Social Distancing Readathon #131 - September 16 - 18
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
2susanna.fraser
I'm in! I'm having my covid booster and my flu shot tomorrow, so lying around with a book may be all I'm up to for much of the weekend.
3alcottacre
I am in as well!
>2 susanna.fraser: I really hope that the booster and flu shot combo do not completely knock you flat for the weekend, Susanna!
>2 susanna.fraser: I really hope that the booster and flu shot combo do not completely knock you flat for the weekend, Susanna!
4Carmenere
I'm in.
>2 susanna.fraser: although I recd my booster months ago, I recd my flu shot yesterday and other than a tender arm. I'm feeling great.
Good luck. Drink lots of water
>2 susanna.fraser: although I recd my booster months ago, I recd my flu shot yesterday and other than a tender arm. I'm feeling great.
Good luck. Drink lots of water
6nrmay
I'm in. :)
Still reading Desert Cat, Garrison Allen
and The Color of Lightning, Paulette Jiles.
Got a birthday party cook-out at our house on Sunday. Will have to tidy some tomorrow.
Otherwise I'll be reading.
77 F. (25 C.) just before sunset.
Still reading Desert Cat, Garrison Allen
and The Color of Lightning, Paulette Jiles.
Got a birthday party cook-out at our house on Sunday. Will have to tidy some tomorrow.
Otherwise I'll be reading.
77 F. (25 C.) just before sunset.
7kaida46
I'm about 3/4 of the way through The Poisonwood Bible so I have set my sights on finishing it over the weekend.
8cbl_tn
I'm in! I have a lot I need to do this weekend, but I know myself well enough to know that I'll probably read when I should be working...
Books read from: A Better Man, Pachinko
Books finished: A Better Man
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was bacon & eggs and an orange
Thoughts: I'd really love for the elves to do my chores while I sleep tonight. Fairy tales are real, right?!!
Non-book activities: cooking & cleaning kitchen, laundry, short walk with dog
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: A Better Man, Pachinko
Books finished: A Better Man
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was bacon & eggs and an orange
Thoughts: I'd really love for the elves to do my chores while I sleep tonight. Fairy tales are real, right?!!
Non-book activities: cooking & cleaning kitchen, laundry, short walk with dog
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
9PaulCranswick
Consider me in properly this weekend, Silver.
I am finishing off Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey;
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
The Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
are also anticipated to be completed if I have a good weekend.
I am finishing off Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey;
The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
The Season of the Jew by Maurice Shadbolt
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
are also anticipated to be completed if I have a good weekend.
10alcottacre
Friday Night Update:
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny,
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Unicorns vs Goblins by Dana Simpson
Books finished: 1, Unicorns vs. Goblins
Time reading: ~3.5 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny,
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Unicorns vs Goblins by Dana Simpson
Books finished: 1, Unicorns vs. Goblins
Time reading: ~3.5 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: ~3.5 hours
11Carmenere
>9 PaulCranswick: I thoroughly enjoyed Greenlights, Paul. I could never call myself a fan of McConaughey but his autobio really changed my opinions of him. Hope you’re enjoying it.
Friday update:
Books read: 1 Anxious for Nothing
Books finished: 0
Total time reading: 2 hours
I hope to finish Anxious today and begin The Dutch House
Friday update:
Books read: 1 Anxious for Nothing
Books finished: 0
Total time reading: 2 hours
I hope to finish Anxious today and begin The Dutch House
12nrmay
Saturday early evening
Books:
Finished Desert Cat. fair to middlin'; milldly amusing but l don't expect to read more of these.
This was for the 'animal mystery' challenge.
Listened to Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas while taking a long walk last night. This series with a female detective, Charlotte (Sherlock) Holmes, is quite entertaining. :)
Still reading Color of lightning by Paulette Jiles. Intriguing, but violent.
Friday night dinner out at a seafood place
breakfast - banana, granola, mini croissant.
lunch - snack mix
husband making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. :)
Other activity:
sent postcrossing cards; tidied a bit before family cames over tomorrow; sat on the porch and read, napped, held the old cat.
Sunny, 80 F. (27 C.)
Books:
Finished Desert Cat. fair to middlin'; milldly amusing but l don't expect to read more of these.
This was for the 'animal mystery' challenge.
Listened to Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas while taking a long walk last night. This series with a female detective, Charlotte (Sherlock) Holmes, is quite entertaining. :)
Still reading Color of lightning by Paulette Jiles. Intriguing, but violent.
