Social Distancing Readathon #54 - March 26 - 28
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. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
3. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
4. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
5. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
6. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
7. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
8. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
9. Lori (thornton37814) -- Tennessee, USA
10. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
11. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
12. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
13. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
14. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, 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. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
3. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
4. June (June) -- South Carolina, USA
5. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
6. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
7. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
8. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
9. Lori (thornton37814) -- Tennessee, USA
10. Jim (drneutron) -- Washington DC area, USA
11. Suzanne (Chatterbox) -- Rhode Island, USA
12. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
13. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
14. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
3torontoc
Definitely in- currently reading Klara and The Sun
4June
I'd like to join in again this weekend. I've started A Place Called Desolation and picked up The Technologists, The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing, and Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder from the library today. I hope to get a few pages from all of these.
5benitastrnad
I will be in again. I hope to finish reading Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand for my real life book discussion group.
7cbl_tn
I am in again. I got my first shot on Monday (yay!) but I still have several weeks ago until I'm fully protected.
8susanna.fraser
I'm in, and hoping to finish Revolution Song and Alien Artifacts by the end of the weekend.
9avatiakh
First Checkin: 6.30pm Friday evening - Auckland, NZ
Books read from: Clarice Lispector: complete stories on audio
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: fried chicken, fejoas and soon a glass of wine
Thoughts: should finish a book or two tonight
Non-book activities: food prep, cleaning, watching news
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2hrs
Should finish Moon over Manifest this evening. Will probably re-listen to some of the Lispector stories.
Books read from: Clarice Lispector: complete stories on audio
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: fried chicken, fejoas and soon a glass of wine
Thoughts: should finish a book or two tonight
Non-book activities: food prep, cleaning, watching news
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2hrs
Should finish Moon over Manifest this evening. Will probably re-listen to some of the Lispector stories.
10thornton37814
I've missed the last few due to various things; however, I hope to get some reading done this weekend. I also need to work on a presentation I'm doing locally in a couple weeks, but I should be able to knock it out regardless.
11drneutron
Gonna try to have some reading time, but getting ready to move the mother-in-law in with us is taking way more time than it should.
12Chatterbox
Will try yet again. Hopefully I'll be more focused. May be a lot of audiobooks, to avoid sitting upright and disturbing stitches on my back where doc removed moles yesterday. Argh. Nibbled to death by ducks.
>11 drneutron: Good for you for expanding your household, Jim; hope all goes smoothly.
>11 drneutron: Good for you for expanding your household, Jim; hope all goes smoothly.
13AnneDC
Sign me up. I'll be mostly busy this evening and not reading, but I hope to finish up some March reading this weekend. Anne, Washington DC.
>12 Chatterbox: Suzanne, I glanced too quickly at your post and saw "nibbled" and "moles" in the same line and got a very different impression than what you actually said. I hope the stitches don't cause too much discomfort.
>12 Chatterbox: Suzanne, I glanced too quickly at your post and saw "nibbled" and "moles" in the same line and got a very different impression than what you actually said. I hope the stitches don't cause too much discomfort.
14avatiakh
Check-in: 9.00am Saturday morning - Auckland, NZ
Books read from: Clarice Lispector: complete stories & A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - both on audio; Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Books finished: 1 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: fejoas
Thoughts: so much to do today
Non-book activities: food prep
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6hrs
Re-listened to some of the Lispector stories - part of a year or so long read of her short stories.
About to go into the city for a couple of hours.
Books read from: Clarice Lispector: complete stories & A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - both on audio; Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Books finished: 1 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: fejoas
Thoughts: so much to do today
Non-book activities: food prep
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6hrs
Re-listened to some of the Lispector stories - part of a year or so long read of her short stories.
About to go into the city for a couple of hours.
15nrmay
I'm in.
I'll be reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
and finishing my audio book - Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre.
Also finishing Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less
I'll be reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
and finishing my audio book - Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre.
Also finishing Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less
17elkiedee
Friday night at 10 pm, north London
As usual, I finished several books before the Readathon start time, but I've read a few pages and may finish one more over the weekend. This takes me to 14 books so far this month (5 in January, 11 in February) and 30 books so far this year.
Books read from: Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Pages read: 48
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 30 minutes
Snacks: Chocolate, tea
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total pages read: 48
Total time reading: 30 minutes
As usual, I finished several books before the Readathon start time, but I've read a few pages and may finish one more over the weekend. This takes me to 14 books so far this month (5 in January, 11 in February) and 30 books so far this year.
Books read from: Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Pages read: 48
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 30 minutes
Snacks: Chocolate, tea
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total pages read: 48
Total time reading: 30 minutes
18Chatterbox
First report, Friday evening. It's almost 11:30 p.m. in Rhode Island
Books read from: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a bit more of Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein. The current audiobook is Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: cranberry orange muffin
Thoughts: very very glad that the weather seems to be warming up.
Non-book activities: Recovering from minor surgery to remove moles from my back. It's tough to read while lying on one's stomach! A few texts and e-mails.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a bit more of Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein. The current audiobook is Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 4 hours
Snacks: cranberry orange muffin
Thoughts: very very glad that the weather seems to be warming up.
