Social Distancing Readathon #95 - January 7 - 9

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. Mary (bell7) -- Massachusetts, USA
3. Stacia (alcottacre) -- Sherman, Texas, USA
4. Lori (thornton37814) -- Tennessee, USA
5. PawsforThought -- Sweden
6. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
7. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
8. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
9. Paul (PaulCranswick) -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
10. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
11. Ella (EllaTim) -- Amsterdam, Netherlands
12. fuzzi -- North Carolina, USA
13. Kerry (avatiakh) -- Auckland, New Zealand
14. Dee (Deedledee) -- Nova Scotia, Canada
15. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
16. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
17. Luci (elkiedee) -- London, UK
18. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA

I'll be jumping in again this weekend!

I am in - or I will be in for as much as possible this weekend!

I'm sorry for forgetting the readathon yesterday. We got 5 inches of snow on Thursday and almost had a disaster with our greenhouse! We didn't get the snow swept off the greenhouse soon enough and it started to collapse. It took all afternoon to get everything back the way it was supposed to be.

While my numbers may not be high, I'll try to participate this weekend too.

>4 SilverWolf28: I'm glad you caught it before the greenhouse collapsed.

I’m in. I didn’t get any reading done last weekend buy this time I’m finishing Edward Gorey’s Amphigorey and trying to get as far as possible with Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters and Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman.

I have some other things that need attention this weekend (knitting, sewing and a few longer walks), but otherwise I should be able to devote quite a lot of time to reading.

I'm in for sure! I'll be reading The Henna Artist non stop and then move on when it is completed.

>4 SilverWolf28: Yikes! about the greenhouse. Hurray for removing the snow in time of total collapse.

I'm in! I have a few things on my schedule this week and I'll have an extra dog, but I have some books I'd like to finish over the weekend. I'll be reading:

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley
The Resistance Man by Martin Walker

I'm in, hoping to finish The Sentence.

I'm in Silver.

Three books up for me this weekend:

Madonna in a Fur Coat
Homeland Elegies &
Vernon God Little

I'm in!
Reading The Island of Missing Trees and Empire of Pain while deciding what to start next.
I'll also be putting away all the Christmas things and attending a virtual board retreat for much of Saturday, so maybe less reading than I'd like.

I’m in as well.

Want to finish a book I’ve started:
De Herinnerde Soldaat.
Looking for something fun and light as well.
And starting My Name is Red

Another rainy day tomorrow, I will have time to read.

>1 SilverWolf28: me! Me! Me!

I am finishing up West From Home by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Not sure what book I'll follow up with.

I'm in.
Kerry from Auckland, New Zealand.
Check in: Saturday 1pm

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, The Bicycle Spy, The Passenger, Homesick: My Own Story

Books finished: 1
Time reading: 3.5hrs
Snacks: 2x lattes
Thoughts: Love reading
Non-book activities: trip to library to pick up holds that have come in over the holidays

Total books finished: 1 The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3.5hrs

It's hot and muggy and I got little sleep so read instead.
The Bicycle Spy is a children's book about a boy who is crazy about the Tour de France and helps his parents in their Resistance work by delivering messages to nearby villages.

We're currently having a snow storm so I'll likely be curled up here getting some reading done.

Friday night update.

Books read from: 1 Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
Books finished: 1 (see above)
Time reading: A couple of hours
Snacks: Tea, sandwich, roasted soybeans
Thoughts: A discussion in the Health thread made me go down a rabbit hole and now I can’t stop thinking about food served on the Orient Express.
Non-book activities: Putting away Christmas decorations, watching TV, reading about the Orient Express on Wikipedia.

Next up - hanging out with Terry Pratchett’s wonderful witches.

Friday evening update:

Books read from: The Valley of Fear
Books finished: The Valley of Fear
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was chicken & pasta with basil pesto, carrot sticks, and a tangerine
Thoughts: It's cold outside!
Non-book activities: work

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

I'm in- most of the friends and relatives are isolating this weekend because of the Omnicron wave that has hit.
I'm finishing Flower Diary by Molly Peacock

Friday night update: 9:00pm
I'm going to head on up to bed but I'll probably read more before I fall asleep.

