Social Distancing Readathon #105 - March 18 - 20

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. Benita (benitastrnad) -- Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

I will be joining in again. It has become a weekend thing for me to track my reading using this thread.

Not sure how much reading I will get done this weekend as it looks to be a busy one, but I will get in as much as I can!

I'll be joining!

I'm in!

Still reading Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

sunny, 69 F. (21 C.)
Think I'll go out for a walk before I start reading . .

I’m going to make a valid attempt at reading this weekend.
I’ve managed to catch something (not covid, thankfully, I’ve checked) and have been feeling rotten for days. So this weekend I’m going to cuddle up and read.

I’m in - Mrsdrneutron is away this weekend.

I'm in, too!

I'm in.

I'll be here!

I'm in.

I'll be joining. I have a somewhat busy weekend but what would a weekend be without reading?

Friday noon update
Books Read From: I am reading Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell and Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat by Eric Hazeltine. Because of all the road time, I started listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning in the snowy peace of the dawn
Time posting:
Food: not much - my tummy is still rumbly
Thoughts: I am loving the peace and quiet of this morning. I woke up about 3 AM and looked out to a snow covered world. It was still snow covered when I got up at 7 AM, but it is melting. Nevertheless, I decided to not leave for Alabama today as the weather between St. Louis and Hopkinsville, KY is really bad. I have no desire to drive through that so will just wait and leave tomorrow. I have a short week next week so it won't matter that I don't have a day to unpack and get things in order at my house. I am reading Siege of Krishnapur as a group read but I have to confess that my other book has captured my attention so I am spending my reading time on it.
Non-Book Activities: I plan on spending most of today catching up on work e-mail and reading my book. Spy in Moscow Station. It has captured my attention.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 208
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 572 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

I'm in again, acknowledging it's likely to be a light reading weekend due to...(sinister music)...tax season. Currently reading Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb & will start on Cadillac Jack by Larry McMurtry.

Friday evening update:

Books read from: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Books finished: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was chicken tenders, fries, and Texas toast from Zaxby's, plus a tangerine
Thoughts: I'm glad I don't have to worry about snow tomorrow!
Non-book activities: Walking the dog, catching up on reviews

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

Friday evening

Books:
2/3 of the way through Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Still listening to A Conspiracy in Belgravia

Dinner:
leftover Chinese take-out, See's chocolate. HAD to buy chocolate - fundraiser for my granddaughter's preschool. :)

Other activity:
booked a trip to California in May, to be there for granddaughter's 3rd birthday.
Facebook, Bejeweled, Jewels Magic, postcrossing.

Thoughts:
Que Viva Ucrania!

Friday night update:

Books read from: 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die, Reflecting the Glory, Diary of a Provincial Lady
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: hot milk & honey
Thoughts: I've always loved Friday nights. It's my favorite time of the week.
Non-book activities: Hallmark movie

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

Friday evening report:

Books read from: Where Pigeons Don’t Fly by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, A Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh, This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, Still Life by Sarah Winman, The Safe House by Christophe Boltanski, and Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples and Michael Browning
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3.5 hours
Time posting: 0
Snacks: None
Non-book activities: Playing a board game with my husband, Kerry

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours

Saturday morning update for Friday's reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson, Buried in Secret by Viveca Sten
Books finished: None
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: a couple of cookies and piece of chocolate
Thoughts: I was quite tired and went to bed early.
Non-book activities: cross stitch, petting cats

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??

Saturday morning update:

Books read from: Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: breakfast was a cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese and tea
Thoughts: It's awfully windy outside.
Non-book activities: sleep, starting my list of Thingaversary books

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

Friday Reading (posted Saturday)

Books read from: Spring, Waking Up White, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Angelica's Smile
Books finished: none
Pages read: 65 plus 1 chapter audiobook
Time reading: about an hour plus 20 minutes listening
Dinner: pre-theater Indian food
Thoughts: We rearranged our theater subscription to accommodate my college daughter's spring break, since she loves Catch Me if You Can and wanted to see it. We included a high school friend who had been in the play himself, and his mom, and ended up having a surprisingly social evening, very pre-pandemic.
Non-book activities: wrapping up work, emergency run to store for toilet paper, dinner out, theater: Catch Me if You Can, playing Overcooked with my daughter, midnight Wordle

Total books finished: none
Total read from: 4 Spring, Waking Up White, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Angelica's Smile
Total pages read: 65 plus 1 chapter audiobook
Total time reading: about an hour plus 20 minutes listening

Saturday afternoon update:

Books read from: Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Diary of a Provincial Lady
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was a bacon, gouda & egg sandwich from Starbucks with an iced latte
Thoughts: I'd love to sit outside if it wasn't so windy. It would be pleasantly warm if not for the strong winds. But it's March, so I guess it's to be expected!
Non-book activities: laundry, cleaning kitchen, took dog to groomer, shopped for groceries on the way home

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ?

