Social Distancing Readathon #53 - March 19 - 21
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2021
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1SilverWolf28
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. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
3. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
4. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
5. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
6. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
7. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand ?
8. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
9. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
10. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
11. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
12. Mary (bell7) -- Massachusetts, USA
13. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
14. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
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. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
3. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
4. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
5. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
6. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
7. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand ?
8. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
9. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
10. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
11. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
12. Mary (bell7) -- Massachusetts, USA
13. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
14. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
3susanna.fraser
Count me in!
7avatiakh
I'm away this weekend and not sure how much reading will get done, so will bow out this time.
8benitastrnad
I will be in again. It will be almost a year for me.
10cbl_tn
I have a Zoom chat tonight and I'm not sure how much reading I'll get done before it starts. Tomorrow and Sunday are wide open, though. My priorities this weekend are Four Women in a Violent Time (one of the four women is my 9th great-grandmother) and Odds Against. If I finish both of those, I'll start Colonial American Travel Narratives.
I am excited to have snagged a first dose vaccine appointment for Monday morning!
I am excited to have snagged a first dose vaccine appointment for Monday morning!
11Chatterbox
Trying once again. My reading has been very sub-par in terms of concentration, quality, quantity, etc. so far this month. I'm reading at about half the pace I usually do. Depression, I think.
13Chatterbox
My first check in; it's 9 p.m. Friday in Rhode Island
Books read from: The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Books finished:0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: ham sandwiches
Thoughts: Brrr, it's chilly.
Non-book activities: Not much, being a slug.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
This is the sequel to The Salt Path and quite different in the kind of story it tells, although just as intriguing. For me, very meaningful as it's set around the Fowey estuary in Cornwall, where over 25 years I have spent countless days/weeks. I love that place so much and can visualize every step the author describes.
Books read from: The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Books finished:0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: ham sandwiches
Thoughts: Brrr, it's chilly.
Non-book activities: Not much, being a slug.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
This is the sequel to The Salt Path and quite different in the kind of story it tells, although just as intriguing. For me, very meaningful as it's set around the Fowey estuary in Cornwall, where over 25 years I have spent countless days/weeks. I love that place so much and can visualize every step the author describes.
15Carmenere
1st checkin: Friday 9:45pm
Books read from: The Dark Wind
Books finished:0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Dinner: beer battered shrimp, pasta w/mixed veggies
Thoughts: I'm getting sleepy so I'll continue reading in bed
Non-book activities: NCAA playoffs
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
Books read from: The Dark Wind
Books finished:0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Dinner: beer battered shrimp, pasta w/mixed veggies
Thoughts: I'm getting sleepy so I'll continue reading in bed
Non-book activities: NCAA playoffs
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
16benitastrnad
Friday night check in
Books read from: I listened to a little bit of Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem for my real life book discussion group. I am also very slowly reading through Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 1 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon
Time reading: .50 hours at lunch and another .50 since then.
Time posting:
Snacks: I went out to the Indian restaurant with a retired colleague and had a great supper. This restaurant is about to close. The pandemic played a part but the real culprit was rising rents. How come the rents rise when the incomes don't?
Thoughts: Why don't chain fast food joints close instead of the locally owned places. This is the third of the local restaurants that I like to close in the last two months. I have noticed that Taco Bell's don't close. Neither do Chipolte's or Five Guys. Even when the fast food joints are in crummy locations they don't close.
Non-book activities: Knitting on this amazing wonderful scarf. I love the yarn and the pattern. It is just perfect for sitting and knitting in front of the TV.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 112
Total read from: 115
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 329 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: I listened to a little bit of Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem for my real life book discussion group. I am also very slowly reading through Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 1 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon
Time reading: .50 hours at lunch and another .50 since then.
Time posting:
Snacks: I went out to the Indian restaurant with a retired colleague and had a great supper. This restaurant is about to close. The pandemic played a part but the real culprit was rising rents. How come the rents rise when the incomes don't?
Thoughts: Why don't chain fast food joints close instead of the locally owned places. This is the third of the local restaurants that I like to close in the last two months. I have noticed that Taco Bell's don't close. Neither do Chipolte's or Five Guys. Even when the fast food joints are in crummy locations they don't close.
Non-book activities: Knitting on this amazing wonderful scarf. I love the yarn and the pattern. It is just perfect for sitting and knitting in front of the TV.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 112
Total read from: 115
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 329 hours since April 2020.
17susanna.fraser
Friday evening in Seattle
Books read from: Revolution Song
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: steak sandwich and tater tots for dinner
Thoughts: Hope my weekend is relaxing enough to make up for a stressful Friday at work.
