Social Distancing Readathon #113 - May 13 - 15
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2022
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1SilverWolf28
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
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
2benitastrnad
I will be participating and plan on staying home all weekend. I also hope to get some lazy time at the swimming pool.
3ChrisG1
I'm in - currently reading The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
4PaulCranswick
I am in this weekend for sure, Silver.
Loads of books started but not yet finished and I need to do something about that!
Loads of books started but not yet finished and I need to do something about that!
5susanna.fraser
I'm in, though I just finished a book and am not sure what I'll pick up next.
6alcottacre
Kerry is going to be out of town until Sunday afternoon, so hopefully I can get some good reading in tomorrow and Saturday.
7torontoc
I am almost finished The Mirror and The Light -all 875 pages.
9nrmay
I'm in again.
Currently reading The Ogress and the Orphans by Newbery Medal winning and New York Times bestselling author, Kelly Barnhill. J fantasy
Listening to Sylvester by G. Heyer.
Cloudy, 65 F. (18 C.)
Currently reading The Ogress and the Orphans by Newbery Medal winning and New York Times bestselling author, Kelly Barnhill. J fantasy
Listening to Sylvester by G. Heyer.
Cloudy, 65 F. (18 C.)
10thornton37814
I have a lot on my to-do list. It may mostly be audio books, but I'm hoping to finish at least one ebook this weekend and hopefully two.
11fuzzi
I'm hoping to get a couple read this weekend, as the forecast is rain, and my allergies are keeping me inside.
12cbl_tn
I'm in again!
Friday night update:
Books read from: Life in the Iron Mills
Books finished: Life in the Iron Mills
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was a hamburger and fries
Thoughts: I have a lot of errands to do tomorrow, but I hope to squeeze in some reading time!
Non-book activities: walking, helping plant begonias at the entrance to our development
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
I just started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and this will be my main focus for the weekend. I probably won't finish it this weekend, but I'd love to make significant progress.
Friday night update:
Books read from: Life in the Iron Mills
Books finished: Life in the Iron Mills
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was a hamburger and fries
Thoughts: I have a lot of errands to do tomorrow, but I hope to squeeze in some reading time!
Non-book activities: walking, helping plant begonias at the entrance to our development
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?
I just started The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and this will be my main focus for the weekend. I probably won't finish it this weekend, but I'd love to make significant progress.
13benitastrnad
Friday night posting:
Books Read From: Still plugging away at Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I am mostly reading The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. This one is for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. I finished Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker for the mystery read along here on LT and I finished listening to Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr for a shared read here on LT. I have started reading Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos for my real life book discussion group and I started listening to Monster of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sister of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I finished Cloud Cuckoo Land on the way home from work and I really enjoyed this book. There were lots of threads in it but they did connect in the end. I think I liked this one better than All the Light We Cannot See by the same author. I really liked the parts about Omeir and Anna, but also Zeno. I guess I just liked all of the characters. I am also liking The End by Kershaw. It is very academic but also very good. This is for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. The May theme is war and the after effects, or what leads up to war. This book attempts to explain what was going on in the heads of the citizens of Germany from July 1944 to May 1945.
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: went out for Mexican/American food tonight with a friend.
Nonbook activities: Work has been a b___h this last week. I am so glad that retirement is close. I hope to get lots read this weekend and I also want to get the rest of my plants put into their respective pots. I want to start cleaning a bit in my kitchen and I am trying to keep my bathroom tidy, but most of the day will be spent relaxing and reading. No cooking this weekend.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 605.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books Read From: Still plugging away at Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I am mostly reading The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. This one is for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. I finished Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker for the mystery read along here on LT and I finished listening to Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr for a shared read here on LT. I have started reading Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos for my real life book discussion group and I started listening to Monster of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sister of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I finished Cloud Cuckoo Land on the way home from work and I really enjoyed this book. There were lots of threads in it but they did connect in the end. I think I liked this one better than All the Light We Cannot See by the same author. I really liked the parts about Omeir and Anna, but also Zeno. I guess I just liked all of the characters. I am also liking The End by Kershaw. It is very academic but also very good. This is for the LT Nonfiction Challenge. The May theme is war and the after effects, or what leads up to war. This book attempts to explain what was going on in the heads of the citizens of Germany from July 1944 to May 1945.
