Social Distancing Readathon #156 - March 10 - 12

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 will be traveling but that means lots of listening time, so I will be participating and checking in from time-to-time along the way. When I get there I intend to spend lots of time reading.

I'm in!
My sis and her husband coming here this weekend and my Irish family dinner tomorrow but I'll find time to read.

After finishing Harry's Trees which I loved, having trouble finding the next great book . .
Maybe The Catch by Alison Fairbrother? Or The Ruin of Kings?

I'll be in again - currently working on Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor, and All the Trouble in the World by P. J. O'Rourke.

>3 nrmay:
I read Ruin of Kings a year ago and really liked it. I have now read three of the books in the series and have liked all of them. I just checked out House of Always to read next month because I am determined to finish the series before I forget what happened in the first book!

I'm in- there will be another snowstorm this weekend!

Thursday 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 Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. As I drove around town today doing errands I continue to listen to German Wife by Kelly Rimmer.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: none
Book Thoughts: I haven't done much reading today as I am leaving tomorrow. I won't do much posting the next two days because I will be driving, but will post when I can.

Non Book Activities: I have been working on retirement stuff and getting things ready to leave tomorrow. Washing clothes, dishes, and packing.
Time reading: 1 hour.
Time posting:
Food: leftovers because I am trying to empty the refrigerator.
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 305
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 836 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.

I'm in again.

I'm definitely going to try to readathon this weekend. 1) I'm sick, so it's a good time to sit, 2) it's not a D&D weekend

Feeling a little under the weather so I’ll just cozy up to Marcellus the Octopus in Remarkable Bright Creatures for Monday’s book club.

After what passes for a busy week for me, I am ready to settle into a weekend. I need to finish A Woman of No Importance and am then thinking about The Luminaries or a Daphne DuMaurier trilogy. Just want to chill out and read ;-)

I am listening to Summer at the Little Beach Street Bakery during dog walks and chores.

Friday night:

Books read from: Makoons
Books finished: Makoons
Time reading: 1 hour
Time posting: 9:30 PM
Snacks: gnocchi for dinner
Thoughts: I don't know if Erdrich ever plans to continue this series, but I'd happily read it if she did.
Non-book activities: work, cooking, laundry

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

FRIDAY
Books read from:
Homeland, by RA Salvatore
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T Kingfisher
Democracy in Black, by Eddie S Glaude Jr
Mahabharata
How to Read the Bible, by James L Kugel
Mort, by Terry Pratchett

Books finished: lol, that's funny, I read too many at once

Time reading: 3 hours (yes, I read from all those books in that short time. And don't laugh. This is totally a readathon to me.)

Time posting (including my book blog): 1 hour on a book review for Sixteen Scandals and a D&D post

Snacks: tomato and pineapple, tuna on toast, salmon and asparagus

Thoughts: I'm proud of myself for reading so long. 😊

Non-book activities: 1.25 hours writing pen pals, 1 hour errand, .25 hours Wordle, 1 hour cleaning while listening to audiobook, 5 hours of work

I hope to have a little more time for reading this weekend than I did last weekend, but it may not be much more. It has turned colder after a long stretch of spring-like weather, so, even though it's sunny out, I'm not keen on spending much time outdoors. Maybe I'll get motivated to go for a long walk later. I really need the exercise.

My cousin's 18-year-old daughter is visiting a friend in Knoxville. She wants to get together tomorrow, so we'll meet for lunch somewhere yet to be decided. This is Zoom book club weekend, so I'll have that tomorrow evening.

Books read from: The Coldest Case, Great Short Books, All Passion Spent
Books finished:
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: breakfast was toast with peanut butter and cherry preserves, tea
Thoughts:
Non-book activities: genealogy, sleep

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

Saturday morning:

Books read from: The Third Person
Books finished: The Third Person
Time reading: 2 hours
Time posting: 10:20 AM
Snacks: Girl Scout cookies
Thoughts: Woke up early and decided to stay awake to help adjust to the time change. I prefer DST because I like having more light in the evenings, but the first couple mornings can be rough.
Non-book activities: sleep, mostly

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 2
Total time reading: 3 hours

Saturday 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 Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. As I drove to Kansas I listened to and finished German Wife by Kelly Rimmer. I started listening to Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Conner.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: German Wife by Kelly Rimmer
Book Thoughts: German Wife was a better book than I thought it would be. Good road trip listening.

Non Book Activities: Finally got on he road today. Am about to quit driving for the night.
Time reading: 6 hours of driving/listening time.
Time posting:
Food: coffee
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 306
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 842 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.

Saturday night update

Books read from: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor, All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke.

Books finished: Just One Damned Thing...

Non-reading activities: Work - hey, it's tax season & I'm an accountant...also did my one hour swim.

I bombed Saturday by reading not at all.