Non-book activities: work, laundry, watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
Books read from: Revolution Song
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: steak sandwich and tater tots for dinner
Thoughts: Hope my weekend is relaxing enough to make up for a stressful Friday at work.
Non-book activities: work, laundry, watched The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
18Chatterbox
It's almost midnight in Rhode Island.
Books read from: The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn and a bit of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles. Will probably shift to something else as I try to wind down tonight.
Books finished:1, The Wild Silence, which is a sequel to The Salt Path but not quite as good.
Time reading since last update: 1,5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: some lemonade.
Thoughts: Temperature going down to 25 degrees F overnight. Days away from "spring" and it still feels like winter.
Non-book activities: Listening to some chamber music on my iPod via Bose speaker. Now "old" technology, but still the best I've found for listening to classical music. I should really figure out how to make spotify work for me.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3.5 hours
Books read from: The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn and a bit of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles. Will probably shift to something else as I try to wind down tonight.
Books finished:1, The Wild Silence, which is a sequel to The Salt Path but not quite as good.
Time reading since last update: 1,5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: some lemonade.
Thoughts: Temperature going down to 25 degrees F overnight. Days away from "spring" and it still feels like winter.
Non-book activities: Listening to some chamber music on my iPod via Bose speaker. Now "old" technology, but still the best I've found for listening to classical music. I should really figure out how to make spotify work for me.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3.5 hours
19nrmay
Count me in again.
Didn't do well posting last weekend. I was getting ready for family to arrive for a short visit. I did read, however.
Late night Friday -
Book: Currently reading Britt-Marie was here by Fredrik Backman.
Dinner: Leftover seafood chowder.
Other activity: genealogy searching on wikitree and ancestry.com
weather: Clear, 41 F. (5 C.)
Didn't do well posting last weekend. I was getting ready for family to arrive for a short visit. I did read, however.
Late night Friday -
Book: Currently reading Britt-Marie was here by Fredrik Backman.
Dinner: Leftover seafood chowder.
Other activity: genealogy searching on wikitree and ancestry.com
weather: Clear, 41 F. (5 C.)
20AnneDC
Friday night 1 am
Books read from: Autumn, Between the Woods and the Water
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner: squash and kale frittata, roasted beet salad
Thoughts: very ready for a weekend
Non-book activities: making dinner, walking the dog, podcast, tv (The English Game)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hours
Books read from: Autumn, Between the Woods and the Water
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner: squash and kale frittata, roasted beet salad
Thoughts: very ready for a weekend
Non-book activities: making dinner, walking the dog, podcast, tv (The English Game)
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hours
21torontoc
Still reading Corby Falls
22PaulCranswick
I'm in Silver.
I really hope that this weekend sees me unearth again my reading mojo.
I have so many books on the go at the moment as I yearn to find one that clicks me back into gear:
Cranford
The Age of Improvement
Love Story, With Murders
Some Experiences of an Irish RM
Bright Dead Things
History of Wolves
I may get one finished, I may dust them all off - let's see!
I really hope that this weekend sees me unearth again my reading mojo.
I have so many books on the go at the moment as I yearn to find one that clicks me back into gear:
Cranford
The Age of Improvement
Love Story, With Murders
Some Experiences of an Irish RM
Bright Dead Things
History of Wolves
I may get one finished, I may dust them all off - let's see!
23June
First check-in Saturday morning 9:52
Books read from: The Galton Case
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Leftovers from local Mexican restaurant
Thoughts: What happened to spring? Last week the highs were in the seventies. Today in the fifties.
Non-book activities: Baseball game
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hour
Books read from: The Galton Case
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Leftovers from local Mexican restaurant
Thoughts: What happened to spring? Last week the highs were in the seventies. Today in the fifties.
Non-book activities: Baseball game
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1 hour
24benitastrnad
Saturday noon check in
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem for my real life book discussion group. I am also very slowly reading through Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 1 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon
Time reading: 1 hour this morning
Time posting:
Snacks: I made coffee and had toast with cheese for breakfast. Not sure what I will have for lunch/
Thoughts: All of my current books are being read for one book discussion group or another. When will I get to read something I want to read? But that is nonsense as I like all three of the books I am currently actively reading. The least liked is the Turkish Lover which is a memoir about a spoiled child trying to find herself. Even though I don't like her much I like reading about her growing up and the shedding of her teenaged hormone laden angst.