Friday night dinner out at a seafood place
breakfast - banana, granola, mini croissant.
lunch - snack mix
husband making spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. :)
Other activity:
sent postcrossing cards; tidied a bit before family cames over tomorrow; sat on the porch and read, napped, held the old cat.
Sunny, 80 F. (27 C.)
13Carmenere
Saturday update:
Books read: 3- Anxious for Nothing, The Dutch House, Atomic Habits
Books finished: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours
I’m watching college football now and probably won’t read much more this evening.
Books read: 3- Anxious for Nothing, The Dutch House, Atomic Habits
Books finished: 1
Total time reading: 5 hours
I’m watching college football now and probably won’t read much more this evening.
14alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~7 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~10.5 hours
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Books finished: 0
Time reading: ~7 hours
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~10.5 hours
15benitastrnad
Sunday afternoon update
Books read from: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell. Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read. I am listening to Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell
Book Thoughts: I finished reading all 5 books for the Kansas Authors Club contest on Wednesday, but the week was so busy I barely got the results turned in on time. I hope that next week slows down enough that I can really do some reading. I started Delta Wedding but haven't read much in it this week. I think everyone else is done reading it and I have read 10 pages!
Time reading: 1 hours.
Time posting:
Food: My regular Sunday morning Starbucks coffee and my regular lunch at the neighborhood Indian place.
Nonbook activities: I am watching the news and am becoming a CNN junkie. I wish it was just non-stop about the funeral. I find myself wondering about little things. Like how long do soldiers stand at the vigil. Why are some of them there with upraised swords and others with the swords pointing down and hands crossed over the hilts? What are those funky dress uniforms? and what regiments, battalions, etc. are they from? All that protocol stuff fascinates me. Maybe it is the reason why I like the Tea Ceremonies so much.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 264
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 716 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
Books read from: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell. Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read. I am listening to Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell
Book Thoughts: I finished reading all 5 books for the Kansas Authors Club contest on Wednesday, but the week was so busy I barely got the results turned in on time. I hope that next week slows down enough that I can really do some reading. I started Delta Wedding but haven't read much in it this week. I think everyone else is done reading it and I have read 10 pages!
Time reading: 1 hours.
Time posting:
Food: My regular Sunday morning Starbucks coffee and my regular lunch at the neighborhood Indian place.
Nonbook activities: I am watching the news and am becoming a CNN junkie. I wish it was just non-stop about the funeral. I find myself wondering about little things. Like how long do soldiers stand at the vigil. Why are some of them there with upraised swords and others with the swords pointing down and hands crossed over the hilts? What are those funky dress uniforms? and what regiments, battalions, etc. are they from? All that protocol stuff fascinates me. Maybe it is the reason why I like the Tea Ceremonies so much.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 264
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 716 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
16cbl_tn
Sunday night update:
Books read from: Hickory Dickory Dock, Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Life and Times of Michael K
Books finished:
Time reading: Not enough!
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was chicken & rice soup
Thoughts: I am glad the evenings are cool enough now to sit out on the deck and read
Non-book activities: Yesterday I went to the farmer's market, cleaned out the refrigerator, had lunch and went shopping with my cousin, cleaned the house, did laundry, watered flowers, had a Zoom chat with friends. Today I went to church, watched some of the coverage of preparations for the queen's funeral, read, cooked soup, attended Zoom church, watered flowers, read more.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Hickory Dickory Dock, Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Life and Times of Michael K
Books finished:
Time reading: Not enough!
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was chicken & rice soup
Thoughts: I am glad the evenings are cool enough now to sit out on the deck and read
Non-book activities: Yesterday I went to the farmer's market, cleaned out the refrigerator, had lunch and went shopping with my cousin, cleaned the house, did laundry, watered flowers, had a Zoom chat with friends. Today I went to church, watched some of the coverage of preparations for the queen's funeral, read, cooked soup, attended Zoom church, watered flowers, read more.
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ?
17alcottacre
Saturday Night Update:
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Books finished: 3, A Fatal Grace, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan, and 1968
Time reading: ~ 5.75 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~16.25 hours
>15 benitastrnad: I wish it was just non-stop about the funeral. I find myself wondering about little things. I am the same, Benita. I find all of the ceremony fascinating.
Books read from: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny, Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan by Deborah Reed, The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard, 1968 by Mark Kurlansky, Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
Books finished: 3, A Fatal Grace, Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan, and 1968
Time reading: ~ 5.75 hours
Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: ~16.25 hours
>15 benitastrnad: I wish it was just non-stop about the funeral. I find myself wondering about little things. I am the same, Benita. I find all of the ceremony fascinating.
