Social Distancing Readathon #155 - March 3 - 5
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2023
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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
5ChrisG1
My first foray into the Readathon this year. My wife is out of town for the weekend & it's cold & rainy in Oregon (in other words, normal). Currently reading Neuromancer by William Gibson.
6susanna.fraser
I'm in, though not sure what I'll be reading yet.
7benitastrnad
Since I am retired, I plan on making this Friday a reading day. I'm in.
9witchyrichy
I'll join in.
10susanna.fraser
I took today off work, so here's an early afternoon Friday update:
Books read from: Concrete Rose
Books finished: Concrete Rose
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 1:50 PM
Snacks: Leftover pasta for lunch
Thoughts: The Hate U Give is still my favorite Angie Thomas book, but this prequel about the protagonist's father is good too.
Non-book activities: Medical appointments
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
Books read from: Concrete Rose
Books finished: Concrete Rose
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 1:50 PM
Snacks: Leftover pasta for lunch
Thoughts: The Hate U Give is still my favorite Angie Thomas book, but this prequel about the protagonist's father is good too.
Non-book activities: Medical appointments
Total books finished: 1
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 hours
11benitastrnad
Friday afternoon update
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. I started reading Coldest Case by Martin Walker and I am listening to She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell, and Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby.
Book Thoughts: Since I am on a Beatrix Potter reading kick I decided to go ahead and request Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life through Inter-Library Loan. It turned out to be a beautiful book and fun to read. The only thing I didn't like was the last half of the book is written in third person and I find that writing style disconcerting and therefore distracting. I also requested All the Presidents' Gardens at the same time. It is by the same author and it looked just as interesting. I am now reading it and learning things I didn't know about the White House Gardens.
Non Book Activities: I haven't done a thing with my boxes. My car looks like a Bag Lady car because it is stacked with boxes. I plan on going up to Gadsden to knit tomorrow so I won't be able to get the boxes out until next week. It has been an interesting two days. I planned to spend the first week sitting at Starbucks drinking coffee and reading books, but instead, I slept in. Answered phone calls, and then started through the check list for check out. I was irritated with our parking services. I had to switch hang tags on my car. I parked in the parking deck where the office is located and when I went to leave it wanted to charge me $10.00 because I didn't have a hang tag that worked for that parking deck. It turns out that our FREE parking isn't all that free. We are restricted as to what decks we can park in. I said to heck with it and drove under the gate and didn't pay. If they send me a bill I will appeal it.
Time reading: 2 hours today
Time posting:
Food: left overs
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 304
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 831 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. I started reading Coldest Case by Martin Walker and I am listening to She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell, and Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby.
Book Thoughts: Since I am on a Beatrix Potter reading kick I decided to go ahead and request Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life through Inter-Library Loan. It turned out to be a beautiful book and fun to read. The only thing I didn't like was the last half of the book is written in third person and I find that writing style disconcerting and therefore distracting. I also requested All the Presidents' Gardens at the same time. It is by the same author and it looked just as interesting. I am now reading it and learning things I didn't know about the White House Gardens.
Non Book Activities: I haven't done a thing with my boxes. My car looks like a Bag Lady car because it is stacked with boxes. I plan on going up to Gadsden to knit tomorrow so I won't be able to get the boxes out until next week. It has been an interesting two days. I planned to spend the first week sitting at Starbucks drinking coffee and reading books, but instead, I slept in. Answered phone calls, and then started through the check list for check out. I was irritated with our parking services. I had to switch hang tags on my car. I parked in the parking deck where the office is located and when I went to leave it wanted to charge me $10.00 because I didn't have a hang tag that worked for that parking deck. It turns out that our FREE parking isn't all that free. We are restricted as to what decks we can park in. I said to heck with it and drove under the gate and didn't pay. If they send me a bill I will appeal it.