Non-book activities: I talked on the phone for 2 hours this morning - to my mother and my sister. My sister has been angry and humiliated since she lost her job a year ago at the beginning of this pandemic. I try to call her a couple of times a week just to encourage her and it is getting to be so hard to do. She feels that she fell from grace. She went from being an employed insurance agent with respect working for a respected agency to being a line worker at Subway and that fall hurts her badly. I know that every day she goes in to work is an exercise in humility for her. How could an educated woman fall so far so fast is the question she keeps asking herself. For me it is a constant reminder of how close each of us operates on the edge of that middle class existence. This afternoon I meet with my journal article co-author and we hope to finish up doing our paperwork because she is off next week checking out colleges - doing the college visitations with her family.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 112
Total read from: 115
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 330 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am reading Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem for my real life book discussion group. I am also very slowly reading through Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 1 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon
Time reading: 1 hour this morning
Time posting:
Snacks: I made coffee and had toast with cheese for breakfast. Not sure what I will have for lunch/
Thoughts: All of my current books are being read for one book discussion group or another. When will I get to read something I want to read? But that is nonsense as I like all three of the books I am currently actively reading. The least liked is the Turkish Lover which is a memoir about a spoiled child trying to find herself. Even though I don't like her much I like reading about her growing up and the shedding of her teenaged hormone laden angst.
Non-book activities: I talked on the phone for 2 hours this morning - to my mother and my sister. My sister has been angry and humiliated since she lost her job a year ago at the beginning of this pandemic. I try to call her a couple of times a week just to encourage her and it is getting to be so hard to do. She feels that she fell from grace. She went from being an employed insurance agent with respect working for a respected agency to being a line worker at Subway and that fall hurts her badly. I know that every day she goes in to work is an exercise in humility for her. How could an educated woman fall so far so fast is the question she keeps asking herself. For me it is a constant reminder of how close each of us operates on the edge of that middle class existence. This afternoon I meet with my journal article co-author and we hope to finish up doing our paperwork because she is off next week checking out colleges - doing the college visitations with her family.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 112
Total read from: 115
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 330 hours since April 2020.
25AnneDC
Saturday afternoon
Books read from: A Nail, A Rose, The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, Between the Woods and the Water, The Water Knife
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours reading, 68 minutes listening
Pages read: 77 pages plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time posting: 5 min
Breakfast: maple sausage links, eggs in a hole, latte
Thoughts: I finished a book and don't know what I want to read next, so I'm starting a lot of things and will see where it goes
Non-book activities: yoga, farmer's market, making and eating breakfast, newspaper. I'm about to go out for a walk to enjoy the sunshine.
Total books finished: 1 (Autumn)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 4 hours readin, 68 minutes listening
Total Pages read: 167 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Books read from: A Nail, A Rose, The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, Between the Woods and the Water, The Water Knife
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours reading, 68 minutes listening
Pages read: 77 pages plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time posting: 5 min
Breakfast: maple sausage links, eggs in a hole, latte
Thoughts: I finished a book and don't know what I want to read next, so I'm starting a lot of things and will see where it goes
Non-book activities: yoga, farmer's market, making and eating breakfast, newspaper. I'm about to go out for a walk to enjoy the sunshine.
Total books finished: 1 (Autumn)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 4 hours readin, 68 minutes listening
Total Pages read: 167 plus 1 audiobook chapter
26Chatterbox
It's almost 9 p.m. in Rhode Island and I've done almost nothing today except listen to an audiobook and doze. My arm (now 10 days post first Moderna shot) is still puffy and itchy, but at least I don't have a temperature.
Books read from: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Books finished:1, The Rose Code
Time reading since last update: 7 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: hot cross buns
Thoughts: Blank brain, largely.
Non-book activities: Watched "The Mauritanian" on pay-per-view/Amazon -- I really like Jodie Foster as an actress, but the revelation here was the actor playing the title role. The narrative wasn't that surprising, but it was a decent film. Watched part of it last night and finished earlier this afternoon.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 3, the two above and a smidgen of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 9.5 hours
Not sure what I'll turn to next.
Books read from: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Books finished:1, The Rose Code
Time reading since last update: 7 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: hot cross buns
Thoughts: Blank brain, largely.
Non-book activities: Watched "The Mauritanian" on pay-per-view/Amazon -- I really like Jodie Foster as an actress, but the revelation here was the actor playing the title role. The narrative wasn't that surprising, but it was a decent film. Watched part of it last night and finished earlier this afternoon.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 3, the two above and a smidgen of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 9.5 hours
Not sure what I'll turn to next.