Books read from: The Henna Artist
Books finished:
Time reading: about an hour and a half

Snacks: Homemade caramel corn and a glass of Pinot Noir
Thoughts: Thank goodness I remembered to send a wedding gift to my dearest friend's son.
Non-book activities: watched the US Figure skating championship

Total books finished:
Total read from: 1

Friday night update -

Books read from: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
Books finished: 0
Snacks: leftover pizza for dinner
Thoughts: I'm having trouble just sitting down and reading. Maybe better luck tomorrow?
Non-book activities: puttering around on my phone looking for my covid test results and catching up on LT threads

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2

Edited to get touchstones to work

Friday night update
Books Read From: Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Feldman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. I started Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Circe by Madeline Miller. Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch and 1 hour after I got home from work today.
Time posting:
Food: A friend and I got take out from Panera and ate at her house. I had chicken and rice soup and the steak sandwich. We had hot tea and sat around and talked for two hours.
Thoughts: I have had a great week of reading. I finished listening to Circe on the trip back to Alabama and started a new book. I finished reading Invention of Wings and thought it was a very well done piece of historial fiction. The big winner this week was Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Once again this author managed to suck me into this story and make me care about all of these characters. The sequel was as good as the original. That is very rare and I enjoyed every minute of reading this book. Omicron is surging and live at UA is going to return to January 2021. Instead of moving forward we are staying in the same place. I have to have a mask on at all times in any campus building. I am thankful that I have full classes to prepare for. The students aren't dropping out and that is a good thing.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 194
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 512 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon.

I'm in but will attempt to do proper updates later this morning or afternoon. I did quite well during the New Year readathon (Friday to Monday - public holiday - at everything except posting about my reading) and have finished another book since then.

Friday night update:

Books read from: My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, Square Haunting by Francesca Wade, Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar, The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed, Hench by Natalie Zina Walchots, and Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb
Books finished: 1, My Name Is Red
Time reading: ~4 hours
Time posting: None
Snacks: Apple
Non-book activities: Walking

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~4 hours

Check in: Saturday 8.30pm

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, The Passenger, Homesick

Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1.5hrs
Snacks: Greek version of frittata that included yoghurt & polenta - quite tasty. About to have a glass of chilled sauvignon blanc.
Thoughts: I need to sort through my books
Non-book activities: supermarket to get a few things, food prep

Total books finished: 2 The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough & The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 5hrs

Quiet day. Started with an aggressive knock on door by courier. 30 secs later, I pointed out while I stood by his van in my PJs that parcel was for next door neighbour. Rest of day ran more smoothly.

Saturday morning check-in. 13:00 hrs

Time spent reading: 1,5 hrs
Books read from: 1
Books finished: 1

I finished De Herinnerde Soldaat by Anjet Daanje.
Title would translate to The Remembered Soldier. I thought it was very good, and it has given me a lot to think about.
Now having breakfast, and a cup of coffee. Heading off to do some shopping before it starts to rain.
Omikron here as well, I don’t know if the weekend market will be there.

Saturday morning check in

Books read from: Silver Sparrow, Project Hail Mary, Fire
Books finished: none

Time posting: 9:11am
Snacks: coffee

Non-book activities: I'm preparing to go out and shovel the 40cm that fell overnight. Wish me luck and a strong back.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3

Saturday morning check-in for Friday's reading:

Books read from: Holy Bible (KJV), The Untold Story of the New Testament by Frank Viola, God Hears Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women by Our Daily Bread Ministries, King Lear by William Shakespeare
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1 hour 15 minutes
Time posting: ?
Snacks: ginger snaps & chocolate
Thoughts: I love my cats!
Non-book activities: Zoom Genealogy Chat (pretty much all Friday evening)

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 1 hour 15 minutes

Reading notes: I didn't get my chapter read in The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood yesterday. I'll try to double-up on that one today. I also didn't get around to reading any from Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds. I definitely want to remedy that today. King Lear is my driving audiobook.