Friday night reading

Books read from: The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman
Books finished: none
Snacks: 4 lemon KitKat sections
Non-book activities: spent Friday afternoon outside doing a burn of our brush pile. Came inside after almost four hours with a heat headache, didn't feel much like reading until late in the evening.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1

Books read from: The House on Vesper Sands, The Story of China, Girl waits with Gun
Books finished: The House on vesper Sands and The Story of China
Time reading: 6 hours split between last night and early this morning
Time posting: 3:30 EDT
Snacks: coffee and breakfast with this morning’s reading
Thoughts: why, oh why did I wake up so early this morning?!
Non-book activities: took a bike ride around mid day

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 6 hours

Saturday evening:

Books read from: A Marvellous Light, Powers and Thrones
Books finished: A Marvellous Light
Time reading: 7 hours
Time posting: 8:15 PM
Snacks: Burritos for dinner
Thoughts: Back pain wasn't in my plans for this weekend. Sometimes middle-aged bodies are no fun.
Non-book activities: laundry, altar guild

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 7 hours

Saturday evening report:

Books read from: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine, Where Pigeons Don't Fly by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed, A Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh, This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, Still Life by Sarah Winman, The Safe House by Christophe Boltanski, and Dead Men Do Tell Tales by William R. Maples and Michael Browning
Books finished: 1, Where Pigeons Don't Fly
Time reading: ~5.75 hours
Time posting: 0
Snacks: None
Non-book activities: Making many cups of tea trying to fend off my CFS

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~9.25 hours

Sunday noon update for Saturday:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson, Buried in Secret by Viveca Sten
Books finished: None
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: I had a piece of key lime pie at a restaurant
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: visit cross stitch store, Target, eat at Cootie Brown's, petting cats, napping with cats, Zoom genealogy chat, several phone calls

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ??

Sunday noon update
Books Read From: I am reading Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell and because of all the road time, I am to finish listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling.

Books finished in this week's Readathon: Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat by Eric Haseltine and Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning and the rest is road time listening to the last book in the Harry Potter series
Time posting:
Food: full breakfast of sausage and biscuits and eggs this morning at my friends house.
Thoughts: I really liked Spy in Moscow Station. This is a work of nonfiction that read like a spy thriller. I am about to finish the last Harry Potter book and that is a good thing. This last book is a bloated mess. It is really about 3 books that the author put into one because it is pretty clear that she was tired of writing. Her editors should never have let her get away with this. I am going to start listening to Ask and the Answer as soon as I am done with the Harry Potter book. Ask and the Answer is book 2 in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. It is another dystopian YA novel from about 5 -6 years back.
Non-Book Activities: I am sitting in a Starbucks in Hopkinsville, KY typing this. I am on my way back to Alabama after Spring Break and am taking a break from the road. At least I have good weather to drive in this time. Going home I didn't even stop here as it was snowing like crazy when I came through this town. I a supposed to hit rain down in Alabama later this afternoon, so that won't be fun.

Total books finished since the read-a-thon began: 209
Total time reading for the Read-A-Thon since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 573 hours since April 2020 when I signed up for my first weekend Readathon.

Sunday afternoon update:

Books read from: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Diary of a Provincial Lady
Books finished: Diary of a Provincial Lady
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: chicken salad sandwich
Thoughts: It's a beautiful day for the first day of spring! Adrian and I just enjoyed a leisurely walk through the neighborhood.
Non-book activities: Church, lunch with friends, talked to brother on the phone, long walk with Adrian

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ?

Sunday night update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson, Buried in Secret by Viveca Sten
Books finished: Buried in Secret by Viveca Sten
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Trying to avoid snacking
Thoughts: I'm really tired this weekend, but I managed to finish the one book I wanted to complete.
Non-book activities: church, petting cats, napping with cats, phone call, cross stitch

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

Sunday evening:

Books read from: Powers and Thrones
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 7:35 PM
Snacks: Chili for dinner
Thoughts: First day of spring is kinda cold and rainy? That checks out, actually.
Non-book activities: church, took donations to Goodwill, watched a very disappointing basketball game (Auburn losing to Miami)

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 9 hours

Sunday evening report:

Books read from: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine, A Memoir of Jane Austen by J.E. Austen-Leigh, This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger, Still Life by Sarah Winman, and The Safe House by Christophe Boltanski
Books finished: 1, A Memoir of Jane Austen
Time reading: ~3.75 hours
Time posting: 0
Snacks: None
Non-book activities: Watching Robert E Fuller's YouTube channel

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~13 hours

Sunday night summary:

Books read from: Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb, Cadillac Jack by Larry McMurtry. Also readings from Confessions by Saint Augustine.
Books finished: Ghost Riders & Cadillac Jack

Non-book activities: NCAA basketball tournament
Pages read: 475-ish

Didn't quite finish my book last night.

Books read from: The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman
Books finished: none
Snacks: pretzels
Non-book activities: Saturday did water changes for my three aquariums with a deep clean on the largest (29g), too tired from Friday to do more than "putter" around the house and yard; Sunday: cut husband's hair, trimmed dog's nails, make Sunday dinner which my dad likes. We've been doing "sit down" Sunday dinners for over a year, at his request. I made baked chicken thighs with carrots, mushrooms, and molasses, brown rice on the side, and a store-bought peach pie.

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1

I am rereading Batchelor Brothers Bed and Breakfast Pillow Book as I needed to read something funny this past week.
Last night's dinner- finished off left overs-baked chicken with tomatoes and onions, couscous, and lemon and cucumber salad.

Late wrap-up for the weekend

Books:
FINALLY finished Go Tell the Bees; at 902 pages it took a while.
halfway through Finders Keepers, Stephen King.

Other activity:
Big event of the weekend was the installation of my Little Free Library near our neighborhood clubhouse.
It has been 2 years since I moved here. I brought it with me from the old house and it has been sitting in the garage.
I think it will get lots of foot traffic.
See picture on my profile!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/340734