Time reading: 1 hour at lunch
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: went out for Mexican/American food tonight with a friend.
Nonbook activities: Work has been a b___h this last week. I am so glad that retirement is close. I hope to get lots read this weekend and I also want to get the rest of my plants put into their respective pots. I want to start cleaning a bit in my kitchen and I am trying to keep my bathroom tidy, but most of the day will be spent relaxing and reading. No cooking this weekend.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 605.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
14benitastrnad
>12 cbl_tn:
I didn't like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay that much when I read it for a real life book club soon after it was published. However, it grew on me. I remember parts of the novel so well and now think it was really good. I hope that you enjoy it. I certainly have.
I didn't like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay that much when I read it for a real life book club soon after it was published. However, it grew on me. I remember parts of the novel so well and now think it was really good. I hope that you enjoy it. I certainly have.
15alcottacre
Friday night update:
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~3 hours
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~3 hours
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~3 hours
16nrmay
Friday late night
Books:
Finished The Ogress and the Orphans, a fantasy and allegory for our life and times. :)
Resumed The War I Finally Won, historical fiction, WWII Britain.
Family came for dinner. We got take-out pulled pork BBQ
Other activity:
Listened to some music on YouTube.
A postcrossing friend in Poland sent me this link - https://youtu.be/FxZ3jcPMFEA
So I sent her one of my favorites -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkgNEO_Yeg
Then I remembered Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDroSmKn_I
Books:
Finished The Ogress and the Orphans, a fantasy and allegory for our life and times. :)
Resumed The War I Finally Won, historical fiction, WWII Britain.
Family came for dinner. We got take-out pulled pork BBQ
Other activity:
Listened to some music on YouTube.
A postcrossing friend in Poland sent me this link - https://youtu.be/FxZ3jcPMFEA
So I sent her one of my favorites -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkgNEO_Yeg
Then I remembered Richie Stearns & Rosie Newton -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNDroSmKn_I
17AnneDC
Friday reading
Books read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Books finished: none
Pages read: 57 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time reading: about an hour plus 1 1/2 hours listening
Snacks: Dinner was chicken chili and a green salad
Thoughts: I'm learning a lot about the Reconstruction-era amendments to the Constitution, and wishing this wasn't an audiobook as I will remember less.
Non-book activities: Work, make salad, dinner, dishes, 2 episodes of Better Call Saul
Total books finished: none
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Total pages read: 57 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Total time reading: about an hour plus 1 1/2 hours listening
Books read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Books finished: none
Pages read: 57 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time reading: about an hour plus 1 1/2 hours listening
Snacks: Dinner was chicken chili and a green salad
Thoughts: I'm learning a lot about the Reconstruction-era amendments to the Constitution, and wishing this wasn't an audiobook as I will remember less.
Non-book activities: Work, make salad, dinner, dishes, 2 episodes of Better Call Saul
Total books finished: none
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Total pages read: 57 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Total time reading: about an hour plus 1 1/2 hours listening
18susanna.fraser
Saturday morning:
Books read from: Winter's Orbit
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:40 AM
Snacks: Cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: This is a fun, escapist weekend read.
Non-book activities: laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
Books read from: Winter's Orbit
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:40 AM
Snacks: Cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: This is a fun, escapist weekend read.
Non-book activities: laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours
19nrmay
Sat, early afternoon.
Books:
The War I Finally Won
Sylvester Heyer.
Lunch was leftover BBQ
Finally sitting down to read, and perhaps to nap.
Other activity:
Slept late after staying up till way after midnight. Sister and I took kids to the park this morning.
Filled bird feeders. Now watching the birds - bluebirds, robin, cardinal, wrens, finches, brown thrashers.
Sunny, 77 F. (25 C.)
Books:
The War I Finally Won
Sylvester Heyer.
Lunch was leftover BBQ
Finally sitting down to read, and perhaps to nap.
Other activity:
Slept late after staying up till way after midnight. Sister and I took kids to the park this morning.
Filled bird feeders. Now watching the birds - bluebirds, robin, cardinal, wrens, finches, brown thrashers.
Sunny, 77 F. (25 C.)