Time reading: 2 hours today
Time posting:
Food: left overs
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 304
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 831 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
14Carmenere
Friday night update:
Books read from: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Books finished:
Time reading: 2 1/2 hours
Time posting: 9:10PM
Dinner: beer battered shrimp, acorn squash
Thoughts: not much thinking done today
Non-book activities: watched a few episodes of The Mindy Project
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 1/2 hours
Books read from: Remarkably Bright Creatures
Books finished:
Time reading: 2 1/2 hours
Time posting: 9:10PM
Dinner: beer battered shrimp, acorn squash
Thoughts: not much thinking done today
Non-book activities: watched a few episodes of The Mindy Project
Total books finished:
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2 1/2 hours
15cbl_tn
Friday night update:
Books read from: Purple Hibiscus, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: tea
Thoughts: I'm too tired to think!
Non-book activities: went to supper with a friend, watched several episodes of The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Purple Hibiscus, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: tea
Thoughts: I'm too tired to think!
Non-book activities: went to supper with a friend, watched several episodes of The Madame Blanc Mysteries.
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: ?
16benitastrnad
>15 cbl_tn:
I will be interested to hear what you have to say about Purple Hibiscus. My real life book discussion group read it a couple of years ago and most of us did not like it.
I will be interested to hear what you have to say about Purple Hibiscus. My real life book discussion group read it a couple of years ago and most of us did not like it.
17witchyrichy
Saturday morning update:
Watching the tennis final this morning. I have a couple non-reading plans: I have potatoes ready to plant and want to experiment with some small batch kraut using collards, kale and turnip greens that are growing in the field and the high tunnel. I also want to make a few more St. Patrick's Day cards. I will work on them while I watch the tennis.
I finished An Island Wedding early yesterday. I loved the series and am hoping there might be another one to take care of one of the story lines. There is a prequel novella that I haven't read yet.
Took a long hot bath yesterday to sooth my achey joints and muscles and kept reading Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris.
I am listening to the first book in Colgan's Little Beach Street Bakery series. As an inhabitant of a small town, I think I appreciate your loving kindness for the quirky characters who seem to choose rural living.
I read a bit from two others books on the Kindle: The King's Inquisitor and A Woman of No Importance.
Happy weekend!
Watching the tennis final this morning. I have a couple non-reading plans: I have potatoes ready to plant and want to experiment with some small batch kraut using collards, kale and turnip greens that are growing in the field and the high tunnel. I also want to make a few more St. Patrick's Day cards. I will work on them while I watch the tennis.
I finished An Island Wedding early yesterday. I loved the series and am hoping there might be another one to take care of one of the story lines. There is a prequel novella that I haven't read yet.
Took a long hot bath yesterday to sooth my achey joints and muscles and kept reading Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris.
I am listening to the first book in Colgan's Little Beach Street Bakery series. As an inhabitant of a small town, I think I appreciate your loving kindness for the quirky characters who seem to choose rural living.
I read a bit from two others books on the Kindle: The King's Inquisitor and A Woman of No Importance.
Happy weekend!
18Cecilturtle
Another blizzard in Ottawa Ontario. Might as well keep reading! (Twist my rubber arm.)
Books read from: L'enfant perdue by Elena Ferrante, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, This is not a Book by Michael Picard
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3
Time posting: Saturday morning
Snacks: Breakfast
Non-book activities: Laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 3
Books read from: L'enfant perdue by Elena Ferrante, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, This is not a Book by Michael Picard
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 3
Time posting: Saturday morning
Snacks: Breakfast
Non-book activities: Laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 3
19drneutron
Books read from: Altered Carbon
Books finished: 0
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: Saturday mid-day
Snacks: leftover pizza for lunch
Non-book activities: putting away suitcases and stuff from our trip
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 1
Total time reading: 2
20nrmay
Sat, noon
Books:
The Paris Library
and back to my audio edition of Memory Man
Italian dinner out last night - linguini and clam sauce
Other activity:
Saw an amusing play, "Native Gardens", with our theatre group last night.
