Social Distancing Readathon #100 - February 11 - 13

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. Nancy (nrmay) -- North Carolina, USA
3. Anne (AnneDC) -- Washington DC, USA
4. Lynda (Carmenere) -- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
5. Cyrel (torontoc) -- Toronto, Canada
6. Susanna (susanna.fraser) -- Seattle, Washington, USA
7. Carrie (cbl_tn) -- Seymour, Tennessee, USA
8. Chris (ChrisG1) -- Portland, Oregon, USA
9. PawsforThought -- Sweden
10. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
11. Stacia (alcottacre) -- Sherman, Texas, USA

Count me in!

Family arriving here this evening for the weekend but I'll find time to read.

Sign me up as well. Thanks!

Include me too! thanks

I'm in -I am finishing the reading of two books.

I'm in!

I'm in! It's supposed to be a lot colder this weekend so it's a good opportunity to stay in and read.

I'm in again. Currently reading The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, and The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski.

>8 ChrisG1:
I've been wanting to read Nickel Boys. I liked The Underground Railroad.

I'm nearly done with Circe by Madeline Miller.

I’m in! Not only will there not be any visitors this weekend, but I’ll have the place completely to myself (except the cat). So I’m hoping to be able to squeeze in a fair amount of reading.

I will be participating again. I hope to get lots of reading done while I watch my bread rise tomorrow.

I am in again too for however long I can stay awake.

Off to a good start!

Books:
Just finished Circe by Madeline Miller. Loved it. Don't know why it took me so long to get to it.
Starting A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas.

Dinner: My husband is putting together a 'low country' shrimp boil - a family tradition when we're at the beach.

Other activity:
long walk on the beach
watching the Olympics

63 F. (17 C.) just before sunset.

I'm in. I've been reading a novella The Cat who walked a thousand miles by Kij Johnson

>1 SilverWolf28: me!!!!

It's been a crazy week, so I'm looking for some escape. I'm currently rereading Bowdrie by Louis L'Amour and about halfway through The Black Tide by Hammond Innes.

I will participate. I may not get tons read, but I did finish one tonight. (I finished one last night too that I need to review.)

Friday Night update:

Books read from: The Last Time I Lied
Books finished: almost, only 60 pages to go
Time reading: a couple of hours

Dinner: I had Kraft Macaroni and Cheese with veggie medley
Thoughts: This book is making me angry, the protagonist is getting on my last nerve
Non-book activities: Olympics

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

Friday night update:

Books read from: The Perpetual Curate, A Chosen Exile
Books finished: A Chosen Exile
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was a grilled market salad and cookie from Chick-Fil-A
Thoughts: I'm glad it's Friday!
Non-book activities: work

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?

I have finished the book I need to read for a Sunday evening book club, so the rest of the readathon is gravy!

Friday night update

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Children Return by Martin Walker
Books finished: The Children Return by Martin Walker
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Birthday supper was ribeye steak and baked potato which I cooked at home
Thoughts: I decided to hold off making the birthday cheesecake until Sunday so I can take it to work to share. I don't need all of it!
Non-book activities: petting cats, cross stitching, watching floss tube, cooking, beginning to inventory cross stitch stash

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ??

Books read from: The Property
Books finished: The Property
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: chamomile tea
Thoughts: Why am I still up?
Non-book activities:

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

That's it for today. Tomorrow may be mostly audiobooks as I need to spend a lot of time cleaning. Also need to do my taxes sometime this weekend.

Friday night:

Books read from: The Bright Ages
Books finished: The Bright Ages
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:30 PM
Snacks: cupcake
Thoughts: I hope I get a good night's sleep.
Non-book activities: Work, laundry, Zoom vestry meeting

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

Late Friday/Early Saturday update:

Books read from: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey, Redemption Ground by Lorna Goodison, Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney by James F. Simon, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee, Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, The Bodies in the Library by Marty Wingate, and Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Books finished: 2, Under the Whispering Door and The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
Time reading: ~7.5 hours
Time posting: 20 minutes
Snacks: An apple
Non-book activities: Watching the owls on Robert E. Fuller's YouTube channel

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 10
Total time reading: ~7.5 hours

Friday reading (on Saturday morning)

Books read from: Larry's Party - Carol Shields, A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz, Is, Is Not: Poems - Tess Gallagher, Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa
Books finished: none so far
Pages read: 55 plus 2 chapters audiobook
Time reading: 90 minutes plus 50 minutes listening
Dinner: pasta with green olives and feta
Thoughts: I let reading cut into my work time today so now I am going to have to do some work during my reading time.
Non-book activities: work, made dinner, finished season 4 of The Wire, Wordle

