Social Distancing Readathon #121 - July 8 - 10

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'm in again! Hopefully I'll get more reading time than I did last weekend.

I'm in again. Sorry I didn't get round to posting about my reading. I've been rather busy with the actual reading, I think.

I am definitely in since I missed last weekend!

I'm in, though I would count all of Friday.

ETA: my goal is to finish Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas and get to chapter 11 of Shadow of the Gods, by John Gwynne

I'm in. I started a new audiobook and now onto Thraxas #8 among all my reads.

I'm in- I started reading again after a time of not really enjoying a book- I was putting everything down.

I will be working from home this weekend and will have plenty of time to read, so I am in again.

I plan to participate either at home with print books or on the road with an audiobook. I've also got a few other things I need to work on, but I'm hoping they won't take long. Updating screen shots on a presentation will probably be the most time-consuming task.

I'm in!

I'm in, also. I'm starting this morning before work because I won't have much time to read this evening. I'm reading Caste by Isabel Wilkerson and The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya.

I'm in! I'll be continuing on with The Bell Jar, The Vanishing Half and Lessons. Hope to, at the least, complete one of them.
My biggest detriment is evil YouTube that keeps drawing my attention from reading. haha

I'm in - currently reading Divorce Horse by Craig Johnson, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, and A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis.

I'm settling in to read on a stormy evening. My priorities this weekend are Red Mandarin Dress and Spider's Web, as well as my daily fairy tale from Grimms' Tales for Young and Old. I'll be in the car some so I should have some audiobook listening time for The Templars' Last Secret.

I'm reading Pandora's Jar Women in Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

Friday Night Report:

Books read from: Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier, Home Before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter, The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig, and Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~2.75 hours

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~2.75 hours

I did not get nearly as much reading in tonight as I had hoped!

Friday night:

Books read from: A Lady For a Duke
Books finished: A Lady For a Duke
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 10:15 PM
Snacks: pizza for dinner
Thoughts: That was an enjoyable read, though I could've wished for a bit less melodrama in the final act.
Non-book activities: Work, laundry, doctor's appointment

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

Friday Reading

Books read from: Ivanhoe, Miss Mapp, Rutherford B. Hayes, Typical American, I Am China
Books finished: none
Pages read: 147 plus 15 chapters audio
Time reading: 2 1/2 hours reading plus 4 hours 50 minutes listening
Snacks: Dinner was chicken ramen
Thoughts: Ivanhoe, which I've never read, is revealing how shallow my knowledge of English history is.
Non-book activities: walk dog, laundry, pick up dinner, brief visit from son, phone call with husband who's away for the weekend, Wordle

Total books finished: none
Total read from: 5 Ivanhoe, Miss Mapp, Rutherford B. Hayes, Typical American, I Am China
Total pages read: 147 plus 15 chapters audio
Total time reading: 2 1/2 hours reading plus 4 hours 50 minutes listening

10.30pm Saturday

Books read from: Kamisama vol 3 & vol 4, River of Gods by Ian McDonald (audio)
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 2hrs

Snacks: Yemenite shinbeef soup - yum
Thoughts: Not sure if I can listen to River of Gods, I'm about an hour in and it hasn't hooked me.
Non-book activities: food prep, sleeping, cat duties, watching k-dramas & first episode of season 3 'The Boys'

Total books finished: 2x manga Kamisama vol 3 & vol. 4
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 2hrs

I have two more volumes of the manga to read. I have been neglecting physical books and reading a couple on my phone so I'll try to finish Bright Candles this evening.
'The Boys' is not my thing but I'm watching with my son.

