Social Distancing Readathon #147 - January 6 - 8

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 need to finish a book before a book club meeting on Sunday night.

I am definitely in!

I'm in!

I'm in.

I'm in!

Also in!

Is it Friday already?! I'm definitely in.

Now reading Carbonel, King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh, J fantasy - precocious child, talking cat, British - What's not to like?
Listening to The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill. 1st in a British mystery series.

Husband fixed bacon/cheddar chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. Delicious!

Friday Night Update:

Books read from: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, The Sway of the Grand Saloon by John Malcolm Brinnin and The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3 hours

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 4
Total time reading: 3 hours

I had hoped to get more read today, but there were a lot of things going on and I am now exhausted!

Friday night update:

Books read from: While Justice Sleeps
Books finished:
Time Reading: 3.5 hours

Total books finished:-
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 3.5 hours

I tried to finish this one today but it’s complicated and I’m dozing off so I’ll definitely finish it tomorrow

I'm in again!

Books read from: Mort, Dancing Bears
Books finished: Mort
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 9:19 PM
Snacks: ice cream
Thoughts: Pratchett is such a delight.
Non-book activities: Work, laundry, doctor's appointment

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

Saturday evening update:

Books read from: The Ride of Her Life
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: dinner was deli sliced turkey, potatoes & cabbage, and hot chai
Thoughts: It's been a relaxed weekend so far!
Non-book activities: dinner with a neighbor last night, Zoom chat, YouTube, short walk with dog, laundry, open house at the home of a church family

Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: ?

I have about 100 pages to go in The Ride of Her Life, and then I need to listen to a couple of chapters of The Belton Estate. I'd like to find time to watch the latest episode of The Madame Blanc Mysteries on Acorn.

Saturday evening

Books:
Carbonel
The Various Haunts of Men

Dinner was Chinese take-out. My sis and her 2 grandkids were here for dinner.

Other activity:
medical appointment, brunch out, picked up after grandkids were here for 2 weeks, short nap.

46 F. (8 C.) and a full moon!

Saturday night update:

Books read from: While Justice Sleeps, A Study in Scarlet
Books finished: 1
Time Reading: 4 hours

Total books finished: 1 While Justice Sleeps
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 7.5 hours

Saturday Night Update:

Books read from: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Hiroshima by John Hersey and The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Books finished: 2 The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Demon Copperhead
Time reading: ~3.5 hours

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: ~6.5 hours

Saturday night update:

Books read from: The Ride of Her Life, The Belton Estate
Books finished: The Ride of Her Life
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: orange, pistachios, & club soda
Thoughts: I really enjoyed reading about the friendship between Annie, her horse(s), and her dog in The Ride of Her Life.
Non-book activities: dishes & laundry

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

I am reading The Candy House and Morgenthau Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
Dinner last night- mushroom barley soup, fennel and celery salad and left over chicken and onion pie.

Sunday morning:

Books read from: Dancing Bears
Books finished: Dancing Bears
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:30 AM
Snacks: cereal
Thoughts: I think I'm already ready for a nap.
Non-book activities: Usual Saturday errands and chores

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

I'm here, still working through To Serve Them All My Days. It's a delight, but I've been too tired most nights to read anything.

New refrigerator delivery took up a good portion of my Saturday, but everything's in place, now.

Made a run to Lowe's (home improvement store) for an electrical plug extender for the shed refrigerator yesterday afternoon, came home with the plug AND three Levolor blinds for the living room. Installed one blind this morning but the others can wait. I'm tired.

Book beckons...

I just put aside The Great Believers aside to focus mainly on The Paris Apartment this weekend. I'm about 100 pages in. Gonna try to get in a little bit more reading in this evening. I'm enjoying it.

Books read from: The Belton Estate, Detective Inspector Huss
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: lunch was baked salmon, spicy potatoes & cabbage, and beets & apples; supper was fruit & cheese
Thoughts: It's been a dreary day. Perfect weather for staying indoors and reading!
Non-book activities: church, nap

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

Sunday night update:

Books read from: While Justice Sleeps, A Study in Scarlet, A Beginners Guide to American May Jongg
Books finished: 2
Time Reading: 5 hours

Total books finished: 2 While Justice Sleeps & A Study in Scarlet
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 12.5 hours

Sunday Night Update:

Books read from: Voyager by Diana Gabaldon, Hiroshima by John Hersey, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson and Constantine's Sword by James Carroll
Books finished: 2, Hiroshima and Kidnapped
Time reading: ~4.2 hours

Total books finished: 4
Total read from: 7
Total time reading: ~10.7 hours

I did pretty well:

Finished three books and made good progress with another three.
Thanks for keeping this going, Silver.

Reader Richardson reporting in:

I finished four books:

The Christmas Shop by Jennifer Colgan
A Murderous Grudge by J.M. Roberts
I Must Betray You by Ruth Sepetys
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

And I got a good start on The Silver Branch, second in Rosemary Sutcliff's Roman Britain series. As for non-reading activities, I took down the last of the Christmas decorations and put out my favorite snowmen and houses. A quiet, winter weekend by the woodstove was good for the soul.

>24 PaulCranswick: I concur with Paul...thanks for keeping this going. As I have fewer responsibilities, I look forward to excuses to just read. It sounds official when I say I am part of a readathon!

Weekend wrap-up

Books read from: Memory of Souls book 3 in the Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear. I am listening to Countdown City by Ben H. Winters as I did my weekend chores around town.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: Memory of Souls book 3 in the Chorus of Dragons series by Jenn Lyons.

Book Thoughts: I did a great deal of reading this weekend, but had little time for being logged on so didn't report. I finished the epic length third book in the Chorus of Dragons series. This series is everything that an epic fantasy series should be. Great fun to read. I also met on Zoom with my book club and we discussed the biographies that we are reading.

Non Book Activities: baked a pecan bundt cake and purchased the wine for the wine club meeting on Tuesday. I have a few groceries to pick up for the pasta dish I am making to go with the wine. Knitting while watching Vienna Blood on PBS.

Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: .5 hours this morning.
Food: Indian food at the local Indian restaurant.

Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 294
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 796 since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347663