Total books finished: none
Total read from: Larry's Party - Carol Shields, A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz, Is, Is Not: Poems - Tess Gallagher, Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa
Total pages read: 55 plus 2 chapters audiobook
Total time reading: 90 minutes plus 50 minutes listening

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: The Children Return, The Perpetual Curate
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: breakfast was donuts and coffee
Thoughts: So far it's a nicer day than I expected!
Non-book activities: shopping and errands

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

Saturday morning update
Books Read From: I continue to slowly read Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman and should finish Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter since it is for a real life book discussion group that will be meeting next weekend. I started listening to Moonglow by Michael Chabon. I hope to start Children Return by Martin Walker this week.

Books finished in this week's Readathon:
Time reading: 1 hour today - I hope to get another 2 hours in later today that should enable me to finish one book. tonight. We will see.
Time posting:
Food: I plan on making a batch of bread today. I haven't decided if I will do it by hand or use the bread machine. I think it will be the bread machine as I want to get more profficient at using it.
Thoughts: It was another beautiful day here with the high temps getting into the s60's before they start dropping this afternoon. I am really enjoying Emperor of Ocean Park but I will admit that the length of the thing is bothersome. I undertand an author wanting to create a world but giving us every feeling and nuance of the main characters life is a bit much. Because it has taken me so long to read it, it is cutting into my reading plans for this month. I have already returned 3 books to the library that I thought I would read this month but won't get to becuase of this behemouth.
Non-Book Activities: I am indulging in my quadrenniel love fest with obscure winter sports. The 2022 Winter Olympics is taking place and I LOVE IT! Except for the little girls figure skating. (they should just end that silly sport - if it is a sport - it just causes too much trouble for everybody.) I think there should be a rule that a person has to be 18 in order to compete for a medal in both the winter and summer Olympics. That would end lots of the nonsense. But I have to love the Men's Downhill Ski Race. The average age there was 37 and the silver medalist was 41! Then there is the 40 year old American ski arialist who won a silver medal! Amazing. And now back to my morning chores and then my bread baking.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 198
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 536 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

Saturday afternoon update:

Books read from: The Last Time I Lied
Books finished: 1
Time reading: about an hour

Lunch: A slice of homemade pumpkin bread with butter and tea
Thoughts: I hope we're not getting involved with another war
Non-book activities: Daily bible reading, bread making, yoga

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

For the remainder of the afternoon and evening, I'll be reading from The Children on the Hill, Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, The Lincoln Highway and Dare to Disappoint

>22 alcottacre: nice list, especially the first two.

I didn't read anything last night aside from my Bible as I was too tired. My dh was involved in a motor vehicle accident on Thursday, and my car is badly damaged. I'm juggling insurance adjustor and agent calls, emailing with my attorney's secretary, and dealing with repairs, if possible. The car was running great, but has over 300,000 miles on it, so it probably isn't worth repairing.

The Black Tide and Bowdrie are still waiting for me.

>27 fuzzi: Thanks, fuzzi!

I hope all works out with the car situation!

Saturday evening update
Books Read From: I continue to slowly read Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I am starting Children Return by Martin Walker. I listened to a big chunk of Moonglow by Michael Chabon while doing household errands this afternoon.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Time reading: 2 hours this afternoon
Time posting:
Food:Going to go get take-out tacos this evening and will put the batch of bread into the bread machine so that I will have fresh bread in the morning.
Thoughts: I finished Emperor of Ocean Park this afternoon. I am still processing what I think about this book, but it did keep me occupied for almost two weeks of reading. Well written - I think. I am now going to start another Bruno mystery for the mystery challenge and am looking forward to it. I have done lots of reading today and have enjoyed finishing off this chunkster.
Non-Book Activities:I did a bunch of small neglacted household chores today. I replaced some burned out light bulbs, and fixed the worn out flapper on the toliet tank. I took some books back to the library and got gorceries. This added to some road time so I listened to a big chunk of Moonglow while doing them.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 199
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 538 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

Saturday afternoon update:

Books read from: By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King, and A City in Its Fullness by S.Y. Agnon
Books finished: 1, Outlander
Time reading: ~2.5 hours
Time posting: 0
Snacks: Homemade Vegan Potato Soup
Non-book activities: None

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 12
Total time reading: ~11 hours

Saturday evening update:

Books read from: Mr Penumbra's, Dare to Disappoint, The Lincoln Highway
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 2 hours

Dinner: small bowl of kale,sausage,white bean soup and a steak and cheese burrito.
Thoughts: Oh! and here I thought the Lincoln Highway was the same road as Rte 66
Non-book activities: exercise bike, olympics

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: about 5 hours

Sorry to read about the car accident, Fuzzi. Main thing, everyone is ok.