27Carmenere
Second check in; it's 9:30 p.m. Saturday
Books read from: The Dark Wind and The Last Tourist
Books finished:0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Grilled Cheese and Potato soup
Thoughts: The sun inspires me to clean the house
Non-book activities: NCAA basketball playoffs - rearranged living room furniture - cleaned living room and dining room
Total books finished: 0
Total read from:2
Total time reading: 3.5 hours
Books read from: The Dark Wind and The Last Tourist
Books finished:0
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Grilled Cheese and Potato soup
Thoughts: The sun inspires me to clean the house
Non-book activities: NCAA basketball playoffs - rearranged living room furniture - cleaned living room and dining room
Total books finished: 0
Total read from:2
Total time reading: 3.5 hours
28cbl_tn
Saturday evening check-in:
Books read from: Four Women in a Violent Time
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Tazo lemon loaf tea
Thoughts: I am disappointed with my current book. One of the four women is my 9th great-grandmother, Penelope Stout. The stories about her are mostly undocumented legend, yet the author is putting words in her mouth using quote marks. It's written for a YA audience so there are no footnotes or endnotes, and the bibliography is mostly secondary sources.
Non-book activities: cleaning, laundry, long walk
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
Getting ready to switch to fiction for a bit, although I'd call what I've been reading mostly fiction.
Books read from: Four Women in a Violent Time
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Tazo lemon loaf tea
Thoughts: I am disappointed with my current book. One of the four women is my 9th great-grandmother, Penelope Stout. The stories about her are mostly undocumented legend, yet the author is putting words in her mouth using quote marks. It's written for a YA audience so there are no footnotes or endnotes, and the bibliography is mostly secondary sources.
Non-book activities: cleaning, laundry, long walk
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
Getting ready to switch to fiction for a bit, although I'd call what I've been reading mostly fiction.
29susanna.fraser
Saturday evening in Seattle:
Books read from: Revolution Song, Alien Artifacts
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: dinner was chicken with a leek-wine-butter sauce served over couscous
Thoughts: Today felt like a classic spring day--if you didn't like the weather, just wait ten minutes.
Non-book activities: went for a walk during a sunny window, cooked, watched a little basketball
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: Revolution Song, Alien Artifacts
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: dinner was chicken with a leek-wine-butter sauce served over couscous
Thoughts: Today felt like a classic spring day--if you didn't like the weather, just wait ten minutes.
Non-book activities: went for a walk during a sunny window, cooked, watched a little basketball
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
30Chatterbox
Final Saturday roundup:
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré and Wedding Station by David Downing
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 1.5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: cheese tortellini with bolognese
Thoughts: Struggling.
Non-book activities: Watched some PBS documentaries after giving up (temporarily) on the remake of "The Lady Vanishes". I will finish it, but it's too intense for me to watch right now.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 5, the two above, two that I noted as recent reading and a smidgen of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 12 hours
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré and Wedding Station by David Downing
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 1.5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: cheese tortellini with bolognese
Thoughts: Struggling.
Non-book activities: Watched some PBS documentaries after giving up (temporarily) on the remake of "The Lady Vanishes". I will finish it, but it's too intense for me to watch right now.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 5, the two above, two that I noted as recent reading and a smidgen of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 12 hours
31June
Saturday morning check-in
Books read from: The Galton Case, The City Not Long After, Memoirs of Hadrian, A Desolation Called Peace
Books finished: The Galton Case
Time reading: 30 minutes
Snacks: Roasted veg wrap
Thoughts: I am in the same situation as AnneDC. I finished a book and don't know what I want to read next, so I'm starting a lot of things and will see where it goes.
Non-book activities: Planting lettuce and radishes in containers. Baseball game.
Total books finished: 1 The Galton Case
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 90 minutes
Books read from: The Galton Case, The City Not Long After, Memoirs of Hadrian, A Desolation Called Peace
Books finished: The Galton Case
Time reading: 30 minutes
Snacks: Roasted veg wrap
Thoughts: I am in the same situation as AnneDC. I finished a book and don't know what I want to read next, so I'm starting a lot of things and will see where it goes.
Non-book activities: Planting lettuce and radishes in containers. Baseball game.
Total books finished: 1 The Galton Case
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 90 minutes
32elkiedee
Sunday afternoon 3 pm
I was going to post last night but I was having ongoing computer problems that drove me mad. I think I may have discovered the cause of the problem - a completely out of control (electronic) mouse.