Friday night update

Books read from: The Vanishing Half
Books finished:
Time reading: 1.5 hours
Time posting: 7am Saturday
Snacks: Dinner - Bowl of Total cereal with blueberries
Thoughts: Once again, evil YouTube gobbled up my reading time
Non-book activities: watched baseball, YouTube

Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 1.5 hours

Friday Reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Irish Country Life by Olive Sharkey, A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson
Books finished: None yet
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: a Crumbl cookie in the afternoon and a Reece's cup concrete from Freddy's in the evening
Thoughts: I hate heat! Thankful for air conditioning.
Non-book activities: petting cats, a little bit of cross stitch (although I couldn't seem to get my rhythm going--kept making mistakes I'd have to pull out as I went--nothing major--just things like getting the needle in the wrong hole and realizing it immediately), a little TV, a little Floss Tube

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

Friday morning, Saturday morning

Books read from: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya, The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis, Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Time reading: 4 hours, 36 minutes
Snacks: So Delicious Cashew Milk Peanut Butter Fudge Popsicles, tacos, fruit snacks, pineapple soda, apple slices with peanut butter, bananas
Thoughts: The Bald Eagle hasn't hooked me. Luckily, Invisible Women showed up in my Libby app this morning & I like it.

Saturday afternoon update
Books read from: Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Girls by Kate Moore. Havana Requiem by Paul Goldstein. Philida by Andre Brink. Templar's Last Secret by Martin Walker. I am listening to Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Girls by Kate Moore

Book Thoughts: Radium Girls is indeed a dark story. It was a very depressing book to read and I can't say that I enjoyed it. I am about to finish Templar's Last Secret and am really enjoying that novel.

Time reading: 2 hours today.
Time posting:
Food: I ate at a friends house last night and made a really good refreshing summer salad. Wonder of wonders - I found arugula at the grocery store, so I made an arugula salad, with sweet cherries and feta cheese and a homemade vinaigrette dressing. It was delicious and went well with the rather poor pasta sauce and pasta that we had for the main course.
Nonbook activities: It was fun getting together with friends again. All of us had traveled in the last month so we had not seen each other for a couple of weeks. One person went to Maine and Acadia National Park. This is the third person I know of this summer who has visited that park. I think it is the summer hot spot as far as places to visit is concerned. One went to Chincoteague Island for a girls week long trip. One went to Nova Scotia to see her mother, and I went to Washington, D.C. for the ALA conference. We watched the pictures that one of our group took of her trip back in April to Vienna. It was a fun quiet evening out.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 244
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 642.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.

Saturday night update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Red Mandarin Dress, Spider's Web
Books finished: Red Mandarin Dress
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was egg salad and tea
Thoughts: We needed the rain we've had over the last couple of days, but I really don't like the humidity it left behind!
Non-book activities: farmer's market, laundry, two trips to groomer to drop off dog and pick up dog, grocery shopping, light cooking & cleaning kitchen, walks with dog, visit with neighbors

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

Saturday Night Report:

Books read from: Home Before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter, The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig, and Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King
Books finished: 1, Home Before Morning
Time reading: ~3.75 hours

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: ~6.5 hours

Saturday:

Books read from: Battling the Big Lie
Books finished: Battling the Big Lie
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:25 PM
Snacks: mac & cheese for dinner
Thoughts: I do like summer in this city.
Non-book activities: Farmers market, birding supply store, writing (both for my novel manuscript and the sermon(!) I'm giving at my church next Sunday)

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

Saturday reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Irish Country Life by Olive Sharkey, A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson, The Templars' Last Secret by Martin Walker
Books finished: None yet
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: mostly drank iced tea (unsweet)
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: petting cats, cross stitch, community prayer event, a couple of errands

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ??

I should have a finish today. I might finish a second book, but I suspect it will be Monday or Tuesday, depending on how I split my free time after a day of work between 3 things I need to work on.

My cousin is still hanging on, and no one really knows how long he'll hang on. I suspect it will be this week, but he could hang on up to two more according to the hospice people most familiar with his situation (and according to what I've read). I will need to travel for the funeral. I'm hoping his wife will postpone the funeral until next week if it might be toward the end of this one--just so I can get through an in-person local genealogical speaking commitment for Saturday. We'll see. I've got some back-up plans that might work if missing it is unavoidable.