I meant to tag on but Friday included a late doctor's appointment, and I woke up exhausted Saturday and slept until noon. I did manage to finish A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II and then started the next book in the Donna Leon Brunetti series: Wilful Behavior. I was awake *very* early due to too much sleep and the time change so finished it before breakfast. I may go ahead and start the next Leon.

Sunday late 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 which’s I finished this morning. My main reading book for today was Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes. As I drive to Kansas I am listening to Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Conner.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: German Wife by Kelly Rimmer. All the President’s Gardens by Marta McDowell
Book Thoughts:

Non Book Activities: Still driving to Kansas. I won’t be here in time to watch The Oscar’s. Dang!
Time reading: 6 hours of driving/listening time.
Time posting:
Food: coffee
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 307
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 848 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.

Sunday night update:

Books read from: The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse, Great Short Books, All Passion Spent
Books finished: The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse
Time reading: ?
Time posting: ?
Snacks: supper was carrot salad, green beans, a bread stick, and a tangerine
Thoughts: It was so gray and drizzly today that the time change wasn't noticeable this evening.
Non-book activities: Yesterday I took the trash to the dump, picked up a couple of things at the grocery store, cooked, cleaned, did laundry, had a neighbor over for dinner and watched a movie. Today I went to church, had lunch with my cousin and her friend, took a long nap, and participated in a Zoom book club.

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

Sunday night:

Books read from: Butts: A Backstory
Books finished: none
Time reading: 3 hours
Time posting: 9:05 PM
Snacks: beef stir fry for dinner
Thoughts: I should watch Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Non-book activities: laundry, online shopping, research for my manuscript

Total books finished: 2
Total read from: 3
Total time reading: 6 hours

Readathon 3/10-3/12

Books read from: portions of several Ryan Holiday books; The Numbers, Nick Pirog; Sub Tales: Stories that Seldom Surface, Charles Hood; Memorial, Bryan Washington; The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams; God & Spies: Based on a True Story, Top Secret Operation, G.M. Matheny.
Snacks: nothing memorable, lots of tea
Thoughts: Now that I know the term "Energy Vampire", I finally understand why my sunny kid is so caught up in an unhappy friendship - and I now know what to say/advise when asked.
Non-book activities: canine entertainment - and walking in circles, V-8'ing my forehead, and staring out the window empty-headed. Just waiting for a decent weekend to prune the shrubbery.

Books finished: 2
Total read from: 7
Time reading: 14.5h
Last thoughts: this read-a-thon thing is awesome!

Weekend summary:

Books read from: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor, All Systems Red by Martha Wells, and All the Trouble in the World by P.J. O'Rourke
Books finished: Just One Damned Thing...

Total pages read: 400-ish

I extended my reading into this morning and finished The King's Inquisitor.

Besides reading, I've been watching tennis and helping a professor friend enter research citations into a shared database. I can now *do* APA 7 formatting without looking it up.

>25 witchyrichy:
Why don't you use a Citation Manager that will do all that for you? Something like RefWorks or Zotero. Zotero is free and out there on the web. It will format a complete bibliography and will dump thousands of citations into an excel file for you.

Monday late afternoon update

Books read from: I started reading Dance With the Devil by Kit Rocha last night. My main reading book for today was Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes which I didn't manage to finish in time for the book discussion yesterday afternoon. As I was driving to Kansas I listened to and finished Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O’Connor and started listening to Broken Throne by Victoria Aveyard.

Books finished in this weekend's Readathon: German Wife by Kelly Rimmer. All the President’s Gardens by Marta McDowell. Lady in Gold by Anne-Marie O'Connor

Book Thoughts: Driving is quality time with recorded books. I knew I didn't have much left to read in the President's Gardens book, but was surprised to finish it Sunday morning while taking a coffee break along the road.

Non-Book activities: I started unpacking my car and wanted to bake a cake to take to Mom this afternoon, but no eggs in the frig. Called my cousins who have chickens and got a dozen eggs. Spent a good deal of time resting today and getting ready for tomorrow and will bake that cake tomorrow.
Time reading: 6 hours of driving/listening time.
Time posting:
Food:
Total books finished since the Read-A-Thon Began: 308
Total Time Reading since the Social Distancing read-a-thon began: 854 hours since I started doing the weekend Read-A-Thon back in April of 2020.

>26 benitastrnad: Because Zotero and other managers do only an OK job at APA 7 formatting, and my colleagues is a stickler. I started with that and she sent back corrections ;-) Most of the journal websites have citation generators, too. I use them for the starter but still have to editt them. As for the database import, we're using Wordpress, and I have a plugin I might be able to use to do a bulk upload, but I've done enough importing to know it will require experimenting. We had a deadline and copying and pasting was actually the most efficient way to do the work.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349452