Social Distancing Readathon #119 - June 24 - 26

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

I am in! I have a ton of books to complete before the end of the month.

I read last weekend, but didn't make it to the thread. Starring this one!

Tomorrow is Midsummer so I doubt I will get much reading done, but the rest of the weekend should make up for it.

I’ll be starting my “summer of horror” by reading Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Other Stories, and balancing that by trying to finish Diana Wynne Jones’ Castle in the Air and Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies.

I'm in!

I am hoping to finish at least one and maybe two this weekend.

I'll join in. It's a long weekend here in New Zealand as we have our first official public holiday for Matariki today - basically celebrates the arrival in the night sky of the Pleiades or the Seven Sisters, in Japan this cluster goes by the name Subaru. Matariki is a fairly recent event, I hadn't heard of it until about 10 years ago when a few children's books suddenly appeared with stories around families celebrating the Maori new year.

'm hoping to finish Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra, I'm on the last story now. Also have been listening to a gripping scifi adventure, the third book in the Revenger trilogy, Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds.

I'd forgotten about readathons but hope to join in. I've finished 4 books in the last few days so have just begun several new ones etc, but there is at least one possible further book that I'll finish quite soon.

I'm in too. What a lovely weekend to read outdoors with some rain in the forecast Sunday to provide some indoor reading time.
I'll be reading from Lessons, Mere Christianity, Old Success and It Devours!
ETA: The Vanishing Half

Count me in. I'll be busy most of Saturday but hope to sneak in a little reading anyway. I hope to finish War: How Conflict Shaped Us, When We Cease to Understand the World, and The Gurkha's Daughter. I have Elegy for Eddie to listen to in the car, and I hope to read a good chunk of Violeta as I think the library wants it back very soon.

I'm in again - currently reading Perelandra by C.S. Lewis and On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed.

I'm in again!

Got two short books read and reviewed this evening. They'll be heading for my granddaughters in Chicago:

The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful cat, both by Judith Kerr.

Friday night update:

Books read from: Summer, The Stranger in My Genes
Books finished: The Stranger in My Genes
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: tea
Thoughts: I love Friday evenings!
Non-book activities: genealogy research, short walk with dog, washed dishes

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

Friday night update:

Completed Perelandra and picked up Rocannon's World by Ursula LeGuin.

Friday Night Update:

Books read from: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik, Pilgrim by Timothy Findley, The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán, The Art of War in the Western World by Archer Jones, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Books finished: 3, Spinning Silver, Pilgrim, and The Art of Warfare in the Western World
Time reading: ~4 hours

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~4 hours

Saturday's Friday Night Update:

Books read from: Welcome to Night Vale.
Time Reading: 1 1/2 hours

Thoughts: I like how the author of Welcome to Night Vale writes. He puts out a weird, nonsensical sentence and then goes back to that thought in a later chapter and you can't help but snicker. It's like you're in on the joke.
Food & Beverage: Street tacos and a Corona (beer)

Saturday morning update for Friday reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Among the Innocent by Mary Alford, Murder Tightly Knit by Vanetta Chapman
Books finished: Among the Innocent by Mary Alford
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Moravian lemon cookies
Thoughts: Why do we allow political and religious differences to polarize us? My mind goes back to some Bible verses we often sang in church. "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (1 John 4: 7-8, KJV)
Non-book activities: mostly a lot of cat petting; getting medical update on cousin and relaying that to my brother, editing

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

I am unimpressed with From the Listening Hills collection, so last night I picked The Grand Sophy off the shelves for a lighter read.

Friday Reading:

Books read from: Elegy for Eddie, The Gurkha's Daughter, War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Books finished:none
Pages read: about 40 plus some audiobook
Time reading: 2 hours?
Snacks: dinner out (roast chicken and potatoes)
Thoughts: It's been a pretty distracting day what with the Supreme Court and all.
Non-book activities: stopped work early to do yoga and drink wine with a friend (not at the same time), dropped dog at the sitter, met up with 75er chatterbox for dinner and to eye her book haul from the ALA convention, helped my daughter drop off her cat with cat sitter.