20benitastrnad
Saturday afternoon posting:
Books Read From: Still plugging away at Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I try to read a page a day in it. I am mostly reading The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. For fiction, I have a good start on Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos. I am listening to Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sisters of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I went to the public library today to take some books back and check out two more. They stopped charging fines on May 1st, but they also changed the checkout period to 2 weeks instead of 3 weeks. I wasn't too pleased about that. However, they will automatically renew your books three times and so all together you get 6 weeks and no fines. This will make getting books from them for listening to on my trips home much easier. I always had to wait to leave town until after 9 AM when the library opened so I could get the copy of the recorded book I wanted to listen to and not have to pay to much of a fine when I returned it. Of course, I will only be making 2 more trips home before I retire so the change in policy isn't that much of a boon for me.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning.
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: left over Mexican food
Nonbook activities: I got most of my plants planted. I only have a few more to put into pots, but will finish those tomorrow morning. It got hot while I was working and it was just too hot for me. I am getting older and I just don't have the stamina to stay out and finish it. Plus, my back started hurting, so it was just time to quit for the day. But the patio is looking like it did so that is pleasing. I also hauled out the recycling. Still have dishes to do and I am going to bake cookies. I will do oatmeal raisin.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 606.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books Read From: Still plugging away at Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I try to read a page a day in it. I am mostly reading The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. For fiction, I have a good start on Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos. I am listening to Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sisters of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I went to the public library today to take some books back and check out two more. They stopped charging fines on May 1st, but they also changed the checkout period to 2 weeks instead of 3 weeks. I wasn't too pleased about that. However, they will automatically renew your books three times and so all together you get 6 weeks and no fines. This will make getting books from them for listening to on my trips home much easier. I always had to wait to leave town until after 9 AM when the library opened so I could get the copy of the recorded book I wanted to listen to and not have to pay to much of a fine when I returned it. Of course, I will only be making 2 more trips home before I retire so the change in policy isn't that much of a boon for me.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning.
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: left over Mexican food
Nonbook activities: I got most of my plants planted. I only have a few more to put into pots, but will finish those tomorrow morning. It got hot while I was working and it was just too hot for me. I am getting older and I just don't have the stamina to stay out and finish it. Plus, my back started hurting, so it was just time to quit for the day. But the patio is looking like it did so that is pleasing. I also hauled out the recycling. Still have dishes to do and I am going to bake cookies. I will do oatmeal raisin.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 606.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
21AnneDC
Saturday reading about 7 pm)
Books read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience. I also read one chapter of each of these to decide what I'm reading next: A Pale View of Hills, Moth Smoke, Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Pages read: 150 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time reading: about 2 hours plus 1 hour listening
Snacks: Lunch was a falafel sandwich from the farmer's market, and an apple
Thoughts: It's nice that my books for 19th century American writers challenge this month are very short.
Non-book activities: Wordle, Spelling Bee, yoga, laundry, farmer's market, walking dog, sorting socks, reading newspaper, thinking about dinner
Total books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Total pages read: 207 plus 2 audiobook chapters
Total time reading: about 2 hours plus 2 1/2 hours listening
Books read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience. I also read one chapter of each of these to decide what I'm reading next: A Pale View of Hills, Moth Smoke, Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Pages read: 150 plus 1 audiobook chapter
Time reading: about 2 hours plus 1 hour listening
Snacks: Lunch was a falafel sandwich from the farmer's market, and an apple
Thoughts: It's nice that my books for 19th century American writers challenge this month are very short.
Non-book activities: Wordle, Spelling Bee, yoga, laundry, farmer's market, walking dog, sorting socks, reading newspaper, thinking about dinner
Total books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience
Total pages read: 207 plus 2 audiobook chapters
Total time reading: about 2 hours plus 2 1/2 hours listening
22susanna.fraser
Saturday afternoon
Books read from: Winter's Orbit
Books finished: Winter's Orbit
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 4:30 PM
Snacks: jellybeans
Thoughts: Such a lovely, sunny afternoon
Non-book activities: farmer's market, grocery store, watched a bit of Eurovision
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours
Books read from: Winter's Orbit
Books finished: Winter's Orbit
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 4:30 PM
Snacks: jellybeans
Thoughts: Such a lovely, sunny afternoon
Non-book activities: farmer's market, grocery store, watched a bit of Eurovision
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours
23cbl_tn
Saturday evening update:
Books read from: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, A Little Princess
Books finished:
Time reading: Not enough
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was pork barbecue and sweet potato chips
Thoughts: It's been a busier day than I expected, with a little unpleasantness mixed in with gorgeous weather. Somehow it's easier to stay optimistic in the warmer months. Sunshine helps
Non-book activities: walks with the dog, took dog to groomer, went grocery shopping, did laundry, picked dog up from groomer, took trash to dump, visited a couple of families from church with loved ones struggling with age-related illnesses, took dinner to one of the families, knitted.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
>14 benitastrnad: Thank you for the encouragement! I just finished section one and found it absorbing. Michael Chabon tells a good story! I believe this will be the fourth of his books that I've read. The only one that didn't work for me was The Yiddish Policemen's Union. I really liked Gentlemen of the Road and The Final Solution.