Non-book activities: Recovering from minor surgery to remove moles from my back. It's tough to read while lying on one's stomach! A few texts and e-mails.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 4 hours
19June
Saturday morning check-in:
Books read from: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine and
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: tacos, chips and salsa
Thoughts: So far A Desolation Called Peace seems better than A Memory Called Empire which was very good.
Non-book activities: 2 softball games
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours
Books read from: A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine and
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder by Julia Zarankin
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Snacks: tacos, chips and salsa
Thoughts: So far A Desolation Called Peace seems better than A Memory Called Empire which was very good.
Non-book activities: 2 softball games
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours
20cbl_tn
Saturday morning check-in:
Books read from: Four Women in a Violent Time, Colonial Women
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Breakfast was donuts and tea
Thoughts: I am disappointed in the lack of primary source citations in these books. I am reading both because my 9th great-grandmother, Penelope Stout, is one of the women profiled. Four Women in a Violent Time puts words in her mouth in the form of quotations, yet it doesn't cite a source for those quotations.
Non-book activities: sleep, grocery pickup
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading:
Books read from: Four Women in a Violent Time, Colonial Women
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Breakfast was donuts and tea
Thoughts: I am disappointed in the lack of primary source citations in these books. I am reading both because my 9th great-grandmother, Penelope Stout, is one of the women profiled. Four Women in a Violent Time puts words in her mouth in the form of quotations, yet it doesn't cite a source for those quotations.
Non-book activities: sleep, grocery pickup
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading:
21elkiedee
>20 cbl_tn: That sounds interesting and disappointing, being about someone in your family but not explaining the source of the "quotations" properly.
22cbl_tn
>21 elkiedee: Everything I've learned about this woman is more legend than fact. The earliest sources were written several decades after her death. I wish these "accounts" would acknowledge that!
23Chatterbox
>20 cbl_tn: >21 elkiedee: It makes me crazy when a non-fiction writer makes claims/assertions/provides quotes and doesn't footnote them in any manner. Michael Lewis does this, routinely. Given that one of his books at least (about trading technology) is very flawed, I now read anything by him with that in mind.
It's noon in Rhode Island.
Books read from: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a re-read of Farthing by Jo Walton, then started Ha'Penny by Jo Walton (the sequel)
Books finished: 1, Farthing
Time reading: 7 hours
Snacks: cereal with fruit for breakfast
Thoughts: Warmer weather means neighbors are blasting music in their backyard today. Oh dear. Wish it would rain??
Non-book activities: Post surgery back is irritating (moles removed, stitches sore and itching. Must NOT SCRATCH.) Went to Athenaeum; returned some books and took out some more. LOL. My TBR mountain will never shrink.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6, the four above and Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein and the first two chapters or so of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 4 hours
It's noon in Rhode Island.
Books read from: Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a re-read of Farthing by Jo Walton, then started Ha'Penny by Jo Walton (the sequel)
Books finished: 1, Farthing
Time reading: 7 hours
Snacks: cereal with fruit for breakfast
Thoughts: Warmer weather means neighbors are blasting music in their backyard today. Oh dear. Wish it would rain??
Non-book activities: Post surgery back is irritating (moles removed, stitches sore and itching. Must NOT SCRATCH.) Went to Athenaeum; returned some books and took out some more. LOL. My TBR mountain will never shrink.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6, the four above and Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein and the first two chapters or so of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 4 hours
24nrmay
Saturday, noon.
Books: Finished Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less. I can't quite explain my fascination with tiny houses. I couldn't live in one full-time; too many books.
Eats: leftovers last night; just coffee this a.m. Boring. I need inspiration. Maybe go out for lunch or dinner today.
Other activity:
watching 'Killing Eve' tv series wth Sanda Oh.
Talking to landscapers about my yard. Now that our porch is finished we need an attractive vista to look out upon.
weather: sunny, 72 F. (22 C.) I have spring fever.
Books: Finished Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less. I can't quite explain my fascination with tiny houses. I couldn't live in one full-time; too many books.
Eats: leftovers last night; just coffee this a.m. Boring. I need inspiration. Maybe go out for lunch or dinner today.
Other activity:
watching 'Killing Eve' tv series wth Sanda Oh.
Talking to landscapers about my yard. Now that our porch is finished we need an attractive vista to look out upon.
weather: sunny, 72 F. (22 C.) I have spring fever.
25cbl_tn
>23 Chatterbox: I will gladly send you some of our rain, although not all of it, because as you've already mentioned, it has the benefit of keeping the noisy neighbors indoors. :-)
>24 nrmay: I am also fascinated by tiny houses. I keep getting articles about them in my Google news feed, probably because I keep reading them. And I love watching the tiny house shows. I would need two tiny houses - one for me and one for my books!
>24 nrmay: I am also fascinated by tiny houses. I keep getting articles about them in my Google news feed, probably because I keep reading them. And I love watching the tiny house shows. I would need two tiny houses - one for me and one for my books!