I have an online genealogy society meeting late this morning and am going to listen to a friend give a webinar early this afternoon. I plan to read, do a little genealogy, and cross-stitch/watch TV most of the day otherwise. Of course, there will be breaks for cat petting.

Friday Reading:

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home
Books finished: none
Pages read: 101
Time reading: about 2 hours
Time posting: 30 minutes
Dinner: Indian takeout--tandoori chicken, dal, palak chaat, onion kulcha
Thoughts: My daughter Helen is home from college (freshman year) and I'm so enjoying getting to spend time with her, especially after all the holiday activities are over. She has a nice long break and doesn't go back until the 16th. Actually, that may have gotten longer since the school just announced they will be virtual in January. Uh-oh.
Non-book activities: work, family board game (Azul), 3 episodes of Schitt's Creek, several episodes of a YouTube thing where people eat really spicy chicken wings (thank you Helen).

Total books finished: none
Total pages read: 101 The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home
Total read from: 3. The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home
Total time reading: about 2 hours

I won't get much reading done until this evening as I have a virtual retreat for a board that I serve on. It was supposed to be in person, but...omicron.

I'm in to read this weekend.

Books:
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan
Should I Eat This? Simple Ways to Know What to Eat and What to Avoid, Consumer Reports.
Picked this up since I'm participating in the good health thread for 2022.
We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Mary Treadgold. Kids in WWII Britain.
Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber, L.A. Meyer.
Audio edition of the last of the Bloody Jack series. How I have loved these rollicking adventures!
Sorry to be almost done; I'll have to start over and read them again!

Food: just coffee so far. I'm doing intermittent fasting right now for health thread. Holding off till noon to eat.

Other activity:
Out early to take cat to vet for fluids. She's having to go about every 4 days.
sending cards for postcrossing.com
long walk later when it warms up a bit; averaging 2 miles a day (for health challenge!)

Sunny and cold in Charlotte NC this morning - 29 F. (-2 C.)

Good morning, Monday 10:50am
I didn't read in bed last night instead I watched an episode of Selling Sunset on Netflix.

Today is sunny but mighty cold so I intend to make it a day of reading The Henna Artist which I need done for Monday's Zoom book club meeting. Yikes! I also need to work on cross stitch baby bibs when the cats are napping. They seem to be able to hear a needle inserted into linen.

Books read from: Bible
Books finished: none
Pages read: from the books of Genesis, Job and Proverbs
Time reading: 45 minutes

Breakfast: Oatmeal with blackberries, strawberries, flax seed and maple syrup
Thoughts: Thinking about Abraham and Job
Non-book activities: Two youtube shows Tangerine Travels and Say Yes to the Dress

Total books finished: 0

Total read from: The Bible and The Henna Artist
Total time reading: about 2 hours

Saturday late morning check-in:

Books read from: The Sentence
Books finished: The Sentence
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: 11:30 AM
Snacks: cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: I rarely read literary fiction because most of the time I hate it, but I'm glad I made an exception in this case.
Non-book activities: Sleep, mostly. I'm getting over what I'm pretty sure is just a cold--I took an at-home covid test, which was negative--but was accompanied by what my doctor assures me was "benign positional vertigo." It's a bit disconcerting to wake up in the middle of the night and turn over in bed, only to feel like some superstrong giant has picked up the bed and is tilting the mattress such that I'm sure I'm about to crash onto the floor. (The worst of that seems to have passed, though.)

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours

Saturday update:

Books read from: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and Read Dangerously by Azar Nafisi
Books finished: 0
Snacks: breakfast was a bowl of cereal and coffee, lunch was leftover shrimp etouffee, and dinner was taco soup
Thoughts: I have not read as much as I thought I would today, but I got a lot done and I'm satisfied
Non-book activities: cleaning the house, talking to my Little on Skype, cooking

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3

>31 susanna.fraser: It's a bit disconcerting to wake up in the middle of the night and turn over in bed, only to feel like some superstrong giant has picked up the bed and is tilting the mattress such that I'm sure I'm about to crash onto the floor.

Yes. Yes, it is. The good news is that it will pass! I hope you're well on the mend now.