Talked to my brother who just got home from the hospital with a new pacemaker. :|
Invited my sister, niece, nephews, spouses and kids to an Irish family dinner for St Patrick's Day!
Finished 9 books in Feb.
Favorite for the month - The One and Only Ivan
The Man Who Died Twice was a close 2nd.
Sunny, 64 F. (18 C.)
Books:
The Paris Library
and back to my audio edition of Memory Man
Italian dinner out last night - linguini and clam sauce
Other activity:
Saw an amusing play, "Native Gardens", with our theatre group last night.
Talked to my brother who just got home from the hospital with a new pacemaker. :|
Invited my sister, niece, nephews, spouses and kids to an Irish family dinner for St Patrick's Day!
Finished 9 books in Feb.
Favorite for the month - The One and Only Ivan
The Man Who Died Twice was a close 2nd.
Sunny, 64 F. (18 C.)
21elkiedee
>15 cbl_tn: and >16 benitastrnad: I loved Purple Hibiscus but I have seem some very negative reviews too.
>20 nrmay: I read several quite good books last month, including A Spell of Good Things. But I really enjoyed the joyfulness and playful humour of The Man Who Died Twice, and I might start reading The Bullet That Missed later this month.
>20 nrmay: I read several quite good books last month, including A Spell of Good Things. But I really enjoyed the joyfulness and playful humour of The Man Who Died Twice, and I might start reading The Bullet That Missed later this month.
22torontoc
I finished The Committed and have started Mercury Pictures Presents
23ChrisG1
Saturday noon-ish update:
Finished Neuromancer, started Childhood's End and All the Trouble in the World. About 100 pgs read.
Finished Neuromancer, started Childhood's End and All the Trouble in the World. About 100 pgs read.
24susanna.fraser
I'm having a very YA-ish reading weekend so far:
Books read from: The Sunbearer Trials
Books finished: The Sunbearer Trials
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 12:45 PM
Snacks: Burrito for lunch
Thoughts: It's so cloudy, rainy, and cold I keep forgetting it's March.
Non-book activities: Laundry
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours
Books read from: The Sunbearer Trials
Books finished: The Sunbearer Trials
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 12:45 PM
Snacks: Burrito for lunch
Thoughts: It's so cloudy, rainy, and cold I keep forgetting it's March.
Non-book activities: Laundry
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 5 hours
25cbl_tn
>16 benitastrnad: >21 elkiedee: I am loving the audio version of Purple Hibiscus. It's hard to listen to because of the subject matter, but the narrator (Lisette Lecat) does a fantastic job. As a bonus, I don't have to figure out how to pronounce the unfamiliar-to-me names correctly in my head. The narrator does it for me!
26Cecilturtle
Books read from: L'enfant perdue by Elena Ferrante, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, This is not a Book by Michael Picard, Sa Majesté des chats by Naïs Quin, Pog and Bernard Werber, La Brume by Mireille St-Pierre.
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 3
Time posting: Saturday afternoon
Snacks: Bubble tea and chocolate
Non-book activities: A short in ankle-deep snow; should have brought my snowshoes for a longer walk!
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 6
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 3
Time posting: Saturday afternoon
Snacks: Bubble tea and chocolate
Non-book activities: A short in ankle-deep snow; should have brought my snowshoes for a longer walk!
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 5
Total time reading: 6
27AnneDC
Saturday reading:
Books read from:
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Sea Loves Me - Mia Couto
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stories - Katherine Mansfield
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
Books finished: none
Total pages read: 230
Snacks: chicken sandwich, tea
Thoughts: This is the first weekend I've been home since January and I'm finding myself inspired to tackle organizing projects.