26AnneDC
Saturday noon:
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams, A Nail, A Rose
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Pages read: 97
Time posting: 0
Dinner: Thai takeout. Breakfast: Cafe latte
Thoughts: It feels like I've been reading the same books forever. I hope I finish some this weekend.
Non-book activities: Zoom call with college friends, porch dinner with friends. This morning I went to the farmer's market and started some laundry.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3 hours
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams, A Nail, A Rose
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours
Pages read: 97
Time posting: 0
Dinner: Thai takeout. Breakfast: Cafe latte
Thoughts: It feels like I've been reading the same books forever. I hope I finish some this weekend.
Non-book activities: Zoom call with college friends, porch dinner with friends. This morning I went to the farmer's market and started some laundry.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3 hours
27susanna.fraser
Saturday midday:
Books read from: Revolution Song
Books finished: Revolution Song
Time reading: 3 hours
Food: cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: I enjoyed this book but I've been reading it for over a week and am looking forward to starting something different.
Non-book activities: Laundry, put together a grocery order
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
Books read from: Revolution Song
Books finished: Revolution Song
Time reading: 3 hours
Food: cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: I enjoyed this book but I've been reading it for over a week and am looking forward to starting something different.
Non-book activities: Laundry, put together a grocery order
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
28thornton37814
Saturday 2:30 pm
Books read from: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton
Books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Breakfast was bacon, egg, and cheese on an English muffin
Thoughts: I'm really glad to be done recording my lectures for NGS, but I just got hit with a lot more things to do in the next two weeks.
Non-book activities: Working on a genealogy report for a day-long genealogy workshop in two weeks
Total books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Total read from: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton
Total time reading: 5 hours
Books read from: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton
Books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Breakfast was bacon, egg, and cheese on an English muffin
Thoughts: I'm really glad to be done recording my lectures for NGS, but I just got hit with a lot more things to do in the next two weeks.
Non-book activities: Working on a genealogy report for a day-long genealogy workshop in two weeks
Total books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Total read from: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton
Total time reading: 5 hours
29avatiakh
Time Posting: 8.30am Sunday morning - Auckland, NZ
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: last night - lamb shawarma & sangria
Thoughts: I need coffee
Non-book activities: food prep
Total books finished: 1 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8hrs
Hope to have a quiet reading day today.
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2hrs
Snacks: last night - lamb shawarma & sangria
Thoughts: I need coffee
Non-book activities: food prep
Total books finished: 1 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8hrs
Hope to have a quiet reading day today.
30benitastrnad
Saturday afternoon check-in
Books read from: I am listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshiand am about to finish Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am also reading Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour today
Time posting:
Snacks: I had homemade rigatoni with mushrooms sauce for lunch today.
Thoughts: I am not really liking the Hilderbrand book that much, but it is for a real life book discussion group so will go ahead and finish it. A friend of mine really likes Hilderbrand's books and keeps telling me that it will get better towards the end.
Non-book activities: I had the Big Green Monster mowed yesterday because it was in between rainy spells. (I hate having a lawn and don't know why it has to be mowed.) I moved a couple of plants back from work today and got them trimmed and hung in the tree on my patio. I have so much work to do with my patio pot garden that I don't know where to start. I watched the This Old House marathon that was on my local PBS station this morning and found it fascinating. They restored a double house in Roxbury, MA in the 5 hours of the show and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now I have to hurry to get my granola in the oven before I go out for supper with friends. Not going to get much reading done today.
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: 334.5 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: I am listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshiand am about to finish Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am also reading Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour today
Time posting:
Snacks: I had homemade rigatoni with mushrooms sauce for lunch today.
Thoughts: I am not really liking the Hilderbrand book that much, but it is for a real life book discussion group so will go ahead and finish it. A friend of mine really likes Hilderbrand's books and keeps telling me that it will get better towards the end.
Non-book activities: I had the Big Green Monster mowed yesterday because it was in between rainy spells. (I hate having a lawn and don't know why it has to be mowed.) I moved a couple of plants back from work today and got them trimmed and hung in the tree on my patio. I have so much work to do with my patio pot garden that I don't know where to start. I watched the This Old House marathon that was on my local PBS station this morning and found it fascinating. They restored a double house in Roxbury, MA in the 5 hours of the show and I enjoyed every minute of it. Now I have to hurry to get my granola in the oven before I go out for supper with friends. Not going to get much reading done today.
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: 334.5 hours since April 2020.
31Chatterbox
It's almost 6:30 p.m. in Rhode Island on Saturday.
Books read from: The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a re-read of Ha'Penny by Jo Walton (the sequel)
Books finished: 1, The Consequences of Fear
Time reading: 4.5 hours
Snacks: Noodles with shrimp & vegetables, a cold version with sesame-based dressing.
Thoughts: Looking at my mass of stuff and wondering how to find energy to tackle it. Why do all socks lose their mates?