Books read from: 3 (Sea Story and Poppy’s Babies by Jill Barklem and Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Books finished: 2 - the Barklem books
Time reading: Don’t know, a few hours?
Snacks: Yoghurt with müsli, rose hip soup
Thoughts: Trying not to let stressful thoughts about work and future moving get into my head, focusing on more joyful things
Non-book activities: Yoga, watching QI, updating LT, online window shopping for furniture

Books read from: The Sanatorium, Rationality, and Velvet was the Night
Books finished:1, The Sanatorium
Time reading: 2 hours, mostly this morning
Time posting: 8 pm
Snacks: bourbon over ice
Thoughts: good bourbon!
Non-book activities: watching LOTR movies, taking down Christmas decorations

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

Saturday late evening update.

Books read from: 3
Ebook: My Name is Red
De Herinnerde Soldaat
Audiobook: The thursday murder club
Total time reading: a couple of hours

Books finished: 1, De Herinnerde Soldaat

Snacks: dinner was lentil soup, later I had a hot chocolate.
Thoughts: glad I found a nice audiobook to listen to.

Non-book activities: phone conversations, shopping, taking out the trash. Back exercises.

Saturday evening update:

Books read from: A Traveller in Time, Silver Blaze (short story)
Books finished: Silver Blaze (short story)
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was bacon & eggs, chocolate hummus and graham crackers
Thoughts: The weekend is passing too quickly!
Non-book activities: genealogy

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

Saturday evening update:

Books read from: The Henna Artist
Books finished: The Henna Artist
Time reading: Not as long as I'd hoped
Snacks: chicken chow mien - chocolate pudding for desert
Thoughts: I'll finish this book tomorrow, for sure!
Non-book activities: Tidied house - paperwork - SIL brought dinner over

Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: Hmm, not sure, maybe 1 hour.

>38 Carmenere:
I really liked The Henna Artist. It made my personal best book of the year list. The sequel is also very good. Different than the first book, but very good.

Saturday night update
Books Read From: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Feldman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. I started Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Circe by Madeline Miller. Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Time reading: 1 hour this morning
Time posting:
Food: chicken vegetable soup and cornbread. Very good for a coolish day.
Thoughts: I went to Birmingham today and spent the afternoon with a friend. We went out for Indian food for supper and then to a Books-A-Million store that is closing. She had a half price coupon for her purchases so I purchased $52.00 in books, and she purchased $125.00. That means that I got $100.00 worth of books for half price. YEAH! I did get at least one book that I already have in my collection. That was Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch. Oh well - sometimes you do that when you go shopping for books. I could have purchased more books, but didn't, as my office is so full of books that they are stacked on the floor. I need to read more and do it faster.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 194
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 513 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon.

>40 benitastrnad: Yay for discounts on books! Sounds like you had a great time too.

Saturday night update:

Books read from: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed, Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots, and Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Books finished: 2, The Fortune Men and Hench
Time reading: ~4 hours
Time posting: 30 minutes
Snacks: Tortilla chips
Non-book activities: Watching football

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

Saturday Reading:

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home
Books finished: none
Pages read: 110 + 3 chapters of audiobook
Time reading: about 2 hours plus 1 hour 15 min listening
Time posting: none
Dinner: tacos
Thoughts: The only time I left the house Saturday was to pick up dinner.
Non-book activities: virtual board retreat, board game and cards with my daughter, board game with family, yoga, series finale of Schitt's Creek

Total books finished: none
Total pages read: 211 plus 3 chapters of audiobook
Total read from: 3. The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home
Total time reading: about 4 hours plus 1:15 hours listening

>34 PawsforThought:
Just requested The Complete Brambly Hedge from the library!

>38 Carmenere:
>39 benitastrnad:
Loved The Henna Artist. I'm drawn to novels set in, or related to, India.
Forgot there was a sequel. I'll look for it.

>40 benitastrnad:
Liked Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows. I read several books about Indian women last year.
" I need to read more and do it faster." Me too! Just checked and I have 800+ books 'to read' on my shelves...