Books read from: 9
Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Daughters of Night
Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: a Life
Cathy Cassidy, Looking-Glass Girl
Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein
Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Books finished: 2 - Eleanor Marx: A Life and Looking-Glass Girl
Pages read: 178
Non-book activities:
- trying various mice and fighting with my laptop to do anything. I tried using my wired mouse previously used with my desktop computer, which was a slight improvement but still a lot of weirdness. After several days of this I just noticed that I had two wireless receivers (presumably for different mice) attached to the laptop. Things are much better now and I'm just wondering why this became a more serious problem this week.
- Radio 4 (though there are lots of book dramatisations and book discussions on here) - novelist Maggie O'Farrell was on Desert Island Discs this morning.
- a Saturday morning Zoom meeting
- Playing Bejeweled Blitz and reading/responding to social media posts
Total books finished: 2
Pages read: 178
Total read from: 9
Hoping to read a bit more this afternoon.
I was going to post last night but I was having ongoing computer problems that drove me mad. I think I may have discovered the cause of the problem - a completely out of control (electronic) mouse.
Books read from: 9
Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Daughters of Night
Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: a Life
Cathy Cassidy, Looking-Glass Girl
Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein
Amy Hempel, The Dog of the Marriage
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Books finished: 2 - Eleanor Marx: A Life and Looking-Glass Girl
Pages read: 178
Non-book activities:
- trying various mice and fighting with my laptop to do anything. I tried using my wired mouse previously used with my desktop computer, which was a slight improvement but still a lot of weirdness. After several days of this I just noticed that I had two wireless receivers (presumably for different mice) attached to the laptop. Things are much better now and I'm just wondering why this became a more serious problem this week.
- Radio 4 (though there are lots of book dramatisations and book discussions on here) - novelist Maggie O'Farrell was on Desert Island Discs this morning.
- a Saturday morning Zoom meeting
- Playing Bejeweled Blitz and reading/responding to social media posts
Total books finished: 2
Pages read: 178
Total read from: 9
Hoping to read a bit more this afternoon.
33drneutron
Sunday, 11AM EDT
Books read from:3
Books finished:2
Snacks:right now, a cups coffee
Thoughts: got lots of reading done while sitting with my Mother in Law!
Non-book activities: tending to an elderly MIL
Finished Obama’s A Promised Land Friday evening, then also finished a graphic novel, Lady Mechanika Volume 2: Tablet of Destinies last night. Also made lots of progress on Susan Wise Bauer’s History of the World, volume 3.
Books read from:3
Books finished:2
Snacks:right now, a cups coffee
Thoughts: got lots of reading done while sitting with my Mother in Law!
Non-book activities: tending to an elderly MIL
Finished Obama’s A Promised Land Friday evening, then also finished a graphic novel, Lady Mechanika Volume 2: Tablet of Destinies last night. Also made lots of progress on Susan Wise Bauer’s History of the World, volume 3.
34benitastrnad
Sunday morning check-in
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I will devote more of my full time reading to Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 2 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon and Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Time reading: 2.5 hours last night
Time posting:
Snacks: My usual Sunday morning Starbucks cappuccino and some blueberry scones I dug out of the freezer. Don't know how old they are but they still taste good.
Thoughts: I finished Motherless Brooklyn and ended up liking it. Now on to other books.
Non-book activities: I wasn't going to do it but I ended up eating at the local Indian restaurant I like. Last night was their last day in operation. I am so sad about that - I really liked their food. Like the other two locally owned restaurants I frequent I view this closure as a loss to the community. I gave in to my impulse and went to the restaurant and ate inside. I got there late so it wasn't crowded but they have spread out their tables the required 6 feet for the last six months so it really cut their capacity - which probably contributed to their demise. Anyway, I had a really good last meal.
I came home and tried to login to my computer. No go. My computer could not connect to any Wi-fi provider in the neighborhood. My neighborhood is getting to be a wi-fi desert. There simply aren't enough towers to provide coverage to all the people who are using wi-fi these days. I certainly hope that the state of Alabama uses some of its stimulus money to improve wi-fi availability statewide. Because I couldn't get online I spent the time reading and finished my current novel. That was a good thing. I liked Motherless Brooklyn.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 113
Total read from: 116
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 332.5 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I will devote more of my full time reading to Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago.
Books finished: 2 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon and Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Time reading: 2.5 hours last night
Time posting:
Snacks: My usual Sunday morning Starbucks cappuccino and some blueberry scones I dug out of the freezer. Don't know how old they are but they still taste good.
Thoughts: I finished Motherless Brooklyn and ended up liking it. Now on to other books.