Saturday night update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Books finished: none this round
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: I baked apple-cinnamon muffins for breakfast. I had breakfast for "lupper."
Thoughts: Too tired to think
Non-book activities: petting cats, presenting a webinar, cross stitching, continuing to inventory cross stitch stash

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??

Saturday night update:

Books read from: The Children Return, Homo Deus, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Books finished: The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Dinner was Brussels sprouts with bacon and oven roasted sweet potato. I've been snacking on Simple Truth apple cinnamon almonds, which are extremely addictive.
Thoughts: It's been a productive Saturday reading-wise
Non-book activities: cleaning, cooking, laundry, knitting while watching The Sandhamn Murders

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ?

Saturday evening:

Books read from: (Trust) Falling For You, Catfishing on Catnet
Books finished: (Trust) Falling For You, Catfishing on Catnet
Time reading: 5 hours
Time posting: 7:15 PM
Snacks: pasta for dinner
Thoughts: I needed a couple of fun books like that!
Non-book activities: Zoom vestry retreat, nap

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours

Late Saturday/Early Sunday update:

Books read from: Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, By the Sword by Mercedes Lackey, Redemption Ground by Lorna Goodison, Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney by James F. Simon, Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, The Bodies in the Library by Marty Wingate, and Empires of the Plain by Lesley Adkins
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~6 hours
Time posting: 0
Snacks: Popcorn
Non-book activities: Watching the owls on Robert E. Fuller's YouTube channel

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 13
Total time reading: ~17 hours

Saturday nigit update on Sundby morsning.

Didn’t read much yesterday as other things took up most of my time.

Books read from: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
Time reading: Half an hour before bed.
Snacks: Blackcurrant juice, yoghurt, toast
Non-book activities:Extra long walk, yoga, sewing, TV

Books read from: The Perpetual Curate, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: breakfast was donuts and tea
Thoughts: I wish I'd been able to get back to sleep after the dog woke me up at about 4:30 needing to go out.
Non-book activities: Sleep, Monk marathon on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ?

I finished Jews and Shoes and am now reading the last half of Matrix by Lauren Groff
Yesterday the contractor who will be replacing my front eavestrough came by to chip the foot high ice out of said eavestrough! He will come back when the weather is warmer. (we are at minus an awful lot C today)

Saturday update reading (on Sunday morning)

Books read from: Larry's Party - Carol Shields, A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz, Is, Is Not: Poems - Tess Gallagher, Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa, The Fiery Trial - Eric Foner, A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck, Redemption Ground - Lorna Goodison, Reveille in Washington - Margaret Leech
Books finished: 1 (Larry's Party)
Pages read: 306 plus 4 chapters audiobook
Time reading: 5 1/2 hours plus 110 minutes listening
Dinner: takeout tacos
Thoughts: I always stay up too late reading and then am too tired to post
Non-book activities: yoga, farmers market, laundry, walk, episode of Station Eleven, Wordle

Total books finished: one
Total read from: 8: Larry's Party - Carol Shields, A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz, Is, Is Not: Poems - Tess Gallagher, Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa, The Fiery Trial - Eric Foner, A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck, Redemption Ground - Lorna Goodison, Reveille in Washington - Margaret Leech
Total pages read: 361 plus 6 chapters audiobook
Total time reading: 7 hours plus 2 hours 40 minutes listening

Finished my reread of Bowdrie last night, one of my favorite L'Amour characters.

>38 torontoc:
BB for that Jews and Shoes book! (Not that I need another one.) ((BB that is - I can always use another title for the TBR list!)

Sunday morning update
Books Read From: Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. Children Return by Martin Walker. I listened to a big chunk of Moonglow by Michael Chabon.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Time reading: 2 hours last night
Time posting:
Food: Starbucks hazelnut cappuccino and a nice thick slice of my fresh backed whole wheat bread.
Thoughts: I started Children Return and was struck by the parallels that the author is drawing between WWII and the problems generated by the current wars that France is involved in. I read until almost 1 AM and that is far too long so I overslept today. That made it so that I had to sit in line at Starbucks this morning. It was wonderful to wake up long and leisurely to a sunny day and to the smell of fresh baked bread. I need to use up the whole wheat flour I have (whole wheat flour goes rancid very fast) so hope to make a loaf of this bread several times this week. Makes me wonder if the smell of freshly baked bread is one to which a person acclimates easily? My real life book group meets this afternoon and we are going to talk about Circe, a book that disappointed me. I didn't think it was as good as Song of Achilles and I am sure that the group will think otherwise. It is cold here today and the wind is blowing. It is beautifully sunny and bright so it looks warm. That mitigates the temperature.