Non-book activities: Accidentally locked myself out when I went to pick up an Amazon household necessities package. The wind blew the door closed and for some reason the lock was engaged. After a brief panic attack, I was immensely relieved that (a) my top floor neighbors were home and (b) they had a copy of my key. I was outdoors without my mask or my phone, as well as without my keys. That has never happened to me here before, although it happened once in NYC (same scenario, wind pressure from the back of the apartment shoved the door closed, this time when I went out to answer the doorbell. I was stuck in between my (locked) front door and my (locked) grill gateway. I had to send someone to get a locksmith, while I waited, wearing a t-shirt, kimono and flip-flops.
Total books finished: 2, Farthing by Jo Walton and The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear. The latter was mediocre.
Total read from: 6, the two I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, Ha'Penny by Jo Walton and the first two chapters or so of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 15.5 hours
Books read from: The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and a re-read of Ha'Penny by Jo Walton (the sequel)
Books finished: 1, The Consequences of Fear
Time reading: 4.5 hours
Snacks: Noodles with shrimp & vegetables, a cold version with sesame-based dressing.
Thoughts: Looking at my mass of stuff and wondering how to find energy to tackle it. Why do all socks lose their mates?
Non-book activities: Accidentally locked myself out when I went to pick up an Amazon household necessities package. The wind blew the door closed and for some reason the lock was engaged. After a brief panic attack, I was immensely relieved that (a) my top floor neighbors were home and (b) they had a copy of my key. I was outdoors without my mask or my phone, as well as without my keys. That has never happened to me here before, although it happened once in NYC (same scenario, wind pressure from the back of the apartment shoved the door closed, this time when I went out to answer the doorbell. I was stuck in between my (locked) front door and my (locked) grill gateway. I had to send someone to get a locksmith, while I waited, wearing a t-shirt, kimono and flip-flops.
Total books finished: 2, Farthing by Jo Walton and The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear. The latter was mediocre.
Total read from: 6, the two I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, Ha'Penny by Jo Walton and the first two chapters or so of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 15.5 hours
32cbl_tn
Saturday evening check-in:
Books read from: Colonial Women
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was chicken, cottage cheese, strawberries & bananas
Thoughts: It has been a dreary day.
Non-book activities: laundry, nap, watching The Pembrokeshire Murders on BritBox
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Colonial Women
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was chicken, cottage cheese, strawberries & bananas
Thoughts: It has been a dreary day.
Non-book activities: laundry, nap, watching The Pembrokeshire Murders on BritBox
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
33Carmenere
Saturday check in (includes Friday)
Books read from: The Dark Wind & Joshua in the Holy Land
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Friday: Bean burrito, Saturday: Fried egg, rye toast, blackberry greek yogurt
Thoughts: I'm just not reading enough. Can't focus, can't concentrate
Non-Book activities: Zoom 50th Wedding Anniversary party, removed some wallpaper in the laundry room, cross stitched baby bibs
Total Books finished: 0
Total read: about 3 chapters from The Dark Wind and 1 chapter from Joshua
Total time reading: about 2 hours
Books read from: The Dark Wind & Joshua in the Holy Land
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Friday: Bean burrito, Saturday: Fried egg, rye toast, blackberry greek yogurt
Thoughts: I'm just not reading enough. Can't focus, can't concentrate
Non-Book activities: Zoom 50th Wedding Anniversary party, removed some wallpaper in the laundry room, cross stitched baby bibs
Total Books finished: 0
Total read: about 3 chapters from The Dark Wind and 1 chapter from Joshua
Total time reading: about 2 hours
34susanna.fraser
Saturday afternoon:
Books read from: Alien Artifacts
Books finished: Alien Artifacts
Time reading: 1 hour
Food: potato chips
Thoughts: I feel like I haven't gotten anything done to speak of today.
Non-book activities: Picked up grocery order, investigated rustling sounds in the wall under my office window and determined they came from Bewick's wrens scouting for nesting sites, which is fine by me and SO much better than the mice I was imagining.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
Books read from: Alien Artifacts
Books finished: Alien Artifacts
Time reading: 1 hour
Food: potato chips
Thoughts: I feel like I haven't gotten anything done to speak of today.
Non-book activities: Picked up grocery order, investigated rustling sounds in the wall under my office window and determined they came from Bewick's wrens scouting for nesting sites, which is fine by me and SO much better than the mice I was imagining.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 4 hours
35elkiedee
Time: Saturday at 11.45 pm - clocks go forward an hour tonight
Books read from: 7
Claire Fuller, Unsettled Ground
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Pages read: 154
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Chocolate, tea, crisps, banana, Gouda cheese
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz, sleep, radio
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 7
Total pages read: 202
Books read from: 7
Claire Fuller, Unsettled Ground
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Pages read: 154
Books finished: 0
Snacks: Chocolate, tea, crisps, banana, Gouda cheese
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz, sleep, radio
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 7
Total pages read: 202
36AnneDC
Saturday midnight:
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours reading and 2 hours listening
Pages read: 118
Time posting: spend a lot of time thinking about April reading plans
Dinner: Burgers and fries from neighborhood carryout.