Non-book activities: I wasn't going to do it but I ended up eating at the local Indian restaurant I like. Last night was their last day in operation. I am so sad about that - I really liked their food. Like the other two locally owned restaurants I frequent I view this closure as a loss to the community. I gave in to my impulse and went to the restaurant and ate inside. I got there late so it wasn't crowded but they have spread out their tables the required 6 feet for the last six months so it really cut their capacity - which probably contributed to their demise. Anyway, I had a really good last meal.
I came home and tried to login to my computer. No go. My computer could not connect to any Wi-fi provider in the neighborhood. My neighborhood is getting to be a wi-fi desert. There simply aren't enough towers to provide coverage to all the people who are using wi-fi these days. I certainly hope that the state of Alabama uses some of its stimulus money to improve wi-fi availability statewide. Because I couldn't get online I spent the time reading and finished my current novel. That was a good thing. I liked Motherless Brooklyn.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 113
Total read from: 116
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 332.5 hours since April 2020.
35Chatterbox
It's about 1 p.m. in Rhode Island. My reading has become very scattershot since I finished my first books of the weekend.
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré, The Red and the Black by Stendhal and The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat, which may end up as a DNF
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: hot cross buns
Thoughts: I appear not to be thinking much at all this weekend. I'm supposed to finish the Stendhal by tomorrow evening. Oh dear.
Non-book activities: The to-do list continues to pile up, and I continue to avoid most of it.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 7: the two above, the three books that I dipped into overnight, as well as bits of Wedding Station by David Downing and Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 17 hours
I may abandon the novel The Girl From the Channel Islands. I borrowed the audiobook from the Athenaeum via Hoopla, so I haven't a major investment in it, and it simply isn't that good. It plods along.
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré, The Red and the Black by Stendhal and The Girl from the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat, which may end up as a DNF
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: hot cross buns
Thoughts: I appear not to be thinking much at all this weekend. I'm supposed to finish the Stendhal by tomorrow evening. Oh dear.
Non-book activities: The to-do list continues to pile up, and I continue to avoid most of it.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 7: the two above, the three books that I dipped into overnight, as well as bits of Wedding Station by David Downing and Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Total time reading: 17 hours
I may abandon the novel The Girl From the Channel Islands. I borrowed the audiobook from the Athenaeum via Hoopla, so I haven't a major investment in it, and it simply isn't that good. It plods along.
36susanna.fraser
Sunday midday in Seattle:
Books read from: What Abigail Did That Summer
Books finished: What Abigail Did That Summer
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: leftover beef stroganoff for lunch
Thoughts: Maybe I'll take an afternoon nap.
Non-book activities: Went to the birder supply store and got a hopefully squirrel-proof feeder
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: What Abigail Did That Summer
Books finished: What Abigail Did That Summer
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: leftover beef stroganoff for lunch
Thoughts: Maybe I'll take an afternoon nap.
Non-book activities: Went to the birder supply store and got a hopefully squirrel-proof feeder
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
37AnneDC
Sunday afternoon
Books read from: A Nail, A Rose, The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, The Water Knife
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 90 minutes reading, 4.5 hours listening
Pages read: 72 + plus 8 audiobook chapters
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner (Sat) : roasted chorizo, sweet potatoes, red peppers and kale with salad, red wine
Thoughts: I don't really feel like going for a walk but I do feel like getting outside, so I am going to sit on the porch and read for a bit.
Non-book activities: walk, Netflix, yoga, cleaning out disgusting things from the refrigerator, dishes, making breakfast, NYT crossword puzzle,
Total books finished: 1 (Autumn)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 5 hours 30 minutes reading, 5 hours 38 minutes listening
Total Pages read: 239 plus 9 audiobook chapters
Books read from: A Nail, A Rose, The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, The Water Knife
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 90 minutes reading, 4.5 hours listening
Pages read: 72 + plus 8 audiobook chapters
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner (Sat) : roasted chorizo, sweet potatoes, red peppers and kale with salad, red wine
Thoughts: I don't really feel like going for a walk but I do feel like getting outside, so I am going to sit on the porch and read for a bit.
