Social Distancing Readathon #96 - January 14 - 16

Welcome to another readathon!

We generally run from Friday at 5 p.m. to Sunday at midnight in whatever time zone you choose, but feel free to start earlier on Friday and wrap up overnight Sunday/Monday, if that's what you want to do.

Here are some things to track throughout the weekend, if you choose:

Books read from:
Books finished:
Time reading:
Time posting:
Snacks:
Thoughts:
Non-book activities:

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

Who is participating -

1. SilverWolf (SilverWolf28) -- Tennessee, USA
2. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
3. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

I'm in again! Winter weather headed our way Sunday, so it should be a good day to stay in and read.

I will be joining again this weekend. I am getting my COVID booster shot tomorrow and so might be spending a day in bed. If that is the case, there is nothing better to do except sleep and read.

I’ll join. Snow in the forecast and a three day weekend, so I will read through Monday.

I'm in, and will actually try to read books and post this weekend.

I'm in too.

I'll do my best to join in. My nephew's coming over this weekend, but not *all* weekend so I should be able to have at least some time to read, but we'll see how much it ends up being (I'm not known for getting reading done even on nephew-free weekends).

We have sleet and snow in the forecast too. I will finish at least one book and perhaps another. My problem is that I get distracted when I begin cross stitching or doing genealogical research. I'll try to focus on blending them a little better this weekend.

I'm in- reading a very long history and the weather- very, very cold!

I'm in.
Also expecting that same winter weather on Sun. I'll be here by the fire with cat and pile of books.

Books:
About to finish Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber and
The True Story of Christmas by Anne Fine.
Just started The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister.

sunny, 43 F. (6 C.) in Charlotte at 10a.

I'm in. Currently reading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre, and The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton.

Portland, Oregon is having an unusually warm, mostly sunny January weekend - daytime highs at about 50. The wife is working (urgent care nurse) this weekend, so I should get a decent amount of reading in.

Planning on joining. We've got winter weather predicted for Sunday, and I'm home on Monday. What to read, aye, there's the rub.

I'm planning to join in and maybe hoping to finish a book, but more importantly, to actually post on the Readathon thread - I've been reading but not posting on the last two!

>11 ChrisG1: Ooh, nice! I want to do a re-read of the Karla trilogy some day. And I’ve been meaning to get to the Father Brown books. Again, some day.

My calendar is clear for the entire weekend so I'm in! I'll be finishing up The Frozen Thames, Give Unto Others (I had put that on the back burner) and listen to An American Tragedy and possible read from my longer projects Under Jerusalem and Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers

My priorities for the weekend are to finish Last Train to Istanbul (almost un-put-downable now after a slowish start), make good progress on and maybe finish the audio of The Resistance Man (I need to do a lot of cleaning tomorrow, so maybe a motivation to keep cleaning!), and read The Sign of Four as well as a Sherlock Holmes short story. (I think The Adventure of the Norwood Builder may be next up, and I'll listen to it on LibriVox.) If I get all that done, I'll start on Inheritance.

Saturday morning here - I've been reading The island of the Missing Trees and hope to finish today, only 50 odd pages left which I tried to get through late last night but fell asleep instead.
Just been for a drive to the city centre and picked up a latte on the way home.
We have a lot of stuffed peppers in the fridge, but I'll also be making meatballs for tonight's dinner.
I'm also reading a little from Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann & need to read a couple of graphic novels about WW1 so they can return to the library.

We're supposed to get anywhere from 15-40cm of snow so I'm planning to stay inside and do a bit of reading.
Right now I'm reading Weather by Jenny Offill. Seemed fitting.

Friday evening

Books:
Just finished The True Story of Christmas by Anne Fine, moments ago. Very funny!
3/4 way through Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber,
my current audio book, also funny. I can make a good dent in that when I take my long evening walk later.
In addition to The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister, I also started
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk.

Dinner soon: great leftover meatloaf and steamed vegetables; a little popcorn earlier.
I'm trying to stick to my New Year's goal to get fit & trim!