Books read from: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, A Little Princess
Books finished:
Time reading: Not enough
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was pork barbecue and sweet potato chips
Thoughts: It's been a busier day than I expected, with a little unpleasantness mixed in with gorgeous weather. Somehow it's easier to stay optimistic in the warmer months. Sunshine helps
Non-book activities: walks with the dog, took dog to groomer, went grocery shopping, did laundry, picked dog up from groomer, took trash to dump, visited a couple of families from church with loved ones struggling with age-related illnesses, took dinner to one of the families, knitted.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
>14 benitastrnad: Thank you for the encouragement! I just finished section one and found it absorbing. Michael Chabon tells a good story! I believe this will be the fourth of his books that I've read. The only one that didn't work for me was The Yiddish Policemen's Union. I really liked Gentlemen of the Road and The Final Solution.
24benitastrnad
>23 cbl_tn:
I have read Summerland. Yiddish Policeman's Union, Kavalier & Clay and I just read Moonglow this spring. I have Gentlemen of the Road somewhere in my stacks.
I have read Summerland. Yiddish Policeman's Union, Kavalier & Clay and I just read Moonglow this spring. I have Gentlemen of the Road somewhere in my stacks.
25benitastrnad
>22 susanna.fraser:
One of my work colleagues is in a book club and they just read Winter's Orbit for the May selection. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
One of my work colleagues is in a book club and they just read Winter's Orbit for the May selection. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.
26alcottacre
Saturday night update:
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, Dark Demon by Christine Feehan, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, The Year of Lear by James Shapiro, Human Acts by Han Kang, Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Books finished: 1, Brat Farrar
Time reading: Listened to audio books for about 90 minutes, ~ hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 12
Total time reading: 90 minutes audio, ~10 hours hard copies
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey, Dark Demon by Christine Feehan, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, The Year of Lear by James Shapiro, Human Acts by Han Kang, Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Books finished: 1, Brat Farrar
Time reading: Listened to audio books for about 90 minutes, ~ hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 12
Total time reading: 90 minutes audio, ~10 hours hard copies
27torontoc
I am reading People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn and Three Rings A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn.
28AnneDC
Saturday night
Books read from: A Pale View of Hills Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 136
Time reading: about 3 hours
Snacks: Dinner was shakshuka and a green salad
Thoughts: Both eggs and lettuce are taking over my house. Eggs because they're automatically delivered with the milk every two weeks, and lettuce because my husband's golf buddy has a garden surplus.
Non-book activities: made dinner, phone conversation with my daughter, last episode of Better Call Saul, dishes
Total books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience, A Pale View of Hills Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Total pages read: 207 plus 2 audiobook chapters
Total time reading: about 2 hours plus 2 1/2 hours listening
Books read from: A Pale View of Hills Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Books finished: 0
Pages read: 136
Time reading: about 3 hours
Snacks: Dinner was shakshuka and a green salad
Thoughts: Both eggs and lettuce are taking over my house. Eggs because they're automatically delivered with the milk every two weeks, and lettuce because my husband's golf buddy has a garden surplus.
Non-book activities: made dinner, phone conversation with my daughter, last episode of Better Call Saul, dishes
Total books finished: 3 Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, , Civil Disobedience
Total read from: Bartleby the Scrivener, If Morning Ever Comes, The Second Founding, Civil Disobedience, A Pale View of Hills Crusade for Justice, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Total pages read: 207 plus 2 audiobook chapters
Total time reading: about 2 hours plus 2 1/2 hours listening
29nrmay
Sunday, early afternoon
Books:
halfway through The War I Finally Won
Still listening to Sylvester, amusing dialogue; charming and droll. :)
good eats:
Sat night dinner - salmon on the grill. Family was here again.
breakfast was coffee, granola, mini croissant, V8 juice.
