pages read: 101
Time posting: 10 minutes
Snacks/Dinner: braised short ribs, sauteed mushrooms, popovers
Thoughts: Why is it so hard to read in peace? Why when I settle in to a book do family members assume I am not doing anything?
Non-book activities: walk, small grocery run, dinner prep, spontaneous visit from son, WandaVision

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total pages read: 634
Total time reading: 5 hours 40 minutes reading, 7 hours 40 minutes listening

Weekend wrap-up

Books read from: A Promised Land, The Left-handed Booksellers of London
Books finished: 0
Time reading: no idea, I lost track
Thoughts: It was a pretty relaxing weekend overall, though I didn't read as much as I expected to, and I DID finish one book

Total books finished: 1 (A Court of Silver Flames)
Total read from: 3

Weekend wrap-up

book: The Survivors by Jane Harper. I love this authors evocative Australian settings.

eats: Last night's coq au vin was delicious. Wasn't till after we finished dinner that my husband realized he'd forgotten to add the wine! Tonight we're having fish filets with lemon parsley sauce.

thoughts: distracted by a family disaster at sea. My brother-in-law and nephew are safe & ok after they were pulled from the sea by a rescue boat yesterday when their sailboat capsized in high winds off Florida. They were attempting the Everglades Challenge, a 300 mile boat race from Tampa to Key Largo. They have a salvage operation searching for the boat..

other activity: watched more of The Handmaid's Tale on tv.

weather: sunny, 63 F. (17 C.) in the mid-afternoon.

>53 nrmay: Don't forget the lemon ;0)
Oh my goodness! Glad they were found! How frightful!

>53 nrmay: So glad that they are safe.

Tuesday morning check in: 9.30am

Books read from: Isabella, the warrior queen by Kirstin Downey, The is how we change the ending by Vikki Wakefield
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hrs

Snacks: coffee; moussaka
Thoughts: Isabella book is great

Non-book activities: watching Korean TV drama, food prep, library visit

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours

Realised that I'm read the wrong Bruce Medway book so put it down and will look for book #4.
I'm reading too many library books so packed up a pile and took them back.
Really happy that Yaniv Iczkovits has won the 2021 Wingate Prize, I loved his The Slaughterman's Daughter.

Weekend wrap-up:

Books read from: Heroine's Journey
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: leftover roasted chicken
Thoughts: Monday again...
Non-book activities: Took a trunkful of old dishes, clothes, and books to Goodwill.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 9 hours

Belated update/wrap-up:

I finished How the Mind Works, and read more of 1636: Flight of the Nightingale. No more of macOS Catalina: the missing manual.

I also totally lost track of time spent and pages read.

Other activities: on-line shopping (not my fave activity, but better than in person), more laundry, jigsaw puzzle, social phone call with another relative; also fighting with a balky computer (I won).

Thoughts: trying to monitor my reading at a detailed level makes my subconscious think it's a competition, competitive school project, or a diet. I'm happier when I don't record how much time I spend reading. That's a surprise, but self-knowledge is always a good thing.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/330494

Saturday noon check in

Books read from: I am almost finished with Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock is my recorded book and my novel Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell.
Books finished: 1 - Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. I am going to start listening to the last of the Queen's Thief books. This one ends this wonderful saga. It is Return of the King by Megan Whalen Turner.

Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Snacks: I had toast with cheese and coffee this morning for breakfast.
Thoughts: I have had a great week of reading. I actually finished listening to Smell of Other People's Houses while I was doing my morning driving around errands. I was impressed with it. It was a great book to listen to. It was done with a cast of readers and produced by Listening Library. Listening Library does a really good job producing recorded books and this was an outstanding recorded version of a good book. It made the YA Amazing Recorded Books list for 2016 and it deserved the honor. I really enjoyed the recording and the content of this book. If you are looking for a good YA book this one might fit the bill for you.

I am also enjoying Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell. This is the first in a series of 7 books and I was a bit reluctant to start another series when I have spent the last year trying to finish up series, and keep up with the ones I have going, but others were reading the Powell books so I decided to join in. This one is a nice quiet book to end the day with. I will finish it this weekend because I need to return it to ILL. It is due on Thursday.

Non-book activities: will put the finishing touches to the journal article and hope it gets published in this March issue. That way I can put it on this year's faculty evaluation which is due at the end of this month.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 110
Total read from: 113
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 325 hours since April 2020.

>59 benitastrnad: Have you posted this on this weekend's thread?