Social Distancing Readathon #139 - November 11 - 13

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 did not think I would be able to participate this weekend, but plans have changed so I am in again!

I'm in, and might start tonight because of the Veterans Day long weekend.

I’m in!

I'm also a definite this weekend as I have five books I need to complete

Aftermath by Harald Jahner
The Safety Net by Andrea Camilleri
Selected Poems by Geoffrey Hill
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha
&
The Sword in the Stone by TH White

I can do this- just finishing my ER book.

I'm on track to finish one this weekend. (I still need to report on a book finished Wednesday.) I should be able to make a little progress in two or three others although I don't think I'll finish any of them.

Starring as usual. I'm almost finished with Valley of the Sun so at least I should have that one on my list!

I'm in. Hope to finish Varina today. Then I have 6 new books from last night's library fundraising event.
I bought one title by each of the 5 guest authors and got another free book.
David Baldacci, Megan Giddings, Sarah McCoy, Adriana Trigiani, and Javier Zamora all signed my books.

Friday morning:

Books read from: Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Books finished: Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 9:15 AM
Snacks: cereal for breakfast
Thoughts: This is the part of a three-day weekend where I have to remind myself that one extra day doesn't give me time to read ten books, completely reorganize the kitchen, write 20,000 words on my NaNoWriMo project, plan my Christmas shopping budget, and, I dunno, solve world hunger, all with plenty of time to spare to take in a showing of Wakanda Forever.
Non-book activities: So far? Slept in a bit and ate breakfast.

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

I have another busy weekend planned, but will, as always, find some time for books. I don't have today as a holiday, but I will be spending some time reading.

Friday update

Books read from: I continue reading at least 2 pages a day in Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty. I have a good start in Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone. I am still slowly cruising through the captions and looking carefully at the illustrations in Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill even though I listened to the recorded version of the book. I am listening to Us Against You by Fredrik Backman.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

Book Thoughts: I keep trying to read two pages a day in Delta Wedding and today I hit page 177. Some days I actually get more than 2 pages read. I am enjoying the Crown Colony series and have finished the last book that my local public library has - Mimosa Tree Mystery. I will have to do an ILL request for the next in the series.

Non Book Activities: I am at work.

Time reading: 1 hour.
Time posting:
Food:

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 279
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 755 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020

Work holiday, so I started early…

Books read from: The Story of Russia
Books finished: none yet
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 7;20 Friday
Snacks: took a break for dinner - spiced shrimp dish
Thoughts: really good book!
Non-book activities: helping Mrsdrneutron re-arrange her quilting studio

Total books finished: None
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3 hours so far

Friday Night Update:

Books read from: Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings, The Golden Tradition by Lucy S. Dawidowicz, A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes, The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt, and Silhouette in Scarlet by Elizabeth Peters
Books finished: 2, The Golden Tradition and Silhouette in Scarlet
Time reading: 2.75 hours

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 2.75 hours

Friday night

Books:
Finished Varina, novel about the life of Jefferson Davis's wife.
Started The Land Endures by Mary Pearce. British historical fiction/family saga.
And Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi.

Dinner: fish, rice, vegetables - nice and healthy, right? Then I had Belgian chocolate gelato for dessert . .

Other activity:
Caught up with Miss Scarlet and the Duke, tv series on PBS
Started 'Annika', Masterpiece crime series on PBS.

No plans this weekend. Hope to read a lot.

Friday update:

Books read from: Redshirts
Books finished: soon
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting:9:15am Saturday
Snacks: My eggplant froze in the fridge so I resorted to Amy's Mexican Casserole
Thoughts: I'm enjoying this book more than I thought I might
Non-book activities: cross-stitch bib - watched a few episodes of Stranger Things

Total books finished: None
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2.5 hours approximately

I'm in this weekend!