Non-book activities: laundry, changing sheets, farmers market, library, dry cleaners, dog walk, started organizing my desk
Total books finished: none
Total read from: 6
Total pages read: 230
Books read from:
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Sea Loves Me - Mia Couto
The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Stories - Katherine Mansfield
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Dark Star Safari - Paul Theroux
Books finished: none
Total pages read: 230
Snacks: chicken sandwich, tea
Thoughts: This is the first weekend I've been home since January and I'm finding myself inspired to tackle organizing projects.
Non-book activities: laundry, changing sheets, farmers market, library, dry cleaners, dog walk, started organizing my desk
Total books finished: none
Total read from: 6
Total pages read: 230
28witchyrichy
Sunday morning update:
Finished Honeycomb last night. Fantastical fairy tales from Joanne M. Harris
I started the day with A Woman of No Importance and am heading back to it now that I've finished morning chores while I listened to Little Beach Street Bakery. I am reading Wondrous Encounters for Lent.
I want to make a few more St. Patrick's Day cards along with a pot of chili for today and lunches this week.
>27 AnneDC: It took me a few chapters to get into Demon Copperhead but found it incredibly compelling and well written. It led to Beth Macy's books about the opioid crisis. The first one--Dopesick--was set in the same county as Kingsolver's book.
Finished Honeycomb last night. Fantastical fairy tales from Joanne M. Harris
I started the day with A Woman of No Importance and am heading back to it now that I've finished morning chores while I listened to Little Beach Street Bakery. I am reading Wondrous Encounters for Lent.
I want to make a few more St. Patrick's Day cards along with a pot of chili for today and lunches this week.
>27 AnneDC: It took me a few chapters to get into Demon Copperhead but found it incredibly compelling and well written. It led to Beth Macy's books about the opioid crisis. The first one--Dopesick--was set in the same county as Kingsolver's book.
29nrmay
Sunday morning
Books:
Finished The Paris Library :)
Starting Harry's Trees for book club this month.
dinner last night: meatloaf, vegetables
Other activity:
Eager to delve into Harry's Trees after my grandies, age 6 & 9, come over here to play for a couple hours.
sunny, 59 F. (15 C.)
Books:
Finished The Paris Library :)
Starting Harry's Trees for book club this month.
dinner last night: meatloaf, vegetables
Other activity:
Eager to delve into Harry's Trees after my grandies, age 6 & 9, come over here to play for a couple hours.
sunny, 59 F. (15 C.)
30ChrisG1
Sunday morning
About halfway into Childhood's End and 40 pgs into All the Trouble in the World.
Non-reading activity - went to my grandson's state basketball playoff game. It was a soul-crusher - the other team erased a 9 point lead with less than 2 minutes to go by hitting 3 3-pointers - shots they had been missing all night - and then holding on to a 1 point lead in overtime.
About halfway into Childhood's End and 40 pgs into All the Trouble in the World.
Non-reading activity - went to my grandson's state basketball playoff game. It was a soul-crusher - the other team erased a 9 point lead with less than 2 minutes to go by hitting 3 3-pointers - shots they had been missing all night - and then holding on to a 1 point lead in overtime.
32benitastrnad
>25 cbl_tn:
Isn't that narrator the same as the one for the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series? If so, she is a good narrator.
Isn't that narrator the same as the one for the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency series? If so, she is a good narrator.
33benitastrnad
Sunday morning update
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. Coldest Case by Martin Walker and I am finished listening to She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh, and started listening to German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell. Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Book Thoughts: I just finished up a work of nonfiction about a notorious woman. Dolly Parton. This was a look at the career of the famous, or infamous, entertainer, Dolly Parton. This book was written by a feminist scholar and for that reason the book is written using a feminist lens. It is a short book, but it is academic in tone. It is enjoyable, but if you are not into dissecting song lyrics and sussing-out hidden meanings in popular culture this is not the book for you. Dolly Parton is a very good songwriter, singer, and entertainer. However, she is best known for her famous bust line and her unabashed sexuality. This book is about how she has taken this image and has owned it. I found it well researched and well documented, peppered with anecdotes and excerpts from actual interviews it is approachable and clearly intended for a popular audience. There were so many parts of this book that made me downright mad because sexism is rampant in the culture of today and we should be so past that. I read this book as part of my ongoing reading about the Country Music industry and its continued anti-female bias. And because of Dolly's famous bust and all the ribald jokes, innuendos, and denigration about her. This book shed some light on all of that. Now, I await a good biography of the woman.