I'm back, reading to avoid indoor frostbite in midst of cold snap.

Listening to Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel; I'll find some other books on my Kindle to read. I also have A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins to read & return to the Providence Athenaeum.

Friday night update (10:15 pm):

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur, The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny, The Resistance Man by Martin Walker
Books finished: The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: chocolate
Thoughts: It's too late to think.
Non-book activities: a Zoom chat with a few friends, cat petting

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

I've got the next fiction and another non-fiction to add into tomorrow's mix.

I'm in! I have Monday off for MLK Day, so I'll track my reading through then:

Books read from: The Year of Lear
Books finished: The Year of Lear
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 7:25 PM
Snacks: hot dog and fries for dinner
Thoughts: I'm tired.
Non-book activities: work, laundry

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

Friday evening update:

Books read from: Last Train to Istanbul
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: hot chocolate
Thoughts: I hope we don't get ice this weekend and that the power stays on.
Non-book activities: Zoom chat; laundry.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?

I'm reading The Splendid and The Vile by Eric Larson

I'm in Silver and just starting:

Looking to make progress with:

Up With the Larks by Tessa Hainsworth (TIOLI)
Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrom (Holocaust Reading)
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin (ABC0
Black Out by Ragnar Jonasson (Around the World)
Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings (Shared Read)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Pulitzer)

Friday 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 Resistance Man by Martin Walker. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch and 1 hour this evening.
Time posting:
Food: I had a burrito from a quasi Mexican take-out joint.
Thoughts: I finished Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows and really liked this novel. It is for one of my real life book clubs and I think this is going to be a good discussion. There is lots to talk about in this book regarding culture and immigration issues. I got totally caught up in Resistance Man by Martin Walker and read half of the book in the last two days. I really like these Bruno, Chief of Police books.
Like others in this group I have Monday off for MLK Day so will be posting my reading through Monday night.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 195
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 518 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon

Sat evening - 9.pm

Books read from: The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 1.5hr

Snacks: chicken, rice and green beans, chek khtis / banana sago pudding
Thoughts: what to read next, probably The Lincoln Highway
Non-book activities: chatting, K-drama on tv, music, food prep

Total books finished: 1 The Island of Missing Trees
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3hrs

The Island of Missing Trees grew on me as I read it though I need to read something with more action in it right now.

Friday overnight/early Saturday a.m. update

Books read from: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel
Books finished: The Plot
Time reading: 3 hours??
Time posting: none
Snacks: strawberries
Thoughts: It's cold outside. I wish I could sleep through the night.
Non-book activities: Watching the movie crew put up and take down the set for a shoot literally on my front porch and outside. They'll repeat this tomorrow (high winds made shooting impossible today). Took delivery of big gift of kitty litter from my friend Rita. Took Minka to the vet (no problems with her right front paw, I suspect the vet thinks she's a drama queen...)

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours, more or less

I forgot to include an audiobook in last night's report, so I added that in. I've already read a bit this morning, but I'll include it with a bigger update this evening. I've got a couple of chores to run before the winter weather system arrives, so I'd better get ready and head out to run those. Hopefully I'll be back in a hour to hour and a half once I leave the house.

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: Last Train to Istanbul
Books finished: Last Train to Istanbul
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: blueberry lemon scone & tea (breakfast)
Thoughts: I should't have stayed up reading so late tonight when I have so much to do today.
Non-book activities: Sleep

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

Friday evening update:

Books read from: The Frozen Thames
Books finished:
Time reading: about an hour
Snacks: I was still full from lunch at my favorite Mexican restaurant so my dinner was cheese and crackers
Thoughts: I could binge watch Emily in Paris but I really want to savor every episode
Non-book activities: one episode of Emily in Paris (Gabrielle is manifique!) - a little You Tube

Total books finished: almost
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: about an hour