Friday reading:

Books read from: 6
How High We Go in the Dark
The Republic of Wine
Hospital Sketches
Shrines of Gaiety
These Precious Days
Search Sweet Country

Books finished: 1
How High We Go in the Dark
Pages read: 97 plus 4 audiobook chapters
Snacks: tacos
Thoughts: I had the day off but I didn't do very much, reading or otherwise.
Non-book activities: walk dog, phone calls, laundry, unpack, tidy up for housecleaners

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 6
Total pages read: 97 plus 4 audiobook chapters

I'm in! I've been reading:

Books read from: The American Agent, Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, Killers of the Flower Moon
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: Supper was potato soup
Thoughts: It's cold and dark. Perfect weather to snuggle up and read!
Non-book activities: Dinner with friends and a movie last night, chores, hair apppointment, and grocery shopping this morning, meeting with our new HOA secretary this afternoon, laundry, long walk, cooking potato soup

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: Demon Lord of Karanda by David Eddings and A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
Books finished: 1, Demon Lord of Karanda
Time reading: 1.1 hours

Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 3.85 hours

Almost no time for reading today!

Sat night

Book: half-way through The Land Endures

Dinner: crabcakes, mashed potatoes, carrots.

Other activity:
picked up the house a bit
played with my 5-yr-old niece this afternoon while her mom went shopping.
Watching Scottish crime series 'Annika' on PBS.
Rejoiced over some late election returns.

Today was our last mild day for a while; cooling off tomorrow.

Saturday Reading
Books read from: 4
Hospital Sketches
Shrines of Gaiety
These Precious Days
The Beet Queen

Books finished: 0

Pages read: 134 plus 18 audiobook chapters
Dinner: Dutch pancake
Thoughts: Grateful for Nevada.
Non-book activities: walked dog, yoga, farmers market, cleaned refrigerator and transferred many rotting vegetables to compost, laundry, changed sheets, thought about a long walk

Total books finished: 1
How High We Go in the Dark
Total read from: 7
How High We Go in the Dark
The Republic of Wine
Hospital Sketches
Shrines of Gaiety
These Precious Days
Search Sweet Country
The Beet Queen
Total pages read: 231 plus 22 audiobook chapters

I am in the middle of Baldwin Street

Sunday afternoon update:

Books read from: Killers of the Flower Moon, Grimms' Tales for Young and Old, The American Agent
Books finished: Killers of the Flower Moon
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was egg salad and crackers
Thoughts: I'm thinking of hibernating.
Non-book activities: Church, long nap

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

Books read from: The Story of Russia, Two Graves
Books finished: Two Graves
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: Sunday, about 5
Snacks: had some good chicken kabob for lunch!
Thoughts: boy, it turned cold outside
Non-book activities: cleaning house…

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours so far

Sunday evening update

Books read from: Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty. Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone. All Systems Red by Martha Wells. I am still slowly cruising through the captions and looking carefully at the illustrations in Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill even though I listened to the recorded version of the book. I am listening to Us Against You by Fredrik Backman.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu. All Systems Red by Martha Wells.

Book Thoughts: I am within 30 pages of finishing Delta Wedding! I am enjoying Out of the Flames and have discovered that the Heroes of the Faith that I was raised with might be wrong - John Calvin was NOT a nice man. I started another series. This time it is the Murdotbot Diaries.

Non Book Activities: I am working this weekend, so I hope it is quiet enough this evening that I can read some of Delta Wedding so I can get it off my reading list. I have too many books on it right now.

