Social Distancing Readathon #72 - July 30 - August 1

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. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
3. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
4. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
6. Chris (ChrisG1)
7. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA

Sorry for being so late posting this, today was crazy.

I'm in- I am finishing one book and am anxious to start another.

I'm in too.

Finished Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier today.
Next up - The Boat People by Sharon Bala.

New audio book is Mrs Pollifax Unveiled, Dorothy Gilman.

I'm in. In the company of a couple of ladies this weekend (Trezza Azzopardi and Louise Erdrich) lucky me!

I'm in.

I'm in - currently reading Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, by P.G. Wodehouse. Not sure what's next....so many books...

I'm in. We're driving down to Olympia for a wedding this weekend where my husband is part of the wedding party. It's about 90 minutes away if the traffic is unusually light, so we're actually driving down tonight after rush hour is over, staying in a hotel, and coming back Sunday morning before most of the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia metropolitan area is up and about and on the roads. It's been so long since I've traveled that I feel like I'm preparing for a much longer and more distant journey. But since I'm only a wedding guest, I expect to have tons of reading time.

I'm about to start packing, but I've already started reading:

Books read from: Gathering Moss
Books finished: Gathering Moss
Time reading: 1 hour
Snacks: Leftovers for lunch
Thoughts: What a fascinating book. I live in a mossy landscape, but I have to admit I've never given them much thought before.
Non-book activities: Laundry, Target run, picking out a dress for the wedding

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

I finished The Cellist by Daniel Silva and have just started A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

Friday 9:30 PM, from a hotel in Olympia, WA

Books read from: Phoenix Extravagant
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Snacks: McDonalds. We were hungry and it was open.
Thoughts: It’s kind of nice to be out of the house on a mini road trip.
Non-book activities: Playing Wingspan on my iPad

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours

Sunday 5.45 pm

I haven't yet done any reading today but did get through a few pages yesterday, and hope to finish a book either tonight (if I get to it soon) or tomorrow morning. I have some very exciting brand new books on loan from the library, and really, rather too many of them on loan at once. I also have some really good books I've acquired.

Books read from: 5
Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds
Lyndsay Faye, Seven for a Secret
Michelle Magorian, Goodnight Mister Tom

Books finished: 0
Pages read: 263

Non-book activities: As usual, radio, TV, Bejeweled Blitz, social media
Book related: Browsing this month's Kindle deals on Amazon and clearing up a book avalanche (still to be done)

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total pages read: 263

I finished Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit and then read all the way through Northanger Abbey in just over 1 day - both very enjoyable reads. Now working on Cannery Row.

Sunday midday:

Books read from: Phoenix Extravagant, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World, Accidentally Engaged
Books finished: Phoenix Extravagant, A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Time reading: 6 hours, give or take
Snacks: Nutri Grain bar from our hotel's breakfast-to-go bag
Thoughts: Yesterday was a perfectly lovely small backyard DIY Pacific Northwest wedding.
Non-book activities: Attended a wedding

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 9 hours

I went to an outdoor party this afternoon. When I got home I pruned and dug out some weeds in my front yard and am now settling in to read more of A Thousand Ships- it is really good!

Going to bed - final tally:

Books read from: Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Northanger Abbey & Cannery Row
Books finished: All 3
Time reading: 14 hours
Snacks: Yogurt, macadamia nuts
Thoughts: One could do worse than spend a weekend reading Wodehouse, Austen & Steinbeck!
Non-book activities: Watched some Olympics & some Detroit Tigers baseball
Pages read: 473

End of Sunday

Just a wrap up. I did read a few more pages and finish a book, but didn't read any more after our evening meal.

Books read from: 1
Paula Byrne, The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym - FINISHED 01.08.21
Books finished: 1
Pages read: 23

Non-book activities: As usual, radio, TV, Bejeweled Blitz, social media,, sleep
Book related: restacking some of my piles of dead tree books temporarily - this needs a lot more work.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5
Total pages read: 286

Monday afternoon update

Books reading from: My vacation reading is Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha. This is book one in the Mercenary Librarians series by this author. I am listening to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. My nonfiction book is Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel. This one is for the Nonfiction Challenge on LT. The August topic is Transportation and this book is about inattentive driving.

Books finished in the last two Weeks: 3 hardcopy books. Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails and Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness by Nathanael Johnson. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City by Joan DeJean. These two books were for the Nonfiction Challenge here on LT. The topic for July was Cities. I also finished a book for my short book project that I started last spring. This one was another Tordotcom book - The Builders by Daniel Polansky. I finished 2 recorded books as well - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough and Earthly Remains by Donna Leon.

Time reading today:
Time posting:
Food:

Thoughts: I am back in Kansas dealing with my mothers Long Haul Covid. She is doing much better since I was here 6 weeks ago. She is gaining strength and moving so much better. We finally have the ear infection gone and she is eating better. After 3 hospitalizations in 6 months I hope that she will be able to stay home for some time.
Non-book activities: It is the week of the county fair and I hope to be able to take it in - at least for a couple of days. This will be back to my roots for sure.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 147
Total time reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 408 hours since April 2020.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/334178