Friday reading:
A very slow start in terms of reading

Books read from: Five Children and It, Empire of Pain
Books finished: none
Pages read: 40 and one chapter of audiobook
Time reading: About an hour and a half
Dinner: sushi
Thoughts: My college-age daughter, who is supposed to head back to school on a flight Monday morning, just learned that a friend she spent time with on Thursday evening got a positive COVID test back on Friday. We are not sure what to do--she needs a negative test to return to campus, but a test taken now probably won't pick up so recent an exposure. She really wants to leave, but I think she's going to have to stay here.
Non-book activities: work, catching up on threads, dinner, difficult conversation with daughter (not about COVID), Azul, Wordle

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total pages read: 40 and one chapter of audiobook
Total time reading: About an hour and a half

Saturday 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 Resistance Man by Martin Walker. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Time reading: .5 hours before bed last night and 1 hour this morning.
Time posting:
Food: coffee and a radish sandwich for breakfast
Thoughts: I intend to do some errands this morning and then stay inside cooking today. I am going to try a new recipe and that will be exciting. I am looking foward to a three day weekend becuase I will be doing lots of teaching in the next two weeks and will be exhausted and probably too tired to do much reading. Like others in this group I have Monday off for MLK Day so will be posting my reading through Monday night.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 195
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 519.5 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon

>28 Chatterbox:
Sounds exciting to have so much going on right outside your door! I heard about the sequel to this movie on a TV interview with Bette Midler before Christmas. The interview made it sound like the movie was almost done. Your observations make me believe that it might not be ready to release on Halloween of 2022. Keep us updated on the progress outside.

Saturday update

Books read from: Weather, Silver Sparrow, The Look-alike
Books finished: none

Time posting: 5:25pm
Snacks: chips

Thoughts: I really hate shoveling.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3

Saturday early afternoon:

Books read from: Honey Girl
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 2:15 PM
Snacks: chicken sandwich
Thoughts: This book is more intense than I expected.
Non-book activities: writing, picked up groceries

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

Saturday 8 pm update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur, The Resistance Man by Martin Walker, The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Books finished: none this round
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: nothing yet
Thoughts: Wishing it would snow a foot instead of 2-3 inches. (Accuweather has cut their prediction to 3-6 inches, but it's high compared to the local folks who are allowing for the "horseshoe effect" we get in this area.)
Non-book activities: cat petting, cross stitch, crossword puzzle, watching Barefoot Contessa, a little genealogy, errands

Total books finished: 1) The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ??

Saturday early evening:

Books read from: Honey Girl
Books finished: Honey Girl
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5:25 PM
Snacks: banana
Thoughts: I should actually cook something for dinner...
Non-book activities: taking down Christmas decorations--between my spell of vertigo and my husband having back spasms, we're running behind on that

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours

Saturday night update:

Books read from: The Resistance Man, I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs
Books finished: I Could Chew on This: And Other Poems by Dogs
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: cheddar cheese & tea
Thoughts: I am hoping we don't get a lot of snow tomorrow. I have to work Monday and I don't want to drive in it.
Non-book activities: cleaning, laundry, walking the dog

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

Saturday night update:

Movie shooting update: They are about to roll the cameras now; it's bloody freezing outside. Went out to take out garbage and take pics for my landlady (who is more excited than I am, but who is in Boston) and discovered that the production designer and I have a close mutual friend -- and we're both Canadian expats. So I helped him with the final prep bits (including opening soda cans to stop them exploding mid-scene. I have now retreated inside. When the cameras start rolling, Bette Middler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy WILL be ambling down the street in front of my house but I will not be watching out the window. I have posted some pics on FB and will try to find a way to post them here (of the set-up/scene). Benita, the release date is pretty firm. They are in the final stages of filming now.

Book update!

Books read from since last update: Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel, Acts and Omissions by Catherine Fox, Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry
Books finished: none yet
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 20 mins?
Snacks: sandwiches for 'lunch'
Thoughts: I think the rest of the world is MUCH more excited than I am about celebrities. I'm more interested in all the background work.
Non-book activities: Trying to figure out WTH happened to the Amazon package that was delivered and mysteriously replaced by... a planter full of fake mums by the movie guys. None of whom admit to having seen the box. Snoozing. Dealing with stuff for my father.