Thoughts: Such a gorgeous day! It really feels like spring.
Non-book activities: walk with my daughter, dishes, wished a friend a happy birthday, watched a comedy show with family
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours reading and 2 hours listening
Pages read: 118
Time posting: spend a lot of time thinking about April reading plans
Dinner: Burgers and fries from neighborhood carryout.
Thoughts: Such a gorgeous day! It really feels like spring.
Non-book activities: walk with my daughter, dishes, wished a friend a happy birthday, watched a comedy show with family
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7 hours
37benitastrnad
Saturday night check-in
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am a couple more pages in Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I spent most of my evening reading time in Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour over supper
Time posting:
Snacks: Supper was a couple of enchiladas out of my freezer. The kind you buy in packages from the freezer section of the grocery store.
Thoughts: The Henna Artist is really good. Might be the best work of historical fiction I have read this spring.
Non-book activities: Got my granola baked and that was about all I did this evening. I watched two hours of old Julia Child TV shows and knitted while watching them. Somehow I made a mistake and got off one stitch. I am over half done with this wrap and this was the first time I got off with my stitches. I had to rip out some rows and do my knitting over.
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: 335.5 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and am a couple more pages in Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I spent most of my evening reading time in Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand.
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour over supper
Time posting:
Snacks: Supper was a couple of enchiladas out of my freezer. The kind you buy in packages from the freezer section of the grocery store.
Thoughts: The Henna Artist is really good. Might be the best work of historical fiction I have read this spring.
Non-book activities: Got my granola baked and that was about all I did this evening. I watched two hours of old Julia Child TV shows and knitted while watching them. Somehow I made a mistake and got off one stitch. I am over half done with this wrap and this was the first time I got off with my stitches. I had to rip out some rows and do my knitting over.
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: 335.5 hours since April 2020.
38avatiakh
Time Posting: 8.00pm Sunday evening - Auckland, NZ
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
Books finished: 1 A darkening stain by Robert Wilson
Time reading: 3hrs
Snacks: Matzo Ball soup
Thoughts: quite humid today
Non-book activities: trip to city centre, walking around and visit to bookshop
Total books finished: 2 Moon over Manifest; A darkening stain
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 11 hrs
Have now finished with the Bruce Medway series and read every book that Robert Wilson has written. I hope he gets another one published.
Enjoying my scifi audiobook - A hole in the sky, first in a trilogy.
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
Books finished: 1 A darkening stain by Robert Wilson
Time reading: 3hrs
Snacks: Matzo Ball soup
Thoughts: quite humid today
Non-book activities: trip to city centre, walking around and visit to bookshop
Total books finished: 2 Moon over Manifest; A darkening stain
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 11 hrs
Have now finished with the Bruce Medway series and read every book that Robert Wilson has written. I hope he gets another one published.
Enjoying my scifi audiobook - A hole in the sky, first in a trilogy.
39Chatterbox
It's about 10:30 a.m. in Rhode Island. Battling a migraine and waiting for the rain to start to help it.
Books read from: a re-read of Ha'Penny by Jo Walton, picked up Half a Crown by Jo Walton (the final book in the series), also another couple of chapters of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie, the audiobook.
Books finished: 1, Ha'Penny
Time reading: 5 hours
Snacks: Skipped dinner last night, which was stupid. Had a hot cross bun last night, and cereal this morning.
Thoughts: I hate migraines. I love my cats.
Non-book activities: Not much. Listening to audiobooks today because I can't read with a migraine. Kinda dreading the coming week, which will include lotsa work.
Total books finished: 3, Farthing and Ha'Penny by Jo Walton and The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear. The latter was mediocre, but I was surprised by my re-read of the Walton alt-history novels. The plotting is very clever/adroit, especially in book #2, where Walton's version of alt-history combines with the play within a play, which in this case is a staging of Hamlet.
Total read from: 7, the three I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, Half a Crown by Jo Walton and the bit of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 20.5 hours
Books read from: a re-read of Ha'Penny by Jo Walton, picked up Half a Crown by Jo Walton (the final book in the series), also another couple of chapters of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie, the audiobook.
Books finished: 1, Ha'Penny
Time reading: 5 hours
Snacks: Skipped dinner last night, which was stupid. Had a hot cross bun last night, and cereal this morning.
Thoughts: I hate migraines. I love my cats.
Non-book activities: Not much. Listening to audiobooks today because I can't read with a migraine. Kinda dreading the coming week, which will include lotsa work.
Total books finished: 3, Farthing and Ha'Penny by Jo Walton and The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear. The latter was mediocre, but I was surprised by my re-read of the Walton alt-history novels. The plotting is very clever/adroit, especially in book #2, where Walton's version of alt-history combines with the play within a play, which in this case is a staging of Hamlet.
Total read from: 7, the three I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, Half a Crown by Jo Walton and the bit of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie via audiobook.
Total time reading: 20.5 hours
40benitastrnad
Sunday morning check-in
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. I finished Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am going to start reading River Horse by William Least-Heat Moon
Books finished: 1 - Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein
Time reading: .5 hours before bed last night.