Non Book Activities: I finished knitting my socks!!! So I started knitting another pair. I made a trip to Gadsden to get started on the new pair because it has been so long since I started the first pair, I couldn't remember how to do it correctly. I also got to drink some fantastic tea! I also met a retired librarian who moved from Montgomery to Gadsden upon retirement - just so she could start over in a place that had no baggage for her. She now knits, reads, and teaches a yoga class there. I really love that little shop and will miss it when I move back to Kansas.
Time reading: 3 hours of listening time yesterday - 0 hours reading or listening today.
Time posting:
Food: left overs
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 305
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 833 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. Coldest Case by Martin Walker and I am finished listening to She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh, and started listening to German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell. Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Book Thoughts: I just finished up a work of nonfiction about a notorious woman. Dolly Parton. This was a look at the career of the famous, or infamous, entertainer, Dolly Parton. This book was written by a feminist scholar and for that reason the book is written using a feminist lens. It is a short book, but it is academic in tone. It is enjoyable, but if you are not into dissecting song lyrics and sussing-out hidden meanings in popular culture this is not the book for you. Dolly Parton is a very good songwriter, singer, and entertainer. However, she is best known for her famous bust line and her unabashed sexuality. This book is about how she has taken this image and has owned it. I found it well researched and well documented, peppered with anecdotes and excerpts from actual interviews it is approachable and clearly intended for a popular audience. There were so many parts of this book that made me downright mad because sexism is rampant in the culture of today and we should be so past that. I read this book as part of my ongoing reading about the Country Music industry and its continued anti-female bias. And because of Dolly's famous bust and all the ribald jokes, innuendos, and denigration about her. This book shed some light on all of that. Now, I await a good biography of the woman.
Non Book Activities: I finished knitting my socks!!! So I started knitting another pair. I made a trip to Gadsden to get started on the new pair because it has been so long since I started the first pair, I couldn't remember how to do it correctly. I also got to drink some fantastic tea! I also met a retired librarian who moved from Montgomery to Gadsden upon retirement - just so she could start over in a place that had no baggage for her. She now knits, reads, and teaches a yoga class there. I really love that little shop and will miss it when I move back to Kansas.
Time reading: 3 hours of listening time yesterday - 0 hours reading or listening today.
Time posting:
Food: left overs
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 305
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 833 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
34cbl_tn
>32 benitastrnad: Yes, she is!
35susanna.fraser
Sunday midday:
Books read from: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Books finished: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 12:05 PM
Snacks: Watermelon
Thoughts: I need to start being productive again--I'm not 100% recovered from surgery, but close enough.
Non-book activities: About to go into a 3.5-hour Zoom vestry retreat for church. Sigh.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
Books read from: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Books finished: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 12:05 PM
Snacks: Watermelon
Thoughts: I need to start being productive again--I'm not 100% recovered from surgery, but close enough.
Non-book activities: About to go into a 3.5-hour Zoom vestry retreat for church. Sigh.
Total books finished: 3
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 7 hours
36cbl_tn
Sunday night update:
Books read from: Purple Hibiscus, Wise Gals
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was toast & peanut butter and tea
Thoughts: I haven't had as much time to read this weekend as I had hoped.
Non-book activities: church, cooking lunch, long nap, long walk (partly with dog and partly without), HOA business, laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
Books read from: Purple Hibiscus, Wise Gals
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was toast & peanut butter and tea
Thoughts: I haven't had as much time to read this weekend as I had hoped.