Total books finished this readathon: 1, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 7 hours

Saturday night update:

Books read from: The Frozen Thames
Books finished: I should finish this book tonight
Time reading: all day, off and on
Lunch: Salami sandwich. Dinner: Veggie Pizza and glass of wine
Thoughts: I spent half the day selecting gift items for a baby shower and I ended up choosing my first choices. Also watched the Bengals beat the Raiders. Just watching a team wearing brown and orange is uplifting.
Non-book activities: online shopping for a baby shower gift

Total books finished: almost

Saturday reading:


Books read from: Five Children and It, Empire of Pain, Intimacies, Mindful Drinking, The Chalk Pit
Books finished: 2 Empire of Pain, Five Children and It
Pages read: 235 pages plus 5 chapters audiobooks
Time reading: 4 hours plus 90 min listening
Snack: pastries from Azerbaijani bakery
Lunch: leftover sushi rolls
Dinner: London broil, curried crispy chick peas, roasted brussels sprouts
Thoughts: Bracing for snow
Non-book activities: yoga, farmers market, dishes, laundry, dinner prep, family Azul game, card game with Helen, episode of Queer Eye, Wordle

Total books finished: 2 Empire of Pain, Five Children and It
Total read from: 5 Five Children and It, Empire of Pain, Intimacies, Mindful Drinking, The Chalk Pit
Total pages read: 40 and one chapter of audiobook
Total time reading: About an hour and a half

Movie shooting update: They have finished! Didn't start shooting until about 11 p.m., by which time I was tucked up in bed. I went to the front window, and all I saw was Sarah Jessica Parker stomping up and down impatiently, trying to keep warm in between run-throughs. I went back to bed. Then I overheard some extras gossiping outside my bedroom window. FINALLY, there was a lot of noise, and they got a good version on camera and promptly all the big lights were turned off and people vanished to the warmth. Tomorrow, they'll break it all down.

Book update!

Books read from since last update: Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel, Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry, New York, New York, New York by Thomas Dyja
Books finished: Three Debts Paid
Time reading: 3.5 hours
Time posting: 10 mins
Snacks: chicken casserole for a v. late dinner
Thoughts: So glad all the movie hullabaloo is over.
Non-book activities: Not much. Made dinner. Listened to Saturday evening radio show on WNYC.

Total books finished this readathon: 2, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Three Debts Paid
Total read from: 5 (the above, plus Acts and Omissions by Catherine Fox
Total time reading: 10.5 hours

>43 Chatterbox: Thanks for the updates

Sun evening - 8.30pm

Books read from: The Twelve and the Genii, The Lincoln Highway, Reading the Holocaust, Pavel and I, The Cross eyed mutt, Cruising through the Louvre
Books finished: 2 The Cross eyed mutt, Cruising through the Louvre
Time reading: 2.5hr

Snacks: lamb souvlaki & mujaderra (spicy rice & lentils)
Thoughts: what to read next, probably The Lincoln Highway
Non-book activities: outing for iced coffee, K-drama on tv, food prep

Total books finished: 3 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Cross eyed mutt by Étienne Davodeau, Cruising through the Louvre by David Prudhomme
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: 5.5hrs

Finished two graphic novels in the Musée du Louvre series, I've now read 9 of these and have Cats of the louvre to read.

Books read from: Inheritance
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: chips and orange juice
Thoughts: I'm glad the power is back on!
Non-book activities: piano practice, mopping

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ?

I had planned to do Zoom church this morning because of the wintry mix in the forecast. However, my power went out shortly before 9:30 and didn't come back on until about 20 minutes ago. I hadn't charged my phone last night and I didn't want to use battery power for reading an ebook, so I picked up Inheritance and read the first several chapters. Now that the power is back on I can switch to my ebook.