Time posting:
Snacks: breakfast was some of my granola (which isn't as good as it was last week - but still good. I think I needed to put in more spices - particularly the ginger and nutmeg should have been ramped up.) and my usual Sunday morning hazelnut cappuccino from Starbucks - which was terrible this morning. But there was no line in the drive through.
Thoughts: I started reading Travels With Epicurus a year ago as part of my short books project. It got buried in my backpack and I never got back to it. I like travel books and this months Non-Fiction challenge was comfort reads. Since I had cleaned out my backpack I decided that it was time to finish this book. I don't advise waiting to finish reading a book about philosophy after a year long hiatus. I think I missed out on a good deal of what Klein was trying to say.
Non-book activities: I watched "Travels in Japan" and "Trails to Oshii'' this morning on PBS and really enjoyed them. I will miss these programs when I leave a Big City Market for cable TV and move to the boondocks.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 114
Total read from: 117
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 336 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: Henna Artist by Alka Joshi and Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. I finished Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life by Daniel Klein. I am going to start reading River Horse by William Least-Heat Moon
Books finished: 1 - Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein
Time reading: .5 hours before bed last night.
Time posting:
Snacks: breakfast was some of my granola (which isn't as good as it was last week - but still good. I think I needed to put in more spices - particularly the ginger and nutmeg should have been ramped up.) and my usual Sunday morning hazelnut cappuccino from Starbucks - which was terrible this morning. But there was no line in the drive through.
Thoughts: I started reading Travels With Epicurus a year ago as part of my short books project. It got buried in my backpack and I never got back to it. I like travel books and this months Non-Fiction challenge was comfort reads. Since I had cleaned out my backpack I decided that it was time to finish this book. I don't advise waiting to finish reading a book about philosophy after a year long hiatus. I think I missed out on a good deal of what Klein was trying to say.
Non-book activities: I watched "Travels in Japan" and "Trails to Oshii'' this morning on PBS and really enjoyed them. I will miss these programs when I leave a Big City Market for cable TV and move to the boondocks.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 114
Total read from: 117
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 336 hours since April 2020.
41thornton37814
Sunday 3:30 pm
Books read from: Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, Old Testament Words for Today by Warren Wiersbe, Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan, D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Lunch was an omelet, bacon, cheese grits, and toast with orange marmalade
Thoughts: Where did all these genealogy deadlines come from?
Non-book activities: Genealogy report, Proof-reading a journal, Troubleshooting issue with upload speed (It appears to be a problem with Charter-Spectrum); petting cats; church (TV) and Sunday School (Zoom)
Total books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Total read from: 7 -- 1) In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2) Bible (ESV), 3) The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, 4) The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton; 5) Old Testament Words for Today by Warren W. Wiersbe; 6) Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan; 7) D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose
Total time reading: 9 hours
Books read from: Bible (ESV), The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, Old Testament Words for Today by Warren Wiersbe, Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan, D-Day Girls by Sarah Rose
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Lunch was an omelet, bacon, cheese grits, and toast with orange marmalade
Thoughts: Where did all these genealogy deadlines come from?
Non-book activities: Genealogy report, Proof-reading a journal, Troubleshooting issue with upload speed (It appears to be a problem with Charter-Spectrum); petting cats; church (TV) and Sunday School (Zoom)
Total books finished: 2 (In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick; The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton)
Total read from: 7 -- 1) In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick, 2) Bible (ESV), 3) The Walk: The Life-Changing Journey of Two Friends by Michael Card, 4) The Stolen Letter by Paige Shelton; 5) Old Testament Words for Today by Warren W. Wiersbe; 6) Near to the Heart of God by Robert J. Morgan; 7) D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose
Total time reading: 9 hours
42torontoc
Still reading Klara and The Sun I also read most of the Sunday New York Times and added some new book titles to my really big wish list.
43avatiakh
Time Posting: 9.00am Monday morning - Auckland, NZ
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner; The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Books finished: 1 The Snow Song
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: yogurt
Thoughts: another week begins
Non-book activities: sleep
Total books finished: 3 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 15 hrs
The Snow Song was exquisite, first book in a long while that I've read through in one sitting. I've read most of her children's books and this is the first of her adult books I've read. Her adult books are usually published under her pen name, Wray Delaney.
Books read from: A Hole in the sky by Peter F. Hamilton - audio; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner; The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Books finished: 1 The Snow Song
Time reading: 4hrs
Snacks: yogurt
Thoughts: another week begins
Non-book activities: sleep
Total books finished: 3 Moon over Manifest by Claire Vanderpool; A darkening stain by Robert Wilson; The Snow Song by Sally Gardner
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 15 hrs
The Snow Song was exquisite, first book in a long while that I've read through in one sitting. I've read most of her children's books and this is the first of her adult books I've read. Her adult books are usually published under her pen name, Wray Delaney.
44Chatterbox
>42 torontoc: How did you like Klara and the Sun? I enjoyed it, especially the same kind of slow reveals that Ishiguro has used in his other novels. But ultimately a bit more facile than I expected in terms of themes. Still worthwhile for writing/characterization, though.