Time reading: 1 hour.
Time posting:
Food: Indian restaurant for a hurried meal today at noon and a full cup of Starbuck's coffee this afternoon on my way to work.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 280
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 756 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020

Sunday evening:

Books read from: Fools and Mortals
Books finished: Fools and Mortals
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 6 PM
Snacks: ice cream
Thoughts: Suffice it to say this wasn't the weekend I expected.
Non-book activities: Watched football, did laundry, dealt with family issues

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

Sunday night update:

Books read from: The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken, Shakespeare Basics for Grown-Ups
Books finished: The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was leftover potato soup
Thoughts: I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving already!
Non-book activities: Zoom church

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

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes, The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt, Night by Elie Wiesel, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Books finished: 1, Night
Time reading: 3.75 hours

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 8
Total time reading: 7.6 hours

Monday Morning Update:

Books read from: Valley of the Sun, Isaiah (King James Bible)
Books finished: Valley of the Sun
Non-book activities: removed and replaced car battery in my dad's Mercury, woo! I also dug up my yams, a big pile all from one store-bought yam I planted in the late Spring. Oh, and did a water change for all three aquariums...they were overdue (2 weeks).

I really wanted to read more, but I'm still sorting through a couch covered with boxes, the last bits of my dad's things, and the usual weekend stuff that pops up.

>28 alcottacre:
Oh I loved Possession by A. S. Byatt. The recorded version of it is very good as well. What I really liked was all those spooky fairy tales that were included in the parts about Brittany. Brittany is not a part of France that gets much attention, but it is so very interesting.

>25 benitastrnad: I'm a Murderbot fan!
>28 alcottacre: Never Let Me Go will probably haunt me forever. :
>29 fuzzi: My sis and I doing the same sorting of boxes and boxes of our parents things/family history stuff.

Weekend wrap

Books: Finished The Land Endures, continuing Sparks Like Stars

Sunday dinner: turkey tetrazzini, my husband cooked. :)

Other activity:
Watching THE CROWN

Read 3 books so far in Nov
5 in Oct
13 in Sep
15 in Aug
94 in 2022

sunny and cold - 43F. (6 C.)

>25 benitastrnad: >31 nrmay: Murderbot is the best!

Monday morning wrap-up

Books read from: Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty. Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World by Lawrence Goldstone. Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century by William Rosen, and I am still slowly cruising through the captions and looking carefully at the illustrations in Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill even though I listened to the recorded version of the book. I am listening to Us Against You by Fredrik Backman.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu. All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty.

Book Thoughts: I finally finished Delta Wedding. Phew! This was my first reading of anything by Eudora Welty (except for her letters to William Maxwell and all I can say is, that I hope she did a better job of writing than what was in this book. I rated it at 2 1/2 stars. I thought it was totally pointless and really had no plot. It was just one long description of a week of privileged life among the privileged in the Mississippi Delta.

Non Book Activities: I worked this weekend so didn't get much reading done.

Time reading: 1 hour.
Time posting:
Food: quick snack when I got home from work.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 281
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 757 hours since I started participating in the Read-A-Thon that started in April 2020

>27 cbl_tn:
How was Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken? I have that book in my TBR shelves.

Saturday/Sunday update:

Books read from: Redshirts
Books finished: Redshirts
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 12:05pm Monday

Thoughts: I need to watch old Star Trek episodes to see if the crew wearing red shirts are indeed, the ones who got killed off.
Non-book activities: finished season 1 of stranger things and watched a couple episodes of season 5 of The Crown

Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 5.5 hours approximately

Weekend reading:

Books read from: Bible (KJV), God Hears Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries, The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin, Embroidering Her Truth by Clare Hunter
Books finished:
Time reading: ??
Time posting: ??
Snacks: ice cream & chocolate
Thoughts: I planned to listen to more of The Librarian Spy but my pants pocket returned the book for me while I was shopping for fabric and thread for my new "old" sewing machine.
Non-book activities: cross stitch, cats, church, choir rehearsal

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

>30 benitastrnad: I have read several of Byatt's books, but somehow Possession has always passed me by. Good to know that you enjoy it, Benita! I am not very far into it yet, but I am liking it thus far.

>31 nrmay: I understand why Never Let Me Go would do that to you, Nancy. This is a re-read for me.

>32 susanna.fraser: I completely agree with that assessment!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/345932