Other activity:
Didn't get much reading done yet, but plan to start now and read this afternoon.
Filled bird baths, watching the birds. Sunday newspapers.
sunny, 81 F. (27 C.)
Books:
halfway through The War I Finally Won
Still listening to Sylvester, amusing dialogue; charming and droll. :)
good eats:
Sat night dinner - salmon on the grill. Family was here again.
breakfast was coffee, granola, mini croissant, V8 juice.
Other activity:
Didn't get much reading done yet, but plan to start now and read this afternoon.
Filled bird baths, watching the birds. Sunday newspapers.
sunny, 81 F. (27 C.)
30cbl_tn
Sunday afternoon update:
Books read from: A Little Princess, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was chicken fingers, fries, and a DQ Blizzard
Thoughts: I am thankful for nice weather on a Sunday afternoon so I could read on the porch swing out on my deck
Non-book activities: church, walk with the dog, phone conversation with a friend
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: A Little Princess, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was chicken fingers, fries, and a DQ Blizzard
Thoughts: I am thankful for nice weather on a Sunday afternoon so I could read on the porch swing out on my deck
Non-book activities: church, walk with the dog, phone conversation with a friend
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ?
31susanna.fraser
>25 benitastrnad: I thought Winter's Orbit did a nice job of balancing the science fiction/political intrigue external plot with the romance between the two protagonists, both of whom were sympathetic and appealing characters even if I got a little frustrated with just how long it took them to actually TALK about the various issues weighing them down. (Though I could understand more than I sometimes do why they'd be so reticent, especially the one who had the more harrowing past.)
Books read from: Leaving Church, Charlemagne's Tablecloth
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5:15
Snacks: strawberry-rhubarb galettes my husband and son made a pie baking class this morning
Thoughts: And today the unseasonably chilly and excessively rainy weather is back. Yes, this is Seattle, where chill and rain predominate, but normally by this time of year I'm more tempted to dig out shorts and sandals than put on a hoodie. (Though after you've lived in Seattle long enough, 65F is shorts weather if it's sunny.)
Non-book activities: church, nap
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: Leaving Church, Charlemagne's Tablecloth
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 5:15
Snacks: strawberry-rhubarb galettes my husband and son made a pie baking class this morning
Thoughts: And today the unseasonably chilly and excessively rainy weather is back. Yes, this is Seattle, where chill and rain predominate, but normally by this time of year I'm more tempted to dig out shorts and sandals than put on a hoodie. (Though after you've lived in Seattle long enough, 65F is shorts weather if it's sunny.)
Non-book activities: church, nap
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
32benitastrnad
Sunday evening posting:
Books Read From: Another page in Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I read quite a bit in The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. I am really liking Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos. I am listening to Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sisters of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I am deep into the Ian Kershaw book and am finding it fascinating. I really like Broken for You and find myself reading more of it than I anticipated when I pick it up. I don't have to have it read until June 12th but I am already 125 pages into it. I really like this one.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning and 1 hour at lunch. And I plan on reading another hour before bed tonight.
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: Indian food
Nonbook activities: I worked on planting a few more pots but I have run out of pots. I think I will make a quick trip to Birmingham and purchase a couple of more pots. Big ones. I have some big plants to pot and big pots look so dramatic on my patio. It is funny because every year I say that I am not going to plant as many plants and every year I plant just as many as the year before.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 608.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
Books Read From: Another page in Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman. I read quite a bit in The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945 by Ian Kershaw. I am really liking Broken For You by Stephanie Kallos. I am listening to Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This is book 3 in the Chaos Walking series. I have also started reading Sisters of the Resistance by Christine Wells.
Books finished in this week's Readathon: Fatal Pursuit by Martin Walker. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr.
Book Thoughts: I am deep into the Ian Kershaw book and am finding it fascinating. I really like Broken for You and find myself reading more of it than I anticipated when I pick it up. I don't have to have it read until June 12th but I am already 125 pages into it. I really like this one.