It's getting on for 9 p.m. in Rhode Island, and my migraine has finally abated (the rain started, which helped!)
Books read from: Half a Crown by Jo Walton (the final book in the series), Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, the first few chapters of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and dipping into a couple of other books to see what I'll pick up next.
Books finished: 1, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
Time reading: 6 hours
Snacks: Chicken salad sandwiches for lunch; vegetable curry with naan for dinner.
Thoughts: So relieved that the mild weather means I can relish the fresh air blowing in through the windows.
Non-book activities: Not much. Trying to be quiet, and to quiet my thoughts. Trying to organize my ideas.
Total books finished: 4, Farthing and Ha'Penny by Jo Walton, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu. The last of these -- a memoir -- was by far the best book I've read this weekend.
Total read from: 8, the four I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Half a Crown by Jo Walton and bits of the audiobooks of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. The last of these was a book I've seen recommended in a lot of places and it's tremendously entertaining.
Total time reading: 26.5 hours
It's getting on for 9 p.m. in Rhode Island, and my migraine has finally abated (the rain started, which helped!)
Books read from: Half a Crown by Jo Walton (the final book in the series), Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu, the first few chapters of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and dipping into a couple of other books to see what I'll pick up next.
Books finished: 1, Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu
Time reading: 6 hours
Snacks: Chicken salad sandwiches for lunch; vegetable curry with naan for dinner.
Thoughts: So relieved that the mild weather means I can relish the fresh air blowing in through the windows.
Non-book activities: Not much. Trying to be quiet, and to quiet my thoughts. Trying to organize my ideas.
Total books finished: 4, Farthing and Ha'Penny by Jo Walton, The Consequences of Fear by Jacqueline Winspear and Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu. The last of these -- a memoir -- was by far the best book I've read this weekend.
Total read from: 8, the four I've finished plus Travels With Epicurus by Daniel Klein, Half a Crown by Jo Walton and bits of the audiobooks of Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. The last of these was a book I've seen recommended in a lot of places and it's tremendously entertaining.
Total time reading: 26.5 hours
45cbl_tn
Sunday evening check-in:
Books read from: Beheld, Anxious for Nothing (audiobook)
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was fruit and cottage cheese, graham crackers, and chocolate dessert hummus
Thoughts: I ended up watching more TV than reading today after a sleepless night with the dog. I don't know if it was the storms or his ongoing gallbladder problems, but this not sleeping at night is getting rough. If Adrian is awake, he thinks I should be awake, too.
Non-book activities: long walk, Zoom book club, lots of TV
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Beheld, Anxious for Nothing (audiobook)
Books finished: Four Women in a Violent Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was fruit and cottage cheese, graham crackers, and chocolate dessert hummus
Thoughts: I ended up watching more TV than reading today after a sleepless night with the dog. I don't know if it was the storms or his ongoing gallbladder problems, but this not sleeping at night is getting rough. If Adrian is awake, he thinks I should be awake, too.
Non-book activities: long walk, Zoom book club, lots of TV
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
46torontoc
>44 Chatterbox: I am enjoying Klara and The Sun- I find that during this pandemic I am not reading as much but liking certain books in a " slower" way- if that makes sense- I am taking more time to think about themes and language in the books that I am reading.And I am craving more non-fiction!
47susanna.fraser
Sunday evening:
Books read from: Wyrd Sisters
Books finished: Wyrd Sisters
Time reading: 4 hours
Food: pasta for dinner
Thoughts: I do enjoy working my way through Pratchett's books.
Non-book activities: YouTube Palm Sunday service, listened to podcast, decluttered my office, cooked dinner.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours
Books read from: Wyrd Sisters
Books finished: Wyrd Sisters
Time reading: 4 hours
Food: pasta for dinner
Thoughts: I do enjoy working my way through Pratchett's books.
Non-book activities: YouTube Palm Sunday service, listened to podcast, decluttered my office, cooked dinner.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours
48benitastrnad
Sunday night check-in
Books read from: Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. I finished listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshi. I started two new books. I am reading River Horse by William Least-Heat Moon and started listening to Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand. Both of these are for my real life book discussion groups.
Books finished: 1 - Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting:
Snacks:supper was vegetable soup and cheese toast with my co-author at her house.
Thoughts: I really really liked Henna Artist. This is the best work of fiction I have read so far this year. I started another Elin Hilderbrand book. I found out that I have been reading the wrong title for one of my real life book discussion groups. I have been reading Barefoot and we were supposed to be reading Summer of '69. I went to the library this afternoon and got the other book, but I only have about 100 pages to read in Barefoot, so I am going to go ahead and finish it. No harm in reading more books than required. I hope to get about 50 pages of Barefoot read before I go to sleep tonight.
Non-book activities: I met with my co-author and we did the final grammar edits on the journal article. We hope that it gets posted this week. But it may be next week. I had a nice quiet supper with her while we talked about citation counts and bibliometrics and what they don't mean.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 115
Total read from: 119
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 337 hours since April 2020.