18kaida46
read-a-thon report:
Books read from: 3 The Poisonwood Bible, The Thief, and Fantastic Cat
Books Finished: 1-Poisonwood, It took me an hour to compile a review, to process the book in my own mind, then I could not figure out the spoiler tags, so I wound up editing it heavily after trying to post it. The book started out good, but ended up pretty bad and too long, in a nutshell. (Review written and posted on LT and on my thread Kaida's Reading Adventures part 2.
Approx. time reading: 10 hrs
I kept falling asleep yesterday afternoon while trying to read, so finally just gave in to the z's.
Weekend Snacks/Foods: tuna salad in pita bread, Famous Amos cookies, an end of season BBQ at a local park, scrambled eggs from eggs laid by our very own chickens for breakfast, and Tiki punch (left over from the end of season BBQ) for the Pipe and drum band dear hubby is a part of. I also had a 'foot long' hot dog at the BBQ for the novelty of it, but in reality only ate maybe 2 inches, since I can't eat much meat anyway. DH ate the rest of it.
Books read from: 3 The Poisonwood Bible, The Thief, and Fantastic Cat
Books Finished: 1-Poisonwood, It took me an hour to compile a review, to process the book in my own mind, then I could not figure out the spoiler tags, so I wound up editing it heavily after trying to post it. The book started out good, but ended up pretty bad and too long, in a nutshell. (Review written and posted on LT and on my thread Kaida's Reading Adventures part 2.
Approx. time reading: 10 hrs
I kept falling asleep yesterday afternoon while trying to read, so finally just gave in to the z's.
Weekend Snacks/Foods: tuna salad in pita bread, Famous Amos cookies, an end of season BBQ at a local park, scrambled eggs from eggs laid by our very own chickens for breakfast, and Tiki punch (left over from the end of season BBQ) for the Pipe and drum band dear hubby is a part of. I also had a 'foot long' hot dog at the BBQ for the novelty of it, but in reality only ate maybe 2 inches, since I can't eat much meat anyway. DH ate the rest of it.
19benitastrnad
Monday morning wrap-up
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read. I am listening to Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell
Book Thoughts: I had a real life bookclub meeting last night and my hot spot stopped working. I had to drive the 4 blocks to Starbucks and sit outside listening to the discussion. I couldn't believe how many super noisy cars there were on the streets. They were just obnoxious. Somehow I never noticed the street noise before. I guess I didn't need to pay any attention to it until I needed it to be quiet. I got in for the last 15 minutes of the discussion. I then went home and tried to get my hot spot to work and it simply won't. I think that something has gone wrong with it. I just hope it hasn't cost real money.
Time reading: 1 hours.
Time posting:
Food: cottage cheese and honeydew melon for breakfast
Nonbook activities: I got up at 4:30 AM this morning to watch the funeral and was miffed because the proceedings actually started at 4 AM. CNN lied to me! They said it started at 5 AM. Of course, that was eastern time. You would think that after 3 years of working on Zoom with distance education people from all over the country I would have paid attention to the time zones - but I didn't. I watched it all the way to the end of the London part. I didn't get to see any of the part of the funeral procession at Windsor and that was a bummer. I was really pleased to see the RCMP's taking part in the procession. And liked it that Princess Anne was dressed in pants and walked with the other children. You go Girl!!!!!
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 264
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 717 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
Books read from: Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground by Peter Svenson. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty for a LT group read. I am listening to Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Ravening of Wolves by Rob Howell
Book Thoughts: I had a real life bookclub meeting last night and my hot spot stopped working. I had to drive the 4 blocks to Starbucks and sit outside listening to the discussion. I couldn't believe how many super noisy cars there were on the streets. They were just obnoxious. Somehow I never noticed the street noise before. I guess I didn't need to pay any attention to it until I needed it to be quiet. I got in for the last 15 minutes of the discussion. I then went home and tried to get my hot spot to work and it simply won't. I think that something has gone wrong with it. I just hope it hasn't cost real money.
Time reading: 1 hours.
Time posting:
Food: cottage cheese and honeydew melon for breakfast
Nonbook activities: I got up at 4:30 AM this morning to watch the funeral and was miffed because the proceedings actually started at 4 AM. CNN lied to me! They said it started at 5 AM. Of course, that was eastern time. You would think that after 3 years of working on Zoom with distance education people from all over the country I would have paid attention to the time zones - but I didn't. I watched it all the way to the end of the London part. I didn't get to see any of the part of the funeral procession at Windsor and that was a bummer. I was really pleased to see the RCMP's taking part in the procession. And liked it that Princess Anne was dressed in pants and walked with the other children. You go Girl!!!!!
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 264
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 717 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020