Non-Book Activities: I spent an hour on the phone with my sister this morning. We are both very pleased with the enthusiasm that our mother is showing regarding her new hearing aids. I hope the good feelings she has about them continue in the coming weeks. I spent an hour watching the Olympics and knitted on my scarf.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 199
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 540 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

>41 benitastrnad: I wrote a review on my thread. The cover of the book is really striking. I found some of the articles dry but some were very interesting!

Sunday afternoon:

Books read from: Chaos on CatNet
Books finished: Chaos on CatNet
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 1:30 PM
Snacks: leftover pasta for lunch
Thoughts: I should read sequels directly after the first book more often--you actually remember who everyone is that way!
Non-book activities: Church, picked up holds from library

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

Sunday evening update:

Books read from: Dare to Disappoint
Books finished: 1
Time reading: about two hours

Late Lunch: Homemade Lasagna
Thoughts: Could underdog Bengals be on the way to victory
Non-book activities: Daily bible reading, made lasagna, watching the super bowl

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

Sunday night update:

Books read from: The Children Return, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, Homo Deus
Books finished: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was leftovers; dinner was a pear and cheese
Thoughts: It's been another successful readathon!
Non-book activities: church, walk with the dog, Zoom book club

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ?

>44 susanna.fraser:
That's why I tend to not read series books until the series is finished. That doesn't always work, but that way I can remember who was doing what and who is who. I got aggravated with Rae Carson for publishing a fourth book in her trilogy last year. I read it, but it was hard to remember the story enough to appreciate the book. I also have the same problem with the Queen of the Tearling series. It was a trilogy and now all of a sudden there is a fourth book in the story. (It might not be a sequel, but it is advertised as part of the series.)

Sunday night update
Books Read From: Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. Children Return by Martin Walker. I listened to a big chunk of Moonglow by Michael Chabon in the last two days.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Time reading: 2 hours today
Time posting:
Food: chicken salad with crackers and coleslaw for lunch and pesto spaghetti for supper tonight.
Thoughts: I started Children Return and read over a hundred pages in it today. Mostly while I was watching the Olympics this evening. You can get lots of reading done in commercials and while sports you aren't interested in are being broadcast. My real life book discussion of Circe by Madeline Miller was lots of fun with most of the members liking it much more than I did. It was good but I didn't think it was of the same caliber as her first book Song of Achilles. But the discussion was good and everybody stayed on point and contributed. That is why book people like book discussions. It was a very good weekend for reading.

Non-Book Activities: Knitting and did the dishes this afternoon.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 199
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 542 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

Monday morning update for Sunday reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Books finished: none this round
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Skyline Chili dip in honor of the Bengals
Thoughts: It's pretty bad when you are so full of dip that you don't have time to eat your Cincinnati Graeter's Black Raspberry Chocolate Chip ice cream! Even if the Bengals fell a little short, I enjoyed helping them celebrate.
Non-book activities: petting cats, church, cross stitching, cooking & baking (I made my birthday cheesecake a couple of days after my birthday so I can take it to work today and won't be tempted to eat the whole thing myself.), online book club, Super Bowl, FlossTube

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??

Monday morning summary:

Books read from: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Books finished: The Nickel Boys - really a terrific novel - highly recommended

Non-book activities: The Super Bowl, of course.
Total pages read: 450-ish

>49 thornton37814:
Happy Birthday, Lori!

Wrapping it up -

Books:
BBs from this group this weekend!
Happy to know about sequels to Catfishing on Catnet and Fire and Thorns series.
And I have been meaning to read A Year Down Under for a long time.

Completely enjoying A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas, (another LT BB).
I love all Sherlock Holmes derivations!

Food:
Great restaurants on Amelia Island. Lots of nice fresh seafood, of course. My sister-in-law was here for the weekend and we ate at the Boat House yesterday and the Salty Pelican the day before.

Other activity:
Since my SIL was here, I didn't read as much as usual. We walked on the beach, visited a tiny shrimping museum, strolled around the marina and historic business district. Found a fascinating shop with thousands of old books; will return soon when I can stay a while!
Still captivated by Winter Olympics.

Condolences to all the Bengals fans.
My daughter-in-law in California is still pining over the 49ers losing out.

Sunny, 53 F. (12 C.) just before noon.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/339655