Non-book activities: church, cooking lunch, long nap, long walk (partly with dog and partly without), HOA business, laundry
Total books finished: 0
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: ?
37benitastrnad
Sunday night update
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. My main reading book for today was Coldest Case by Martin Walker. As I drove around town today doing errands I got a good start listening to German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell. Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Book Thoughts: I spent a good deal of time today reading book number 15 in the Bruno Courrages mystery series. This is just a fun series to read.
Non Book Activities: I cleaned up my kitchen sink and started getting things ready to bake tomorrow. I will need to bake two King Cake's in two days. Low humidity tomorrow so it should be a good baking day.
Time reading: 2 hours.
Time posting:
Food: Indian food for lunch
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 305
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 835 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
Books read from: All the President's Gardens: Madison's Cabbages to Kennedy's Roses - How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell. My main reading book for today was Coldest Case by Martin Walker. As I drove around town today doing errands I got a good start listening to German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.
Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: I finished reading Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales by Marta McDowell. Pink Suit by Nicole Mary Kelby. She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh.
Book Thoughts: I spent a good deal of time today reading book number 15 in the Bruno Courrages mystery series. This is just a fun series to read.
Non Book Activities: I cleaned up my kitchen sink and started getting things ready to bake tomorrow. I will need to bake two King Cake's in two days. Low humidity tomorrow so it should be a good baking day.
Time reading: 2 hours.
Time posting:
Food: Indian food for lunch
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 305
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 835 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.
38PocheFamily
My first R-a-Th. Inspired by what I’ve seen here before and above, I offer my results below.
Books read from: Family Happiness, Laurie Colwin; Sub Tales: Stories that Seldom Surface, Frank and Charles Hood; The Numbers, Nick Pirog; Brothers Karamazov, Theodor Dosteovsky.
Books Listened to: Brain Food, Lisa Mosconi; Brothers Karamazov, Theodor Dosteovsky (solgood episodes, re-listening to what I’ve read to cement it in a bit more).
Dinners: Scallop & Crab Cioppino w/Italian Bread, Cacio e Pepe, and red wine to celebrate weekend visit by eldest offspring; husband’s Skirt Steak w/chimichurri sauce, finished with 2-ingredient chocolate mousse; Soupe Provençale au pistou. An exceptionally good eating weekend because otherwise our visiting, gourmet-leaning son derides our offerings and makes us order in.
Thoughts: when uninterested in the “to-do” list, a Weekend Read-a-thon is the perfect remedy!
Non-book activities: Canine recreation and -ew- taxes.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from/listened to: 5
Total time reading: (hours) 13.5h
Books read from: Family Happiness, Laurie Colwin; Sub Tales: Stories that Seldom Surface, Frank and Charles Hood; The Numbers, Nick Pirog; Brothers Karamazov, Theodor Dosteovsky.
Books Listened to: Brain Food, Lisa Mosconi; Brothers Karamazov, Theodor Dosteovsky (solgood episodes, re-listening to what I’ve read to cement it in a bit more).
Dinners: Scallop & Crab Cioppino w/Italian Bread, Cacio e Pepe, and red wine to celebrate weekend visit by eldest offspring; husband’s Skirt Steak w/chimichurri sauce, finished with 2-ingredient chocolate mousse; Soupe Provençale au pistou. An exceptionally good eating weekend because otherwise our visiting, gourmet-leaning son derides our offerings and makes us order in.
Thoughts: when uninterested in the “to-do” list, a Weekend Read-a-thon is the perfect remedy!
Non-book activities: Canine recreation and -ew- taxes.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from/listened to: 5
Total time reading: (hours) 13.5h
39thornton37814
Weekend update - Books Read from:
Morning by Morning by Charles H. Spurgeon
Evening by Evening by Charles H. Spurgeon
God Sees Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries
Holy Bible (NASB)
Thread and Gone by Lea Wait
The Coldest Case by Martin Walker
I didn't complete any. I'm loving Thread and Gone so far. It ties in with a non-fiction I recently read about Mary Queen of Scots and her needlework. Guess what just went missing when the murder occurred? A piece some speculate may have been stitched by the Queen herself.