Books read from: Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand. I finished listening to Henna Artist by Alka Joshi. I started two new books. I am reading River Horse by William Least-Heat Moon and started listening to Summer of '69 by Elin Hilderbrand. Both of these are for my real life book discussion groups.
Books finished: 1 - Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting:
Snacks:supper was vegetable soup and cheese toast with my co-author at her house.
Thoughts: I really really liked Henna Artist. This is the best work of fiction I have read so far this year. I started another Elin Hilderbrand book. I found out that I have been reading the wrong title for one of my real life book discussion groups. I have been reading Barefoot and we were supposed to be reading Summer of '69. I went to the library this afternoon and got the other book, but I only have about 100 pages to read in Barefoot, so I am going to go ahead and finish it. No harm in reading more books than required. I hope to get about 50 pages of Barefoot read before I go to sleep tonight.
Non-book activities: I met with my co-author and we did the final grammar edits on the journal article. We hope that it gets posted this week. But it may be next week. I had a nice quiet supper with her while we talked about citation counts and bibliometrics and what they don't mean.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 115
Total read from: 119
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 337 hours since April 2020.
49elkiedee
Period: Sunday
Books read from: 6
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Pages read: 94
Books finished: 1
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz, WhatsApp, sleep, radio
Total books finished: 1 Hounds and Hauntings
Total read from: 7
Total pages read: 202
Books read from: 6
Janine Beacham, Hounds and Hauntings
Alix E Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
Abir Mukherjee, A Rising Man
Joanna Moorhead, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Pages read: 94
Books finished: 1
Other book related activities: some updates on LT
Non-book activities: Bejeweled Blitz, WhatsApp, sleep, radio
Total books finished: 1 Hounds and Hauntings
Total read from: 7
Total pages read: 202
50Carmenere
Sunday check-in on Monday
Books read from: The Dark Wind & If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Books finished: 0
Snacks: stuffed cabbage & mashed potatoes - Cinnamon Rolls
Thoughts: Still, not reading enough. Can't focus, can't concentrate
Non-Book activities: NCAA men's basketball
Total Books finished: 0
Total read: about 4 chapters from The Dark Wind and the prologue from If you lived here,.....
Total time reading: about 2 hours
Books read from: The Dark Wind & If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Books finished: 0
Snacks: stuffed cabbage & mashed potatoes - Cinnamon Rolls
Thoughts: Still, not reading enough. Can't focus, can't concentrate
Non-Book activities: NCAA men's basketball
Total Books finished: 0
Total read: about 4 chapters from The Dark Wind and the prologue from If you lived here,.....
Total time reading: about 2 hours
51AnneDC
Sunday report:
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams, A Nail, A Rose, Thanks for the Feedback
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 6.5 hours reading and 1 hour listening
Pages read: 279
Dinner: Chicken with tomato sauce, olives and potatoes
Thoughts: Rain and wind--a great day to be inside finishing books.
Non-book activities: zoom call with extended family, made applesauce out of abundance of older apples, laundry, dishes
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 14 and 1/2 hours
Books read from: The Water Knife, Between the Woods and the Water, Abigail Adams, A Nail, A Rose, Thanks for the Feedback
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 6.5 hours reading and 1 hour listening
Pages read: 279
Dinner: Chicken with tomato sauce, olives and potatoes
Thoughts: Rain and wind--a great day to be inside finishing books.
Non-book activities: zoom call with extended family, made applesauce out of abundance of older apples, laundry, dishes
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 14 and 1/2 hours
52nrmay
weekend wrap-up
Books:
Still reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and
my audio book, Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Have also started Small Houses
Sunday dinner was rice pilaf and garden salad. Glass of port for dessert.
Other activity:
Into season 3 of Killing Eve. Bizarre, but strangely compelling.
Family FaceTime
First visit with my mom in her memory care residence since their covid shut-down. She was awake only briefly and not too responsive. I think she has declined quite a lot during isolation.
weather: sunny, 59 F. (15 C.) in the early afternoon
Books:
Still reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and
my audio book, Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Have also started Small Houses
Sunday dinner was rice pilaf and garden salad. Glass of port for dessert.
Other activity:
Into season 3 of Killing Eve. Bizarre, but strangely compelling.
Family FaceTime
First visit with my mom in her memory care residence since their covid shut-down. She was awake only briefly and not too responsive. I think she has declined quite a lot during isolation.
weather: sunny, 59 F. (15 C.) in the early afternoon
53Chatterbox
>46 torontoc: Yes, I'm reading MUCH more non-fiction and gravitating to it. For me it's either that, or light fiction. I really struggle to read serious novels.
54benitastrnad
>53 Chatterbox:
You aren't alone in that. All of the publishers are showing a big slow down in sales of Literary novels. I am not exactly sure what they mean by literary novels but the sales there have really slowed in the last 5 years.
You aren't alone in that. All of the publishers are showing a big slow down in sales of Literary novels. I am not exactly sure what they mean by literary novels but the sales there have really slowed in the last 5 years.