>44 nrmay: You won’t regret it - I bought all eight books after having read two of them and I could look at the pictures all day.

Sunday - early afternoon.

Books:
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan.
Should I Eat This? Simple Ways to Know What to Eat and What to Avoid, Consumer Reports.
We Couldn't Leave Dinah, Mary Treadgold. This was an LT bk bullet.
Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber, L.A. Meyer.
Audio ed.
Finished: not yet

lunch: ham and egg sandwich, coffee.
I'm faring well with intermittent fasting so far.

Other activity:
Watching Netflix thriller series You, based on a series of books by Caroline Kepnes.
Must get out for a walk before it starts to rain later.
Cloudy and mild, 57 F. (14 C.) in Charlotte NC

>33 cbl_tn: I'm almost completely over the vertigo now, thankfully.

Sunday late morning check-in:

Books read from: The Year of Lear, The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 1
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 10:40 AM
Snacks: peanuts
Thoughts: Such a beautiful bright, frosty morning like we rarely get around here with our cloudy, soggy winters.
Non-book activities: Virtual church, listened to podcasts, laundry, clearing out expired food from the pantry
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours

Sunday afternoon update:

Books read from: A Traveller in Time, The Resistance Man
Books finished: A Traveller in Time
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: I had a late lunch of asparagus & egg casserole
Thoughts: It's a dreary day outside. Perfect for reading indoors.
Non-book activities: walked dogs, cooked lunch

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ?

>40 benitastrnad: >44 nrmay: Thank you for letting me know of a sequel to The Henna Artist. I'm already intrigued as to who would be included in that one.

Sunday evening check in

Books read from: Silver Sparrow, Project Hail Mary, Fire
Books finished: Fire

Time posting: 6:28pm

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3

Sunday night update and weekend wrap-up.

Books read from: 1 - Wyrd Sisters
Books finished: 0
Time reading: Not much more than an hour
Snacks: Cottage cheese sandwich, apple juice
Thoughts: Am annoyed with myself that I’ve managed to forget taking down the Christmas curtains
Non-book activities: Yoga, knitting, sewing, watching TV, online window shopping

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: Not many, maybe 7?

Final count: 1 1/2 books

West From Home - completed

With These Hands - about halfway

Sunday update:

Books read from: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Books finished: 0
Thoughts: Do I read more on the weekends I'm NOT signing up for readathons? hmm....
Non-book activities: church, watching football, phone call with my sister

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3

Sunday night update
Books Read From: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Feldman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. Most of my reading today has been in Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. I did some driving around town today so got a nice sized chunk of listening done on Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Circe by Madeline Miller. Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Time reading: 1 hour this morning and 1 hour at lunch. I hope to get an hour of reading done tonight before bed as well.
Time posting:
Food: Indian food.
Thoughts: I have a love/hate relationship with the students at UA. They are back in droves today and I went to the supermarket to get food at 5 PM tonight. MISTAKE! The place was super crowded - no parking spots and almost no carts. Yep! The students were back in town. Tomorrow is the football game and they all came back today so they could celebrate, or cry in their beer, tomorrow night. I had a book club meeting today or I would have gone shopping much earlier this afternoon and missed the crowd. Publix's didn't have enough people working and the place was a madhouse. Somehow I got all the way home, and didn't have my celery, fennel, or onions and I was going to start some chicken soup tonight. I had to drive back and sure enough my sack was there, but a quick one hour jaunt to the grocery store turned into a 2 hour commute to the store. I like living close to work, but sometimes the crush is a pain when the students are back.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 194
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 515 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon.

Sunday night update:

Books read from: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League
Books finished: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: orange juice
Thoughts: It's been a successful readathon!
Non-book activities: Zoom church, Zoom book club

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ?

I finished reading Flower Diary In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens A Door by Molly Peacock
Food- chicken ( good leftover) mashed sweet potato and left over chicken soup.

Sunday night update:

Books read from: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb, Square Haunting by Francesca Wade and Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Books finished: 2, Cloudsplitter and Vengeance in Death
Time reading: ~7 hours
Time posting: None
Snacks: Raw broccoli, cauliflower, and baby carrots
Non-book activities: Watching football

Total books finished: 6
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~15 hours

Forgot to update on Sunday night.