Non-book activities: walk, Netflix, yoga, cleaning out disgusting things from the refrigerator, dishes, making breakfast, NYT crossword puzzle,
Total books finished: 1 (Autumn)
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 5 hours 30 minutes reading, 5 hours 38 minutes listening
Total Pages read: 239 plus 9 audiobook chapters
38torontoc
Finished Corby Falls and will start Klara and the Sun
39Carmenere
Third check - in; it's 9:30 p.m. Sunday
Books read from: The Dark Wind
Books finished:0
Time reading: 45 minutes
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Pasta Primavera
Thoughts: Too nice a day for reading
Non-book activities: Took a walk, socially distanced chat with neighbor, piddled around in the yard
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours & 15 minutes
Not a successful readathon but gorgeous warm days like this don't come around often in March
Books read from: The Dark Wind
Books finished:0
Time reading: 45 minutes
Time posting: 5 minutes
Snacks: Pasta Primavera
Thoughts: Too nice a day for reading
Non-book activities: Took a walk, socially distanced chat with neighbor, piddled around in the yard
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours & 15 minutes
Not a successful readathon but gorgeous warm days like this don't come around often in March
40elkiedee
I didn't manage to do any more reading. Tomorrow I'm going to have my first COVID vaccine.
41benitastrnad
Sunday night check-in
Books read from: I am listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and dabbled back into Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am almost finished with The Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago and hope to finish it tonight.
Books finished: 2 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon on Friday night and Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem on Saturday night.
Time reading: 1 hour today
Time posting:
Snacks: I made a cheese omelet for supper and mixed up some cookie dough. I put the cookie dough in the refrigerator and will bake them on Tuesday.
Thoughts: It was a slow day and I spent a good deal of reading time with the newspaper this morning, but still managed to get a good number of pages read today.
Non-book activities: I watched the last episode of the CNN program on Abraham Lincoln and am impressed with the good job that they did with his life. They took time to point out his words and thoughts and how those changed over time. At the end one commentator said that he was evolutionary and that is what made him so remarkable. I also continue to enjoy the Stanley Tucci program on the food of Italy. Tonight's episode was about Sicily. I love his explorations but I wish there was a bit more food history in them. Sicily has so many foods that trace back to North Africa, Spain, and France that should have been talked about a bit more. But it was still good. It would be nice if CNN could explore the cuisines of other countries as well.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 113
Total read from: 116
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 333.5 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: I am listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and dabbled back into Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am almost finished with The Turkish Lover by Esmerelda Santiago and hope to finish it tonight.
Books finished: 2 - By Its Cover by Donna Leon on Friday night and Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem on Saturday night.
Time reading: 1 hour today
Time posting:
Snacks: I made a cheese omelet for supper and mixed up some cookie dough. I put the cookie dough in the refrigerator and will bake them on Tuesday.
Thoughts: It was a slow day and I spent a good deal of reading time with the newspaper this morning, but still managed to get a good number of pages read today.
Non-book activities: I watched the last episode of the CNN program on Abraham Lincoln and am impressed with the good job that they did with his life. They took time to point out his words and thoughts and how those changed over time. At the end one commentator said that he was evolutionary and that is what made him so remarkable. I also continue to enjoy the Stanley Tucci program on the food of Italy. Tonight's episode was about Sicily. I love his explorations but I wish there was a bit more food history in them. Sicily has so many foods that trace back to North Africa, Spain, and France that should have been talked about a bit more. But it was still good. It would be nice if CNN could explore the cuisines of other countries as well.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 113
Total read from: 116
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 333.5 hours since April 2020.
42Chatterbox
Very late Sunday/early Monday morning wrapup:
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré, The Red and the Black by Stendhal and some more of Wedding Station by David Downing
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 3.5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: chicken curry for "dinner"
Thoughts: Anxiety replacing lack of thoughts as the weekend ends.
Non-book activities: Watched the first two episodes of a new HBO documentary series about Q-Anon and probably won't watch the rest as it emphasizes the rivalries between various owners of web boards, which is a distraction from what I think of as the real issue. On the other hand, the new Netflix documentary, "Varsity Blues" is a great exploration of the full awfulness of the college admissions scandal.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 7: the two above, the three books that I've read from today, as well as bits of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles and The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat.
Total time reading: 20.5 hours
Books read from: The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from my Life by John le Carré, The Red and the Black by Stendhal and some more of Wedding Station by David Downing
Books finished: none
Time reading since last update: 3.5 hours
Time posting: nada
Snacks: chicken curry for "dinner"
Thoughts: Anxiety replacing lack of thoughts as the weekend ends.
Non-book activities: Watched the first two episodes of a new HBO documentary series about Q-Anon and probably won't watch the rest as it emphasizes the rivalries between various owners of web boards, which is a distraction from what I think of as the real issue. On the other hand, the new Netflix documentary, "Varsity Blues" is a great exploration of the full awfulness of the college admissions scandal.
Total books finished: 2, The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Wild Silence by Raynor Quinn
Total read from: 7: the two above, the three books that I've read from today, as well as bits of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles and The Girl From the Channel Islands by Jenny Lecoat.
