Social Distancing Readathon #124 - July 29 - 31

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- I am reading a really interesting history/biography about American reporters in Europe and Asia between the two world wars.

I am definitely in! I have several TIOLI books yet to finish for July.

I'm participating. Last night I began Danger on the Atlantic by Erica Ruth Neubauer, the latest in the Jane Wunderley series. I had an ebook arrive by Overdrive/Libby that I need to begin. I'll also read my usual devotional stuff. I also need to start the book for our book club. I think I downloaded that for Kindle before I left home. If not, I won't get that started until next week. Still at my brother's house. I cooked steak, baked potatoes, and prepared a salad for everyone last night--including my nephew and his wife who came over to play games and such. We even got my brother to join the games!

I'm in.

I've started a couple of long ones -

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
And, in effort to motivate myself for long daily walks again, I have the 37 hr audio edition of Lonesome Dove.

Sunny, 83 F. (28 C.)

I'm in. I'm already working on some of my August TIOLI and Category challenge books, so I'm not sure I'll be finishing anything, but I have several library books due 8/6, so I want to put myself in a position to finish them on time.

I'm in! I read last weekend but never got around to reporting. I will try to do better this weekend! I want to finish Typical American, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, and Measure for Measure.

Friday Night Update:

Books read from: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, Book Lovers by Emily Henry, The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti, and The Yard by Alex Grecian
Books finished: 3, Elantris, The Bell in the Lake, and Book Lovers
Time reading: ~6.4 hours
Time posting: 0

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~6.4 hours

Friday night update:

Books read from: Typical American
Books finished: Typical American
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: hot chocolate
Thoughts: I'm too tired to think!
Non-book activities: TV, piano practice, hanging out with Adrian

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

Next up is Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Friday night:

Books read from: Never Have I Ever, Love's Labour's Lost
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 8:45 PM
Snacks: chicken cacciatore for dinner
Thoughts: I hope my shoulder doesn't hurt this much all weekend.
Non-book activities: Work, cooking, laundry, writing postcards to voters

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 2 hours

I am in this weekend, Silver.

Presently reading
The Mothers to a finish.

Am reading this weekend, though I've slowed down a bit in the last few days and the heatwave is now back, and I'm hoping to venture out for a bit tomorrow afternoon.

Aiming to have tea and write a review first.

I don't think I'll finish any books this month but I should be well set to do so in August.

I'm in this weekend though just getting around to posting. I have a few books to finish since it is the end of the month. So far, so good.

Saturday afternoon update:

Books read from: Game of Mirrors, Miss Mapp, I Am China, Typical American
Books finished: 2 Game of Mirrors, Miss Mapp
Time reading: 3 hours reading and 5 1/2 hours listening (I listened to an entire book yesterday, although it was a short one)
Pages read: 440
Snacks: falafel sandwich, nectarine
Thoughts: This is the first weekend I've been home for what feels like the whole summer, and I'm home alone. I'm enjoying the quiet.
Non-book activities: farmers market, dog walk, dishes, games on my phone

Total books finished: 2 Game of Mirrors, Miss Mapp
Total read from: 4 Game of Mirrors, Miss Mapp, I Am China, Typical American
Total pages read: 440
Total time reading: 3 hours reading and 5 1/2 hours listening

Saturday afternoon update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: orange juice & club soda
Thoughts: It's been partly cloudy most of the day and that's helped keep the temperature down. I am grateful!
Non-book activities: farmer's market, hair appointment (although I read while my color was processing), shopping, laundry, baby shower at church

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

Saturday early evening:

Books read from: Love's Labour's Lost, The Kissing Bug
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 5:15 PM
Snacks: potato chips
Thoughts: I'll be so glad when this heat wave passes.
Non-book activities: Farmers market, writing, altar guild setup

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 5 hours

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here by Mourid Barghouti, Superbugs by Matt McCarthy and The Maker of Heavenly Trousers by Daniele Vare
Books finished: 2, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and The Maker of Heavenly Trousers
Time reading: ~4.25 hours
Time posting: 0

Total books finished: 5
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~10.65 hours

My sister is visiting from out of state, but I'm still working through a reread of Chanur's Venture.

Saturday night update:

Books read from: Measure for Measure
Books finished:
Time reading: about an hour
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Larabar
Thoughts: I should be able to finish this tomorrow
Non-book activities: Walk with the dog, visited with neighbors, laundry

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

Saturday night:

Books read from: Yotsuba&! Vol. 1
Books finished: Yotsuba&! Vol. 1
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 8:25 PM
Snacks: chilaquiles for dinner
Thoughts: What a heartwarming little book
Non-book activities: Prepped a couple of freezer meals for later

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 6 hours

Sunday morning

Books:
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Novel Prize winner, Svetlana Alexievich.
Mort(e) by Robert Repino.
Lonesome Dove, audio ed.
Dance for the Dead, Thomas Perry.

So, I started several and then took off with Dance for the Dead, in the Jane Whitefield suspense series.
Plan to finish this one today.

Cloudy, muggy, 75 F. (24 C.)

Sunday afternoon update
Books read from: Plainsong by Kent Haruf. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell. I am listening to A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Plainsong by Kent Haruf

Book Thoughts: I finished a reread of Kent Haruf's book Plainsong and it was just as good the second time around as it was the first. I read this one for Mark's group read. I don't usually reread books, but I have four more books by Haruf and I want to get them all read by the end of this year, so figured that I could start with Plainsong, which is he most well known novel.
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting:
Food: Spinach, Cherry and Feta Cheese salad with a potato onion frittata. I made enough salad to take tonight and a lemon bundt cake.
Nonbook activities: Played the piano for church today and will go to the Sunday evening community Weiner roast. Tomorrow I start back to Tuscaloosa so will have lots of listening time. I should finish a whole book on this trip.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 251
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 668.5 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020.

Sunday evening update:

Books read from: Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Measure for Measure
Books finished: Measure for Measure
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: buttermilk
Thoughts: Measure for Measure is not my favorite Shakespeare play.
Non-book activities: church, cooking lunch, short walk with the dog, cleaning kitchen, Zoom church

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

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: The Murrow Boys by Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, Superbugs by Matt McCarthy and Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Books finished: 1, Superbugs
Time reading: ~2.5 hours
Time posting: 0

Total books finished: 6
Total read from: 9
Total time reading: ~13.75 hours

Sunday evening:

Books read from: Love's Labour's Lost, The Kissing Bug
Books finished: none
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 7:15 PM
Snacks: lentils for dinner
Thoughts: Fingers crossed the heat wave finally breaks up overnight per as forecasted.
Non-book activities: Church, ran some errands, wrote

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 8 hours

Sunday night update:

Books read from: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, They Fought Like Demons
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: hot chocolate
Thoughts: I wish I could have finished Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, but just didn't get enough reading time this weekend.
Non-book activities:

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ?

Weekend wrap-up

Books:
Finished Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry.
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Andrea Elliott

Dinner last night was rather boring leftovers,
but we're going out for dinner today after we go see the movie Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.
I intended to read the book first but had to return to library before I could get to it. : \

Other activity:
postcrossing, planning road trips!
Watched the new Netflix movie, Persuasion with Dakota Johnson. : )

Finished 5 books in July. Only 1 was from TBR shelves.
The one I finished last night was just after midnight so I have to count it in Aug.

Mostly sunny, 79 F. (26 C.) at noon

I got my book, Chanur's Venture finished a day late. Oh well.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/343333