I need to leave shortly to see if I can get one of the copies of a book I'm supposed to read by our book club next Sunday. I have a Knox County library card. Three branches supposedly have a copy on the shelf. I plan to arrive when they open to hopefully check it out so I don't have to buy it. It's not one I want to own.
Morning by Morning by Charles H. Spurgeon
Evening by Evening by Charles H. Spurgeon
God Sees Her by Our Daily Bread Ministries
Holy Bible (NASB)
Thread and Gone by Lea Wait
The Coldest Case by Martin Walker
I didn't complete any. I'm loving Thread and Gone so far. It ties in with a non-fiction I recently read about Mary Queen of Scots and her needlework. Guess what just went missing when the murder occurred? A piece some speculate may have been stitched by the Queen herself.
I need to leave shortly to see if I can get one of the copies of a book I'm supposed to read by our book club next Sunday. I have a Knox County library card. Three branches supposedly have a copy on the shelf. I plan to arrive when they open to hopefully check it out so I don't have to buy it. It's not one I want to own.
40Carmenere
Reading update:
Saturday was a complete fail……
Sunday’s Update:
Books read from: Remarkably Bright Creatures, Alaska
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 9am
Snacks: leftover pulled pork sandwich and fries, ice cream for desert
Thoughts: no energy blah
Non-book activities: watched a few episodes of The Mindy Project and Twilight Zone
Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 6 1/2 hours
Saturday was a complete fail……
Sunday’s Update:
Books read from: Remarkably Bright Creatures, Alaska
Books finished:
Time reading: 4 hours
Time posting: 9am
Snacks: leftover pulled pork sandwich and fries, ice cream for desert
Thoughts: no energy blah
Non-book activities: watched a few episodes of The Mindy Project and Twilight Zone
Total books finished:
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 6 1/2 hours
41Cecilturtle
Books read from: L'enfant perdue by Elena Ferrante, Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, This is not a Book by Michael Picard, Sa Majesté des chats by Naïs Quin, Pog and Bernard Werber, La Brume by Mireille St-Pierre, Rebel's Apothecary by Jenny Sansouci
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 4
Time posting: Monday morning
Snacks: Delicious Roman pizza
Non-book activities: Beautiful outing in Lanark County with two hikes and a visit in Almonte, Ontario.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 10
I've almost finished my 500 page novel so I'm happy with the final results!
Books finished: 2
Time reading: 4
Time posting: Monday morning
Snacks: Delicious Roman pizza
Non-book activities: Beautiful outing in Lanark County with two hikes and a visit in Almonte, Ontario.
Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 6
Total time reading: 10
I've almost finished my 500 page novel so I'm happy with the final results!
42ChrisG1
Final update:
Books finished: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Other books read from: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke
Total pages read: 270
Books finished: Neuromancer by William Gibson
Other books read from: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke
Total pages read: 270
43nrmay
>17 witchyrichy:
Thanks for reminding me of Jenny Colgan! I checked out 500 Miles from You to get me in the mood for Scotland trip in May.
weekend wrap
Books:
audio book, Memory Man
I am loving Harry's Trees.
One of the main characters is a remarkable child. I love precocious children, being the mother of one and grandmother to 2!
Sunday dinner - leftover meatloaf and vegetables.
Partly sunny, 72 F. (22 C.)
Thanks for reminding me of Jenny Colgan! I checked out 500 Miles from You to get me in the mood for Scotland trip in May.
weekend wrap
Books:
audio book, Memory Man
I am loving Harry's Trees.
One of the main characters is a remarkable child. I love precocious children, being the mother of one and grandmother to 2!
Sunday dinner - leftover meatloaf and vegetables.
Partly sunny, 72 F. (22 C.)