Total books finished: none
Total pages read: about 40 plus some audiobook
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 2 hours?

I'm heading out of town to attend a memorial service for my dad, who passed in September, so will not get much reading done today except for audiobook in the car.

I've been away for 10 days on a pleasant cruise along the Ohio and Misissippi Rivers. Stopping at river towns along the way, we saw historic homes, the National Quilt Museum, Audubon Museum and Park, Graceland, Beale Street and the ducks at the Peabody Hotel!
I didn't read much and have abandonded at least a couple titles that didn't grab me.

Books:
Almost done with Sierra Six by Mark Greaney, a Gray Man adventure.
Also started Impossible Us
Just checked out audio edition of Radio Girls, for book club in August.

Dinner out last night at a Japanese place.
This morning just coffee so far.

Other activity:
Planning and communicating with cousins about family reunion and memorial for my mom coming up in July.
Tending the ancient, needy cat.
Still watching 'Better Call Saul'.

I finished Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra. Continued listening to Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds - about a couple of hours.

Continued reading The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. Read a chapter of Thraxas and the dance of death by Martin Scott.
Made a start on Bright Candles by Nathaniel Benchley.

Food: Prepared some burritos for dinner and this morning have prepared borscht in the slow cooker. which will be ready in the late afternoon.
Finished watching season 2 of the K-drama, 'Romantic Doctor' which is actually rather light on romance and more in depth on hospital politics and surgical procedures.

Books read from: Alaric the Goth, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
Books finished: none yet
Time reading: a whole bunch, thanks to Covid
Time posting: Saturday, 8 pm
Snacks: salmon and veggies for dinner
Thoughts: I really don’t feel that bad!
Non-book activities: mowed the grass earlier today

Total books finished: none
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: a bunch…

Saturday Update:

Books read from: Lessons and I'll continue reading Welcome to Night Vale this evening.
Time Reading: So far about 2 hours

Thoughts: Just feeling a little down.
Food & Beverage: Finished the left over Street tacos and a Coke and chips ahoy for desert.
Non-Book Activities: Went to a meeting at church - I'm on the library committee now and had to learn the drill
Went to local library book sale
Watching the Cleveland Guardians

Total Reading time: 3 1/2 hours

I somehow didn't find this thread till today, but here's my Saturday update:

Books read from: The Heroine's Journey
Books finished: The Heroine's Journey
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 5:40 PM
Snacks: Doritos
Thoughts: After weeks of griping about how unseasonably cold it's been, this weekend I'm glad we had AC installed a few years back!
Non-book activities: Altar guild setup, farmers market

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

Saturday evening update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Murder Tightly Knit by Vanetta Chapman, The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Books finished: None today
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: Watermelon
Thoughts: For lunch, I tried a Mexican food truck that has an attached store where you can purchase Mexican treats and drinks. I will definitely go back to try a paleta. I got one of their non-alcoholic pina colada fountain drinks to go with my tacos today. Also some sort of orange coconut macaroon cookie that was quite tasty.
Non-book activities: cat petting, editing, quick Zoom meeting with a couple friends

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

Saturday night update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Summer, Clear Light of Day
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was salad using lettuce I bought from the farmer's market this morning
Thoughts: I am stressed about finishing the baby blanket I'm making. I got behind when I had COVID, and the baby came early (this morning)!
Non-book activities: farmer's market, cleaning, hair appointment, shopping, more cleaning, laundry, Zooming, knitting & watching Acorn

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

Sunday morning

Books:
Almost done with adventure/thriller Sierra Six

Good eats:
Dinner last night was Chinese take-out
Sunday breakfast - ham, eggs, raisin toast, home-grown tomatoes, clementines, lots of coffee.
Company breakfast - I don't usually eat so much, or so early.

Other activity:
Sister and BIL came by for dinner and to spend the night. We conferred about tasks/details for upcoming family reunion and memorial for our mom.