>40 Chatterbox:
It must be a real pain in the butt to have them film in front of your house. I hope your package turns up.

Sunday mid-day update

Books read from:Weather, The Look-Alike, Silver Sparrow, Project Hail Mary
Books finished: Weather

Time posting: 1:33pm
Snacks: just drinking some coffee
Thoughts: It's cold out but at least there's sunshine.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4

Sunday - early afternoon.

The snow scene outside is beautiful! Freezing rain still falling.

Books:

Finished -
Wild Rover No More: Being the Last Recorded Account of the Life & Times of Jacky Faber. :)
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister. :)
My favorite of the year so far! Lovely novel for anyone who likes to cook.
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk. Winner of the Scott O'Dell award. :)
Interesting historical novel about Penikese Island off the coast of Massachusettes and the leper colony there in the early 1900s. I knew nothing about this till I read the book.
Beautiful characters and descriptions of the islands.

Now reading Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders, a novel by Brandon Mull.

Breakfast: raisin bran, banana, lots of coffee.

I've read 9 books in 2022. 4 of them off my own shelves!

Update as of 3 p.m. Eastern on Sunday:

Movie shooting update: They've almost finished breaking everything down, and are in the midst of reopening our small residential street to traffic (so I got my lunch delivery safely, LOL...) Glad the hullabaloo is over. Package is still AWOL.

Book update!

Books read from since last update: Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel, New York, New York, New York by Thomas Dyja, Acts and Omissions by Catherine Fox, and a few more chapters of the audiobook of Emma by Jane Austen
Books finished: Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel (audio)
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: 5 mins
Snacks: salmon/tuna/rice poke bowl.
Thoughts: Nice to have a peaceful Sunday. Weather is warming up -- i.e. we're into the 20s. But now apparently a winter storm heading this way? Piffle.
Non-book activities: Napping. Talking to cats.

Total books finished this readathon: 3, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry and Only the Rich Can Play by David Wessel
Total read from: 5 (see above)
Total time reading: 15.5 hours

Mon recap - 12.30pm

Books read from: The Lincoln Highway, The Book Tour, It was the war of the trenches
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 1.5hr

Snacks: latte
Thoughts: Tardi's graphic novel on WW1 is hard going
Non-book activities: outing for latte & catfood, K-drama on tv, sleep

Total books finished: 3 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Cross eyed mutt by Étienne Davodeau, Cruising through the Louvre by David Prudhomme
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: 7hrs

The Book Tour is a fun graphic novel, everything is going wrong and it might be turning into a nightmare.
I have both Jaques Tardi's graphic novels out from the library, looking at WW1 through French eyes. It was the war of the trenches & Goddamn this war!.

>44 avatiakh:
Is Cats of the Louve part of a series? I have that book on my desk at work to read during lunch hour.

>48 Chatterbox:
I get tired of the hullabaloo that surrounds the football games. It blocks traffic and makes it almost impossible to get around to do the normal things of life - like get groceries. Every football weekend at the grocery store is like the few days right in front of a major holiday. It gets tiring so I understand that aspect. I also don't care much about celebreties. I know that football and basketball stars come into the library from time-to-time, but I don't know who they are. To me they are just another student who needs help finding resources. It is only afterwards when other students tell me with awe "that person was ---" that I even know about it.

Sunday 8 pm update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur, The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk, The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves
Books finished: The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady, My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: a few cookies and a couple pieces of dark chocolate
Thoughts: Wish it had snowed more
Non-book activities: church, cat petting, cross stitch, a little TV

Total books finished: 1) The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 2) My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 3) The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ??