Monday 9.30pm

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, Homesick: my own story

Books finished: 1 Homesick: my own story
Time reading: 1.5hrs
Snacks: falafel & chips with hummus & tahini
Thoughts: need to start on my year long read - Journey to the West
Non-book activities: supermarket to get a few things, food prep

Total books finished: 3 The Bicycle Spy by Yona Zeldis McDonough, The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz & Homesick: My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 6.5hrs

>58 avatiakh: I liked Homesick: My Own Story.

I forgot to post Sunday morning for Saturday's reading so today's covers both Saturday and Sunday:

Books read from: Holy Bible (KJV), The Untold Story of the New Testament Church by Frank Viola, God Hears Her: 365 Devotions for Women by Women by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood by Tristram Hunt, The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Books finished: The Untold Story of the New Testament Church by Frank Viola
Time reading: 5.5 hours
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Rice Krispie treats
Thoughts: My cats are so helpful. One of them helped keep the thread from knotting by batting it. Another held the pattern down. All three served as lap warmers.
Non-book activities: Cross-stitching (almost done with a piece--I might finish today), church (online), online book club meeting and a little informal chat afterwards, lots of cat petting, lots of genealogy research (When you are discovering new things, it's hard to stop. Now I need to get most of the discoveries in my tree instead of just a research log. I did figure out who two people were in a household. I still need to figure out the two Gabriels. There's only 5 years between the two. I'm pretty sure the second one belongs to one of the daughters, and I can hazard a guess as to which one it is, but I need to be sure.)

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: all the above plus King Lear by William Shakespeare
Total time reading: 6 hours 45 minutes

I should finish the Wedgwood book Tuesday with my chapter a day approach if I read the epilogue with the last chapter. The epilogue is longer than most but not as long as a chapter.

Sunday Reading:

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home, Five Children and It
Books finished: The Island of Missing Trees
Pages read: 239 + 4 chapters of audiobook
Time reading: about 4 hours plus 2 hours listening
Time posting: 15 min
Dinner: spaghetti with Italian sausage
Thoughts: I loved The Island of Missing Trees, which I read for the Asian Books Challenge.
Non-book activities: yoga, rainy dog walk, made breakfast and dinner, dishes, laundry, a tiny bit of putting Christmas stuff away (but not enough), opening mail, more Azul

Total books finished: 1
Total pages read: 450 plus 7 chapters of audiobook
Total read from: 3. The Island of Missing Trees, Empire of Pain, Fun Home, Five Children and It
Total time reading: about 8 hours plus 3:15 hours listening

Monday morning update
Books Read From: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Feldman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. Most of my reading today has been in Erotic Stories For Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. I did some driving around town today so got a nice sized chunk of listening done on Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Circe by Madeline Miller. Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker. Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Time reading: 1 hour this evening.
Time posting:
Food: I didn't get the chicken soup made, so will do it tonight while the rest of the town watches the football game.
Thoughts: I am enjoying Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows very much. It is a totally unexpected pleasure. I have had the book for almost 5 years and I dug it out because one of my real life book discussion groups is reading it for its January book. There is alot more to this book than just a simple rom/com. I am going to be encouraging people to read this one. Hidden Palace was another real gem of a book. It is a sequel but it can also be read as a standalone, but the reader will have to have some knowledge of middle eastern and Jewish myths in order to fully appreciate it.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 194
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 516 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon

Sunday night/Monday morning update:

Books read from: The Henna Artist
Books finished: The Henna Artist
Time reading: All day Sunday and about 1/2 an hour this morning

Sunday dinner: Tacos Monday: Grapefruit and a waffle with fruit
Thoughts:Why couldn't the Browns play like this all year.
Non-book activities: football off and on while I read

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1

The Henna Artist was such a good historical fiction! The entire Zoom library group loved it! The sequel is The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and I must put it on my to read list.

>45 PawsforThought:
I think my little granddaughters, age 2 and 5, will like them!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/338749