Sunny and hot, 90 F, at 10:30a in Charlotte NC

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Books finished: None
Time reading: ~4 hours

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~8 hours

Sunday evening update:

Books read from: Lessons, Old Success, The Vanishing Half
Time Reading: About 3 hours today

Thoughts: Just feeling a little down.
Food & Beverage: Two veggie egg rolls and brown rice - Ginger Ale
Non-Book Activities: Attended Mass - Watched the Guardians - scrolled eBay

Total Reading time: 6 1/2 hours

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, and The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
Books finished: 1, The House of Ulloa
Time reading: ~3.25 hours

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~11.25 hours

I did not get nearly as much reading done this weekend as I wanted, especially today, because CFS was dogging me all day long.

Sunday night update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Clear Light of Day
Books finished:
Time reading: Not much
Time posting: ?
Snacks: sparkling water
Thoughts: Why do weekends pass so quickly?
Non-book activities: My knitting project suddenly became my top priority when the baby I'm knitting for arrived 2 weeks early yesterday. I spent most of my free time today knitting. I did read for about a half hour this afternooon.

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

Monday update:
I finished The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo.
My daughter and I went to see 'Siren in Paris', one of the films featured in the local French Film Festival. It was really enchanting.

Sorry! I have been reading but completely forgot to post! I’ve made it most of the way through Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Other Stories, which was a very good choice of book for this weekend as it’s scorching and very difficult to concentrate so a short stories is perfect. And Jackson’s a great writer. Hoping to finish the book today

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1 - The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Total time reading: 4-5 hours

Snacks: Cake, rehydration solution, cherries, grapes
Thoughts: Worry about my veggie garden back home dying and worry about potential forest fires
Non-book activities: Sunning, walking, hiking, online shopping, crosswords

Monday morning summary:

Books read from: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis, On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin, A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L' Engle
Books finished: Perelandra and Rocannon's World
Pages read: 300-ish

Non-book activities: Attended a barbershop show, continued season 2 of Bosch, watched some Detroit Tigers baseball,

weekend wrap

Books:
finished Sierra Six :)
Next up - Radio Girls

left-over Chinese for dinner last night.

Other activity:
faceTime with granddaughters.
still watching "Better Call Saul."

sunny, 81 F.

Sorry not to get round to posting before but I had a quiet but surprisingly productive reading weekend. I dropped out of these threads due to my sight problems in the spring, and have since remembered how much I struggled with some books before I realised I had a more serious issue than needing new glasses. I think that was starting to slow me down! I now have one good eye post cataract surgery, and have a check up/follow up appointment on Thursday (this has taken longer than referral to initial appointment or first appt to surgery). Hopefully then my right eye will also then be scheduled for treatment.

From Friday afternoon (about 3 pm) to midnight on Sunday. I would have read a bit longer, but just ended up going to sleep.

Books read from: 12
Rachel Hore, One Moonlit Night - FINISHED 26.06.22
Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety - STARTED 26.06.22
Sarah Winman, Still Life - FINISHED 27.06.22
Denise Mina, Rizzio - FINISHED 27.06.22
Ruth Thomas, Snow and the Works on the Northern Line
Elizabeth Hay, A Student of Weather
Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women
Lara Feigel, Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
Rupa Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence
Stuart Turley, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Otto Penzler & Lee Child (selection/editor), Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021
Stacey Halls, Mrs England

Books finished: 1 at the weekend, 2 today (having reached the last few pages over the weekend)
Thoughts: Just appreciating the restoration of sight in one eye
Non-book activities: Last weekend was a bit hectic - this weekend I just read a lot and posted on social media, and went out for half an hour or so for an update on developments in my local park friends group (when I say local I mean literally 2 mins from my front door!)

Forgot to update yesterday, so here's the Sunday update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Murder Tightly Knit by Vanetta Chapman, The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander
Books finished: None today
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: I don't remember
Thoughts: ??
Non-book activities: cat petting, quick Zoom meeting with a couple friends, cross stitch, book club Zoom meeting

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

I did not finish The Grand Sophy but I am really enjoying it!

Here's the Fourth of July readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/342669