Update for Sunday:

Books read from: The Frozen Thames, Under Jerusalem
Books finished: 1, The Frozen Thames
Time reading: about an hour

Breakfast: a cheese omelet and Mimosa Dinner: Eggplant Parm
Thoughts: This is a pleasant snow, not windy so hopefully power will stay on. (I've got my flashlight and batteries at hand, JIC.
Non-book activities: Played a game of Orchard to get familiar with it. Watched football games.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2

Sunday night update
Books Read From: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. Most of my reading today has been in Resistance Man by Martin Walker. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal Resistance Man by Martin Walker
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting:
Food: indian takeout food for lunch. chips and salsa for supper.
Thoughts: I spent most of Saturday afternoon and night in bed fighting the affects of the COVID booster shot. I had really bad chills. This problem was compounded by the fact that it was cold and rainy down here. High temperature yesterday was 48 and today it only got up to 49. It was a good weekend to spend in bed and I did! I read an entire book this weekend. Resistance Man. I started it on Thursday and finished it this morning. It was the perfect cold weather book. If the Bruno, Chief of Police series doesn't make a person want to take a journey to the Dordogne region of France - nothing will.
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: 524.5 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon

Sunday evening update:

Books read from: The Unbroken
Books finished: The Unbroken
Time reading: 6 hours
Time posting: 7:15 PM
Snacks: chicken biryani
Thoughts: It's so fun to have the time and space just to plow through a big book in a day or two.
Non-book activities: church via YouTube, worked on postcards to voters

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 11 hours

Books read from: Inheritance, The Adventure of the Dying Detective
Books finished: Inheritance, The Adventure of the Dying Detective
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: blackberries & cream, tea
Thoughts: Why am I still up?
Non-book activities: Zoom church, cleaning kitchen

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

Sunday night wrap-up:

Books read from: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Father Brown's Innocence by G.K. Chesterton.

Books finished: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Animal Farm
Pages read: 500-ish
Dinner tonight: Pot roast
Non-book activities: Watched Encanto on Disney+, went to church.

I finished The Splendid and The Vile last night and started a book of short stories by Mark Haddon. However the stories have proved to be very depressing so I might switch books.
Supper last night- left overs- baked chicken, cauliflower, ginger and tomato side dish.

Monday morning update
Books Read From: Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry is my at work book. Honey Bus by Meredith May. I am listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Resistance Man by Martin Walker
Time reading: .5 hours this morning.
Time posting:
Food: bread butter and radish sandwich for breakfast
Activities Other Than Reading: I am making a quick trip to Birmingham this morning to pick up some book boxes from another librarian friend. I have run out of shelf space in my house and need to pack up the books I have accumulated in the last two years. They are turning my home office into an unsuable space becuase they are piled on the floor. Time to clean up and organize a bit.
Thoughts: After finishing Resistance Man I was looking around for a lighter read but didn't want to get out of bed to find one. My eyes lit upon Honey Bus and I started, once again, reading in it. It is a good memoir and I can't wait to get to the bees part. I already found out about the Honey Bus. I intend to do some more reading this afternoon and get started on sending out my Christmas epistle. I left my address book here in Alabama when I went home for Christmas and so didn't get my letter sent before Christmas. I want to get them out before January ends.
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: 525 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend readathon

Sunny and 36 F. (2 C.) in Charlotte this morning. Snow and ice will start to melt today.

Books:
So many good ones to choose from I hardly know what to read next.
I'm enjoying these kids books -
The Complete Brambly Hedge and the fantasy adventure Sky Raiders.
I also started Pastoral, historical fiction by Nevil Shute; so far there's too much fishing detail . .
I have new audio books from which to pick. I think I'll start with The Sentinel, the newest Jack Reacher adventure by Lee Child.

Breakfast - not yet
Dinner last night was Tuscan fish stew.

Other activity:
I have laundry and tidying to do today; other than that, I plan to read all day.
Watched PBS last night, Around the World in 80 Days and All Creatures Great and Small

>59 benitastrnad:
Thanks for tip about The Honey Bus. I just requested it from the library to read myself and ordered a copy for my sister who wants to become a beekeeper!