Sunday afternoon update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Spider's Web, The Templars' Last Secret
Books finished: Spider's Web
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was fried chicken livers, green beans, hot tea, and a few chocolate covered pretzels
Thoughts: I'm looking forward to the genealogy course I'm taking this week!
Non-book activities: church, cooking lunch, watched a few episodes of Escape to the Country, short nap

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

I finished both books I hoped to finish this weekend. I have a couple of Zoom meetings tonight. If I get any more reading time, I'll start The Vicar of Wrexhill and Typical American.

Sunday reading update:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, Irish Country Life by Olive Sharkey, A Man of Some Repute by Elizabeth Edmondson, The Templars' Last Secret by Martin Walker
Books finished: Irish Country Life by Olive Sharkey
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: pepperoni pizza for lunch; chicken sandwich for supper
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: petting cats, cross stitch, church & Sunday school, FlossTube

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

Other notes:
I edited yesterday's update to include the audiobook I forgot to include (the Martin Walker one).
I have a Zoom book club meeting this evening.
I will read some more of A Man of Some Repute after the book club. I expect I won't finish it until Monday or Tuesday, but if I should manage to complete it, I'll post an update tomorrow.

Sunday night update
Books read from: Havana Requiem by Paul Goldstein. Philida by Andre Brink. Templar's Last Secret by Martin Walker. I am listening to Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Templar's Last Secret by Martin Walker. Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Girls by Kate Moore

Book Thoughts: The group has done lots of reading this weekend! Yeah for us. I Had a nice discussion on Zoom with the real life Book Discussion group. I am about to finish Ember in the Ashes so I ran to the public library quickly and picked up the next book for a book group. They had it on CD so I will listen to this one. I probably won't get started on it until Wednesday.
Time reading: 2 hours today.
Time posting:
Food: Indian restaurant.
Nonbook activities: I didn't do much today except cover my library chat shift. I cleaned out a box of old papers and took them to recycling. We finally got some rain today so I suspect that sometime this week the lawn man will be here to mow the evil green monster. Why do houses have to have lawns?

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 245
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 644.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.

Sunday:

Books read from: Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 9:15 PM
Snacks: banana bread
Thoughts: I wish my allergies would calm down, but at least the covid test I took was negative.
Non-book activities: Church, writing

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 8 hours

Sunday Night Report:

Books read from: The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig, Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the Explorers of Canada by Tony Coulter, Village of Secrets by Caroline Moorehead, and Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier
Books finished: 2, Island of the Mad and Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and the Explorers of Canada
Time reading: ~5 hours

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~11.5 hours

I'll continue through Monday afternoon (I don't work my day job on Mondays, although it's a very busy day this week).

Saturday afternoon, Sunday

Books read from: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, The Orphan Sky by Isabel Wilkerson
Time reading: 9 hrs., 16 min.
Snacks: mini taco on heirloom corn tortilla (sweet potato with pineapple salsa), Bob's Better Bars (peanut butter chocolate & oats), apple slices, Siete Dairy-free Ranch Grain-Free Tortilla Chips, banana, cherry plums
Thoughts: being outside, even when muggy and suffering from allergies, can be fun
Non-book activities: helped with set up and behind the scenes stuff at my sister's booth (upcycled baby and toddler clothing) at a neighborhood celebration

Honestly, I could swear I posted an update for Sunday.

Anyway:Books read from: The Vanishing Half
Books finished: 1
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 1:25 pm Monday
Snacks: A veggie pizza, and on Sunday hot dogs
Thoughts: I love reading outside in the summertime. I always have, always will.
Non-book activities: watched baseball, YouTube, shopping for a bathroom mirror and cabinet liner and then groceries.

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 6ish hours

Monday afternoon

Books finished: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Time reading: 2 hr., 32 min.
Snacks: banana, peach, dairy-free ranch grain-free tortilla chips
Thoughts: made it through day one of a hectic week
Non-book activities: morning class, late afternoon phone meeting, helping at an evening class

Friday morning-Monday afternoon
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 16 hrs., 24 min.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/342888