Time reading: 1 hour this morning and 1 hour at lunch. And I plan on reading another hour before bed tonight.
Time posting:1 hour.
Food: Indian food
Nonbook activities: I worked on planting a few more pots but I have run out of pots. I think I will make a quick trip to Birmingham and purchase a couple of more pots. Big ones. I have some big plants to pot and big pots look so dramatic on my patio. It is funny because every year I say that I am not going to plant as many plants and every year I plant just as many as the year before.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 230
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 608.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.
33benitastrnad
>31 susanna.fraser:
Sounds like I should put that title on my TBR list. Thanks for the short review.
Sounds like I should put that title on my TBR list. Thanks for the short review.
34thornton37814
Weekend update:
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin, The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus, Henry V by William Shakespeare
Books finished: The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin, The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: Do I have to think?
Non-book activities: cat petting, cross stitching, Sunday School fish fry, resting, investigating post-flight hotel options, Floss Tube, catching up on a Genealogy YouTube channel
Total books finished: 2
Total read from:5
Total time reading: ??
I should finish Henry V before I go to sleep tonight, so that will make 3 finishes. I'll likely not remember to post in the morning, as I'll be busy at work.
Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin, The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus, Henry V by William Shakespeare
Books finished: The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin, The Names of Our Tears by P. L. Gaus
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: popcorn
Thoughts: Do I have to think?
Non-book activities: cat petting, cross stitching, Sunday School fish fry, resting, investigating post-flight hotel options, Floss Tube, catching up on a Genealogy YouTube channel
Total books finished: 2
Total read from:5
Total time reading: ??
I should finish Henry V before I go to sleep tonight, so that will make 3 finishes. I'll likely not remember to post in the morning, as I'll be busy at work.
35alcottacre
Sunday night update:
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, and Improbable Libraries by Alex Johnson
Books finished: 2, The Island of Missing Trees and Impossible Libraries
Time reading: ~4.75 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 13
Total time reading:
Total time reading: 90 minutes audio, ~15 hours hard copies
Books read from: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella, The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman, The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James, and Improbable Libraries by Alex Johnson
Books finished: 2, The Island of Missing Trees and Impossible Libraries
Time reading: ~4.75 hours
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 13
Total time reading:
Total time reading: 90 minutes audio, ~15 hours hard copies
36thornton37814
Quick update before heading to work:
I did finish Henry V last night as predicted and began reading Assaulted Pretzel by Laura Bradford.
I did finish Henry V last night as predicted and began reading Assaulted Pretzel by Laura Bradford.
37ChrisG1
Monday morning summary:
Books Read from: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me by Karen Swallow Prior, The Confessions of St. Augustine
Books finished: The Underground Railroad
Non-book activities: Watched my lowly Detroit Tigers sweep a weekend series from the even lowlier Baltimore Orioles. Terrific BBQ rib supper at my son's with both sons & grandsons.
Pages read: 400-ish
Books Read from: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me by Karen Swallow Prior, The Confessions of St. Augustine
Books finished: The Underground Railroad
Non-book activities: Watched my lowly Detroit Tigers sweep a weekend series from the even lowlier Baltimore Orioles. Terrific BBQ rib supper at my son's with both sons & grandsons.
Pages read: 400-ish
38nrmay
weekend wrap
Books:
Finished The War I Finally Won, sad but good.
Starting Network Effect in the Murderbot series.
Other activity:
administering to the needy cat; watched episodes of Gaslit and Bosch Legacy; enjoying the wildlife in my yard. Besides all the birds and squirrels I have bunnies, lizards and a cute little chipmonk. Getting ready to water my pots and baskets. Laundry and getting ready to leave for California this week.
Sunny, 77 F. (25 C.)
See you next week!
Books:
Finished The War I Finally Won, sad but good.
Starting Network Effect in the Murderbot series.
Other activity:
administering to the needy cat; watched episodes of Gaslit and Bosch Legacy; enjoying the wildlife in my yard. Besides all the birds and squirrels I have bunnies, lizards and a cute little chipmonk. Getting ready to water my pots and baskets. Laundry and getting ready to leave for California this week.
Sunny, 77 F. (25 C.)
See you next week!
39alcottacre
>38 nrmay: I enjoyed both The War I Finally Won and its prequel. Sad but good covers it.