Sunday reading (belatedly):

Books read from: Intimacies, The Chalk Pit
Books finished: 1 Intimacies
Pages read: 100 pages plus 10 chapters audiobooks
Time reading:
Dinner: Chicken katsu, rice, cucumbers
Thoughts: Helen's last day at home before heading back to school. I've loved having her at home for a month.
Non-book activities: yoga, laundry, putting away the rest of the Christmas stuff, snowy dog walk, trip to the store, watching the snow fall, dinner prep, 3 family Azul games, card game with Helen, packing assistance

Total books finished: 3 Empire of Pain, Five Children and It, Intimacies
Total read from: 5 Five Children and It, Empire of Pain, Intimacies, Mindful Drinking, The Chalk Pit
Total pages read: 375 and 15 chapters of 2 audiobooks
Total time reading: no idea

I am off today so may do some more reading.

Monday evening update (6:15 pm):

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Twelve Extraordinary Women by John MacArthur, The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves
Books finished: none today
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: snack mix & chocolate
Thoughts: I will miss my furry lapwarmers when I go back to work tomorrow. At least we have a 2 hour delay.
Non-book activities: cat petting, cross stitch, a little TV

Total books finished: 1) The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 2) My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 3) The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ??

I'll likely read some more in the Cleeves book this evening and cross stitch some.

Monday evening and last update for this Readathon
Books Read From: A small bit in Unwarrented: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. Nothing today in We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry since it is my at work book. Honey Bus by Meredith May. I finished listening to Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and started listening to Spy Who Was Left Behind by Michael Pullara.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal. Resistance Man by Martin Walker. Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Time reading: 1 hour this afternoon and that was listening time.
Time posting:
Food: sandwich for lunch
Activities Other Than Reading: Made my trip to Birmingham and picked up the boxes. Stopped at Target and got my coffee filters. Now I can organize and I can make coffee this next week. Stripped the bed and washed the sheets and then made the bed.
Thoughts: Knife of Never Letting Go was a surprise. It has a very pointed message about what makes a young boy into a man. The narrator did a very good job with a difficult text and made it quite understandable. I did refer to the printed book and thought that the publisher and the author did a great job with the alternate text done in different size and style of text font. It made it very easy for the reader/listener to figure out what was going on in the book. I give this book high marks for a good quality recorded version of a printed book. From what I hear the movie wasn't very well done so maybe for those who aren't inclined to read it would be a good book for them to listen to.
Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 195
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 526 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

Monday update:

Books read from: The Secret to Superhuman Strength, Under Jerusalem
Books finished: 1
Time reading: TBH, I'm not sure

Snacks: Finished veggie pizza leftovers, dark chocolate w/peanut butter bar and a glass of red wine
Thoughts: The forecasters were finally accurate.
Non-book activities: Finished Emily in Paris on Netflix, worked for an hour on my 2020 Shutterfly Album.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4

Monday reading

Today is Martin Luther King holiday for me so I had the day off. I did a little more reading.

Books read from: The Chalk Pit, My Name is Red, New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation, Redemption Ground, Reveille in Washington, Olive Kitteridge

Books finished: 1 The Chalk Pit
Pages read: ?
Time reading: ?
Dinner: Roast beef sandwiches and beet soup
Thoughts: I finished all my books this weekend and am having some difficulty settling into a next book. I've read a chapter or two in five different books.
Non-book activities: dropped off Helen at the airport, yoga, dog walk, packed up the rest of the Christmas boxes, sorted mail, paid bills, trip to the store, some work but not enough, Netflix

Total books finished: 4 Empire of Pain, Five Children and It, Intimacies, The Chalk Pit
Total read from: 10 Five Children and It, Empire of Pain, Intimacies, Mindful Drinking, The Chalk Pit, My Name is Red, New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation, Redemption Ground, Reveille in Washington, Olive Kitteridge
Total pages read: lost track
Total time reading: lost track

>1 SilverWolf28: hope you'll be setting up a thread for this weekend.

Starting this evening the weather forecast is sleet and freezing rain, which will keep me inside except to top off the birdfeeders in the morning and as needed...

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/338939