Total time reading: 20.5 hours
43AnneDC
Sunday night wrap-up
Books read from: The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours reading, 1.5 hours listening
Pages read: 114 + plus 2 audiobook chapters
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner: pumpkin gnocchi and apple tart
Thoughts: I guess the weekend is over.
Non-book activities: newspaper, made a Tarte Tatin (a successful experiment), watched an anime series with my daughter
Total books finished: 2 (Autumn, Fences)
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 8 hours 30 minutes reading, 7 hours listening
Total Pages read: 353 plus 11 audiobook chapters
Books read from: The Shadow of the Pomegranate, Fences, The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3 hours reading, 1.5 hours listening
Pages read: 114 + plus 2 audiobook chapters
Time posting: 5 min
Dinner: pumpkin gnocchi and apple tart
Thoughts: I guess the weekend is over.
Non-book activities: newspaper, made a Tarte Tatin (a successful experiment), watched an anime series with my daughter
Total books finished: 2 (Autumn, Fences)
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 8 hours 30 minutes reading, 7 hours listening
Total Pages read: 353 plus 11 audiobook chapters
44June
Wrap-up:
Books read from: The Galton Case, A Desolation Called Peace, Memoirs of Hadrian, The City Not Long After
Books finished: The Galton Case
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: Huge apple, peanut butter sandwich
Thoughts: I tried out the three I had not started and decided to go with A Desolation Called Peace first. It's a sequel to A Memory Called Empire.
Non-book activities: baseball game
Total books finished:1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: The Galton Case, A Desolation Called Peace, Memoirs of Hadrian, The City Not Long After
Books finished: The Galton Case
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: Huge apple, peanut butter sandwich
Thoughts: I tried out the three I had not started and decided to go with A Desolation Called Peace first. It's a sequel to A Memory Called Empire.
Non-book activities: baseball game
Total books finished:1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4 hours
45susanna.fraser
Monday morning wrap-up:
Books read from: Revolution Song, Alien Artifacts
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: roasted pork belly with root vegetables for dinner
Thoughts: Weekends are too short
Non-book activities: cooked, listened to podcasts
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours
Books read from: Revolution Song, Alien Artifacts
Books finished: none
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: roasted pork belly with root vegetables for dinner
Thoughts: Weekends are too short
Non-book activities: cooked, listened to podcasts
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours
46nrmay
Once again I was not too good about postng this weekend.
But I have been reading.
Books:
Was not happy with The Four Winds - one long sorrow cover to cover with a terrible ending. Taking me a while to get over that one. I know.. everyone else loved it.
put a few aside and finally picked up a favorite escape, Gunmetal Gray, one in the Gray Man adventure/thriller series by Mark Greaney.
My audio book is Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre , sci fi by Max Brooks. Very strange, but I was seduced by the setting in Washington State. I lived there when Mt. St. Helens erupted.
Good eats:
Hubby made a crockpot of beef stew last night and chocolate chip cookies. Love it when he cooks.
Other activity:
sending postcards via postcrossing.com.
genealogy searching online.
took a nice 3 mile walk last night; hope to start walking everyday again. Still having a little foot problem after crashing off my trampoline in Nov. Guess I should see my doc.
Started watching a Danish tv series, SEASIDE HOTEL, set in the 1920s.
Hatching a plan to spend next Feb on the Gulf coast. Feb is such a bleak month. Hubby hasn't quite agreed to this yet, but he hasn't said no.
weather: sunny, 61 F. (16 C.) at noon.
But I have been reading.
Books:
Was not happy with The Four Winds - one long sorrow cover to cover with a terrible ending. Taking me a while to get over that one. I know.. everyone else loved it.
put a few aside and finally picked up a favorite escape, Gunmetal Gray, one in the Gray Man adventure/thriller series by Mark Greaney.
My audio book is Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre , sci fi by Max Brooks. Very strange, but I was seduced by the setting in Washington State. I lived there when Mt. St. Helens erupted.
Good eats:
Hubby made a crockpot of beef stew last night and chocolate chip cookies. Love it when he cooks.
Other activity:
sending postcards via postcrossing.com.
genealogy searching online.
took a nice 3 mile walk last night; hope to start walking everyday again. Still having a little foot problem after crashing off my trampoline in Nov. Guess I should see my doc.
Started watching a Danish tv series, SEASIDE HOTEL, set in the 1920s.
Hatching a plan to spend next Feb on the Gulf coast. Feb is such a bleak month. Hubby hasn't quite agreed to this yet, but he hasn't said no.
weather: sunny, 61 F. (16 C.) at noon.
